The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-31 00:00:00

TEETOTALISM.

The Parliamentary vacation is the era of harmless
enthusiasm—the season of balls, dinners, and demon-
strations. The Poles and the franchise, and the coming
Exhibition, church sec:lrities from within and religi-
ous aggressions from without, supply the plea for an
entertainment or the topic of a discussion ; the tide of
talk and the tumult of convivitNY
every corner of the kingdom, visit impartially
and she scenes are as
various as the objects of the fuss. -At Bury the
political, at Bristol the theological, dilouities of
,
the day are dealt with. At York municipalsplen-
dours add lustre to the efforts of commercial and me "la-
nical ambition ; while here at head-quarters we et
invited by Lord Dudley Stuart to dance in the name
of benevolence, or may go, with the more sober phi-
lanthropy that befits the occasion, to learn at Drury-
lane the mischiefs that arise from fermentation. On
Monday there gathered in that shrine of unreality the
friends and advocates of teetotalism, those advocates
not a less medley set than usually occupy the ample
stage. One lingering representative of the scat-
tered House of Commons appeared to testify the
interest of the Legislature ; two ministers of
religion raised their voices against alcohol ; the
Comic Annual and the Charter had each a son and
supporter there; the backwoods of America and the
labour market of England each contributed a quota.
In deference to the genius of the place a semi-dramatic
air was thrown over the proceedings, and the exul-
tations of a pure morality were tempered by the softer
influences of mirth. In place of the usual orchestra,
Mr. Shapcott and family preluded and interluded
upon the saxhorn, and the traditions of the green-
room were consulted by the introduction, hi Ojibbe•
way attire, of the Rev. George Copway, alias
Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Whether the ordinary attrac-
tions which Drury-lane offers are directly con-
ducive to the elevation of the species may be matter
of controversy, but on the occasion we commemo-
rate there was no room for dispute. The purpose
of the assembly was strictly and solely a moral one,
for the teetotal society is, to borrow the words of one
of the speakers, " a man-uplifting society." The
theatrical accompaniments of melody and strange
raiment ; of the " Drum Polka" and Indian finery ;
the presence of an accomplished comedian in the per-
son of Mr. George Cruikshank, were a wise, and
perhaps a necessary, addition to the sublimer por-
tion of the entertainment. Mere moral excitements
are apt to weary without some occasional intervals
of recreation and repose, and, besides, the committee
had not been so successful as they could have
wished in the oratorical department. Lords
Ashley, Harrowby, and Kinnaird, with Mr. Silk
Buckingham and other untitled philanthropists, had
been compelled to decline attending from the pres-
sure of other engagements. The cause of total ab-
stinence had even to mourn a more important refusal,
Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington
having some public duties to perform which prevented
his coming to town. In the absence of these dis-
tinguished persons the desired variety of thought and
elocution was hardly to be procured, but the speakers
made up in earnestness what they wanted in force of
argument or grace of style. They said a good
many hard things of those who still acknowledge the
utility of fermented liquors. They threw out warnings
to the clergy and religious classes, to the aristocracy
and educated section of society, as to the danger of
falling in the rear, and announced that " the people
were going before the priests, who could not be in-
duced to forego their one glass of wine after dinner,
though admitting that the working classes were
driven by alcohol to pauperism, sickness, and death."
The three chief speakers of the evening were
Mr. Lawrence Heywood, Member for Derby, Mr.
George Cruikshank, and Kah -ge-ga• gab. bow h
The first of these, who occupied the chair, con-
sidered himself qualified by an experience of fifteen
years to speak in favour of teetotalism ; but inde-
pendently of his own experiences he had a powerful
support in the admonition of the wisest of Kings,
" Look not upon the wine when it stirs itself in the
glass, because it bites like s serpent and stings like an
adder ;"—the argumentum ad verecundiam: which, Mr.
Heywood proceeded to base on this text being that
Solomon was himself a teetotaller. The state of the
logical faculty revealed by such an inference is not
encouraging to those who may have thought of
resigning their after-dinner glass, nor is the one
other proposition enunciated in the same speech
much more encouraging;—" If a man never takes
a first glass he can never be intoxicated." Un

