The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-28 00:00:00

EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1850.

CASE BETWEEN THE CHURCH
OF. ENGLAND AND THE PUSEYITES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sts,—The way in which the public has responded
to the letter of Lord John Russell, encourages any
endeavour to confirm and support that remarkable
document.
No part of it evinces more of the decision and ac-
curacy which designate a leader of men, than that
which refers the actual outbreak to the invitations
held out by professed members of the Anglican
Church.
A step towards getting a bird's eye view of the
case, will be to review the circumstances under which
the Anglican Church took its rise ; and if your
readers will be patient, the preliminary matter shall
be run through as rapidly as possible.
The Founder of Christianity and his contemporary
followers, promulgated a religion very slightly cere-
monial, and directed almost entirely to the effects
upon the life and conversation of its receivers. The
principles were embodied in" documents either at the
time or soon after; and the documents have re-
mained, with lithe or no dispute upon the text, to the
present hour.
But no provision was made against the tendency
to deterioration which attaches to all in which human
creatures are concerned. The Founder himself re-
corded a doubt whether at a future coming he should
" find faith upo❑ the earth ;" and the most active of
his apostles avowed a distinct prospect of a "man of
sin," "sitting" not in partibus infidelium but "in the
temple of God," and a " mystery of iniquity" of
which he felt and saw the roots and beginnings, for it
"cloth already wor.k." The apostles had their quer- j
rels and disputes like other men ; and it so happened,
that on the most signal of these occasions (Galat. ii. 11),
the very one for whose supposed successor is claimed
the power of the keys, was put down and overruled by
a comparative neophyte, who had never seen the
Founder upon earth. orall clear things the clearest,
is that if anybody was infallible nobody knew
it then, and that so far from security being pro- '
vided against the developement of error, its progress
and actual commencement were announced, in the
strongest terms, by those who had best right to know.
And as well these forebodings were ful-
filled. Of all theories of spiritual power the
most convenient, is first to claim infallibility,
and then back it by declaring all reformers
to be schismatics, and consequently orthodoxy
identical with the conglomeration of !abuse.
Political power soon.' added its temptations; and the
end was that nothing was too puerile or too atrocious,
to find its representation in the creed and practice of
what called itself the,Church. During all this there
was no want of protesters against the procesi; but
these were to be put down with fire and sword, by the
token that they did protest. Paulicians, Albigenses,
Waldenses, Lollards, kept up an unbroken fire of
remonstrance and heresy. Often locally suppressed,
the resistance was always there ; and when the re-
vival of learning turned the balance in favOur of
recurrence to the original authorities, the conflagra-
tion burst out in all the most energetic portions of
European society.
England was not behind ; and the practical genius
of Englishmen conceived, what after all was the great
and useful idea, of taking the property of the corrupt
hierarchy, and out of it constructing a physical bul-
wark in defence of what they deemed more sound.
This might not keep pace with all the romance of
reform ; but though unromantic it was effective, and
the proof is that at this hour the enemy is running
his head against the sane walls.

Here thin were the elements out of which the new
hierarchy was to be formed. Men of all shades of
opposition to the general foe, and every gradation of
enlightenment upon the reasons, were to be com-
bined into "something like a whole. It was as clear
that some must be kept below what they individually
would have aimed at, as that some must be
carried further. Everything was by necessity, within

limits, a compromise; and—to insist that either the
best informed or the worst should have everything
their own way, must have been ruin to the Whole.
From temperament, habit, or accident, one man had
a lurking leaning towards one piece of silliness and
another to another ' • so that instead of its being strange
that traces of the old follies should be found, the only
wonder is there were no more. And whatever their
number in detail, they formed no connected whole,
and were incompetent to conceal the existence 'of one
grand current directed against that species of falsifi-
cation of documents, which consists in burying them
beneath a mass of interested additions under the title
of developements. As opposed to this, the fanpies of
individuals were of little snore ultimate account, than
the differences of stature and complexion in the con-
stitution of an army.
True it was, that the new army of the faith did not
thenceforth do everything a cultivated intelligence
might have desired. In bad times it was fond of
leaguing with political tyranny. But even then, it was
keeping out a worse ' • and when the crisis came, it
sided with the right. If it did not exert itself till
threatened in it 3 own existence by the ancient enemy,
this amounts to proof that it existed to the purpose of
the founders. 'The Seven Bishops might not be
everything an ardent imagination could devisee; and
their predecessors and successors may come under
the same category. But the Seven Bishops and the
mass they represented, drove civil and religious
despotism from the realm of England; and it re-
mains to be seen whether the old bulwark has not
some virtue left.

What were the precise causes of the tendenciis dis-
played among the Anglican clergy in the exact Middle
of the nineteenth century, it may not be easy to define.
Something may perhaps be referred to the long
peace, which as it has trebled the number of students
in the universities, must have created an increased I
pressure in the Church, of men anxious to make
something amusing, in a vocation which never very
deeply engaged their minds and interests. Something,
ton, to the love of novelty which makes the silliest
things come round again with the appearance of a
charm ; and more than all, to the same motives which
operated, unconsciously it may be, in all ages, the
desire to magnify the office of the priest, by Making
him the dispenser of something like a chemical pro- '
cess of salvation. If the entrance to heaven can be
reduced to the application of an oil, a fluid, or an ali-
ment, how great must be the dignity of those who can
appoint themselves the agents.
At all events the mania came; and bishops and
curates were alike affected by its influence. The
h i c h individual
of
the
Reformed
efgrand resource, was to fasten upon the infirm passages
wowremaekdnecsshens
Church, i
adinntrhodosutcileidtyintotntthhee
ritual
manifest current of •its general views. Some feeble
reformer, amidst the clash and thunder of resistance
to Transubstantiation, had contrived to gratify his own I
halting scruples, by procuring the insertion of the
words, half figure and half mystification, " which are
verily and indeed taken and received. Here, then,
was an open door for emulous curates to distinguish
themselves by copying Laud's "mops and mimes"
before the symbols. Another of the Anglican Fathers,
inly shocked at the paucity of Sacraments be saw
impending, had conceived the bright idea that if Mar-
riage was not to be a Sacrament, something might be
done by tacking it to a Sacrament, and so
owr thui ne iht y
ob-
tained the addition in the ruhroipcp
asftateters-
union at the time
osofntshesirhonulaldrriargeec,eiovre
atthethee ofinirsint
it to be " convenient" that new-married Per-
wards. Ground sufficient for an upstart of the new
apostacy, to frame a kind of House that Jack built,"
and refuse to marry a couple where the man
could not be proved to have been confirmed, confir-
mation being somewhere stated as a Preliminary to
the ceremony hinted at as "convenient" in the rubric.
The old power of Absolution had manifestly been the
subject of regrets; and these bad been got over in
the most prominent place, by one of the most re•
markabie specimens of theological evasion the world
has witnessed. The ancient priesthood claimed the
power of granting or withholding absolution upon '
particular confession, with the same plenitude of
power that a chemist adds or withholds the mixture
which from two fluids is to produce a salt. The
genius of the Anglican Church devised the making a
general confession by the congregation that they
were miserable offenders, and then announcing
on the part- of the priest, that power is given
to God's ministers to declare the absolution
and remission of their sins "to his people, being
penitent." In which the fraud is not in attempting to
put off for true anything which is not, but in at-
tempting to put off one thing which is true, as being
the same with another which is not. The Church, or
some individual in it haunted with the ancient scru-
ples, wanted to preserve the utmost possible of the
ancient claim ; and most awkwardly it was performed.
But this was not the worst. In an adjunct to the
Communion Service, " the benefit' of absolution" was
allowed to creep in without an attempt at palliation ;
and in the Service for the Visitation of the Sick the
power of the Church to absolve sinners, and of the in-
dividual priest to absolve the individual applicant, are
expressed in terms which might satisfy Pius the
Ninth at the present moment; and addition is made of
something closely bordering on an invitation to auri-
cular confession, though room for evasion is
provided by limiting it to cases where the
sufferer shall " feel his conscience troubled with
any weighty matter." Still these were more of
the nature of slips, or of submission to strong tempta-
tion, than anything else. No man doubts or has
doubted, that the broad general creed of the
Anglican Church on the remission of sins, is
the
,suie'-'aS that of the Protestant Churches
in 'that the rest is " leather
and *tube-lie." But i:11 these made grand cpp9r.
tunitit •fiVii:the , modern etiostisy: It wr,s high
phmotion Alfas ifioilidge curate to be troubling the beds
Of the sick with demands for auricular confession,
am! as grAtifying to 'hith'fii to any ot'the ascetics of
the olden time, to he deemed the conduit through
" which the mercy of Heaven was conveyed into the
parish,

Bishops too had their temptations, as well as cu-
rates ; and there was one mystificaron of cariy
origin, which particularly attracted their patronage.
The great strbggle of Protestantism had been on
the second of the two rites to which it conceded
the name of Sacraments. But there :ices another on
which it was po:isible to play the traitor, and the
game ws.s played accordingly. The Founder of
' Christianity had appointed an iniiiatory riteof simple
form, and had declared that those who believed in his
mission, and in evidence of itsubrnitted to the rite, should
be partakers in the benefits he came to bring ; and
those who did not believe (not a word about the de-
claratory rite) should not. Nothing could be simpler,
or more remote from -anything like a priestly coajura-
tion. The proffer was to such as were addressed,
being evidently voluntary mgents and capable of un-
derstanding. But an unexpected compiicaiion soon
arose. The early Christians, partly from feel-
ings easily accounted for, and partly perhaps
from the progress of the superstitious notions which
after times were doomed to see increased, introduced
the custom of baptising their new-born infants. By
this they " made the giants first, and then they kill'd
them." Of what use could baptism be to an uncon-
scious infant ? The intellect of the time saw but one

way of escaping the difficulty ; and that was,
to suppose that baptism was a conjuration,—a

ceremony not dependent for its efficacy on
the effect on tl-e mind of the recipient, but
possessing another effect not dependent on the reci-
pient's having a mind at all ; in short, a superhuman
process, with which were to be connected the opera-
tions of an unseen world, as in a cognate case the
Dtemon was obliged to avoid places sprinkled with a
certain water and a certain brush. It was the same

! gross material silliness as had so sorely perplexed
Christendom in the interpretation of the other Sacra-
ment. Words descriptive of a type and a ceremony,
I were to be interpreted in a mechanical sense for the sake
of getting up a sacerdotal miracle. And-this was the
pet of our Bishops. When the clergy under their
charge went further than they liked the matter of
other follies, they declare they had no authority to
interfere. When an Anglican clergyman let fall
words which looked like non-acquiescence in the pet
I folly of the episcopal bench, then they could find
power to prosecute and to annoy, and it was as much
1 as the secular arm could do to rescue him from their
I gripe. _ _

On other points they showed an equal determina-
tion to shock the vulgar good sense of the Protestant
mind. If they combated the pretensions of Rome to
Apostolic succession, it was only to raise the plea that
the real Simon was themselves. Who taught them this
trumpery of an Apostolic succession at all ? Is not a
Methodist class-leader a successor of the Apostles,
if he demeans himself as the Apostles declare an
overseer ought, and teaches with a sincere mind the
Apostles' doctrine ? The Anglican Reformers, in
their anxiety to make as little change as possible,
may have inserted doubtful words about a " Catholic
Church," which they would probably have inter-
preted to mean everybody who in any age or class
was ever a good Christian; but they never advisedly
went into the quackery, of claiming to be the " one
true " by virtue of an unbroken succession of touches
for the Soul's Evil. Our modern Bishops were the frogs
that thus tried to puff themselves into the ex ; and
they must take the consequences.
Among the Bishops too w( re the supporters of the
attempt, in opposition to the clear direction of what
is emphatically called the Apostle of the Gentiles, to
re-introduce the obligation of the Jewish law on the
subject of the Sabbath ; an obligation the Anglican
Church had distinctly refused to recegnize in its com.,
mentary on the Jewish Commandments in its Cate-
chism. They would have cal!ed for the restoration of
Circumcision, if it had held out equal prospects of
spiritual domination, and had been less personally
unpleasant. They carried their attempt so far, that
the Government and people united to put it down. A
hierarchy which had been discovered and put down in
the attempt to maintain a glaring falsehood, could not
fail to have.lost ground in the estimation of the Eu-
peen public.
Under all these circumstances, who em wonder
that the restored puppet of the French army at Rome
was up and doing? Whether it was politic to com-
bine it with so much of insult as in ways direct and
indirect has attended, is what time must show. It is
with two hundred thousand Austrians in its train,
and Russian reserves not specified, that " the compact
solid globe" is shown to us by the English Ca-
tholics as " rolling forward in happy ruled order."
We have heard such words before ; but did
not expect to find the Holy Alliance so soon
brought to our own doors. None of this would have
happened if Mazzini and Garibaldi had held their
ground ; no wonder, therefore, that the same agents
of British breed who were in Don Carlos' camp in
Spain, were found at the table of the French General.

