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ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.
(THIS DAY.)
COURT OF ALDERMEN.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
After going orer a considerable portion of the ground
traversed in his first speech, the worthy Alderman con-
cluded by throwing himself and his cause on the justice
of the Court. He was willing to submit to any investiga-
tion, to lay his case before any tribunal, and he relied
with confidence on the justice of the public.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND moved for a committee, to
inquire into the whole matters with which Mr. Alderman
Wood was alleged to be connected.
After some considerable discussion for and against the
motion, an amendment was proposed, which was how-
ever lost ; and the original motion haring been put,
Mr. Alerman HUNPHERY moved, as an amendment,
that the Sheriff's report be read.
A show of hands was taken, when there appeared—
For the amendment 9
For the original motion 5
A division was afterwards called for, and the numbers
were ascertained to be—

For the amendment 7
For the motion
The names being for the 'For the amendment—
motion—
Aldermen Kelly
Copeland
Laurie
Duke
Hunter
Moon
Challis

Aldermen Humphery
Wilson
Magnay
Gibbs
Farncombe
Hughes
Sidney

7 1 7
Aldermen Sir George Carroll and Wood did not vote.
The Lord Mayor gave his casting vote for the amend-
ment.

Alderman SIDNEY then moved a furthor amendment,
that the papers (relating to Mr. Alderman Wood) be
read, which was lost by-a majority of three.
The Shoriffs then announced the names of the two al-
dermen returned by the Livery, and the public were or-
dered to be excluded from Court.