doubtegy ; but it is equally true that if a man
never ate turtle soup or venison he would be in less
danger of becoming a gourmand, and that if he re-
stricted himself to dry bread he would be tolerably
secure. As for the individual experience, that is in-
variably met by some opposing experience ; and while
we congratulate the Member for Derby on his undi-
minished vigour we must beg to decide for ourselves
whether the addition; or !subtraction of alcohol from
our drinks is most conducive to our own. We will
pass to the caricaturist. Mr. Cruikshank, after bearing
witness to the sufferings he had endured because his
mother had in his early days :held the poisoned
chalice to his lips, said that he had pictured the
opposition of the clergy to temperance in a very
striking manner. " I recently," he says, " made
a sketch, but thought it too strong to publish, of a
clergyman with a Bible in one band and a bottle of
rum in the other. For that idea I was indebted to
my friend the Indian Chief, who threw it out at a late
meeting at the London Tavern." It would have
been as well, perhaps, to have removed instead of
adopting the misconception of the Ojibbeway. The
fact that rum has done more to degrade and ester.
minate the Red Indian than religion has done to
rescue him could not `be truly represented by such
a figure, nor could the idea communicated by Mr.
Cruikshank to his audience be limited in their minds
by such an interpretation. The reserve which
deemed the picture too strong for publication was
very effectually discarded in the speech, and we
can only excuse Mr. Cruikshank on the ground
that a perpetual search of the ridiculous has an in-
toxicating effect no less than draughts from the
black bottle. Morally speaking, therefore, the cari-
caturist makes a bad advocate, and, like the Member
of Parliament, may be dismissed. The third remark-
able orator, Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowb, added his Indian
reminiscences to the total of civilised experience.
The most forcible part of his harangue was a
bit of personal relation. A cousin and associate of
his own bad been in boyhood the wonder and
delight of his companions. When the chief
returned to his tribe after long absence, he
found his early friend dead, drowned in a fit of intox-
ication, the work of the white man's rum ; he there-
fore was for total abstinence, of which he should
endeavour to erect in his own land a monument.
The Indian argued well from his premises, for he
knew that "firewater" had been the destruction of
his kind, and that the appetite of the red man could
admit no partial indulgence ; he drew no overstrained
picture of the facts, and, perhaps, his recital was the
most natural episode in the history of the meeting.
Whatever of absurdity lay in his rambling language
and grotesque attire was due, not to him, but to those
who played off his incoherent and irrelevant appeal as
a part of the evening's amusement ; and certainly
Kah-ge- ga-gah-howh was not more ridiculous than
the caricaturist, or a worse logician than the represen-
tative. To drive drunkenness entirely out of the world
would indeed be a glorious achievement; but the
gentleman who hoped he might live to see that
more than golden age must be prepared for an
antediluvian if not a Rosicrucian term of existence.
We also acknowledge a hope that religion and
morality may avail by their progress to moderate
all sensual indulgence ; but we doubt how far an
external covenant will suffice to remedy man's
frailties or accelerate his perfection. At all events
the late Drury-lane meeting has not done much
either to convince the doubtful or conciliate the

reluctant. Questionable caricature and untenable
arguments from Scripture are not of much avail

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BLACKBURN TURN-OUTS.--The spinners of Messrs'
Alstead and Co., of Water-street, will continue out, and at
present there appears no likelihood of the differences being
amicably settled. The self-acting winders of Mill-hill have
resumed work, and have obtained an advance of five, and, in
some cases, 71A per cent.—Manchester Guardian.
IMPORTATION OF HORSERADISH.—A very remark-
able importation has just taken place by a vessel from Ham-
burgh, consisting of the large quantity of 1,043 packages of
horseradish, consigned to order, the produce of the place. So
large an importation of this esculent, which as a raw vege-
table is not liable to duty on importation into this country,
_has never before taken place.
1:1„Its-e- CROWN, PLEAssi—An illiterate labourer
tried to 1,-)ake the officials understand that an uncle of his
wife had, he :..sacl heard, left him a legacy, and he " wanted
to know the rights- "' He gave the name ad the exct
date of the death, and a clerk retired under pretence of
searching for the docurueflt. In a very short time he re-
turned with " No such will in the place—half-a-crown,
please." " Half-a-croone ?" said the countryman, " Wat
vor?" "Half-a-crown," repeated the clerk. " Wat, vor
telling me nought ?" " Half-a-crown !" was again let off
with a load explosion, over the stiff embrasure of white
cravat. " But darn me if of pay't," persisted the expectant
legatee. " Half •a-crown !" The countryman went on rais-
ing a storm in the office, in the midst of which the " Haif-
a• crown" minute guns were discharged with severe regula-
,ity. At length, however, the agriculturist was obliged to
.'
„,':umb, and after a mighty effort to disinter the coin from
under smock-frock, frock, and out of the depths of a huge pocket
and a 'eat-
her purse, the poor man was obliged to produce and
pay over whalt was probably a fifth of his week's earnings.
This circumstanc having attracted, Mr. Wallace's attention
note of the name of the testator, and,
and it, he took a
after p
they inquirer had lei?' found it in the Calendar, and by-
and-by, by dint of a little' m,..noeuvring, got a sight of the
will. In it he actually found tha: the_ poor man had been left
a small legacy.—Dickens's Househola .117°rcis*

