The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

ARBROATH -DEFEAT OF THE
NON-INTRUSIONISTS.

(Abridged from the Arbroath Journal.)
On Wednesday evening last, the good citizens of
Arbroath evinced their respect for order and the laws
of the land, by giving the coup de grace to what is
termed the Non-Intrusion principle. A meeting, in
order to form what they call " A Church-Defence As-
sociation," had been previously announced ; and as it
was understood that Mr. Cunningham and Mr. M.
Crichton %sere to figure on the occasion, the house
presented the appearance of what, in theatrical lan-
guage, is termed " a bumper." Mr. Charles Wilson,
merchant, of this place, having been called to the
Chair, the proceedings commenced by a psalm being
sung, and an impressive prayer offered up by the Rev.
Mr. Kirk, of Arbirlot. The Rev. Mr. Wilson, of
Carmylie, in a brief speech, then moved the first re-
solution. No sooner had Mr. Wilson finished, than
up rose a working man of the name of Thomson, who
informed the audience that be had an amendment to
propose • at the same time insisting upon his right to be
heard. It was at this period of the proceedings that the
storm commenced, which continued less or more during
the entire evening. During the noisy agitation atten-
dant on the question " Hear him, or not bear him,"
a till good-looking gentleman, with a pleasant expres-
sion of countenance, and a bountiful supply of whiskers,
appeared on the scene. He sported a blue coat, with
some sort of uniform button, and the general impression
appeared to be thut he was some officer of the Coast
Guard employed on the Church-defence service. It
turned out, however, to be that far-famed agitator, Mr.
Makgill Chrichton, the most important link in the tail
of the Rev. Mr. Cunningham ; and to this tall 'un, we
may add, were the audience indebted for the principal
portion of the entertainment during the rest of the
evening. Mr. M. C. (who, in reply to the question,
" Who are you ?" told us he was one of the greatest
agitators in Scotland) stated that, according to the
plan laid down, each one ought to be heard in his turn,
and that, as soon as the parties who had been fixed on
first to address the meeting Lad concluded, it was his
earnest wish that these who had counter-motions should
be heard also. As for himself (Mr. M. C.) all he
wished was for a fair field and no favour." 'These re-
marks did not appear to be relished by Thomson's
supporters, who now set up a terrific hooting and
hissing ; indeed, such was the uproar, that bad not
Thomson himself entreated his friends to desist, we
questiciti"it another speech would have been deli-
vered,Ataring the evening. A temporary calm having
taken plane, the principal performer, the Rev. Mr.
Cunningbarre on whom, to all appearance, the
heavy business of the evening had devolved, now
showed his portly person upon the platform. Yells,
cheers, hisses, and applause, were immediately
renewed, with a vehemence we believe never before wit-
nessed in the Old Kirk. Occasionally a lull in the
storm was to be remarked, but in consequence of the
uproar that prevailed, the somewhat subdued tone of
voice in which the Rev. Gentleman spoke, and, above
all, the unconnected nature of his speech, which he as-
suredly could not have prepared, we found it utterly im-
possible to come at the drift of his arguments. On
Mr. Chrichton coming forward, a tremendous howling,
roaring, and whistling commenced. In vain he at-
tempted to speak—bellow after bellow drowned his
voice—and for a time the people appeared as deaf to
his eloquence as if, instead of them, it had been the
steeple he was addressing. After a few ineffectual at-
tempts to make himself heard, Mr. James Gibson, tan-
ner, of this place, stepped forward, *and stated that,
though decidedly opposed to Mr. Chrichton on the
Church question, he trusted that the audience would
give the gentleman a fair hearing, all parties being ens
titled to state their case, and defend it if they could
AIN G.'s observations partially appeared the audience :
but, during the whole time Mr. Crichton spoke, and
which he did at great length, there was much interrup-
tion. Mr. Thomson, the Chartist, than advanced to the
platform, and, after prefacing his amendment by a few
observation., proposed it, and gave way to Mr. John
Duncan, the well-known advocate of what is called the
People's Charter. Mr. D. who seemed evidently to be
in great favour with his party, made a long speech, in
which he combated the arguments brought forward by
Messrs. Cunningham and Crichton, and endeavoured
to show that the Non-Intrusion for which they strug-
gled was founded upon erroneous principles, and that
so long as they were a State clergy and a law Church,
they had no right to agitate the question in the way
they were doing. Mr. D. proposed also an amend-
ment on the resolutions, to the effect, " that there being
neither honour nor honesty among the Non-Intrusion
leaders, this meeting do not consider the cause they ad-
vocate worthy of support, it being unjust to make peo-
ple pay for churches they never enter, and
ministers they never Lear." Mr. Duncan was
succeeded by Mr. Ross, the Chartist preacher
of this place, whose arguments and sentiments
were nearly similar to those of Mr. D. He also proposed
an amendment. Mr. R. was loudly cheered by his
friends, who seemed to have mustered in considerable
numbers. There being three amendments, it was
agreed that Mr. Ross and Mr. Thomson should with-
draw theirs, which having been done, a show of hands
was taken for the resolutions and the amendment, when
the latter was carried by an overwhelming majority!
Thanks were afterwards proposed by Mr. Duncan to
the Chairman for his impartial conduct in the'chair,
which having been seconded by Mr. M. M. Crichton,
was unanimously agreed to.

