The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

THE LATE FAILURE.

The following notification appears in the Dublin Gazette
of last night :
" Abel Labertouche and Hugh Stafford, both of the city of
Dublin, notaries public, stock- brokers, merchants, traders,
dealers and chapman, and co.partners in trade; to surrender
on Thursday, the 11th day of December next, and on Friday,
the 9th day of January following."
The liabilities of this firm are said to be much larger than
had been supposed,' and rumours are afloat respecting the
nature of those liabilities which it would be premature to no-
tice at present.
Much less alarm prevails in monetary circles here, and it
is likely that confidence will soon be re-establihed.

THE CORN-LAWS and LORD.JOHN

RUSSELL
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The tide has at length reached its higher3i point, and
the agitation of years is crowned by obtaining a Russell. I
am truly thaakfal that he has forestalled Sir Robert Peel.
That statesman, the stereotype of improvement. will con-
tinue, as he has always done, a mere copyist. But in our
acquisition, we must not forget that this country would have
escaped many of the perils it has passed through had Lord
John been sooner convinced ;--however the efforts of the
League are well and amply repaid in at last securing such a
tower of strength as Lord John Russell. May he be the
man to open to his country a long era of happiness. Sir
Robert must indeed be sadly annoyed, when he reflects how
he has allowed the opportunity of placing himself in the po-
sition that Lord John Russell will now occupy, pass by.
Let the corn-law be abolished to-morrow, Sir Robert has lost
the credit of doing it; he has become the servant of other
men's opinions, and not the master of his own. The hope of
obtaining a niche among great men, after death, must burn
very dim, on the reflection of his having dallied with one of
the greatest questions of the day, at a time, too, when famine
is pointing to the corn-law as the cause of her appearance.
Yours, &c. OBSERVER.
Devonport, Nov. 28, 1845.

STRIKE AMONG THE RAILWAY LABOURERS IN
Piamisumr.— In consequence of the shortening of the hours
of daily labour at this season, the contractors for the portion
of the Scottish Central Railway now in course of formation
near Auchterarder, intimated to their workmen their, inten-
tion to reduce their wages two shillings per week.rsdTia,isant
re-
duction about 400 persons resisted, and on
Thtl
with
Friday they walked about the streets of Auchterarder
but committed
their working implements on their shoulders,
no acts of violence. The sheriff ansduc° other authorities authorities had
such an emergency, by
previously made provision against_
additional constables s
ns o3t oa sof
nf gthl
eei na
constituting a large nwuemrebtesvrooeo:iffiaecyadstldv_
mat
all; the
railway; and the
districts to be traversed by the
.line of
whole arrangements
outrage occurred. After 1
th •masters'
d to work upon their terms, and the
contents returned
remain
dr went off peaceably to see and obtain better else-
where. At first some of the railway officials had objected to
the strength of the permanent railway police established by
the Sheriff in the districts where the labourers are congre-
gated; but they may see from this instance that the preven-
tion of crime is not only better than its punishment for so-
ciety, but for these public undertakings also.—Perth Courier.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—Above 100 workmen are
engaged in making necessary alterations and re-embellishing
the interior of this regal residence, and we understand the
orders are, that the whole aro to be completed by the second
week in January, for the reception of her Majesty and suite.
Tun RoyAL Q
kJ TAGHOUNDS.—His Royal Highness
prince George of Cambridge, Lord Rosslyn, Sir John Heath-
cote, several of the officers of the 4th Light Dragoons, from
Hounslow, and a field of upwards of two hundred were at the
meet 00 Friday, at Stoke Common. The celebrated deer,
Jim Crow, upon being unearted on the Common, took away
to the vicaraxe, heading to the left to lledgerley Park,
througli the village, where it "took to the road," for three
1 wiles on to Beaconsfield. Jim Crow, after three-quarters of
an hour's run, was taken close to the town and housed at
Mr, Hare's. A. podia, number WAS Up at the f1i..11,

THE THIRTIETH OF NOVEMBER.
Yesterday (Sunday) being the 30th of November, the
offices of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade were
opened for the reception of plans, sections, &c., which had to
be delivered not later than that day, in compliance with the
standing orders of the House of Commons.
Considerable alarm prevailed for some time amongst the
promoters of the new schemes, in consequence of the 30th of
November falling this year on a Sunday, on account of which
circumstance it was feared it would he rendered necessary
that the plans should be lodged ou Saturday evening, Sun-
day being generally esteemed a dies arm, as far as matters of
business are concerned. The rule, however, was relaxed in
this case.