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

On Tuesday afternoon, immediately after the dis-
posal of the important charge relative to the burglary
at Mr. Holford's, in the Regent's-park, an unusual
bustle was observable in the neighbourhood of this
court,:it being known that a warrant had been granted
by Mr. Broughton, on the part of Mr John Wilson,
a member of that important body the Marylebone
Vestry, against Mr. Samuel Steele, also a vestryman,
for an assault committed by the latter upon the former
gentleman.
Mr. Hoggins appeared for the complainant, and Mr.
Ballantine for the defendant.
Mr. Hoggins said that, in this case, it had been the
most anxious wish of his client that the defendant
should have made the amende honorable to him, which
he assuredly would have done, and for doing which
ample time and opportunity had been afforded him,
but such not having been the case, it was not to be
supposed that Mr. Wilson would tamely submit to the
infliction of a most wanton and cowardly assault ; he
should brefly relate the circumstances connected with
this truly unpleasant transaction :—On the afternoon of
the 12th inst., as Mr. Wilson was quietly walking down
Marylebone-lane, he received a severe blow on the
back part of the head ' , and on turning round to ascer-
tain who had inflicted it, he found that Mr. Steele
was the aggressor. Fearing that the blow might be
repeated, Mr. Wilson, in his own defence, struck at
Mr. Steele. The parties were then separated, and
hostilities ceased. Mr. Wilson, though naturally
very much annoyed, as well as hurt, by the unpro •
yoked assault, sent a message to Mr. Steele, saying
that he would not take any ulterior proceedings if
that gentleman would make an apology for the
attack, and put a guinea into the poor-box. This,
however, Mr. Steele declined. The assault, it could
not be denied, was a most wanton and cowardly one,
and his (Mr. Hoggins's) client now appeared to de-
mand such punishment for the outrage committed
upon him as his Worship might think fit to inflict.
It appears that the ill-will between the parties
originated in the following circumstance :—A number
of pigeons, the property of persons in the neighbour-
hood, had become great pets with the inmates of the
Nlarylebone workhouse. By these pcor persons, who

were glad to have anything animated to exhibit
kind-
ness towards, the birds were daily fed. But, lo ! a
ruthless bird kidnapper walked off with no less
than forty-three of them, to be sacrificed at a
shooting match. The paupers were exceedingly cha-
grined at such conduct, and many of the vestrymen
sympathised with them, amongst others Mr. Wilson,
who said it was a shameful thing that the birds
should have been taken away. Nay, more, " Ru-
mour, with her thousand tongues," had hinted that
their abstraction had not taken place without the cog-
nizance of some of the worthy vestrymen. Amongst
them the name of Mr. Steele had been mentioned,

as one who well knew what had become of the birds,

Mr. Wilson had upon one occasion sketched a picture
of a bird, and had written under it " How about the
pigeons ?" but in reference thereto had not men-
tioned or used Mr. Steele's name in any way what-
ever. . _ _

