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London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

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FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 18, 1844.
Ordnance Medical Department—Temporary Assistant
Surgeon J. M. S. Fogo to be Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 13.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 20.
7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant D. J. Dickinson to
be Adjutant, vice Dobbie, deceased, Sept. 20.
30th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Heard to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet Major J. Poynts, who re-
tires upon full pay ; Ensign A. Lowry to be Lieutenant,
vice Heard ; C. Molyneux, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Lowry, Sept. 20.
35th Foot—Ensign A. Tisdall to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harding, who retires ; A. W. Ord, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tisdall, Sept. 20.
37th Foot—Lieut. C. F. Sham to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet Major Lord Keane, who retires ; En-
sign T. Hawley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Shum ; J. H. Wyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hawley, Sept. 20.
41st Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Gillan to be
Quartermaster, vice R. Harker, who retires upon half-
pay, Sept. 20.
GOth Foot—Lieutenant J. Douglas to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Townsend, who retires ; Second Lieut.
J. Warburton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Douglas ; William Hetherington, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warburton, Sept. 20.
63d Foot—Major A. C. Pole to be Lieutenant-Colonel
without purchase, vice Logan deceased ; Captain A. G.
Sedley to be Major, vice foie ; Lieutenant H. W.
Coultman, to be Captain, vice Sedley ; Ensign C. H.
Bell, to be Lieutenant, vice Coultman, Sept. 2 ; Ser-
geant-Major H. White, to be Ensign, vice Bell, Sept. 20.
MEMORANDUM.—The exchange of Captain Pryce
Clark, from the 54th to half-pay Unattached, on the
20th September, 1839, is without the difference, he hav
ing repaid, to the credit of the public, the sum he re
ceived.

BANKRUPTS.
FRANCIS SHOTTER, grocer, Portsea, to surrender
Oct. 10, and Nov. 7, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Baylis,
Devonshire-square, London.
WILLIAM COLLIER, grocer, Cambridge, Oct. 10,
at eleven, and Nov. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, official as-
signee ; Ashurst, Cheapside, London ; Hunt, Cambridge.
FRANCIS BATES, linendraper, Shoreditcb, Oct. 11,
at eleven, and Nov. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Moger,
Paternoster-row.
BENJAMIN NICOLL, tailor,Rufford's-row,lslington,
Oct. 11, at half past two, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane ; Fisher, Bucklersbury.
THOMAS MARSH, miller, St. Martin's-hill, Canter-
bury, Oct. 5, at eleven, and Nov. 7, at half-past two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basingliall- street ; Smith, Southampton-buildings,
London ; Walker, Canterbury.
WILLIAM SCOVELL, jun., brick-maker, Chilworth,
Southampton, Sept. 30 and Nov. 6, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old
Jewry ; Paterson, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
EDWARD BURNETT, merchant, Riches-court,
Lime- street, City, Sept. 28, at one, and Nov. 6, at half-
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Reed and
Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside.
JOHN G BUNDY, woollen manufacturer, Tottington
Lower-end, Lancashire, Oct. 4, at twelve, and Nov. 5, at
eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway,
official assignee, Manchester ; Clarke, Metcalfe, and
Gray, Lincol's Inn-fields, London ; Grundy and Co.,
Bury, Lancashire.
JOHN BALL and WILLIAM BALL, silk manu-
facturers, Sutton, Cheshire, Oct. 8 and 23, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee ;
Meredith and Reeve, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, Lon-
don ; Parrott, Macclesfield.
JOHN HIG HAM, grocer, Liverpool, September
30„ and Oct. 31, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Corn •
thwaite and Adams, Doctors'-commons, London; Fisher
and Stone, Liverpool.
ADAM PATTERSON, livery stable-keeper, Liver-
pool, Oct. 4 and 31, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Moss,
Liverpool; Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row,
London.
ISAAC ALDERSON, worsted spinner, Warley,York-
shire, Oct. 9, and 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Jaques and Ed-
wards, Ely-place, London; G. Edwards, Halifax; Cron.
helm, Leeds.
INSOLVENT PETITIONS.

B. Carpenter, licensed victualler, Saffron-bill, Hol-
born, Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee.
J. Cadbury, clerk, George-street, Adelphi, Oct, 9, at

asswnee.
E. Thomas, warehouseman, Peckham, Oct. 5, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee.
T. Simpson, jun., joiner, Liverpool, Sept. 27, at one, at
the Livei pool District Court. Bird, official assignee.
J. Lennox, master mariner, Liverpool, Sept, 27, at
leven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee.
