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THE SUN, LONDON, SATtTRDAY MORNING, N'ovEmB,VR 22, 1845.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.
Notices that application is intended to be made to Parlia-
ment, in the ensuing session, on behalf of the undermen-
tioned schemes, appeared in the Gazette of Thursday night :
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lynne, and .111anch.-A,r ( Wors-
borough, Chapeltown, Duckentield, and Gossop branches).
Leicester and Birmingham, with branch to Coventry, and
other branches.
York and Carlisle.
Preston and Wvre Railway, Harbour and Dock Company.
Newmarket anti Chesterton].
Gaimborough, Epworth, and Leeds, Wakefield and Pon-
tefract Junction.
East and West Yorkshire Junction.
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth.
Manchester, Ebden-bridge, Keigh!ey and Leeds, and Car-
lisle Junction.
West Cornwall.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
CROYDON AND EPSOM.

SUGAR. DUTIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.

On Thursday evening a meeting of the rate-payers of
Wandsworth was held in the vestry room of the parish
church, to dispm-,e of various perochial matters, hut more es-
pecially to receive communications from the Croydon and
Epsom Railway Company, in reference to the amount-offered
to be paid to the parish for the purchase of a parcel of land
requited by them belonging to the Carskilton estate. •
The land in question forms -; poriieei of an estate pur-
chased long since by the parish, out ef money left by an
individual known as " Beggar Smith." This eccentric cha-
racter begged his way to London through the county of
Surrey, and in most towns, including Wandsworth, he was
relieved. In Croydon and Kingston he was whipped out.
He ultimately became an alderman of the City of London,
and, to perpetually Mark his sense of the favours he had re-
ceived in the early part of his life, he left, at his decease, in
1627, a sum of money, to be applied in various ways, to those
parishes that had relieved him, mid an anAual present of a
whip tolhe overseers or churchwardens for the time being of
Croydon and Kingston.
The minutes of the last vestry having been read and con,
firmed, in which it was stated that the Richmond Railway
Company had undertaken to giv;t the parish 200/. for their
interest in a tract of osier-ground across which this railway
i peso,
Mr. R. W. BauenanD, the senior warden and chairman,
stated that the churchwardens and overseers had lately re-
ceived a notice from the Croydon and Epsom Railway Com-
pany to the effect that they required a piece of ground at
Carshalton which belonged to the parish, and were wiLing to
give 201. for the same. He and several of the parish-officers
had made it their business to inspect the land alluded to.
which was the corner of a common field in the occupation of
Mr. Bates; and as it consisted of only twenty perches they
considered that by accepting 20/.,'which was selling it at the
rate of 1601. per acre, they were obtaining a very fair price
for their property, but there was an obstacle in the way. which
Nyould be explained by the vestry clerk reading the letter he
had received from the Company. Mr. Upcher, the vestry
cleek, then read the fillowing communication :
"47, Parliament-street, Oct. 19, 1815.
"'rho Croydon and Epsom, and the overseers of the parish
of Wandsworth.—Referring to the notice from the secretary
of the Croydon and Epsom. Railway Company, served upon
you as vestry- clerk of the parish of Wandsworth, to treat for
the purchase of twenty perches of arable common land,
situated in the parish of. Carshalton, in the occupation of
Mr. W. Bates, and to which notice the Company have re-
ceived no reply, we beg, on behalf of the Company, to offer
you the sum of 201—for the said piece of land, such sum to
ilclude the tenant's interest, if any. We shall be glad to
hear from you at your earliest convenience.
" We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
"BURCHELD, GILGOUR, and PARSONS.
"Mr. Upcher, Vestry-clerk, Wandsworth."
The 05'ERsEEtt said that, in answer to the letter, they (the
churchwarkleus) had directed their clerk to state that there
was no objection to accepting the 201. for the land, but they
would not undortake to satisfy the lessee's claims. To this
communication they had received no reply. It was now for
the meeting to determine what steps should be adopted in
the matter, or whether the rate-payers, as a body, would dele-
gate the power of arranging the matters to the parochial
officers.
Mr. Pmeurs thought there could be no objection to sell
the land at 20/., and the company must settle with the tenant,
but it would be necessary that the parish should watch the
company, for railway companies were in the habit of diverg-
ing, and they might occupy more land than originally con-
templated. In that case he trusted so small a sum as 20/.
would not be considered an equivalent.
The CHAIRMAN- observed that his brother warden, Mr.
Nicholson, and himself, would see that the parish were no

