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

`III4E SUN, LONWO 11.„ SATURDAY EVENING, JA_NITA'R-1 ait 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 Wurternberg 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 Rlal 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
Control, 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, where her
Majesty appointed the Sheriff for the county of Lan-
easel' for the present year.
Sir R. 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 Household, and the Comptroller of the
Household.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort topic 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 Queen and Prince
Albert, at Buckingham Palace, by the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Co.
lonics. Her Majesty received her Australian subjects
very graciously, and both her Majesty and Prince Albert
seemed much pleased with their geceral 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
flonntess St. Germans, Lord and Lady Ashley, and the
Right Ron. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone.
The band fif the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance at the Palace d!tring dinner.
Her Majesty's private 62 nd afterwards attended.
Her Royal Highness the Duchoe el 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 fur England bad a
committee yesterday. There Were present the Bishops
of London, Ely, and Exeter, the Earl of Bessborougb,
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon,
John Nicholl.
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 for
Brig;;t4n4

'
HER MAJESTYS THEATRE.
TO THE EDI9R OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Mr. Lumley having aci",;;Assed to several papers
a copy of a letter he has addressed to me, on Oe sleet
of my retiring from her Majesty's Theatre, ma;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 all 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, 1 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 I 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,
Lindpainter, 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-
intendance 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
luny 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 at to his opinions; it would
be as egotistical on my part to speak of Don Carlos, as
I conceive it to be indelicate fur 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 be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
M. 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-
tradictions of some of the details, more than sufficient is
admitted by himself to prove hat, 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. • •
By showing the character of the assertion on which he
principally rests his defence, I shall at once prove what
is the real value of Mr. Costa's statement.
Would it be imagined that the notice in the porter's
hall, from which he pretends to have concluded
that he was net engaged, and on which he grounds
his _ excuse of having concealed from me the fact

of his new engagement, whilst it certainly incihded
the artisans of the theatre, not oaly could not
possibly be considered by any heads of departments
as applicable to them, hut that the notice was actually
suggested to me by Mr. Costa himself,. in consequence
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 engagements 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 qf the facts it con-
tained.
I beg most positively to assert that Mr. Costa insisted
upon the production of operas of his composition, and
made it at the eleventh hour the sine qua no: 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 oue he was prepariug
was an opera buffs.
I had no desire to criticise Mr. Costa's compositionr

stated not my opinion, but that of the palie, whose
award he questioned, urging the repetition of the opera
in the past season, when its failure had 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, prevails 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 hoprum„
pcaition, fr n d 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 fur extra :services, that:
2001. in-
crease was just the whole amount of salary be origumiPy
received from the theatre for his six months' services,
and that bad. been gradually increased to 8001 Tile
position he ee.gtipiecl secured him together probably
double the sum.
As to Ur. Costa's assgstioN tii*t 1 witched 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 least objection to
his producing his operas at any theatre 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 if 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 circumstance 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 Lis 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 less does he pre-
tend that he gave me any notice of his having accepted
the engagement until the middle of the present uscrith.
He leaves admitted that the engagement was signed
within fourteen days after my leaving London, and,
therefore, it must have been contemplated w hilst 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-
cifture 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 epee, 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 Lioreennieot 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 Ws, to 4s,
The moment this law is passed, the duty will drop from
os. to 4s. Uere, will be change the first, fright the first,
and with many, I fear, panic the first. But there will
be no settirnent. yo 4 wi4 net 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, 1840, the duty will be 10s.; if so, on the Ist of that
month, it will drop again suddenly, from lbs. to Is,
Here will be change the second, fright the second, and,
-saibly, panic the second. The fall of duty in these
two chatsb7." syquld have amounted to, first, from 15s.
to 45.; next, froni tbs, to Is, making, together,
.fla.;
but, mark, if the duty were immediately reduced, from
15s. to Is., the fall would be only 14s. tie that, 47 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 subjected
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 hold 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 eight-en 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 foal. 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 less 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 puLlic 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.
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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-
tained and expressed the conviction that free trade,
rillrtim from p
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pendence. I never disguised from myself, however, the
ultimately etremndanentotly tihnejiurri ngp
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temporary evils to which they might be exposed in the
change. But let us unite in seizing the present opportu-
nity, 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 whit( ss, 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 see in 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 presented a
constantly widening field for the employment of their
peaceful energies, together with greater menu S and more
leisure for that moral amelioration which, I trust, will
accompany their improved physical condition.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
RICHARD COI3DEN.

