The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-11 00:00:00

otherwise, should he talk almost with complacency of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery has been ap-
of the ' vast conspiracy' of which the traces are pointed assistant-superintendent at the small arms'
hardly anywhere to be seen ?" factory, Enfield.

The Military Revolt in Spain.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

, MADRID, Jan. 7.
When O'Donnell in the Senate the other day ex-
pressed his confidence that he would be able to raise
the state of siege within 48 hours he seems to have
calculated the chances of the conflict with tolerable
correctness. One of the insurgent columns under
the orders of Major Campos and Gonzales, after
moving as far north as Benavente, and then as far
west as Puebla de Sanabria,ispositively stated fo have
crossed the Portuguese frontier at Braganza. Prim,
who from Terrancon had marched to Santa Cruz de
la Zarza and Villatobas to the neighbourhood of the
Tembleque station on the Great Southern Railway,
interrupting the communication on that line, seems
now to have moved further westward (as the traffic
with the south is said to have been re-established),
and taken the direction of the Toledo mountains,
with the intention, as his adversaries suppose, of
following that long sierra all the way to the frontier
of Portugal. Two companies of infantry are said to
have joined him from Cuenca. Agreeably to the
latest bulletins of this morning, Prim slept last night
at Villarabia de los Ojos, and proceeded this morn-
ing towards Daimiel and Ciudad Real, where he
found himself between the pursuing column under
Zabala, which had reached Madridejos, and that of
General Concha, Marques del Duero, who was ad-
vancing to meet him from Manzanares. Prim's only
line of retreat is along the chain of the Toledo
Mountains. Private information, on which I feel
inclined to rely, assures me that he has with him no
less than 150 volunteers or guerrilleros, under the
guidance of Noy de las Varraquetas, upon whom he
has conferred the rank of Lieut.-General. These
active and daring paysanos, or countrymen, as they
are called, are of infinite use to the regular soldiers
in whose front and rear they hover, catering for food
and forage, scouring the land far and wide, and
acquainting the commanding officer with the move-
ments of the enemy. An aide-de-camp of Zabala,

who was in Madrid the other day, reported that he

was to start with his forces from Aranjuez on the
morning of yesterday, but, strange to say, was not
aware of the line being interrupted at Tembleque.
I told you in a former letter that this Zabala, who
is Minister of the Marine, and Marquis of Sierra
Bullones, is not popular with the troops, who at
first refused to march under his orders. He took
with him a large body of Engineers, on account of
the particular confidence O'Donnell has in those
troops, and on being stopped on the right bank of
the Tagus at Villarejos by the sinking of the sus-
pension bridge, he summoned the commanding offi-
cer of the Engineers, and bade him throw a bridge
across without delay. The officer pleaded the want
of materials, which he would have to send for from
Madrid, and which would not be forthcoming for
48 hours, whereupon Zabala flew into a towering
passion, upbraided the man for incapacity and sloth,
and upon his remonstrating rather tartly sent him
to the rear disgraced. As the Engineer officer hap-
pens to be highly esteemed and beloved by the men
in his corps, it is not likely that Zabala, will have
won the hearts of his column by this unprovoked
and irrational act of severity.
The Government, as you are aware, had from the
very beginning of the disturbance closed all the
clubs, casinos, and other places of rendezvous in
Madrid. They yesterday published a decree dis-
solving and forbidding all political associations.
They broke up the Progressista and Democratic
committees all over the kingdom, and arrested seve-
ral of their members both at Saragossa and Barce-
lona. The first of those cities and the whole of
Arragon were declared in a state of siege, notwith-
standing the perfect tranquillity those provinces are
officially described as enjoying. Arrests have also
been made in Madrid.
One of the most inoffensive establishments in the
capital, the casino, or club, in the Carrevade Sen
Geronimo, continues to be shut up night and day,
to the great discomfiture of the old habitu6, who can
hardly be said to have any other home in the world,
and who are now crowding before its doors in the
street, like sheep out of their fold. It is the most aris-
tocratic reunion in the place, consequently the most
conservative, and its members, belonging as they do
to every shade of political party, meet there as in a
neutral ground in peace and harmony, or if they
ever quarrel it is only over their rubber of whist,
or over their rouge et noir table. The reason why
the Government chose to be so inexorable against
this harmless nezt of night crows was that some was
bethought himself of sticking up on the walls of the
drawing-room O'Donnell'sproclamation to his troops
at the time of the military insurrection at Vicalvaro
in June, 1854, simply substituting Prim's name in-
stead of O'Donnell's,—a piece of cutting satire, no
doubt, as Prim's movement at the present juncture
is neither more nor less than a parody on the cavalry
exploit -which removed the Satorius Ministry from
the Queen's Council. The deeds are alike, almost
identical. The Queen, it is said, seems to have
been struck with the analogy between the Aranjuez
mutiny and the Vicalvaro rebellion, as upon the
Minister laying before her the decree by which
Prim is declared a traitor, and as such deprived of
all ranks, titles, and honours with which he had
been loaded, she positively refused to put to it her
signature, or "rubric," observing to the Minister