Pray, Sir, have the goodness to observe how the Artful
Dodger's Sugar Duties' measure has worked. You and most
of your readers will remember that at the time this-question
was under discussion in the House of Commons, so plausibly
did the Premier enact his part, they were led to believe that
he was actually. levelling a deadly blow at the West Indian
monopoly—that he was positively taking a step in the right
direction to extinguish a baneful system, which had,
for ages past, robbed the sugar consumers of many
millions of money. Not a bit of it; for whatever
the community might then think, he (the schemer)
know his game too well to injure a single hair of
the head of that horrid monster—monopoly ; he felt that
some kind of change was necessary, because the heavy
amount of duty on sugar limited the consumptiorsof it, that
the public, by abstaining from the use of sugar, on account
of the extravagance of the duty-paid price, rendered the
amount of revenue collected upon it both uncertain and
limited. In this dilemma, thinks he to himself, I must con-
thine a plan which shall have the appearance of an approach
to free trade, in order to lull the vigilance of the Liberals, but
which in effect shall yield a revenue, whether the sugar be
consumed or not, and which shall enrich my pets, the West
Indians, into the bargain. With these ends in view he organises
the income-tax, and by the aid of its operations thrusts his hand
into our pockets, and obtains our cash, leaving us to eat the
sugar or not, as best suits us; he next reduces the duty on
British sugars eleven shillings per cwt., making at the same
time a hocus pocus fuss about discriminating duties, trusting,
in the confusion, to slip, unobserved, a differential duty on
East India sugar, upon the plea that that class of sugar was
superior in whiteness to Wrest India muscovado, and that,
on a hint to subservient customs' officers, they would declare
it liable to the higher rate of duty ; by these means he would
have upset, if he could, a formal decision of the House of
Commons, namely, that the rate of duty on East and West
India sugar should be assimilated. In this cunning attempt
he was, however, foiled by Mr. Hogg, who perceived the
drift of the wily Premier's scheine, and threatened to oppose
the inquity and expose the trick ; but his anger was appeased
by such a wording of the clause enacting the discriminating
duty, as would render its operation, as far as East India sugar
was concerned, null and void.
In the course of the debate on these sugar duties, the
curious fact came out upon undeniable documentary evi-
dence, that sugar had been, and would be, produced in the
West Indies, by free labour, at something less than 9s. per
cwt.., and that a prize had actually been conferred upon the
producer for his skill ; and yet Sir Robert Peel, in the face
of this evidence, determined to protect these sugars by a dif-
ferential duty of 10s. per cwt.—tantamount to making this
nation pay for the cultivation of the 'cane and the labour of
converting its juice into sugar, and then permitting the
colonists to sell it in a close market to those who had already
paid for the manufacture of it. Oh, but, argued the Premier,
by so doing we shall throw over the colonial monopoly, for
we will permit foreign sugar to compete with British colo-
nial in our home markets ; therefore, upon a duty of 235. 4d.
per cwt. on muscovado, and 28s. per cwt. on qualities supe-
rior to muscovado (the two duties conjointly forming a pro-
tection of 10s. per cwt.) free labour foreign sugar shall be ad-
mitted into this kingdom. For fear thisresolution'should open
he door too widely, it was determined—first, that this
foreign sugar should be certificated by properly authorised
persons as the result of free labour, and which persons had
to be appointed here, and sent to their respective destinations;
and, secondly, the clause enacting a discriminating duty was
artfully contrived to apply to these sorts of sugar. It can,
therefore, be no matter of surprise to Sir Robert Peel that
the British sugar markets should be in the state they are.
The Gazette average price of sugar, given on the 21st of
November, 1845, compared against that given in the cor-
responding week of 1844, will abundantly testify whether
the consumers or the producers reap the benefit of the reduc-
tion in the duty on sugar :—The Gazette of 21st of Novem-
ber, 1845, quotes the average price of British muscovado
sugars to be 38s. ld. per cwt., and for the corresponding week
of 1844, 31s. 0-id. per cwt.
This sugar duties' question displays the bias the Right
Hon. Gentleman has for monopoly. It is no wonder. conse-
quently, that he does not at the present moment interfere
with the corn-laws, by opening the ports for the admission
of all kinds of grain; we ought to feel no disappointment at
his conduct—it is just what might have been expected of
him. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
B. S. R.

Morecombe Bay Harbour and Railway.
South and Midlands Junction.
Glamorgan Central Mineral.
Leeds, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Grimsby Junction.
Lanark, Stirling, and Clackmannon Counties Junction.
Glasgow (southern terminal), South Midland, and South-
ampton Junction.
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Nei!ston Direct.
Direct Lincoln, East. Retford, and Sheffield Junction.
Oldham District Railways.
Essex and Suffolk.
Leeds, Huddersfield, and South Staffiirdsbire Direct.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction.
North Union Grand Junction, and Manchester and Leeds.
Leeds and Bradford Direct.
Norfolk, Wells branches. j

Manchester Southampton, and Poole.
Hull and ILlybead Direct.
Bridgewater and Ninehead Railway and Pier,
Grand Junction.
Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Junction.
Tunbridge and Rye Harbour Direct.
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and Mold Extension,
with its branches.
Dover and Deal Railway, and Cinque Ports, Thanet, and
Coast Junction.
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Extension and branches.
Grand Trunk, or Stafford and Peterborough Union.
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal (Worcester and
Shrewsbury).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Brad-
ford Branch).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme, and Manchester (Whalley
and hay field Branches).
Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct.
Liverpool. Manchester, and Newcastle -upon-Tyne Junction.
South Wales.

