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North, Mr. Cullen, and Mr. Munck ; there was a fourth I would pass on the south of, and within a short dis-
dirt ctor, but he had no authority to mention his name. tanco of the race ground and under Mansfield-road, so
Mr. W. TAYLOR proposed a resolution to the effect— as to allow of the road itself being untouched. They
that in reference to the above project it would not be ex- ' would go to Parliament with a mile of railway and its
pedient to carry out the views originally entertained furthermost station already in their posses-ion, having
ss ith respect to it, especially in the deprefsed state of the I arranged for its purchase with Messrs. North, Wakefield,
money market, and the marketable value of the scrip in ! and Company, agreeing to pay them so much per mileage
the said company, and that the amount of 40,000/. and ' for whatever coals they would have to take along it to
upwards in this town having been drawn out of its their present terminus near the canal at Old Radford.
natural channel, causing a complete paraly• is of business, At or near their station at Cinder-hill, they would come
especially as that amount is, as it were, lying dead, and into contact with their line from Mansfield, which, or
no part of it likely to be returned, except at ruinous some other equally eligible for the purpose of the Mineral
loss, it is respectfully, yet earnestly requested that the Company, would no doubt be constructed. Thus a
committee of management do take the above matter source of supply of other kinds of coal from all the coal-
into their serious consideration, to this effect, viz., that fields up the Keen Valley up to the neighbourhood of
the money now left in their hands be returned to the Mansfield, would be opened, and these coals would be
shareholders, as soon as arrangements can be made to received at Cinder-hill Junction from such railway along
that effect, minus the expenses already incurred. In the Mineral railway. In the first place, it was intended
consequence of the general panic, and the change in that Nottingham should profit by an increased supply of
monetary affairs, it was now deemed the wisest course co:.1. ; this railway would come across other means
to abandon the line, and for the money advanced to be of communication, and thus would draw supplies from
repaid minus the expenses, because, although at one various quarters. They would by this railway be
time this line was considered to be a very favourable enabled to obtain coal of all descriptions (which now
one, it was not thought so now ; the fact was, that two they could not do without making a transit of, in some
other lines had been projected subsequently to starting cases, as much as twenty miles), which could be brought
the Nottingham and Gainaborough line, viz., the Gains- to Nottingham, and to be delivered by them at a price
borough, Newark, and 'Nottingham, or Trent line, and per ton of two shillings less than is now paid, although
that supported by the powerful influence of the Midland the price at the mouth of the pit Were not lowered one
COmpany, with King Hudson at its head. It appeared farthing. Other details there were which could not be
that a large portion of the deposits for the intended fully gone into, or be made here the subject of discus-
Nottingham and Gainaborough were from the inhabit- sion, The public would be protected from monopoly,
ants of this town, and he felt that if they were repaid, and low prices would invariably be secured to them, be-
minus the expenses, a large circle of individuals would cause its construction would materially increase the
be relieved, and trade would be benefitted. supplies, and the Company being vendors, and bound
Mr. GEORGE SPARROW seconded the motion. not to pay themselves more than 10 per cent. on their
Mr. RP. Cox 'rose and said, that he should oppose outlay, the difference in cost would be clear gain to the
the resolution just read, which was to memorialise the consumers. The capital for constructing the line, in-
Board of Directors of the Nottingham and Gains- eluding the branches and all working expenses, would
borough to abandon their line. On looking around not be more than 50,000/. or 60,000/. The original
he saw a number of gentlemen who were shareholders, capital of the Company, it was proposed, should consist
and others who would derive a considerable advantage of 40,000/., in 4,000 shares of 10/. each.
by this line being abandoned, and would also be the Mr. WOODHOUSE, their engineer, had stated that the
means of getting up other lines to a premium in which engineering would be found to be light compared to what
they were interested. He had paid great attention to he anticipated, as those who knew what Nottingham rock
the varions lines projected from this town, and had come was were aware that they would be enabled to construct
to the conclusion that the Nottingham and Gainsborough it without difficulty.
was the most important and best. Ho conaidered it was Mr. W. TAYOR said, though the plan was feasible and
better than the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, the useful in relation to Nottingham, he felt that unless it
Erewash Valley, the Nottingham and Lincoln, or the included the large manufacturing suburbs (Radford,
Nottingham and Manfieid Railway put together, and Basford, and Carrington), that it would be incomplete ;
they were now called upon to abandon this line, as it and, therefore, it was now proposed to accommodate,
was not conceived to be a legitimate scheme. The de- by branches and depots, those districts. The mere cir-
posits had been better paid up than any other line in cumstance that at Cinder-hill was a large supply of coal,
England. Mr. Taylor talked about two lines being in lying more proximate than any other equal supply, re-
progress, one of which was stated to the town to have quiring less than two miles of rails to bring it to a depot
been abandoned. He perceived. from the report of the from whence it might be cheaply carted to the doors and
board of directors, that the Nottingham and Gains- furnaces of consumers, and further that, as such line
borough line was in an advanced stage, and would be en- would, in all probability be intersected by the Mansfield,
abled to apply to Parliament with a view of obtaining Ambergate, or other proposed railway, in the valley of
it. The allotments in the rival line had not been paid the Lean, had induced them to terminate the Mineral
up, and he was sure the Gainsborough, Newark, and Railway at Cinder-Hill.
Nottingham Railway was bound to fall to the ground. Mr. H. M. WOOD entered into a lengthened descrip-
It could not be prepared for Parliament, and he believed tion of the route of the line, its gradients, and the esti-
the projectors of it had abandoned it. Their wishing to mated cost of its construction. The plan was looked at
amalgamate with the Nottingham and Gainsborough with considerable interest, and appeared to be generally
was for the purpose of abandoning their line, and he approved.
was of opinion that -the Nottingham and Gainsborough In answer to Mr. Felkin, Mr. WOOD said, the reason
line was a legitimate one. There were a great number the line passed on the Nottingham side of the race-
who had embarked their capital in this line for the pur- course was, because it would not then involve the de-
pose of making something by it, but which investment struction of any buildings, and would thus avoid oppo-
had unfortunately turned out a bad speculation, but they sition and expressions of unkind feeling on the part of
must make the best of it by selling out, and let it take those whose property would otherwise be injured. The