France in her turn will probably be waked some morn-
ing with the armies of the coalition on the frontier,
"giving encouragement to the well-disposed within,"
and playing over again the game of which Frenchmen
set the monstrous example at the gates of Rome; which
if it happens, let none pity, but all rejoice at seeing the
wave so spend itself, and calculate upon the future.
But foreign politics will take care of themselves, as
they always do. The more immediate business is
with things at home.
And here the first point which impresses itself, is
that, without denying the full efficacy of the maxim
that nobody must be oppressed, there is an end of
everything that depended upon confidence in any
altered feeling in the Catholics as a whole. They are
at the direction of a foreign potentate, who if he
tells them to repeat the attempt of Guide Fawkes must
be obeyed, unless by the sceptical portion who Anse
to risk eternal damnation by refusal. In general they
no more dare decline, than a Popish governor of' Malta
dared allow British hospitality to an Italian refugee.
We Protestants do not. know what a serious thing it is
to expect to be damned; we have lurking notions of the
possibility of escape, which make us only half :at the
disposal of any ghostly threatener. But if we believed
a foreign man had only to put on a triple cap and bid
the devil take us, we should be as unfit to be good Bri-
tish citizens as the others are ; we therefore should be
moderate. Still we must not be taken asleep; and we
have had an escape es it is. Its n'ontrien oublie. ils n'ont
rien appris, is as true as it was of those to whom it
was originally applied. The hydrophobic patient hag
been tried, and the first use of freedom was to snatch
at the hand that helped him. There may be
worthy individuals to whom the whole is matter of
great regret ; but bodies must be judged by the ac-
tions of their officials. Does anybody, for instance,
feel confident, that if circumstances had been such as
to invite the French fleet in Torbay to make a point
on Plymouth with the Pope's 801 l for restoring Ca-
tholicity in England, an average Popish governor
could have been expected to do other than signalize
his attachment to the Holy See, like the Governor of
Malta ? There is nothing like looking things in
the fece ; and if we do not, we have had fair
warning. If the facts had fallen in with less
favourable times, as for example when the Heir
Appirent was supposed to be under the influence of a
Rornish mistress or wife, there would have been new
Boynes, and possibly new Blenheims. As it is, we
must try to come off with less. But promptitude, not
letting alone, must be the way. A single proceed-
ing, or promise cf proceeding, tending to throw the
protection of present or future law about the supre-
macy of the domestic legislature, though going no
further than a 40 shillings' penalty, would have settled
the question, which now seems likely to be left to the
strong workings of popular energy. It is pity t hat Eng-
land should, for six months in every year, he without
the popular branch of government while Parliament
is partridge-shooting ; end enemies are quite intelli-
gent enough to take advantage of it. There will
probably be nothing done, hut as the people call for it.
If there is a law, why is it not executed ? Six attor-
neys, duly retained, would tell us in twelve
hours whether there is a law or not. If there is not
a law, why is not a statement made, that something
is to be done or nothing ? But the Government is
not the only quarter where duties are to be discovered.
What is the Evangelical portion of the Church doing,. ?
that it does not in the Spanish phrase " pronounce"
The Primate, and others of the Anglican leaders, have
shown themselves worthy of the public confidence
hitherto ; why do they not do more? But do not
let them put the clergy upon controversy. The pub-
lic will only laugh, at dull discourses directed to prove
that Martin or Jack, and not Peter, is " the real ani-
mal." But a Primate who would bring up the old
Protestant principle in its substance and not in its
phylacteries, would take his seat by the men of the
olden time. The Queen's Ministers too, though they
cannot unmake a Bishop, at least u ithout more
trouble than it is worth, might mend the breed.
Make Gorham a bishop, as a persecuted defender
of Scripture and common sense would have been
in the days of our fathers; and see if that does
not balance a half-dozen of traitors. There are ways
for everything; and when men mean it, they take
them.

Lastly, what a luckless time was this for making a
disorderly retreat before the enemies of Secular Edu-
cation. If men dare not with their tongues avow an
education which shall not involve the bending of the
mind by some priest or other, what is to be ex-
pected but that the boldest shall carry the day ?
Protestantism is not a series of dogmas; it is a
branch of the mathematics, and holds of the same
cultivated 'reason, as the belief that the earth turns
upon its axis. The discovery of Euclid in the
Greek gave a fillip to the Reformation; and what we
want, is peop'e so educated that they shall.be able to
distingutTh between a document' and its "develops.
men ts. ' We avant •men' :taught iiiiiPErained in such
rsoul'slabits, as shell enable thettii-tb decide for thern-
selves on the. truth or .3 falgehqnri -of the:mid Pro-
testrnt that , .",‹levelopetnents" on a
rfesteinent after the decease of the jcsattor, are
forgerie.s. We do not %want children to be
.
told' so, in formularies that make them eicl,
and which the other tide can neutralize by foram-

Jaries of their own. We want the introduction
of those sources and means of knowledge which en-
' Wed our forefathers to pick their way when all the
religious teaching of the day was against them, and
when the cry was, as now, to bar "godless" in-
struction. The Protestant public knows what "god-
less" instruction means, and yet it cannot take the
hint. Let us conclude with the hope, that the
Government, without whom nothing is done in this
country, will see the accumulated interest given to the
question, and th 4 the banner of "Secular Education,"
so strangely lowered before the enemy at the Lanca-
shire meeting, will be raised under its patronage.
With permission, on another opportunity inquiry
shall be made into the constitutional meaning of the
Queen's Supremacy; which is already- involved in
some of the positions taken.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 28 Nov. 1850.

TO THE RIWIT IiONOURABLL LORD PAL-
MERSToN, M.P.. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The humble memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of
the town of Corwen, in the principality of Wales,
Showeth,
That your memorialists are deeply sensible of the
claims to the admiration and respect of all civilized na-
tions which the Turkish Sultan has acquired by his re-
fusal to violate the sacred laws of hospitality by deliver-
ing up to the Austrian and Russian Governments the
Hungarian and
.Polish refugees who had sought an
asylum in his territory.
That with these sentiments they venture to express
their approval of the sympathy jointly evinced by the
Governments of France and England with the high-
minded Sovereign of the Ottoman empire.
But that your memorialists beg, nevertheless, to ex-
press their earnest hope that the refugees may be re-
leased without further delay from their present impri-
sonment, as its protraction in:an unhealthy climate, at
the instigation of their enemies, is calculated to render
nugatory the protection originally afforded to them by
the friendly powers of Europe, and insidiously to accom-
plish by indirect means the cruel and vindictive designs
of their implacable oppressors.
That as the term of banishment was originally meant
to be confined to a short space of time, and the personal
safety of the refugees, as well as the maintenance of the
independence of the Turkish Sultan, formed the grounds
of the interposition of the Governments of England and
France, the entire object of that interposition will be
frustrated by the continued detention of the Hungarian
and Polish exiles, under the dictation of Austria and
Russia, in a country where they are daily exposed to the
most imminent danger from the attacks of disease and the
stratagems, of the assassin.

That your memorialists beg respectfully, yet ur-
gently, to express their deep conviction that the honour
of the British name is irrevocably involved in the protec-
tion and prospects of these unfortunate but illustrious
men, and they venture to express their anticipations that
on this, as on former occasions, your Lordship will
firmly and worthily sustain the character of the British
nation.

REPLY.
,(C9Py.)..

Foreiti-nffice, 21st Nov., 1850.
Sir,—l am desired by Viscount Palmerston to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th, enclos-
ing a memorial signed by yourself and other inhabitants
of Cowren, calling his Lordship's attention to the con-
tinued detention of the Hungarian refugees in Turkey,
and I am to request that you will state to the memo-
rialist, that her Ali•jesty's Government will not tail to
bear in mind the generous and humane wishes which-are
expressed in the memorial.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
STANLEY OF ALDERLEY.

W. B. Williamg, Esq.

DEATH OF LORD NUGENT, M.P. FOR
AYLESBURY.

The Right Hon. George Grenville Baron Nugent, of
Carlanstown, in the county of Westmeath, whose death
we announced in our paper of yesterday, was second %nri
of the first Marquis of Buckingham, by the only
daughter and heir of Robert Earl Nugent, who was
created a baroness ie her oen right in 1800, with the
special remainder to her second son, the late peer. He
was born in December, 1789, succeeded to the title in
March, 1812, and married, 1813. Anne Lucy, second
daughter of the late Major-General Hon. Vera Poulett,
and niece of Earl Poulett. Her Ladyship died in 1848,
leaving no issue. Lord Nugent will be remembered as
having taken an active part in favour of Queen Caroline,
and as the author of " Lands Classical and Sacred," and
other works. In politics he was ever a Whig-Radical.
He represented Aylesbury from 1812 to 1832. In the
latter year, he was uppointed Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands, and remained there until 1835,
when he returned to England with the usual decoration
of G.C.M.G. In 1837 he again offered himself for
Aylesbury, but was defeated; and in 1839 once more
contested that borough, but was again unsuccessful. In
1843, in conjunction with Mr. George Thompson, the
present M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, he addressed him-
self to the constituency of Southampton, and sustained
another defeat; but, on again appearing before the elec-
tors of Aylesbury, at the general election in 1847, his
Lordship was elected in the room of Captain Baillie Ha-
milton, to represent his early friends. It has already
been generally anticipated that the late Lord's successor
will be a staunch Protestant Protectionist, in the person
of Mr. Sergeant Byles,

THE EXPOSITOR. No. IT
A splendid engraving of the interior perspective of
the Crystal Palace invests the new number of the
Expositor with more than usual interest. The spec-
tator is supposed to be looking towards Kensington
Gardens, the view being sketched from near the
transept. A better or more vivid idea could scarcely
be conveyed of this stupendous undertaking. Among
the minor embellishments are some singular and in-
teresting woodcuts of a very novel invention—namely,
of some ornamented bricks, and other architectural
decorations, patented by Messrs. Bowers, Challinors,
and Wooliscroft, Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries.
The following description of these contrivances, as
beautiful as they are unquestionably new, will be
read, we doubt not, with curiosity
These ornamented bricks and decorations, which we
are glad to notice as an improvement of no small pro-
mise, following so speedily upon the abolition of the ex-
cise of bricks, are made from a mixture of clay and
other ingredients, calculated to vitrify with the clay, pre-
cisely in the manner described in the very fully illustrated
account of the Birmingham brick manufacture given in
our second number, with, however, more careful selec-
!ion, grinding, and combination of the clay, and other
ingredients, and the use of the hydraulic-press in the
process of the moulding, by which all air and moisture
are so completely forced out as entirely to obviate the
necessity of exposing, as described, in our former article,
the moulded material to the process of slow drying before
they can with safety be biked. There hydraulic pressed
bricks and clay decorations come from the mould ready
for the kiln, and are baked in the usual manner, when,
from the nature of the ingredients, they assume a vitre-
ous character, lose all absorbent properties, and become
impervious to damp and rain, and can be painted and
grained with the utmost facility, so as to imitate any kind
of oak, rose, satin, or ether woods, or sculptures in stone,
or be gilded without injuring the brilliancy of the gold
leaf. They may supply the place of wood carving in
architectural decoration, and, from their fire-proof na-
ture, add to the safety of the buildings; besides being
about the tenth of the cost of wood carving. Meshy
places now left bare from the expense of such decoration
can, by this equally excellent, if not superior material,
be handsomely adorned at a trifling outlay. Wood
carvings, similar to these we have witnessed in earths a-
ware, would cost from 70s. to 80s. per yard; whereas
the prico, the patentees affix to their material is 7s. Gd.
per yard. The architectural purposes to which it is
fitting are all internal and cm, real decorations of
churches, public buildings, mansions, houses, and shops;
comprising cornices, mouldings, skirting boards, finger
plates for doors; to nott!ch in design any style of archi-
tecture, or the taste of any private individual; and orna-
mental bricks suited fcr arches as well as for facings of
piiaeters. In complying with the new Act of Parliament,
with regard to the joining of shop fronts, which requires
that a distance of nine inches on each side must be left
between every shop front, consisting of a party wall,
proof against fire, by erecting a pilaster of these orna-
mental bricks, not only will a space of nine inches be
gained, a thoroughly fireproof division be erected, but a
graceful appearance, adding to the attractiveness of the
marts of commerce.

