The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

BOILER EXPLOSION AND FIRE

AT MANCHESTER.

On Saturday morning, at a quarter before eleven
o'clock, the workpeople employed in Dyche-street
mill, near Rochdale-road, were thrown into a state of
great alarm by a loud explosion, and such an escape
of steam, as filled the yards and the whole building.
It was immediately found that the mill was on fire in
a number of places, which spread with furious ra-
pidity. There were at the time about three hundred
people on the premises, and as they had all to pass
through a narrow door to make their escape, and the
whole place was full of steam, so that none could find
their way out—as the steam continued for some time
time to rush with immense force across the yard
through which they had to pass, the consternation
which was produced was almost indescribable.
A rush was at once made to the entrance door;
many wha were unable to escape by the door
got out of the lower windows, and some even from
the second and third stories threw themselves to
the ground. No sooner had the steam somewhat
abated than it was discovered that the boiler had
exploded in such a manner as to scatter the fire com-
pletely over one end of the mill and into every win-
dow. The pile of buildings is in the form of a square,
having a yard in the centre. On the left from the
entrance stood the boilers and engine-house, in front
the main body of the mill, and on the right the ware-
house. That boiler nearest the middle of the yard
had burst, and swept the contents of the fire-
hole, so as to scatter them over the whole of
the warehouses immediately opposite. A large quan-
tity of brick and iron work connected with the
boiler was also blown against the building; the mas-
sive iron door was thrown with terrible force against
the wall across the yard. Many parties were struck
with the burning coals and other materials, which in-
flicted some severe scalds, burns, and bruises, but we
have not heard of any loss of life. The mill being
chiefly occupied by power-loom weavers, the material
was very combustible, and as the fire had been
thrown into every room from the top to the
bottom of the warehouse, that part of the building
was one mass of flames in a short space of time.
Engines were speedily on the spot and in full play,
but the superintendent at once pronounced it impos-
sible to save the building, and in less than an hour
from the explosion only the bare walls were left. The
mill was surrounded by small dwelling-houses, and
of course the utmost consternation was produced
amongst their occupiers. With great exertions, how-
ever, they were preserved. The mill was occupied
by four tenants, three of whom were power loom
weavers, and the fourth a small-ware manufacturer.
The loss is variously estimated at from ten to twenty
thousand pounds, most of which is covered by in-
surances. It is stated that the catastrophe was oc-
casioned by some defect in the boiler.

GMAT LONGSTONE Weans.—This annual ," feast
of the dedication," which about nine years ago was cele-
brated for its savage brutality, passed off this year in
the most rational and Ckristianlike manner possible.
Every cottage was the scene of true hospitality, and the
light hearts and happy faces might be seen emerging
from the newly-adorned dwellings with rapture. The
three Ember days at this season always occurring in the
feast iveek, the church was tolerably attended ; it is de-
dicated to St. Giles, but it appears that when the new
style was introducad, the time of keeping the feast
was not altered. On Thursday afternoon the Sunday-
school children to the number of 150, had their annual
treat of tea and plum cake. Two tables were erected
in a little croft close by the church, which was most
tastefully arranged with flowers, and loaded with cakes ;
almost every mother in the village came to witness the
scene, and about 50 partook of tea at the parsonage.
The day was very tine, and the boys amused themselves
with cricket, running races, &c., whilst the girls were
engaged in every species of imaginable frolic. The
darksiess put an end to the scene.—Derby Mercury.
THE CHOLERA.—There were no accounts yester-
day of any fresh cases of cholera either at Hull or at Sun-
derland. In the metropolis, however, some scattered
cases were confidently reported, chiefly in low lying or
ill-condition pacer. Five cases have occurred in a court
in Chelsea ; three at Itotherbithe ; two in the city of
London ; two in Spitaltields ; two in Wbiteclif.•pl ; two
Bermondsey ; two in lioraleydown ; inclu3ive of
those at Woolwich, 26 fatal cases have been reported
during the week. Dr. Parkes, who wrote a work of
celebrity on the Indian cholera, and Mr. Robert Bowie,
surgeon, who gave evidence on the river side cases be-
fore the Sanitary Commissioners, have been engaged, in
behalf of the General Board of Health, examining the
cases reported to them.
SAPIENT JUDGES.—The Bedford Times states that
at the recent horticultural show in that town the judges
decided that a bundle of white carrots were the Lest
parsnips, and gave the prize accordingly.

Name of Company.

Paid.

Price.