Ulverstone, Furness, and Lancaster and Carlisle Midland
Union, Burton-on-Trent, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and Leicester,
with a diverging line to the Trent Valley Railway at Ather-
stone.

Erewash Valley Railway Branches.
Direct Birmingham and Leicester.
Lowestoft and Beccles Railway and Drainage.
Chester and Manchester Direct.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway branches and
dock.

Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway.
Branch Railway from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
to Allenhead, Manchester, and Leeds Railway extensions.
Leicester, Tean, and Dove Valley, and Stafford Junction.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension, No. 3.
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction.
Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York.
Eastern Counties, March and Lincoln Extension.
Worcester and South Wales Junction.
North Devon.
Exeter and Exmouth.
Shrewsbury and Hereford.
Midland, Nottingham, and Mansfield Branch.
West-end and Southern Counties, and terminus London
and Birmingham (Banbury line).
Peterborough and Nottingham Junction.
Eastern Counties Epping Extension.
Glasgow, Strathavon, and Lesmahagon Direct, White-
haven and Furness Junction.
Worcester and Leominster.

losers.
It was then unanimously agreed that the mat ,er should be
left in the hands of the afore-mentioned gentlemen, lout in no
case would the parish undertake to include in that settlement
the satisfying the tenant.

PROGRESS OF THE NEW RAILWAYS.
We have received the following particulars relative to the
progress and construction of several new lines of railway
(the Acts for the formation of which received, the royal
assent during the late Parliamentary sessions) from the en-
gineering officials of the different companies :
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The progress of this line has
been extended with such rapidity, that there is little doubt
but the whole will be completed for public traffic early in
the ensuing spring. It commences in a line with the
Colchester Extension and Eastern Counties Railway, at
Ardleigh, and proceeding thence towards Ipswich, passes
over table land at Manningtree-valley, Dedham, Lawford,
over the river Stour, which divided the counties of Essex
and Sussex ; it then extends through the parishes of Bran-
sham, Bentley, Belstead, Wherstead, Ipswich, onwards to
the terminus and junction with the Bury St. Edmunds and
Norwich line. The engineer, in his late report to the Di-
rectors, gave a summary of the work completed as follows :
" The total quantity of earthwork removed exceeded seven
hundred thousand cubic yards, being two-thirds of the whole
quantiv.required to complete a double road, or seven-eighths
of the quantity which would have been required to complete
the single raad (as was the original intention of the Com-
pany). Thirty culverts and bridges have been built, six
miles of permacent road have been laid out, and thirty miles
of double fencing set up." Since that was made a greater
part of the latter-mentioned mileage had been actually formed.
The long timber viadacts over the tidal waters of the Stour
River are almost completed—the foundations have proved
satisfactory. There are several heavy cuttings and embank-
ments, but most of them have been mastered. The largest
of both are through the parish of Bransham, the others are
near Ardleigh, Manningtree Denhant, Lawford, and Bourn-
brook-marshes. Upwards Of 1,000 men and 200 horses are
employed on the works. Mr. Locke's Parliamentary estimates
for the single line (as originally intended), including stations
and sidings, but exclusive of land, was under 9,000/. per
mile. The line is now being completed as a double line for
something less than 12,0001. per mile. The Company's capi-
tal was 300,000/. The Colchester Extension Railway, which
will unite the Eastern Counties with the Eastern Union, is
also in a forward state of completion.
PRESTON AND WYRE BRANCH RAILWAYS.—The works
for the formation of these branch lines, namely, the Lytham
and the Blackpool Railways, the former four miles and six
furlongs in length, and.the other somewhat less, are all but
completed. The Lytham line is finished. There is no work
of any magnitude on it, excepting in the construction of the
bridges, five in number—three constructed of wood, one of
stone, and the other of bricks. The quantity rif earth ex-
cavated was about 100,000 cubic yards. Mr. Bidder is the
engineer.
STRATFORD AND THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY.—This
line, which will be opened in the course of a short time, will
form an important communication between Blackwall and the
Eastern Counties Railways to Cambridge and Colchester, as
well as other distant parts, Ely, Norwich, and Yarmouth,
and also Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, and Harwich. It
verges off the Eastern Counties Colchester line, near the
station at Stratford, where it passes through several' meadows
to the edge of Bow-creek, which has been damned in along
the banks to a considerable length, to prevent the water
breaking in on to the line. Its course after leaving that point
is down an incline through high-street, Stratford, between
the Bell Inn and the turnpike-gate. The line passes under
the main road at a depth of about twenty feet, and an iron
bridge of a novel construction is in the course of erection
over it. It is a corrugated bridge, supported in the centre
by nine iron columns, and was manufactured by Messrs.
Grissell and Co. The crown is divided into sixty-four plates,
each of which has been tested to support an enormous weight.
The entire length is between sixty and seventy feet, and its
width is about thirty feet. Already one-half of the bridge
is built, and labourers are now employed covering it over
with concrete, preparatory to its being thrown open. The
railway front the bridge shapes a course to the south of
Strafford, passing over a number of meadows adjacent to
Messrs. Tucker's printing factory, and in a direct line
through West Ham, across the main road onwards to Plaistow-
marshes. At West Ham it passes through a portion of the
Adam and Eve tea-gardens, and also over the spot where
formerly stood West Ham Abbey. Portions of the old walls,
the only remains of the abbey, have been pulled down to
make way for the line, and in the excavations for that pur-
pose several relicts of interest were dug up, and have been
preserved. From West Ham over Plaistow-marshes an em-
bankment of a few feet has been raised, and on approaching
the Barking-road, it is the intention of the engineer, Mr.
Phelps, of the Eastern Counties, to carry a bridge up, similar
to the one at Stratford, to admit the line running under it,
The line then takes a circuitous route along the banks of
Bow-creek, to the river side, adjacent to the Trinity Hbuse,
where it terminates. Here the company are driving piles
along the river side for some 200 yards, where it is the inten-
tion of making a spacious wharf; so that vessels can come
alongside and unload their cargoes into the luggage trains for
Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. With the ex-
ception of the bridges, and that portion between Barking-
road and the river, one line of rails are complete, and ballast
waggons are running to and fro. The other line of rails are
progressing fast.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.--All immense num-
ber of workmen are employed on the works connected with
this undertaking. The embankments and cuttings are very
heavy,' and the process of blasting large quantities of stone
that obstruct various parts of the line still continue with per-
fct safety. The lengthened embankment near Carlisle is
completed, and the viaducts at Gatthie are nearly formed.
The capital for the formation of the line is 800,000/.
BRIGHTON. AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.—This line, which
is upwards of twenty-two miles in length (now amalgamated
with the London and Brighton), is in such a state of forward-
ness that the portion from Shoreham to Worthing (a dis-
tance of five miles) will be opened for the conveyance of
passengers on Monday next. It has been inspected by Ma-
jor Pasley, the Government inspector of railways, and ap-
proved of. The Company's capital is 320,000/.
OXFORD AND RUGBY RAILWAY.—About a quarter of
this line, which, when completed, will be fifty miles and a
half in length, has been staked out, and excavators are at
work thereon.
The Lancaster Deviation, the Ashton Branch lines, the
Sheffield and Manchester, and several others, are advanced
considerably.