COMMON HALL.
The hall was opened to-day, at twelve o'clock, by
Mr. Harker, the crier, when the Sheriffs and the Se-
condaries having taken their places on the hustings,
Mr. Sheriff CHALLIS announced that the poll•books
having been opened and cast up yesterday, in the pre-
' sence of the agents for all parties, the following was
found to be the official state of it :
For Mr. Alderman Wood 1,644
„ Sir Geo. Carroll 1,653
• Mr. Alderman Hooper
„ Mr. Alderman Farncomb 1
„ Mr. Alderman Moon 3
The SHERIFF then declared the election of the Livery
to have fallen on Alderman Thomas Wood and Sir Geo.
Carroll, and those two gentlemen would be returned by
the Sheriff to the Court of Aldermen for that Court to
elect one to serve the office of Chief Magistrate for the
year ensuing.
The Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and Secondary then re-
tired to the Court of Alderman to make their return to
that Court. After an interval of upwards of three hours,
the Lord Mayor, accompanied by a large number of the
Court of Aldermen, entered the hall. Among the Al-
dermen we noticed Sir G. Carroll, Humphery, Laurie,
Wood, Duke, Copeland, Farebrother, Sidney, &c. On
the Lord Mayor taking his seat,
The RECORDER came forward, but was for some time
unable to obtain a hearing. Silence being in some de-
gree restored, he said—" Gentlemen of the Livery, I am
directed to inform you that the election has fallen on
Alderman Sir George Carroll, citizen and spectacle-maker,
to be Lord Mayor of this metropolis for the ensuing
year." The noises that shook the hall on this annvnce-
ment being made were fearful, and the Learned Recorder,
although he patiently awaited a calm for some time, was
at last obliged to make a precipitate retreat.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL, having been invested with the
insignia as Lord Mayor elect, thee came forward and
said—Gentlemen, by your suffrages, I have had the dis-
tinguished honour of being returned as one of the two
senior Aldermen in rotation to fill the distinguished
office of Chief Magistrate for the year ensuing.—(Cries
of " Oh, oh," and cheering, the former greatly prepon-
derating.) I need scarcely assure you that it will be
my pride and pleasure to support all your rights and
privileges, and to exercise all those hospitalities which
my predecessors have done.—(Cheers and groans.)
Gentlemen, I beg leave to thank you sincerely and
kindly for the support you have given me, and to assure
you that I will endeavour so to do, that, at the end of
my year of office, you will have no reason to complain
that your choice has fallen upon me.—(Cheers and
much confusion, in the midst of which the Mayor elect
retired.)
Mr. Alderman WOOD then stood forward, and the ap-
plauses which greeted him were so deafening that we
were for some minutes unable to hear a word. The
cheering having subsided, the worthy Alderman said—
Gentlemen, I regret that you did not hear Sir
George Carroll.—(Cheers.) (Here a person strode across
the vacant space in front of the platform, and with the
most intemperate action, and his " eye in a fine frenzy
rolling," shouted out " You have stained your gown,
sir; resign your gown, sir." Confusion became worse
confounded, and some " gentle voices" urged that the
violent gentleman should be ejected from the door by
a rather summary process. The police having politely
waited on the offending party to the outside, the pro-
ceedings were again allowed to proceed.) I have had in
this contest no personal feeling with Sir George Car-
roll, nor has he had any with me ; neither will I
complain with regard to the accusations made
against me. The return which the Livery ultimately
made was the very same for which on the first day the
show of hands was taken.—(Cheers.) We have been
occupied since eleven this day in the Court of Alder-
men discussing a question which might have been settled
in a quarter of an hour, and at its rising the Court re-
fused to read the documents which their own committee
had sent up in reference to the charges against me.—
(.' Shame.") I do not wish to cast blame or censure
on any one. It is my duty to thank you, and to repu-
diate those calumnious newspaper reports which have
appeared in the shape of anonymous letters. These
reports I have this morning already demonstrated to be
utterly destitute of truth.—(Cheers.) I only advert to
the circumstance for this purpose, to assure the gen-
tlemen of the Livery, some of whom have expressed
to myself the fact that they witheld their votes from
me because they were imposed on by the statements
in a letter signed:" Truth"—( Cries of" Shame.")—that
thatiletter contained the most infamous falsehoods ; but
although I had prepared in the Court of Aldermen this
day papers which belied the allegations of " Truth," I
was not allowed to enter upon them. Whether that
man is in my hearing or no I care not ; for I am aware
that these words of mine will go forth to the public—
but I say that he has imposed upon a respectable journal,
he has imposed upon the public at large, and I challenge
him to come forward, and I will brand him with infamy.
—(Cheers). (" Resign your gown," said a person in
passing.) I will do no such thing.—(lmmense cheering).
I have a great work to perform. I have a paramount
duty to discharge, and 1 will do so before I retire from
my aldermanic position.—(Great cheering.) While I
live, and while I retain the feelings and the
heart of an Englishman, my time and my atten-
tion shall be devoted to the service of those
brave and good men who have recorded their
names on yonder lists.—(Loud cheers.) Some have
ventured to impugn their respectability, but, thank
God, there are names there that will rank with any
other name—aye, let it be the first, the most respectable,
the proudest in the city of London. Gentlemen, in every
contested election there are different classes who re-
cord their votes on one or the other, or on the
same side. They exercise the legitimate frau-
chise, but shall it be said that the vote of the
man of humble circumstances is not as good as that of
him placed in a higher station?—(Cheers.) To east
such an imputation upon some of those who have re-
corded their votes in my favour is therefore unworthy
of citizens and discreditable to Englishmen.—(Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, the struggle was not between
myself and Sir George Carroll, er, as I will now call
him, the Lord Mayor elect. The object of those who
used the name of Mr. Alderman Hooper was evidently to
give the Livery an opportunity of disgracing me by not
returning my name to the Court of Aldermen at all.
That object has been signally and triumphantly de-
feated.—(Loud cheers.) You have confirmed the
show of hands taken, but the Court of Alder-
men have seen fit to reject me, although the
senior Alderman in rotation.—(Shame.) Gentlemen,
I am neither dispirited nor disheartened ; I leave
these hustings with the kindliest feelings for you all—
(Cheers)—and with the expression of my earnest hope
that we shall one and all of us live to see each other yet
under happier and more triumphant circumstances.—
(Immense cheering.)
Mr. PRYOR said that when last he had the honour of
appearing before them it was to propose a vote of thanks
abionutre bgruinlagrin form,
.orm, and not
even technically mar the sense they entertained of the to the Sheriffs of last year, and that vote had been
passed unanimously, but he found that, according
to the terms of the Common Hall to render the vote
formal, it was necessary that the Lord Mayor should be in
before the
the chair, and as their esteemed chief magistrate now
citizens presided,
of
the
Londonot e hewaswouldbe
ser-
vices of the respected gentleman who served the office of
Sheriffs during the past year. The vote he had
to submit to them was—" That the thanks of the
Livery in Common Hall assembled are justly due,
and are hereby given to William Chaplin and
John Laurie, Esquires, for their humane and
benevolent attentions to the unfortunate persons
under their care as criminals ; for their earnest endea-
vours to mitigate the effects in after life of their present
punishment, by the exercise of a judicious and temperate
policy; for the manner in which they upheld the
,just
rights
of the Crown, and supported the rights of the sub-
ject;
present state of prisons, and endeavo • uring to cause the
introduction of a better and more effectual system of se-
condar),:punishments, and, by obtaining employment for
criminals on their discharge from custody, enable them
to support themselves, without being compelled by in-
evitable necessity to resort to their old courses." Having
read the motion, he thought it would be su
pererogation if he were to address any obser-
vations in support of it to persons who had so
many opportunities
of observing the conduct of Messrs.
Chaplin and Laurie during their term of office. They all
must have observed the great and benevolent exertions
made by Mr. Laurie for the amelioration of the social
and moral condition of that miserable class of society,
who, in many cases, are found by necessity to throng
the gaols ; and he was sure they would all join with him,

