The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The Peel project of compensating the payers
of the income-tax by certain visionary advantages,
which they were to derive from an alteration in the
tariff and sliding scale, is now admitted on all hands
to have been a complete failure. But the experiment
of admitting foreign sheep and cattle into this coun-
try, on the payment of a very low fixed duty, has,
nevertheless, been attended with a valuable result,
inasmuch as it has proved, beyond all question, that
the rich pasture lands of the United Kingdom enable
the agriculturists to meet any foreign competition in
those important articles of consumption, thereby
clearly indicating the direction in which agricultural
capital may be most safely and profitably employed.
The advantage which the agriculturist possesses in the
fertility of his pastures, would be, greatly enhanced
by a total repeal of the corn-laws, as he would then
be enabled to fatten his stock on cheap foreign grain.
Also, by the removal of those restrictions, employ-
ment would be given to a large starving or under-fed
population, which, instead of burthening the farmer
with heavy rates for its support, would, in its changed
condition of well-paid labourers and artisans, become
profitable customers, consuming annually many hun-
dred millions of pounds of animal food, more than
their present means enable them to procure.
With this extended demand for its produce, a pro-
portionate rise in the value of land would take place,
and rents would acquire a degree of steadiness never
to be expected under a law by which, on the mere
prospect of a short harvest, and by a skilful working
of the averages, enormous quantities of cheap foreign
,corn are suddenly admitted into competition with the
expensively forced productions of our own inferior soils.
As these remarks are addressed to the pockets, and
not to the hearts of the agriculturists, I have omitted
any reference to the great moral improvement which
would necessarily follow a mitigation of the physical
sufferings of the working clas'ses.
If you can spare room for this letter in your jour-
nal, which has so ably assisted in fighting the great
fight against monopoly, you will oblige your obedient
servant, PHILANTHROPIST.

EXTAORDINARY AGE.—An old woman named Ann
Parry, lately residing on the. Canal Parade, in this town,
with her daughter, who is also far advanced in years,
died on Friday, the 12th inst., of a verity " full of days,"
having lived to the patriarchal age of one hundred and
five years and dix months ! She retained her faculties
to the last. Indeed,' so retentive was her memory, that
within a few days of her death, she was able to talk co-
herently of circumstances which transpired in Newport
upwards of eighty years ago ; and it may be mentioned
that her medical attendant has frequently been requested
by her within the last few months to extract her last
tooth ! as it troubled her occasionally. The habits of
the good old woman's daughter were those of the most
industrious and cleanly kind, whilst her filial devotion
was above all praise, thus rendering her parent's last
days cheerful and comfortable. The ancient woman ex-
pired like the last glimmer of a wasted lamp—without
pain or struggle, and full of the " certain hope " of a
joyful hereafter.—Monmouthshire Merlin. ;
ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE AT THE RED BARN
FARM.— On Saturday night the inhabitants of Polstead
were again alarmed by the cry of " Fire." It was soon
ascertained that a stack of haulm, standing on the Red
Barn Farm, was in flames, and though every effort was
made to save it, it was speedily consumed. Not a doubt
remains but that this fire was also the work of some ini-
quitous incendiary. The name of the " Red Barn" has
already become sufficiently notorious by being connected
with one of the foulest murders on record ; but we are
deeply sorry to find that there are still persons living,
who, in the form of humanity, but with the characteris-
tics of fiends, seem bent on adding yet greater darkness to
its blackened history, by their fearful repetition of the
"crime of incendiarism.

"REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS."—In answer to
a correspondent, who requests to be informed of the
origin of the above title, we beg to state that the term was
taken from the 60th verse of the 24th chapter of Genesis
which, having reference to gates and their destruction,
was adopted as the watchword of the first adventurous
attackers of toll-gates. The verse is as follows :—" And
they blessed Rebecca, and said unto her, thou shalt be
the mother of hundreds of millions, and thy children
shall possess the gates of them that hate them."— Welsh-
man.