X. s. d. L. a. d.l
British •• •••• .. • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 ' 16
Ditto Provincial 11. 85. 20 0 0 19 0 0 1 23
Bristol . • .-•.• • • • •• ICI. per cent. 20 0 0 -
Brighton ••••.. • • • • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 - 16
City of London lOl. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
Continental Consolidat 925. pr share, 50 0 0 39 5 0 -
Ditto, Now ...... • • 85s. pr shard 50 0 0 37 10 0
Equitable -•••- - • • 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 36
Imperial ...... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67%
Independent ........• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64
London• • .... •••• • • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
- 50 0 0 50 0 -
PheenLa 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 4G 0 0 :II
Madill' .... -..•• • • • • 51. • 500 0 0 DO 0 0 75
United General .. • . 4% /. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 12%
Westinistster Chartered 3/, 50 0 0 - 52
Ditto, New .... -. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 104
CAL 70121.1,11.
•
0 i.; Dividend
Names of i f..),(Dividend' Names of 4,, ,
Companies. As ; per Price. Companies. . , p Price.
074 I Annum.
W. Annum. an 1
- - --. --.
Xi X
A.shtn& Oldh 975/. p c 80 Macclesfield . 100 - -
Barnsley.. • • ,160 121. 180 Neath .. •• • • 100 18/.
Srkuk&Abrgllso 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 100 201. 190
Birmingham 1 351 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 3/. -
Coventry....llool 251. - Regent's ••• • 33 I/. ss. 18%
Derby •• . - 100, Cl. G 3 Rochdale.. • • 85 41. 54
EiLs.rre&Chsl33 565. 47 Somrset Coal 150171. 10s. 130
Ere:s ash • • •1100. 321. - Do.LkEdSt 12 ! 61. p. c. -
GrandJunctn i 100 5/. 77 Stfird &Wore 140 281. 290
Grand Surrey , 100 - 35 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Grand Unlon.loo 1/. 105. 25 Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 28.5
3rantham • .1150 - - Severn and -/
Kentit & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 478
WW ye Rail. j 26 11. Bs. 24
Le- 1s& Livrp 100' 341. - Warwick&l
.. 1
Leic3ster .. , 140 101. 75 Birming. j 100 41. -
Letcstr ScNth 83
41. 36
:"..ou4hboroghil42 70/. -.. Nanapvtiockn&-}lOO 31. -
Monmouthshlloo 81. - Worcstr Bc} 78 2/. 39
Matgamrysh , 100 - - Birming.
MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & 'lrks, - 11. , 11
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PHICI.S
-
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- -.....--__ -
X s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company IS/
--• Per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 194%
Caledonian Bank •••• • 7% Per tent. 10 0 0 210 0 4/. 0,
CC!6I. Per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Per Cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12
commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 ,100 0 0 148
Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 61. Per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 91.195.
Edinb.r,t. Glasgow Bank 6/. Per cent. 50 0 50 0 5%
ytyde oli Teatitgoawnt 8.. a
.n. k .
6%
Exehangeßnk of Scot 6l. Per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 397
Isle of Man. Company 71. Per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13%
North of Scotland Bank 71. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3/.155.
North British Bank -• • ._5O 0 0 10 0 0 N
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. Per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 118%
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80
Western Bank .-•• • • • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6634
Aber been Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 20 6 2%
B. Accord. Lif e aud Fire -• 20 0 0 011 0 Os 02
British Guarantee Ins. 10 0 0 1 0 0 95 Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. Per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of Eng;and Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
City of Glasgow Life GI. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 4s
Edinburgh Life Insur if. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17
East of Scotland Life _ 10 0 0 015 0 115.0 d
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 61. Per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 46s Gd
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. Per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 11
incur. Co. of Scotlnd- Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7
Life Assoc. of Scotland 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 6s
Mercantile Life .. • • - 10 0 0 010 0 -Is. Od.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 ONs •02
North British Insur. ••5% /.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22
,
North & West of Scot. 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11715.0 d.
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 ,
0 1 55.
Scot. Ma& and Gen. - 1 0 0 015 0 105. Od
0 11. Os
Scottish Union Insrncs. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 10 0 9%
Standard Life •••• .. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0
1 0 0 125.0 d
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0
-
MISCELI.ANNOUI2:______
Dividend Amount
Paid. Pee( •
Name of Company, per of
Annum. Share.
____-- -- ----
-----
..c. 0. d. , X. a. d•
-
Australian Agriculturl -
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 100 0 0 30 0 0
10 0 0 1 10
- 2 10 0
Ditto, Half Shares.. -
'
Canada ............. G/. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26%
- - I
Uppr Canada Bonds 5/. per cent. -
- 82
City Bonds.. ........ 3%1. pr cent.
00 0 0 70 0 0 -
ennoP • Cppr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. I
/ 100 0 0 1100 0 0
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.B; 85, 9 - 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 91%
Equitable Reversionry 5/. pr cent.
15 0 0 14 0 0 19
Gen. Steam Navigation 11. So.
- - 10
London Institution . • • -
Peninsir& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent • 50 0 0 50 0 0 56
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0
00 0 0
01 60 0 0 --
Royal Mall Steam.... 3%!. pr cent -•
125 0 125 0 0 _
South Australian ... -1/. per share.
100 0 0 23 0 0 -
Van Dieman's Land., - 25 0 0 5 0 0 -
Universal Salvage.... -