York and North Midland, Whitby and Pickering Ex-
tension.
Preston and Wyre Extension and Darwin Junction.
Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield
and Gainsborough Canal Company.

Great Western and Uxbridge. -
Huddersfield and East and West Coast Direct.

Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lune, and Manchester Railway,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Great Grimsby and Shef-
field Junction Railway, Grimsby Docks, Huddersfield, and
Manchester Railway and Canal Amalgamation.
Birmingham and Worcester Direct, with a branch to Red-
ditch. _ _

Liverpool and Preston, and Manchester and Southport
Railways.
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend.
Chelmsford and Bury.
Midland Railway—Syston and Peterborough, deviating and
branches.
Direct Lincoln and Hull and Hull and York Railway.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, 104-
Ditto, Extension, 34-Chester and Birkenhead, New 201.
Shares, 74-Derby and Crewe, 54-Eastern Counties, 20-
Edinburgh and Northern, 765. 3d.-Glasgow and Dumfries,
24-Grand Junction, 234-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 493/4-
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32-Ditto, 401. Shares (L. M.),
55-Lancaster and Preston, Three-Quarter Shares, 3534 -
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%-Lon-
don and Birmingham, 214-Ditto, Fifth Shares, 21-Man-
chester and Birmingham, 7414-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14%
-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 24-Mat-
lock and Midland, 6-Midland, 401. Shares, 21-Mold Junc-
tion, 214-North Staffordshire, 54-Welsh Midland, 11--
Limerick and Waterford, 7-Dutch Rhenish, 7%-Ja-
maica, 62%.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCPLINGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lancas-
ter, and Cheshire, 71,4-Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool,
21/8-Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield, 2-East Lancashire,
No. 2, 12-East Lincolnshire, 2%-Goole, Doncaster,
&c., 575.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,
9 c. n.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 545. 6d.-Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 44-Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 15-16-London and York,' 4%
-Manchester aid Birmingham, Quarters, 9-Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Juncton, 1N-
Manchester and Southampton, 3 9-16-North Stafford-
shire, 5/. ss. 9d.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters
No. 3, 6--Shropshire Mineral, 3-West Riding Union, 7/. 4s. 6d.
LEEDS, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHINGE.-The sales are-London and Croy-
don, 2014-Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 1078 p.-
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 19-Leeds and Bradford Exten-
sions, 374-Leeds and Dewsbury, 2014-Leeds and Thirsk,
134-Liverpool and Bury, 264-North British, New Car-
lisle Branch, 314-Oxford;'Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
16-Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 30 c. n.-London and
York, 4%-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 34-Direct
Northern, 3s -Liverpool,' Ormskirk, and Preston, 44 -
West Riding Union, 7-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 15s.
dis.-East Lincolnshire, 2%-East and West Yorkshire, par
-Grand Union, 7s. 6d. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire,
20s. p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%
-North Western, 314-Nottingham and Boston, 24-South
Midlands, 314 p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Leeds and Thirsk,
12%-London and York, 44-Grand Union, 1 and3-Lancaz
shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 2%-North South
Junction, 3/. 12s. 6d. p.- Nottinghamyand Boston, 2%-
Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 11. 1 la.-Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth, 41. 6s.
SHEFFIELD, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCAANGE.-The sales are-Sheffield and Rother-
ham, 3484-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, N 0.3.
6-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3% Caledonian, 104-
London and York, 44-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 384.
lIULL, Nov. 20.
STOCK Excrwcau.-The sales are-Axholme, 2s. 6d.-
Great North and South Wales, and Worcester, 10-Liverpool
and Leeds, 2-London auelYork, 44-London and Norwich
Direct, ss.