LONG LIFE.—The most remarkable instance of
longevity whlch we have met with. in English history is
that of John Cam, who, according to the parish register
of St. Leonard's Shore ditch, died on the 2d of January,
1588, at the astonishing age of 207 years. He was born
in the reign of Richard 11., anno 1381, and lived in the
reigns of twelve Kings and Queens—namely, Richard 11.,
Henry IV., V., and VI., Edward IV. and V., Richard
111., Henry VII. and VIII., Mary and Elizabeth.—Annals
of Health.

A MATTER OF OPINION.—A good wife, the other
day, taking up a Manchester paper, said to her loving
husband—" This is just as it should be ; the marriages
are put beforelhe births. The Guardian always has the
births first, and I think that very awkward." The
husband gave an opinion in favour of the Guardian, as
he thought " people were born before they were married."
The wife, however, persisted in the correctness of her
views of the matter, and preferred the Manchester
arrangement, as it was " a very ugly thing to have a
birth before marriage." The deaths, it would appear,
were each put in the right place, for they abi-ays

Dignity, as everybody knows, is not the character-
istic of our own House of Commons ; but we feel quite
self-complacent after reading in the New York Herald
the account of what its editor calls " an intensely in-
teresting scene," which " can never be forgotten by
those who were so fortunate as to witness it," in the
Congress of the United States. It is possible that the
proceedings of ,that eminent body may have exhibited
many such exciting spectacles.
" Sed omnes illacrymabiles,
" Urgentur ignotique lengfl
" Nocte, carent quia vete sacro."
This alone has found a fitting historian--a very
Shakspecire for versatility—of the true poetical breed
which alone could deal with such a scene.
" —Meum qui pectus inaniter angit,
" Irritat;muleet, falsis terroribus implet,
" Lit magus, et modo me Thebis modo ponit Athenis."
It requires an unusual kind of power to shoot like
our American reporter with unembarrassed velocity
from the heights of religious pathos and sentiment to
the depths of coarse and offensive blasphemies—from
Attic delicacy to Bceotian slang—but our Transatlantic
Contemporary is equally at home in both regions.
Nay, we cannot perceive that he recognises any
vital difference between the two. Like a revolving
Scaramouch, painted after the likeness of Grimaldi
on the one side, and his Royal. Highness Prince
Albert on the other, he splits about to his
own entire satisfaCtion, and to the infinite amazement
and disgust of all sober spectators—alternately grave
and gay—solemn and comic—fool and philosopher—
kicking about his legs and arms with equal energy
in each capacity, and, as far as human eyes can judge,
wholly unconscious of any trifling contrast between
his somewhat inconsistent aspects. Mr. Quincy Adams
is the hero of his drama. That gentleman, as every-
body knows, is an abolitionist—" an abolitionist," he,
himself adds, " in the same way that Thomas Jeffer-
son was an abolitionist ;" a very small way, we should
conjecture, seeing that Thomas Jefferson is princi-
pally renowned as having in the way of business sold
his own children. But let that pass. • Mr. Q. Adams
is, we say, an' abolitionist, and having, on the pre-
ceding day, presented some abolitionist petitions front
Massachusetts, had well nigh undergone an operation
described among the higher circles of America as
that of being " catawampously chawed 'up" by the
" southern chivalry"—the gentlemen from Carolina
and Virginia. The next day Mr. Adams demanded
permission to reply—he had been misrepresented in
the journals of the House :—" Sir, the journal says I
was called to order for offensive remarks—Sir, I was
called to order for irrelevancy ; I wish that corrected."
The vindication reminds us a little of an old Joe
Miller about " carrying tripe" (it is a coarser
word in the original) " to a bear,"—but let that too
pass. It is the debate which ensued to which our
attention is demanded. "Isn't he a great old horse ?"
demanded one member of the deliberative body.
" He's a bitter old scorpion," interjected another,
" and I wish the chaplain would put up daily prayers
that he may speedily be taken to Abraham's bosom."
" Here there were 20 or 30 members on the floor, cry-
ing out' Mr. Speaker,' and all wanting to make motions ;
and some did make very grotesque motions."
" Mr. Speaker," said Preston King (" a short fat,
good-natured man"), " what is the business before
the House ?" " The disposal of the Massachusetts
resolutions." "Is that dabateable ?" " No, Sir."
King—" Then I object." The little old scorpion re-
monstrated. King —" I object,. Sir." Cam Johnson
expressed a wish to proceed. King—" I object, Sir."
Davis (of New York) " wished to say something.'
King—" You do? very well! I object." Confusion
—laughter, screams of laughter. Mr. Adams up
again. Cries of " Oh, for heaven's sake, let the old
man go on ; he'll worry us out." "Ohno ! that
won't do." " Good; go it." " Question." Ayes—
noes ; ayes have it-123 to 46. And so the rules
were suspended to allow Mr. Adams to proceed.
And now hear the reporter :
" Upon this, the eloquent old man rose in his might,
calm, but most imposing in his manner, his venerable
form dilating with honest pride, and his lightning-like
eye, grey hair, and bold forehead, presenting a most
picturesque appearance, whilst the members of the
house, young and old, crowded into the arena in front to
listen to him.