" The centrepiece ornament for a ceiling, intended for
the great Exhibition,. from the nature of the material,
displays a freedom and grace rarely accomplished to
similar works, with a sharpness of outline that shows its
capability for minute productions. It is equally appli-
cable for picture-frames, upholsterers' fittings, bed and
window cornices, and all othk r purposes in which mould-
ings and wood-carving are used. The ornaments can be
fixed by means of screws or liquid cement iu any place
where required. From the varied capabilities, fireproof
nature, imperishability from exposure to the weather,
beauty, and price, there is little doubt they will rapidly
come into general use. The inventor is Mr. J. H. Bad-
deley, of Shelton, Staffordshire."
Besides these illustrations, the paper contains some
attractive details respecting the building in Hyde-
park, and a capital sketch of the navigable balloon
recently exhibited in Paris at the Hippodrome.

FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.Captain Forsyth, R. N.,
has addressed the following letter to the Gutta Percha Com-
pany, Wharf-road, City-road, London :—" 14, Stratford-
place Camden...square, Camden-town, November 18th, 1850.
Gentlemen,--It gives me much satisfaction in being able to
bear testimony to the value of Gutta Perch* in constructing
Boats. The Gutta Percha Boat presented to Lady Franklin
by Messrs. Serle and Co., for the use of the Expedition under
my command to the Arctic Regions, proved an invaluable ac-
quisition to the Expedition. Whilst the other Boats con-
structed of wood suffered much by the cutting of the young
ice, the Gutta Percha Boat was not in the least damaged,
and returned to England in almost as good condition as
when she left, although she underwent all the rough work
of the voyage.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient 'servant,
CHARLES C. FORSYTH, Commander, R.N."
RUMOURED DAMAGE TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 7—
It was rumoured throughout London, in the course of Ilea-
day, that the storm of Sunday had done serious damage to
the works in Hyde Park,' and the damage was estimated at
,sums varying from 1,000/. to 400/. The fact is, however,
that, with the exception: of a few unfastened planks which
were blown down from a scaffold, and the destruction of about
telt square fast of glass (which, from not having been pro-
perly secured an Saturday night, was in anything but a fit
state to meet t.. 0 violent a storm), the works have in no re-.
specrehared. We are happy in thus being hble to contradict
rumour, the future propagation of which might operate to
the prejudice of the interests of the exhibition.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN

IN ESSEX.

William Wood, a young determined-looking fel-
low, who has often been in custody for poaching and
other offences, was yesterday brought before Mr. D.
Ede and Mr. Spitty, county magistrates, sitting in
petty sessions, at the Town-hall, Billericay, Essex, for
examination on a charge of having made a desperate
attempt to murder Robert Bambrough, an officer in
the Essex constabulary, by violently maltreating him
and, when insensible, dragging him into a pond, and
leaving him for dead. It mayibe necessary tO mention
that in the course of last week the prisoner was found
poaching on the estate of Lord Petre, in this neigh-
bourhood. After much difficulty he was captured by
the keepers, the gun which he had with bite being
broken in the scuffle. Two pheasants were found in
his pockets, and on being examined hefore the magis-
trates he was committed to the county gaol at Chelms-
ford. On Thursday morning the injured officer was
conveying him along the road to Brentwood, prior to his
removal to ChelmAtord, and on nearing a pond by the
wayside he suddenly turned round upon the officer,
who from kindness had only fastened the handcuffs
to one wrist of the prisoner, the constable having
hold of the other end. Succeeding in throwing the
officer down, and hitting him with the end of the
handcuffs, and jumping upon him, he dragged bim
into a pond and made off. As quickly as possible Mr.
Coulson, the superintendent of the district, had a full
description of the ruffian circulated. He was shortly
traced along the road to Tilbury Fort, where he was
found to have crossed the Thames to Gravesend, some
gentlemen from motives of charity having given him
3d. for the ferry. Mr. Coulson, considering that he
would be making the best of his way to Chatham to
enlist, two expert officers were sent in that direction,
and, on their arrival in Chatham, they found the pri-
soner in custody. He was in a beer-shop in the
Military-road, when the landlord, singularly
enough, read a paragraph in one of the
London papers relating to the affair, and thinking
that the description of the escaped assailant corre-
sponded with that of his guest, the police were called
in, and the prisoner arrested. On the officers of the
Essex constabulary reaching the town, they duly
identified him and removed him to Billericay. The
prisoner, securely ironed, was brought over from Brent-
wood aol yesterday morning by Mr. Coulson, the
superintendent, for examination. The wounded officer
being totally unable to leave his bed, the magistrates
arranged to take his deposition at his cottage, the pri-
soner being present. Bamborough, in his evidence,
gave all the particulars of the assault up to the time
when he was rendered insensible. The prisoner after
striking him with great ferocity, dragged him into
the pond and threatened to drown him, pressing his
knees upon his throat, and filling his mouth and nos-
trils with mud.

A little girl, named Hatch, partly corroborated
the evidence of the officer, and one or two per-
sons living in the neighbourhood spoke to finding him
in the pond in a state of insensibility, and dreadfully
injured by the blows he had received.
The prisoner was ultimately committed to the
county gaol.

NEW REMLUY for SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS.
It has been remarked that many of the happiest
discoveries in science have been the result of mere ac-
cident ; and although to a certain extent this may be
true, yet we shall find, on examination, that we are
less indebtedito the accident itself than to the mind
by vc hich it was perceived. In other words, there are
persons who possess the peculiar faculty of seeing
things through a medium of their own. They are
original thinkers, who view the most ordinary sub-
jects under new aspects, and enjoy a quickness of per-
ception which enables them to seize hold of the prin-
ciple which binds facts together, and is the great
secret of their mutual dependency. The appearance
and relative position of the fixed stars were known to
the Chaldean shepherds before the genius of Coper-
nicus and Newton revealed the laws which appear to
govern the order and harmony of the universe. The
anatomical facts connected with the valvular
structure of the veins and heart indicating the ne-
cessary current of the circulation and the motion
of the blood itself, were known to Eustachius,
Servetus, and Fabricius, long before Harvey pointed
out the physiological principles which govern the cir-
culation. In chemistry, too, it is the same. The
alchemists themselves were well acquainted with the
existence and properties of a vast variety of substances,
the analysis of which only yielded to the superior
abilities of those original thinkers who, like Black,
Cavendish, Sir Humphrey Davy, &c., observed phe-
nomena for themselves, moving in no fictitious atmos-
phere and bowing to no preconceived immaculate
authority. Such men live in a world of their own;
they see not with the eyes of ordinary observers.
They perceive, with intuitive quickness, objects in
new relations ; and suggestions spring up in their
minds, like the imagery which rises up creatively in
the imagination of the poet. Such philosophers make,
not one discovery, but many discoveries. One new
principle of science found out affords a clue to the
solution of a whole' series of mysteries. The thread
of the labyrinth once gained, its intricacies are then
easily explored. When Sir Humphrey Davy, by the
aid of a powerful voltaic battery, decomposed one
earth and pointed out its metallic basis united with
oxygen, it was easy enough to extend the experimen-
tal inquiry to other earths, and decompose in succes-
sion potash, soda, magnesia, &c. So also is vegetable
chemistry. The discovery of Veratria by Dr. Turn-
bull suggested to his mind the discovery of Aconitine ;
therefore we ought not to be surprised that in this
instance also one original thinker, in following out
his own peculiar modes of thought, has the good for-
tune to discover many things which were not before
" dreamed of in our philosophy."
We make these remarks in justice to Dr. Turnbull,
who now appears before us as the inventor of a new
remedy for short-sightedness, an imperfect condition
of vision which is one of the " class diseases" of civi-
lized society. We have all of us probably noticed that
short-sighted people very often partially close their
eyelids, in order to make distant objects more clearly
perceptible. The doctor, in making this observation,
began to reflect on the physiology of the case; and as
the iris, in such instances, is more or less unusually
dilated, it occurred to him that any medicinal agent
that would act upon the iris so as to cause it to contract
would correct the defect. He also naturally enough
reflected, that as the cause of short-sighted tress de-
pends on the convexity of the cornea, as well as on
the convexity of the lens, the effect of contraoting the
iris would be to extend the axis of vision, thereby di-
minishing apparently the convexity of the cornea;
the effect of which must he to make the rays of light
pass in a direct line through an approaching plane,
and thus bring distant objects within its range. The
truth of this theory was established by the result. The
doctor found that the tincture of ginger and the tinc-
ture of pepper, made of a certain strength, and rubbed
over the forehead according to his directions, produced
contraction of the iris; and after this had been ap-
plied, and the plan of treatment he prescribes perse-
vered in, short-sighted persons have completely over-
come the imperfection, and been enabled to lay per-
manently aside their concave glasses. The value of
this discovery is greatly enhanced by its simplicity,
and it certainly deserves a fair trial by the profession.
—Literary Gazette.

PROTESTANTISM IN THE UNITED STATES.—The
subjoined statistics of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States will doubtless prove interesting to our
religious readers. It will be remembered that this church,
allowing for difference of country an.l institutions, i 3 affini.
live with the Church of England. Of this Church there are
in the United States—Dioceses, 29 ; bishcps, 32 ; priests and
deacons, 1,557 ; whole number of clergy in the United States,
1,589. Baptisms—adults, 2,698; infants, 1,51 B; total,
4,214. Confirmed, 7,161; communicants, 87,794. The num-
ber of clergy is as follows in the several diocesets:—New
-fork, 256 ; Pennsylvania, 144 ; Maryland, 128 ;
114; Western New York, 113; Connecticut, 107 ; Massa-
chusetts, 80; South Carolina, 71 ; Ohio. 70; New Jersey,
59; North Carolina, 39; Michigan, 34 ; Illinois, 30; Georgia,
28 ; Kentucky, 28 ; Louisiana, 25 ; Rhode Island, 24 ; Ala-
bama, 23; Wisconsin, 23; Indiana, 21; Tennessee, 21;
Vermont, 21 ; Mississippi, 17 ; Delaware, 16; Missour. , 15;
Maine, 13; Florida, 8 ; Sew Hampshire, 8; Texas, 8; lowa,
; Arkansas, 4; Minesota, 3.

DEATH OF Mas. GORE BELL MARTIN.—The
American journals announce the demise of this lady. which
took place in New York shortly after landing from a voyage
across the Atlantic. Mrs. Martin had been prematurely
confined at sea, and from that moment gradually sunk.
Mrs. Bell Martin was the daughter of the late Mr. Martin,
M.P. for the county of Galway, the proprietor of the exten-
sive estates of Connemara. Yln 1847 she married Mr. Gore
Bell, the nephew maternally of the late Mr. Dillon Browne,
M.P. The decased lady was the author of several valuable
literary productions, and had proceeded to American on A
literary tour.

ASSASSINATION OF AN ARAB BEAUTY.—In Arab
girl, named Majauba, well known at Algiers for her beauty,
has just been assassinated at her residence in that place.
This girl, who was known to be always dressed with a cer-
tain quantity of jewellery about her, was sitting alone,
smoking on her divan, when an Arab, named Sliman-Boug-
doud, suddenly entelitd, and stabbed her in several places
with a poignard. At the same time he commenced tearing
her ear-rings from her ears, and her necklace from her
bosom. The cries of the young woman gave the alarm, and
just as the murderer was leaving the house with the jewels
in his hand, he was met by persons who had beard the out-
cry, and who arrested him. He has been lodged in prison
to take his trial. The poor girl expired shonly after, and
her body was found stabbed in thirty-three places.—French
Paper.