YORE, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCIWTOK.-The sales are-Newcastle and Dar-
lington, Brandling, 45-York and North Midland, Extension,
2534-Newcastle and Berwick, 12%-North British, 241,4
Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 3-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4-
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester, 1%-Grand
Union, 1%-Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 4s. p.-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.-Welsh Midland, 2%.
BRISTOL, NOY. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter,
New, 71/2-Caledonian, 10-North Devon, 2-Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham, 2%-Vale of Neath,
Somerset, and Weymouth, 414.
-GLASGOW, Nov. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bath-
ate, 675. 61-Airdrie and Coatbridge, 734-British and
Irish Union, 775. 6d -Caledonian, 10%-Ditto, Extension,
755.-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 505.-Caledonian
and Dumbartonshire Junction, 625. 6d.-Cornwall and Devon
Central, 475. 6d.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, Is. p.-East
Lothian Central, 555.-East Indian Railway, Ms.-Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 225.-Edinburgh and
Perth, 6%-Edinburgh and Hamilton Direct, 50s. 6d.-
Glasgow and Belfast Union, 535. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr, 67-Ditto, New, 181/-Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 525. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan,
434-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 505.-Lanark and
Lothians 715.-Lesmahagow, 80s.-London, Bristol, and
South Wales, 428.-Perth and Inverness, 505.-Scottish Cen-
tral, 16-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 41s. 6d.
-Strathern Junction, 655.
DUBLIN, Nov. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Belfast and Bally-
mena, 7-Bandon and Bantry, 1%-Cork and Waterford,
1%-Cork and Youghal, 214-Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine
Junction, 18-Dublin and Drogheda, 81-Great Southern
and Western, 2114-The Midland Great Western and Rail-
way Canal, 434-Ditto, Extension to Sligo, 2-Irish Great
Western, Dublin to Galway, 334-Irish North Midland, 11/s
-Killarney Junctions, 214-Newry, Warrenpoint, and
Rostrevor, 31/2-Waterford and Limerick, 7erfd,
Wexford, and Dublin, 1%-Waterford and Tramore, 2-
Wexford, Waterford ;and Valentia, 1%.

THE QUEEN OF DENMARK (SISTER OF GEORGE
III.), AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, EDITED BY Mits. GORE.—
Considerable interest has been excited by the announcement
of the above tale of royal life, edited by the most popular of
our female novelists. 'We understand that the work pos-
sesses startling claims to public attention, not only as a well-
told and interesting story, but as a most curious and cre-
dible narrative of historical events of the highest interest,
and a faithful picture of the manners of the Court of Chris.
tian VII. So truthful are said to be the style and senti-
ments, that instead of feeling ourselves to be perusing a
novel, or even a romantic series of historical memoirs, we
could fancy "The Queen of Denmark" to be the very jour-
nal of some observant courtier—circumstantial as Dangeau,
and artless as Pepys.
Mr. Terrail, the well-known alto singer, died
on Thursday morning, aged sixty-one. Mr. Terrail was en-
gaged for many years at the Ancient Concerts. He be-
longed to the Catch Club, the Glee Club, and the Melodists,
and was highly esteemed by his professional brethren. Of
late years he had grown remarkably stout, so much so. that
the conductors of the omnibuses, when they saw him hailing
them, would cry out to the driver " All right." Mr. Ter-
rail was a clerk in the Excise-office for upwards of thirty
years.
We regret to learn that accounts have been received
in town, announcing the. serious indisposition of Lady Ra-
vensworth, whose state is such as to preclude all hope of re-
covery. Her Ladyship's health has been gradually im-
paired by age, but on Saturday last a decided change for the
worse became apparent, and since then she has been gradu-
ally sinking under the accumulated weight of years and
bodily infirmities.
CATCHING A THIEF WITH A RAT-TRAP.—FOr some
time past Mr. Smitherson, residing in Cannon-street, has
been missing bottles of wine from his cellar, the whole being
taken from the bin nearest the door. Upon examining
clOsely he found that some of the bricks in the wall had been
loosened, anti upon being taken out an aperture sufficiently
large to admit a hand and arm was apparent. Mr. Smither-
son, accordingly, set a rat-trap on the inside of the hole on
Wednesday evening. Upon going yesterday morning he
found the bricks had been removed, and- the trap sprung, in.
the teeth of which he found some human skin, and a por-
tion of a finger nail, the stealer of the wine suffering that
, agony rather than detection.

