The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 18.46

THE REVENUE FOR. THE

YEA

R AND QUARTER ENDING .1 A

UARI 5, 1846

No. I.—An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue a

Great Bri

itain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of Januiry, 1845, arid sth of
or Decrease on each head thereof.

12,800,798 150,601,988 1

No. 11.--Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1845, and the sth January, 1846

Quarters ended Jan. 5.

Quarters ended Jan. 5,

INCOME,

CHARGE.

Customs
Excise ..
Stamps .....

3,8b8,077
3,247,030
1,601,658
1,880,490
487,541
146,000
50,000

4,334,789
3,353,440
1,792,402
1,876,050
3,,6,995
189,000
45,000
369,471
64,094
404,179

Permanent Debt ....... • • ...... .........
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund
Sinking Fund •. • .. ......... .
The Civil List .... • .
Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund • • • • • •• • • • • • • •
To pay off Exchequer Bills, raised per Act 6 and 7 Vict. c. 87, for Opium Compensation.
For Advances • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • .

Property Tax •• • • • • •• • • •
Post-office • • •
Crown Lands •• •• • • •• • • • • •• •• •
Miscellaneous •• •• • •
Imprest and other Moneys ...... • • •
Repayments of Advances .•••.......

9,190
146,759
250,980

Total Charge •• ••

11,707,725

To Cash brought to this Account to be
applied to pay off Deficiency Bills..

12,815,400

200,000

13,015,400

The Surplus .•• • . •

LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.
A general meeting of the Shareholders and others in-
terested in the above line was held yesterday, at one
o'clock, in the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for
the purpose of laying before the meeting the terms of
amalgamation entered into with the Yorkshire and Glas-
gow Union Railway, as also to exhibit the general state
of the Company.
The chair was taken by Mr. Beresford, M.P.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read,

The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended
Oct. 10, 1845, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846,
after deducting 600,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •..
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of
the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services.. • ...... ••• •••• •• —..•••••••••• •• • • • • .. •
Ihe Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846 . ... . ... • •
.
. .
The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund,
Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846

The CHAIRMAN said that the Board of DireCtors
had agreed to issue that advertisement, for the pur-
pose of letting the shareholders know the exact
position of the Company. They were prepared to give
the fullest information on every matter relative to the
amalgamation with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union.
It was one which the Committee considered to be most
advantageous for the Leeds and Carlisle, at the same
time that it was equally advantageou. to the other Com-
pany. He would not, however, then take up the time of
the meeting with any lengthened observations, rather
choosing to reserve them until a later stage of the pro-
ceedinizs, when gentlemen might ask any questions, and '
be would give them all the information in his power.
But he would beg to say this to the members present, that
he was glad to i.tand there as the head of that Board, and
to lay everything in the most open manner before them
He was also extremely glad to see gentlemen connected
with the press present, for, as he br!ore said, they were
anxious to conceal nothing. They were in a prosperous
condition; the conduct of the Directors had been honest
and p-n, and he was sure that many would from their
confidence in them become future shareholders. He
would now request that the report be read ; the financial
accounts would be afterwards given them, and he (the
Chairman) would then be happy to give as satisfactory
answers as he could to the que.tions which na,ght be put
to him.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W EBB, the Secretary, then read the report as
follows :

to sanction the formation of that portion of your line first
which traverses the lime district, because from the ab-
sence of difficult or expensive work, this line would not
occupy much time in construction, and because the local
traffic already alluded to would yield an immediate
return, and at the same time a line would be secured,
which will afford a much shorter route to Scotland than
any now existing or projected, and the shortest possible
route to Hull from the north and north-west.
" The following is the Financial Statement of this
Company, to December 31st, 1845:
Cr.

By Deposit ...
Dr.
To Engineering, on Account
„ Advertising •••
„ Law Expenses
„ Traffic Tables
„ Rent. Salaries, Tradesmans' Bills,
Travelling. Office Exposes, &e.
„ 35,0001. Exchequer-bills (average)