when he said that few men in later days had done more
towards effecting this desirable object than the worthy
Sheriff.
Mr. KING, in seconding the motion, said, as his
friend had alluded solely to Mr. Laurie in pro-
posing the resolution, he (Mr. King) thought
it his duty to say a few words with respect to
Mr. Sheriff Chaplin.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that
in bringing the name of Mr. Chaplin before the Livery-
men of Loudon, he was submitting to them the name of
a gentleman whose ability, discretion, and integrity
would not be questioned by any assemblage.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman WOOD said it was with great pleasure
that he recorded his sense of the conduct of the Sheriffs
during the late election. There was one point to which he
wished to allude. He wished to do an act of justice to the
gentlemen connected with Mr. Alderman Carroll's
Committee. There was a letter signed by Mr. An-
derton, producal in the other room, and I am bound to
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say he believed that upon no occasion had
the Com-
mittee acted otherwise than straightforward in their op-
position. He had great pleasure in moving that the
thanks of the Hall be given to the Sheriffs for their con-
duct during the election.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BENNOCH seconded the motion. He had found
from his connexion with the Common Hall, and the pro-
minent position he took in the present election, the very
great facility with which the actions of men might he
misrepresented and villified. He was not in the habit
of defending the delinquencies of any man, but he
called upon those who made charges against
others to come forward and state their proofs,
and then leave the Livery to judge. His sole
object had been, and was, to show, in the course
he had pursued, that some alteration ought to be made
in the Court of Aldermen, that it ought to be radically
changed.—(Cries, and "So it will.") There were many
in the Court of Aldermen far more black than Alder-
man Wood.—(Cheers.) To this it was said two blacks
did not make a white, and to that he answered, don't
have any blacks at all.—(Cheers.) By adopting the
Court of Aldermen to the times in which they lived, by
making the election of its members periodically, they
would secure the best results.—(Cheers.) If the Livery
had placed Mr. Alderman Wood at the head of the poll,
the Court of Aldermen would then not have had the op-
portunity they had now of sheltering themselves behind
their acts. It bad been admitted in the papers of that
day that what he had stated with respect to Alderman
Wood was true—everything with respect to him had
been cleared up, and it was now the business of
the Livery, to see that he got a proper Committee to in-
quire into his case, which the Court of Aldermen had
refused to give him.
The motion was then put, and declared to be carried
unanimously.
The SHERIFFS returned thanks.

Thanks were then voted to the Lord Mayor, who
returned thanks, and the hall was then dissolved.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert ,took their usual early morning
walk.