OMB rou DRUNEINNESS.—On Wednesday night
a man and his wife, in the last stage of drnukenners, were
proceeding along Gower-street, when the former fell into the
opening made in repairing the sewerage, which is at least
forty feet deep. The general opinion was that the unfortu-
nate man was killed, a fate he could not have escaped, had he
fallen across the wooden struts, but upon assistance being
procured, he was found at the bottom, uninjured, and crying
out, " All's right." On being brought to the bank he was
quite sober. His wife was so terrified by her husband's
perilous situation, while he was in the sewer, that it was with
the greatest difficulty she was prevented from throwing her-
self in after him.
MAPPING THE RAILWAY LINES.—We beg to
remind solicitors and engineers, that according to the standing
orders, the whole of each proposed line must be laid down on
a published map of not less than half an inch to a mile, and
deposited with the Board of Trade, with the Books of Re-
ference, &c., by the 30th of November. How this will
operate in Scotland and the North of England, remains to be
seen. The Ordnance maps are on a scale of one inch to the
mile. In Ireland, the maps of which are nearly complete,
the scale is six inches to the mile. A portion of the Ordnance
map is now being executed (though not yet engraved) for
the North of England, on this extensive scale. Yorkshire is
not yet engraved. The rest of the Ordnance survey, south of
Lancashire and Yorkshire, is completed, but on a scale of an
inch to the mile. Cary's map, which is oulhalf-an-inch to the
mile, and which includes the whole of England and Wales,
and that part of Scotland inclusive, and south of Edinburgh
and Glasgow, is on the exact scale required. But for the
whole of Scotland north of these two cities, there is not any
general published map of the country larger than five miles
to the inch (Arrowsmith's), and that is not sufficiently exact
for the required purpose.—ltailway ,Express.

ALLEGED PIRACY.

The following is an interesting extract of a letter from
Lieutenant W. A. J. Heath (son of the Governor of the Bank
of England), her Majesty's steamer Hyacinth, dated St.
John's, Newfoundland, Nov. 9, 1845 :
" We sailed from the Humber immediately for St. George
Bed-, where we arrived at the beginning of October—Our at-
tention was suddenly called by a merchant brig, apparently
a wreck, with her masts cut away, and aground close to the
beach. Captain Scott having an appointment as magis-
trate, made an inquiry as to her being there in that state,
and two men took an oath before him that they had been
bribed to run the vessel on shore—of course with a view to
defraud the underwriters. We then held 'a survey on the
vessel, and found a hole bored right through her bottom ;
and there was not the slightest doubt but that it was done
purposely. Captain Scott immediately sent me with a
party of armed men to arrest the bodies of the captain and

mate of the vessel, a merchant who had offered the bribe,
and two other men who were connected with them. I
found them all in a few minutes, and ,brought them
off. You may imagine their astonishment when they
were told they were prisoners, under a charge ,of felony, to
be conveyed to St. John's for trial. The next job was to put
the brig to rights. We hauled her off shore, and got her
alongside of us, jury. rigged her with our own spars, and put
her cargo into her, consisting of nine hundred barrels of flour,
and nearly a hundred of pearlash ; besides which she had a
great quantity of wheat in bulk. I was then put in charge
of her, with a mid, master's assistant, and six men ; but she
was such a beast in the way of sailing, that we were about
ten days waiting for a fair wind to take us out of the Bay
of St. George, which is about fifty-six miles. We did, at a
third attempt, get out at 1 A.M. October 21, with a slashing
N.E. wind, and about six inches of snow on the deck. We
continued our way, with a nice breeze and fine weather,
till October 28, when it fell calm, until a light
breeze sprung up from the N.E., which increased
in a short time to one of the most famous
gales I ever witnessed. I bad very luckily taken the sail off
her in time, and laid her under a close-reefed main-trysail, in
which way we remained until about 11 P.M., when a sea
struck us fore and aft, carrying away the caboose and coppers,
washed the long-boat and booms to leeward, and tore away
the stern-boat and davits. We laid till daylight under bare
poles, when it moderated a little. I then made sail again,
and the next morning was most glad to sight Cape Race,
about thirty miles from St. John's, which place we were off
the same night, and got into the inner harbour the next day,
to the great delight of every one, but particularly Captain
Scott, who had great fears of our being lost. The people on
shore said that they had not bad such a violent
gale for some years. After losing our coppers, we
had no means of cooking, and had,. consequently, to
live on raw salt perk until we arrived. I could
not do it myself, but managed to support nature on biscuit
and rum, but from anxiety, want of rest, and being con-
stantly wet, I was in such a nervous state when we arrived
that I was obliged to take a room on shore with a big feather
bed and a fire, which brought me round in a very few days.
I calculated since, that after leaving St: George's Bay to our
arrival at St. John's, I had not slept fifteen hours in all,
which was eight days. The brig was called the Rosanna, of
Newcastle, 145 tons. The prisoners have had several exami-
nations. and have been committed for trial on a charge of felony.
The master and myself were ordered up to the court-house
yesterday, and had to sign recognizances of forty pounds
each to appear as evidence at the trial, which will not come
on until the middle of next month ; so if Captain Scott cannot
get us off, we shall have to be left behind, as the ship must
sail in a few days for Halifax and the West Indies."