its own course. He would say, if they acted honestly
towards the shareholders, they would recommend that
the board of directors be requested to call a meeting of
the shareholders at large, and present to them a full
report of the position in which they now stand. If that
report was not considered satisfactory to the whole body
of shareholders, or three-fourths of them, then a resolu-
tion may be passed this evening for the directory to
abandon the line, which he should have no objection of
supporting. He had several friends who had embarked
their capital in it (the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway), and who were anxious it should be carried.
Let us go to Parliament with a determination of wish-
ing to carry it out. He moved " that a deputation
from this meeting wait on the directors of the Notting-
ham and Gainsborough Railway, for the purpose of
advising them as early as possible to call a meeting of
all the shareholders, for the purpose of placing before
them a full report as they possibly can, as to how they
stand with regard to the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Line."

Mr. W. TAYLOR said he thought the object of the
meeting would be attained by Mr. Cox's amendment, and
therefore he would withdraw his motion.
Mr. JOHN Lenton, seconded Mr. Cox's amend-
ment.
Mr. Cox said it was generally known that he was in-
timately acquainted with one of the solicitors of the Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, and through him
he had collected a few facts, which were publicly., stated,
as to -the terms upon which the amalgamation was
offered. He would relate the terms as near as he pos-
sibly could. The Gainsborough, Newark, and Notting-
ham Company, had expended from 1,2001. to 1,5001., and
they would abandon this line in consideration of tlie
Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway paying their
expenses. The Board of Directors of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway very properly rejected their
proposition. In the memorial he found the names of
two or three who were not share-holders, and who
had not signed the Parliamentary contract, and
one was a shareholder of the Derby and Grant-
ham line. He could also state that only three of the
Mansfield gentlemen who signed the memorial had
shares allotted to them, and therefore the others might
have considered it as a gambling speculation, in which
they had thought proper to embark. Mr. Cox proceeded
to assert that the Nottingham and Gainsborough line
was the best that had been projected, and that when Mr.
Bateman, the eminent engineer, first learnt that the capi-
tal proposed was 800,000 L, he said that it was too small,
and that it ought to have been 900,0004 but now that he
had been over the line (and he was at present in Notting-
ham) he said that the land was so barren that it might
be purchased for so low a price as to reduce the
capital to 700,0001. He (Mr. Cox) must say that
he blamed the Directors for their apathy and want
of energy. When he heard of this meeting to abandon
the line, he was anxious for an amalgamation, and
had hoped that Mr. Danks, Mr. Bradley and other
gentlemen would have pushed on the Nottingham and
Gainsborough line. He was satisfied that it would be
the best line. Hull had increased two-fold within the
last two years, and they were laying out fifteen acres in
making new docks. There could not be a more decisive
proof of the importance of that port, with which the line
they wished to give up would have another line in direct
communication. It was quite clear that this was a far
better route than the other.
After observations from Mr. Felkin and Mr. Wake-
field,

