The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

M. KOSSUTH AT MANCHESTER.

On Saturday evening, M. Kossuth addressed an
assembiage of about three thousand persons, in the
Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the present state of
Continental Europe. The Rev. Dr. M'Kerrow presided,
and there were present Mr. Kershaw, M.P., lq.r.
Absalom Watkins, and other gentlemen of influence.
The present had been announced as one of his Excel-
lency's addresses to the working classes.

Ni. KOSSUTH was received with several bursts of cheer-
ing. He said the late war was over, the dead were buried,
the Te Deums were chanted, and the French ambassador,
the illegitimate brother of the not very legitimate Empe-
ror of the French, now married a Russian princess.
(Laughter.) What people among the nations was the
better for all this ? If any man could say, be ought to
change places with the present lecturer, for he must know
more of invisible mysteries than he (M. Kossuth) could
tell. (Hear.) The " famous victory" of Blenheim was not
more futile than the famous victory at Sebastopol.
Turkey was now the "sick man" indeed. Europe in ge-
neral was substantially in the same state as before the war.
That struggle offered the elements of a mighty drama of
destiny, but it had been allowed to degenerate into a mere
episode of diplomacy. To estimate the political system of
continental Europe we must recur to the acts of spoliation
which followed the success of the continental league
against Napoleon. The pacification of Europe was effected
on the principle that the constables who catch the thief
have a right to divide the stolen goods for their own bene-
fit. (Hear.) The Holy Alliance was based on two princie
ples—that princes reigned solely by right of divine dele-
gation, not by the will of the people ; and that they were
bound in copartnership, or a sort of " mutual assurance
company," to aid each other in keeping down the people.
The coalitions subsidised by England to pull down the
autocrat of the continent resulted in a conspiracy to
exterminate constitutional freedom throughout Europe,
and the history of the last forty years bad exemplified
the operation of the execrable principles of the treaties of
1815. He might congratulate the British people that
the working of their constitution bad prevented this nation
being enlisted under the same banner as the other great
powers, even when the propensities of her rulers were in
that direction. It was an historical fact that George IV.,
in October, 1815, wrote to the Emperor of Austria that
he entirely concurred in the principles of the Holy Alli-
ance treaty, but that this must be understood merely as
his private opinion, since the forms of the British coesti-
tution would not allow him formally to accede to that
compact. (Applause.) But England, as afirst-rate power,
had scarcely acted up to her mission, for there was an
immense difference between passive dissent from wrong
and active opposition to it. George Canning, indeed, had
nobly maintained the principle that every nation had a
right to choose its own rulers, and that no nation should
interfere with the exercise of such freedom in another.
Before Canniog's attitude of resistance to injustice the
uplifted arm of united despotisms went down powerless.
England was saved from war, and retained her pre-
eminence. Oh that Canning had lived to 1849. (Cheers )
Then, not all the Czars in the world had dared to molest
Hungary ; that nation had been preserved independent,
and England would not have been under the costly ne-
cessity of entering on the recent struggle. (Hear.)
Hungary would have been a far safer bulwark than
Austria against Russian encroachment, for Austria was
under treaty with Russia for a partition of Turkey.
(Hear.) He was unable, in a brief lecture, to give many
details of the policy of Europe, but he would endeavour
to show the connection between British interests and
those of European liberty. He would merely say, in
, passing, that each of the struggling nationalities bad
singly been successful until interfered with by neigh-
bouring enemies to liberty, and that in the case of Hun-
gary, Russia as well as Austria would have been de-
feated but for internal treachery in the ranks of the
patriots. (Hear, hear.) At present, however, the
joint-stock company of despotism, strengthened by the
I accession of a new accomplice in the parvenu Emperor