Mr. John Wilson (the complainant) examined—On
the 12th inst. he was walking away from the vestsy
meeting, when, on going down Marylebone-lane he
received a blow on the back of his head. He turned
round, and was told by a gentleman that it was Mr.
Steele who had struck him. Having reason to be-
lieve that Mr. Steele was a pugilistic character, he
thought that the best method he could adopt would
be to place him hors de combat as soon as possible ;
and he confessed that he then pitched into him with
all his might and main. What became of Mr. Steele
afterwards he could not tell. Defendant had threat-
ened on a previous occasion, in the board-room of the
vestry, to knock his (complainant's) d— head off. At
_ _

the time when Mr. Steele struck him, be (complain-
ant) was surrounded by twenty or thirty of ,his
friends, or rather party, who go by the name of the
" Alligators" in the parish.
By Mr. Ballantine—l have drawn two pigeons on
I paper, but put no name under the drawings. I was
not aware at the time that any pigeons had been taken
away. At another meeting I drew another carica-
ture, and subscribed it " Sam Steele's pigeons." I
spelt the word " Steele's," and not "steals." Upon
another occasion I exhibited some caricatures about
Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P. His bead bad not been
much hurt, but his hand had ; he admitted that that
was caused by the severity of the blow which he gave
to the defendant. It was Mr. Matthew who pointed
out the caricature to Mr. Steele.

exaggerated. And ex uno disce omnes, said the
Learned Counsel. Only think, your Worship, of
the complainant requiring defendant to pay the doc-
tor's bill! For what ? for injuries inflicted by his
own hand upon himself, in consequence of his knuckles
coming in contact with defendant's head.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that although he was a mem-
ber of the Marylebone vestry he had never been pre-
sent at any such scenes as those alluded to by the
Learned Counsel. The rector generally took the
chair, and several noblemen were in the habit of at-
tending. With regard to the case before him, he
should say that Mr. Steele had taken the law into his
own hands, and committed an infraction of the peace.
Moreover, he had "slept on it," and carried a grudge
in his breast for several days previous to his assaulting
the complainant. Had he struck him on the spot, he
(the magistrate) should have fined him ls. only, but
as the matter stood, he felt it his duty to inflict upon
Mr. Steele a fine of 404. and costs, or in default of
payment thereof, fourteen days in the House of Cor-
rection.

The fine :And costs were forthwith paid, and the
"pigeon affair" having thus been brought to a con-
clusion, the parties interested therein quitted the
court.

SOUTH WARK.
A few days ago Sarah Bennington, the wife of a
tradesman, applied for relief, being with her husband
and two young children reduced to a state of utter
destitution, in consequence of a fire which broke out
in their hcuse, and destroyed every vestige of their
property.
The applicant, a respectable-looking woman, in
stating her misfortune, said that her husband was a
writer and grainer, and carried on business at No. 5,
Grange-place, Grange-road, Bermondsey. That on
the evening of the 19th inst., while her husband was
engaged in the front kitchen, varnishing a picture-
frame, by some means or other the stuff caught fire,
when he was in the act of placing it away in the cup-
board, and set the place in a blaze. She was up-stairs
at the moment, putting her two children to bed, and
hearing her husband cry out she ran down, leaving the
children above, and on approaching the kitchen she
saw the place in a blaze and her husband trying to ex-
tinguish it. He desired her to run up for the children,
and she returned to the room, and having snatched
them up, she deccended, but owing to the dense vo-
lumes of awoke she fell senseless in the passage with
her children, and in that condition was dragged out
by some of the neighbours and saved from being
burnt. The house being a small one was soon burnt
down, and not a vestige of their furniture or her hus •
band's tools were saved, every thing being consumed,
leaving them utterly destitute and reduced to want
the common necessaries of life. She added that her
husband was severely injured in his attempt to quench
the fi tmes, and their misfortunes were aggravated
from the circumstance of the poor man's mind being
very much affected in consequence of the occurrence.
Mr. A'BECKEIT directed inquiries to be made in
reference to the case, and Guest, the summoning
officer, having ascertained the truth of the above state-
ment, and that the facts were far from being exag-
gerated, directed that the poor applicant should
receive a sovereign from the poor-box, observing at
the same time that he considered the case one de-
serving of public sympathy, incsmuch as it was that
of a tradesman and his wife and children being re-
duced to destitution owing to the ravages made by a
fire, il'em which they narrowly escaped with their
lives. . _

Mr. BROUGHTON—A most injudicious act indeed.
In reply to a question from the bench, complainant
stated that it was on the evening of the 2d instant that
defendant told him he would knock his d— head off.
The assault now complained of did not take place till
the 12th. Be (complainant) had proposed an ar-
rangement through Air. Jones, his solicitor, to the
effect that defendant should make him an apology,
and pay his doctor's bill, as also bis law expenses,
amounting altogether to 4/.