" Speaker—Gentlemen will please to take their seatf."
And so we have Mr. Adams fairly afloat, who,
after having eliCited a due repetition of laughter in
all its degrees of comparison, proceeded to enunciate
the following, under the circumstances, rather as-
tounding sentiments:—" Sir," he said, " the gentle-
man froth Virginia was right." " Sir, this place," he
had the face to proceed,
"is not the place for the battle. Sir, this is not the
place for a battle of any kind. It is a place for solemn
deliberation—for the interchange of thought and mind, in
harmony between friends and brothers ; for we are all
brothers of one blessed family, having no interest at heart,
116 desires to attain, no objects to achieve, but the common
good of our common country."
_ _

c 4 Great sensation," adds our marvellous reporter,
"and the members noiselessly drew up around the old
man." Inimitable indeed ! But before six lines are
over, we find ourselves amidst " roars of laughter"
again, into which a religious ejaculation is inter-
polated, which produces instantaneous and "tre-
mendous sensation"—then laughter again—immo-
derate, agonizing, "screaming ' laughter then
another six lines of evangelical rhapsody, which,
with no greater loss of time than before, took an
effect upon the varieties of Jonathanism who
whittled around the orator, as "impossible to de-
scribe" as it would have been to foretell. " The
tears actually stood in the eyes of many of the
members, and all were intensely silent." Strange
things, we know, were accomplished in the middle
ages when fishes crowded to hear sermons, and
swallows reported them—but, upon 20 seconds'
warning—by .a mere ".hey, presto, '—a verse and a
half from the Old Testament turned up with a
sentiment from John Quincy Adams, to draw tears
from such a mixed multitude of alligators as the
American Congress—is clean beyond any, feat of
monk or eremite which has ever found its way to
our limited knowledge. True, the crocodile part
of the performance was soon over, and the com-
pany as merry as grigs again. But this is the
very thing which bewilders us • that the re-
porter, John Quincy, and the whole Congress seem
wholly indifferent whether they laugh or cry—
dance or groan—quote Scripture or swear—" all's
one' to Dandie." They have tears on demand from
Mr. Adams, net Once or twice, but as often as he
chooses to draw for them—while we are able to count
three roarings, one screaming, and twelve ordinary
cases of laughter in the course of his oration, to say
nothing of what accompanied the dialogue.
We shrink from transferring into our columns all
these most offensive alternations between the would-
be-pious and the would-be-comical, though without
them our readers can scarcely form a notion of what
an American audience, an American speaker, and an
American reporter can do ; but we may, perhaps.
venture to give one extract in full (ex pede Herculem)
from the peroration of Mr. Adams' speech, with the
reporter's historical. comment.- It needs no remark
from us. - Mr. Adams has lately left Ohio, where
he says the people
" Took leave of me as of a child going to the home of
his fathers—becanse they said I was the champion, upon
this floor, of the right of petition ! Sir, it is the ground en
which I have stood in this House, and upon which I will
ever stand, for the few short days or months which it may
please the Almighty to allow me to exert the poor abilities
and faculties which He has bestowed upon me—it is the
ground upon 1% hich I desire to stand on this earth after
my death ! upon the page of my country's history ! and
I will stand upon that ground (the right of petition)
hereafter before the judgment seat of the God of Mercy,
for my sins I may have committed in the flesh !'
"Language fails to describe the extraordinary effect
which this speech had upon the members. All listened
with intense admiration, the House was as still (except
his voice) as the grave, and the tears trickled down the
cheeks of many an old and young member ; and one
southern man, worked up to a pitch of enthusiasm, when
Mr. Adams closed, as above, cried out--' By —, he's a
noble old scoundrel after all "