R. Marshall, Liverpool, Sept. 25, at eleven, at the Li-
verpool District Court. Bird, official assignee.
W. Thistlethwaite, cigar manufacturer, Liverpool,
Sept. 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Bird, official assignee.
J. A. Walker, butcher, Bishopwearmouth, Durham,
Oct. 3, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court. Wakley, official assignee.
T. Dunn, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 3, at
half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court. Baker, official assignee.
J. Sweet, cabinet maker, Bruton, Somersetshire, Oct.
11, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston,
official assignee.
E. Bailey, joiner, Shipton, Yorkshire, Oct. 3, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee.
G. Renton, coal leader, Leeds, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee.
A. Orwin, coal miner, Chesterfield, Oct. 9, at one, at
the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
S. Younger, merchant, Great Tower-street, City, Oct.
12, at eleven-J. Adnum, upholsterer, Dorrington-street,
Clerkenwell, Oct. 12, at twelve-J. L. Foster, harness-
maker, Jewry-street, Aldgate, Oct. 12, at half-past eleven
-M. Coe, laceman, Goldsmith-street, Wood-street,
Cheapside, Oct. 12, at half-past twelve-G. Fendall,
butcher, Voodstock-street, Oxford-street, Oct. 12, at
one-E. Mayo, woollerdraper, Craven-buildings, Drury-
lane, Oct. 9, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
W. Bull and F. Turner, printers, Birmingham, Oct.
11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-J.
Nicks, carpenter, Warwick, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court-W. Turton, coal-master,
Westbromwich, Staffordshire, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court-J. Ward, tailor, Notting-
ham, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court-J. Bent, grocer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Oct.
1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court--T.
Evans, scrivener, Denbigh, Oct. 12, at twelve, at the
Liverpool District Court-J. Whitley, money scrivener,
Liverpool, Oct. 11, at half-past one, at the Liverpool
District Court-J. Hill, brewer, Wallasey, Cheshire,
Oct. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court-R. Phillips, chemist, Exeter, Oct. 24, at eleven,
at the Exeter District Court-P. Walters and M.
Llewellyn, timber merchants, Neath, Glamorganshire,
Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
T. Scott, baker, Colchester, Oct. 12-J. Willis, green-
grocer, Spring. street, Portman-square, Oct. 12-T. Car-
ter, jun., butcher, Waltham, Leicestershire, Oct. 12-T.
E. Rowley, draper, Oxford-street, Oct. 11-J. Brown
and 11. Graham, fustian manufacturers, \I anchester, Oct.
11-F. Margetts, wine-merchant, Oxford, Oct. 11-F.
Roberts, butcher, Handley, Cheshire, Oct. 11.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Bradshaw and W. Kirkham, tallow-chandlers, Lan-
caster-F. Robinson, S. Robinson, and E. Tansley, lace
makers, New Radford, Nottinghamshire-T. S. Capel
and M. Slaughter, coal merchants, Bridewell-wharf, Wil-
liam-street, Blackfriars-W. Skeate and 11. T. Skeate,
linendrapers, Chippenham, Wiltshire-R. Tussell and
11. Smith, paper manufacturers, East Mailing, Kent-J.
:iugden and J. Fearnley, wire drawers, Birstal, York-
shire-W. Williams and R. K. Hood, drysalters, Man-
chester-J. Cheshire and H. Waterton, salt dealers, Li-
verpool-E. D. Johnson and J. Cashmore, watchmakers,
Church-street, Minories-A. Bill and N. Briant, papier
mache manufacturers, Bridgewater-square, Barbican-
J. Royston, E. Onions, and W. Wheelhouse, millwrights,
Bradford-E. R. Withers, G. Withers, R. Woollatt, and
F. Woollatt, wholesale tea-dealers, Crown-court, Phil-
pot-lane (so far as regards G. Withers)-Jas. Wright,
Jos. Wright, and J. Dearden, machine makers, Birstal,
Yorkshire-Jos. Armitage, G. Armitage, J. T. Armitage,
John Armitage, and E. Armitage, wool merchants, Hud-
dersfield (so far as regards Joseph Armitage)-L. B.
Bushell and R. Blumer, ship builders, South Shields-
W. Hunt and G. Stott, engine makers, Manchester-J.
Hollis and W. Simmons, coal dealers, Portsea.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
FRANCIS RAE, upholsterer, Glasgow, Sept. 24 and
Oct. 15, at one, at the chambers of John Gammill Hous-
ton, Glasgow.
JOHN CAMPBELL, MATTHEW RAE, and
GEORGE JOHNSTON, clothiers, Glasgow, Sept. 24
and Oct. 15, at one, at the chambers of John Gammill
Houston, Glasgow.