Mr. Richard Humphreys, 72, Wimpole-street, said
that he witnessed the assault ; the blow given by Mr.
Steele was rather a severe one, but had certainly been
repaid with interest by complainant. Witness was a
member of the vestry, and had attended at the meet-
ing on the day alluded to, at the Court-house ; he
heard no harsh language pass between the complainant
and defendant while there.

At this period of the proceedings Mr. Ballantine
addressed the Bench, and said that it was not his in-
tention to take up the public time any longer with
the particulars of this contemptible and most ridicu-
lous squabble; it was quite evident that Mr. Wilson
had been in the habit of drawing caricatures when his
time might be otherwise much better and most pro-
fitably employed both for himself and fellow parish-
ioners. The story of his client having taken away
the pigeons was a gross fabrication, and a slanderous
invention of a set of mischievous persons such as
were always found infesting every public institution.
The character of his client, however, stood too high
to have it for a moment thought that he would be
guilty of so mean and contemptible an act. In his
(the Learned Gentleman's) opinion complainant had
placed himself in such a position that the bench could
not entertain the least sympathy for him. His client,
however, offered to make an apology to the public
and the bench, having, as he must admit, committed
the first breach of the peace ; thus far he would go on
public grounds, but not at all on Mr. Wilson's ac-
count. He (the Learned Gentleman) said he believed
that Mr. Broughton knew something about the Mary-
lebone vestry. _ _

Mr. BROUGHTON—Yes ; I am a member of it.
Mr. Ballantine—l thought as much, and have
frequently laughed on reading reports of the vestry's
proceedings, which I suspect have been occasionally

LONDON ~, THURSDAY EVENING
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partly coarse. The assumption that total ab 3•/ inence
and temperance are one and the same thi• .)g, that
he is by implication a drunkard who does not con-
fine himself to the cistern or the spring, is a piece of
illiberality not over consistent with the r ,olitical tone
prevalent at teetotal assemblies. Let tl Jose who re-
quire artificial restrictions use them and profit by
them ; those who do without are 'not chargeable
with setting a bad example because their morality is
a principle instead of a force.—Time;?.

he no dispute about the payment of the insurance.
In this case, as there was no claim, no insured pro-
perty having been destroyed, tbe Phaaeix-office would
not prosecute. They were satisfied with leaving it
in the hands of the magistrates and police of
Gravesend.
Mr. Southgate said, that although he could not get
over the suspicious facts as proved before the Bench,
yet he felt bound to tell them that he had evidence to
show that Mr. Marder did not set fire to his house.
Mr. Marder owed a half-year's rent, which it was not
convenient to him to pay, and he was determined " to
bolt." He had removed on the Saturday night a
portion of his stock in trade, which chiefly belonged
to his house of business in London, and intended to
remove the remainder on Sunday night, when the
fire occurred, which frustrated his intention.
Mr. Oakes—Yes, Mr. Southgate, but how can you
account for the position of that candlestick in that
box ? And again, how can you account for the fact
of the insurance of the furniture and stock in trade a
few days before this, as you call it, accidental fire--
admitting your own statement in defence of your
client, that he was surreptitiously leaving the town to
avoid payment of his rent ?