5,681,535
655,612
1,659
842,068
98,087
649,648
871,844
962,001

" Your Committee of Management have much
pleasure in laying before you a general statement of
their proceedings, and of the position of this Company ;
under any circumstances your Committee would have
deemed it their duty to have reported to you at an early
period the steps that have been taken for prosecuting
the object which you charged them with ; but, in the
present case, that duty becomes a gratification, because
your Committee is enabled to make such a statement of
the affairs of this Company as they feel convinced will
meet your cordial approval.
" Notwithstanding the inauspicious moment at which
this Company was brought out, a very great number of
shares were paid upon by parties of the highest respects
bility, connected by commerce, or by ownership, with
the important districts which your line was designed to
benefit. In the allotment, the Committee were desirous
of conciliating the local interests, and they considered
applications from such quarters as having a priority of
claim ; whilst they deemed it desirable to allot generally
to such as gave assurances that they would hold at least
two-thirds of the shares allotted to them. Your Com-
mittee also conceived that their Scotch applicants should
be favourably regarded, especially those of Edinburgh
and Glasgow, inasmuch, as the saccess of your
Bill would be identical with the interest of
those important cities. The total amount of deposits
received is 102,909/.. 17s. 6d. The Committee of Ma-
nagement have the pleasure of informing their share-
holders that ninety-one members of the Provisional
Committee of this Company have paid the deposit on
the total number of the shares allotted to them.
" The line adopted by your Committee commenced at
a junction with the Leeds and Thirsk' line, at Hors•
forth Wood, four miles north of Leeds, and passing
Rawden, Yeadon, and Guiseley, to Ilkley, it continued
up Wharfe Dale to Hawes, and thence through Ap-
pleby to its junction with the Lancaster and Carlisle'
line, at Clifton, 19 miles south of Carlisle ; thus forming
the most direct route from London and Leeds to Car-
lisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. The length of this line
is 81 miles, and presents practicable working gradients ;
although to obtain these some heavy works are requisite,
especially at Stakefells. These, however, your Com-
mittee hope to considerably reduce and amend.
"In all the proceedings of your Committee it has
been their policy to cultivate a friendly understanding
with those companies with which your line is connected,
and this spirit has been responded to generally ; the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company,' with which
your line is more directly connected, having offered every
facility both for a junction and running on the line on
fair and reasonable terms; whilst the 'Caledonian Rail-
way' Directors have expressed to your Committee, that
they view any direct communication from Leeds and the
centre of Yorkshire, to Carlisle, as important to the
interests of that Company.
" In 'prosecuting your Bill through Parliament you
twould
`Yorkshireh av
e
caonndtenGdlaarsegsoywoeueßtr:sit.lioanfecsot
Company,' whose
with
ose respects,
interests were, in manyw ifroemnticcallift with thoseH of
this Company, and
(about 30 miles) ran parallel to your own; thence to
eweist
passed down the valley of the Yure, through Askrigg,
Leyburn, and Bedale, to Thirsk, on the Great North of
England Railway,' and (by a branch of seven miles) to
Wadi (near Ripon) forming a junction with the
• Leeds and Thirsk' line. This line had the ad-
vantage over your own, in points of practicability
and cheapness of construction, the whole being
laid down without a tunnel, or any expensive
work. This Company, as well as the 'Leeds and
is supported by strong local influence, and affords
a complete line of communication between London,
Leeds, Carlisle, and Scotland, and by far the shortest
and most direct route from Scotland to the important
port of Hui!. After mature consideration, your Com-
mittee considered it to be for the interest of this Com-
pany to enter into an amalgamation with the Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' as thereby
heavy Parliamentary expense will be avoided, and by
this union an important national scheme carried out.
" Your Committee were gratified to find that such
disposition was cordially responded to by the Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' which agreed
to enter into an amalgamation on terms of perfect
equality. Your Committee have the satisfaction of in-
forming you that the following terms have been entered
into accordingly, viz. :
" Ist. That an amalgamation be formed between the
Leeds and Carlisle' and the Yorkshire and Glasgow
Union Railway Companies' on terms of perfect equality.
" 2d. That the affairs of the amalgamation Com-
pany be managed by a Direction chosen in equal num-
bers from the Committees of Management of bath Com-
panies.
" 3d. That as one of the two lines running parallel
to each other from Clifton to Hawes, viz.:—that of the
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway,' was found
to present on comparison better gradients and to be less
expensive in construction, that line be adopted, and the
other abandoned.
" 4th. That the amlgamated Company do proceed in
the ensuing session for a Bill to construct the main line
down the valley of the Yure to Wath, near Ripon, on
the ' Leeds and Thirsk Railway' (with a short branch
to Thirsk, on the Great North of England Railway'),
thereby opening a direct communication from Glasgow
and Carlisle to Leeds, York, and Hull, and through
them to the south. That the line from near Hawes to
Leeds, by the Valley of the Wharfe, be sent in as a
project only this session, in order to obtain possession
of the ground, should the traffc demand at a future
time two lines of communication between the north and
south of England.
" sth. That the stock of the amalgamated Company
be contributed in equal proportions, and that each Com-
pany pay their own expenses up to the day of amalga-
:nation.
" It has been already proved to the satisfaction of
your Committee that the local traffic on the Yorkshire
and Glasgow' line, independent of the through traffic,
will be fully sufficient to reumerate the outlay of capi-
tal. The important it: of lime alone will yield a con-
siderable revenue, as the line passes through the finest
fields of limestone in Yorkshire, and the inexhaustible
supply which these yield, gives an ample security that
the demand will be extensive and continuous; whilst the
quantity of coal which will be necessary for burning the
lime, will give a remunerative back carriage, and vastly
ii,crea.e the prement lar,e consumption in the district.
" It has been a strung inducement to your Committee

9,062,458
2,645,257

11,707,725

4,325,724
4,275,316

5,660,472
628,805

1,314,075
98,072
423,583

615,077

8,740,084
4,275,316

13,015,400

229,884

50,408

280,252

••• ... ... £102,949 17 6

£6,000 0 0
1,008 11 6
570 0 0
1,000 0 0

at 255. prem.
„ Rink Socurity
„ Balance in hands of Company's
Bankers, in London and th.:,
Country ...