The Royal Family took their usual exercise this
morning on ponies in the precincts of the Castle. Their
Royal Highnesses again went out in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Baron
Stockmar and Colonel Seymour, enjoyed the sport of
shooting this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, and attended by a Lady and Gen-
tleman in Waiting, are expected to arrive at the Castle
this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, from their resi-
dence at Kew.

Viscount Palmerston and Sir Stratford and Lady
Canning, are expected to arrive at the Castle this even-
ing on a visit to the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is
expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent,
the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Baroness de Speth, Viscount Palmerston, Sir Stratford
and Lady Canning, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss,
Sir George Couper, and the Gentleman in Waiting on
the Duke of Cambridge.
The band of the Scot's Fusilier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend
in the Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince
Frederick of Hesse, and attended by a Lady in Waiting
and Baron Knesebeck, left their residence at Kew, at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle.
Lord Oranmorc had •an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street. Mr. Charles Buller had also an interview with
his Lordship yesterday.
Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon
for Windsor Castle.

LITERATURE.
THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.

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German literature is amongst the most recondite
and exhaustless subjects for the pen of a reviewer,
and one section of that subject is treated upon in the
October number of the Eclectic. We cannot help
feeling, however, that the article upon German novels
and German novelists, though forming a very useful
catalogue of names and dates, is infinitely too super-
ficial to be designated criticism. The writer does not
in any one particular analyse the characters of these
remarkable literateurs—he does not discriminate
those subtle peculiarities which impart so much of in-
dividuality to their writings ; he slurs over the mas-
terpieces of German imaginative composition with a
few flippant and trite expressions, and furnishes the
reader with a bare inventory of a bookstall. New-
mark and Buchholz, Hischberg, and Lohenstein,
Hoffmannswalden and Ziegler, Talander and Happel,
Schuabel and Gellert, Hermes and Dusch, Klinger
and Wieland, are successively mentioned as tributary
to the copious stream of German fiction, but not, one
individual of the number, with the exception possibly
of John Hermes, is allowed more than a mere casual
observation. This poverty of criticism, in such a rich
field for its display, is, however, scarcely surprising,
when the very profusion of the materials is calculated
to baffle the critic in his attempt at selection. Kot-
zebue's romances, inferior as they may appear to the
fastidious taste of the reviewer, are suggestive of
illucidations sevenfold the extent of his entire con-
tribution—especially the " Die Geschichte." Of
Goethe, again, what sheets might not be written ! and
sheets not only illustrative of the mingled deeps and
shallows of Wilhelm Meister, but of the astonishing
profundities of the intellect from which it emanated!

In speaking of the productions of a more recent cha-
racter, the reviewer has evinced greater capacity, and
this probably from his greater familiarity with them
than with their predecessors. He has treated Vulpius'
"Rinaldo Rinaldini," with the derision it merited;
and, in reprobating the immoral tendencies of such
works, he has administered an adroit side-
blow at some of our own novelists, who
have endeavoured to invest ruffians with the charms
of heroism. Schiller's " Ghost Seer," Weber's
" Vehmgerichte," Heinse's " Ardinghello," Shilling's
novels, the renowned "Franz Sternbald's Wander-
ungen," the writings of Nicolai, those of Schum-
mel, Knigge, Hahn-Hahn, and a multitude of
others, are characterised very felicitously. The
article, altogether, deserves a perusal, if only
as a clever index to a most enthralling and
volumnious library. The extravagant discourses
lately delivered by the incumbent of St. Jude's,
Liverpool, drawing a comparison between Prince
Albert and the divine author of Christianity, is, to our
thinking, treated with miserable leniency by the
Eclectic. What is the meaning of that allusion to
" the hatred of ungodly men ?" Is it a villainous
shaft levelled at an intelligent and benevolent contem-
porary? If so, it is an unworthy attempt to divert
popular indignation in a wrong channel. " Life in
California" will be referred to with interest just at
this moment when the annexation of those extensive
and fruitful regions to the United States is a matter
of 'exceeding probability. " Pesehel's Elements of
Physics," the " Third Kafir Invasion," and a notice
of " Kitto's Biblical Cyclopmdia," are careful and
interesting compilations.