Mr: Southgate—l admit that the whole evidence is
at present against Mr. Marder. I will refrain from
entering into rebutting it at present, and confine my-
self to asking you to admit this poor, aged, and un-
healthy man to bail.
The Magistrates, after a moment's consultation,
declared that they could not accept bail for the pri-
soner; and having expressed their intention to com-
mit him for tria►, agreed to have him again brought
up on Friday morning to perfect the depositions
against him on a charge of arson.
The court was crowded during the inquiry, the
municipal members of the town and several of the
gentry of the surrounding country being present.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
DEMERARA.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. M'Chlery in
the chair.
The report stated that, notwithstanding the delays
occasioned by the recurrence of the rainy season (which
from its severity caused a total cessation of all out-
door work for some weeks), the line has been pushed
on to Porter's Hope, and that in eight weeks more,
or by the close of the year, the important station of
Victoria would be reached. The engineer's report is
highly satistactory as to the condition of the works,
the embankments, the bridges, and the railway plant
generally. The committee of management at Deme-
rara state that the line as far as Porter's Hope station
would be opened for public traffic on the 7th of this
month, when also additional carriages for third-class
passengers would commence running regularly. The
committee had occasionally been much embarrassed
from want of funds, which at times threatened to
stop altogether the progress of the works. Official
notification was sent to the Governor of British
Guiana some months ago of the confirmation by her
Majesty of the ordinance granting a loan of 50,0001.
for the advancement of this undertaking ; but at the
same time, the necessary authority was not given
to Governor Barkly to negotiate bills for
any part of that amount, so that at the
present moment this loan, with the exception of the
17,0001. originally advanced, has not been made
availiable to the company. The directors understand
that the packet appointed to sail on the 2d proximo
will carry out instructions from the authorities on the
subject, and in the meantime they have every confi-
dence that the Governor, who has always evinced a
strong desire to promote the success of the under-
taking, will continue to make such temporary advances
from the Colonial treasury as will remove any ob-
stacles to the advancement of the works. The sum of
9,5111. has been received for the conveyance of goods
and passengers by the railway—an amount which the
directors believe to be sufficiently encouraging, con-
sidering that the line has only been open to a mode-
rate extent, and at the same time the process of con-
struction has been going on. The directors anticipate
with continued confidence that these returns will stea-
dily increase as the line progresses, and the peculiar
advantages of railway communication become more
apparent, and that they will ultimately be amply re-
munerative, especially as various modifications of the
existing goods tariff are about to be adopted with the
view of insuring to this company the entire carrying
trade of the east coast district of this colony. Since the
last meeting 5501. has been received on account
of outstanding arrears. The number of forfeited
shares now amounts to 1,005, upon which 3,7751.
has been received by the company. The report of
Mr. Manifold, the engineer, stated that the works
during the past six months have been impeded by the
severe weather and enormous amount of rain which
fell during the months of April and May. In the
course of two months, if the weather continue favour-
able, the line will be comp!eted to the village of Vic-
toria. The bridges (now numbering nearly 100) are
in good order; in one or two instances pitch-pine
timbers have been removed and greenheart substi-
tuted. Tile embankments are in all respects substan-
tial, and the permanent way is in good order, as is also
the rolling stock. Several of the new trucks in course
of construction have been completed. The stook of
pitch-pine sleepers has been exhausted; more sleepers
are being laid down, and will make a more substan-
tial and lasting permanent way. The general state-
ment of accounts to the Ist of October, 1850, showed
that 193,244/. had been received, including 3,519/. for
goods-traffic, and 5,992/. for passenger traffic; that
190,700?. had been expended, leaving a balance of
2,5441. at the bankers' in the hands of the Demerara
committee.

Passengers •••
Parcels, IL C. and D.
Goods, cattle, &c.
Mails ...

The CHAIRMAN said he would be happy to answer
any questions; and in reply to Mr. Ridgway, stated
that the line from the terminus at Georgetown to the
station at Porter's Hope, was 13 miles in length, and
to Victoria 15 miles ; the latter being two miles from
the former place. It was a question whether they
would go beyond Victoria, because when they got to
Victoria they would have the greater portion of the
traffic.

Mr. RIDGwAY considered the report very satisfac-
tory; he believed that their traffic would improve
considerably, and that the undertaking would prove
successful. He would be glad to see the line extended
to Mahaica, which place was about five miles beyond
Victoria. He concluded by moving the reception and
adoption of the report.

Colonel WARREN, on seconding the motion, ex.
pressed his surprise that pitch-pine had been used on
their works, for he thought that no person having any
knowledge of that material would use it in outdoor
work.

