The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

£lO9 18 11

Total ...

STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers ... ... ... £230 17 9
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... 17 15 2

Total ... ... ... £248 12 11
CALIDONIAN RAILWAY.— (1891 miles opened.) —Return of
;raffle for the week ending Oct. 12 :
Passengers, &c. . ... £4,547 18 101
Goods, &c. ... ... ... 4,621 1 3

Total .• ••• ... £,169 0 11
Corresponding week last year ... 8.593 5 7i

shortly. STEALING A MAIL CART
On Tuesday morning, at five o'clock, or
after-
wards, while the mail cart driver of the Deptford and
Greenwich " ride" was waiting fur the letter
bags inside
the post-office in Deptford-broadvray, some parties, sup-
posed from information since received, to have been too
freely indulging in the pleasures provided at Cbarlton
Fair, jumped into the vehicle and drove off. The driver,
upon reaching the street, was utterly bewildered at find-
ing the vehicle and the horse had both disappeared. No
traces of them could be found; and as the delay of her
Majesty's mails, under any crcumstanoes, is a very se-
rious matter, the luckless driver was compelled to find a
cab as soon as possible, and make the best of his way to
the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, leaving
the delinquents and the vehicle and missing horse to the
investigation of the police. Shortly afterwards it was
discovered that a mail cart had been s
seen on the road
leading to Rotherhithe, and, upon inquiry, it turned out
that the tollgate-keeper at ono of the
.bars had noticed
to
two strange persons in a mail cart, which he thought
be exceedingly singular, as no regular cart passes that
way at that time of the morning. Thence the fellows
were traced to the Six. Bells, Lucas-street, Rotherhithe,
where the vehicle and the horse were found left in front
of the tavern door, the drivers having decamped. In-
formation of the occurrence having been forwarded to
the Post-office, Mr. Cook, the foreman to Mr. Wigs-
mars, the mail contractor, hastened to Rotherhithe for
the purpose
of investigating the matter, which remains
in the hands of the police, as the parties who have ven-
tured upon this foolish lark have not since been beard of.

officP, from the Governor of St. Helena.
akle
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
DEATH BY Poisotc. Last night Mr. y,
M.P., held an inq 48,uest at the King's Arms, Fn
a
Drury-lane, on the body of Joseph Linkon, ageda bird-
_ials,
stiffer. George Darnell, No. 12, Queen-strcet, Seven V
stated that the deceased, who was a widower, having buried
two wives, had lodged in his house for eight months. Oa
out,
Short's-gar
Monday morning last, about seven o'clock. being he was
fetched home by his wife, who said deceased had taken
poison. lie hurried home and found deceased lying an the
bed in great pain. who, in answer to his questions, said that
he had taken poison on some bread and butter, by accident.
Witness immediately fetched Mr. Bennett, the parish sur-
geon, who attended him till his death, which took place the
same evening. Mr. Bennett said, on seeing the deceased be
was in a state of collapse, and he at once discovered that lie
was labouring under the effects of poison, and to counteract
it ke used every exertion, but in vain. On making a post
ntortem examination he found death to have been caused by
taking a large quantity of arsenic James Brookes, a lodger
in the adjoining room to deceased, said that while the first
witness was gone for, deceased told him that he had eaten,
by mistake, a piece of bread and butter, on which, to poison
the mice, he had placed as much arsenic as would cover a
sixpenca,—Verdict," That deceased died from taking poison,
brit whether intentionally or not, there was no evidence to