that " she had been made to sign precisely such a
document against one who was called the traitor
O'Donnell 11 years ago,—an act which did not
prevent the same O'Donnell exercising supreme
power over the country and over herself for years
and years afterwards." It is not impossible that
her Majesty's reluctance may have been overcome,
as it is said the decree in question is now in the
press.

That Prim is a monster of ingratitude ; that he
has forgotten how the Queen raised him to the
highest rank in the army, lavished all orders and
decorations upon him, made him a grandee of Spain
of the first class, created him Conde de Reus, and
Marques de los Castillejos, and finally did him the
honour, hardly ever vouchsafed to a subject, of
holding his infant daughter at the baptismal font,
thereby contracting spiritual kinship with him ;
that O'Donnell showed himself clement and mag-
nanimous with him by cancelling the decree which
had banished him to Oviedo ; and that he has re-
quited both his Sovereign and his military superior
by a treason of the blackest that we learn
from the official papers, which finds no words adequate
to convey their detestation of the war, and think
no gallows could be sufficiently high to hang him.
There is no doubt that, independent of any justice
or injustice of this cause, Prim will have to answer
for the rashness with which ho committed himself
to an enterprise which, as it would now appear, held
out so little hope of success, and the result of which
will be to force back his country for a year or two
in that career of financial and social improvement
on which she was so slowly and painfully struggling
to put herself. The consternation and confusion of
all men
here is beyond all belief, and hardly seems
commensurate with the actual importance of the
escapade Which has given rise to it. The effect of
the mutiny of those few squadrons on 'Change, on
railway and canal enterprise, on public confidence
in any kind of undertaking, is incalculable. Never
have I seen the commercial men, who are numerous
at my hotel, so downcast as they' have been for the
last three days.

On the other hand, the Governments itself, even
in the midst of its triumph, hardlyseems able to re-
cover any of that calmness and serenity in which,
in other communities, resides the main prestige of
the ruling powers. The O'Donnell Ministry are
or
affect to be, in a most inconceivable " funk."Luse
the vulgar word purposely, because nothing can
better convey the craven countenance the Govern-
ment has put upon the matter of the Prim rebellion,
both
.before and after its outbreak. The terror be-
trayed by the authorities is altogether so abject that
it might almost seem to be a counterfeit, and one
finds it difficult to reject the suggestions of those who
think that " O'Donnell has some reason for pretend-
lago b
to so much afraid that he is looking for a pre-
text for backing out of the liberal policy with which
he had
inaugurated his accession to power, that he
aims at the
assumptionnil of absolute, irresponsible
authority, or, n
,that he wishes to throw dismay
and bewilderment into
the mind of the ueen, and
to terrify her into that
hitherto shown herself abdication to which she has
so little inclined. Why,

THE GALES.

WooLwicn, Wednesday.

The damage done to the G pavilion of the new
Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, as stated in The Sun
on Tuesday, by the gales was found on •samination
yesterday to be very serious. The roof is completely
shattered, the stoves at each end of the ward are
smashed by the falling of the rubbish, the gas fittings
broken down, the beams and purlins, 12 in. thick,
are broken asunder, and the pavilion, which was
ready for the reception of invalids, presents a re-
markable scene of devastation and ruin. During
the whole of yesterday and the previous day the
slates and remnants of the roof were blown about,
in all directions, falling on and destroying the glass-
covered ways, and rendering it a matter of danger
to approach the building. The long iron fence was
propped up with balks to afford security to the public
along the highway adjoining, and the building was
inspected by a special committee of officers from the
War Department in London, to propose measures
for making good the damage with all possible speed.
HULL, Wednesday.