MEETING OF IRONMASTERS.—WOLVERHAMPTON,
WEDNESDAY.—Today the usual quarterly meeting of
ironmasters in the district of South Staffordshire took
place, at the Swan Hotel, for the transaction of business.
There was a very large attendance of ironmasters, and
many dealers, who evinced great spirit in their pur-
chases. There was a fair amount of business done, but
no orders to any great extent were given. The iron
trade still continues in a ♦ery healthy condition, and is
likely to continue so. The prices fixed at the prelimi-
nary meeting of the masters were fully maintained, and
no attempt was made to reduce the prices of any descrip-
tion of iron. Last week an order for 10,000 tons of rail-
way iron, and 3,600 tons of chairs, was received by a
firm in the neighbourhood, for the Shrewsbury and Wol-
verhampton Railway. Many who wanted to make pur-
chases have delayed until the meeting at Birmingham
to morrow, when the decision of the masters will be
more fully known. It is, however, all but certain they
will be quite happy to maintain present prices during
the ensuing quarter.
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. CROTTY BISIZOP OF
CLOYNE AND Ross.—lt is our melancholy duty to an-
nounce to our readers the death of one of the venerated
prelates of Ireland—the Right Rev. Dr. Crotty, Catholic
Bishop of Cloyne and Ross. The Right Rev. Dr. Crotty
filled the episcopal office for thirteen years, having been
consecrated on the 11th of June, 1833.—Dublin paper.

THE WELLINGTON STATUE.—Numerous workmen
are busily erhployed in removing a portion of the scaf-
folding by which the colossal statue of the Duke of Wel-
lington was raised to the top of the triumphal arch at
Hyde-park-corner, but in consequence of the firmness
with which the timbers were braced together, the pro-
gress is very slow. No correct idea can be formed of
the general appearance which the statue will present
when it is fully exposed to the view of the public,
((I FOREIGN POTATOES.—It is now some time since
we had occasion to notice an importation of potatoes
from abroad. A vessel arrived at Bristol from Jersey,
in addition to a variety of other articles, had 100 cwt. of
this esteemed and much-spoken-of article on board; and
the steam-ship, Ocean, arrived on Monday, from Rotter-
dam, had three hampers of potatoes on board, the growth
of Holland, and the first arrival of the kind from that
country for several mouths past,