Mr. GEO. JONES suggested that as there were only
twelve gentlemen present to represent a Company whose
capital exceeded two millions, they had better wait a
short while longer to allow of other shareholders
attending.
The CHAIRMAN said, at the breaking up of the last
meeting, several Shareholders requested that the ad-
journed meeting might be held punctually at one, be-
cause it was a great inconvenience for men of business
to attend at that hour, and then to be kept waiting for
a considerable time.
Mr. JONES asked if the vote of the gentlemen present
was to be taken as final ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that all he could say was that
if the Shareholders would not attend, it was not the
fault of the Directors, but it placed them in an unplea-
sant position.
Mr. SMIRKS said he never heard of the last meeting
till after it had taken place, and then it was by accident
that he saw it reported in the papers. The Directors
ought to do more than advertise these meetings. They
ought ta forward notices of them to every Shareholder.
He had never seen their Company mentioned in a news-
pap-T, except in Spilleman's list in the Times.
Ultimately it was agreed that the business should be
delayed for half an hour. At the expiration of that
time the attendance of Shareholders had become more
numerous, and the Chairman requested the Secretary to
read the answers to the applications he had previously
alluded to.
The first was from Mr. Thomas Lawrence, of Saint
Mary Axe, who denied ever having applied for shares
in the Company, and declared that his name had been
placed on the Provisional Committee without his know-
ledtze or consent. _ _

The next was from Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who said
he had paid the deposits on his shares, amounting to
5251., and requesting to know when he could sign the
contract deed.
The next was from Mr. Humfreys, of 68, Old Broad-
street, who requested to have his name immediately
wi!hdrawn from the Provisional Committee.
Mr. JONES asked who this gentleman was ?
The SECRETARY replied that Mr. Humfreys was the
father of their former solicitor, and he was allotted 200
shares at the request of his son.
The next was from Lieutenant White, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Ocean, who expressed his inability to pay
the deposits at present.
The next was from Mr. William Harding, of Croydon,
who said he was unable to accept more than ten shares,
and he was ready and willing to pay upon that number.
The next was from Mr. Charles Butler, who declared
that he had long ceased to be a committeeman, and had
never accepted any shares.
The SECRETARY said it was true Mr. Butler was not
one of the Massaging Committee, but he had never with-
drawn his name from the Provisional Committee. Mr.
Butler, moreover, had attended some of the preliminary
meetings of the Managing Committee.
Several HoN. PROPRIETORS deprecated the system of
allow;ng Provisional Committeemen to act at these meet-
ings who had formally accepted shares.
The last letter was from Mr. Butler, solicitor, of
Furnival's Inn, who stated that Mr. Horne,
Mr. Bowyer, ani Mr. Phillips, were willing to pay
upon their shares if the undertaking were carried out,
or to bear their share of the expenses if it were not.
The SECRETARY said these were the oak, replies he
had received to 128 applications.
Mr. C. GREEN aished to know how many of the
Provisional Committee had paid the deposits upon their
shares ?

The CHAIRMAN replied that out of 130 only 16 had
paid. This, however, was exclusive of the Managing
Committee. The next business to be brought before
them was the minutes of the proceedings which the Sub-
Committee had taken for negotiating an amalgamation
with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company,
which, with their permission, the secretary would read.
From these minutes it appeared that the negotiation
had resulted in an offer from the Northern and Southern
Connecting Company to amalgamate, provided it was
effected upon t..e basis that three Metropolitan Junction
shares, upon which a call of 12s. per share should be
made, were equal to one share in the other Company.
The CHAIRMAN said the Managing Directors had re-
turned no answer to this offer, preferring rather to
leave it to be done by that meeting. He might state,
however, that about an hour ago a member of the Pro-
visional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Company assured him that the Company was
not in such a position as to induce him to recommend
them to amalgamate with it.
Mr. KEMP, one of the Directors, said the opposite
Company had represented that they had 30,0001 but
their plans were not lodged till Monday, the Ist of De-
cember, while they had duly lodged their plans on the
29th of November, but had only 10,000/. left to go on
with. Now, if the promoters of the Northern and South-
ern Company had been deceiving them in the negotia-
tion, no language could be used sufficiently strong to
denounce such duplicity. They ought to ascertain who
the Shareholders of the Company were, and get them to
unite in obtaining that which they could not do if sepa-
rated. Their line was a good one, the plans were most
perfect, and if the Northern and Southern Company
would aid them with 30,0001., it would be the best scheme
that could be brought before Parliament. If, however,
the Northern and Southern Company failed them, there
was the South-Eastern and the Northern and Eastern
Companies, who he had not the slightest doubt would be
most ready to assist them.
Mr. VETCHER, of Exeter, submitted to the meeting
whether it would not be better to break up the Company
at once than spend the little they had left. The South-
Eastern Company would have enough to do next ses-
sion to get out of their own difficalties, without taking
up those of any other Company ; and if he was not
mistaken, the Norther!. and Eastern was in the same
position. At the last meeting it was stated that the
receipts were 28,0001. and the expenditure 17,0001., and
he for one thought, if this were a true state of the ac-
counts, they were most unsatisfactory,
Mr. KEMP said the sums stated at the previous meet-
ing were erroneous. The receipts it had been ascer-
tained were 17,000 L, and the expenditure only 10,000/.
Now, was it worth their while to sacrifice the valuable
property they had purchased for this 10,000/., because
they were not in a position to carry out a whim of the
House of Commons ?
Mr. VETCHER said the Directors appeared to be in
doubt altogether about the accounts; and how any set of
men—how any secretary or solicitor—could carry on a
concern of that magnitude, and not know the exact
amount of their liabilities, be was at a loss to understand.
He could not trust them any longer, and he should move
that the Company be dissolved.
Mr. CHARLES GREENE seconded the motion, and said
he was induced to do so from a thorough distrust of the
parties into whose hands their affairs had fallen. Was
it not the fact that some of the funds had been appro-
priated to buying up the allotment letters and scrip of
their own line ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that such certainly was the
case, but at the time it was done it was a very common
thing, and the course was appliuded. He had since
shares were
the
ere
Directors
could dibought
ascertained that it was a bad system, and he would never
give his consent to it again. Thesh
o
be appointed
wimthr a.
Ge viewrEov
e. o
nojfointerestNEsbenefiting
m ove fromdan
the Company,tlie purchase.
amend
mem, to the effect
Southern
to thatn eagnCommitteenegotiate
Connectingtwith
tohfeCompany,
Shareholderso p nny,
shareholders
in the Northern and
sandh see if
if
an
=alga_
illation favourable to both parties could not be brought
about.