ALEXANDER FRASER and CHARLES FRA-
SER, undertakers, Milntown of Redcastle, Ross-shire,
Sept. 28, at twelve, and Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Na-
tional Hotel, Dingwall.
ROBERT CHARLES, chemist, Glasgow, Sept. 26
and Oct. 22, at two, at the chambers of Mr. John Kerr,
Glasgow.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Sept. 17, 1844, is 325. 11d. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The war journals of Paris are again
attempting to get up an excitement. On Tuesday
evening the Messager published a dispatch from Ota-
heite, confirming the report, which had already
reached England, of another conflict having taken
place between the French and the natives at Otaheito ;
and stating that the Governor, Bruat, had attacked
the natives to the number of 3,000, who had en-
trenched themselves at Mahahana, and had three
pieces of artillery. The redoubts were carried by the
bayonet, the cannon spiked, the work 3 destroyed, and
the colours, arms, and ammunition captured. The
natives had 102 men killed, says the dispatch, but the
French had two officers killed and 52 men wounded.
Now, considering that the natives were attacked by
the French, and that, upon the admission of their own
Government, the French authorities at Otaheite had un-
righteously usurped dominion over the poor natives,
who were but defending their rights and those of their
legitimate sovereign, we should have thought that the
blood of the 102 men who were killed would be justly
imputable to the French ; and that some regret
would have been expressed at a calamity arising out
of an invasion of rights already censured by the French
Government. No tear of regret, however, is shed in
France for the poor slaughtered natives ; but, on the
contrary, the Opposition journals in Paris call for
vengeance upon Mr. Pritchard, and the English Govern-
ment, for the French blood that was shed in this con-
flict. The flagrant injustice of such imputations is
manifest. In the first place, Mr. Pritchard was not
at Otaheite; and the conflict shows that the natives
were not, as the French have pretended, roused from
a willing obedience to their invaders by his presence
and exhortations. It shows that, although but par-
tially civilised, they have the consciousness of right
and the sense of injury. The expulsion of Mr.
Pritchard, whatever influence he may have had over
them when at Otaheite, did not suffice to extinguish the
feeling of independence and duty. The presence of Mr.
Pritchard was not necessary for them to feel that
their rights had been violated and their Sovereign
outraged. They required no other counsel than their
wrongs—no other stimulus than their indignation ;
but it must never be forgotten, that whilst they
were resisting the agents of France, France her-
self had repudiated those agents as having com-
mitted a gross violation of right and humanity.
The resistance, then, was a sacred duty—the attack
was an act of brutal injustice. M. Bruat and his
officers certainly were not aware that the assump-
tion of sovereignty by Admiral Dupetit Thouars
had been disavowed; and, as individuals per-
forming what they considered to he an act of
duty, they may not be held personally responsible
for the lives that they have destroyed. But their
own Government has admitted that the assumption
of the power under which these massacres were
performed was an unrighteous one ; and the least
that could have been expected from the French
press, was an expression of regret for the lives that
had been sacrificed by the French force in Otaheite.
But, far from finding such expressions in the
French journals, we meet with furious attacks upon
Mr. Pritchard, the English, and M. Guizot. The
Courrier Francais and the National call for re-
venge ; and assert that the blood of the French
which has been shed at Otaheite must fall upon the
head of Mr. Pritchard, and on that of M. Guizot, for
having disavowed the act of the French Admiral.
The National on this occasion uses language of the
great( st violence ; it calls down public execration
upon M. Guizot, and excites the navy to rebel
- against the Government for having censured the

conduct of Admiral Dupetit Thouars and M.
d'Aubigny. A more atrocious and libellous article
than that of the National we never read ; and if it
be not prosecuted by the Government for its sedition,
it can only be because M. Guizot fears that an impartial
and honest jury is not to be found to secure a con-
viction ; in which case we can only pity the friends
of order in France, at being thus exposed to the un-
bridled violence of political incendiarism. The Courrier
Francs is little less violent than the National. It
denounces M. Guizot to the Chamber of Deputies ;
and say that if justice be not done by it upon him, the
country will do itself justice upon the Chamber ;
which means nothing less than that the mob will get
the upper hand of the representatives of the people.
The Con.stitutionnel exhausts most of its fury upon
Mr. Pritchard. It is so much out of breath with
calling for vengeance upon his head for the shedding
of French blood, that it is comparatively lenient
towards M. Guizot.