Lord HARDWICKE, in returning thanks said—My
Lords and Gentlemen, it becomes my duty to return
thanks for the toast which has just been given, and I
can only echo the words of my Hon. Friend, and say
that we are attached to the country in which we live.
I can answer for my Noble Friends whose names
have been coupled with mine, that they are
interested in the agricultural welfare of this
county as much as any gentleman present.
They possess large estates, and are acquainted
with and feel all the weal or woe connected
with agriculture. Having said this, gentlemen, I
will proceed to offer to your notice a toast which was
intrusted to me by my Noble Friend on the left
(Lord Braybooke), and which, I believe, is usually
considered the toast of the evening. My Noble
Friend has usually given this toast himself, viz.,
" Prosperty to the Saffron Walden Agricultural As-
sociation." The welfare of the Agricultural Society
of Saffron Walden must very much depend upon the
prosperous condition of the people connected with it.
I confess that I do consider that the nature and cha-
racter of this meeting is somewhat altered by the
circumstances now affecting the farmer.—(Hear,
hear.) I consider that the position in which the
speakers of this day are placed is (me totally different
from that which was contemplated in the origin of
these societies.—(Hear, hear.) We are now care-
fully watched by the greater part of the pubiic press,
and not a sentiment given forth from any gentleman
at this meeting will escape being published to the
world by the press in general, and commented upon.
by a certain portion of it. It will be commented upon
with great ability and great shrewdness; they will
spare no vituperation; if they think it necessary, they
will spare no ridicule. So far our position is altered,
and in addressing you this day I feel as if I were
about to make a speech in Parliament instead of in
a social meeting where we might indulge a joyous
carlessness, where we might utter language
which. we did not care to have repeated,
At the present moment we must take care to narrow
our conversation and address our language teethe sub-
ject before us—uttering nothing but what we have
fairly considered and which is legitimately to the
point before us. I feel, under ,these circumstances,
considerable difficulty, if not great pain, in being
called upon to offer you this toast. I should be
glad indeed if I were able to omit everything likely
to lead to any future comments, and I may plead the
rules of your society, which do not permit us to make
any reference to political subjects. I intend so to do;
but I know very well that when a man gets upon his
legs and begins to make a speech, it is somewhat diffi-
cult to avoid expressions which may seem to have a
political tendency. I will not, however, speak of
parties in the state, or of legislative measures. I will
address myklf to the subject-matter of agriculture,
omitting studiously anything which can be called the
political portion of the subject. My
.Lord, we are
called upen to drink " prosperity to agriculture," and
I consider a toast of that description, if it means any-
thing in a social meeting, means offering up a prayer
that prosperity may attend the society in its future
operations. To make a society prosperous those per-
sons who uphold it must be prosperous themselves.
—(Hear, hear.) It is impossible to sever the welfare
of the persons connected with the society from that of
the society itself, which must mainly, if not entirely,
depend on the position of the parties connected with
it. We have witnessed this day, on the common, a
scene which has always deeply impressed me with the
feeling that we are at least performing a duty which
the better and richer classes of the world owe to their
poorer neighbours—viz , bringing them forward before
the public, and offering them to public notice as
worthy of the esteem of their fellow- creatures.—(Hear,
hear.) A more important duty I do not know ; and
yet we have passed through a time when that duty
was held up to the public as most ridiculous—as a
duty performed in a manner most unworthy of rich
and wealthy persons, and at the same time commented
upon with a degree of severity and ridicule which
made it painful to those who heard of as well as to
those who read it. But we live in a time when we
have among us, and connected with us by social ties,
a Prince, who, as my Hon. Friend has said, from his
industry, zeal, learning, and perseverance, has shown
that he is worthy to be placed as the Consort of our
gracious Queen. That Royal Prince, whose exer-
tion in promoting the Great Exhibition of the indus-
try of mankind we all recognise, went after closing
that Exhibition to Windsor on a duty precisely simi-
lar to our own. His Royal Highness took Che part of
my, Noble Friend on the common, offering similar
prizes to the poor and industrious people. I am
aware that the trumpery prizes of 10s. or 11. cannot
be offered as a remuneration for any acts or deeds of
theirs ; it is a sort of medallion or riband bestowed
on them for their virtues, as in the case of a soldier
who has achieved great deeds on the field of battle.
This is the principle on which these societies
are instituted, and it will stand firmly against any
irony which can be put on them. Our perseverance
has silenced that irony ; and we know that this steady
course of exercising and adhering to our own opinion
will at all times defeat the irony of writers or speakers
who may meet to hold us up
into rwidhlich
cule.weGnernetlieemdento,
we are placed in a position
prosperityncounrsseidiveerst;heandthequestion gu es of the
shsocietyall th
this
ss coupledday
raise,n
witha d
which I shall be thankful to hear considered in a
mixed society like this, is—ln what way is the farmer
of England to meet the present depreciated prices of
produce—(Hear, hear)—and how is the welfare
the agricultural community to be supported inits
of
i
present condition ? How can we expect it to be pros-
perouscommer-
cial and mercantile business, while at this moment via
are
as we wish it, in the condition of our
are buying in the dearest market apd selling in the
cheaper one ?—(Hear, hear.) We have elicited vari-
ous opinions as to the state and condition of the agri-
cultural interest, but I believe myself, from what I
see around me, and from what I have heard, that
every soul in the community is perfectly sensible of
its great depression.—(Hear.) I can see this from the
tenderness of writers against us—l mean the writers
who uphold the present system as one which is main-
tainable and likely to be remunerative. The tender-
ness of these writers on agriculture, and on all points
connected with it, leads me to believe that they are
as much aware as ourselves of the precarious condi-
tion in which we stand. How are we to be maintained
upon this important principle ? We were at first
told upon the one hand that it was an experiment, and
upon the other that it was a problem to be solved.
According to these terms, if the experiment failed it
was retraceable, and if the problem to be solved was
solved in the negative, it would be necessary to retrace
their steps.—(Hear, hear.) I wish to know again
what is the manner in which we are in our present
social condition to meet the case, and how have we
been answered by those who take another view of the
subject ? (Hear, hear.) We are told that we must
Frow more corn, and to do that we must farm high.
The term high farming may be understood in two or
three different ways, but I believe that the gentlemen
who speak of high farming mean proceeding upon the
most expensive, principle—(Hear, hear)—thrashing
and cultivating by ex
expensive buildings,
:ive machinery and erecting
agriculture, and treating the whole thing o
carryingp on all the operations
which requires the largest outlay of capital,na tso
scale
ado
e
which under falling prices appears to be impossible.—
(Hear.) We began upon the system which regulated
our commercial business, when the Agricultural So-
ciety of England was formed they carefully studied
e
thethn
iiciuelv‘t,isvanttiotnhaotfsothcieetsyoitln.
the We began to carry out
t iourd,
butpower,it
and the progress made was extremely rapid,
ap
was checked by an experiment which we could
not then forage°. That experiment, so far from
tending
exstetnndretroeunrch expen-
ditureit,nnd
it
look to
about u
so far from inducing us to farm high •
uc e d
us induce
to
us
induced us
to look about us how we could work in the cheapest
way, Another party tells us that high farming is a
word used in another sense, meaning the manuring
the land by the maintenance of animals; but upon
this point we should be unable to conduct our opera-
tions according to their views. Some time ago a
distinguished friend of mine in the north of England
stated before the public that in his opinion landed
proprietors should turn their attention to another
class of cultivation; that they should grow flax; that
above all we should use the new reaping machine,
and that then we should be able to recover ourselves