The CHAIRMAN said, they were in the hands of
their engineer; the pitch-pine sleepers were brought
ready made from the United States, where they were
found to answer very well. The greenheart was
much more expensive, and so far as they had gone
he had heard no complaint of the pitch-pine sleepers.
The report was unanimously adopted, and after a
cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and directors
the meeting separated.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL.—The Fenchurch-street
station of this railway has recently undergone con-
siderable alteration, to admit of the increased traffic
attending the opening of the East and West India
Dock and Birmingham Junction Railway, which
joins the line at Stepney, and proceeds to Bow,
Hackney, and Islington, the line being only com-
pleted to the last place. The north side of the London
station is exclusively devoted to the Black wall traffic,
and the south side to that of the Birmingham Junc-
tion. There are 224 trains running in and out of the
station during the day—viz., from eight in the morn-
ing till ten at night, the trains running for both lines
every quarter of an hour. These do not include the
luggage trains.
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION.—The re-
maining portion of this railway, extending from
Thotle to the junction of the Furness line, near
Broughton, in Furness, will he opened for general
traffic to-morrow, the Ist of November.
BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE.—On
Tuesday the Government Inspector went over the
further extension of this company line from Chester
to Warrington, about twenty miles in length, con-
necting the town and docks at Birkenhead with Man-
chester, Chester, and Wales. The new line, com-
mencing at Chester, joins the London and North-
Western at Warrington, over which it runs to Man-
chester. The new route, besides abbreviating the
journey to these points by cutting off' the existing
circuit at Crewe, will offer an outlet for the free
transit of goods to and from the port of Birkenhead,
for the transit of raw material to the manufacturing
and agricultural districts. The stations at the towns
accommodated are Durham, Frodsham, Moore, Nor-
ton, and Warrington. The line will provide a direct
route from Birkenhead and Chester via Holyhead to
Dublin, and the opening train starts from Birkenhead
this day (Thursday) at ten o'clock.
GREAT WESTERN EXCURSION TRAINS.—This COM-
pany's excursion train on Sunday took 7.50 persons
out of London to various parts of the West of Eng-
land. The excursion train from Bath and Bristol on
Tuesday, and which returned with them last night,
took about 300. It is observed that a larger number
of excurtionists avail themselves of these trains from
Bath, Cheltenham, and other places, where public
meetings have been held against them, than from other
towns on the route where no meetings have been held.

Total

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MOLD.

Passengers ... ...
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...
Goods, cattle, &c. ...

Total

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, OCT. 30.
STOCK EXCITANGE.-1 he market has not been so buoyant
to-day, and prices here again receded. The transactions were
as follow :—Great Western Stock, 69%—Ditto, New 171.
Shares, 5 tAlis.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was quiet to-clay.
and prices lower. The sales reported are as follow :7
East Lancashire. Bt,4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consoli-
dated, 461/4ic.—Ditto, Fifths, 7i dis.—London and North-
Western, 1161 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 21/4 p.—Ditto,
Fifth,* 31/8 p.—Ditto, Quarters, 1 13-16 c.

Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 814 c.--Midland,
4l c—Ditto, Halves, 22,ti c. dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester,
Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 1331 c.—South-Eastern
and Dover, 19% c.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick., 16,,i
Ditto, Preference (unpaid up), 414 dis..—York and North
Midland, 22—Dutch Rhenish, 5 die.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 30.
STOCK ExcuAivois.—The share market was dull to-day.
The only transactions reported were Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham (A), sq dis.—South Staffordshire, 3% dis.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--Return of traffic for the
week ending Sunday, Oct. 27 ... £t6,359 4 2

Selina-EASTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffic receipts for
the week ending Oct. 26;
Passengers ...
Carrying account

... £9,703 19 2
... 2,720 611

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Total ... ... ... £12,424 6 1
Corresponding week last year... 11,253 9 2
SimorsnißE UNION RAILWAT.—(Open :30 miles.) —Traffic
for the week ending Oct. 27 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ...
Goods and live stock

.., £242 19 9
... 216 2 10

Total £459 2 7
Corresponding week last year ... 325 14 24
CHESTED. AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Trailic for the
week ending Oct. 27:

MAIN LINE.

... £1,348 6 3
... 74 4 4

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STEAM-BOATS.

... 586 13 0
... 575 0 0

... £2,584 3 7

... ..£3-1 8 3
... 1 19 4
... 76 13 7

... £ll3 1 2

... £149 18 5
... 5 17 6