We never beheld a man so completely dum-foun-
dered as Mr. Cunningham and his party. The defeat
was so thorough, so annihilating, and, we may say, to
them so unexpected, that for a time they could hardly
believe the evidence of• their own senses. For a few
minutes they sat in silence after their discomfiture, but
surely by no means personifications of " Patience smil-
ing at grief." Mr. Crichton observed, by way of com-
fort to the afflicted, that had the ladies but held up
their hands his party would have had a decided vic-
tory. Let us tell Mr. C. that he knows as little of the
sentiments of the majority of the Arbroath ladies as he
does of those of Cochin China. The remark was an
exceedingly unfortunate one, and called for peals of
laughter.

THE SCOTCH HERD LADDIE ;
OR, THE UNJUST STEWARD.

(WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR " CLEAVE'S GAZETTE," BY

DAVID WRIGHT, ABERDEEN.)
FOUNDED ON FACT.

It was a fine summer morning, about the middle
of July, 1790, that Jock, the Herd, took the road to
a certain castle in the north of Scotland. When Jock
set out he was in high spirits, for he bad received a
good " whang o' butter and bread" from his mis-.
tress, or, as Jock called her, the good wife ; his
calf likewise jogged on before him at a goad pace,
the birds whistled around him, and all seemed
to go right. But, towards the end of the journey, the
calf became obstinate, and would scarcely move a single
foot, and at last it stopped, and, in spite of Jock's
coaxing, his threats, and blows, it refused to move
an inch. In this dilemma Jock stood gazing
about in search of assistance, and at last he espied
a plainly dressed man coming slowly towards him,
at a good distance off ; but Jock was not to be de-
feated by the distance, so he took off his bonnet and
waved it over his head, and cried, at the top of his
voice, till at length he succeeded in attracting the
attention of the stranger, who, thinking that something
serious had happened, came running at the top of his
speed. But judge his surprise, on arriving at the spot,
when he only beheld Jock and the calf.
The stranger, however, kept his humour, and very
good-naturedly asked Jock what he wanted with him.
" Well," said Jock, "ye see this beast winna gang a
single step, an' I maun be at the castle afore nine
o'clock, an' I'se waren it's na far fae't, an' sae if ye wid
help me to the gate wi't, I'se gie ye half o' fat I get frae
the laird ; an' your expeckin' something worth the gai'n
for."

To this the stranger at once agreed ; and, having
appointed the place where they were to meet and share
the spoil, the stranger took up the calf in his oxter (as
Jock said when relating the story at home), and pro-
ceeded to the castle gate, and there deposited it. While
Jock went to inform the inmates, the stranger proceeded
to the appointed place of meeting.
In a few minutes Jock came running to the place
" gladness in his looks," and something better in his
bonnet. " See man ! see man I" said Jock, " I've come
better on than I expeckit ; see fat I've gotten."—(Here
Jock held out his bonnet, well filled with pieces of
bread, beef, and cheese, and a shilling in his
hand.) " But (continued Jock), as I made the bar-
gain ye, I'll gie ye half o'
" Oh 1 you little rogue," said the stranger, "is that
all you got ? I doubt you are playing a trick on me,
for I was thinking to get five or six shillings for my share.'
" Faith," said Jock, " I think its nae that ill ; how-
ever, I didna see the laird himser, or may be I might
ha' gotten mair."