The gales of Monday and yesterday swept with
great violence along the Humber, and considerable
damage to shipping was the result. Some of the
smaller ferry steamers ceased running and took
shelter in the docks, and for a time all communica-
tion with the vessels in the roadstead was cut off.
Yesterday a mussel dredger, named the Venus, the
property of her captain, Mr. C. Smith, of Grimsby,
left Hull forthe former port. Although warned not to
leave the dock with such a sea running the warning
was not heeded, and before the Venus got half way
to Grimsby she was struck by a sea which swept her
decks and carried her captain overboard. The ves-
sel was at once hove to and every effort was made
to save the unfortunate man, but he was carried
away by the rapidly ebbing tide and drowned. On
Monday evening a Grimsby cod smack, with a crew
of three men, and five apprentices of various ages,
sprang a leak at sea. The captain made for the
Humber, which he only gained in time to save him-
self and crew, for his vessel suddenly went down on
the Trinity Sand at the mouth of the Humber. The
crew at once took to the small boat, and after many
narrow escapes they landed at Patrington on the
Yorkshire bank of the river, from which place they
were forwarded to their homes by the agent of the
Shipwrecked Fishermen's Society. The crew only
saved the clothes they wore, and when they landed
they were entirely destitute.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.

It appears that in the case of the schooner Sin-
gapore, lost on Taylor's Bank, at the mouth of the
Mersey on Tuesday, the captain flatly refused the
assistance of a steam-tug at a time when it is more
than probable that with such help he could have
saved his ship. The matter will, however, be venti-
lated at the Board of Trade inquiry, which will be
held in due course. The screw steamer Palestine,
which sailed for Boston and New York on Dec. 23,
has put into Queenstown short of coal and with loss
of bulwarks, but there is apparently no further da-
mage. The Palestine meantime returns to Liver-
pool for coal and repairs, and will probably be able
to proceed on her voyage again in the course of a
few days.

WEYMOUTH, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
'The weather remains still very boisterous in this
neighbourhood. The barometer continued to fall
during last night and to-day, and reads as low as
29.12 inches at the level of the sea. The Wey-
mouth and Channel Islands steamer Aquila, Capt.
Brache, arrived in Weymouth harbour at 3 p.m.
to-day, being nearly 24 hours after her usual time,
she having experienced such heavy weather between
Jersey and Guernsey yesterday morning that the
captain deemed it advisable to remain at Guernsey
until the wind moderated. The Aquila again put
to sea this morning at 6 30, and after a very rough
and squally passage succeeded in reaching port at
the above time. Several vessels have put into Port-
land harbour again to-day with, generally, damage
to bulwarks, 'boats, and sails from the heavy winds
and seas experienced in the Channel. The Coast-
guard have again hoisted the storm signal drum, by
orders from the Board of Trade, in anticipation of
more gales, and there seems every probability at
present of a verification of the warning signal. The
wind is strong from W.N.W., with frequent flashes
of lightning in the S.E., which is, doubtless, a pre-
cursor of another stormy night in the Channel.

SCOTLAND.

The steamer Zanthe, which arrived at Greenock
from Islay on Tuesday, reports having towed into
the Sound of Islay the bark Flornia, of and from
Ardrossan ; fell in with her off the Mull of Cantyre.
The bark bad lost all sails except foresail and main-
topsail, and the crew were partly disabled. The
captain of the bark reports having passed a water-
logged vessel. The crew were on the poop making
signs for assistance, but he could render them none.
Their own boats seemed to have been carried away.
The Zanthe reports that there were four barks and
one brig at anchor off the lighthouse at the north
entrance to the Sound of Mull, all having sustained
damage in sails, &c. A brig is lying in Laggan
Bay, anchored about 400 yards from the rocks.
The crew, except three, are disabled. The Islay
steamer offered to tow her to a safe place, but the
offer was declined. The following vessels had put
back to Greenock :--The Malestris, Brown, bound
from Greenock to Porto Rico, with loss of topmasts,
bulwarks, and jibboom, and other damage ; and
the Sapphire, Liverpool trader, bound from Green-
ock to Liverpool, with bowsprit carried away.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's store ship Gladiator, with supplies
for the fleet on the coast of Ireland, from Devon-
port, was compelled to put into Falmouth for shel-
ter on Monday afternoon, owing to the westerly
winds and severe weather. She remains there.