Mr. PAYNE seconded the amendment, and it was
ultimately carried by a very large
majority.
The Committee was then appointed, and, at the request
of the Chairman, authorised to investigate the accounts
of the Company.
Mr. GREENE wished to know what they intended to
dfroeedwi
ftrhom all liabilities the deafbaiullittiiensg?Directors were they to be

The CHAIRMAN was as anxious as any one that the
Provisional Committee should pay 'V, but he wanted to
know how they could reach a provisional committee-
man ? They could only proceed against him by filing
a bill in equity, but that couli not be done without the
consent of every shareholder.
Mr. GREENE said there was no help for them but by
exposing the defaulters. Some of them had the reputation
of being,' respectable men, but he did not think they
would keep it long.
Thanks ware then voted to the Chai-man, and the
meeting broke up, after a very protracted sitting.

January, 1846, showing the Increase

QUARTERS ENDED YEAS QUARTIIIIB ENDED
A YEAS
i ended ;
t --^ , ended ,
r_______„„.Year ended_,Jan. 5. 4.4l4___arter ended Jan. 5.
April 5, July 5, Oc.. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, „Tan, 5, 1
1844 1844 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1846 1846 ' Increase.! Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
£ £ X X X X X £
,*:, X 1
X X X X
Customs •
Exciie................ 1,852,689 3,115,592 3,96'0,890 3,230,940 12,160,111 1,917,485 2,965,684 3,955,106 3,339,837 12,177,112 Excise
.... „ „
..., 17,001 .. • • 107,607 Stamps. •• .• ... •• • • ... 1,639,011 1,705,033 1,665,688 1,601,658 6,611,390 1,742,461 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792,402 7,152,1141 84amps .••••• • • • • • 540,724 .... 190,744 -
-
Taxes
..., 7,354 .... • • • • 4,439
P, operty Tax ...... •• • • 1,992,859 752,485 1,958,711 487,541 5,191,596 1,905,711 *9,991 1,823,883 386,995 5,026,570 ' Property Tax.... .. .... 165,021 .... 100,556
P6st-office . 174,000 155,000 200,000 146,000 675,000 178,000 155,000 209,000 189,000 731,000 , Post-ffic . . ..... .. 56,000 .... 43,000 -
Crown Lands...... .• .. 65,000 30,000 10,000 50,000 155,000 35,1100 30,000 30,000 25,000 120,000 , Crown Lout's......
9,190 693,630 415,016 13,652 465,102 369,471 1,263,241 , Miscellaneous .... .. 569,611-..
-3.5.'00' 360,2'81 25,000
Miscellaneous . .... .... 41,292 422,187 220,961
-
Total
Ordinary Revenuehlo,sl3,9B3 13,039,406 14,220,544 12,307,954 50,081,887 10,742,124 12,411,518 13,312,908 12,332,535 48,799,085 ! Total ..
Imprest Moneys, &e, .. 54,244 49,018 28,117 146,759 278,138 206,007 29,262 24,591 G 4,084 323,944 11
Imprest 3loneys,&c.
45,806 .... .... 82,675
-
RepaymentsofAdvances 226,284 274,557 123,692 250,980 675,513 418,545 182,354 473,881 404,179 1,478,959 j RepainntsofAdyncs
DGoe^d:iu4,4t6
633,551
9155,31,015991
Total Income ... 10,794,511 13,362,981 14,372,353 12,705,693 i 51,235,53 s 11,766.676 12,623,134 13,811.380 12,800,798 150,601,988 I! Total .... •• • • 1,839,942 2,473,49: 855,121 760,016
Amount applied to Con- I I
solidated Fund ...... 7,635,972 8,994,078 11,264,625 9,830,758 37,725,433 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 32,258,609 II
the Year.
Increase
Decrease Decrease.
Increase
on the
QDuaertthelert.
Ditto, as Advances 240,000 177,276 184,225 262,001 863,502 , 380,000 101,501 550,000 615,077 1,646,578 1,839,91t 760,016
Ditto, as Ways & Means
!!
of the Year• ••••• • • • • 2,919,539 4,191,627 2,923,503 2,612,934 i 12,646,603 3,713,599 4,266,471 , 4,391,407 4,325,724 16,606,891 i
Total ... • • 10,794,511 13,362,981 14,372,353 '12,705,693 , 51,235,538 01,366,679 112,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,7981 50,601,988 k

