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connexion with Stirling and the North would bo afforded. The
branch towards Glasgow is not intended to be carried so far as
that City, but, at some distance from it, will run-1, into certain
mineral railways belonging to separate Companies, and constructed
originally for the purpose of conveying coals to the high levels on
the north side •f Glasgow ; and 2, into another projected line,
called the Clydesdale Junction, which is intersied to convey
minerals and passengers to the low levels on the south side of
Glasgow. This complicated plan will be best understood by
reference to the accompanying Map.
In contrasting this scheme with that of which the Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway is intended to' form a part, your
Committee feel bound to consider, preferably, their bearing on the
general interests of the country.

to condense, into as short a space as possible, the remaining points
which it is essential they should bring before you.
You will recollect that the original rough estimate of the cost of
the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, was at the rate of
13,000/. per mile. Mr. Miller, your engineer, has not eel:spirted
the detailed plans of the works, so as to enable him to say whether
any reduction can be made upon the estimate, but he assures your
Committee that there is no chance of its being exceeded. The
amount, therefore, which will be required to finish your line, will
be under 1,200,000/. Of this sum above four-fifths have been sub..
scribed and paid en, being more than is required by the Standing
Orders in Parliament to entitle your Bill to pass, even if you apply
for your whole line from Kilmarnock to Carlisle ; whilst, if your
Committee shall, on mature consideration, consent to the Glasgow,
Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company proceeding with
their Bill, to the effect of taking power to execute the portion of
the Line between Kilmarnock and Cumnock, under an obligation to
convey it or lease it in perpetuity to you, if you desire it, the
amount which has been subscribed will be considerably more than
is required. In these circumstances, your Committee have resolved
not to issue at present any additional shares.
Your Committee have had very satisfactory communications
from !nest of the proprietors of land along the railway. They have
also received assurances of support from many of the Corporations
in the west of Scotland, and particularly from the towns of Duni.
fries and Annan, in which both the magistrates and inhabitants
have resisted various attempts to draw them off, and have unani-
mously declared in your favour. The counties of Ayr, Renfrew,
and Kircudbright, have also passed resolutions approving of your
line.

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First.—The length of the Caledonian Railway, excluding the
Castlecarry Branch, which is said to be about eight miles long, is
stated in the Prospectus, as being 112 miles, and the cost is there
estimated at 1,800,000/. In a subsequent report, published by the
promoters, it is stated, that, " In consequence of savings on other
parts of the line, the Castlecarry extension of the Caledonian Line
can be constructed without exceeding the capital upon which the
Prospectus proceeded." rut, even after allowing this correction
of the original estimate, of the accuraey •f which your Committee
have no means of judging, and without attempting to calculate the
expense of a proposed branch of about 15 miles long to Dumfries,
and of widening the guage, and otherwise altering the mineral
lines before mentioned, or the expense of the Clydesdale Junction
Line, which practically forms a part of the scheme, it would appear
that the single line of international communication proposed by
the Caledonia■ Company, would, without accommodating any
important local traffic, actually cause at expenditure of upwards
of 500,000/. more than the whole sum that would be required for
completing the two trunk lines of communication which your Cora.
mittee have already pointed out.
Secondly.—Your Committee beg to refer you to the Comparative
Table of Distances on the accompanying Map, from which you
will observe—l. That the North British Railway, in connexion
with the projected lines from London to York, and from Newcastle
to Berwick, affords the shortest communication from London,
Leeds, Hull, and Newcastle, to Edinburgh and Stirling; and that,
not only by the Fife Line, but even by the Scottish Central Rail.
way, which would be reached by the Ee:nburgla and Glasgow
Railway, it forms the shortest route from Loudon and the important
towns above mentioned to Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen.
I. That the Edinburgh, Hawiek, and Carlisle Railway affords the
shortest line from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol,
&c., to Edinburgh ; and, in connexion with the Fife and Northern
Lines, to Perth, Dundee, and ♦berdeen. 3. That the Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway is the shortest route from London
and the whole of England to Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Port.
Patrick, for the north of Ireland, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ; and
that, allowing fur the superiority of its gradients over those of the
Caledonian Line, on the principles of comparison established by the
Royal Commissioners in their Report of 1841, it affords the shortest
communication, in point of speed and economy, with Paisley and
Greenock. The only disadvantage, in point of distance, is in the
case of Glasgow; in regard to which, however, on the principles
laid down in the Commissioners' Report, the difference between the
two lines is reduced to 13i miles, •r less than half an hour in
point of time.