The Reindeer, screw corvette, the only wooden
vessel under construction at Chatham Dockyard, is
ordered to be completed and ready for launching by
the ensuing month of March. She will be armed
with a few heavy guns.instead of an armament of 17
guns she was originally designed to carry. In order
to enable her to mount the heavy ordnance intended,
she has been constructed with considerably greater
Strength than any previous wooden ship, angle iron
being worked into her timbers, and her bulkheads
of iron.

The sailing ship Ganges, 20, fitted for a training
ship for boys, was put in commission yesterday
at Devonport, for duty at Falmouth. The
boys brought from the eastward by the paddlewheel
steam-vessel Medusa, Commander Thomas Potter,
have been transferred to the Ganges.
The screw steam corvette Archer, 13, Capt. Fran-
cis Marten, from the West Coast of Africa, which
arrived on Tuesday, continues in Plymouth Sound,
waiting the appointment by the Lords of-the Admi-
ralty of the eastern port at which her crew will be
paid off. The following is a list cf the officers and
men belonging to her who have died of yellow fever
between the Bth October and the 24th December,
1865 :—Mr. W. C. Couzens, master's assistant, died
October 18 ; Mr. L. J. Potter, clerk, 26th ; Mr. F.
Sugden, assist.-paymaster, 30th ; Mr. W. C. Cole,
acting sub-lieutenant, November 2 ; Mr. John Stott,
assist.-surgeon, 6th ; and Mr. John Turner, second
master, December 18 ; John Lynch, leading sea-
man, October 8 ; John Nicholson, private, Royal
Marine Light Infantry, 28th ; John M'Donald,
colour sergeant, Nov. 3 ; Joseph Hutchings, A. 8.,
10th ; Frederick Balls, first-class boy, 13th ; John
Wilson, warrant officers' servant, 17th ; John
Donaghue, captain's servant, 13th ; James Bicknell,
30th ; Charles Mortley, A.S., 30th ; George Col-
lins, captain of the afterguard, December 2 ;
George Timbury, A. 8., sth ; Edward Clark, U.S.,
20th ; Ralph Whittle, leading stoker, 20th ; and
Henry Brown, first-class boy, 24th.
An order has been received at Chatham garrison
directing Capt. Howes, Royal Engineers, under or-
ders to proceed to Ireland, to be attached to the staff
of the department of the Commanding Royal Engi-
neer at Chatham. Lieut. Hogg, Royal Engineers,
has received orders to proceed from head-quarters
to Devonport, there to join the Commanding Royal
Engineer's department at that station.
Capt. Morton P. Eden, adjutant of the Ist division

Ensign Longford, 2d battalion 13th Regiment,
has received orders to join the depot of the corps at
Chatham. The order for Lieut. Hawks to join his
regimental depot has been cancelled, and he is now
directed to proceed to join his service companies.
The Fox, screw storeship, Staff-Commander F.
Moriarty, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from Plymouth Sound, and at high tide was admitted
into the steam basin to discharge stores. She has
received some damage to her starboard fore chain-
plates.
The Rev. Mr. Kirkwood has reported his arrival
at Colchester as officiating Presbyterian chaplain to
the troops, vice Rev. Mr. Cannon, transferred to
Shorncliffe.
Capt. Isdell, of the 44th Regiment, has assumed
the command of the troops at Landguard Fort,
Harwich, vice Capt. Caldecott, of the 38th, who
has received leave of absence.
The anchors received at Woolwich from the
Northfield iron and steel works at Rotherham, in
Yorkshire, and manufactured on Capt. Rodger's
intended small palmed principle, have been submit-
ted to a severe test under the hydraulic press. The
last was proved yesterday in the presence of the au-
thorities of the yard. They are intended for service
on board the Indian transport vessel Crocodile, and
all endured a strain of 56 per cent, higher than that
prescribed by the Admiralty regulations. They were
thus tested at the specialrequest of Capt.Rodger,who
was prevented from being in attendance by severe
indisposition. The elongation of the arms, or the
greatest variation of angle, when the strain was on
was five-eighths of an inch, and when the machinery
was slackened they regained their usual form,
showing no permanent set, which was highly satis-
factory. Before their removal from Rotherham the
anchors were fire tested in the presence of one of
the foremen smiths sent down from Woolwich for
that purpose. The test is consequently completed,
and they will be retained in the yard until the com-
pletion of the Crocodile for sea. The whole of the
expenses attending the testing, &c., will be borne in
the account of Messrs. Wigram, the contractors.
The Scorpion's anchors, supplied by the same firm,
are expected at Woolwich also to undergo a similar
proof.
Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8., and Mr. F. Malla-
lien, Chief Commissioner and Inspecting Superin-
tendent of Police, paid their half-yearly visitation
of Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, and inspected
the men's quarters, &c. Sir Richard was accom-
panied by his son, Capt. Mayne. They were re-
ceived by Commodore Dunlop, C. 8., and made a
tour of the departments of the yard, visiting the
Prince Albert steam turret ship, the Sylvia, and
other vessels under construction and repair. Capt.
Mayne, who has been appointed to the command of
the surveying vessel Nassau, now building at Pem-
broke, took a special interest in the inspection of
the Sylvia, sister vessel to the Nassau, and which is
to be fitted out in a superior manner for surveying
purposes, with chart-room on deck and all the
modern appliances. They also inspected the cap-
stan house, joiners' shop, &c., and visited some pat-
terns there. The visit to the Royal Arsensal was
necessarily deferred.