A NEW OREGON CLAIMANT.—It appears that the
Emperor of Russia is in the field as a claimant for the dis-
puted Oregon territory. He maintains that his possessions
descend to 54 degrees 40 minutes. We cannot learn the
ground of his Imperial Majesty's claim, but the following
official document has been issued:—" Department of State,
Washington, September 26.—The Russian Minister at Wash-
ington has informed the Secretary of State that the Imperial
Government, desirous of afferding efficient protection of the
Russian teratories in North America against the infractions
of foreign vessels, has authorised cruisers to be established for
this purpose along the coast by the Russian American Com-
pany. It is therefore recommended to American vessels to be
careful not to frequent the interior seas, gulfs, harbours, and
oreeks upon that coast at any point north of the latitude of
64 degrees 40 minutes."—Toronto (lie.
The mortal remains of the late Right Hon.
William Dandle, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, were in-
terred yesterday in. a vault at the upper burial-ground, St.
Leonard's-on-Sea.

ADJUDICATIONS ON FRENCH RAILWAYS —Three
important adjudications will speedily take place. That on
the Tours and Nantes Railway, on the 25th cost."; and those
on the Lyons line, and the Creil and St. Quentin line on the
20th of next month. ' The delay has been considerable. No
good reason has been mentioned why these lines should not
have been adjudicated long ago. The French system is very
different from our want of system. There, the Government
fixes the course of the line, and allows that Company to make
it which tenders an offer to surrender it to the Governmeat
at the earliest period. As in this country, a certain amount
of capital must be paid up before any Company can be ad-
mitted to compete for the lease. Whenever the adjudication
is made, the unsuccessful competitors are bound to return to
subscribers or shareholders the full amount (sometimes
with a very small deduction for expenses) which they have
respectively advanced. It is this which, at the present
crisis, is of very considerable importance. A vast amount of
the capital subscribed for railways in France is English
capital. The withdrawal from our circulation has contri-
buted, no doubt, to that " tightness in the market" (in other
words' scarcity of money) which is now very seriously felt.
The adjudications which we announce to-day will release and
return a good portion of the money so locked un, and must
thus contribute to restore "the elasticity of the market."
From the first, we have been averse to the employment and
investment of British capital in foreign railways. Home
projects, we think, will afford as ample returns, with the ad-
vantage of greater security. Let a war arise, and what
security will the British capitalist possess? We firmly
believe that, if a war broke out, all English capital in French
lines would be confiscated. These are points which must be
looked at and into. Fact is fact, and the security of British
investments in France appears to us very doubtful.—Railway
Express.
The Brussels journals of Saturday state, that al-
though the markets in Belgium have, in general, been well
supplied during the last week, the prices of provisions of
every kind are on the increase.
DISCOVERY OF AN ILLICIT STILL AT BRIGHTON.—
On Wednesday an elderly man, named George Bignall, was
examined before Major Willard, the sitting magistrate of the
day, on a charge of being concerned in illicit distillation.
The charge was preferred by Lieut. Pratt, of the coast-guard,
and Mr. Newton, the supervisor of excise. According to the
evidence, Lieut. Pratt and several of the coast guardsmen
proceeded on Tuesday to a house in Gorringe's• court, North •
lane, where they found a still of about 40 gallons at work,
the prisoner attending it. A bucket was placed beneath the
worm to receive the droppings of the still, which on being
tasted proved to be a weak kind of spirit. A nine-gallon
cask stood near, containing four or five gallons of the same
kind of liquid. On the premises were found four large casks,
one sunk in the ground, and all full of wash, some in a state
of fermentation, the quantity being nearly 300 gallons. The
liquid found in the bucket and small cask was handed over
to the supervisor, who, on testing it, found it to be a spirit,
70.6 under proof, which was called, in the technical language
of the Excise, " low wines." It was explained to be the pro-
duct of the first distillation, and which was liable to duty,
but not chargeable till the completion of the distillation. The
windows of the house were boarded up, and a screen was
placed inside the door, so that nothing was visible outside.
The statement of the prisoner was, that the liquid was used
only in the process of "bone bleaching ;" and an attempt was
made to show this in defence, Mr. Bennett, solicitor, being
engaged for this purpose. After a lengthened investigation,
however, Major Willard considered the case to be proved