WODIBWIiLL'S MENAGERIE.--Such a series of dis-
asters has seldom occurred on the transition of a collec-
tion of beasts as happened between Seaton and Lyme
Regis, on Sunday week. Soon after the carriages began
to be removed from Seaton the rain fell in torrents,
literally soaking them, and continued the whole of the
way. On coming up Bossell-hill the van which cAn-
tained the lions and tigers fell over, and with great diffi-
culty was again put in an upright position, to proceed
on its journey. On the arrival of the van containing
the elephant by High Cliffe House, where the road is
very steep, the shaft of the van touched the legs of one
of the horses, which commenced plunging and kicking
furiously, and frightening the other horses drawing the
van, upon which the whole of them set off at a gallop
down the hill, nearly coming into collision with the
landau of R. B. Wrey. Esq ' of Weir Cliffe, in which
was Mrs. Wrey, returning from church. Her life was
in imminent danger, as the van threatened to crash her
carriage to pieces; the horses, however, reached the
bottom of the hill without further damage, but imme-
diately on entering the field of exhibition the wheel of
this ponderous van gave way beneath its weight, break-
ing into several pieces, and bringing the carriage dow n
on its axietree. " These disasters were of a more serious
nature than all which had happened to the menagerie
during the whole year previous," said one of the 'com-
pany, and these, be it remembered, befel it on a Sunday.
Its misfortunes, however, did not terminate hare, for on
drawing the beasts from the town on Tuesday, the van
containing the zebra was turned over, and in order to
set it right again, it had to be disencumbered of its
burden, which for a time was allowed to be at large in
the field.—Exeter Flying Po6t.
PosT-OFFICE.----On Saturday the receiving• office for
letters in the East India-road, Poplar, was opened for
the issue and payment of money orders.

EMIGRATION AND THE RAIL-

WAY INTERESTS.

SwmpoN.—On Wednesday last we witnessed a new
and highly-important movement,
,illustrative of the feel-
ing with w hich emigration to Australia is being viewed
by the higher order of the operative classes in this
country. The numerous artificers and labourers in the
employ of the Great Western Railway at Swindon, the
focus of the company's locomotive manufactory, as-
sembled in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute at that
station, to receive a deputation from the Colonisation
Society, who had been specially invited to expound the
principles of the association, in order that those to
whom they should appear to be applicable might avail
themselves of the information and assistance so afforded
to proceed to Australia. The primary cause of this
solicitation on the part of the workmen was the
fact that a large number of them are under notice,
which expires on Saturday next, to quit the services
of the company, owing to a cessation of operations,
on branches and subsidiary lines leased to, or that
were once intended to be made by, the Great Western.
The determination of the company to curtail all
practicable outlay from those sources having ren-
dered inevitable the dismissal of many hands, those
so removed naturally felt anxious to ascertain if the
Australian colonies furnished a likely field for ser-
vices for which an adequate demand no longer existed
at home, and those retained were hardly less anxi-
ous to learn the probabilities of benefiting their
present condition, and leaving a competence to it
children, in the same direction. The directors, aide& in
the gratification of this laudable desire most cordially,
following the example of the Brighton and South-
Western, in placing every facility and accommodation
at the disposal of the deputation. The gentlemen from
the Colonisation Society who volunteered to impart
the requisite knowledge, were Mark Boyd, Esquire,
C. D. Logan, Esquire, and A. IL Forrester, Esquire,
whose reception throughout the evening was of the
most gratifying character possible. The hall, which
is capable of containing a very large auditory,
was crowded to excess, numbers being unable to
obtain standing room; for not only were there the great
majority of the resident operatives of the works, but
there were many from other parts of the line and the
neighbourhood, several females also being present, to
whom the intelligence as to the destitution of Australia
in domestic servants appeared to be fraught with the
greatest interest. The band of the Mechanics' Institu-
tion were in attendance, and both before and after the
chief business of the evening performed a variety of
recent compositions in a manner that would do credit to
veteran professors, much less to self-taught amateurs of
very brief experience.
Mr. Archibald Sturrock, the intelligent manager of
the vast and Tailed works at Swindon, was voted by ac-
clamation to the chair, and on taking it introduced the
deputation in some pithy and pregnant remarks as to
the importance of the object in hand, and the character,
high standing, and qualifications of Mr. Mark Boyd and
his colleagues in the task of enlightening the public by
means of trustworthy and indisputable data, most of it
drawn from actual personal experience of the colony,
and all of it derived direct from the best possible sources
at head-quarters, both here and in the Australias.