The interesting ceremony of inaugurating this
building for the purposes of the members of the Col-
chester Mechanics' Institution and the public gene-
rally took place on Tuesday evening under the most
auspicious circumstances.
The New People's Hall, which is an exceedingly
handsome and 'commodious structure, presented a
very interesting and animated appearance. The en•
trance, passage from the High-street, through which
visitors passed to the build*. was. tastefully deco-
rated with verdant arches of flame* and evergreens,
and oil the( wall was a pretty device of dahlias, making
"Progress" the watchword of the institution. Over
the portal of the interior 'of the hall in a semicircular
form, facing the platfortn, was a beautiful and exten-
sive device of various coloured dahlias, amidst sprigs
of laurel and ivy, in which the motto, "Science, Art,
and Literature" could be conspicuously traced.
On the platform were Mr. John Gurdon Rebow,
Wivenhoe-park, president; Mr. Hardcastle, M.P. for
Colchester; Prof. Airy, Astronomer Royal; Mr.
W. P. Donne, F.R.S. •' Rev. Dr. Seaman, rector of
Greenstead ; Rev. T. W. Davids, Lion-walk Chapel,
Colchester; Rev. J. Cameron, Headgate Chapel, Col-
cheater;. Mr. J. Tabor, Mr. J. C. Eisdell, Mr. T.
Catchpool, Jun., Mr. J. S. Barnes, Mr. J. M.
Churchill, Mr. H. S. Goody, Mr. J. B. Harvey (hon.
sec.), and Mr. D. Morris.
After addresses from the esesnalArs (Mr. Rebow)
and Mr. HARDCASTLE, M.P.,
Professor AIRY, the Astronomer Royal, on stand-
ing forward to address his audience, was greeted
with loud cheers. He said he was personally a
stranger to almost every individual in that room, al-
though he might say he once bad connexion with
Colchester, the nine best years of his boyhood being
spent in that town before he went to the University.
He had always looked at his connexion with this
town at his early age with great gratitude. At that
time of life what he learnt was not all acquired at
school, but elsewhere, and he became familiar with
those things which were' associated with the idea of
Mechanics' Institutions. He remembered very well
that when he 'had acquired a sort- of general opinion
on the properties of the steam-engine, the manner in
which he learnt anything accurately about it was
from a book a small tradesman lent him, but he learnt
its practical operations from studying their two steam
engines in the town, one of which was at St. Giles's
brewery, and the other at the waterworks at Bal-
kerne-hill. Since then he had examined innume-
rable steam-engines, and had learnt by the examination
of the smaller details of these various specimens. Now
the recollection of that suggested to him one thing in
connection with the inscription he saw upon that
wall, " Science, art, and literature." If he had made
the inscription himself, be should have put it in a dif-
ferent order, and put art first; not as being first in
dignity- or importance, but as coming first into pro-
gress to men's mind—(Hear, hear)—it was by ac-
quiring accurate knowledge of art that people were
led to science, and it was seldom before that they
progressed to literature.—(Hear, hear.) He had at
different times opportunities of seeing various ranks
of mechanics under different circumstances. There
was one instance which made a great impression
upon him, which as a special incident was worthy or
remark, and which be would mention. Some years
ago in the prosecution of experiments in mines at
Cornwall, when he was several hundred yards deep in
the earth, he bad an opportnnity of seeing that sin-
gulariand interesting set of people the Cornish miners,
and it was impossible to be among them without
discovering in them a wonderful practical sagacity—
a scientific sagacity, and this showed itself in their
machinery in every part, in pumps and valve gear-
ing, which were well known in some way or other to
every person in the kingdom-; they
little spot in the island, by an infinity of little contri-
vances, which he never saw showed in that
anywhere else, their
practical sagacity. - He amused himself to discover
bow it happened. He found'there were persons con-
nected with these mines, not masters, but called cap-
tains, who were so concerned that they bad the ma-
iiageinent of the other men, and had considerable op-
portunities of meeting to dine together, and assembling
in various ways. He had been present at these meet-
ings himself, and hal been struck with the idea that
there was a sort of little mechanical
parliament, and
in their discussions upon steam-engines, and pumps,