"I don't believe a word of what you have said," said
the stranger, " and therefore I insist that you must come
back to the house and satisfy me on the subject. '
" Na ! na!" said Jock, " that will be our greedy like ;
ye ken my mister pays me my wages, an' I've naething
a dee rvi' mair ; but ye can gang an' speer at the stewart
yoursel' if you dinna believe me."
To this the stranger agreed, upon condition that
Jock would accompany him. This Jock at first re-
fused to do; but at last he consented ; so in they both
went. The steward was immediately called, who ap.
proached the stranger with a low bow, for the stranger
now turned out to be the laird himself.
" Steward," said the laird w..
iith a frown, " gave you
a guinea for this lad ; how is t
•you only gave him a
shilling ?"
Aye, but he gid .me . a' this bread, an' beef, an'
cheese," said Jock, presentmg his bonnet.
The steward, however, made no reply, but hung down
his bead in silence.
" Steward," said the laird, drawing his purse, " there
is your wages ; pack up your clothes ; leave this castle
immediately, and learn elsewhere to become an honest
sans"

It appears that when the laird left Jock be

entered his own room by a private doer, gave
the steward the guinea, and proceeded to the
waiting place. After this the laird took Jock
under his protection, sent him to school, treated
him as a friend, and when he died, left Jock full heir to
his lands and castle, in which Jock lived loved by the
poor and respected by the rich. It was on a cold,
stormy, winter's evening, a few years after Jock became
laird of the castle, that a poor old man was brought to
the castle almost smothered by the snow, and unable
to speak or move. Jock, the laird, immediately
ordered him to be taken proper care of, which the
servants did, and soon restored him so much that he
was able to speak, and to sit up before the fire ; bat he
was apparently faint, and about to die. The old man,
as soon as be could speak, desired to see the
laird ; and when he was brought before him, he
told him that be had wronged him at a former period,
that he came to ask his forgiveness before he died ; and
he revealed himself as the steward who had lived
with the former master, who had given him the shil-
ling instead of the guinea. The laird assured him that he
had pardoned him with heart and soul, and ordered
him to be provided with a bed for the night, to which
he was soon shown, and it was the very bed where he
had so often slept as steward to the former master. In
the morning the servant; were ordered to pay atten-
tion to the old man ; but, what was their astonish-
ment when, on entering his room, they discovered
that he was dead. The laird ordered preparations to
be made for his funeral, and he was buried beside the
grave of his late master. Jock still lives as the laird of
the castle, and he is still known to the surrounding
peasantry by the name of the Herd Laddie.
Aberdeen, Dec. 2, 1841.

CHURCH-RATE DEFEATED,
(From the Leeds Times of Dec. 18.)
The Vicar had a very large congregation yesterday.
He then saw something in the Cloth Hall-yard, which he
never saw before in Leeds. There were about 10,000
individuals there, belonging to his " cure of souls," who
came expressly on purpose to hold up their hands against
a Church-rate. Probably the Vicar never saw one-tenth
part of this congregation since he first commenced his
ministrations among us ; and probably there were very
many there also who never saw the Apostle whom the
State and the Pious Use trustees had seen meet to place
over this portion of the ecclesisstical vineyard. To do
the Vicar justice, he conducted the proceedings in a fair,
honest, and upright manner ; and, to do the 10,000 con-
gregation justice, they also did their duty in a manner
beyond all praise—they refused with one unanimous
voice the Established Church-rate.