THR GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY AND
THE DANISH GOVERNMENT. The British Government
having, as we lately stated, placed 40,000 Ordnance blankets
at the disposal of the Danish Minister for the use of the army
in Schleswig. the General Steam Packet Company have de-
livered them free of charge to the Danish authorities at Ton-
ningen. For this act of sympathy for the Danish nation,
the Count Reventlow, the Ambassador of Denmark, has, in a
very handsome letter, conveyed to the secretary of the com-
pany his warm acknowledgments. 3.
ULSTER CANAL AND RAILWAY.—A will be
applied for in the next Session of Parliament to make a rait-
way, at Armagh, to the Ulster canal at the town of Caledota.
Mr. Dargan, Who is 110111 almost -the sole proprietor of the
canal, is the iirahiotei of th'erailway, and the works.will be
prosecuted at his Awn expense. The-distance is aboUt Seven
statute miles.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY E V E
........_
~. • „
I*.ig, „, - . , rt,,.°P.-- .'•=l/4121.,.., he could not think it could be held either reasonable or producing the largest possible returns. This is tho•,third TAT TE- RSALL'S-T HIS EVENING
Vi,li gr ' Aoi, I t equitable that the South Wales Company should say position, and with a view to accomplish which the ar-
CHESTER CUP. SIX O'CLOCK.
' -t,. ' '4;'' -liiis ..0•O 'l• l* 0 4e that they would hasten, cr postpone, or abandon, or reggement now laid before you has been devised.
--410-
proceed with the South Wales lice in In all previous attempts that have been made, in
30 to 1 agst Rhesus-taken
DREADFUL BOILER. EXPLOSION.
such a mode and at such a time as might consequence of the resolution of the proprietors ot
,
suit their interest or convenience. The Great Western the 19th December, 1849, the, only principle suggested 50 10 1 cest Clarissa
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Company could not think any such doctrine could be by either party was that of leasing the undertaking, and 50 to 1 agst Wallflower
BRADFORD, Nov, 27.-There has been a dreadful held before any legal tribunal in this country; but they the revenue to be derived from it, to the Great Western 50 to 1 agst Langton
boiler explosion here this afternoon, at the mill of Mr were extremely desirous to avoid the consequences which Railway Company, for a fixed rental, with the surplus 50 to 1 agst Montague
Christo he had indicated; and it was to avoid such evils profits. An insuperable difficulty always arose in 50 to 1 agst Brother to Dough
her Wand in Manchester-road. Two
that the Great Western Company had at agreeing upon this fixed rental. The Great Western
persons have been killed, and three seriously injured. last formed an agreement, almost with the unanimous Railway Ccmpany, assuming these surplus profits te be 66 to 1 agst Lady Eden
_ valuable part of the consideration, while your directors 100 to 1 agst Iron Duke
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. consent of both parties, which they believed was cairn- a
lilted to meet the exigencies of the present time, and to felt, thatinasmuch as the Great Western Railway Con. 100 to 1 agst Sir Richard
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) protect the rights and interests of -both companies. Such pany would have but a limited interest in creating or DERBY.
____,,,,.-__ was the agreement which they presented to the meeting augmenting these surplus profits, the fixed rental wes 100 to 1 agst Glenhaek
A special general meeting of the proprietors of the to- day. They did not offer it in the hope cf ensuring the main part of the consideration on which they could
Great Western Railway Company was held at the corn- the shareholders any large pecuniary profits in the first depend. At the period at which, for the reasons before
pany's offices, at the Paddington Station, at ono o'clock instance; on the contrary, he had prepared them for a stated, it became necessary to decide definitively upon PRICES OF SHARES
-.
this day, for the purpose of considering and, if approved loss at first ; but they offered it as a middle the coarse to be pursued in the future conduct of your
IN 13
of, authorising and sanctioning, and confirming, and di- course between the two companies, with a view of get- affairs, a plan was suggested to both companies which 'INKS ' ASSUP ANCE, AND OTHER COM-
PANIES' STOCK.
renting the corporate seal of the company to be affixed ting rid of some difficulties, and as a jest, a reasonable, appeared capable of avoiding the difficulties which had
to an agreement for a lease from the South Wales Rail- and an equitable agreement; and they were satisfied that previously arisen. This plan consists in leasing the work-
From the Official List.
way Company to this company of the line of railway no agreement whichwas
not
just and equitable, which nig of the line to the Great Western Railway Company, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
between Grange-court and Swausea, with the line to the was not reasonable and practicable, could not by possi- upon terms to be settled from time to time by an arbi-
LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26.
......._..._
m
shipping portlat Swansea, and the Ballo Pill Railway and bility be carried into effect by either party. trator, who should fix a fair scale of tolls adapted to the ,
the Line of Junction of the same with the South Wales Mr. KNAPP, the solicitor to the company, then ex- varying circumstances of traffic, by which would be as- .TOINT-STOCIE wa s.
' Railway, which agreement had beep prepared upon terms plained the chief provisions of the lease, which was taken signed to an account kept for the purpose the whole of Dividend Amount
aid conditioniceolitionally arranged and settled between as read.
the net profits which could be earned upon the lice by Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
_
-
the directors of both companies; and also for the purpose The CHAIRMAN then proposed the following resolu- a company possessing the means of working it in the
Annum. Share.
A s. d. A s. 'd.
of considering and, if approved of, authorising and sanc- tion:-" That the agreement for a lease from the South most economical and advantageous manner-the half of ____ _
these net profits being sold to the tame company for a tustrainsia ...• •• .• •• 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
tinning, and confirming, and directing the corporate seal Wales Railway Company between Grange-court and
gritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 42%
Ceylon .......• ••• • •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
of the company to be affixed to deeds of mutual release Swansea with the line to the shipping port
.at Swansea fixed annual payment. By this arrangement, the amount
ff,
between tbe two companies, whereby the heads of agree- and the Built) Pill Railway, and the line of junction of of the net profits may be fairly and correctly determined Cori ercial cf London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 245 i
by an impartial tribunal. It becomes deeply the interest of Coionial.• • •
Gloucestershire ...... 15/per cent. -
ment between the two companies, dated 2lat of October, the same with the South Wales Railway, and which
- -
11146, and alt other agreements and arrangements what- agreement includes a clause of mutual release between the party working the line to render these profits as large
lonian •• •• .. - ••••• •• ...............Si. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Loudn and Westmaistr . per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27;i
-
ever between the two companies are determined and put the two companies, whereby
.the heads of agreement as possible, and even if the fixed rental should prove less
than the half of such profits, the difference, unless very Ditto .. •• •• --•• •• - - 13 0 0 -
an end to, and which deeds of release have also been between the two companies, dated the 21st
would probably be more than covered.by the gene- London Joint-Stock .•• i 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 18%
of October, prepared. 1846, end all other agreements great,
rat increase which such a mode of working, and the eros(icia)_of Ireland.. 81. per cant. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43
Ditto, New••• •• ••• 8/.per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16
CHARLES RUSSELL, Esq.a_the Chairman of the Com- and arrangements whatever between the two companies
economy effected by it, ought to produce. The orin- - te-
are determined and put an end to, and which agreement = Na.,.11,J of Ireland •• 151. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 o ---
',any, presided.
ciple of this plan was unanimously approved of beeyour gat, I:rovncial of En. 1 Si. per cent. 120 0 0 35 0 0 -
readoleo, New . .. .......5i. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
Mr. SAUNDERS, the Secretary, at his request, having includes also a provision of annulling the same agree-
directors, and negotiations were entered upon by mutual
ment and release unless a counterpart thereof be executed
South
of ••• • • • 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
the advertisement calling the meeting,
consent of the two boards. The fixed rental is to be
Union of Australia.- •• 6'. percent 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
The CHAIRMAN said the directors had convened the by the South Wales Railway Company, and delivered to
subject to areincrease to be settled by arbitration conse- Ditto - ...... ••• • • • 6/• per c. - 210 0 -
the chairman or secretary of this company on or before
meeting to day for the purpose of considering, and if quest upon any additional traffic which may be O'nion of L0nd0n..... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 the 31st December, 1850, and which agreement has been
cerived from an extension of the line to Can.- unieu of 11.faelrIl ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
they should approve it, of adopting the agreement into now read and submitted to this meeting, be and is
merit:en, and it will be open to this company to
-
which the directors of the Great Western Railway Corn- hereby approved, authorised, sanctioned, and c0nfirmed."X.:)2437.1'2,41.31C13 COMPANIES.
pany had entered with the directors of the South Wales Mr. PARRY DE WINTON seconded the resolution. obtain a further increase by arrangement with
- the Great Western Railway Company, before they ex- Dividend Amount
Name of Company. of Paid. Price
Railway Company, which they hoped would have the The shares of the South, Wales Railway were at a dis
Thesepend any money on the line beyond Caermarthen. An `um' sham
effect of placing the relations between the two companies count of 50 per cent. It they were to continue their
line, to say nothing of paying a dividend, how extensions to Caermarthen and westward may be ----
__
on a more friendly and settled footing than they had were they to borrow money for the purpose ? They constructed at considerably less cost by adoption or
~,_, A s. 0. A a. d.
..
single lines, and otherwise, and may be proceeded with d--°n " ''." "•••• •• 2/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 80
been for tho last two or three years.-(Bear, hear.) must have recourse to the resources of an unfinished muliaitltieoe2,isiarirtin. aen..d.y.o.r.. 76iiipsesis.doestnet.s
110000
00
oo 151
oo
00 2814/,,
by more cantious ate s than' would be possible under t'e.,
The heads of the agreement had been for railway, and they would be obliged to raise money on
eei ting agreement. ['The results of thise negotiation are
.11,triete:tv, c . .
some days in the hands of the proprietors. He had no most ruinous terms. That being so, he thought the
now before the proprietors, and they must take upou Argils Life ....... .. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 -
doubt they had made themselves fully acquainted with Pres,ent
farrahngesment the ver best that could be
themselves the responsibility of adopting or rejecting orntnercial:: 7s. 60. 50 0 0 50 0 7%
k..leriel,Mcd.llo Gen.Lne spr ct& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
their contents; and it would only be necessary for him devised or t e outh Wales Ryailway Company, under
to draw their attention to a few of its leading conditions. existing circumstances. diem, and in the latter case of determining the course County .............. 31. too ooto 0 o 82
which the directors are to pursue."
EEau'ro'pein Life •••• • •
riniwa .. -•••••• •• -14 s. SO 0 0 5 0 0 14%
The principles of that agreement were the same as those The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
, The CHAIRMAN, at the conclusion of the reading of se,
" ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
which the directors of the Great Western Railway had Mr. C. TAGARD deprecated the very great advantages
toe report,. rose to defend the coarse he had pursued, in General ... 108. 20 0 0 All paid.
.11
•- - .... - - 5 0 0 5%
always maintained ought to form the basis of the pre- which were given to the South Wales Company under
id opposition to all his brother directors-(Hear, hear)- •din, • - 133
sent agreement between the Great Western and the the present proposal, and
and he stood in the anomalous position of' having to , ~
; laniian
Lapp;i.rilaial
LYiifroe :: :: :.. :: 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
South Wales Railway Company. Those principles be put an end t .
propose a motion against which he intended to vote.-
12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
were first that the Great Western Railway should The CHAIRMAN reminded the Hon. Gentleman that
(Hear, hear.) The proprietors ought to recollect that, Indeinr.iity :'..iarine•••• 1i.5h.84 be. 100 0 0 20 0 0 43
work the South ‘Wales line at its actual; ,coat, the lease had been agreed to, and now only waited
if they adopted the course proposed, they would be en- Law Fire ........ .. -
I," , ande General Life - 100 0 0 210 0 2% without seeking any benefit whatever for the seal of the company being affixed to it.
tering into a new agreement, and giviug up an old one- fie; al - - - 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 43n
themselves for so working it. The next was, that The amendment was not seconded, and therefore it
(Hear, hear)-which he could never consent to without Licensed Victuallers •• -
- 50 0 0 20 0 4%
5001 0 0 -
after providing for the working expenses, all the sur- fell to the ground.
sufficient remuneration.-(Hear, hear.) He contended Gondun Fire •• •• •• •• 108. 25 0012 10 0 17%
plus profits should be regarded as the property of the The seal of. the company was then affixed to the lease,
that if the agreement proposed was adopted by the pro- ,London Ship
South Wales Company ; and thirdly, that the directors and the meeting separated.
proprietors of this company they would be giving au ad- ........... Iss.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
\la. Invlid&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
of the Great Western should give them such a gua-
vantage to the Great Western Railway Company, not •Lfloniii Lean fund.. 5/.per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
rantee as should afford ;to them a certain fixed annual SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. the Great Western Railway giving an advantage to them iiationsi Life.... -
?,ta,idii‘u,sna nee ....
income, to enable them to raise whatever capital they (THIS DAY.) -(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Chairman, after going at
might require, on the most advantageous terms at which An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders some length into the proposed agreement, and contrast-
gpee. Life
3/ . oh tubs. - 143
Profess-ional Life .. ...... sei:er 'cent.' 6-5
0 0 10 0 155.0 d
it could be procured in the market. Those were the of the South Wales Railway Company took place to- in;; the benefits the company already had under the ex- Z'revidcut Life - ... •• • 10 ss. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30
principles which had governed the directors in the pro- day, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of consider- isting one, observed that it had been said they could not ss. 8000 10 0 614 pseud made by the Great Western Railway Company to ing and, it' approved of, authorising and sanctioning and reise money to complete •etheir line to Fishguard. litthop, Exchangeardro
• 6/. 10s. - - 210
- 209
the South Wales Railway Company. The directors of confirming, and directing the corporate seal of the cora- Lie contended that they could; but that was only his iu- DAL: Life ....... .. ~ - - 43
the Great Western, on their part, admitted that these patty to be affixed to an agreement fur a lease from the dicidual opinion. Many persons had said that they United Kingdom
jetp,fe.... •. • -
I Si. per cut. I - 4 12 6 5
think the directors of the South Wales Company Railway Company of the line of railway between Grange We.dern Railway Company, 'because it would ensure • • could reasonably object to them, since whilst they Court and Swansea, with the line to the shipping port them is certain 3 per cent. instead of a contingent 5 pc! WATE.I.L-WOIR.TetS.
left to the directors of the South Wales the at Swansea, and the Bullo Pill Railway, and the line of ctnt. He doubted very much whether the agreement - whole benefit of their own liec, they gave to them junction of the same with the South Wales Railway, would give them a certain 3 per cent., for it must be ap Name
of
company. f Dividend Amount
of Paid. Price.
many other advantages and facilities, and the Great which agreement has been already prepared upon terms parent that it was not very easy to bind the gentle- i Annum. Share.
Western Company obtained nothing but that benefit and conditions conditionally arranged and settled between men connected with the Great Western Company - , , -- --
which would result from a friendly and uniform work- the directors of both companies, and will be read and sub- If he was sure the agreement would bind EAst Londe
160
ing of the two lines in immediate connexion with each mitred to the meeting. And also for the purpose of them, he should have no objection to it, a -
ri..- •• •• •• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 '. d.
.t, _rand Janetien ••• • • 41. per wit. 50 0 0 - 72%
Other. The difficulty, however, did not coro.ist so Much considering, and if approved of, authorising and sane- withtthe exception of the point of consideration. Consi- e5ea................• 1 ea. 103. 100 0 0 - 76
in determining on the principles as in fixing on the details, tonal and confirming, and directing the corporate seal Bering the situation in which he stood, he had tendered Lambeth ...... ••- • • ( 6/. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 97
his resignation to the directors-(Cries of " No, ") Now Itivr Luau Brdge 21. 10s. - - 57%
by which effect could be given to those principles in a of the conapany to be affixed to deeds of mutual release
no - Vauxhall ............ 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 93
manner which would be satisfactory to both parties. That between the two companies, whereby the heads of bat they had requested him to preside to-day, and ie West enedlesex •. . 61.05. pr mit - - lit
object the directors of the Great Western had attempted agreement between the two companies dated 21st Oc- sonsequence of that request he had done so. If the fproprie-
to accomplish in the present agreement. The means tober, 1846, and all other agreements and arrangements ten consented to adopt the agreement, he should,ationce DOOMS.
Were somewhat new, but practical men would see that whatever between the two companies are determined bow to their decision-(Hear, hear) having stated his Dividend Amount
they were practicable; and if so, they would unquestion- and put an end to, which deeds of release will also be objections to it. The Hon. Chairman having regretted Noma of Coineaey. per of Paid. Price.
ably assist the Great Western Company in surmounting read and submitted to the meeting. dissenting with his •:brother directors, sat down' amid Annum. Share.
-
_
very considerable difficulties. The mode by which the The Hon. C. R. M. Talbot, the chairman of the much and long-continued cheering. 4s. d. 4a. d.
working expenses were to be calculated was fully set company, took the chair shortly. after one o'clock, when Mr. MaTTHEws, at some length. proposed a resolution oast and West IniVa... 60 pr cent. Stock. - 141
orth in the 6th article of the agreement, which had been the usual preliminaries having been gone through, to the effect that the agreement sdould be adopted. gost Country - -
distributed among the proprietors. The meeting would ob- The SECRETARY read the following report:- Mr. MORTImER seconded the resolution. tionaen
Ditto Bonds- •• • 4/. per cent. - -
-120 U
-
serve they were te be taeen not at their actual cost under the "In submitting to you the agreement for a lease of a Mr. S. LEWIS said it had been stated that the chair- Seleathartne •• •• -•• 4 per cent. Stock. - 78
superintendence of a common accountant, as was the case portion of the South Wales Railway undertaking to the man was the only person at the board who objeCted to Ditto, Scrip • ...... • - - 85 00 - with the present agreement, but they were to be pro- Great Western Railway Company, of which the heads, the agreement proposed. He had always objected to it;
ialtto B ot no
nds : : ....
ceeenntt.
, 50 -0
0 50 -0
0 -9%
Tided for by a fixed certain proportion of the fare of every embracing considerable detail, and agreed upon between and having done so, he placed his seat in the hands o! P p
passenger, and of all the charges on every description of the respective boards, have been printed and circulated the proprietors.-(Hear, hear.) 337ZIEGES
merchandise, such proportion to be determined by arbitra- amongst the proprietors, the directors were desirous of Mr. CHAPMAN was delighted at the speech of the Dividend Amount
tion, and to be subject to revision at periods of five years. leaving the proprietors entirely free and uninfluenced by chairman, believing that if they entered into the pro Name of Company. per
Share.
Paid. Price
The advantage to the Great Western Company in this any arguments of their own to judge for themselves of posed agreement it would he one of the tamest sur- Annum. Share.
- -
mode of arrangement was considered to consist in this- the expediency or inexpediency of accepting the terms render of their rights that had ever been witnessed on A. s. d. Z. a. d.
that every ponied of five years, at all events, they should therein provided. They consider that the proprietors the part of any company, added to which, if the deed Charing-cross• ••••• •• - - - 15
themselves retain whatever benefit might result from are already possessed of sufficient data to enable them was once executed, tho proprietors must remem- iouthwrk. .......... - 100 0 0 -8% economy or from improved modes of management. It to judge of the difficulties of their position, and of the her they would part with their property for ever.o 0