King's Arms, Sheffield, Dec. 12, 1644.

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Your Committee have thus laid fully before you the details of
the entire scheme of railway oommunication from England to
Scotland, of which your line forms a part. They feel perfect con.
fitien,:e in its superiority ever each other, as being beet calculated
to promote the interests of Scotland ; and they will proceed quietly
but zealously, with their preparations for the approaching examina-
tion► of its merits before the Board of Trade and Parliament.
By order of the Provisional Committee,
Glasgow, Nov. 15, 1844. WM. LOGIE, Interim-See.

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In 1840 Mr. Locke prepared on amended plan, whereby his
gradient of I in 75 was to some extent improved, but to accomplish
this he was obliged to have recourse to severe cutting and banking,
which would, of course, add proportionally to the expense of the
line.

+ The summit is only 600 feet.
f The total population on the line between Glasgow and Car-
lisle, by Dumfries, including the termini, is 190,206.

GENERAL 'r OM THUMB.
The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE will return
to London and hold his PUBLIC LEVEES at the Gallery, in
Suffolk street, Pall-mall, commencing Monday, December 'IS, and
continuing through the holidays, after which he leaves for the
Continent. The General has been visiting the principal towns In
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met with unprecedented
success. Whilst in Edinburgh the General was presented with a
beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufac.
turecl by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in which he will appear
at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, Napoleon, and Court
dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to One, Three to Five,
and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous.
Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. The General's new
and elegant carriage, drawn by two of the smallest ponies in the
country, with coachman and footman in splendid liveries, will pass
through the principal streets daily.

Thirdly.—The sections of the Caledonian, and Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle Lines, not having been deposited, it is impossible
as yet to speak accurately on the subject of gradients. It is quite
certain, however, that the gradients of the former will be inferior
to those of the latter. The following are quotations from a report
made on the comparative merits of the two lines by Mr.
Locke, the engineer of the Caledonian Railway, in 1836. In
speaking of what is new called the Caledonian Line, he says, " lat
first directed my attention to this route, which, as far as Beattock-
bridge, near Moffat, I found tolerably favourable; in proceeding
farther, however, the valley for several miles rises very rapidly, until
reaching the summit near Elvanfoot, where it attains the height of
neatly 1,000 feet above the level of the sea—Beattock-bridge,
which is only 10 miles distant, being only about 300 feet above the
level of the sea. In 10 miles, then, the rise is nearly 700 feet,
which, supposing it to be uniform the whole way, would give an
inclination of 1 in 75.'' Net wishing to recommend a line having
such a plane," &c. But in speaking of the line by Dumfries, Mr.
Locke says—" Of the levels of this route, I may say, that from
Carlisle to Dumfries, about thirty miles, the only inclinations will
be these which it may be desirable to encounter for the purpose of
saving money, those two towns being nearly on the Cams level.
With the exception of the bridges across the Rivers Eden, Esk,
Sark, and Annan, which will neither be high nor very long, no
very considerable outlay will be required. The ground in some
parts is undulating, but not so as to render the formation of the
road either difficult or expensive." And again, with reference to
the portion of the line between Dumfries and Thornhill, he says
The levels in this part extending over a space of almost forty
iniles,t will be nearly uniform, and gradually ascending for the
whole distance ; and with the exception of a short length of about
miles, about 1 in 180, I do not believe there will be a greater
inclination than what is generally admitted in farming railways in
England." And, is regard to the rest of the line, he says, that
" although undulating, the road will not, I should think, be unfa-
vourable far locomotive engines."