of the French, was more flourishing than before the late
war commenced. The French Emperor's object in the
late war had been his recognition as a member of the
Holy Alliance, and when that was gained he was
willing to make peace. The present plots against
continental Europe had been disturbed by the after-
dinner freak of the King of Prussia, threatening an
attack on Switzeriand, but that had ended in smoke.
Most joyful was he (M. Kossuth) that the Swiss had
maintained an attitude of such dignity and firmness.
(Great cheering.) To complete his picture of con-
tinental Europe he need not enlarge on the sufferings
of the people. The theme was sufficiently familiar to
us, and it was wide as the world. Nations were denied
their rights, man was denied his rights inherited from
nature's God, moral personality was denied to a civilised
age, and society was writhing in the agony of an unna-
tural condition. It was treason to love one's country;
it was death to defend its rights. The very prayer for
justice and retribution was a crime, and the sigh of an•
guish an unpardonable offence. There was no escape
from the scaffold or the prison for patriotism except by
silent degradation or by exile. In fact, the homeless
' victims of oppression had increased in number to a new
nation—the nation of exiles. Just as the children of
Israel were scattered in expiation of national guilt, so
was the nation of exiles scattered over the face of the
earth in expiation of the crime of loving their country,
while purpled ambition walked with dilated front, trium-
phant in succenful crime. A distinction was made be-
tween private and public morality. Even where power
was not sullied by immorality, it was sullied by burning
the incense of propitiation before the golden calf of suc-
cessful 'crime. (Hear.) And, forsooth, by way of com-
passion for so many evils, mankind was urged into a
putrid swamp of gross, corrupt materialism, which poi-
soned the root of our humanity, and poisoned whatever
was noble and divine in the human soul. The lesson to
he drawn from the present state of things was twofold.
First, that Europe was on the eve of a great political
crisis, because its condition was too abnormal and unna-
tural to last. Men might talk of peace who were com-
fortably seated on the lap of freedom, with plenty of
money to boot ; bat it was heart-revolting, absurd, and
unjust to expect that the oppressed nations would take
the moon for green cheese, Oppression was not peace;
security to the elaveholder was a curse to the slave.
Tranquillity to:tyrants was desolation to the peoples ;
therefore the second part of the lesson was that revolu-
tion, and revolution alone, nothing else, could emancipate
Europe from the infernal coalition of despots. If there
were any man present who could point out, from the
records of history, an instance of one nation which has
succeeded in wringing liberty from the fangs of despot-
ism, otherwise than by a revolution, let him stand up
and give the lie to him (.11. Kossuth), while he entreated
them to trace the will of God revealed in history, that
nations willing to be free must strike the blow for it, or
must remain enslaved. (Cheers.) There were people who
would make us believe that, were it not for the restless-
ness of a score or two of agitators, all would go smooth,
and the world patiently abide the time when despots
would of their own accord fall in love with liberty. It
was absolute nonsense. Mere restlessness of spirit might
cause riots and coups d'etat, but revoiutions were the
chileren of necessi,y. M. Kossuth concluded with his
often-repeated and eloquent appeal to the British people
to maintain the principle of non-intervention in the com-
ing crisis, and foretold a hopeful issue. The problem of
the future was reduced to the stability of one man—Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte—who was a dictator to the despots
at this moment, because they feared the free France that
would come after him. (tTheers.) He (M. Kossuth) had
never lost faith in the instability of success founded on
crime ; and he concludes) by the assurance that "Hu
inanity expected every Englishman to do his duty by
freedom in the coming crisis." (Great cheering.)
The proceedings concluded with a resolution sympa-
thising .vith the lecturer, and repudiating English alli-
ances with despotism against liberty.