OPENING OF THE HULL AND
BRIDLINGTON RAILWAY.
(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

A dinner took place in the Music Hall in the evening,
to which more than 500 gentlemen were invited. Mr.
Hudson, M.P., was in the chair. He was supported on
his right by the Lord Mayor of York, and on his left by
the Mayor of Hull,
Amongst those present we observed Henry Holds-
worth, Esq., Thomas Broadfoot, Esq., and William
Rand, Esq., directors of the Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way; Daniel Waddington, Esq„ deputy-chairman of the
Eastern Counties ; Sir Isaac Morley, Tee, Esq.,
Edward Oxley, Esq., chairman of the Great North of
England ; Nathaniel Pleevis, Esq., director of the
Midland Railway; Sir John Simpson, deputy.chairman
of the Midland Railway, and James Richardson, Esq.,
and George Jennings, Esq., directors; the Rev. Mr.
Dixon and the Rev. Mr. Parley, of the Corporation of
Hull; J. R. Pease, Esq., George Liddell, Esq., George
Leeman, Esq., a number of the Corporation of York,
the Sheriff of York, the Chevalier Good, the
Consul of Denmark and other foreign consuls, and
J. E. Burtenshaw, Esq., one of the engineers to the
line. J. Eglinton was the vice-chairman. Due justice
having been done to the excellent dinner and wines,
" Non Nobis Domine" having been sung, and the usual
loyal and constitutional toasts, including the Archbishop
of York, having been duly honoured,
Mr. HUDSON rose, amidst great cheering, to propose
"Prosperity to the Hull and Bridlington Railway." He
said (when the cheering bad subsided) that in rising to
propose the toast of the evening, he felt that it needed
no eulogium from him to entitle it to be received by that
company with the enthusiasm it deserved.—(Cheers.)
They had that day witnessed the opening of the Hull
and Bridlington Railway.—(Cheers.) He had been
called during that day to address them at some
length on the advantages and benefits which
the line would confer on the districts which
it traversed, therefore it would be unnecessary for
him to occupy their time or task their patience with a
recital of those advantages a second time—this was
especially unnecessary, because he believed there was no
gentleman present who was not well able and ready to
estimate the advantages which it would confer on the
inhabitants of that district by the facilities which it
would afford for carry ing them and their produce be-
tween two such important points as Hull and Bridling-
ton.—(Cheers.) He offered the toast to their acceptance,
because he was sure every gentleman there would drink
it with enthusiasm, and because he believed it was their
earnest wish that the railway which had been opened
that day should serve its proprietors and the
beneficial to the public.—(Loud cheers.) It was by en-
larging and affording increased facilities for communi-
cation between different places—it was by extending
railway communication from place to place, and so
making a complete system of intercommunication
throughout the whole country, that its resources were
fully developed, the cost of transit cheapened, and the '
people benefited.—(Loud cheers.) But, above all, the
line, passing as it did through a beautiful and healthy
country, would be the means of imparting the vigour
of life to the pallid cheek of disease, and could not
fail to promote the health of those who travelled along
it. The line invested the directors with
great responsibility; but, although the shareholders
had invested capital in it to the amount of
300,0001. or 400,0001., they felt confident in its pros-
perity, because it was one of those undertakings which
could not fail to prove beneficial to the public. It was
a great point in railway undertakings that lines should
be alike beneficial to the public and to their proprietors,
for the interests of railway proprietors and railway
shareholders were identical.—(Hear.) As they intended
to proceed on this prineiple it could not be otherwise
than beneficial to the public.—(Hear.) He hoped,
therefore, they would drink the toast with sincerity, and
with a due sense of the anxiety and responsibility which
was connected with a new and great undertaking. The
directors had an anxious task to discharge, but if there
was unanimity and good feeling amongst those with
whom they came in contact that responsibility
would be materially lightened. The public were
desirous to have all the accommodation they required,
and, therefore, he said, in giving that accommodation, he
recognised the principle contained in the address which
had been presented to him that day—he deeply recog
nised the principle, that conferring benefits on the public
by the construction of railways promoted the general
commercial interests of the country, and induced
capitalists to invest their' money in profitable specula-
tions.—(Cheers.) Therefore, in proposing prosperity to
this railway, he not only meant in a pecuniary point of
view to the proprietors, but also with prosperity to the
district through which it ran.—(Cheers.) They were
deeply sensible of the responsibility which attached to
the management of the railway ; they were aware
if they did not give the public fair facilities--
if they did not afford to the district through which
it ran all the advantages to which it was en-
titled of the conveyance of goods and passengers—if they
did not give all the intercourse which ought to exist, he
said they were fully satisfied that they would not deserve
to prosper. They were fully prepared to carry out this
principle, and satisfied it would meet with success—that
in giving increased facilities to the public they should
receive an increased reward for their labours.—(Hear,
hear.) He had no doubt they would drink the toast in
a bumper, and he hoped with all the enthusiam with
which it had been received that day—" Success to the
Bull and Bridlington Railway."
The toast was received, and responded to with loud
cheers.