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Fourthly.—The population of the parishes intersected by the
Caledonian Railway, from the point where it leaves the route of the
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway at Gretna, to the point
where the branches diverge at Lanark, a distance of about sixty.
five miles, is,

Calesionian Line
While the population on your line, between the sante point
gad Kilmaraock, is ..

52,401

The population of the parishes on the two branches leading to
Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively, including those on the Clydes-
dale Junction Lice, as contrasted with the population of theparishes
which lie up the West of Scotland Railways, at present terminating
at Kilmarnock, and their proposed branches (excluding, however,
in both cases, the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, wisioti would
be alike accommodated by the two schemes), would be,

Caledonian Branches ... ..„ 125,968

West of Sootlanai Railways

Difference 76,576

The total population e■ the Caledonian Line, and on the Glass
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Edinburgh, Hawick, and Carlisle
Lines (excluding, as before, the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow,
and that part of the line south of Gretna. common to both), is,
On Caledonian Railway
On Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 2tai1way,#2.83,230
On Hawick Line

Difference 195,551

The particulars of each of these calculations are annexed to
this Report, so that there may be no possibility of doubt on the
subject.
Fifthly.—With regard to traffic, your Committee are now enabled
to speak with more confidence, in consequence of having, since the
date of their Prospectus, taken measures to ascertain its amount
accurately, both on your own and on the Caledonian Line. The
result is, that upon the line of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railway, the thorough and local traffic, taken together, is suf-
ficient t• ensure an adequate return; but the thorough traffic be-
tween Glasgow and England, including, of course, what passes
along the road by Beittock, as well as what passes by the other
great road from Kilmarnock to Carlisle, is quite insufficient to do
so. It amounts to not more than 40 per cent, of the whole traffic
which will pass along your line. Were the whole of this trans.
(erred, without competition, to the Caledonian Line, on which the
local traffic is trifling, it would not yield interest on its cost.
Your Committee do not feel any hesitation in speaking of the
small amount of local traffic on the Caledonian Line, because their
statement is confirmed by the recorded opinion of the Royal Com-
missioners, already quoted ; and no one who has travelled along
the Beattock-road between Carlisle and Glasgow, by daylight, will
fail to remember that there are from twenty to thirty miles where
the eight of a cottage or a human being is a rarity.
Your Committee are aware that much reliance is placed by the
Caledonian Company on their prospect of traffic from the north of
Scotland to England, by means of their connexion with the projected
Central Railway front Stirling to Perth. The Table of Comparative
Distances, to which your attention has already been directed, will
enable you to judge how far this traffic, whatever its amonnt may
be, is likely to pass along the Caledonian Line, which is more cir-
cuitous than either the North British or Ilawick Lines. But, in
point of fact, the number of persons who travel south from Stirling_
shire or Perthshire, without having occasion to visit Edinburgh and
Glasgow on their way, is extremely small. Indeed, most of you are
probably already aware, that although there is a direct turnpike..
road, laid out by the late Mr. Telford, between Carlisle and Stir-
ling, there is not a single stagecoach or pul.lie conveyance upon it,
and it is deeply in debt.
On the other band, with reference to the general prospect of
traffic on your own line, the following passage in the Report of
Mr. Locke, in 1836, may be interesting to you :—" Of the advau-
tage to all the towns in Scotland, through or near to which this line
will pass, no adequate idea can bo formed. They exist iu the most
favourable part of Scotland, requiring only a cheap means of trans.
port to develope the many resources they possess. Several of these
towns have already grown into some importance; and it shoUld ho
an object with the proprietors of the soil, and with the manufac.