THE RUGBY, DERBY, AND MAN-1 MAGAZINES.--((CONTINUED.)
CHESTER RAILWAY. i DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
Some curious disclosures on the subject cf railway I To sustain the national character of this number,
management have been made in the report of a meeting 1 the Dublin University Magazine commences and
of the shareholders in the Rugby, Derby, and Manche, ! terminates with an article of strictly Irish interests,
ter Railway, which took place on the 17th oh., and oft and animated with a strictly Irish spirit; the first,
which copies in print have since been pretty extensively
entitled "Prizes in the Lottery of Repeal," sifts and
distributed. From this report it appears that the pr~- I - scrutinizes that oft-sifted and oft-scrutinized question
Exchange, and Mr. Brewer, solicitor of Gray's Inn, wile; of the Legislative union between the sister islands.
became the registered promoters of the
undertaking, ; Though the writer evidences a tolerable share of
and in connexion with some other parties who see net acumen, and a very large proportion of earnestness
named, the prospectus was issued, an engineer and lin his mode of combatting the opinions of Mr.
secretaries engaged, surveys entered upon, and the 1 O'Connell and his partisans, we must remonstrate
support of parties locally inareqed obtained before the against such an over-lavish cataract of acrimony as
Company as constituted at this meeting was form, d. : that with which he saturates the unfortunate gentle-
On the 22d of September a meeting took place, b-e
tween the promoters and a number of gentlemen, a het i titan whopresumed to pen three prize essays, at the
• ey.
we so satisfied with the representations mede to i instieatio •n of the Repeal- Association. Nor does it
them, that they proce( ded to establish the Company.
savour much of elegance in composition or suavity in
to settle the amount of capital, the apportionment i temperament, to say of one unhappy wight that "he
of shares, and other routine matters of the sun? 1 turns from it with that feeling of relief, which a
kind. Assurances were given on this occasien that the 1 demonstrator experiences in quitting a putrid subject of
surveys were in such a state of forwardness as to alloy:. 1 morbid anatomy, the corruption of which has disgusted
the deposit of the plans as early as the 10th of Novelle- I his audience, the effluvium from which has sickened his
bee. A committee of management was appointel to I class." Besides the somewhat unpalateable flavour of
work the details of the undertaking, to whom a report I this article in its composition, we rather deprecate
of progress was made by Mr. Blunt, in which it was 1 thel selection of a subject which' has been worn, not
affirmed that "between Ashbourne and Leek (where it I
the kaleidoscopic
threadbare,
was said that engineering difficulties existed) the tun- but to very rags and tatters, by
kaleidoscopic speeches of "the Liberator" alone;
nelling would be only one mile, the earthwork would i
cost 3s. a yard, and the material procured in cutting I we say kaleidoscopic advisedly, since the same
could be sold for Is. 2d. a yard, reducing the cost to I materials, nothing more, and nothing less, are ever
ls. lod. a yard. There would be no curve with a radius Present—" Repeal," " Saxons," " College-green,"
less than li miles, which could be increased to two " Irish Parliament," &c., being the bits of coloured
miles. The steepest gradient would be I in 240 ; glass, and the whole merely requiring another shake
and therefore, so far from that part of the line to forma fresh oration. We therefore recommend the
being difficult, it was remarkable for engineering faci- writer of this article to select in future some less
cities." These and similar statements creating per. hackneyed theme. The concluding paper is a digest
feet confidence, the distribution of shares took place. of what is called the present " Social Disorganisation
As time advanced, the committee, in order to in Ireland." In a memoir of Wolfgang Amadeus
insure the material points of the timely deposit Mozart, the illustrious musician, which is here headed
of the plans and compliance with the standing
" The Prodigy of Salzburg," we are charmed with a
orders of Parliament, appointed Messrs. Humphrys,
Keightley, and Parkin, solicitors to the company, giving certain esprit de core, which displays much enthusi-
" •
them the sole direction and control of their Parliamen- assn for the divine art in the abstract, and for the
tary business. The plans were ultimately obtained, but 1 young prodigy in particular; still we mustabe per-
in r defective state, and they failed therefore in their mitted to dissent in some measure from the ultra-
first stage. On the 2d of December, the new solicitors, laudation of this fine original. Though, without
having had time to investigate the company's affairs, doubt, Mozart was the first " who rescued the world
sent a report to the committee that matters were alto- from the dull depths of counterpoint," and infused