The results of this meeting, probably one of the
largest ever held in England on any similar subject, ought
for ever to put an end to the imposition of Church-rates
in Leeds. There was every appearance of settled deter-
mination on the part of that ♦ast multitude to resist the
imposts of the Church, under whatever form they are
attempted to be imposed. And what has the Church
done for the people, that they should pay it the 17,000 L
tribute that was proposed ? Has it ever been on the side
of popular rights and privileges ; has it educated, fed,
and attended to the interests of the poor ? Has it not, on
the other hand, been an abettor of slavery, political,
social, and religious, since ever it was established ? Op-
posed to education, opposed to enfranchisement, op-
posed to liberty of opinion, opposed to peace, opposed to
the progress of human freedom ? The people owe no-
thing to the Church ; it has done nothing for them, but
every thing it could against them. No wonder that ten
thousand rate-payers, belonging to the industrious classes
of Lee 6, should hold up their hands against an Esta-
blished Church-rate !

The behaviour of the meeting was most orderly
throughout ; and to this, the Vicar himself bore his cor-
dial testimony. Excepting a few cries which we now
and then heard, while the Vicar was speaking, of " Hear
the Church," and " What salary do'st thou get, lad,"
&c., there was the utmost deference and respect paid to
him. The only thing to be regretted in the course of
the proceedings was, that the meeting would not listen
to one word that Mr. Edward Baines had got to say
to them. As the " organ of the Dissenters," the meet-
ing should have listened to Mr. Baines ; probably he
was about to prove to them the necessity of doing some-
thing or other; and not unlikely he would have attempted
to show that Dissenters could have no conscientious objec-
tions to granting an additional freehold to the Established
Church. As it was, the "organ of the Dissenters," re-
mained unheard.

And now that this attempt to impose a Church-rate
has been so summarily defeated, we trust that the inha-
bitants of Leeds will lose no time in taking the proper
steps to provide a public burying-ground in Leeds, which
is so unquestionably needed for the accommodation of
the dead.

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your Paper, The Sun, November 30,
you favour us with a letter from a venerable
clergyman in his eightieth year. He names the
manner in which he spent the twelve first years
of his ministry in studies connected with prepa-
rations for the pulpit. He adds, that in the
middle periods of his course he had somewhat
remitted those studies; but latterly, on giving a
calm revision of his former compositions, he had
made a discovery--yea, a discovery when full of
wisdom, full of days, and mature in experience,
that the observation of a Christian Sabbath forms
no part of the Christian Scriptures 111
This letter may, perhaps, strike use more than
another, because I am of the same age with that
venerable man, and have been from youth en-
gaged in the same ministry, and, being favoured
with health, have known no remission of inces-
sant labours. Neither have I changed my
eredenda. I think St. Paul, having laid down
the Christian faith in the first chapter of the
Epistle to the Hebrews, cautions them against
any such change, because the Lord never
changes; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-
day, and for ever. He glories to say, in hoary
age, " I have kept the faith."
As to the Christian Sabbath, I am very much
astonished that so venerable a man should not be
able to find it in the New Testament. On the
day of the Saviour's resurrection, we read, John
xx, 19, " At evening, being the first day of the
week, when the doors were shut for fear of the
Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst." So
Luke xxiv. The two disciples returning from
Emmaus, found the Apostles assembled " with
others :" a congregation assembled for devotion.
" After eight days, again his disciples were with-
in, and Thomas was with them ; then came
Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the
midst." John xx, 26. The phrase " after eight
days" emphatically designates the Sabbath.
Again : " On the first day of the week, when the
disciples came together to break bread, Paul
preached unto them." Acts xx., 7. Here is the
Christian Sabbath connected with the regular
worship of the Lord. It is the same Lord who
directed his disciples " to pray, that their flight
(from the Roman armies) might not be in the
winter; neither on the Sabbath day." It is the
same Paul that says, " Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy." What more can we ask of
the certainty of a Christian Sabbath in the New
Testament ?