Mr. HUDSON again rose, and said that that was the
first time the whole corporation of York had been united
to meet the corporation of Hull.—(Cheers.) The corpora.
tion of York bore the utmost good feeling for the
corporation of Hull.---(Hear, hear.) After passing a
glowing eulogium on both corporations, he concluded by
proposing the Mayor and corporation f Hull.
The MAYOR of Hull in returning thanks bore high
testimony to the character of Mr. Hudson, and to the
great extent of his railway undertakings. The line that
clay opened promised to be most useful. It was one of
the most complete lines he had ever travelled—(Cheers)
—in fact, it was quite extraordinary to find it in so per-
fect a state. After some other observations, he con-
cluded by proposing the health of Mr. Hudson.
Mr. HUDSON returned thanks for the honour which
had been conferred upon him. No person, he could
assure the worthy Mayor and those present, could be
more astonished at the position he held than himself.—
(Cheers.) It was quite true when he became chairman
of the, Midland Company that it did not possess the
railway communication which it possessed at present.—
(Loud cheers.) When he was called upon to aid in the
construction of these lines he felt that he could not deny
any services which his fellow-citizens required of him.—
(Cheers). He could say truly of himself, whatever others
might say, that his object was to benefit, not to say the
city of his birth, but York, a city in the prosperity of
which he felt the warmest interest. Certain circum-
stances had placed him in the high position he held. He
had, in connexion with his friend Mr. R. Stephenson,
who was connected with one whose memory would ever
live—(Cheers)—he, had been the humble instrument of
carrying out lines of great utility to the country. When
others thought railways but a system, the ultimate suc-
cess of which was only problematical, he prosecutes'
that undertaking, and had been the humble means of
inducing the capitalists of England to invest their
capital in affording increased accommodation to the trade
and commerce of the country, rather than in bonded
securities and in foreign speculations—(Cheers)—and
was it to be said that those who had embarked in these

undertakings should be blamed, when in doing so they
had forwarded their own interests at the same time?—

(Hear, and cheers.) It had been charged against
him, that under this system he had remunerated
himself and others at the expense of the public.
This was not so, but was to be attributed to
various circumstances. It was because others, who had
the means, and who were his equals in everything, had
not had the courage to embark their capital in such un-
dertakings.—(Cheers.) Thus, whilst those lines had
conferred benefits on him, great benefits had been ex-
tended to others. It had been also charged upon him,
that in the position in which he had placed himself he
had enhanced the capital of the companies with which
he was connected, and that he had offered extravagant
terms to the shareholders of the Hull and Selby Rail-
way, and that the public would suffer materially from
what he had done. Now he denied that charge, as he
believed the tendency of the principle of amalgama-
tion to be the principle of increasing rail-
way facilities, and consequently reducing the expense
of management and the cost of transit ' • but he denied that
he had been instrumental in giving that to the share-
holders which the public ought to have received—(Loud
cheers)—he denied .that.—(Continued cheers.) He
went forward because he believed it was for the perma-
.

nent interests of the companies with which he was asso-
ciated, who had invested their capital in them. Why
were they looked up to by the nations of the world? Why,
because, whilst pursuing their course of enterprise, they
had maintained above all the nations of the world the
_ _ _

high principle of faith—(Loud cheers)—that their mer-
chants and the Parliament had always maintained the
principle of keeping inviolate the contracts into
which they had entered with individuals and
nations. (Cheers.) He sincerely returned thanks
for the honour they had done him. lie hoped and
trusted that so long as he continued to discharge the
duties they had placed in his hands he should maintain
the good opinion of those who com,:,osed that assembly.
He knew no higher honour for h public man to possess
than to enjoy the gor,ti opinion of his fellow-men.—
(Immense cheering,) The Hon. Gentleman proposed
" The health of 'the, Directors of the Hull and Selby
Railway," and tissumed his seat amidst the loudest de-
monstrations 4of applause.
R. Torti:E, Esq., the Chairman of the Company, re-
turned tr.anks.
The following toasts were drunk before the company
separated : —" The Members for Hull," " The Lord
Mayor and Corporation of York," " The Chairman and
Directors of the South Midland Railway," t The Chai-
rman and Directors of the Leeds and Manchester Rail-
way," " The Chairman and Directors of the Midland
Company," " Prosperity to the Town and Port of

&c. -
The company did not separate until past eleven
o'clock ; the majority returned to York by a special
train, which had been provided, free of expense, for that
purpose.

" GOOD NEWS FOR THE SAVANS."
The faculty, although they say
They make their cuts to heal,"
Admit that when the brain's away
All useless is their steel ;
But Punch, as every week has shown,
Aside the maxim puts,
For though long since the brains are gone
'Tis living by the cuts.