gether different from what they had been led to expect, what had previously been somethin little short of
that the engineering difficulties were very great, and mechanical ingenuity, the throbbing of the human
that another survey must be made before the policy of heart and the
stirring of the human intellect, we are
going on with the projected line could be determined.
not on that account to place him above all his sue-
'his led the committee to appoint another surveyor
censors, however marvellous his compositions may be
(Mr. Hawkshaw), and to call the present meeting, to .
whom his report, dated on the 15th of December, was themselves.'That was agrand triumphof -
in.‘,, genius, as-
presented. It proved the reverse in nearly all respects suredly in 'I . ~ dorneneo where he pourtrays the heroine's
of that made in the first instance, stating the jealousy by the beatings of her heart in octaves; but
engineering difficulties to be of the most formidable admirable as are such examples of his capacity to in-
kind, that the probable cost of the line between novate, he undoubtedly has his superiors in most of
Derby and Macclesfield would be 50,0001. a the different classes of music : Haydn as a composer
mile, and that the tunnels and viaducts alone could not of masses, Rossina for the more intense, and Weber
be executed in all probability for less than 1,000,0001. for the more fantastic and wierd kinds of Operas,
The plans and sections were full of blunders, assigning, and Beethoven the Giant Em of his
for example, a height to bridges under which the trains p
could not pass, and in fine, Mr. Hawkshzw declared
art, Beethoven—the quintesscence of divine discords—
that he could not undertake to support the line as at he of whom we once heard an eminent living musician
present laid out. The committee could, therefore, only declare that he began where Mozart and Haydn left
recommend that the company should be dissolved, its off—Beethoven in all. An exquisite dissertation on
affairs wound up, and the assets divided among the " Old Letters," by Elizabeth Youatt, follows, and is
shareholders. They had received the deposit of fruitful of sweet thoughts and pensive memories. No.
2/. 12s. 6d. on 30,600 shares, producing 80,325!.. out of 11. of " Irish Rivers" carries us very swimmingly
eludedpaid about
tO,OOOl. 6,0 r. painting the scenery on either side with much bril-
services. With regard to these claims, however, and
Brewer, who claimed further large sums for their Haney and Naturalness of colour. Of the dinpeminge
s
"
also " with regard to the power or right of the cone-
into Ottoman Poetry" we can speak with ex tr "
mince to require from the promoters a proportionate delight. The Kasseed in praise of the Prophet
A.. hmed," even as a translation, has in it the rush and
part of the expenses incurred in respect of the shares
oam, and boil and eddies of a torrent amidst the
reserved for them, the committee will be guided by f
professional advice." Tpis report was received and woods. The "Adventures of Joseph Pitts," a
adopted by the meeting, the immediate payment of kind of Alexander Selkirk in his way, is , most
1/. IN. a share was orde, ed, and the balance, when the interesting narrative of adventure ; followed by
accounts are wound up, is to be distributed rateably a continuation cf a very clever analysis of " Ariosto's
among the shareholders. Thus a highly respectable Poetry." Immediately after this Mr. Newman is
body of men, as the greater part of those who have ad- scored with the dagger of invective, and the raw
vanced their money appear to be, through their credulity wounds eaten into by the caustic of satire, in a re-
in listening to parties who ought not to have been trusted
in so important a matter without more inquiry, have to view of the ex-Protestant's last work in defence of
apportion this heavy loss among them. Of 87 gentle- himself and his conversion. In many of the send-
men
on the provisional committee, to each of whom 100 meats expressed by the author of the
Defences," a kindaper, entitled
shares were allotted, the whole, but with five exceptions, " Present State of our National
are stated to have taken up their shares and paid the synopsis of a work recently published by Lord Ra-
deposits upon them. The "compensation" assigned to nelagh, we most cordially coincide; and the follow-
the promoters was " the patronage of 15,000 shares " for ing paragraph in particular we recommend to the
the time and attention given to the scheme. and pecu• perusal of every one who is desirous of knowing
niary risk incurred in its concoction. These fine pros- " the rights of the case;"—
pects were soiledpo by the interference of the Times, " England should no longer consider herself simply as
and the ahich stopped the issue of shares, pre- an insular power, protected by the ocean, and safe
vent - without doubt the greater part of this, now de- from attack as long as her naval superiority continues.
(dared worthless, scrip from being saddled on the public. She can no longer rely upon wind and tide for baffling
—Times.
rF,e approach of an enei • 'fir-
'

