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.-enti) to allow the resolutions to pass in their original
form.

The special business being concluded, the original
meeting was resumed, and
Mr. A. THOM,ON (one of the directors) submitted
a resolution, of which he had given notice, to the effect
that no railway systematic traffic be carried on upon
the Aberdeen Railway on the Lord's day. He con-
tended that it was the interest of the company, as well
as that of the persons employed on the line, that the
latter should have rest from labour on the Sabbath.
Major CHRISTIE seconded the motion ; and, in
doing so, protested against the employment of the ser-
vants of the company on the Lord's day.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question, stated, that
the receipts from the Sunday mail trains during 26
weeks amounted to 5291., or 201. per week. He said
he held a large amount of proxies against Sunday
trains.

Mr. REDDISH contended that the Sabbath was ranch
better kept in England than in Scotland; and, with
regard to the question itself, he w as prepared to argue
it upon its merits, but he would refrain from doing
so. He believed the system of confining people to
their houses in Scotland during Sundays had a very
injurious effect on their morals. Tnere was more
drunkenness on that day than during the whole week.
It was found that great advantage to the working
classes in England had resulted from Sunday trains,
by which persons were enabled to go to church at a
distanci, from the town in which they resided and
toiled during the week-days. It required but little
labour to convey a large number of passengers on a
railway a considerable distance into the country.
After some observations, an amendment was carried
to the effect that the two mail trains be run as usual
on Sunday for the accommodation of first, second, and
third class passengers.
Mr. THOMSON renewed his motion for the next
meeting ; in consequence of which
Mr. REDDISH gave notice that he would move, at
the next meeting, that excursion trains be run on the
Sunday to accommodate the public.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the Chairman.

GREAT WESTERN.—This company's excursion
train on Sunday conveyed 600 persons out of Lon-
don to Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, and other places ;
and the same day's excursion train from various parts
of the west of England brought 1,350 persons in-
wards. The continuance of these trains is taken all a
practical reply on the part of the directors to the me-
morials from Oxford, Cheltenham, and Bath, and other
places on the subject of running excursion trains on
Sunday.
DEESIDE.— A committee of the landed proprietors
of the district has just been formed to make a preli-
minary inquiry into the expediency of constructing
this line, for which an Act of Parliament was obtained
in 1846 from Aberdeen to Banchory. The committee
have received a report from Messrs. Locke and Erring-
ton, the engineers,who state that they have examined the
line, that considerable saving may be effected in the pro-
posed original coat of construction, 300,0001., that
the earthworks may be reduced, and several bridges
be dispensed with, and that landowners for eleven
miles out of the sixteen to Banchory, the entire length
of the line through Kincardine being twenty-nine
miles, are disposed to give the land on favourable
terms.
LONDON ♦ND BRIGHTON.—The excursionists by
this company's pleasure-trains from London to Brigh-
ton on Tuesdays have averaged between 400 and 500
during the last six weeks, and those on Sundays be-
tween 600 and 800.

LIABILITY Or RAILWAY COMPANIII9.—The Judge
of the Lancashire County Court has adjudged the
East Lancashire Company to pay 2/. 9s. to $ farmer on
the line for damage done to his farm by the trespass
of passengers o❑ the occasion of a collision, besides
granting all other expenses.

SHIP NE WS.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 24.—Wind S.E. The brig Mar-
garet, of Whitehaven, outward-bound, was aground on
the North Batik this morning, but got off again. The
sloop Fifeshire, of Perth, was wrecked on the Burbo
Bunk on the 17th inst.; crew eased. The Abbotsford,
of Gloucester, from Newport for Quebec, was abandoned
at sea; crew saved.