As to the manner in which the Christian Sab-
bath was observed, we have brief testimonials in
the first age. St. Ignatius, in his Epistle to
the Magnesians, says—ihrixEri ay craCg'oc-qcuu,EY
id32ixwc, &c., &c. ; Nc igitur amplius sabba-
urn ugernus Judaice, &c.; he adds, that the
Christians spent their Sabbath spiritually, in
reading, meditation, and rejoicing—for those who
love Christ love the day of his resurrection ;
they love it as the Queen and Princess of all
other days—in which Christ, who is our life,
arose victoriously from the dead, Other testi-
monies follow in Justin Martyr's Dialogues with
Trypho, the Jew. Edit. Rob.' -p Steph., . 38, 39.
They were, like St. John, "In the Spirit on the
Lord's Day."
. ~
Our aged clergyman, as it would seem, quotes
Paul against Paul, Col. ii., 16, 17
i$ " Let no man,
therefore, judge you in meat or n drink, or ih
respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of
the Sabbath day, which are a shadow of thing
i has superseded
to come." Christ having spoiled Prineipartl •-8
les
the Cross
Croisirstian is no longer under
the
ce-
remonialanclPowecrO nds oe. Thel
beggarly elements, many of which were " a,,
pended to the .Sabbath of which iabbath of the Lord, P
is said, Thou shalt do no manner oft
The controversy about the Sabbath work.:'
renewed by a certain class of m Day, ever
or secretly deny the Son of Dian
who openly
of the Sabbath," have all beenlan to be Lord
their subtleties and refinements,answered in all
conclusive manner; instead of
and in the most
of weeping over our
of that
present desecrationshol
awful contrast with the y day, forming an
Christians, in all e manners of the primitive
Sabbath they the profligacy of a London
philosophy which leaves apparently
exult in that kind of
the human-kind in all
the miseries of the Fall. The holy Propliets,•fore-
g glory of the Christian Sabbath, have
.
put their seal to
hallowed d the verity and sanctity of that
ay. The moral law of the Sabbath can
no more be b a rogated than the precept " Thou
shalt do no murder." The Lord promises the
Eunuch that takes hold of his covenant to keep
his Sabbaths, a name better than that of sons and
daughters. Chap: lvi. This promise comprises
eternal life. Again : "If thou turn away thy
foot from the Sabbath not doing thy pleasure on
my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight,
the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shall
honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding
thy own pleasure, nor speaking thy own words,
then thou shalt delight thyself in the Lord, and
I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of
the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob thy father." Chap. lviii., 3. "Ad it
shall come to pass—from one Sabbath to another
shall all flesh," the Gentile world, " come and
worship before me." Heb. vi., 17. " For there
remaineth a rest (a Sabbath) for the people of
God." Heb. iv., 9.
' Mons. Neckar, the late financier of France, on
the importance of religious opinions" remarks
' justly, that it is impolicy in the poor to work on

MORNING SUN

the Sabbath day, for they have always been op-
pressed; and if it should 'happen that the Sab-
bath should be lost, they would then have to
work as hard seven days in the week as they now
work six, and still remain in the same abject
state of Poverty and depression. By conse-
quence, the amen that work on the Sabbath day
are as much the enemies of other labourers as
those that work for under wages.
Bayswater, Dec. 13.

J. S.

THE DERBY.—Mr. Maher has sold Bailin-
keel° to Mr. Dixon, of Knightsbridge, for 2,000 guineas;
Policy and The Golden Rule, late Honest John, have
been sold to Mr. Forth for some time.
The Duke de Nemours has returned to Paris,
after a tour of six weeks, during which his Royal High-
ness has inspected the four new regiments of Hussars,
at Verdun, Fontainebleau, Versailles, and Vendome.
The Independent of Brussels mentions that
Captain Pirson, formerly Attache of the Relgian Lega-
tion at Constantinople, has set out for Texas on a diplo-
matic mission.

LARGE POTATO.—A potato of the Orange
species was raised this season by Mr. Eben Earl, of
Mohan Ridge, Cairo, New York, weighing 3lbs. 140 z.,
plump.; _