STANDARD.—According to the statement of
the Moniteur, the French Government has received
intelligence of a sharp skirmish between the natives
of Otaheite and the French force on the island. In
this engagement, which occurred on the 17th of
April, the natives are said to have lost in killed 102 ;
the French, two officers killed, and 52 men wounded.
The French, though greatly inferior in number, 441
to 3,000 (the natives being also entrenched) were
completely successful. What, however, is to be the fruit
of this success is left to conjecture. The use which the
war journals of Paris would make of the event is,
indeed, sufficiently manifest, but reasonable men
will expect something more than a topic of railing
and an occasion of quarrel as the equivalent for so
much bloodshed ; but what that solid equivalent can
be, we are at a loss to conceive. Otaheite, in absolute
sovereignty and cordial obedience, would be perfectly
useless to any European power, certainly not less
useless to France than to any other; how much worse
than useless then must be the protectorate of a people
constantly " straining upon the bit" and seizing every
opportunity to indulge. a hostile and vindictive feeling.
This most silly war is deplorable enough without
making it worse than it is; but we must remonstrate
with the Paris journals against the imputation of
the war to Mr. Pritchard or any other Englishman ;
the immediate cause of hostilities has been an act of
usurpation, acknowledged by France, and seen by all
the world to be such ; but an act of usurpation has
always been admitted as an adequate casus belli, and
we therefore need not look beyond M. Dupetit
Thouars for the party responsible for the French and
native blood shed in April, with which Mr. Pritchard
has had no more to do than his accusers in the
National, Courrier Francais, and Reforme. Our
opinion of Mr. Pritchard—an opinion however
formed rather from what we have seen of his exhi-
bition in this country, than from any report of
his conduct in the kingdom of Queen Pomare—is,
that he is an indiscreet and perhaps an ambitious
man. It is a common calamity, indeed, that how
pure soever may be the first stage of religious mis-
sions, ambition always infects the second and
later stages But whatever Mr. Pritchard is,
it is certain that neither he nor Queen
Pomare sought the French people, but,
on the other hand were sought out by French
officers when in perfect peace with all the world,
and anxious only to maintain peace ; a consideration
which candid Frenchmen will admit to be of
some weight when the consequences of the
initiative taken by France are to be appreciated. Mr.
Pritchard may have spoken with patriotic exaggera-
tion of the promptitude of his own country in aiding
all who suffer from oppression; and possibly the
simple credulity of the natives to whom he spoke
may, in their hopes, have exaggerated even upon his
exaggerations. We may concede all this, because
it is obvious that if no pretext by oppression
had been given, the utmost extravagance
of promise on Mr. Pritchard's part, though
aided by all imaginable credulity on the side
of the natives, would be harmless. The ori-
ginal wrong-doer in such cases i 3 prima facie
the. only party responsible for consequences. It
may happen that his antagonist, by retaliating with
a greater and a disproportionate injury (this hap-
pened to us in China), shall relieve the original
wrong-doer of his prima facie responsibility ;
but nothing of the kind can be alleged against
Mr. Pritchard ; for since M. Dupetit Thouars
usurped the sovereignty of the kingdom of
Queen Pomare, Mr. Pritchard has done no-
thing to give offence or to cause mischief. It
gives us no pleasure to find our French neighbours
in the wrong—quite the reverse ; we heartily
wish them quietly and honourably out of this
Otaheite business ; but we confess that we do not at
present see by what paths they are to escape, even if
we could suppose great Britain and all British inte-
rests sunk in the Pacific to facilitate an arrange-
ment. To maintain Otaheite by force is out of the
question. Otaheite is one of ten thousand islands—
all more or less connected, directly or mediately,
by relations of friendship or hostility; the Euro-
pean Power that would establish a permanent
settlement in one of these islands must contem-
plate the conquest, aye, and the garrisoning too, of
the whole of Polynesia—a sufficient explanation,
by the way, of the grounds upon which Great Britain
declined the protectorate so rashly sought by France.
What, then, is France to do in the matter? Perhaps
the most manly and prudent course were to back out
of it. We are not conscious that England has sus-
tained any dishonour in leaving the Affghans to the
punishment of their own anarchy, and the protection
of their mountains. Why might not France, with as
good a grace, leave the Otaheitans to the punishment
of their own rude manners, and the protection of
heir great remoteness and other local circumstances ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The Proprietors of the Bank of England
held their half-yearly meeting to-day, and the usual
divident of 31 per cent. (deducting income-tax) was de-
clared for the half-year. The meeting occupied less
than a quarter of an hour, and was, therefore, the shortest
that has been known for many years. An alteration in
the mode of making up the accounts was communicated
by the Governor, and was acted upon for the first time
on this occasion. Hitherto the accounts have been made
up to the 10th of October, and the portion of the " rest"
that was to accumulate between the day of the meeting
in September and that day was only given by estimate.