tuners of the district, to encourage the formation of a road like
the one proposed, so as to extend to them the benefits which it is
capable of affording."
Sixthly.—There are various other points in regard to which the
superior advantages offered by the Edinburgh, Ilawiek, and Car-
lisle Railway, and the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway,
require only to be briefly indicated. (1.) The former will open
up a connexion between the counties of Berwick, Selkirk, Peebles,
and Roxburgh, and the north-west of England, and south-west of
Scotland. These Scotch smarties already combine the highest
state of agricultural improvement, with a growing woollen manu-
facture. (l) In the neighbourhood of La»gholm there aro very
rich seams of coal which are at present landlocked, but the produce
of which the Ilawick Line will be the means, not only of bringing
to tho coast, but also of carrying farther into the interior, which
is at present suffering from the want of it. (3.) The Dumfries
Line, by giving a communieation both from the south and north,
with dim seapeit of Annau, affords to the whole of that district of
country the means of communication with the best harbour on the
upper part of the Solway Frith. (4.) The Caledonian Line would,
even if a branch were made to Dumfries, afford very inferior ae.
corer:iodation to that town, and to the counties of Kircudbright and
Wigton, from which a large number of cattle are at present sent,
partly by sea and partly by land, to England. (5.) The Caledonian
Line would, in like manner, afford a very inferior communication
between the north of England and the north of Ireland, either
by way of Pert Patrick or the seaports on the coasts a
ofless Ayrshire.
(Lastly.) The Caledonian Railway would place in advan.
tageous position the whole population of the counties of Ayr and
Renfrew, which, together, contain 310,428 inhabitants, being
more than twice as many as the whole of Lanarkshire, exclud-
ing Glasgow.
After the details which have now been given you, you will not
be surprised to hear that the Caledonian Railway, while it receives
a certain degree of support from the promoters of the Scottish Cen.
tral Railway, is opposed by ainto.t all the other railway interests in
Scotland, including the Edinburgh and Glasg
ow, the North Brmfries, itish,
the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmaruock, and Ayr, tGlasgow, Du
and Carlisle, and the lines extending through Fifeshire to the
north of ficotlane.:
Indeed, the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company have the
strongest interest, and, at the same time, the strongest Parlia-
mentary grounds for opposing the Caledonian scheme, in conse-
quence of the two forks of the latter undertaking being so laid out
as to form a competing line for the traffic between Edinburgh and
Glasgow, not more than eight or nine miles longer than the direct
route, and thus falling under the class of schemes which the Select
ConsrOittee House of Commons on Railways last session
de-
nounced as unjustifiaiaq: being a railway (to use their own wo
" which, if it is to rosolillerate the proprietors at all, can only
remunerate them by means of file Ostracti" of traffic, which is
already, for all substantial purposes, equally a"°"lodated by
some existing railway."
Your committee regret much the length to which their ob-
servations on the liierits of your line, and those with which it has
ill endeavour
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The bough of holly, with its crimson berry—
The plenteous feast—the wine which makes us marry—
All tend to make us welcome Christmas here,
And ball its customs with a hearty cheer.
But shall we not our happiness express,
By bailing Christmas with a ehange of dress ?
MOSES and SON axe anxious to re'ive
Old customs, which we all should keep alive.
In olden times, glad Christmas (merry Sire)
Was hail'd by young and old, with new a. tire
And shall this custom quite forsake the laud?
No—not while MOSES' splendid show-rooms stand.
Since winter garments may be bought so cheap,
We'll still to this old English custom keep.
The well-stock'd Mart of Moses seems to say—
' Come, buy a suit of clothes for Christmas-day.
Let those who wish for such a custom till,
Exclaim, in ready answer—" So we will I"
A new work, entitled "THE COMMERCIAL PHENO.
MENO with full directions for Self-Measurement, en applica-
tion, will be forwarded poet free.
READY MADE.