At one o'clock the offices were opened, and during the air
ternoon cabs and carriages of all descriptions came down,
but not in very rapid succession; and the plans were de-
livered without much trouble to those who had charge of
them, or inconvenience to the Government officials.
As the evening advanced the arrivals became more fre-
quent, and at nine o'clock they poured down Whitehall
"Thick- as autumnal leaves that strew
The Vale of Allambroia."

Having diF,gorged their freights of parchment and paper,
the cabs drew off, and the depositors exhibited unequivocal
signs of joy at the triumphs they had secured.
The method adopted for the reception of the documents
was as follows :—The parties charged with their delivery were
admitted to the lobby of the office of the Board of Trade,
where they entered the names of the agents for whom they
were concerned, in a book provided for that pu: pose. The
name was then passed to an official, who conveyed the same
to the inner office, where it was entered by the clerks.
The several parties were then successively called in to de-
scribe the name and titles of their respective plans. This
arrangement went on very well until eleven o'clock, when
the delivery became so rapid, that the clerks were quite un-
able to keep pace with the arrivals. The entrance hall soon
became inconveniently crowded, considerable anxiety being
expressed lest twelve o'clock should arrive ere the requisite
formalities should have been gone through. This anxiety
was allayed by the assurance that admission into the hall
before the hour would be sufficient to warrant the reception
of the documents.
A good deal of amusement was caused by the similarity of
names amongst the agents particularly when any gentleman
of the name of Smith was wanted. At every such call there
were at least half-a-dozen respondents, and it very seldom
happened that the right agent was pitched upon by the
subordinates below, who, being ignorant of the projects with
which the agents were connected, always ushered up the Mr.
Smith who happened to be mest clamorous.
From an early period of the evening a large concourse of
persons had assembled and displuyed the utmost freedom in
their remarks upon the huge piles of paper. which were to be
consigned to their resting-place. The bearers were also, in
several instances, made the objects of some bitter jests; but
their attention was too much occupied by the matter they
had in hand to heed them,

As the clock struck twelve, the doors of the office were
about being closed, when a gentleman charged with the deli-
very of the plans of one of the Surrey railways arrived, and
with the greatest difficulty succeeded in obtaining admission.
These were the last notices deposited.
A lull of a few minutes here occurred, but just before the
expiration of the first quarter of an hour a post-chaise with
reeking horses drove up in hot haste to the entrance. In a
moments its occupants (three gentlemen) alighted and rushed
down the passage towards the office door, each bearing a
plan of Brobdignagian dimensions. On reaching the door and
finding it closed, the countenances of each drooped; but one
of them, more valorous than the rest, and prompted by the
bystanders. gave a loud pull at the bell, which was an-
swered by Inspector Otway, who informed him that it was
now too fate, and that his plans could not be received. The
agents did not wait for the conclusion of the unpleasant corn-
inunication, but took advantage of the door being opened
and threw in their tremendous papers, which fell
upon and broke the passage lamp. They were thrown
back into the street with as little delicacy as they were
pitched into the hall. When the door was again opened,
again went in the plans, only to meet a similar fate from the
officers. The three agents were now maddened to despera-
tion, and the principal amongst them commenced to tell his
tale of woe to the bystanders, from which it appeared that
they had that morning left Harwich, charged with the depo-
sition of the plans of a certain railway proposed to benefit
that district; that they had arrived in London as early as
half-past ten, but, through the ignorance of the post-bob,
had been driving about Pimlico, and its neighbourhood in
search of the office of the Board of Trade for more than an
hour and a half previous to their fruitless arrival thereat.
The crowd, who had patiently listened to the recital of the
unhappy individual, greeted its conclusion with a burst of
laughter, which seemed to pierce his already broken heart.
At two o'clock—the time at which our informant left—the
three luckless agents of the Harwich Railway were still
standing at the door, vainly endeavouring to move the sym-.
pathies of the obdurate officials.