At all this we have only to confess ourselves wholly
astounded, and the more so because there is no appa-
rent intention, on the part of Mr. Adams, the Con-
gress, or the Tew York Herald, of being peculiarly
profane. In fact, they seem to think it, imprecation
and all, rather religious than otherwise. Can anything
be a caricature of their social habits when this is a
friendly account of those solemn deliberations"—that
" interchange of thought and mind"—that " harmony
between brothers of one blessed family," of which, as
Mr. Adams informs us, Congress is the allotted scene ?
If this is truth, what can be a libel ? It is,
.indeed,
squeamish to quarrel with Trollope or Dickens while
the reporter of the New York Herald walks abroad in
his land of liberty a bipes implumis.—Times.

FEVER AND SMALL PDX IN SOCITIIWARK.—At an
inquest which was held yesterday before Mr. Payne, it was
stated that small-pox and fever was very prevalent in the lower
parts of Southwark, particularly at Bankside. A juror said
that in one locality, Williams-court, there were three in ono
family lying dead, and that nine had recently died there,
though there were but few inhabitants in it. The Coroner
asked if vaccination had been resorted to? The juror re-
plied that it had, but he supposed that the operation of it had
been imperfectly performed. Another juror said that in some
parts there were above half the inhabitants affected by small-
pox or fever, which was attributed to the present unseasonab y
close state of the weather.

A FREAK OF NATURE.—On Friday night last, a
poor woman named Tye, aged 38, who is married to a sawyer,
upwards of eighty years of age, was safely delivered of a female
child with three arms, ana only one leg, the place where the
other leg should be presenting a perfect arm, but only three
fingers being attached to the hand. The parents;have another
and perfect child, and are living at No. 6, Duke-street, St.
George's in the East. The lusus naturce has been visited by
several eminent members of the faculty.
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Residence.
Trade or Profession.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS
THIS EVENING JANUARY 21,
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART I.
Overture, The Ruler of the Spirits—Weber.
New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille, with Eolo by Master
Thirlwall—Jullien.
First Movement of the Grand Symphony—Koch Albert.
Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems—Jullien.
Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson.
But% Quadrille, on Airs by Mr. John Parry—Jullien.
PART IL
Grand Duet from William Tell, for Ophicleide and Cornet-a-Piston,
performed by M. I'rospere and Herr Kcesig.
Rossini Quadrille.
New Quadrille, The Irish Echos—Jullien.
Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall.
Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the
Nobility's Balls—Kcenig.
The English Quadrille—Jullien.