Mr. M. Boyd said the labour that devolved upon him
was rendered exceedingly trivial from the circumstance
of his being associated with a gentleman of the groat co-
lonial experience,general information, and large capacity,
of Mr. Logan. Ile (Mr. Boyd) considered it particularly
fortunate, both for the mother country, and our fruitful
possessions at the antipodes, that Mr. Logan should be
in England at a moment like the present. when our
whole population seemed to be thoroughly awaking to a
sense of the absorbing importance of turning to a pru-
dent and obvious, but hitherto comparatively neglected
account, the advantages the colonial empire of Great
Britain had placed at the disposal of its people in con-
nection with emigration—the only means of establishing
an equipoise between redundant labour and limited de-
mand tor it, on the one hand, and limitless demand and
an inadequate supply on the other. Mr, Logan came to
this country the bearer of the confidence and the wishes
of the principal inhabitants of New South Wales to
the home Government, and certainly it was only due to
the Colonial-office to say that he had met with a degree
of attention in all respects worthy of his mission. Earl
Grey, and all the subordinate functionaries of that de-
partment, including especially her Majesty's Commis-
sioners of Emigration, had availed themselves zealously
and continuously of the information which his
local knowledge enabled him to supply, and
which his discernment prompted him to impart
in the most judicious and useful manner possible.
Not only had the Government officials recognised him
as a suitable exponent of colonial requirements in
respect to labour, but many of the leading magistrates
of the metropolis, and of England at large, had
put themselves in direct and uuintermitting com-
munication with him since his arrival here a
few months ago, in reference to a question of
scarcely inferior social interest to emigration itself—
namely, penal or criminal discipline, to which sub-
ject he had devoted the most minute attention.
Now, the Colonisation Society accounted themselves
especially fortunate in having secured his co-operation
during his sojourn in England, before he returned to the
country of his adoption, whose welfare he was so well
calculated to promote. Mr. Boyd then proceeded to detail
what the Colonisation Society had recently been doing
at Brighton, Southampton, and in London, and what
they proposed doing elsewhere. They had had numer-
ous invitations from the north, particularly from York-
shire, in which great county a most active, philanthropic,
and highly informed magistrate, Barnard Hague, Esq ,
was exerting himself in a manner that would be produc-
tive of the greatest benefit to all who came within the
sphere of his benevolent and meritorious influences in
connexion with this subject. He was an invaluable pio-
neer to the society, who hoped to be busy in the manu-
facturing towns in that direction in the course of the
present month; and through the assistance of such friends
as Mr. Hague, of whom he was happy to say they had
many, he had no doubt they would be quite as success-
ful as they had been in the south. Circumstances, how-
ever, induced them to give attention at the earliest possi-
ble moment to the requisition from Swindon, the earn-
estness of whose artisans in seeking for information
respecting Australia was sufficiently proved by a meeting
like the one then assembled. This movement was
worthy of their intelligence, worthy of the intelligence
of men through whose instrumentality the deputation
were enabled to perform what would have been deemed
a miracle even half a dozen short years ago—accom-
plishing the distance from London to that hall—about
77 miles, in one hour and a half, and in a mode so easy,
so little fatiguing, that the traveller was hardly con-
scious of the motion. The society did not propose to
advise or dictate to any one. They merely wished to
tell what they knew, what was notorious iu the colony
as to the want of labour, and what that labour would
produce to the possessor of it; and to let those receiving
such tidings draw their own inferences. The colony was
doing all in its power, making every sacrifice to get la-
bour from England, where it was every day becoming of
less and less value. Up to October last 170,0001. had
been received here to dispatch hands, for want of which
an incalculable amount of the finest food and most valu-
able produce was perishing. Since then, from 50,0001.
to 60,000/. more had been received, and more still was on
its way hither for the same purpose. This money was
not Government grants wrung from obnoxious taxes. It
accrued from the natural wealth of the colony—the sale
of lands and the voluntary offerings of the colonists, and
all was devoted to obtain that of which Australia could
not have too much, nor could we part with too much,
viz.,—labour, of which every species and description that
was accompanied with health and good behaviour pro-
cured the owner a competence to begin with, and an
ultimate independence to all of moderate age, and of
provident and self-controlling habits. Mr. Boyd then
proceeded to point out in what way the Colonisation So-
ciety assisted, by part payment of the passage money, in
obtaining the sanction of the Emigration Commissioners
for a class of emigrants other than agricultural, such, for
instance, as the majority of those he was then address-
ing. He regretted that on this point the meeting had
not the opportunity of hearing the chairman of the so-
ciety, the Hon. F. Scott, the Member for Roxburghshire,
the utility of whose labours in the cause of emigration it
would be quite impossble to eulogise sufficiently. Ho
was then in Scotland devoting his great talents and in-
defatigable industry to the same end, instead of seeking
the relaxation he so much needed after the fatigues of
the past session, but of the nature of which those who
merely judged by the newspapers could form no idea
whatever. Mr. Boyd concluded an animated speech,
which was loudly applauded, by calling upon
Mr. LOGAN, who, in a most interesting address of
nearly an hour's duration, and which fully justified the
eulogiums pronounced upon him by the preceding
speaker, detailed the result of upwards of a dozen years'
observation of the labour market in New South Wales,
its supply and demand, and the consequences of a scar-
city of hands in the colony generally, and some of sud-
den gluts in particular spots on certain occasions. He
went most fully and comprehensively into the question
in all its essential bearings—national, imperial, social,
and economic—cieverly shaping his remarks to the par-
ticular pursuits of his audience, and showing that though
certain handicrafts in iron and metals might not obtain
an immediate market, yet a readiness to turn one's hand
to any thing, together with the intelligence characteristic
of a good English mechanic, would always, at the very
outset, procure in the colony an equivalent to his full
ordinary earnings at home, and that his skilled labour
would be of course proportionably recompensed when
legitimately rendered available, the prospect of its so
being increasing every successive day. After a vivid
sketch of the position of the colony, illustrated
by many remarkable instances of the ruinous
effects of the lack of labour—pastoral, mechanical, and
domestic, male and female—Mr. Logan invited his
hearers to put questions that should elicit the precise
sort of information applicable to the individual case of
each interrogator. This led to a singular and highly
instructive scene. Many of the operatives proceeded to
catechise the Learned Gentleman, and in so doing exhi-
bited not only the greatest natural shrewdness, but an
amount of acquired ;knowledge of the Australian colt, •
vies that should be witnessed before it could be fully
credited. Mr. Logan replied with great good humour,
succinctly to the point, and, without a single exception,
to the satisfaction of every inquisitor. Passing from the
rates of wages, &e., he was examined as to the sanitary
and phyeical peculiarities of the colony, the mode of ob-
taining lard in small quantities, prices of wearing ap-
parel, and many other mutters, in which his extensive
household experience, as one who had reared a large
family in the colony, stood him in excellent stead, and
were regerded as most conclusive by those who spoke in
behalf of their better halves as well as of themselves. In
all points involving matters pertaining to shipping lie
was ably assisted by Mr. Boyd, that gentleman on one
occasion giving a striking instance of the stringency with
which the Emigration Commissioners enforce their rules as
to the seaworthiness of the vessels they employ. A mer-
chant of great eminence in the City had informed him
within the last few days that ho had been compelled to
vend 3,8001, on ono of the vessels so chartered, though