110 MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND, LONDON.
Copy of a Letter from William Wilson, Esq., Clifton, near
York. Cdfton, York, Feb. i, 1844.
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complete cure.
You aro at liberty to use my name if it will be of env service
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MARINE VILLA.
Opposite the Duke of Devonshire's.
TO BE LET FOR A TERM OF YEARS.

AMARINE VILLA, vis-a-vis to his Grace thQ
DUKE of DEVONSHIRE'S MANSION IN KEMP.

TOWN.

It may be well to observe that the Residence to be let has just
arrived at its completion; it has been created at an immense ex-
pense under the guidance of Mr. Beasley, the celebrated Architect,
and completed by Mr. Reynolds, who has justly acquired so much
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the same. The Rent for 14 or 21 years, 250 guineas a year. It
is fitted throughout with elegant massive Statuary and other
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The following is a short summary of what will be conspicuous
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Butler's 1,..a", wrong Closets, a f‘itious capitally fitted
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....
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Dress Coat
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Ditto Tunic
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following prices t__

THE PIFYVIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body, what improve;
Truths as refined as Athens eves heard."
The Fiftieth Thousand. Forty Enravings, price Is., by post, ls.6d.
ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On
Matrimonial Eligibility aid Unfitness—Oa Infelleitote aid
Unproductive Unious—Curiosities of Medical Exporionee—Law o
Divoroo, &c.

ly R. J. CULTBRWELL, M.D.,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of
the hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London.
" Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature and ley art acquir'd.
Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen,
Which young and gentle—the matured and sage—
The lonely and the mated—all sustain ;
In kindly spirit herein counsel's given,
How health, how hope, how happiness to gain."
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalluo, 147, Fleet-street ,
Mammy, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 35, Cornbill ; and the Author, 21,
Arundel-street, Strand.—A. home daily till Two: Evenings, Seven
till Nine.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c,
" He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or yeuthfu lehanna,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man I"
Just published (in a :naiad envelope), Tenth Edition, price as. 6d.,
or sent by post, tree, to any address, Ss. (3d.,
QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders, originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating In Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all these Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration.

By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFOeRD-STREET BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospita IMedlcal Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London,&e.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
througt the follies and frailties of warty indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
"Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the
medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that there are
conceale I causes of Nervous Debility in exigence, where the mere
routine practitioner would never dream of finding them ; trace.olo
to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly, and f "al
rings of isosceles misery, and premature mortality."—WakefieldJurnal.

Published by the Author, and sold in London by L Gilbert, 51 and
54, Paternoster-row ; Stade, 23, Tlebborne-street, Quadrant, Regent
street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane; Gordon, 146, Leasienhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At horse every day till Three, and from Five till Eight.

. _
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest, and trousers from 1 16 I
ditto, jacket, vest, and trousers from 0 18 V
IMPORTANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved
f, exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail
Woolen Drapars, Outfitters, and General rarehouseinen, 154, Mi-
nories, and 06, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.
Catrrion.—E. Moses and !ion are obliged to guar the public
against imposition, having learned that the untradesseanlike
falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern,
nas been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment,
and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent
disappo ntment, &c.) call or send to, 154, Minories, or 86, Aldgate
opposite the Church.
N.H. No business transacted at t 8 Establishment from sunset on
Friday tills', rset on Saturday. when business is resumed till twelve
o'clock.