SIR ROBERT PEEL .AND THE PRINCE

DE LIGINE.

(From the Press.)
BRUSSELS, JAN. 21.

On Monday, the 19th, a numerous deputation of the
English residents at Brussels, naval, military, and civi-
lian, waited upon the Prince de Ligne at his hotel in the
Rue Royale, to declare their reprobation of the personal
vulgarities uttered by Sir R. Peel against the Prince in
his disreputable speech at Birmingham. The deputatio❑
expres-ed a hope that the offence would be judged by
him to be—as it was, in fact—an isolated ebullition of
low breeding, highly displeasing to the English of all
parties, and which the unanimous censure of the Angli-
can press had placed in its true light—as unbecoming a
gentleman. A deep regret was also signified that the
nobleman selected by the King of the Belgians to ne his
special ambassador at the coronation of the Queen of
England in 1838, and lately deputed in the same.capa
city to the Emperor of Russia, should have met with an
insult from an Englishman, utterly unprovoked, and
couched in terms unknown to the language and to the
sentiments of honourable.

The Prince de Ligne, in warm terms, acknowledged
the compliments paid him by the deputation, and ob-
served-

"Gentlemen, believe me that I am most grateful for
this your spontaneous act of courtesy and goodwill ; and
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warrantably made upon me by Sir Robert P-el. I con-
jure you tobe persuaded that I do not suffer the dis-
pleasure I may experience at this low-bred indigt iy to
affect for one instant the high respect and sincere regard
long and cordially entertained by me for England and
the English. The coarse verbiage adopted by Sir R.
Peel to revile me belongs only to a sot (irro,gne) and a
blackguard (gamin), and as such I regard it with proper
contempt ; but, without seeking that personage, should
chance ever place me in unpalatable contact with hits, I
shall not hesitate to say that his conduct towards me
has been that of an underbred good-for-nothing (mal
eleve et vaurien), And now, gentlemen, on my, part, I
have to express my sorrow and extreme displeasure that
any countrymen of mine, and. without my authority,
should have used this untoward circurnstanCe as a reason
to offer you the incivility of refusing your admission to
the bal noble. Such conduct on their part appertains to
that category of social offences which we have had once
sion to deplore. I have been greatly pained at such
illbred and unworthy conduct. Allow me, gentlemen,
to say that out of this unpleasant occurrence i have, at
any rate, derived the pleasure of your personal acquain-
tance, and of being able, in returning you my hearty
thanks for your considerate attention, publicly to testify
my constant and. ardent regard for your country, its
inhabitants, and its instittitions."

" Eliza, my child," said an qld dame to her pretty niece
who would curl her hair in beautiful ringlets, " if the
Creator had intended your hair to be curled, he would
have done it himself."—" So he did, aunty, when I was
a baby, but he thinks I am big enough now to curl it
myself."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 24.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
WALKER V. SLEIGH.

Mr. Edwin James, Q C., moved for a rale to show
cause why an order made by Mr. Justice Crompton
should not be rescinded, and why the above cauees
should not be tried at the next sittirgi. The plaintiff
had purchased of the defendant a publication called the
British Army Dispatch, and the action was brought to
recover back the purchase money, 1,1001., on the ground
of misrepresentation of its value. Before the cause came
on for trial it was compromised on the defendant agree-
ing to pay 506/. by instalments and on certain other
terms ; these terms, the learned counsel now stated, the
defendant bad ♦iolated. The first instalment had be-
come due, but was not paid ; and when the officer went
to arrest Colonel Sleigh he produced a protection from
the Insolvent Court, which would expire on the 24th of
February, by which time the defendant expected to be
member for Greenwich. This was a gross breach of
faith, and might have the effect of defeating the plain-
tiff's remedy.
The Court granted a rule to show cause. '

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley.)
IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.

Mr. Glasse (with whom was Mr. W. D. Lewis), on
behalf of the official manag&r, said that the case of Mr.
Kirkman and 73 other shareholders related to a charge
of alleged fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of
the directors, or some of them, on the occasion of the
purchase of shares. The que tion had been raised at
law as between the shareholders and creditors, but here
it was as between the shareholders inter se.
The Vice-Chancellor said that the chief clerk's view
was that, although there might be misrepresentation,
still that did not prevent liability as contributories. If
the evidence was- gone into on such fraud there might
be a considerable time taken up and expense incurred,
and that appeared to his Honour to be the most reason•
able course to adopt, more particularly in the absence
of Mr. Selwyn, who appeared for the 73 shareholders.
Mi. Glasse said that he mentioned the matter with
the assent of Mr. Selwyn's clients.

The Vice-Chancellor said that, from what took place
in chambers, it appeared to him that it was contended
on the part of the shareholders that he ought not to de-
termine the abstract question at present, but the official
manager contended that he ought to do so.
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EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. `
THE QUEEN V. W. BAYLEY AND ANOTHER.

The prisoners were indicted for manslaughter. The
chief evidence against the prisoners was the dying decla-
ration of the deceased, who stated that he believed he
should not recover, and the surgeon stated that it was
impossible he could do so ; but a constable stated that
he saw him shortly before the declaration, and the de-
ceased said to him that the surgeon had given him some
hope, but he did not himself believe that he could recover
ultimately. He died two days afterwards. The counsel
for the prisoners submitted that the deceased having
stated that the surgeon had given him some hopes, the
declaration could not be received. Mr. Justice Wines
received the declaration, but reserved the point for the
consideration of this Court. The prisoners were found
guilty.