any private trader would pronounce it perfectly fit to take
the most precious cargo to any part of the globe without
one penny outlay in repairs. Mr. Logan was repeatedly
thanked by the different spokesmen of the operatives,
and having met fully all queries, and presented the in-
stitution With maps, publications of the society, and co-
lonial journals, resumed his seat amidst vehement ap-
plause, which was resumed with increased heartiness
when he promised to pay a second visit shortly, and sup-
ply any omissions which a perusal of the documents he
now left might suggest that he had made.
After a pause, the meeting having now lasted a couple
of hours,

Mr. BOYD proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
and in doing so passed a very elaborate encomium upon
him. Mr. Sturrock had made the Colonisation Society
collectively, and himself (Mr. Boyd) particularly, his
debtors, for the instructive evening that had been spent,
and for the results that would asuredly flow from it; and
he therefore begged leave to present to him the best
thanks of that most numerous, and, he would add, alto-
gether unprecedented meeting.
Mr. A. IL FORRESTER having seconded the motion
which was carried with enthusiasm, _ _

Mr. STURROCK briefly and appropriately adverted to
the compliment that had been paid him, and then went
on to say how deeply he felt the painful duty the direc-
tors had, with the greatest regret themselves, imposed
upon him, of discharging a large number of workmen.
Unfortunately, such was the state of the money market,
such the depreciation of all railway property at present,
that the directors could not think of proceeding with
further extension, either in the shape of their own tri-
butary lines, or of lines they have leased from other
companies; and therefore the present reduction of their
establishment was equally a matter of necessity and of
duty, and every person would admit its propriety and
justice, even those who most suffered by it.
After some remarks as to the probable value of the
information the deputation had afforded, the meeting
broke up.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
EASTERN UNION.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the
Eastern Union Railway, took place yesterday at Rad-
ley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, for the purpose
of taking into consideration a proposition of the direc-
tors for the modification of an agreement made between
the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead
Railway Company, the Ipswich and Bury Saint Edmund
Railway Company, and the Eastern Union Railway
Company, on the Bth day of June, 1847, for demising
and leasing the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and
Halstead Railway, and certain Extension Lines and
premises, to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Rail-
way Company, and for working, using, and enjoying the
same; and if the meeting should determine upon any
modification of such agreement, then for the purpose of
approving the terms thereof, and of authorising the di-
rectors of the Eastern Union Railway Company to affix
the corporate seal of that Company to such contract or
agreement as may be submitted to the meeting for car-
rying out such terms, and also to such other deeds, con-
tracts, agreements, leases, and instruments as the direc •
tors of such last-mentioned company may deem neces-
sary for carrying the same into effect.
Colonel Barlow took the chair shortly after two
o'clock.