London, 30th Jan., 1846.

__ .. .
INCENDIARY FIRE AT On?ToN. On Saturday
evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, an alarin 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 thon&ht the fire was
not of any great extent, or that it was at a great distance,
It ultirnatnly proved to be a detached barn, belonging to,
or in the occupation of, Mr. Barber, farmer, f Offton, about
three miles distant from Bildeston. Them' was but a small
quantity of straw in the barn at the time ; but this, with a
ilre§sing-machine, corn-drill, and long ladder, were consumed
in a very abcrt time.—Bury Herald.
We have received a porompication from Earl
De Grey, in which he states that. "neither Mr. Gludiitone, nor
any friend on his behalf, had made any application to him,
Pr M far as he knows to any elector of the borough of
Ripon," tld, therefore, it is not correct that he had
refused to allow him to st for that place. The terms in
which Earl De Grey leas thought prveT to convey this
intimation are such that WC cannot' give publicity los his
letter.—Chronicle. . - .

IPSWICH ani BURY ST. EDMUNDS
RA ILWAY 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, end
confirming such terms an I condition, ; 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 expt dient.
JOHN CIIEVALLIER COBBOLD, Esq., chairman of the
board of directors, took the chair, and opened the pro-
ceedings by calling on the secretary to read the reports
of the directors and the engineers.
The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to a question from a
Shareholder, that the estimate had been made for a
double line, and not for one with single rails.
The motion fer the adoption of the report having
been proposed and seconded, was carried.
The general business of the meeting beim:, 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 cenfirmed.
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 with 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 prk.ve exceedingly advantageous and remu-
nerative to the shareholders,
The Cueeuetati observed that the distance from Sudr
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
fore-telly 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 mproving one, and
the public were in proportion additionally accommo-
dated,
A PliettEetoepEri 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
dienessed before the plans were deposited, but it was
thought that as there was a station near the spot, the
crossing on the level would not be found inconvenient.
Mr. Baum 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, Gaeverotele, of York, in proposing a vote of
thanks to the chairman, and in bearing testimony to the
conildeneti which was felt in his wisdom and
! n tegrity, took ocoaslon to remark upon the
advantage which the county of Suffolk held
oiit to the promoters of railway undertakings. A
railway in that PPINItY
appeaked to him to be one of
wthoeulbdestroirnvoesntemenultsomo
efntttgedayee-(llear, hear,) He
direct their attention to
the census of Suffolk, for open the amount of population
of different localities depended the eueeese 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
Rere good, and there was 414 a cgrv9 to be found. Con-
sidering, also the population of Norwieh, Piss, apd Stow-
market, it would he fed by Yarmouth, Lowestoff,
Kettles, and Bungay.—(Hear.) lie might also be al-
lowed to touch upon a subject not irrelevant to thet
under consideration, The agriculturists of this
country were about to undergo a very great
change in their circumstances, and if one thing move
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 heel hitherto e4sted
in the country. Plans had been lodged by the Norfolk
Company, for a line from Stowmarket to Piss, on to
Wyndham and Nettleborough, which showed that the
people had required, And the Government had sane-
trot ed, plans for theyery route which this Company had
adopted. The increased importance of Here Loh 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 bad 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. H. 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
expressed 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.—(llear, hear.)
The meeting then separated.