THE NINTH EDITION.
Just Published, in a sealed envelope, price !s. 6d.i and sent tree, on
receipt of a Post-othee Order, for 3s. 6d.,
MANLY HEALTH: a Popular Inquiry into the
Concealed Cause of its Premature Decline, with Ingtrue-
tions for it Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering
from the iesstructive consequences of excessive indulgence, termi-
nating in mental and nervous debility, local or constitutional weak.
nes% indigestion, and consumption. Including a comprehensive Dls
sertation on MARRIAGE. Illu,tratee with Ca+es, &e. By
C.J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London.
May be had of the Authors, No. MI, Newman-street; Oxford.
street; and sold by Brittain, 11, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co.,
63, Oxford-street; Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; J. Gordon, 146,
Leadenhall-street ; G. Mansell, 3, K;ng-street, Southwark ;
C. Westerton, 15, Park-side, Knight bridge; Huett, 37. Princes_
street, Leicester-square, London ; T. bowler, Courier °Rice, 4, St.
Ann's-Nuare Manchester; W. Howell, 75, Dale-street, Liverpool;
W. Wood, 75,, High-street, Birmingham; W. and H. Robinson, 11,
Greenside-street, Edinburgh; T. Price, 93, Dame-street, Dublin;
and all Booksellers.

" The best of all friends is the professional friend ; ani in Re shape
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the usual fee of U. for advice,

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, a.nd Night, thereby insuring s TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF
FRANCE.

THE SOUTH.EASTERN RAILWAY.

The public are respectfully informed that the necessary arrange.
ments are in progress for the formation of a most influential com-
pany, in connexion with the South-Eastern and Dover Railway, for
obtaining the lease of the Great Northern Railway of France.
Advertisements have appeared from other parties as negotiators
for leasing this most important line of railway, so immediately con.
netted with the interests and prosperity of the South. Eastern
Railway. The South. Eastern Proprietors are, therefore, respecfully
cautioned against prematurely associating themselves with any par.
ties not having the authority or sanction of the Directors of the
Soutti.Eastern Company, who are taking every necessary step for
promoting the interests of the South-Eastern Proprietors.

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 13.—A some-
whst larger amount of business has baen done in foreign
wool this week than during the preceding fortnight, and
prices, if anything, in low and middle qualities, evince
rather a rising tendency.
ENGLISII WOOL MARKET. LEEDS, DEC. l3.—There is
a firmness in this branch of trade, and the tendency of
prices is upwards. The manufacturers buy cautiously,
and complain that the present prices of goods are below
the proportion of the rates at which they are obliged to
buy wool to supply their present limited consumption.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 13. —There still
continues an animated demand for all deep combing
wools, and the turn is in favour of the seller, and this
has imparted more confidence in the buyers of the bet'er
description of combing wools, as well as in those of short
wools.

LEEDS.—The markets at both our cloth halls have been
of much the same dull character as the markets of last
month, with little probability of any material improve-
ment till after Christmas. The stocks, however, in the
hands of the manufacturers are moderate, and they are
acting with caution by curtailing their operations. Prices
are steady. There have been very few buyers in the
town daring the week, but from the severity of the wea-
ther there has been a better demand for winter goods
than for same weeks past; with this exception, business is
dull in finishedgoods, and the fo:.eign houses are very still.
BRADYORD MARKET, I)Kc. 12.—There is nothing dif-
leve.t in tbo wool trade since our last report, either in
uems.ud or prices. Yarns are still produced in very re-
duced quali,h-z--, .ennlv the immediate wants of con-
sumei-.3. Stocks are not increaa...s,r _
More piece goods have been sold during the week and
to-day than we have heard of for several weeks past. The
prices still continue so ruinously low, that there is no
disposition to relax the tringent measures adopted by
the manufacturers.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We do not im-
prove in our cloth market ; on the contrary, we are
retrograding, and this bas been more evident since
Tuesday, as shown by a more anxious desiro to sell by
many manufacturers. This state of things has in some
measure been brought about by the closing of some of
the important continental rivers, so that we need not
expect any improvement for some weeks to come. Our
home demand is on the whole good, but not large. In
yarns we are decidedly flat, with lower prices. The
continental demand having in general subsided, spinners
will be compelled either to stock for a while, or to sub-
mit to lower rates.—Leeds Mercury.

REDUCTION OF THE TIIREE PER CENT. RE-
DUCED ANNUITIES.