cvDa
tiotrtito re
.of.7.te.p.c: 355. per cent.
10050 0 0 - 16
3
-
provided to them, therefore, motives to economy, and to eligibility or ineligibility of the measure now before - (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He hoped the expression Dug) Old A.nn. oft!. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 24
adopt such improved modes of management. The ad- them. In meeting the proprietors assembled expressly of the meeting to-day would settle the question at once Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 1/. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 et%
vantage to the South Wales Company was sup. for the purpose of deliberating amongst themselves, and for ever
of the intention of the company to go to Vauxhall .... •• • Ay. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
posed to consist in this, that the arrangement the directors think it right, with the view of assisting iaishguard, and to make the Great Western Company CA.P.t.A.Z.S.
holds out inducements to the Great Westerm them in their judgment, and to clear away misconcep- perform the provisions of the agreement that already 1.1 I ti 'Dividend
to increase the traffic by every means in their tions as to the position of the company, and also to ex- existed. It had been said that the company could not Names of ILi Dividend, . Names of
i Price. per
power - (Hear, hear) -inasmuch as their own plain the circumstances which led them to attempt an raise the !means to go to Fishguard. He laughed Companies. get 1 per 1 Cenipanles. a Annuu. Price.
• remuneration over the working expenses would depend arrangement at this particular period, and to submit to nt such an assertion. All that he was afraid of was the ce Annum.! C
on the increase of such traffic. Those were the advan- the proprietors fOr their approval the terms which are proprietors becoming traitors to themselves.-(Hear.) - - ,-.
X 1 £
tages which were, supposed would result from this mode now before them, to state precisely these circumstances: Ito should oppose the agreement to the last. eaten& 01dh 971 71. 113 Macclesfield • 100' 21.105. 50
of calculating. the working expenses. The difficulty -With resist:et to the period, your directors must remind Mr. hfAcNAnGHTEN, a director, defended the 1601 e
Barnsley...., 1_ 1. 18 0 Neath -•• • • 100 16/. 340
e agree- tlrkak&Abrg 150, 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 185
would .be in determining such proportions in a manner you that it is now more than five yeurs since the com- [milt.
dirmingham 40 ,' 41. SS Peak Forest. 78 ( 31. 18a. 70
which should be sufficient for the Great Western Corn- pany was originally incorporated. In the following Mr. Duncaw, as a lawyer, contended that what was Coventry.. •• 100' 251. 260 Regent's •• - 331 1/. 01. 18%
pany and just to the South Wales Company.- year the entire line was authorised. At this period the asked could not be done at such a meeting as this, Derby ••• • • 100; Si. 63 Rochdale.... 551 _ 4_l. 42
(Hear, hear.) There was a certain degree company was independent, and the whole of the capital or any other general meeting. He contended that unless .Irnasndeirjeueencoetns
11033, 3451.
6./14 Silro rradosatl 150 76 li.
pl O.
n..
_-
of intricacy which attached to the plan and had been subscribed upon the merits of the undertaking the consent of every proprietor was obtained the meet- Do., 6 pr. Ct. 7Ss ' -83 i Strewstfd&Wore 14120 28/. 405
of danger that it might leadt to litigation. The Great itself. Shortly after this, in October, 1846, the heads of ing could not aunul.the lease that at present existed with Grand Surrey 100' 2/. Os. 33% Shebury.. 125 'sl* -
Western Comprny had been induced to acquiesce in it agreement for completing the line, and leasing it when the Great Western Company. It was impossible as long ic--;rere'V et:illy/2" 13090
716/. la. 24
sSteovuretraldnze..
-(1.1• 145 201. 290
from a desire that they would obtain the confidence of so completed to the Great Western Railway Company, as a single proprietor objected for the directors, or Lancaster •1100 4.1. 32 Wye Rail. t 26 21. OS. 24
the South Wales Company, that the Great Western was entered into and ratified by the proprietors of the two any one, to tear the seals of the Great Western i4eds&Livrplloo 241. 325 Warwick& 1 41. 64%
Company would work the line bond fide for the benefit companies. The amount then estimated as requisite and the present company from the lease that Leicester -
• • 100 5/. 66 Rirmlng. j 100
of the South Wales Company, as well as for their was i four millions. Upon the faith of the guarantee so at present existed.-(Hear, hear.) The lion. Gentle- t;%teitice'it-irnoil;rl're the
1843
740/i.
5418034 Wra tic"} 100 31. 42
own. But there was a provision in that agree- secured investments were made in other lines, which -it man concluded by moving as an amendment a resolution Nro,mouthgsbi 100 81. - WorePsfrn& a
ment by which the Great Western were to allow the is estimated will involve an addition to the expenditure to the effect-" That it was incompetent to the corn- ►"1 ''''M )
I,' t.. r -oh, 100 - - Birming. 75 31. 4034
South Wales teompeny to adopt any other mode of about 175,0001., upon which the Great Western Rail- pany to annul the lease that at present existed with the NfeltnAl wbry, 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 1 ls. 6%
whenever tho other two companies should consider way Company were to have paid interest. Rather more • Great Western Company."
it desirable to do so. The working expenses and other than four years have now elapsed. Any delay in the Mr. MoxoN seconded the amendment. 0.8.3-I.ICIIT AND CORE COMPANIES.
charges having been amply provided for in the manner progress of the works which may have occurred up to The CHAIRMAN said that counsel's opinion had been Dividend Amount
he had described, the profits were to be regarded as the the preeent time has unavoidably arisen from the peen- teken, and that pinion•that the meeting Nam° of c°mPanY.
tees, - per of
Arninm. Share. Paid. Price.
property of the South Wales Company. But instead of liar difficulties of the times and measures of prudence in potent to do what was asked. Perhaps, under the sir- ---
the directors of the Great Western Company •guaran- the rate of expenditure have been adopted for the benefit cemstances, it would be better to take the opinion of X. s. d. A. s. d.
teeing, as they did under the old arrangement, that those of the Great 'Western Railway Company as large the meeting upon the original resolution. British ••••• •• • ••• ••• ••• " 1/. 40 0 0 18 0 0 13
Ditto rrovincial•• •• II 8s 20 0 0 20 0 0 18%
profits should always amount to a specific sum, the Great shareholders in common with yourselves, and with Mr. DUNCAN had no objection to the adoption of such rtrighten ••••••• • • • • • s'l. . 20 0 0 - -
Western Company were to purchase one-half of those the full concurrence of that company sitting at your a course, but he begged to inform the directors that City of London .. •• •• G/. ISO 0 0 150 A 0 - profits .for the specific amounts which were stated in the hoard. To any such postponement of the comp- Veers were proprietors who would held the directors Continental Consolleat. 923. 75 0 0 31 5 0 -
first article of the agreement, and the other half of those letion cf the whole uriciertuking, therefore, the per.onally liable if they adopted the -
teen table. , .. •• .. •• ••
course now pro- imperial ............ 50s, 50 0 0 50 0 0 - -
U. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
profits, were to be taken by the South Wales Company. Great Western Railway Company cannot have nor have petted, and allowed the seals of the Great Western and Independent ......... 60 40 0040 0 0 46
He believed that that principle would work aclvanta- they ever mentioned any ground of disappointmece the present company to be torn from the existing lease. :icridon.. ............ _ 50 0050 0 0
geously to both parties. It would define and The proprietors are aware that in the lest session ( The meeting had not concluded when our repot„''left.)
Do., Pail. Preference - 50 0050 0 0 - limit th riek-and some risk there: must always
61. 25 0 0 2 10 0 -
powers were obtained to raise by the issue of preference
E'hcnim . •......... „ 4%0 50 0 0 49 0 0 28%
be in every commercial undertaking-to so incon- charts any deficiency in our capital. With these powers ITALY. Batcliff •• •• •..••• • •• 51. 100 0090 0 0 -
siderable an extent as to occasion no pressure to either
50 0 0 50 0 0 15%
it might be urged by the Great Western Railway Coen- . Jolted General ...... 11.
party; and it would not only give a fixed annual income OPENING OF THE SARDINIAN CHAMBERS. qestrair.sterCkartered as. 50 0 0 -48 n
pany, that we are iu a position to proceed at once to to;the South Wales:Company,and adequate to meet all their THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. Ditto, New •• •• -• .. l9:. 5O 0010 0 0 , 9'4
complete the entire line. To raise upwards of 1,000,000/.
-- -- -
wants, but a full participation in whatever improvement The Chambers of Turin were opened on the 23i, isZetee oP SCOTTISH COMPA.NZES' anucrs
p p
of money required for this e ur ose on advantageous
might hereafter take place, as they all hoped it would take terms, it would be desirable to go before the public with by the King in person. His Majesty read the ful- Dividend Amount
place, in the South Wales line when its traffic should be
the co operation and assistance of our lessees, and the lowing speech:-
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
fully developed, and the resources of' the company should renewed assurance that their guarantee was available "
Signori Senatori, Signori Deputati-On the open. - Ann-am. Share.
be brought into action. Nor add he think that any ob-
- - -.et ...._._ - ,as security to the parties about to invest their money. leg of the late session I addressed to you words of •-
.z. a. 0, I .1-4: s . d
jection could be taken to the amounts specified in the In another matter it is also desirable to act in concert confidence and hope. Your acte have fully justified ns.nk of Scotland
first article, by which effect was to be given to that prin-
-3ritlsli Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0
00
319192
with the Great Western Railway Company. We have them, and I feel the greatest satisfaction in acknois-
ciple• The Great Western purchased half of the South given notices for an application to Parliament for lodging the fact on this •- solemn occasion. The edi- "itsldoeil,.v Boawmk
g Bank . 681pe,erreeeennt.t.
101 0 oo
120.2(0) 0 1154
Wales profit; at a sum exceeding 31,0001., on the a,ssump. powers to effect certain improvements in the line, several lice of our institutions is already using on the Clydesdale ank -•• • •• 63,i per
cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 '1314
tion that in the first year the total sum would amount to essential means of communication with the ,e
lusting greucciwork laid by my august father, and receiving S,loniffiercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 1794%
about 63,0001.; and they (the Great Western) purchased
Eastern Bank •• • per cent. 25
00
0c;1 105 0 0 4}l
shipping ports, and with some new docks likely to be daily strength from the wisdom and prudence of m Par- 13-a.n.k. 667/.
one-half of those profit=, at the expiration of ten years, very beneficial to the traffic of' the line, and to perfect liament and the confiding tranquillity of the peoleyof the E,l2linotbanazGoluansk Vi:
g "of Scot 4/:ppeerr cent. 5
100
at a suns exceeding 51,000 L, on the assumption our arrangements in the Foi est of Dean. These several state. Organising a state on the basis of that de eee Tole of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
that the whole profits would then amount te at works, though not essential to the completion of the of liberty which solely rests upon just laws,' intg'ar- "ti°ll'd Be'l.' 634 per cent. 50 0010 0 0 15%
keen 103,000/. New, looking at the present traffic of base, are or great importance to the value of the line daily applied and universally obeyed, has atP all g
Nooriki.►cil,t:.iostiliailnadlll.3kitk. 40percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0
_2% 1
the South Wales liee, he admitted Celt in the itself and should the undertaking ever revert to the pro- times been considered an undertaking most worthy Reyre.' 1 Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 - - 0
0 100 3 0 183
earlier years of this a:tree:pent, the Great Western priaders of the South Wales Company, and their revenue of
human virtue. Let us continuo this great Union Bent of Scotland Si.per cent. 100
00
00 5500 0
00 903471
Company would, peehe ps, be losers; but they go dependent upon the receipts of the line, the failure to work, and let the Italian soil give the noble svecisaLnell 11.3 j :Ir.'? 'al. d. ~
Life.e 8711V1). eprr ceeenntt.. 5100 0 0 10 (1 0 20 4 i
were lookiees to the permanent edvanteges of the agree- obtain these powers at the present time, and even the example of a people who, surrounded on all sides by B. Accerd.Lifeaad Fire - 20 0 0 10 0 -
meat; and taking the extreme sum of 63,000/, in the uncertainty of our proceeding without some of them destruction, had the courage and wisdom to construct. aritish Guarantee Ins. at. per rent. 10 0 00
101
,0)
00 1521361 , first year, and 103,0001. at the expiration of ten years, during the 'text six months, may inflict a serious and par- Fer this purpose we must above all strive to introduce .oieletnitil.,eliaLnifenire Insur. 101. per cent 1500 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 11 /. 4s. I
the profits which the Great Western Company assumed manent injury upon The company. The Great Western order in our finances. The increasing prosperity of the 0',4 of' Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 '2O 153 ;
did not really materially differ from the amounts which Railway Company may allege that under the heads of country offers us the most efficacious means for that pur- eldinburgla Life Insur GI. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20 i
were suggested by the South Wales directors themselves agreement, their consent is necessary to these proceed- pose, and the tried readiness of the Piedmontese people east of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 -
i
in the proposal made to the Great 'Western Corn- jags. This consent was applied for under very similar to make sacrifices called for by circumstances will render !tee. st Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 2%
100 0 0 10 0 0 . -'
, PanY in the month of May hat, nor was there circumstances iu the last session of Parliament, but was the task still easier. aereußs Insurance Co.
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd• • -
- 100 0 0 10 0 0 1
much greater difference than might take place in the refused, the Great Western Railway Company declining " Let me particularly cell your attention to the laws Life Assc.c. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 100 IL 18s
*laws between the parties who were to lease and the to assign any reason for such refusal :we are shortly nhieh my Ministers will propose to you with that View, gercantile Life ...• -3% per ct.o 10 0 , -
10 0 0 1 0 0 1245.0 d I
Paritiell to whom the line was to be leased. But beyond
Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0
approaching the time when this consent will again be up- as also to those which relate to the improvement of the ;41iaartitTioniagitsr;it andi,sur.
pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 1 25%
the immediate advanteges of the 'agreement, they must plied for. These are the principal circumstances which various civil as well as military administrations. I North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 001 0 0 ,
not overlook the great advantae, es, as he believed, to both render it inexpedient - ' • trust that the commercial treaties, lately concluded, or Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 00011 0 - '-'
to postpone a decision as to our
o 0 015 0 1 - r
parties, which theuld.result from setting at rest all those future course. There are three positions,in •
one of whichshortly to be so, • hnations,and the
with some
Scot. Mass, and Gen. Life -
20 0 0 1 0 0 249 6d
and other difficulties, whether legal or pecuniary, with the company may now be placed. We which will be introduced in the economical law.: will -cot.lsh J,iionlnsrnce. GUI. pr con.
may now proceed .
which unquestionably the old a - ' twas ly rassed.
greemen em .1. at once to take the necessary steps to enable us to corn- pve our commerce greater extension and an increase of United Dep.Asearance 51. per cont. 10 0 0 10 0 (155 9d ti
a
-(Hear, hear.) That agreeme-at was made in very dif- plete the line to Fisbgusrd. To accomplish this object, profit.
-----s:
ferent times, and adopted under very different circum- it would be necessary to raise a sufficient amount by pre- "The friendly and pacific relations between my Go-
stances. It had been subjected to various changes and ference shares to enable us to issue the remainder of our verament and foreign States have not suffered any LAW INTELLIGENCE.
conditions. It was admitted by all parties th ct it was debentures (660,0000, the residue of the capital must variation. The efforts of my Government have not INSOLVENT DEBTOIIS' COURT, Nov. 27.
not desirable, at present et least, to comple:e the line as the•n be raised by preference shares. The rate of in- succeeded hitherto in overcoming the difficulties which (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)
it__ was originally proposed to do; and the Great Western tcrest at which this money could be obtained would de- have arisen with the Court of Rome, in consequence MARSHAL HAYNAU'S RETREAT AT BANKSIDE -IN RE
directors werequite aware of e e which s • - • • • WILLIAM BENFIELD.
the laneueee vva
heldof pend very materially upon the course which the Great or certain laws which the powers of the State de
out doors. That lecteuage of course reached
This insolvent, the keeper of the George public-house, c
Western Company might take. The character of
, therefuse to introduce in the
could not new political and
~ t
their ears, anti it was nrole bl t' n isthat it should
General la nau retreated b • '
kay ea ended - legal organizetion of' the country. The rule of our con- Bankente, where on being at- K-
reach them. The
113% dra men a 1.
extreme ad t oca of the South Wales volved in carrying out this portion of the undertaking may duct has constantly been the respect we all profess for tacked by Berclay arid Perkins s y ,pp zed under ot
Bead, " Stand on our extreme rtes
igots; wait till your be seriously effected by the relations which may exist be- the Holy See in conjunction with a firm resolution to the Protection Act on his interim
order.
line is open to you, e,.
et
if it passes, well and goad; if it does not, then proceed on tween us and our lessees. A large portion oreuch expen_ uphold the in;lependence of our legislation. Faithful to Mr. Dowse supported.
Zt whatever cost; stake
eyto Fhir.,guerd and Monmouth, diture may he employed unprofitably to both companies; our duties,snd persevering in the exercise of our rights, There was no oppositioncreditors to theap- •
by the
on the cast of a die,
and see if you cannot Totrclengt' much of it would be needless, and so far wasted. We we hope that time and the happy influence of religion Plieatlerh pt
ae here with
before the Court was attributed to the
the Great Western Railway Com ''' ~ ' cannot conceive the possibility of any just grounds for and civilization, will enable us to establish that harmony The appearance e„ D
Company' The ex- , •
profite of the George (now known as Marshal Hay-
Creme partisans of the Great Western also 'g &noting that we should ensure the due perlortuance of which is one of the first want: of the social state. th
"Let us stand on the consp!etien of the tio ii. sal", the terms and conditions of the lease. We have done, and " Thu Princes of my family have ,sought no other eau's Refuge") being totally inadequates to meet the ne- se
contained in our age eement, mid in the event of ti:na
°Hilts we no doubt should continue to do, everything that we riches save the esteem and the love of the people ; yen cessety expenses of the business._
Ttra_nge
.to Fay, the s„
fulfilment of these covenants let us exact the per:allies can ascertain to be requisite on our part. But it might have undertaken to prove that their conduct was not so insolvency was owing to the numstbosmerosf
lveifstittoirles tothe sir
in our favour." NOW, the directors of either company be difficuit, and 'would certainly be costly, completely to roue? a noble abnegation as a just and well-merited nCi-ae° 'CI br
hadwhich
the regularcuout of house."'l
had not thought it wise or prudent to take, tho counsel of provide against the risk of litieatinn if an WiWilling lessee confidence. This new proof of your confidence, added to . '
.svisited e premises curiosity, without ge
such advisers. They conceives, however erroneously, that he hasgrounds of
deprecated such feelings and such
tee ce imelete and unanimous devotedness which has en- partaking of refreshments, and the customer who had go
objection. 1. he alternative embraces the other two posi- ailed you to support the weight of a long session, is, in lunched and dined at the place departed in consequence rib
opinions. They knew that the course they were obliged tions: the company,by otherwise ma •be
agreement or , y . .
my eyes, a certain pledge of the good understanding of the visitors.
sea,
to take was full of difficulty and full of telanger. :eft in the inc.
The Court named a day in December for the consi- g ,
might result pendent possession of its own line, and existing between the porters of the State. Strong, lot -
They knave that the legal evil which , may derive its revenue from the development cause
from following such advice was en endless
and costly
we traverse without
ther b traffic which may fairly be expected upon it. The serioue difficulties of the present peried, anal attain that .
ht
litigation between parties who were bound toge.e Y attainment of this position, however, would be attended tutelar and honourable stability which can only result '
a local position, andetill more ciotely bound by a common
L with uncertainty, and the revenue must materially dc- from the confidence of the people, founded on the good k this week contain Pl'
'I he accounts from New Yor „ ,
interest. They knew that the pecuniary evils that might pond upon the terms on which traffic nae be
. inter- fxitia of the Sovereign and the probity of the Govern. Califs b;, -,,,,.:-...,1 1,...1..., 1...4- nAlTinna an 1,.•,-- i,-.,.. 4_ net
result frozu such a courre was the issue of A. large changed with the Gre.at even_ ss -,---'y. e