The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read by the Secretary,
The CHAIRMAN said that it would not be necessary
for him to occupy their time by stating the provisions of
the modified agreement, as the proprietors were already
in possession of a circular recently addressed by the
directors to the shareholders, fully explaining the cir-
cumstances that had induced them to enter into the
agreement for a lease with the Stour Valley Company.
Mr. FEW, the solicitor of the company, then read the
heads of the provisional agreement to lease the Stour
Valley line. In the heads of the agreement it appeared
that the Easter■ Union Company proposed to lease the
Stour Valley line for 999 years, and to pay a rent equal
to five per cent on the cost of the Stour Valley line up
to 83,000/., and three per cent. on the residue expense
of establishing the Stour Valley Company, Parlia-
mentary contests to be included.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution to the
effect that the modified provisional agreement should
de adopted by the meeting.
Some considerable discussion took place, in the course
of which

Mr. LECHMERE asked the Chairman whether any
treaty was in existence between this company and the
Eastern Counties.

The CHAIRMAN said that no treaty was in existence
betwean the Eastern Union Railway Company and the
Eastern Counties Company.
Mr. LECIIMERE was most happy to hear it.
The CHAIRMAN—And so am I.

After some further discussion,
Mr. LECHMERE moved, as an amendment, that the
question of adopting the modified provisional agreement
should be adjourned until this day six months.
The CHAIRMAN said that the line was in a great state
of forwardness, and ho had no doubt the line would be
opened to Norwich in the course of next summer. The
line would be opened to Diss in a very short time.
Some considerable discussion then took place upon the
original resolution and the amendments, atter which
The CHAIRMAN, amid some confusion, put the amend-
ment to the meeting, and declared it to be lost upon the
show of hands.

Mr. LECHMERE then demanded a poll, but ultimately
after a most irregular discussion, withdrew it.
Another amendment was then moved for an adjourn-
ment for a fortnight, but that was also lost.
The original motion was then put, and declared to be
carried.

Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated at five o'clock.

OPENING OF THE CREWE LINE OF THE
NORTH-STAFFORDSHIRE.
The Crewe Branch of the North-Staffordshire Railway
was yesterday opened for the conveyance of passengers.
The new line is thirty miles in length, and coif:mere:es
at Stoke-upon-Trent, running through Stanley, near to
Newcastle, to Buralem, and Conglet3n. A very fine
station has been erected at Stoke, which will be the chief
station on the North• Staffordshire lines. This station
is a very elegant building in the style of the period of
James 11. It looks more like a baronial residence than
a railway station. There is a large hotel attached to
it, and the whole forms a very imposing quadrangle.
At this station all the offices of the company will be
fixed, and the future meetings of the shareholders will
be held there. The cost of the station, with the hotel
approaches, &c., will, when wholly completed, be 43,0001.
Under the colonnade in front of the booking-offices
the flooring has been laid with encaustic tiles of very
beautiful design. Mr. 11. A. Hunt is the architect.
The line from Stoke to Burton upon-Trent was
opened for traffic about a month ago, and the part opened
yesterday is about fifteen miles in extent. A new
route has therefore been opened from the midland
counties to Liverpool and the manufacturing districts of
Lancashire.
The line, with the exception of the Ilarecastle tunnel,
and two small tunnels, has been of easy construction.
Tho Harecastle tunnel is upwards of a mile in extent.
Mr. Ricardo, M.P., the chairman of the company,
together with the directors and their friends,otpadsed
over the line, and were met by the authorities
OR-
gleton at the station, and by them were conducted to
the Town- hall, where a banquet had been prepared for
them.
At the conclusion of
,the feast, which was presided
over by J. Waddington, Esq., the Ma
ythe usual loyal toasts were given, and heartilyr o f
C ongln,
responded
eto
to. On the toast of " The Queen"being given, the
company sang the national anthem.
The MAYOR, in very complimentary terms, proposed
the toast of " Success to the North Staffordshire Rail-
way Company, and health, long life, and happiness to
John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., , its chairman." The
toast was received with three times three, and one cheer
more.