Mr. Surnwi observed that the Gainsborough,
Newark, and Nottingham Company said they had no-
thing to beg or propose. He would give them a short
history of No. 2 line. He did not know anything of No.
2 line until he met Mr. Bean, who said, "my plan
(meaning the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham)
has floored yours ;" but Mr. Bean did not see the great
leviathan behind him ; he did not see the great man
called Hudson, and the Midland Company, which
must be with them, cat and run. Their proposition
was, "will you (the Nottingham and Gainsborough) un-
dertake to pay our expenses, which will be 1,5001., or—
that fatal word or,' about 2,000/., and we will abandon
our line." This is a brief history of No. 2 line, who had
nothing to propose nor anything to offer. They would
like to put their hands in our pockets, and take 2,0001. if
they could catch hold of it.
Mr. WAKEFIELD resumed, and after a few more obser-
vations, concluded by moving the resolution originally
proposed by Mr. Taylor, which was seconded by Mr.
Steegmann ; but that resolution having been withdrawn,
Mr. Cox's amendment became the original resolution.
The CHAIRMAN put the amendment, when nearly the
whole of the meeting voted for it.
On Mr. Cox's resolution being put, only twelve held
up thttir hands for it.
The following gentleman were afterwards appointed a
Deputation to wait upon the Directors at the next meet-
ing, viz., the Chairman, Messrs. Felkin, Shipman, Steeg-
mann, and Bell.

me, as deliimaied On the plan, does not Cut through
any house ; it does not affect a single brick. The
height of the viaduct necessary would be 40 feet • this
would be so constructed as to pass free of the Alfreton
road. The line would be a single one all the way. He
(Mr. Wood) had discussed the probable expense with
Mr. Woodhouse. and he'had agreed with him that the
estimates were within the amount to be required.
Mr. HARRISON, representing Messrs. Barber and
Walker, said they would send their coal to Nottingham
for 2s. per ton less than at the price proposed, if the line
wero carried forward to Watnall, and providing the com•
pany would reconsider their plans, and consent to post-
pone the scheme to another session of Parliament, so
that some means might be proposed to bring Messrs.
Barber and Walker's coal to Nottingham.
A lengthened discussion ensued, in which Messrs.
Harrison and Brentnall, agents of Messrs. Barber and
Walker, and Messrs. Cripps, Booth Eddison, George
Parkin, Felkin, Taylor, Plant, and others took part,
which ended in the meeting being adjourned, to give
_ _

Messrs. Barber and Walker, and other coal owners (if
desirous) an opportunity of conferring with the acting
Committee as to the propriety of extending the line to
Watnall or other districts, in the event of other compa-
nies not gaining Parliamentary sanction to those projects
which would render such extension unnecessary.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.
STOCK 'E` XCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 64-Boston, Newark, and. Sheffield,
2%-Caledonian, 94-Cambridge and Lincoln, 3-Derby
and Crewe' 41,E-Grand Junction, 227-Ditto, 401. Shares
(L. M.), 52%-Leicester and Birmingham, 1%-London and
Birmingham, 213-London and York, 3%-Direct Northern,
13/4-Manchester, Sheffield and Midland, Fifth Shares, 114
-Midland, 139-Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19-North Union (A),
204-Ditto (B), 14`2-North Staffordshire, 4 :jl-Nottingham
and Boston, 2'4-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
15-Trent Valley, 16-Dutch Rhenish, 7'.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bideford and Tavi-
stoek, 17s. 61-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 7-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3-Ely and Hun-
tingdon, 51A c.-Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 2 11-16-
Glasgow and Dumfries, 24-Leeds and Thirsk, 11%-Lei-
cester and Birmingham, 215.-Leicester and Tamworth, 475.
-Lynn and Dereham, 64-North Staffordshire, 5/. 3s. 3d.
-North 'Western, 625.-Nottinghan and Mansfield, 25 c.-
Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 23A c.-
Oxford, Worcester, ar.d Wolverhampton, 15%-Shropshire
Mineral, 475. C.-South Midland, 61. 2s. c.
BRISTOL, Nor. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are-Bristol and Exeter,
80-Ditto, New, 63/4-Bristol and South Wales Junction, Ex-
tension to Monmouth, 134-Manchester and Southampton,
2% -Midland, New 18%--Vale of Neath, 3%.
SHEFFIELD, Nov. 24. •
STocx EXCNANGE.-The sales are-Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3., 61. Is. 6d.-Goole and Don-
caster, 23/4-Grimsby and Sheffield, 10-Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire, 31. I ls. 6d.--Wakefield and Harrogate, 2%.
LEEDS, Nov. 24.
STOCK ExcitANGE.-The sales are-York and North Mid-
land, Scarborough Branch, 504-Huddersfield and Manches-
ter, 7 %-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17-Leeds and Brad.
ford, 42% cash-Ditto, Extensions, 38% cash-Leeds and
Dewsbury, 13 cash-Leeds and Thirsk, 1039 cash-New-
castle and Berwick, 1034-Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 15 cash-Wakefield Pontefract, and Goole, 30
c. n.-London and York, 31. 75.-Sheffield and Lincoln, 3%
-Direct Northern, 134-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
333:-West Riding Union, 6%-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
&c., 12s. Gd. dis.-Grand Union, as. 6d. p.-Lancashire and
North Yorkshire, 7s. p.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 10s.
dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 6s. 6d. p.-Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 234 p.-North Western, 2/. 195.-
Wakefield and Bradford, 2s. 6d. dis.-Wakefield and Harro-
gate, 7s. 6d. p.-Welsh Midlands, 2%.
HULL, Nov. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 61,/s-
Leeds and Think, 123/4-Cambridge and Lincoln, 3,i-
Grand Union, 1%. _ _