end rolling machinery, and everything connected with
the mines, there was a degree of accuracy of observa-
tion and sagacity of inference that would have done
honour to any one of the master manufacturers of
Manchester. In these private discussions there was
displayed a degree of talent he never saw anywhere
else. This was the sort of thing he should hope
would arise from institutions similar to this.—(Hear,
hear.) He should trust there would be private dis-
cussions there when persons interested in them were
brought together. Though that might be one of the
advantages of meetings of that kind, he looked upon it
as comparatively a small one ; there were others to
which the associations of persons in that way led,
which could not be procured by any single person.
There was one advantage to which great importance
had been attached in the report read to them, and also
in the address of the Member for the borough—he
meant the collection of a good library.—(Hear, hear.)
That was a thing no single person could procure for
himself, but it could be procured by a number of per-
sons in the lowest grade of society, and perfectly in-
valuable; he did not grudge the terms in which the
importance of that had been expressed.—(Hear,
bear.) There were other ways in which this
collection of persons—this organization of society,
could be made valuable, and one of these, to which
he attached much importance himself, was in the
Procuring occasionally lectures, and holding
in-
structing meetings of that kind. It was possible
for a number of persons uniting !in that manner to
receive expositions, such as could not be received very
single person ; and allow him to say that
nityions which could be so received, and which
mightwellieg
exposh bt
notch u
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tthe l
Iv ehreyy
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et poi dn
et sr s ot
af
nsdc
ne
gn c
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f,
• were ver
appointed to meet there.—(Hear.) It was a
s fewpersonst il l
onfeytetohda
which he was acquainted, the particulars of which
uemost recondite parts g
of the ences with
oint he bad endeavoured to ure b therei
sc
sa
et there e roef wereevery
pains. There w
Ic'olass of
road ; every one must use
would not be unadsenrsotorooydalbyropaedratoongs
eifoltohgeyy
otro oaks t the
pains. nor any plebeian
prin-
ciple 3 in science .
there was much which could
mankind ; in the details
that they would; obtain in
some-
what of every kind of _
his wits, but withhepyroonpder
the principles were understood.
many cases where
not be fully acquired withoutthaen_seetdeurcmatsiotno,sbayuthewa
He meant in speaking in
sure tinheearne
d make them understand it if
he could prove it, an
bl _
:could e ; be make them
they would take the trouble the sun was a hundred millions of miles off, and
—they could, they had the
and established
dprinciples upon which_._
if this was com-
putedunderstand the
advantage t
oefvihdaenlfcae
He looked upon it as a
that kind great they °orga-
nise societies of kind that . could have the
leisure for going into details, see it as he did himself.
of these things, such as could
doift nt hr
ee
not be very
well acquired by single persons—(Hear, hear)—
and these things were wort
Still,
supposing
life to understand.—(Hear, bear.)
means of procuring proper ehxtphoeseitxiopnens
that the attention of a body like that was directed to
thinks of that kind, he did not think it had done all it
ought to do and could do. A man who merely
studied art and science wasa poor creature—he (the
e as a pert as imortant
professor) looked at literatu
d the was to see that long
as the rest, and very gia
Hear otto.— H h r ) He
word at the end of them ( , ea .
here was
took histori-
literature in its widest sense : t
ious kinds and lo-
cal literature, and literature of var
cal literature, and for that there were considerable
opportunities in a place like Colchester, which Wl5l
the first Roman capital of England. Colchester was
the place where the first successful outbreak took
place in the revolt of Boadicea, and the scene of san-
guinary struggles in the middle ages, and it was a
place in that respect of very great interest. He
thought he had alluded to all the principal points to
which an institution like that ought to be directed,
but perhaps before going further be might allude to
the way in which it had been found necessary in prac-
tice to conduct the business of meetings of that kind.
Undoubtedly much might be done in the way of pro-