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice, will leave the Castle for Claremont
on Tuesday next, taking their departure from Windsor imme-
diately after an early luncheon. It is expected that the infant
Prince Alfred will also accompany his illustrious parents.
The Court, according to present arrangements, will remain
at Claremont until Friday week, the 16th instant, on which
day it will return to the Castle. Her Majesty, accompanied
by the Prince Consort, will take her departure from Windsor
for Buckingham Palace on the following Tuesday, the 20th,
two clays before the opening of the session of Parliament.
The Court is shortly afterwards expected to return to the
Castle for about a month or six weeks.

The Duke of Wellington has had invitations issued
for his customary Parliamentary banquet on the 21st instant,
the eve preceding the assembling of both Houses of Parlia-
ment. Above sixty Conservative Peers are invited.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE COLONEL GURWOOD, DE-
PUTY-LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER.—The remains of this
lamented officer were brought into the Tower in a hearse on
Wednesday night. at half-past nine o'elock, and deposited in
the vault behind the church. The funeral, which was strictly
private, took place on Saturday, at half-past eleven o'clock.
The body, enclosed in a coffin covered with black cloth, was
brought into the church, when the burial service was per-
formed by the Rev. H. Dunnage, curate. A few of the de-
ceased's private friends attended, amongst whom were :
the Spanish Ambassador, Major-General Brown, Colonel
Grant, Colonel Home, Colonel Rowan, Major Shadwell
Clark, Sir Henry Webster, and Captain Lord Frederick
Paulet. The body was then carried back to the vault, where
it was finally deposited.
COLONEL GURWOOD.—We have received the follow-
ing communication :—" On the point of quitting Paris
to pay the last sad duties to my lamented half-brother,
Colonel Gurwood, I read in the Messenger the re-
port of the Coroner's inquest, in which no notice
is taken of a serious wound he received in the head
in the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, in which he led the
forlorn hope. How much this has from time to time affected
him is known to some of his friends, and particularly to Sir
Robert Chermside, late surgeon of the 10th Hussars, in
which my brother served for many years. On account of his
wound, he was obliged to abstain from wine for many years,
and to the last he had a habit of throwing back his head,
and the expression of his features showed that he was some-
times in great pain.—l remain, &c., C. °KEY.— Galignani.
Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Mayor
of Limerick, in which he states that he declines to attend the
repeal dinner in that city, fixed for the 21st instant, in con-
sequence of his determination to attend in his place in the
House of Commons on the opening of the session, in order to
give his support to a repeal of the corn-law.
The members of the Princess's orchestra have pre-
sented to Mr. F. Eames, the leader, a valuable snuff-box,
whereon the following testimonial is inscribed :—" Presented
to Frank Eames, Esq., by the gentlemen of the orchestra of
the Princess's Theatre, as a mark of their esteem. January 1,
1846."—Dramatic and Musical Review.

AN ARTFUL ROBBERY.—On Saturday information
was given that on Friday evening, between seven and eight,
a large quantity of hosiery, a number of merino dresses,
shirts, ribands, and other property, belonging to Messrs.
Neville and Co., of Gresham-street, City, was stolen. Their
porter was carrying the goods in a large canvas bag, when a
matt who was driving a country-looking cart offered to give
him a lift with his load, which appeared to be a rather heavy
one, and he, availing himself of the offer, placed his bag in
the cart. In the Strand, however, when near Wellington-
street, he went into a public-house to procure some drink,
and while he was so occupied the accommodating carter dis-
appeared with the horse and cart, and with them Messrs.
Neville and Co.'s bag of goods. The carter is described as
about forty years of age, rather stout, and of middling height,
with sandy hair and whiskers, and wearing a velveteen
jacket.

An incendiary fire broke out at Needingworth,
Hunts, on Wednesday evening last, about five o'clock, on the
premises of a person named Cave, jun. The destructive
element raged with considerable fury, and destroyed two
barns, &c., the property of Mr. Frank, postmaster, St. Ives.
s last
Strong suspicion rests upon the tenant Cave, and we under-
stand
tr jai
._hcea mb has
nb.dge apprehended,eenchronicle.
ELECTIONEERING ON DIT.—We are assured b
and committed to take his
w
that our county will be contested, on the first vacancy, .y
either the Hon. H. A. Cole or Lord Henry Loftus.—Ennis-
killen Reporter.
murdered another by cutting his throat with a razor. The
murderer was surprised in the fact, and arrested immediately.
The motive of this crime is not known.
month
he
the
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a Gi rol
dreadfula m i nci, ri am t
e. Naples,
ne
ecclesiastica
A letter from Venice of the 26th ult. states that
im-
mediately paid a visit to the Duchess de Berry, at the Van-
the Emperor of Russia arrived thither on the 24th., and im-
dramini Palace.
HARWICIL—The Liberal electors of this borough
aroused by the late events, appear to be casting their eyes
about them, and preparing fur another eloction. A meeting
of electors was held at the Three Cups Tavern, on the 22d
ult., for the purpose of considering a requisition to John
Bagshaw, Esq., the High Steward of the borough, to offer
himself as a candidate, in the event of a vacancy in the re-
presentation. Mr. L. Cottingham took the chair, and urged
that it was a matter of paramount importance with' the elec-
tors to use their most strenuous exertions to bring about a
more healthy state of things, and not to miss so favourable
an opportunity of showing that they had honesty and
patriotism sufficient to redeem the credit of the borough by
returning to Parliament a gentleman who had an important
stake in the town, and its interests at heart. Mr. Alderman
Johnson and W. C. Randfield, Esq., took part in the proceed-
ings, and it was resolved that the requisition to Mr. Bagshaw
should be signed by those present, and a committee was ap-
pointed to wait upon the electors with it.—Ckel maford
Chronicle.

Amy'. to sea has now become a
_ .
great highway, to 11)(4 traversed with a certainty and
c• lerity which greatly increases our exposure to inva-
sion, as well as multiplies the chances of success which
may attend the attempt of an Enterprising enemy.
lied Napoleon, when he congregated his great army
of invasion at Boulogne, had the same certainty
which might now be calculated upon of effecting a
sudden descent upon our coast, of which the first
notice might be the landing of one hundred thousand
men upon some point where we were unprepared t
meet them' we may depend upon it that his vast army,
would not have resembled the old cat in the adage,
and that an attempt would be made to bring the war
into our own country, from which very disastrous
consequences might be apprehended."
Altogether, this month's number of the Dublin
University possesses much that is entertaining and
much that is instructive.

HOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Out of the ten articles, which constitute the prin-
cipal portion of Hood's Magazine this month, there
are no less than seven " continuations," a fault of the
most intolerable description and incessant recurrence
in periodical literature ; yet, in spite of this, some
very pleasant morsels might be culled from the pre-
sent number. Charles Rowcroft, the accomplished
editor, " leads off" with three additional chapters to
his "Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land:" one of
them descriptive of a fight with the natives, is fraught
with all possible spirit, and fills the imagination of the
reader with the clicking of muskets, the confusion,
the shrieks, and the stormy cries of the combatants.
So inimitably picturesque and natural is the little
sketch of drowsiness with which the succeeding chap-
ter finishes, that we cannot resist giving it to the
reader entire :

" He sat gazing at the fire, and listening to catch the
slightest sound ; but all was still, and the vast bush
seemed buried in universal repose. The stars above his
head, and the moon which gradually rose, sued their
quiet light over the tranquil scene ; but there was no
stir of any living thing. The corporal gazed at the sky,
and the kangaroo's leg which was roasting, alternately.
He looked at the fire and thought of his night bivouacs
in former campaigns, and of his old comrades whom
disease or the shot of the enemy had long since sent to
their last homes. At last his eyes began to blink—and
wink—at the fire ;—and the light of the moon—and the
twinkling of the stars—faded from his sight ;—he
thought he was still awake—but even as he determined
not . . . to . . . give way . . . to the drowsy . . .
oppression . . . which . . . mastered him • . . his eyes
closed—and the wearied soldier slept."
A ludicrous account of an examination before an
alderman is introduced in this, the thirteenth part, of
" The Chronicles of the Fleet ;" and " The Bar of
England," which follows, proceeds with its usual dis-
play of book-worming. More interest is
introduced
into the second of the °' The Three Letters," wh. h ivesone an inkling of the probable denouement. Eleanor
Darby's lyric of " The Two Ministers" lacks neither
sense nor prettyness, though some of her thoughts
are somewhat over-trite; for example, when she ob-
serves that the furrows implanted by Care are worse
than the wrinkles drawn by Time. " A State Se-
cret" is tolerable, but rather diffuse ; and " A Visit
to Greystone Hall" affords us an agreeable ramble
away from the atmosphere of London, without the
trouble of discarding our slippers for our Welling-
tons. Those who love half an hour's raking amidst
the flue and cobwebs of our language, will find some
assistance to their researches in " English Etymo-
logy," a short paper crammed full of information.
" Currency and Corn," a straightforward, sensible,
and meritorious article from the portfolio of the
editor, forms an excellent con?lusion to a very good
budget of contributions.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.
This, the monthly organ of the English Roman
Catholics, has now been in existence for a year, and
the editor states, in his ad iress to his readers, that al-
though at first difficulties beset his career, yet the
circulation has increased from month to month, and
henceforward the character of the magazine is secured
" as the only monthly organ of English Catholicism."
And well may English Catholicism be proud of such
an organ. Without abating one iota from what they
conceive to be the truth, the conductors of this
magazine have enforced their opinions without
bitterness, without dogmatism, and have, thereby,
set a rare example of moderation to Christian po-
lemics; an example which, we fear, will be more ad-
mired than followed. The novel of the " Countess
Clemence" is continued ; and we have, as usual,
many papers on subjects connected with the progress
of Roman Catholicism. Perhaps the most interest-
ing article in the number is the one entitled " Anec-
dotes of Louis XV111.," chiefly compiled, as the
author says, from the memoirs of that monarch,
written by himself. From this article we extract
the following anecdote of an adventure, which places
the chivalrous honour of King Joachim (Murat) in
a very favourable light :
" When, in 1793, the Comte de Provence journeyed
incognito with d'Avaray from Hamm to Turin, he had
a carious rencontre in a Swiss inn, which be thus de-
scribes :

DARING ROBBERY.—In the night of Tuesday, the
23d ult., a most daring robbery was committed on the pre-
mises of Mr. Samuel Hardy, farmer and maltster, Eckington.
Admittance was gained to the malthouse by picking the lock ;
and about three cwt. of hops, which had been put up in sacks
ready to be sent off the next day, were abstracted therefrom.
It is supposed that the hops must be concealed somewhere in
the vicinity, as, from their great bulk, they could not be
carried far. We understand that Mr. Hardy has offered a
handsome reward for the apprehension and conviction of the
guilty parties. —Derby Repot ter.
ALARMING DISAPPEARANCE.—We perceive that
Mr. T. D. Townsend, of Pond Hall, Felsted, whose alarming
disappearance from home was noticed in our paper of the
19th ult., has not yet been heard of by his friends, who have
(.ffered a reward of 501. for information respecting him.—
Ewe. Standard.

" We fell in here with two Frenchmen. One of them
was attached to the embassy of the Republic, the other
was a free and easy youth, whose arrogant demeanour
attracted my attention. He wore a captain's epaulettes,
and I took a fancy to enter into conversation with him.
My companions withdrew, and left us together. I was
passing myself for an Englishman, on his road to Italy.
Monsieur,' said I, as I approached the stranger,
Is it long since you left France?'
" Ile started, examined me from top to toe with an