CORN-LAws.--Mr. Richard Taylor, of the
City, desirous, at a time when a crusade against the
Corn-laws is general, of contributing his part towards
the statements which exhibit their gross fallacy and
stretched effects, has published a letter, which he has
just received from a correspondent, engaged in extensive
business at one of the principal sea-ports of France, and
addressed it to the inhabitant householders of the Ward
of Farringdon Without, for the purpose of pressing an
additional proof upon their notice of the devastation
they occasion at the time when the annual election of
their representatives in Common Council occurs. The
subsequent paragraph, which we extract from it, exhi-
bits the operation of the monopoly laws in a strong
light :—" From this port we have been sending you an
enormous quantity of wheat, but how stupidly you go to
market ! When you could buy it advantageously, you
cannot import it. Then all on a sudden you come into,
the market, and, buying one against the other, like mad-
men, raise the price to double what you might have hail
it for. Ido not exaggerate, for the price has been thus
advanced within a short time from 18 francs tea 44:0 francs
per charge. And this is not the whole of the folly.
You want all this mass conveyed in the shortest possible
time, to accomplish which ships are engaged at any
price, and you have paid 8 francs per quarter freight
instead of 31 to 4 francs. You give yourselves no chance
of our taking iron, coals, copper, tin, or manufactured
goods in payment ; for we arc not disposed to buy like
madmen, because you do. You must therefore pay in
cash. This will cripple you, and do more harm to those
suffering from want of employ than our corn will do them
good ; for after all it will be dear bread which you have
bought for them, when you might with less trouble have
had cheap bread, and orders for goods instead of orders
for cash to pay for it."
The Municipal Council of Troyes has voted
from the funds of the town 500,000 f. towards whichever
of the two lines of railroad, Paris and Strasbourg, or Paris
and Lyons, shall traverse its district. The Council
General of the Department (the Aube) had previously
voted 1,000,000 f. for the same purpose. The Minister
of Finance has sent a reply to some representations made
to him by the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, on
the subject of the railroad between Paris and that town,
in which, he says, that he ardently wishes to see the rine
commenced without loss of time, and that the tbwn of
Strasbourg may rely on his eagerly seconding its views.
THE FOG o SATURDAY. 011 Saturday
forenoon, about a quarter-past ten o'clock, three persons,
of the names of William Miller, John Elliott, and John
Fraser, were accompanying a person of the name of
Jonathan Fordham, who resides in Palmer's Village,
Brewer's-green, Westminster, to Battersea, in order to
fetch some willows used for the purpose of making
baskets; they had scarcely cleared Westminster-bridge,
when. owing to the •darliness of the day, the boat in
which they were came in contact with a large barge, and
all four were , precipitated into the water. Fordhain,
with great presence of mind, laid hold of the side of the
barge, and thus saved himself. lie then managed, after
some trouble, to rescue
were drowned. Elliott, • bUt Miller and Fraser
SUDDEN DEATH..--_041 Saturday night last the
family of Mr. Goater, the extensive fishmonger to the
Royal Family, of Hungerford Market, and who resided
at No. 8, Buckingham-street, Strand, were alarmed by
the sudden illness of that gentleman, who, in attempting
to walk across the drawing-room, dropped down appa-
rently in a fit, Medical assistance was instantly pro-
cured by the family, but, on their arrival, life was found
to be quite .extinct. The deceased was a very early
riser, and invariably went to Billingsgate Market with
his cart as early as the business of that' place commenced.
The body awaits a Coroner's inquest. The, deceased
was universally respected by all who knew him.
The following letter has been received at the
various police courts of the metropolis :—" Metropolitan
Police-office, Great Scotland-yard, December 18, 1841.
I beg to inform you that the Receiver has received in-
structions from the Secretary of State that one news-
paper only for the future is 'to be allowed at each of the
police courts. I have; therefor, to request that in future
you will have the goodness to attend to these instruc-
tions.—l am, Sir; your obedient servant,
"To the Chief Clerk?' • "TIIOS. Goumns-G.
BOW -STREET.—Onthe Magistrate, Mr. Twy-
ford, taking his place on the bench on Saturday, he an-
nounced that the sum of 101. had been sent by the Corn-
pany of Goldsmiths to be distributed amongst the poor.
He had also received 41. anonymously for the same purpose.
The Globe on Monday, the 13th, inserted the
plan of amending the Corn-law, which it said had " re-
ceived the sanction of the leaders of the agricultural
party." We believe we are acquainted with the source
of this information, and can undertake to say that at pre-
sent the plan has neither been adopted by the Govern-
ment nor received the sanction of the leaders of the agri-
cultural party. It is to be regarded as nothing more
than the description of a plan, which, among a hundred
other plans, has been submitted to the Government. The
Government will adopt their own, and time will tell
which of the hundred comes nearest to it.—Circular to
Bankers.