amount of preference shares, which c..waysT over-
whelmed the interess of the original sharektoldbrs, in
*Lich, let tho meeting nnacrabcri they: had' a large
common b take with the original shareholders of the
South Wales Company. Tie Great .Western Railway
Company had never raised it single'cinestion as to what
covenant was or was not, or what covenant could or
could not be fulfilled by the South Wales Company, but

tself. Shortly after this, in October, 1846, the heads o
agreement for completing the line, and leasing it when
so completed to the Great Western Railway Company,
was entered into and ratified by the proprietors of the two
companies. The amount then estimated as requisite
was i four millions. Upon the faith of the guarantee so
secured investments were made in other lines, which it
is estimated will involve an addition to the expenditure
of about 175,0001., upon which the Great Western Rail-
way Company were to have paid interest. Rather more
than four years have now elapsed. Any delay in the
progress of the works which may have occurred up to
the present time has unavoidably arisen from the pecu-
liar difficulties of the times and measures of prudence in
the rate of expenditure have been adopted for the benefit
of the Great Western Railway Company as large
shareholders in common with yourselves, and with
the full concurrence of that company sitting at your
hoard. To any such postponement of the comp-
letion cf the whole undertaking, therefore, the
Great Western Railway Company cannot have nor have
they ever mentieued any ground of disappointment.
The proprietors are aware that in the lest session
powers were obtained to raise by the issue of preference
shares any deficiency in our capital. With these powers
it might be urged by the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, that we are iu a position to proceed at (nee to
complete the entire line. To raise upwards of 1,000,000/.
of money required for this ;purpose on advantageous
terms, it would be desirable to go before the public with
the co operation and assistance of our lessees, and the
renewed assurance that their guarantee was available
es security to the parties about to invest their money.
In another matter it is also desirable to act in concert
with the Greve Western Railway Company. We have
given notices for an application to Parliament for
powers to effect certain improvements in the line, several
essential means of communication with the existing
shipping ports, and with some new docks likely to be
very beneficial to the traffic of the line, and to perfect
our arrangements in the Fol est of Dean. These several
works, though not essential to the completion of the
Lase, are of great importance to the value of the line
itself, and should the undertaking ever revert to the pro-
prietors of the South Wales Company, and their revenue
be tic pendent upon the receipts of the line, the failure to
obtain these powers at the present time, and even the
uncertainty of our proceeding without some of them
during the next six months, may inflict a serious and per-
manent injury upon The company. The Great Western
Railway Company may allege that under the heads of
agreement, their consent is necessary to these proceed-
jags. This consent was applied for under very similar
circumstances in the last session of Parliament, but was
refused, the Great Western Railway Company declining
to assign any reason for such refusal : we are shortly,
approaching the time when this consent will again be ap-
plied for. These are the principal circumstances which
render it inexpedient to postpone a decision as to our
future course. There are three positions, in one of which
the company may now be placed. We may now proceed
at once to take tho necessary steps to enable us to com-
plete the line to Fishgusrd. To accomplish this object,
it would be necessary to raise a sufficient amount by pre-
ference shares to enable us to issue the remainder of our
debentures 060,0000, the residue of the capital must
the'n be raised by preference shares. The rate of in-
terest at which this money could be obtained would de-
pend very materially upon the course which the Great
‘Veszern Company might take. The character of the
works, the mode of proceeding, and the expenditure in-
volved in carrying out this portion of the undertaking may
be seriously :fleeted by the relations which may exist be-
tween us and our lessees. A large portion of such expen-
diture msy be employed unprofitably to both companies;
.much of it would be needless, and so far wasted. We
cannot conceive the passibility of any just grounds for
doubting that we should ensure the due performance of
the terms and conditions of the lease. We have done, and
we no doubt should continue to do, everything that we
can ascertain to be requisite on our part. But it might
be diffieuit, and Would certainly be costly, completely to
provide against the risk of litigutinn if an unwilling lessee
conceives, however erroneously, that he has grounds of
objection. The alternative embraces the other two posi-
tions: the company, by agreement or otherwise, may be
:eft in the independent possession of its own line, and
may derive its revenue from the development of the
traffic which may fairly be expected upon it. The
attainment of this position, however, would be attended
with uncertainty, and the revenue mutt materially de-
pend upon the terms ou which traffic may bo inter-
changed with the Great Western Railway, whatever
traTic 'bight_ result from other sources. The questiou,
therefore, ariJts, i',hether the ~revenue may not be con-
with the Great Western Railway Com-
siderfibly, increased, and a greater certainty secured, by
etuld ensure their working
-the line with
which their plant and resources
panana3r.,rawnhglecmh
would enable them to do, and in the most' advantageous
the greatest economy
manner, with their interest embarked with yours in