0
Week Last - 5.4:4
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. r,
0•50
Jan. - Arbroath and Forfar ••• • • •••• • • • • - 177
- Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • • • • • • -
23 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••• • • .. • • 505 421
22 Dublin and Drogheda.• ..
27 Dublin and Kingstown •
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, Kilinarnock, and Ayr • • .... 1,870 1,367
24 GUialow and Greenock.• •••• • • • •• • • 720 713
Grand Junction ..
24 Gravesend and Rochester •••• • • • • • • 104 -
- Great North of England •••• • • • •
25 Great :Western • ...... •••• • • • .... 16,021 13,945
26 Hartlepool . . • -
24 London and Birmingham, &c..• ••• - - 30,799 28,069
26 London and Blackwall.... •.•.• . • • • • 627 785
24 London and Brighton ....• •• • • ...... 3,313 3,111.
27 London and Croydon .. ..... ........ 1,054 871
- London and Greenwich .•••••• • • • • •. -
24 London and South Western ......... 5,071 4,935
28 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
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
25 Newcastle and North 395 359
25 Norfolk 1,189 201
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,391
26 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • 4,676 3,866
26 Paris and Rouen .•••••• • • • • • .
24 Preston and Wyre.. •.•••• • • • • • 415 345
24 Sheffield and Manchester ..
24 South Eastern •• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 4,624 3,536
866 889
592
- Yarmouth and Norwich ••••• • • • • •
24 York and North Midland ........... 4,177

-The sales are-Bristol and clouth Rates
.Liverpool
vJerupnooc-1
Extension,2; 7-Exeter and
RAILWAY •SUA RE MARK:,
BRISTOL, JAN. 30.
rand
olcsa_EisizcitunAaNur.
SToCKExcnANGE.-The sales are ilideford and Tavistoclf, 44 di.,
-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 4 p,-Derby and
zi New,s c2liti sal -s
TDEuitie, hj
ARNh.en3ois.h , 7.2 p .
tci or Sen:,
% P.-Oldham,
Yeovil, and Dorchester,
Exmouth, 11 dia.-Exeter,
and Bury, New, 3 p. cash-Liverpool,-Preston, Alanchester, anti
Union,e 2
pp..---GEraesatetrGnriCmousbn;ieasn,dPverocpettual,
Southport, 34 p.-London and York, 1% p.-Manchdster and Bir-
mhigham, 77-Ditto,
T,-Leedsanti Bradford, 52 Cash -
Bfrkpnli.ead, Ste., % dis,- Shropshire Vato,ll,
t 5 t14.-Soqtli asttni
and Dover, Halves; Ip, o.—Wftketlo4, Id° fart, awl tools Ex,
tension, 8 p.-West Lancashire Coast, 4 is.
New, 7% p.-North Western, 1
LEEDS, JAN. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are-York and North Midland,
Extension (East and West Riding), 8% p.
teletis9lid-Dijel -Greati Grimsby and Shef-
Thirsk, 10-North British, New Carlisle Brancli, 2
/, .1 9 s.-- London
and Portsmouth, 4% -London and York, 41.. 9s. _
v.tt.oot.EvA;eitoisipoanss49_sp.
,tto,
soi, s
,4r„,
ali
R.-Lods
and
Sheffield and
, Wakefield,
Lincoln, 3.34 -Direct Northern, in —LiverPool, Ormskirk, and pre.,
toil, ig -Weiit ulding Dillon, 6 —ciirnero 44netio,), iv, _
7 East and
West Yorkshire, 2s. 6d. p,-Grand tinion, 5 P.-Leeds
and Midland, 3s. 6d. dis.- North Staffordshire, 3‘ _._
South Midland,
21. 2s. p.
Western, 24- Rugby and Huntingdon, Si. dis.- "1 P North
O
V
Wr J'A•s and Thirsk, 10%-North
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales - ed
British, Carlisle, 21. 18s. 6d. -Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush, 14
-Axholme, 2% - Grand Union, 31s. -Great North and South Wales
andWoreester, 14s. dis.-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 335.- Leicester
and Tainworth 3-North Staffordshire, Si. 7c-South midland, v.
ds. 6d.-kidirapbhirj, 'II piO, la. ail:
1 Oltit, JAN. 30. ,
IsTLeele-e3- Leicester
ro
at
crill-,
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-York an," North llidland'Ex,
,tension, 36% - Ditto New (East and West 'tictilig), ::-Neweastle
and Barwick, 21.4 i, :liflrth Briti2ll, .1.1v.a Carlisle 1:
-.ranch, 2/. 175. -
London and York, 414-Grand Union, 11. Ils.-
3111 a. nc Bs.h e9s 9d.-Liverpool,
e. r-,
Bed-
ford, 11.
Matlock, and Midiand:l,!s_ti J
4% Welsh Mid-
land, 2. LBiuxverptonoo,l, Manchester, and

2;EWC4-§P.E4JrAI!T7r4II.E, 4424. 40.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are-3... Miami, New 401. Shares,
16 p.—North British, Halves (Carlisle), 345. p.-1,
-,,eweastle and Bev
wick, 11 p.