It was unanimously resolved that the foregoing
reply should be inserted in the records of each lodge.
The brethren then adjourned to the banquetting-
room, where an excellent dinner was served up, after
which the usual loyal toasts of " The Queen and the
Craft," and " Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
and the rest of the Royal Family ;" " The Most Wor-
shipful the Earl of Zetland, the Grand Master of
England ;" " Br. General Sir C. J. Napier ;" " The
Navy and Army ;" " The Right Worshipful the
Grand Master of Hants, and the Right Worshipful
the Deputy-Grand Master, Mr. C. E. Deacon" (the
latter being present); " Br. Morris, P.S.G.W. of
England ;" " The Chairman ;" " The P.G.M. of Ber-
muda, Br. Joseph Stewart Bunter;" "The D.P.G.M.
of Wigton, N.B. Br. Captain J. D. Hay ;" and other
toasts were given and duly responded to. The other
proceedings went off with great satisfaction to all
present, and a very masonic and pleasant evening was
spent.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONof SEWERS.
Yesterday a special Court of Commissioners was
held at No. 1, Greek-street, Soho, for the transaction
of the ordinary business of the Commission.. Mr. E.
Lawea presided, and there were present Captain Daw-
son, Mr. Cubitt; Mr. Allason, and the officers of the
corporation.
Among the applications and memorials were several
from the poorer districts of Newington and Islington.
Houses had been run up without the least considera-
tion of the mode in which their sewage was to be car-
ried off. There were no lateral drains, and the houses
stood at so low a level that there were no means of
providing a proper fall into the main sewers of the
neighbourhood.
The engineers reported upon these memorials that
no remedy could be provided, until the general system
of drainage contemplated by the Commission should
be carried out.