The steamer Europa, hence, arrd. at New York, Oct.
10. The ship Agnes, of Dublin, from Quebec, was
abandoned, Sept. 16; crew saved. The wreck of the
Messenger, from St. John's, New Brunswick, for thia
port (burnt at sea, as before reported), has been towed
into,Sheep's Island, near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The
stgatmec A.tliantic,. from New York,' has arrived at this
port ; sld. Oct. 12.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind N.N.W., squally.
Arrd. her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, from Sydney, New
South Wales ; the King William IL, from Batavia for
Middlesborough; the Spermaceti, from Quehec.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind N.N.W., strong and
squally.—Arrd. the James, from Rio Janeiro, &c., and
aid. for Hamburgh; the Iznieita, from Havannah.
SWINNEMUNDE, OCT. 21.—The Russian war steamer
Archimedes has run on shore near Ronne, and may be
considered a wreck; crew (except eight men) saved.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 24.—Wind E.S.E., fresh, rain.—
Arrd. the Augusta, from Ca!ao; the Electric Flash and
the Fortunate, from Patr.ss; the Fairy Queen, from
.Dieppe; the Iceni, from Madras; the William Joni es,
from Havre; the Alfred, from Malaga; the Cetera, from
Archangel; the Lord John Russell, from Harlingen;
the Flechs, from Ghent; the Princess Victoria, from
Antwerp; the Earl of Auckland and the Rhine, from
Rotterdam; the Hannah Codner, from Patras; the
Fame, from Calais; the John Wesley, from Guernsey;
the Schofield, from St. Petersburgh. Sid. the Prince
Albert, for New York; the Hedwig, for Elsinore; the
Menai, fur Calas; the Isabella Hercus, for New Zea-
land; the Resistance, for Gibraltar; the Grecian, for
Jamaica; the Venezuela, for Havre; the Sir Robert
Peel, for Dunkirk; the Fyenoord, for Rotterdam; the
Geerdina Beerta, for Konigsburg.
VESSELS SPOEEN Wrra.—The Clarkstone, Feb. 24,
with 2io barrels of sperm. The Lucy Ann, Jan. 10,
with 15 barrels of sperm. The Cernarvon, April 4, off
the Three Kings, with 50 barrels. The barque Roe,
for the Coast of Africa, Sept. 4, in lat. 12 N., long. 22
W. The Justine, from Plymouth for Port Natal, Sept.
5, in let. 13 N., long. 23 W. The ship Importer, from
Cardiff for Valparaiso, and the Lady Harvey, from Hull
for Patagonia, same day. The brigantine Lady Bas-
sett, from Jaffa for Liverpool, Sept. 30, in lat. 3? N.,
long. 21 W. A large steamer, bound west, supposed to
be the Asia, from Liverpool, Oct. 15, in let. 51, long.
28. The Lady Constable, of Liverpool for New Or-
leans, Oct. 20, in let. 48 N., long. BW. The ship Jo-
hanna Cornelia, from Rotterdam for Batavia, Oct. 22,
off the Lizard. The barque Phoenician, from London
for Sydney, New South Wales; Aug. 8, in lat. 52 S.,
long. 34 W. The ship William Penn, from Liverpool
for Bombay, Aug. 10, in let. 26 S., long. 24 W. The
Benjamin Erskine (? B. Elkin), from London for
Adelaide, South Australia, in let. 24 S., long. 24 W.
A brigantine, No. 4,675, second distinguishing pendant,
from Liverpool for Callao, in let. 11 N., long. 22 W. The
Cleopatra, from Cardiff for Valparaiso, Sept. 1, in let.
9 S., long. 36 W. The Earl Spencer, from Hartlepool
for Aden, Sept. 4, in let. 2, long. 25. The Adrian,
from Lubeck for Rio Janeiro, Sept. 6, in lat. 2, long. 23.
The Ganges, from Dundee for Rio Janeiro, Sept. 12, in
lat. 50, long. 19. The Martha Ann, bound for St.
Thomas's, Sept. 9, in lat. 18 N., long. 65 W. The Ex-
mouth Packet, from Rio Janeiro for Marseilles, in
.let. 37, long. 11. The Mary and Henry, of Maryport,
in lat. 40, long. 12. The James Calder, from Charles-
ton for Liverpool, Sept. 30, in let. 40, long. 48.

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