THE SUN, LONDON, TITESLIA.Y EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1845.

CHINESE POLICY.

It is to be hopod that the importance of our relations
with the Chinese empire will not be estimated by the
amount of intelligence which generally reaches this
country by the overland mail. Little correct and ex-
plicit information on this subject appears to find its way
to the Indian journals. A few hasty private letters,
communications dictated by the overflowing bile of some
officer living in a sort of exile at Hong-Kong, and the
highly-coloured statements of merchants, whether pros-
perous or unprosperous, added to the meagre articles
of a half-starved press, constitute the sole basis on
which they erect their speculations. There is, conse-
quently, little reason to be surprised at the narrowness
of their views and the general indecision of their lan-
guage ; and still less cause have we to wonder at the
vague, shifting, contradictory notions of such of our
Contemporaries here at home as live in helpless depend-
ence on such guides, in all that relates to the policy of the
further east. To do the Indian press justice, however, we
must admit that it has recently put forward corrorter
views, respecting China:and the Chinese, thanits habitual
copyists in England, who, affecting to be for once inde-
pendent of their teachers, have fallen into the grossest
errors. When we argued some time back that it would
be impolitic to restore Chusan to the Chinese under pre-
sent circumstances, the fickle oracle of Printing House-
square, with tolerably well-feigned indignation, de-
nounced our suggestions as highly profligate. With a
sort of Malay energy, which so frequently urges that
journal into the practice of running a-muck, it flung
itself into an offensive attitude, and prepared to make a
surrender of reason to its destructive propensities. But
happening to be more familiar with the facts of the case,
we were enabled, by a very few plain words, to still the
rage of our Contemporary, and may hereafter, perhaps,
enjoy the advantage—if advantage it be—of having
it as our coadjutor in this matter. We
repeat, therefore, that Chusan ought not to
be evacuated. Not because it would most likely, in that
case, fall into the hands of the French—though that, we
are prepared to maintain, ought to be an additional in-
ducement for us to do justice to ourselves—but because
the Mantchoo Government of China has not fulfilled its
engagements with us. The most factious and prejudiced
journalist will probably admit that there are more ways
than one of breaking a treaty, and that the most cun-
ning and subtle infraction is as much a breach of com-
pact as a gross and clumsy infringement. This truth,
which, out of deference to common sense, must be recog-
nised, will supply us with sufficient reasons for insisting
on the retention of Chusan. We formerly rested our
arguments chiefly on what has taken place at Canton
ever since the peace ; but facts are coming forward
singly, and invested with no pomp or :Appearance of in-
terest, which ought to be regarded as still more signi-
ficant and conclusive. In reality, the Chinese authorities
carry on the war against us still. They have only changed
the phenomena of hostilities, and for material imple-
ments substituted others, fashioned in ethical and poli-
tical forges, which they trust will prove far more effec-
tual. In plain English, the Mandarins at all the con-
sular ports, acting of course under instructions from
Pekin, are labouring to undermine the foundations of
our commerce, and, by instigating the multitude to put
in practice a perpetual system of annoyance and auda-
cious insolence, to drive us from those much coveted
markets in disgust or despair. They who understand
the civil polity of China will be able to perceive how
this may be done, though the Chinese people be gene-
rally well disposed towards us. Mobs under such a
despotism as that of the Mantchoo are swayed by two
impulses—the one natural, which they would obey if
they could; the other communicated to them by autho-
rity, which, as a rule, they must obey. When engaged
in persecuting an Englishman under the eye of the
Mandarins, they overact their part in order
to ward off from themselves the suspicion of
favouring the outside barbarians. It signifies little to
their victim, therefore, that in their hearts they are sorry
for what they do, and prefer their commercial visitors
from the sea to the ruthless tyrants from Mantcheoria,
to whom their own want of courage has given an irre-
sistible ascendency over them. But, however this part
of the question may really stand, every communication
we receive from China may be said to lay before us fresh
proofs that the Tartar authorities are resolved to render
the treaty with Great Britain as nugatory as possible.
Our exclusion from the trade of the north-east coast be-
yond the thirty-second degree of latitude, may be matter
of regret, because it was in that part of the empire that
we might have found the best market for our woollens;
but the fault was our own, and arose out of that hasty
and pedantic diplomacy which has so frequently marred
our prospects in the east. The Chinese had a perfect
right to overreach us if they could. They were not
bound to consult our interest. All they had to do
was to watch over their own. Accordingly, nothing
can be further from our intention than to blame them for
what must be regarded as our own blunder. But that
system of petty vexations—that constant obstruction of
our trade—that fanatical and ferocious persecution
which has beets unremittingly carried on against our
countrymen at Canton—and those clandestine hostilities
which have been incessantly pursued against natives of
all ranks who either favoured us while we were in force