Mr. Digby Seymour submitted that there was not here
such a complete apprehension of death as to make the
evidence admissible.
The Chief Baron was of opinion that the conviction
was right. The real belief of the man wai the question,
and here he had said that, notwithstanding the opinion
of the surgeon, be believed be could not recover.

Mr. Baron Martin said it was a question for the judge
at the trial, and not for this Court.

The other judges concurred.
Conviction confirmed.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

THE CASE OF MR. DILLON OF THE LYCEUM THEATRE.
IN RE CHARLES JAMES DILLON.

At the rising of the Court Mr. Parry, an actor, made
an application to Mr. Commissioner Phillips in the case
of Mr. Dillon, of the Lyceum Theatre, who was heard
uhder the Protection Act, and agreed to pay into court
501. a year for his creditors.
Mr. Commissioner Phillips inquired the position of
the case, and the reason of the application.
Mr. Parry said Mr. Dillon was in prosperous circum•
stances, and should be required to keep up his payments.
He had heard that 13/. had been paid into court.
The officer of the court (Mr. Ingpen) informed the
learned commissioner that Mr. Dillon had paid 381. into
court, and a dividend of ls. 4d. in the pound was about
to be declared and paid to the creditors. Mr. Dillon
was en ;aged at the Lyceum Theatre, and required time.
Mr. Parry remarked that Mr. Dillon was lessee of
the theatre.

Mr. Commissioner Phillips thought Mr. Dillon should
be summoned to show cause why be had not kept up
his payments. If he had not paid up he would be with-
out protection.

Mr. logpen mentioned that Mr. Dillon was at the
mercy of all his creditors, and in fact he had been served
with two writs.

Mr. Commissioner Phillips recommended the appli-
cant to take advice in the matter. He (the Commis.
sinner) was of opinion that the best course would be to
issue a summons on Mr. Dillon to attend the court, and
the matter would be then gone into,
Mr. Parry acquiesced in the suggestion, and it was
understood that the course recommended would be
adopted.

TAE SAMARITAN INSTITUTION.

THE DEFENCE.-THE CONCLUSION OF THE
INQUIRY.

On Saturday, Mr. Surr Ed ward Pack Barber, the
Secretary to the Samaritan Institution, appear-3d before
Sir R. W. Carden, in answer to several charges of ob•
taining goods under false pretences with intent to
defraud Messrs. Hoare and Co., of Lower East &lath-
field ; Messrs. Manners and Wells, of Whiteobapel ;
Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, of Reading ; and Messrs.
Ponsferd and Co., of the City Flour Mills, Blackfriars.
The evidence on the part of the defence, on this
occasion, was of a similar nature to that oared
previously, viz., to prove that beer was served at the
dinner of 1855.
Mr. Sleigh addressed the bench in support of the
prosecution, and brought his remarks to a conclusion.
Sir R. W. Carden said—The defendant is charged
with obtaining goods by false pretences with intent to
defraud, and it appears from the evidence that be as
secretary to the Samaritan Institution, in the month of
December, 1855, wrote letters to Messrs. Hoare and
Co., and other gentlemen, soliciting contributions. for a
dinner to be given to the poor on Christmas-day, and I
will read the part of one of those letters which appears
to me to be material to the charge :

gg Samaritan Institution, Victoria-street,
Farringdon-street, Dec., 1855.

" Gentlemen,--The Committee of this Institution pur-
pose giving thes6uos.,utaol
tChheridstemsiatostodipnonoe of roast beef,
plum of
theatyeeof,f
PLlounmdopriu,dadnuidgearuestly solicit the favour of a contribu-
tion, either in food or money, towards that laudable ob-
ject."