"Thu Pikces of my famiiy have !sought no other
riches save the esteem and the love of the people ; yon
hairs undataken to prove that their cunduct was not so
much a noble abnegation as a just and weli-merittd
confidence. This new proof of your confidence, added to
tre ccinplete and unanimous devotedness which has en-
aLkd you to support the weight of a long session, is, in
my eyes, a certain pledge of the good understanding
existing between the powers of the State. Strong, bi?-
cause united, we shall traverse without obstacles the
serious difficulties of the present period, anti attain that
tutelar and honourable stability which can only result
Irons the confidence of the people, founded on the good
of the Sovereign and the probity of the Govern-
ment."

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- - , -
A s. d. A s. d.
A.nstrainsia .. -••- - 245. 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
gritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 42%
Ceylon ........ ••• • •• 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Corranercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24%
Colonial .• • • -
Gloucestershire ••• • • • 15/per cent. - - -
lonian •• •• •• -••• • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
isoudn raid Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
- - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock .•• Gt. per cent. 50 0 0 19 0 0 18%
erovlneia) of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43
Ditto, New••• •• •• •• 8/.per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16
gatiehal of Ireland •• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 --
gat. Provncial of Eng. Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. ••••• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia ••• • • • 6/, per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Union of Australia 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto ........ ••• • • • 6/. per cent. - 210 0 -
Jnion of London. •• •• 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid ..... ..._ 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
X.:)2437.17a.11.313 2 COMPATCSEEIts
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
--------_..-- -......._ ____,
A s. 0. A s. d.
4-11,1011 •••••••• • • • • • • 2/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Illiance Brit. and For. 7114 s 6d& bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 21%
Ditto Marine.- •• •• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 634
,tiny • .
Argus Life ....... .. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 -
[lnnen Commercial .. Is. 60. 50 0 0 50 0 734
Cleriel,Mcd.& Gen. Life spr et.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20
County .......... - - 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 82
Cfliwn --••-.. •• •• 14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
Eagle .•..
European Life •• -• • lOs. 20 0 0 All paid.
.11
;eneral --••- .• •• - - 50 0 534
(11,, • - 133
rixtrdian
finperlid ?ire -•.• • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 230
Imperial Life --..- 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1614
fildeinnity Marine.- 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 43
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 210 0 2%
GAR' Life -- • • - 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 4334
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 434
Licensed Victuallers •• - 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Londun Fire -....- 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17%
London Ship
Uerine •. • ..... ••• • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
\fed. Invlid& Gen. Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 234
ationni Lean fund.. 5/.per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
gational Life.... -
?I,lladium Life ......
'ilQuix . - - 145
Professional Life •• 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 155.0 d
Z'rovident Life - ... •• • 1/. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 v 30
aock. Life-- - - .... ss, 50 0 010 0 6'4
IZ:-.)yal Exchange 6l. p.et. & be. Stock. - 210
;en Fire - - 209
DAL: Life ..... ..... 11. 6e. - --43
United Kingdom .... 41. p. et. & be. 20 0 0 40 0 3%
Jniversal Life.... -. . I 10% et. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ti, feria Life • 51. per cut. I 412 6 5

TWATZ.I.t-V7ORTEIS
-
I Dividend Amount
Name of Company. / ~,r of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---
,
4 s. d. 4 s. d.
E.ist London•••• •• •• •• ' 8/• per cent. 100 0 0 - 160
1
Grand Junction ••• • • • , 41. per eta. 50 0 0 - 72%
;cat... ..... •• ...... 1 31. 103. 100 0 0 - 78
Lambeth - 97
Now ltivr Lndn Brdge 21. 10s. - - 57%
Vauxhall ............ 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 98
West T.ll.l3lvsex • . • 61.05. pr cnt. - - 111
EDOCE.S.
Dividend Anieunt
Nan n 3 of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- - -
. d. S
Bast and West Int Va... 6/. pr cent. 4 Stock. - 141
Bast Country - -
London .... • - 12014
Ditto Bonds.. ... •• • 4/. per cent. - - -
it. T;atharine •• •• - - 4 per cent. Stock. -- 78
Ditto, Scrip.. - - - 85 0 0 -
Ditto 80nd5.... - •• 4%1. pr cent. - - -
3outhampton .. -- •• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 9%
337ZIXIGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- -
X. s. d. X. s. d.
Charing-cross.• • • .. • • - - - 15
iouthwrk .......... - 100 0 0 -8%
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16
Taterloo ............ - 100 0 0 - 3
Dittl Old Ann. ofsl. 11. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 24
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 1/. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 21%
Vauxhall .... ••• Ay. 11. 70 10 3 - 18
CArt.21.3113.•
i Price.
I • , 1 . Dividend
Names of ILi Dividend, Names of ,c!; 1
Companies. A, 1 per per
cr. Annum. i c
Cerapanies.
.E.,1. Ann, . Price.
-•-•--- -.------1- ---- - - -
1 X
Ashtn& oldh 97 I 71. 113 Macclesfield • 100' 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.. • • 1601 121. 180 Nestle .. •• • • 100 16/. 340
Llrkuk&Abrg 150 b/. 85 Oxford.. .• • • ioo 201. 185
Birmingham 40, 41. 86 Peak Forest. 78 31.18 e. 70
Coventry.. • . 1001 251. 260 Regent's • ... 331 1/. 04. 18%
Derby ••• • • 100 Gl. 63 Rochdale.... 851 41. 42
Ellsairc&Chs 133' 355. 26% Somrset Coal 150 7/.los. -
lrandJunetn 100 41. 67 Do.LkFdSt 12181. p. c. -
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 7% - 81% Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 405
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 33% Shrewsbury.. 125 115/* -
.;rand I:nion 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 290
fiennt 6.: Avn 39 7s. 6d. - Severn andl
26 21. OS. 24
Lancaster • 100 41. 32 Wye ltall. t
Leed.e&Livrplloo 241. 325 Warwick& 1 41. 64'
Leicester.... 100 5/. 66 Birming.
.1 100
r,eiestr &Nth 83 4/. 48% Wanvick& 100 31. 42
Loughborogh 142 701. 510 Napton-}
Nror.mouthsbi 100 81. - Worcstr &} 78 31. 4oy,
Antgemryshl 100 - - Birming.
NfeltnAlwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - lie. 6%

The accounts from New York this week contain
nothing of importance. The arrival of the steamers from
California, mentioned by the last advices as having been te-
legraphed, with 650,000/. of gold dust, and bringing intelli-
piee of a further sum of 850,0001. waiting at the Isthmus
of Pwiarna for shipment', ad again increased the confidence
regarding California. The dates thence are but three weeks
lateritnarnely, to the sth of October, but the intelligence re-
ceived presents no new features. The passengers arriving
borne by the steamers are described as speaking highly of
their
templ ate a ains
s,
pand a large proportion of them .ire said to con
Inllete u speedy retu ' •t.