A few months since it was noticed, under this head,
that, providing the political horizon remained unclouded,
and the Money Market free from anything like disturb-
meat, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not hesi-
tate to propound to Parliament in the ensuing session a
measure for the purpose of reducing the interest on the
Three per Cents. Reduced Annuities. An evening Con-
temporary yesterday had a paragraph to a full extent
confirmatory of such being the intention of Mr. Goul-
burn. The amount of stock to be dealt with on the pre-
sent occasion, should the Government resolve upon so
bold a measure, is not less than 195,359,0001. The total
Three per Cent. debt of the United Kingdom, but which
it is not likely would be all touched at once, is
515,150,0001., viz., debt due to the South Sea
Company, 3,662,7841. ; Old South Sea Annuities,
3,497,870/. ; ditto, New, 2,460,8301. ; ditto of 1751,
523,1001. ; debt due to the Bank of England,
11,015,100/. ; Bank Annuities of 1726, 817,0711.,
Consols 367,813,964/., and Reduced Three per
Cents., 125,359,5561. With the success that has
attended the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half to
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., and with such a sur-
plus of floating capital as now exists, it is the opinion of
many of the influential persons in the City that the
Minister may succeed, should a guarantee be given, as
ao doubt it will, that no further reduction will be at-
tempted for twenty years. So vast are the accumula-
tions of capital, and so low is the rate of interest in com-
mercial circles, that with a sacred promise of the de-
scription named, it is not thought there would be such a
number of dissentients as would baffle the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It will be recollected that in the scheme
for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
the promise was held out that for ten years the
interest should not be lowered beyond 34 per
cent., and from that forward for ten years more
not below 3 per cant. But, it is said, as oppored to
such a plan being carried out, that there are weans of
employment for money in railroads, &c., much more
profitable. This, to a very considerable extent, is most
unquestionably true ; but it should be borne in mind
that there aro immense masses of wealth locked up in
trusts, which must remain invested in the Funds, let the
reduction of the rate of interest be carried out or not,;
and when it is recollected how successful have been for-
mer steps of this kind to reduce the national obligations
—such as the translation of the Navy Five per Cents.,
the Four per Cents., and, lastly, the Three-and-a-Half
per Cents.—little doubt is entertained that the next pro-
position in the same direction will be fully carried out.
And it must also be stated that the dissentients to the
last conversion now deeply regret the course that they
took when the proposal first was circulated by the au-
thority of the Ministry, as the New Stock has been
greatly in demand—indeed, so much so, that it has
reached a price full three per cent. above par.—Observer.

AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—In the after-
noon of Friday, the 20th ult., six persons were drinking
together in a public-house in CriefE One of them,
Anthony Culbert, a man in the prime of life, within half
an hour after leaving the public-house, dropped down
and expired. Another, William Robertson, millwright,
advanced in years, managed to get home, but shortly
thereafter was observed to be seriously ill. In the case
of the former the stomach pump was applied, but to no
effect, inasmuch as life had been extinct for some time
before its application. In that of the latter it was hoped
its application would have been followed by happier con-
sequence ; but no ! he lingered apparently in great suf-
fering till half-past two o'clock next morning, when he
expired. The general impression seems to be that
death, in both cases, was caused by the quantity of cold
whisky each had swallowed—said to have been not less
than sixteen glasses each, and that in the short space of
an hour ! We have not heard of any 01 the other mem-
bers having been seriously affected.—Edinburgh Even-
ing Post.
WasnEcu.---On Wednesday morning the brig
tuhpe rtohpee
rsilvipepr,ede,miangering
th.,
smaller
Enterprise, laden with corn, wasaricidm,
byi thei ftoird et lalevAniec
pur-
posevshesesevNlo,safsisndariilhNi,ener course, until she reached the bridge,
against against which she struck sc. powerfully as to break her
aftermast into two, pieces, and greatly damaged her bul-
warks. No injury whatever was done to the bridge, or
to any of the other vessels in the riven—Cambridge
Chrouide„