Now the accounts are made up to the 31st of August,
and, consequently, the " rest" is stated according to
actual results. A corresponding alteration is to be made
in the beginning of the year, and the last day of
Tebruary, instead of the sth of April, will be the day on
which the accounts for the current half-year will be
made up. Practically, perhaps, this alteration will pro-
duce no important difference, as the estimates to October
and April have been generally found correct ; but never-
theless it is entitled to commendation' as it is a much
sounder method of ,doing business to declare upon the
result of actual transactions than upon estimates, which
must, from their nature, be more or less uncertain. The
" rest" to the 31st of August is 3,563,000 L, but if esti-
mated to the 10th of October, to furnish a comparison,
an increase of 8,8001. on the former "rest" is exhibited.
The late forgery led to the question whether the loss
which the proprietors have sustained might not have
been saved by an adherence to the by-law which pro-
vides that no clerk to the establishment shall be permit-
ted to act as a broker. Burgess, it was contended by a
proprietor, by identifying the pretended stockholder, had
performed the office of a broker, and the acceptance of
his identification was in contravention of the by-law. It
is perhaps going too far to say that the mere act of iden-
tifying gives the identifier for the time the character of a
broker,
abisandon the practice of allowing
generally expressed that the
clerks to identify. Many of the most respect-
able brokers, who are necessarily well known to all the
clerks in the transfer-office, have declared their willing-
tßhr
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or, wuo butngh t thea t onceopin opinion
willing-
ness to come forward and identify a party making a
transfer, and known to them, whenever there may be
occasion, and even to guarantee the Bank for the amount
of the transfer which they may attest. A Bank clerk is
for one reason the very worst person that could be se-
lected, as he has the opportunity of obtaining towards
the perpetration of his fraud that information which
would be totally inaccessible to a stranger, while the
lowness of his salary, generally speaking, creates a
great temptation to the fraud itself. From a remark
which fell from the Governor during the meeting of this
: morning it has been inferred that the practice will be
abandoned.
We insert the following letter, a copy of which has
been sent us by the writer, as a singular instance of
di,interestedness in a railway proprietor :-
1 "TO THIS SECRETARY OF THE LONDON AND SOUTH-
, wESTERN RAILWAY.

" 29, Carlton-terrace, St. James's, Westminster.
"Sir—As
a great number of shares in
the abo
I request you will imme-
diately submit this letter to the consideration of the
em eti a t
oepdr it
a of
ay
Board of Directors.
orn re

"I have to state,—
" 1. That the London and South-Western Railway
trains travel at a much slower rate than those of any
other railway.
the London and South-
We's2t.erTnh lattailtwhaey7arnridages of
more especially the second and
third-class carriages, are vastly inferior in every respect
to those of any other railway.
" 3. That the charges exacted for the conveyance of

" 8. The income of the London and South-Western
Railway is mainly derived from second-class and third-
class passengers, as there are fifty of these to every
first-class passenger ; and yet the Board of Directors of
that railway bestow all their civility and accommoda-
tion upon those from whom the proprietors derive the
least profit, and but a small part of their income.
" 9. There should be third-class carriages with every
mixed train. People should be encouraged to travel,
and accommodated as much as possible, and should not
be hindered, or nearly precluded, from so doing ; and
the carriages generally of the South-Western Railway
ought to be as good as those of other railways, and not,
as they are, ten times worse.
" 10. The future passenger fares should be—
By the slow or cheap trains, id. per mile.
By the third-class carriages, id. per mile.
By the second-class carriages, id. per mile.
By the first-class carriages, Id. per mile.
and goods and merchandise of every sort, packages, par-
cels, &c., should be conveyed very cheaply.
" 11. A return of all accidents upon the railway
should be conspicuously posted at every station upon the
line. (This should be done on every line, and would
hare more effect in preventing accidents than heavy fines.)
" 12. By adopting the 10th regulation above suggested,
or by some equally efficacious measure, Parliament may
be induced to withhold its sanction of the Direct London
and Portsmouth Railway ; but an adherence to high
fares and charges, unequal charges, and to regulations
and arrangements which make travelling by the line
disagreeable and very costly, will materially promote
the progress of the contemplated London and Ports
mouth Railway, and greatly damage the interest of the
Proprietors of the London and South-Western Railway.
" I am, Sir, your obedint servant,
" JOHN JULIUS RADISDEN, F.R.S."