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attached to the Eckington station will be enlarged by taking
a strip from Sir George we iCt • 11'
L s park, on a portion of
which will be erected a dwelling for the clerk. Mr.
Frost, at present in the Leeds establishment, succeeds
Mr. Patteson as Secretary. Plate is ordered in Shef-
field, to present to the latter gentleman upon his re-
ti rem en t.—Nottingliant Review.
THE NORTH UNION AND LANCASTER RAIL-
WAY COMPANIES.—We are concerned to observe, by the
statements which have recently appeared in the public
prints, that the proprietors of the Lancaster Rail-
way Company, have determined to abandon the use
of the North Union Railway Company's Station at
Preston. That an arrangement which has hitherto
worked so well for the public, and contributed
so largely to the convenience of travellers and the
despatc of business should have been abandoned, is
greatly to be regretted. The new regulation is intended
to be carried into operation on New Year's Day. The
junction of the two railways was effected by the
North Union Railway, at an expense of
though the distance between them is only
20,0001.,
y 200 yards.
Hitherto the proprietors of the Lancaster line have, by a
friendly arrangement, paid the North Union a moderate
sum per annum for the use of this
of the and thus, while so expensive portion
,
awarded to thelatter, the pudic haveinemeasure of justice is
been greatly bene-
fited. This; new move of the Lancaster directors will, in
addition to what in our humble judgment seems to be
unjust to the North L"1104 Company, put the public to
great inconvenience, by causing considerable delay. The
injustice to the proprietors of the North Union, may,
in some measure,
the latter
rge
sufficient to Companyreimbiirse laying on
for an
in the sumextwrilithdraawn.
It will then be necessary for the.taneaster Company to
reduce their fares to a corresponding extent, otherwise it
is plain the public will be the sufferers. But even sup-
pose the matter should be thus adjusted, we do not see
how the public is to be indemnified for -the delay which
will necessarily arise from the alteration.— Gore's Ad-
vertiser.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
—We understand that the Directors of this Railway Com-
pany have adopted the plan of having side lamps fixed to
the carriages as near as possible to the centre of the
whole train. These new lamps give a red light, and are,
in addition to the two white and red lamps heretofore
and still used, the one in :front of the engine, and the
other at the back of the last carriage. The advantage
of this p lan is said to consist in the readiness with which
a train following another may, when the preceding ono
is on a curve, distinguish the line of rails which it is tra,-
•
versing, and thus the possibility of a collision undersuch
circumstances is rendered more remote. The new lamps
' give out a most intense red light, and are upon an ire_
proved construction. The new plan was first adopted
on Friday, and it is hoped that all the advantageous re-
sults anticipated will be fully realised.
THE VACANT GARTER.—The Duke of
Buckingham and Lord Wharncliffe are both named as
likely to succeed to the distinguished honour of being
created a Knight of the Garter, a vacancy having oc-
curred in that noble order by the demise of the venerable
Earl of Westmorland,

Tto the testi-
hpea
pCe
rasr,lht oal‘e
given
b ,th
ea cscuomrd ion!4,t00001 some, of the
monial to Colonel Bruen, " the exterminator" of the
Roman Catholic tenantry of the county Carlow.
Irish
SOUTH HACKNEY.,-.-.A. meeting of this parish
was held on Friday, to levy a Church-rate ; the Rev.
11. Norris, the rector, took the chair. A rate of 4d.
in the pound was proposed by Mr. Haddon, church-
warden, and met by an amendment, moved
by George
Offer, Esq., a magistrate, and seconded by John Mor-
ley, Esq., of Well-street. The amendment was nega-
tived by 65 to 85, and the vote for the rate was then
put and carried by
,80 'to 62. A poll was demanded.
The scene was a stormy one, the police beingin attend-
ance, and all but parishioners excluded.
The Commissioners of Customs 'directed, not
long since, that stock should be taken in all the bonded
warehouses in the port of London, and we are sorry now
to learn, that in the warehouses in the immediate
vicinity of the Custom house, and attached to what are
called the " Legal Quays," deficiences to the amount of
many thousand pounds have been found to exist by
reason of the removal of bonded goods without the pay;
ment of duty. This applies only to the " Legal Quays,
and not to the large Companies' docks, the warehouses of
which have not been examined.—Observer.