Doo'is Open at Halt-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private
U B
Boxes,
. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the ox-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
Bond.street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullion's Office,
3, Maddox-street, Bond-street.
M. Jullien regrets that he is unable togive a Concert ro.morruw
Evening, Jan.2s. the Theatre having been let for that evening pre.
vious to his occupation.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mi. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY
AND HIS INFANT SON.
THIS EVENING JANUARY 24,
Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Strickland,. Master Slender,
Mr. C. Mathews; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe;
Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs, Quickly, Mrs.
Glover; Anne Page Miss Mattley.
After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY
and his SON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEAIRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT THREE QF PRO.
FESSOR RISLEY AND HIS INFANT SONS.
Unprecedented success attending the revival of " The Merry
Wives of Windsor," which will be acted every evening till further
notice, thus cast :—Sir John Falstaff. Mr. Strickland ; Slender, Mr.
Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster; Ford, Mr. Stuart; Page,
Mr. Howe,. Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Page, V
Madame estris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs.
Glover. By special request of many families of distinction, and in
consequence of the numerous disappointments, arising from the
nightly overflows, of witnessing the extraordinary and unique Per.
formances of Professor Risley and his Infant Son, Master John
Risley, " The Little Wonder," they have been induced to forego
their Provincial Engagements, and remain for positively Four Nights
only, appearing every evening this week. Master H. Risley (only four
years old) will make his first and enly appearances Tomorrow,
Friday, and Saturday, and go through a Series of Performances, in
conjunction with his Father and Brother, unparalleled for elegance
and fearless daring,

I. T. ARCHE.

Box.book Ki

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24,
The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THE BOHEMIANS; or
The Rogues of Paris. Principal
Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard,
Dirs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR-
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects!
Columbine, Miss Butte!) • Harlequin Quicksilver, lay the Inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury lane; Pants.
loon, Mr, Johnstonc.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24,
Will be presented for the fifth time at this. theatre, the grand
sera of the MAID OF JUDAH. Ivanhoe, Mr. Wood; Friar
"luck, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Rebecca, Mrs. Wood.
To conclude with the Kew Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. tirattan; Poo.
pooMr Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor.
'Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime.
FOUR GRAND NATIONAL HOLIDAY CLOSING FETES.
The succession of crowded houses and increased demands for
Places at the Box-ottice, compels the Proprietor to announce that
this Popular Establishment will remain Open a few Nights longer;
and, by special desire, and in concurrence with the wishes of
Astlers Patrons, according to annual custom, for a series of British
National Fetes, pourtraying the Victories of England's Hero—
ApWepoingntlli menton,
ts,with all its Military k.'ffects, New Dresses Scenery, and
pa THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24,
Will be_rforwied the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte, Mr. Gonaersal, his ori-
ginal character.

New Scenes in t C
To conclude with the Pantomimehe
ofircle.
101SHANTER. HARLEQUIN TAM

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATILE
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantoin T.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 24, me.
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTERS. DORF. Supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Honn
Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis eslop, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs.
fly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining,
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks,
livery thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
Oft A MMAR, or, Lindley Murray, and A EIO U. Harlequin, Mr.
VI. H. Harvey; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta.
boon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair.
brother and Miss Sharpe.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY
Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drains, entitled
POVERTY; or, Mary Graham, Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy
Tacit, Mr. {ants; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss
Arden; Mary Graham, 51iss Vincent.
After which NATURE AND ART,
*ill sustain her Five Original Charaztera.
To concltiOt with THE KAN IN THE IRON iILASIL