' Mr. RICARDO, M.P., do rising to respond to the toast,
was received with loud cheering. After some few pre-
. fatory observations, he said that the North Staffordshire
Railway Company had had many difficulties to encoun-
ter, difficulties at the commencement, difficulties during
their operations, and difficulties now. First, from the
opposition with which they had been met ; and secondly,
from the monetary crisis which had happened, which was
scarcely over before it was followed by those events on
the continent which he was sure no man in the country
could fail to deplore, while he felt grateful to Providence
that he had been born in a country where property and
life were secure.—(Cheers.) He might be permitted
to say that they were suffering from those events
now. He had heard a great deal said about this coun-
try being dependent on the home trade ; but he would
say, speaking to commercial men—men who understood
what trade and commerce were—that the home trade
was dependent upon the foreign trade; that this country
at this moment was suffering from the adversity of
our neighbours, and would continue to suffer until our
neighbours were more prosperous. Let us not then in-
dulge in jealousy of oar neighbours, as we might de-
pend upon it that their prosperity was our prosperity,
and that their adversity was our adversity.--(Cheers.)
He did not mean to say that this was felt as much in
railways as in other things ; but after all, railways were
merely part of the machinery which we manufactured in
this country. The cost of production was not to be cal-
culated on the price of the commodity when it was in
the factory, but it was to be calculated at the price in
the market to which it was to be sent; and if they could
bring those commodities which they manufactured
to the market cheaply, then they had an advantage
over their competitors, and that advantage, the North
Staffordshire Railway Company had in a great mea-
sure endeavoured to secure for them, When ho SAW
the chimneys of the factories smoking, when he knew
the working people were employed, when he knew the
farmers were flourishing, and that agricultural produce
was in demand, he should not want to go to his secre-
tary, Mr. Samuda, and ask him what the receipts of the
North Staffordshire Railway were. He would not ask
him if the railway was prosperous or not. He thought
the jealousy of or.e railway company with respect to
another was absurd altogether. Ile did not want the
North Staffordshire Company to flourish at the expense
of any other company; but he would say this, that if the
North Staffordshire Railway did flourish, ho was sure
that those around it would flourish also, and that the
trade would be distributed among them. The worthy
mayor had coupled his name with that of the North Star-
fordshire Company, and he (Mr. Ricardo) could only
say that he 'sad undertaken this great enterprise not
with any view to personal profit or advancement, but
simply with a view to benefit his constituents and the
country at large.—(Cheers.) If he had succeeded, the
only reward he would ever require was to see the North
Staffordshire Railway prosperous.—(The Hon. Gentle-
man resumed his seat amidst loud applause.)
Captain ANTROBUS, in a humorous speech, proposed
the toast of The Directors," which was
.responded to
by Mr. Brodeziek.

The healths of the Mayor and other gentlemen locally
connected with the railway were then proposed and duly
responded to.

Mr.
Samuda, the secretary, Mr. Bidder, the engineer,
and the contractors were proposed.
In the course of the reply to the toast, Mr. Pearson
and other gentlemen referred to the uniform good con-
duct of the railway labourers ever since they had been
employed on the works. Such was their praiseworthy
behaviour, that when there was a prospect of the town
and peace being disturbed by Chartist agitators, they
immediately came forward in a body and requested to
be enrolled as special constables, a proceeding which had
no doubt tended very much to the maintenance of. the
peace of the locality. This announcement was received
with loud cheers.

At five o'clock the corporation of Congleton accom-
panied the directors of the railway in a special train
to Stoke, and returned to Congleton late in the evening.
The banquet at Congleton was served by Mr. stocker
of the Lion.

THE LATE MR. STEPHENSON.-Tho following is an
extract from the minutes of the Liverpool Board of the
London and North-Western Railway, under date 6th
September, 1848:..." The public papers having an-
nounced the lamented death of Mr. George Stephenson,
on Saturday, the 12th ult., Resolved unanimously—That
the directors embrace this first opportunity of recording
the strong sentiments which they entertain, of admiration
for the talents and esteem for the character of the man
whose death they cannot but regard as a national loss.
The directors, on the present occasion, look back with
peculiar interest to their first connexion with Mr. Ste-
phenson, in the construction of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway; to a period now twenty years past,
when he floated their new line over Chat Moss, or cut his
way through the rock cutting at Olive Mount. Tracing
the progress of railways from that first beginning to the
present time, they find Mr. Stephenson foremost in
urging forward the great railway movement, earning and
maintaining his title to be considered, before any other
man, the author of that universal system of locomotion
which bas effected such mighty results, commercial,
social, and political, throughout the civilized world.
Two years ago the directors entrusted to Mr. Gibson, of
Rome, the duty and privilege of producing a statue
that might do honour to their friend, then living
amongst them. They did not anticipate that on the
completion of this work of art the great original would
be no more—that they should be constrained to accept
the marble effigy of the engineer in lieu of the living
presence of the man.—Resolved: that a copy of this
resolution be transmitted to Mr. Robert Stephenson,
with an expression of the directors' earnest sympathy
under the irreparable loss which ho has experienced."—
Liverpool Journal.

ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS DURING 'W.—From the
First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Railways,
just published, it appears that there is a great reduction
in the number of railway accidents for 1347, notwith-
standing the great increase in the number of passengers
conveyed. At the beginning of the first six months of
1847 there were 3,036 miles of railway opened in the
United Kingdom; at the beginning Fof the latter six
months of that period there were 3,496 miles open; and
at the end of the latter period, passengers were carried
on 3,816 miles of railway. It appears from the returns
that the number of passengers conveyed in the former
period was 23,119,412, in the latter 31,734,607, being
an increase of passengers of 37 per cent. Yet
the number of passengers killed and injured
by Causes beyond their own control was less by
29 per cent. in the latter than in the former
period, and the whole number of accidents to passengers,
servants of companies, trespassers, and others, was less
by 7 per cent. The whole number' of accidents
during this period, attended with injury to the public,
was 330. The number of accidents from carriages
leaving the line, during 1847, was 5, and from en-
gines running off 15. Accidents from axles breaking
were 11, and from tires of wheels 6. During the same
year there were 37 accidents from collisions; and the
Commissioners aro strongly of opinion, from investiga-
tion, that these arise from the fact of large trains ge-
nerally not being accompanied by a sufficient number of
guards to work the breaks, and they consider that the
most effectual method of ensuring attention to this sub-
ject is a public statement of this their opinion.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER OPENING.—The opening
of this important line, which is 60 miles in length, takes
place on Thursday next.—Liverpool Albion.
BRIGUTON RAILWAY.—There is a rumour in town,
but on what foundation it rests we are unable to say,
that Mr. Laing, the chairman, is to have 800/. per an-
num out of the 1,6001 allowed to the directors, as
chairman and manager, and the other eight directors
100/. year each.—Herupath's Railway Journal.
IRISH RAILWAYS.—A correspondent, in a private let-
ter, writes to us :—" You will be amused to hear that
in Ireland, where they widened their gauge (at General
Pasley's recommendation) for the very purpose of giving
more room for the cylinders, &e., between the wheels,
they are using several outside cylinder engines. They
have in that country, by widening the gauge, got into
the expensive forms of carriage and engine of the Great
Western, and with a beggarly traffic. Their trains
weigh, exclusive of the engine, forty or fifty tons, and
their engines, which burn a full allowance of coke,
weigh twenty tons, -or, with the tender, twenty-eight,
making the gross weight of a train eighty tons, where
forty should suffice. Now this forty toss of extra car-
rying stock will be worth something like 90/. per ton, or
3,6001. per train, which requires continual repair and
renewal ; besides the interest upon it, 20 per cent., will
not be too much for this-20 per cent. on 3,6001.-7204,
or 21. per day. Say you get forty miles of running
throughout the year on each train of carriages with the
engine, here is a charge of one shilling per mile per
train imposed by this Uncalled-for widening of the Irish
gauge, in carrying stock only."—Herapath's Railway
Journal.
TOURNAY AND JuanrsE.—The opening of the entire
line is fixed for the 15th of the present month.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, OCT. 9.
STOCK EXCHANOE.—The .
.share market Continues in a
very depressed state. Great Western 171. Shares were done
at 33‘i di9.

LIVERPOOL, Om 9.
STOCK EXCHA.NGII.—We have to notice a further depres-
sion in our share market, and a decline in prises. The sales
are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 311.
Shares, 9:Ri dis.— East Lancashire, 6i4 Preference, % dis.-
-Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), Fifths, dis.—Ditto (late West Riding 'Union),
Fifths, 6 % dis.—London and North. Western, 1043/4—Ditto,
New Quarters, 13% c. dis.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 1 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Docks, 15% dis.--
Midsterland Stand ock, 78 %Ditto, New Halves, 1174, dis.—South-
Ean Dover, 22% —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 6%—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 8% dis.
MANCIIESTER, OCT. 9.
55ST EXCITANGE.—The sales are— Clydesdale Junction,
Old Grimsby, 30% dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 9%
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 7-16—East Lancashire,
Preference, 3-16 dis.—Caledonian, Preference,
Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1, 10% dis.—North Staffordshire, 71% dis.—East Lancashire, 11% dis.—Sheffield and Lincoln,
14 3-16 c. dis—East Anglian, 181. Shams, 2 14-16—Leeds,
Preference, 3-16 dis.

BIRMINGHAM, 04rr. 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midlands, 77—Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 514 dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 41,4 dis.—Shropshire
Union, 3 j dis.

YORK, OCT. 7.
STOCK EXCHAWGE.—The business transacted ti-day WAS
as follows : Great Northern, 4!. 'A
—Lancashire and York-
shire, Preference, 43—North British, Thirds, 41. 16s. c.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 5%.

DOVER HARBOUR OF REFUGE.—The works of this
great national undertaking have been most actively pro-
secuted during the summer months; and the progress
made reflects much credit on the energy and skill of the
contractors. The piling of the breakwater has been
carried out to five feet water at low water spring tides ;
while the massive masonry which forms the pier is ra-
pidly growing up, rock-like, on either hand.—Dever
Chronicle.

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BMWS.
On the sth inst.,_ at Belle Vue, Teignmouth, the lady of
Lieutenant-Colonel Osborn, Bengal Army, of a son.
On the sth inst., at the Vicarage, Witten, Bucks, the wife
of-the Rev. G. Phillimore, of a son.
On the sth inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, Mas-
ter of Marlborough College, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst , at Regent-square, the wife of J. Gordon,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, the
wife of J. 11. Baxendale, Esq., of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Albany-court-yard, Piccadilly, tke
wife of T. Mortimer, Esq., of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Caroline-place, Mecklenburgh-square,
Mrs. E. Sealy, of a daughter, stillborn.
On the 7th inst., at Woburn-park, Surrey, the Hon. Mrs.
Locke King, of a son.