It will be observed that the defendant did not apply
specifically for beer, biscuits, or flour, but only fur a con-
tribution either in food or money towards the (Daher.
It appears that, in consequence of those letters, certain
contributions, consisting of beer, biscuits, and flour,
were suit by several benevolent individuals to the insti
tution, and it is clear upon the evidence, and from the
defendant's own letters, that such contributions were
received, as also that the donors intended those commo-
dities to be distributed to the poor people on Christmas-
day. It has been proved beyond dot.bt that a dinner
was provided for the poor at the institution on Christ-
mas-day, 1855 ; but it was equally clear, from the
evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution, that no
beer or biscuits were distributed to the poor at that
place on Christmas-day. The flour, or the greater por-
tion of it, may or may not have been used by the defen-
dant for the purposes of this dinner. On the other
hand, the defendant has produced witnesses who have
s ,orn that they did receive beer on that occasion ; that
a mug was placed before every man, woman, and child
present at the dinner, and that some biscuits were
exhibited rather as ornaments than otherwise. There
is not a doubt that a class of witnesses have been
called for the prosecution, as well as on behalf of
the defendant, upon whose testimony little or no
reliance can be placed. I am, however, impressed with
the fact, that five police constab es belonging to the
City and Metropolitan forces, who can have no interest
but to speak the truth, swear most distinctly that no
beer or biscuits were given to the poor on that occasion,
and that they never saw a mug on the table during the
day. I cannot help observing that no official of the
institution, or any one of the committee, or any of the
visitors who are proved to have been present at this
dinner, except, indeed, Mr. Langridge, the missionary,
whose evidence does not appear at all satisfactory to me,
have been called for the defence. They must have seen
whether beer or biscuits were distributed or not. The
conclusion I have formed from the evidence on this part
of the case is, that no beer or biscuits were given to the
poor people at this institution on Christmas-day, 1855,
and to that extent the intentions of the donors have not
been carried out by the defendant. The finance com-
mittee of this institution consists of ten gentlemen, and
I cannot lose sight of the circumstance that until to-day
only one of them has taken any interest in the proceed.
ings ; but sufficient has probably transpired during this
investigation to warrant them furnishing a full financial
statement to the subscribers. Indeed, from what ap-
pears before me, Mr. Barber seems to be the only official
connected with the institution, excepting perhaps Mr.
Horsley, who appeared before me in the first inste.nce as
representing the institution, and having performed his
duties in that respect, he next appears as advocate for
Mr. Barber, showing no ordinary zeal for his client,
alter which he was called as a witness by Mr. Barber's
counsel. Neither Mr. Horsley nor the other gentlemen
who had been called to-day could give any ititsrwation
as to what took place at the institution on Christmas-
day, 1855. In considering this case, I cannot fail to
observe that Mr. Potter, the gentleman who instituted
these proceedings, has taken no personal interest in the
matter. The course he has taken, no doubt with the
best intentions, was with the view of directing public
attention to this institution ; and whatever may be the
result of this inquiry, the investigation will have this
beneficial effect that it will direct the attention of sub-
scribers to public charities in general, and to this insti-
tution in particular, to the mode in which their con
trioutions are distributed. To that extent I consider
no doubt, receive the thanks of the public. It appears
Mr. Potter is deserving of great praise, and he will,
to me, also, somewhat important and fortunate for the
defendant that in the course of this case the parties from

whom the goods have been obtained have not preferred
any charge against him, and not any of these patties are
called as witnesses except Mr, Few, .)f
was strumoned on bebait of the prosecution. Tne quos
tions I have to consider here are whether these goods
were obtained by the defendant by false representations,
and with an intent to defraud. The misappropriation
of charitable funds or goods belonging to an institution
by their paid secretary or servant is certainly an indict
able offence, and punishable either as larceny or embrz•
zlement, but these are not the charges now before me.
I have devoted a great portion of time to the inve,.tiga;
tion and consideration of the present charge, and I may
have been subjected to some misapprehension in my
anxiety to arrive at the truth, amidst conflicting testi-
mony of the most painful description. Is is no part of
my duty to consider the consequences to the prosecutor
or the accused, but to determine impartially the legal
effect of the evidence on either side. To support a charge
of obtaining goods by false pretences it is not sufficient
to show that they have been obtained upon a fraudulent
promise to make a particular use of them hereafter.
Whatever, therefore, may be my opinion of the defend-
ant's conduct, and however deserving of reprobation it
may be, I do not think I should be justified in sending
him for trial on the charge before me. The defendant is
therefore dismissed.