in which Miss Vi;vent

THE BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER
RAILWAY COMPANY.
CAPITAL, 300,0001., IN SIX THOUSAND SHARES
OF £5O. EACH.
DEPOSIT, £5. PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Captain Kelly, R.N., Deputy Chairman of the London
and Brighton Railway Company.
Edward Crowley, Esq., a Director of the London and
Brighton Railway Company.
Lord George Lennox, Bognor.
The Hon. George Frederick Hotham, Brighton.
Themas Evans, Esq., Leominster, near Arundel.
Robert Watkins, Esq., Arundel.
Edwin Henty, Esq., Banker, Worthing.
Thomas West, Esq., Union Bank, Brighton.
James Cordy, Esq., Brighton.
George Henty, Esq., Chichester.
George 011iver, Esq., Kingston, near Littlehampton.
ENGINEER.
John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq., F. R.S. F.A.S. C.E.
'soucurons.
Messrs. G. and H. Faithfull, Brighton ; Messrs. F. Cooper
and Williams, Brighton,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, London.
Messrs. Dowdy, Chichester.
Messrs. Henty, 011iver, and Upperton, Worthing and Arundel.
Messrs. Hall, West, and Borrer, of the Union Bank, Brighton.
The object of the projected line is to form a railway. commu-
nication between Brighton and Chichester, commencing by a
junctionl with the present branch line of the London and Brighton
Railway at Shoreham, and terminating at Chichester, by which
means the facility of a railway communication with London
will be afforded to the inhabitants of Chichester and Arundel,
and the watering-places of Bognor, Littlehampton, and
Worthing and when the projected Railway to Hastings is
made, will open a railway communication extending nearly
70 miles along the coast of Sussex, and connecting the eastern
and western divisions of that county.
The distance between Shoreham and Chichester is 23 miles,
over a country so level that the rails will be laid nearly upon
the present surface of the ground, and, consequently, when
completed, the road will be maintained at an unusually mode-
rate expense. The land through which the line is to pass is
gricultural, and there are no buildings, except a few cottages,
zcbe taken.

The estimated expense of the land, earthwork, bridges, and
masonry for a double line, and a single line of road laid, with
stations, and necessary conveniences to make it complete, is
300,0001. From the very easy description of the work, the
line may be opened to the public in twelve months from the
commencement of it ; and the gradients being favourable, it
will be worked at a cheap rate.
There are responsible parties willing to contract for the exe-
cution of the whole of the works, including all contingencies,
-within the estimate, taking 40,0001. in shares as part payment.
The necessary notices have been given, the plans and
i sec-
tions have been deposited, and it is intended to apply n the
ensuing session of Parliament for an Act to carry the works
into execution.

The existing traffic has been carefully investigated, and cal-
culations have been made on it in the usual way, whereby it has
been ascertained that the proposed line will yield a revenue,
chiefly from passenger traffic, of upwards of 40,0001. a year,
which, after deducting the expense of working at 40 per cent.
upon the receipt, will leave a balance of 24,0001., being 81. per
cent. per annum upon the capital.
The Plans, Sections, Estimates, and statement of traffic having
been submitted to the Directors of the London and Brighton
Railway Company, they have:agreed (subject to the confirmation
of their Proprietors at their general meeting on the 7th of
February next), to lease the line for ten years from its
completion, at a rent of 12,000/. per annum, being
4/. per cent. upon the estimate, dividing the net profits
equally between themselves and the Proprietors of the pro-
jected Railway ; or, if the Proprietors of the projected line
should prefer to keep the line in their own hands, the Brighton
Company will find the working power on terms to be agreed on,
Applications for Shares to be made on or before Tuesday, the
6th day of February next, in the following form, addressed to
the Secretary of the Brighton and Cbiehester Railway Com-
pany, at the London and Brighton Railway Office, London
Terminus, London-bridge. Those who have made applica-
tions for Shares to the Solicitor need not repeat them, as the
letters already received will be laid before the Provisional
Directors.

" I request you will allot to me Shares in the
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accept such Shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de•
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" I am, &c

MRS. GRANT OF LAGGAN.
Published this day, 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, 315. bound,
MEMOIR and CORRESPONDENCE of the
late Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, Author of " Letters
from the Mountains," "Memoirs of an American Lady,' &c.,
&c. Edited by her Son, J. P. GRANT, Esq.
London ; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Will be repeated
THIS EVENING,per JANUARY 24,
a Grand O Three Acts calledTE
BOHEMIAN GIRL New
Count Arnheima, in,
Mr. Borran3,; ThaddeuHs,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or,
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Coium.
bine Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.