under the 7th and Bth George IV., c. 53, s. 33, which inflicts
a penalty of 30/. on any person found in a private or unen-
tered room, manufacturing articles liable to excise duty. The
prisoner was consequently fined in that amount; and not
being able to pay, was committed to the House of Correction
to hard labour for three months
The Oregon is the name given to a steam-boat re-
cently launched at New York, which is ten feet longer than
the Great Britain. She is about to be placed on the New
York and Providence station.
MORE SECESSIONS.—The Rev. Frederick William
Faber, M.A., late Fellow of University College, and Rector
of Elton, Huntingdonshire, joined the Roman communion,
together with eight others (names unknown), at Northamp-
ton, on Thursday se'nnight. Mr. Faber, who is the author
of poems dedicated to Lord John Manners, was presented
to Elton in 1843, at which time his Romanising views
were matter of notoriety. It is stated that he is about
to resign Elton, and to be confirmed as a member
of the Romish Church shortly. Mr. Faber obtained
a second class at Oxford in 1836, in which same year he also
obtained the Newdigate prize poem on " The Knights of St.
John," in the following year was elected Johnson theological
scholar, the Rev. J. H. Newman being, we believe, one, of his
examiners. We have excellent reason for knowing that the
Romanists consider the secession of Mr. Faber from the
Church of England as next in importance to that of Mr.
Newman. Of Messrs. Oakeley and W and they make very
light account; as well they may. Both the conduct and
writings of the latter gentlemen have materially lowered
them in the estimation of their Popish friends. It is
a Miltonian-Satanic maxim, that it is better "to rule in
hell than serve in Heavea"—such, we are told, was the
guiding sentiment of the prince of apostates. Some of his
followers, however, instead of exchanging humble usefulness
for bad eminence, find themselves as having abandoned a
righteous service for a cruel slavery; and, of course, without
enjoying either the sympathy of their victims or their
tyrants. However this may be, the secessions continue, and
it is freely rumoured that, in addition to those already known,
many members of Colleges have gone over, whose names it
is not thought proper to communicate yet to the public.—
Church and State Gazette.
OxroßD TO ROME, DIRECT.—We have heard a
strange story from Qxford, to the effect that the Rev. R.
Coffin, vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, in that city, whose in-
tention to resign his preferments was announced in last
week's Church and State Gazette, was, previously to his
quitting the University, in constant attendance on a poor fe-
male, named England, the wife -of a printer there; and that
the Rev. Mr. Newsham, the Romish priest, at whose chapel
hfr. Newman is a communicant, has become her
spiri-
tual adviser. This case, we are informed, has createdo
a general mistrust of the Tractarian clergy;vewh vet
sho-uld
remain among the inhabitants of Oxford.
be agreeably surprised if the report we have above noticed
were to prove unfounded. But we entertain strong fears, on
the contrary, that it is not"only well-foun ed but
that it might be matched by other cases, similar in spirit and
in detail. If, hoWever, but one such case canit abne.d sub-
stantiated,the surely the authorities in the University
Church will be aroused to the conviction that it is time to
interfere, and check the evil, by punishing tbe evil-
doers. When we contemplate the apathy which exists in
quarters where the most jealous enthusiasm ought to prevail
—and when we behold treachery daily practised without the
slightest censure being levelled at the traitors—we are in-
diced to imagine that they whose designation in the Church
intimates that they are "overseers," fancy that they are en-
joined, by their official appellation, not to hOld high
watch for the interests of that Church, but to overlook all
that is done in the way of injuring her efficiency.—Church
and State Gazette.
QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY.—Dr. Forbes Wins-
low in his " Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases," relates the
following interesting case :—Bernard Schedmazig suddenly
awoke at midnight ; at the moment he saw a frightful
phantom, or what his imagination had repreaented as a fear-
ful spectre. He twice called out " Who is that ?" and re-
ceiving no answer, and imagining that the phantom was
advancing upon him, and having altogether lost his self-pos-
session, he raised a hatchet which was beside-him, and at-
tacked the spectre. Immediately afterwards it was found
that he had murdered his wife:
POPERY IN TUE METROPOLITAN SEE.—We an-
nounce with the greatest regret, and upon authority which,
though we cannot name, we consider indisputable, that one
of the chaplains of the Bishop of London is on the point of
being admitted into the .Romish Church I Surely such an
event as this will make our too indulgent diocesan at length
' exclaim—" Non omnibus dormio I"—Church and State
Gazette.