This announcement wag received with a burst of un-
controLable applause, which the officers with some difi•
salty suppressed.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

KENDAL AND WINDERMERE.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Kendal on Thursday ; Mr. L. Heyvvortb, M.P., in the
chair.

The report stated that the directors had instituted a
most searching investigation into the accounts and divi-
dends of the company, and the result had confirmed their
previous persuasion that no money had been improperly
expended, and that the income and expenses of the com-
pany were legitimately and accurately stated. This in-
vestigation has enabled the directors to conclude that
the capital account may henceforth be considered closed,
and they direct attention to the fact that if the amount
invested in the hotel and houses at Wiedermere, as well
as the amount of land sold, be deducted from the ex-
penditure, it would be found that the cost of the line was
very little above 20,0001. per mile, including the whole
of the working plant and stations and extra sidings, as
well as the remainder of the land which the company
have still on band. The leading features of the revenue
ace unt are an increase of 2411. on the passengers and
2991; on goods and minerals, being a total increase of
5411. as compared with the corresponding half year of
1855. The working expenses have slightly decreased,
leaving the net balance of increase 4971. on the half-year,
the actual amount of theenet income being 2,138/. At
the last meeting it was decided to take from the income
one-third of the cost of the new engine, and two-thirds
from the reserved profits; consequently, 1,5381. was the
amount available for dividend for the past half-year. A
dividend of 2s. 6d. per share would leave 9801. to be
carried to the reserve fund. In Sept. last the Lancaster
and Carlisle Company intimated that it was their inten-
tion to "conduct their goods business with the town of
Kendal and neighbourhood at their 0 tenholtne station;"
in fact, to endeavour to appropriate to themselves the
goods traffic of the town. As the hoe had been
constructed by the consent and with the sanction
of the Lancaster and Carlisle Company, to serve as a
branch for that line to the town of Kendal, great expen-
diture having been incurred for that special purpose ;
and, moreover, as the company had formed its relations
for the conveyance of goods with other companies, the
directors did not feel authorised to surrender to another
company a large portion of the terminal charges the
Kendal Company were entitled to receive for collecting,
forwarding, and distributing the goods between Kendal
and other places, and collecting the charges upon those
goods. A proposal to refer the matter to arbitration was
refused, and in return an offer was made by the Lan-
caiter and Carlisle Company to give a certain fixed suns
as a rental for the Kendal and ‘Viodernsere line, which
the directors felt bound to decline. Ou the Ist Jan. the
Lancaster and Carlisie Company commenced its oppo-
sition to this company by carting goods down from
Oxenholme, and had stopped goods to the utmost extent
of its power. Under these circumstances the directors
appeal to the shareholders for their support. The expen-
diture on capital account amounted to 228,6781. The
traffic for the half-year ending the 31st Dec. amounted
to 7,3281., the expenses to 2,5021., and the interest on
debentures and pieference shares to 2,6871., leaving a
net balance of 2,1381. _

On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was
adopted, and Mr. E. ere wdssu was elected an auditor.
The meeting was then made special to consider a
notice sent by the Lancaster and Carlisle Company
their intention to terminate all through rates on and
after the Ist Jan., 1857.
After some discussion a resolution was passed autho-
rising the directors to submit the matter to arbitration,
if the Lancaster and Carlisle Company would agree to
that mode of settlement.

A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro•
ceedings.

EASTERN COUNTIES.

The attention of the Board of Trade has been called
by certain residents of Norwich to the partial disuse of
the Victoria station in that city. The terminus of the
Norfolk RAH way at Norwich is in Thorpe hamlet, while
that of the Eastern Union Railway (the Victoria) is in
St. Stephen's, a totally different part of the city. Since
the working ajeement was entered into between the
Eastern Counties and the Norfolk and Eastern Union
Companies the number of trains leaving and arriving at
the Victoria (Eastern Union) station has been greatly
diminished, a great portion of the traffic having been
diverted by a branch connecting the Norfolk and
Eastern Union lines with the Thorpe station. The
Board of Trade decline to interfere, as they consider
they have no means of giving effect to any order they
may make on the subject.