Captain Shaw's Last Annual Return of
Fires for 1865.

Yesterday Captain Shaw, the late Superintendent
of the London Fire Brigade, and at present the Chief
of the new Metropolitan Fire-brigade, issued his last
annual return of fires to the committee of the late
London Fire-engine establishment, for 1865.
The report states inter alia that, in pursuance of
instructions received from the committee for ma-
naging the London Fire-engine Establishment, Cap-
tain Shaw had the honour tolay before it the report
of fires of 1865 :
The total number of calls during the year has been
1,727. Of these 99 were false alarms, 126 proved to
be only chimney alarms, and 1,502 were fires of
which 512 resulted in serious damage of buildings,
&c., and 990 in slight damage.
" The fires of 1865 compared with those of 1861
show an increase of 15, and compared with the
average of the last 32 years the increase is 641.
" I have appended several classified tables, with
particulars of trades, &c., including the causes, &c.
"These lists do not include trifling damages by
fires not sufficiently important to require the attend-
ance of firemen, neither do they include ordinary
calls for chimneys on fire.
" Our list of casualties, 46, is as usual above that
of the preceding year. This ispartly to be accounted
for by the increase in the number of fires, but it is
in a great measuredue to the fearlessness and enter-
prise of the men in thedischarge of their duty. Suc-
cess in extinguishing fires cannot be attained with-
out a certain amount of risk, and so long as the
work is done as at present no diminution can be
expected in this item. I have received from the sur-
geon of the constabulary a detailed report, from
which the following is an extract :
" There have been 130 cases of illness, totally in-
capacitating the men from duty, against 133 for the
year 1864. Of this number' 46 have arisen from ac-
cidents, being an increase of 5 upon the previous
year, being 84 cases arising from ordinary sickness,
but being a decrease of 8.
"It is my painful duty torecord four deaths from
natural causes during the present year—an event
unprecedented in the annals of the establishment.
" In addition to these, accidents from cuts and
lacerated wounds, contusions, fractures, sprains, and
scalds, and injury to eyes, making the total number
46. During the past year all ranks have conducted
themselves to my entire satisfaction, not only giving
renewed proofs of that energy and fearlessness of
which it has been my duty to report favourably every
year, but also showing an improvement in the more
important attributes of their profession—prompti-
tude of action, unity of purpose, and above all, that
combination of coolness, steadiness, energy, skill,
and judgment which can alone enable men to cope
with great emergencies.
" It must be satisfactory to the committee, on
parting with a body of men in whom he has always
taken so great an interest, to know that the liberal
policy which they have pursued towards them has
led to this result. Before this report has reached
the hands of the committee, the London Fire-engine
Establishment, which has existed for 33 years, will
have passed over from the Fire Insurance Companies
to the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the title
of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade ; and it would be
idle to deny that this change has been and still con-
tinues to be a cause of grave anxiety to me and
those who served with me ; but I may at least be
permitted to express a hope that so long as the
force retains those qualities which have gained your
approval, thew may stand well in the estimation of
their new masters. (Signed) "E. M. SHAW."
The following was also issued yesterday by Mr.
Sampson La w, the Secretary of the Royal Society
for the Protection of Life from Fire, of the fires at-
tended and the number of lives saved during the
year 1865 :—During that period 706 fires were at-
tended by the fire-escape conductors, as the stations,
now numberingBs, are located at half-mile distances
from each other all over London. This number of
fires represents pretty closely the number of night
fires that have occurred in London during the year.
The fire-escape conductors rescued 67 persons by
means of their fire-escapes, besides which service,
rendered great assistance in many cases to persons
who would otherwise have incurred considerable
danger of suffocation, and likewise have acted as an
auxiliary to the fire brigade, in enabling them to
direct the hose of the engines from the summit of
the fire-escapes whenever required.