This speech was received with loud cheerS from•
the Chambers and the public who had been admitteil.
The passage relating to the affair of Rome was parti-
cularly applauded. The Minister of the Interior then
declared the session of 1851 to be opened. On leav-
ing the Parliament, the Ring reviewed the National
•
Guard of Turin. • - •

EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1850.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

FORGERY.— George Harcourt, 29, described as a
clerk, was indicted for telonlowly forgirqr, and uttering
a receipt for the sum of Sot., with intent to defraud the
Whitehaven and Eireess Junction Railway Company.
Tire prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Partied conducted the case for
the prosecution; and Mr. Ballantine, with whom was Mr.
kiuth;lestone, defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the opening statement of the Learned
Counsel, and the evidence which was afterwards celled,
-Jere an interest warrant for 41. ss. 10d., payable to Mr.
Duncroft, a shareholder in the Whitehaven and Furness
Junction Company, was made out by the prisoner on
the 17th of January, 1848, and entered in the cash-book
of toe company as having been duly paid. Oa
the following 12th of February, another warrant
for the same amount was issued in the name of a Mr.
Wingate, an insurance broker in Glasgow, but the cor-
responding entry in the cash-book represented the
41. si. 10d. to have been paid to Mr. Duncroft. Now
Mr. bVingate was in arrear of one call on his shares, and
was therefore not entitled to the interest. It was, how-
ever, alleged that the prisoner forged the name of Win-
gate to the warrant to obtain the money from the
banker's, and made the false entry in the cash. book
to deceive the company. On the 16th of February
another warrant was issued, in the prisoner's hand-
writing, fur 41. ss. 10d., payable to Mr. Wingate, and
it was so paid by the bankers, and entered in the cash-
book, though Mr. Wingate never received the-money,
nor had he authorised acy one to sign the receipt to the
warrant, which was not in his handwriting. The first
of these three warrants was duly paid to Mr. Duncroft,
and quite legal and regular, but the other two were al-
leged to be spurious, and the receipts to be forgeries,
in the prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. George Hill Wingate, an insurance broker at
Glasgow, deposed that in February, 1848, he was a
shareholder in the Whitehaven and Furness Junction
Railway Company. At this period he was one call in
arrear, and this would have disentitled him to receive
any dividend. The receipts to the two dividend war-
rants now produced, bearing date respectively the 12th
and the 18th of February. 1848, were not written by
him, and if he had paid his call ho should at this time
have only been entitled to the payment of one dividend.
At the period when the receipts bore date witness was
in Scotland.
Mr. W. Bailey deposed that he was accountant to the
company in question. The prisoner had been employed
as one of the clerks to the company; the cashbook which
he produced was kept by him, and the entries in it were
in his handwriting. Among the shareholders of the com-
pany was a person named Duncroft, and he was entitled
to a dividend in 1848, and on the 17th of January in that
year there was an entry in the prisoner's book of a sum of
41. 55. 4d. being paid to him as dividend; and on the
12th of February there was an entry of another sum of
41. 53. 10d. being paid to the same person. A dividend
warrant also appeared by the prisoner's book to hare
been issued to Mr. Wingate, and on the 16th of February
in the prisoner's book there was an entry of a sum of
41. ss. 10d. being paid'to Mr. Wingate; and it also ap-
peared that a second dividend warrant ;had been issued
in the name of ,Wingate, but the entry in the cashbook
made the payment .apparently ,to refer to Mr. Duncroft.
Mr. Wingate could not under any circumstances have
been entitled to have received two dividends at this time.
These warrants were all signed by Mr. Meyer, who at
this time acted as secretary. The several documents re-
ferred to were then handed to the witness, and he ex-
pressed an opinion_that the forged receipts were in the
handwriting of the prisoner.
By_ Mr. BALLANTINE —Witness was merely the ac-
countant of compaiiy, and did not succeed Mr. Meyer
in the office of secretary: The :chairman of the com-
pany was Lord Lorisdale. He knew nothing of the pri-
soner till the month of June in the present year, but he
had seen;hitn write two or three times. Mr. Roy was
the selicitor to the, company. He had examined the
boob in the presence of that gentKman, and Mr. Roy
called h s attention to the figures 41. ss. 10d., and said he
was sure they wore written by the prisoner. Mr. Roy
was the solicitor of the company, and he had also acted
as solicitor for this prosecution, but be did not know
where he was at this time. He could state distinctly
that he saw the prisoner write upon one occasion, and he
f.,rtned his opinion of the prisoner's handwriting from
this tact, and from comparisons he had made with other
documents. and from what Mr. Meyer the late secretary
had told him.
Mr. R. H. Knight, a clerk in the office of Messrs. Roy
and Co., also spoke to his belief that' the forged docu-
ments in question were in the handwriting of the pri-

soner.
Upon cross-examination the witness said, that Mr.
W. Roy attended to the duties of the Whitehaven Rail-
way Company. He might be the solicitor. He consi-
dered that the firm were the solicitors to the company.
The firm was composed of two gentlemen. Mr. William
and Mr. Richard Roy. It was more than he could say
where Mr. Roy was at that time. He might be at home
ill perhaps.
Mr. CLARKSON here interposed and said he had sent
tor Mr. Roy.
The cross-examination was then continued, and in
answer to further questions that were put to the witness
he said that he saw Mr. W. Roy at the office on the
previous afternoon, and he understood that he had met
with an accident by falling from a chaise. He believed
that the solicitor fur the prisoner had called at the office
with a subpoena for Mr. Roy to produce a letter, and
this fact might have been mentioned to Mr. Roy, but he
did not know that it had. He remembered a trial
connected with the company taking place in Scotland,
but he bad no quarrel with the prisoner upon that occa-
sion. There was a meeting of the company before this
trial, and he remembered Mr. Roy telling the prisoner
to take the minute book home to the residence of Mr.
Meyer, in order that he might insert a resolution be-
tween the last minute and the signature of the chairman.
Lord Lonsdale, so as to make it appear that the resolu-
tion had been passed at the meeting. The alteration
had reference to the period for making a call, and the
Book which contained the, entry was put in process in

the Court of Scotland. He had never heard that the
prisoner had accused Mr. Roy of making false entries in
the books of the company, and thereby appropriating
large sums of money to his own use; but he believed he
did write a letter to Lord Lonsdale corap!aining of his
being discharged from his E itu a Lim, but in which nothing
was said of any misappropriation of the funds of the
company. The prisoner was not given into custody till
three months after he had written this letter.

By Mr. CLARKSON—The entry to which he had re-
ferred related to a call, and the alteration was made in
order that the date of the notice of the call should appear
more clearly.
Baron ALDERSON—This shows the value of the evi-
dence derived from entries in books of this description.
Two other clerks in the service of Messrs. Roy were
then examined, and they expressed their belie& that the
forged receipts were in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. W. Roy was then put in the box, but the only
questions put to him by the counsel for the prosecution
were whether he was not the solicitor for the prosecution,
and whether be had not met with an accident on Mon-
day last; to both of which be replied in the affirmative.
Mr. BALLANTINE said be had no questions to put to
the witness.

John Forrester, the officer, deposed that warrants were
placed in his hands, on the sth of October, for the ap-
prehension of the prisoner and Meyer. The latter ab-
sconded, and he was unable to find him; but he appre-
hended the prisoner at his own house, and he expressed
himself ready to accompany him to meet the charge that
was made against him. After his committal he was ad-
mitted to bail.

calling cut, the other man proceeded to strangle her by
twis;ing semething round her neck, from the effects of
which i.he fell dossn and became quite insensible. She
further said that on the Saturday night previnusly,
during the temporary absence of her master and mis-
tress from home, a man weariog a mask ended at the
house, and the moment she opened the door he wanted
to get into the house, saying he knew where her master
kept his cash box in his bed-room, and that he (the
stranger) wanted to get it. That insteed of letting hi rn set
his loot inside the slummed the door in his face, and that
soon afterwards her master and mistress came home. She
further represented that the same man that had come there
with a mask had met her in Chiswell-street, when she
Ms going up to see her mother, who lives in Wilton-
gardens, Tabernacle-square, Hoxton, and induced her to
go into a house with him in that neighbmsvhood, where
he seduced her, adding that she lad seen the same man
on other rintos when she went on errands, and that he
was frequently loitering about the house where she was
in service. Acting upon the information thus given,
Mr. Superintendent Haynes had an interview with the
young woman on the subject of the attempt at strangu-
lation she asserted was made upon her; and aithough
she at first periisted that her description of what had
happened was true, she afterwards, upon being cl6sely
pressed, admitted that the greater portion of her state-
ment wee untrue, and that she had tied the cord round
her neck with a view to make it appear that some per-
son had attempted to deprive her of life. The superin-
tendent added, that the medical man who was called to
attend the girl pronounced it as his opinion that she
could not have tied the cord in the manner it was found
round her neck, sad that it must have neeessarily
been done by some other party. " Now," said the
superintendent " if the girl had died on the spot where
she was found, and under the circumstances described,
with this ligature (producing the cord) round her neck,
the supposition would he that she had met with her death
from violence, especially after the doctor's opinion had
been expressed, and no doubt it would have caused much
excitement. That in consequence of her having subse-
quently confessed that she did the act herself she was
taken into nuttorly on the charge of having attempted to
commit suicide.

In reply to Mr. A.TECKETT,
Mrs. Denham, the prisoner's mistress, said that tha
prisoner had been in her service about three months,
and that she behaved well during that period, the only
fault that was found with her being that of staying
out longer lima was neces6ary when she was sent on
errands.

The prisoner, who stood at the. bar with her hands
covering her face, replied that she could say nothing in
extenuation of her offence—that she did not know what
could havo induced her to act in such a manner as had
been described, and that she sincerely regretted all that
had happened.
Mr. A'BECKETT said she had acted a most wicked
part. The Magistrate added that he should call upon
the prisoner to find sureties.
The prisoner's mother, who seemed in much trouble of
mind, stood forward, and said that silo could not account
for her extraot.dimay conduct, and that she was always
a virtuous and well-conducted girl; that she (the mother)
had no reason to believe her daughter had been se-
duced; and that if she were now liberated she should be
taken home and looked after.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. BALLANTINE then made a very earnest appeal to
the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and, after comment-
ing upon the manner in which the affairs of this com-
pany appeared to have been conducted, observed that it
eeerned to him to be a very extraordinary circumstance
that, although it was perfectly clear a great number of in-
dependent persons must have been well acquainted with
the handwriting of the prisoner, no witnesses had been
called to prove the alleged forgery but the clerks who
were in the employ of Mr. Roy, the solicitor for the
prosecution. He then remarked upon the feet of Meyer,
the secretary to the company, having absconded, and
urged that it was impossible for the jury to entertain any
doubt but that he had been most extensively mixed up
in these transactions, and that in all probability he was
in reality the guilty party.
Several very respectable witnesses were called on behalf
of the prisoner, some of whore had been on intimate
terms with him for a great many years, and they ex-
pressed their opinion that the forged signatures were not
in his handwriting. The prisoner also received a very
high character for integrity and propriety of conduct.
Mr.-CLARKSON having replied upon this evidence,
Mr. Berm) MARTIN summed up the whole case, and
The jury. atter deliberating; a short time, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
There was an attempt at applause by persona in the
court when the verdict was delivered, but it was re-
preved by the officers.
There were other indictments of a similar kind against
the prisoner, and the counel for the prosecution inti-
mated their intention to proceed with them before the
same jury on Friday morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.

Mr. A'BEcKETT consented to give the prisoner up io
h(er friends on her father entering into sureties for her
good behaviour, and on her promise not to repeat such
conduct again; and the Magistrate added that the super-
intendent (Haynes) acted very properly in investigating
the eircumstanc4:s when they were first brought under
his notice, and which led to the discovery of the extra-
ordinary conduct of the prisoner in the matter.

ANOTHER CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUlClDE,—Yester-
day Harriet Sewell, a young woman in the service of Mr.
Charles Denham, No. 1, Canterbury Cottages, Now
Kent-road, was placrdftt the bar bfluro Mr. A'Beekett,
chargi.ci with attempting to commit suicide under 'cir-
cumstances of an extraordinary nature.

Mr. Superintendent Haynes stated that on Sunday
night last Mr. Deanna came to the station-house for the
purpose of giving the following information:—He (Mr.
Denham) proceeded to describe that about nine o'clock
the same night, the servant girl, Harriet Sewell, was
sent to a public-house in the neighbourhood to order
some beer. As-she was absent longer than was con-
sidered necessary for the purpose, he went out to see
what was the reason, and on passing through the front
garden ho heard some person moaning heavily, and on
going to the spot he found that it was the servant girl,
who was lying stretched on the grass. He, with the
assistir.ce of a gentleman who was staying in his house
with his family, carried her in, and it was then eis-
covered that she had a piece of cord tied firmly round
to-r neck, and that strangulation must have soon taken
place if he had not immediately severed the cord. As

it wzis, however, she was black in the face,hWrtongue
protruded, nnd froth was is,uing from bar mouth,
azd she Wis in a state of iniensibility. A medical man
was scut. for,. and then i.ceisary timulauti having, been
rcsortcd to, the putknt,some time afterwards -recovered
suffidently to be enabled to, describe the 'circumstances
cuanected with her hqiing b'een found in the situation
above mentioned. il.er statement was, that on the night
Ifs question;'as she was crossing the front garden to go
for the beer,, she was suddenly seized by two men, and
that while one held her and stopped her mouth. from