EDINBURGH, JAN. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —British and Irish Union,
68e. Ea.—Caledonian, 14li—mtt, 1;f-'w.„; 611.--Corpwall and
409.11.isreet Notthern,'4lslP.
."-""fIPF 514"Kinro,sh Ettlenstan,
§N, 61:—P4st L 014144 Celltco4:?* 414b4.111 444 gimp':
".v.t/t,n,l P.;,.f7.1,!n0 A„,

Half Shares, 161 —Edinburgh and Northern, 745. 6d.—Ditto, New-
port, 245. 6d.—Ditto, Lochgelly, 30s.— Edinburgh and Perth, 775. 6d.
—Glasgow and Ayr, New Stock. 26—Glasgow and Lesmahagow,
595. Gd. --Great North of Scotland, 64s.—Great North and South
Wales, Bs. Gd.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 608.—Scottish
Central, 15—Scottish North Western, 355. 6d.

GLASGOW, JAN. 29.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—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. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 11%
Glasgow and Belfast- Union, 425. 6d.—Glasgow and- Greenock, 19M
—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 52s.—Great Noith and
South Wales, Bs. 6d.—lnverness and Elgin, 29s.—Lanark and-Lo-
thians, 455. 6d.— Lesmahagow, 535. 6d.—Scottish Southern, 365.
Scottish North Western, 36s.—Slamannan, 26—South Midland, 3/. Bs.
—Wishaw and Coltness, 51.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 30.

THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY V. HEALY AND CURLING.

Mr. Sergeant BYLES appeared this morning in this
cause, which was a motion made by Mr. r'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. Holly, and
concluded by maintaining that every step taken by Mr.
ilealy and his attorney had been perfeCtly straight-
forward and regular, and that the motions, therefore,
should be discharged.
Mr. Sergeant Mutters 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. lie said
that the original case of legal proceedings was Mr,
Healy bringing an action against Mr. Young, the repre-
sentative of the New Zealand Company, to recover
damages for breach of contract. The Learned Sergeant
said the pleas of the then plaintiff had been met by
answers from the defendants, that notice had been given
that against a certain time when the emus were made
Mr. Ilealy would be at liberty to select hii 100 acres of
land, the amouet contracted for, but that the plaintiff
neglected to make his selection in time, anti 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 stets
taken by the then plaintiff to enforce his suit, contending
that the whelp course had been irregular ; that the de-
fendants bad been taken by surprise i and that diffi-
culties bad 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 bectße plaintiffii, 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-HOUS.E.
Mr. Webster Flocktor., 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 tobelaid any boat,wherry,
barge, lighter, or craft before any of the public stairs, or any
plying place or eauseway, 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 Corporation
and the Watermen's Steam-boat Company.
The complainant stated that on Sunday last, between nine
laynidn
gt e
an 'cl l
oong otchke,
chae sawuselv aay bargeayp w a
urist-hw'h' W.
r,which Flockton"
e uponit,
(and
he
had been a waterman for a great number of years) always
believed to be the property of the Corporation of London.
The Loan Mayon—Does it obstruct the navigation of the
river P 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
anstained any damage by the position of the barge at the
staira.
The complainant said, that although he had not owned
a wherry for eight years, his claim to the character was un-
questionable,
The Lauri MAyon 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. flocliton 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 oh§truct the navigation of the river, and that
he Certainly had a right to place and keep it there,
The complainant said, tb a truth was the barge was so
cloposited in order to bp 113 cie a pier for the Watermen's
Steam-packet Company, for the landing and embarkation of
the public.
Mr. 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.
ISTQW, 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 at the stairs had serious ground
for complaint against such impediments, which were calcu-
lated to aggravate the general distrea arising from the appli-
cation of steam on the Thames. _ _ _

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. _ _