One notable instance of an extra service, ren-
dered by one of the conductors, is worthy of recall-
ing, that of the rescue of 178 men, women, and
children from the falling building at Westminster
on the 26th of January, all being assisted down the
fire-escape and order being restored—all by the
exertions of one man.

The whole force at present numbers 100 strong,
the cost of the establishment continuing at the
charge of the Royal Society until the Metropolitan
Board of Works are in a position to undertake it.
The report next refers to the number of lives
saved, and the premises in which the fires took place,
without referring to those cases where the services
rendered by the escapes were not of such a character
as to come under the character of " lives actually
saved."

The following is the quarterly return of lives
saved :—" Fires attended up to March 31, 171; lives
saved, 11. June 30, fires, 176 ; lives saved, 8.
September, fires, 197 ; lives saved, 29. December
31, fires, 162 ; lives saved, 19.
The report also gives some interesting particulars

of how persons were brought out of burning build-
ings owing to the instrumentality of the conductors
and the escapes.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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NORTH LONDON.

An extraordinary general meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at the offices, Euston Sta-
tion Mr. Bancroft in the chair.

Mr. Mansel, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said the only business for which
they had met was to authorise the directors to bor-
row under the powers of the North London Rail-
way Widening Act, 1861, on mortgage or bond
£33,300 ; and under section 9 of the North Lon-
don Railway Act, 1865, the sum of £lOO,OOO, or
any portion of the respective sums mentioned. He
then moved a formal resolution to that effect.

Mr. HARTRIDGE snpposed they had power to raise
money on shares as well as on bonds. He thought
it was a suitable time to issue stock, and unless they
could raise money on bonds at less than 5 per cent.
it would be better to issue stock which was at a pre-
mium than to raise money on bonds at a high rate
of interest. He wished to know whether the direc-
tom were at liberty to issue stock in place of bonds,
or whether they were actually compelled to raise
the whole sum on bonds.

The CHAIRMAN said, under the notice, the power
of the meeting was limited to authorising the rais-
ing of money on bonds ; but the company had
power to raise the money they required on share
capital. If they found it difficult to raise the money
at a reasonable rate on bonds it would be a ques-
tion for the Board to consider whether they should
issue stock in place of the bonds ; but they hoped
to borrow the money under 5 per
,cent—say at 41
per cent. The ordinary general meeting would
soon be held, and, if necessary, the directors could
raise the requisite money on share capital instead of
on bonds ; bat he apprehended no difficulty in that
respect. The present meeting could only authorise
the exercise of the borrowing powers as proposed.

Mr. HARTRIDGE called the attention Of the direc-
tors to the delays that frequently occurred in work-
ing the traffic on their line between Broad-street
and Bow. He took an interest in the working
of the line in a public point of view, as well as being
a shareholder. He often travelled on the line, and
he believed the traffic on it between Bow andßroad-
street was worked most injuriously to the interests
of the company. A delay of half-an-hour sometimes
occurred, which, he thought, by some better mode
of working, might be avoided.
The CHAIRBIAN said they had been in a transition
state since they opened the branch to Broad-street.
The traffic on the line from Broad-street to Bow
had recently increased considerably, and he was as-
sured that the present arrangements for working the
traffic were the onlypracticable ones they could make.
Mr. ONYON thought it would be injurious to go to
the expense of widening the line for the accommoda-
tion of the London and North Western Company's
traffic until the latter company had built their in-
tended goods station in Broad-street.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that the goods station
would be of no use in Broad-street until the North
London Railway was widened to carry the traffic to
it. They were bound to widen the line to accommo-
date the London and North Western traffic to and
from the Broad-street station, and he believed their
interests were similar in that respect.
The motion was then adopted, and a vote of
thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.