Ordered, that the engineers' reports be forwarded to
the applicants.
A memorial from Russell-street, Bermondsey, re-
vealed the startling fact that the main sower which
supplies the inhabitants of that district with water is
also the means of relieving them of their sewage. It
communicates with the Thames near St. Saviour's
Dock. When the tide is up, water flows from the
river to the houses ; when it is down, the sewage runs
from the houses to the river. Even this is scarcely a
I a i
r vengeance,
souch
ch
sucha astatessewage
he
sufficiently bad representation of the state of this sewer,
fur it appeared from the statement of Mr. Allason that
the sewer was so flat that the sewage water pene-
trated through the bottom into the basements beneath.
water to a depth of from 12 to 18 inches in the cellars.
principleO n a
Captaine ce nor
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oscillation to
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the
couldwlctld3, credit
locality
t ay
h, e had found
of things. It was, indeed, the application of the
had hardly expected to have seen carried out in the
sewers.

Mr. FORSTER said the case was by no means a rare
one in the Surrey and Kent districts.
Mr. ALLASON said the case appeared a most urgent
one. Parties were suffering in health throughout the
whole of the district, and the effluvium was most
offensive and pernicious.
Ultimately the memorial was referred to the en-
gineer to report whether, pending more extensive
1 operations, a temporary outlet into the St. Saviour's
Dock might not be provided.
New works were ordered in the Holborn division
to the amount of 9901.; in Surrey and Kent, to the

Several other witnesses gave evidence of their being
in the neighbourhood with a fourth man.
Robert HeHier, who resides in the parish of Frome,
stated that on the 2d inst., between six arid seven
o'clock in the evening, as he was returning from work
up Blatchbridge-hill, he sat down to rest, when he
observed Maggs come out of Burchall lane, and go up
the hill towards Frome. Had heard that Maggs,
Hurd, and others were blamed for the murder. He
went up the lane as fast as he could, and passing
through a gate which entered the side field, he
walked up by the side of the hedge which ran
parallel with the lane. He heard footsteps of ano-
ther person coming down, who met Maggs oppo-
site a lane leading into Blatchbridge-lane. While
they were talking he remained under the hedge. Maggs
asked the other man, who was taller than Maggs,
if he had heard anything fresh. The other replied
that he had heard that Bill Sparrow had informed the
London officer that he (Sparrow) had done the mur-
der; that the London officer had been to Spar-
row, and said, "Ah, my good fellow, I am glad thee
hasn't done the murder; thee we'd have a free pardon
and 50!." Maggs rejoined, "He will neither have a
free pardon nor his 501., for Bill Sparrow was the man
that killed her. He would not have killed her, only
she knew him." The witness added that he would
have made public these facts before, but for a fear
that he should also be murdered, as he had to travel
four miles before daylight to go to his work, and re-
turn again at night.
Martha Watson, the daughter of the landlord of a
public-house at North Bradley, deposed that at the
latter end of last month a man named William Spar-
row came to their house, on a Monday and Tuesday.
He had-a very bad thumb, and he stated that it was
bitten in a fight. In the course of conversation her
father asked him if it was true that a girl had been
had
murdered
seen
the at Fgri or
lmsei
n?ee lie
she said
had it
been
ns
Intruured,
earnedd thaten the
Thursday. Her father inquired whether they had
n—,
any suspicion of any one.
e saidn
that he did not
t a
know--four
tpheer persons had
girl's
uncle -e an
also
beenup
tdakesnelibertyt
up
at
and discharged. Ho told us that
she hada blow on
the head, which bad been done, he thought, with a
stick or something else, and that afterwards she was
put in the whey. He was asked what caused death
—the blow, or being put in the whey ? He replied
he did not know, but the whey was stained with
blood. He thought it would never be found out, he-
cause he thought there was only one person concerned
in the murder.
Sarah Watts, the mother of the deceased, stated that
she was at home on the Thursday after the girl was
murdered, and that she did not see Sparrow at her
house on that day.
Mr. Shoreland, surgeon, deposed to examining the
left hand of Sparrow, and finding contused Wounds
on the knuckles and thumb, and forming an opinion
that they had been inflicted anterior to the time
stated by him. A bite would have caused those in-
j cries.
The police then solicited another remand, in order
that they might collect other important f and the
bench accerdiogly remanded the prieoner7for; another
week.

" Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company, London, Oct. 22,1851.
" Sir,—By order of the directors of the Peninsular
and oriental Steam Navigation Company, I have the
honour to transmit to you, ai chairman of the public
meeting held on the 14th inst., at the London Tavern,
a copy of a letter from Viscount Palmerston which
has been received by them subsequent to the holding
of that meeting; and I am desired also to state that
the directors have no übjection to your making such
public use of this communication as you may deem
expedient.

" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" 0. W. HOWELL, Secretary.
" Samuel Gregson, Esq , Chairman East India
and China Association."

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•• eoreign-office, Oct. 14.

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ultimo, expressing on behalf of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the apprehen-
sions entertained by that association lest the issue of
the discussions between the Porte and the Pacha of
Egypt should have a prejudicial effect upon the transit
of passengers and gouds through Egypt.
" I am to state to you in reply, for the information
of the company, that whatever questions of etiquette
and form may have arisen between the Sultan and
Abbas Pacha in regard to the construction of a rail-
road between Alexandria and Cairo, or in regard to
the introduction of the tanzimat into Egypt, Viscount
Palmerston entertains no apprehension that the con-
struction of the railroad will be stopped, or that the
local Government of Egypt will be deprived of the
means of maintaining order in that province.
" I am, Sir,
"H. Aignif G.Tori •
" C. W. Howell, Esq., Peninsular and Oriental
" Your most obedient humble servant,
Steam Navigation Company.