in the country, or are suspected of having a leaning to-
'wards us now—these things, taken collectively, consti-
tute a good ground for entering into fresh negotiations
with the Government, and dernandingother conditions,
which, from its character, it may be more likely to
fulfil. Meanwhile we may, without the least shadow of
injustice, retain possession of Chusan, where an im-
mense trade with the Chinese could be carried on with

little chance of unpleasant collisions between us
amd them. As has been repeatedly shown in time of
!war moreover—and wars will one day or another
unquestionably arise—the possession of this island
must prove of the highest importance, commanding as it
does the entrance to the Yang-tzL?-Kiang, which has
justly been denominated the great artery of the empire.
But it is as a means of preserving peace that we are
Chiefly disposed to value it. Under present circumstances
the renewal of hostilities may, in our opinion, be con-
stantly looked for, considering the evil disposition of the '
Mandarinz, and the kind services which the emissaries

of certain friendly Powers are so actively engaged in per-
forming for us in China. To prevent the evil conse-

quence; of these and other causes of misunderstanding,
we have no representative at the Court of Pekin or on
the coast, for Sir John Davis is little better than a cypher.
All his energies evaporate in squabbles with the British
merchants at Hong-Kong ; and if this were not the case
he is obviously quite incapable of coping with the subtle
diplomatists of China. A new mission to Pekin, there-
fore, might be very prudently undertaken just now, and
the ambassador who should conduct it would find suffi-
bient employment for his abilities, however keen
br brilliant they might be. He might remove
much misunderstanding, -and postpone conside-
rably the period of inevitable collision between
the two countries. We say inevitable collision,
because it would, in our our opinion, be wholly impossi-
ble to preserve for any great length of time purely pa-
cific relations with such a Government as that of China.
Despotisms are like children, easily forgetting past dis-
asters and chastisements, and prone to provoke fresh
ones by acts of petulant caprice. In the actual posture
of affairs, however, an able English statesman at Pekin
Might possibly check the tendency of the Mantchoo
Court to insolence and injustice, and thus preserve it
for a while from those humiliations which it seems at
present to be courting ; for great prepararations, we are
told, are making for resistance or aggression new im-
provements being attempted in military discipline, in the
fabrication of arms, in the science of tactics, and in the
erection of fortifications. They discern clearly enough
what is about to happen, partly from knowing their own
designs, and partly from observing the inevitable course
of events. It remains to be seen whether they will find

us prepared for the struggle or not ; but there will cer-
tainly be considerable danger should our interests in
that part of the world be confided to no abler hands than
those of Sir John Davis.—Chronicle.

' ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON BOARD A BLACSWALL
STEAMER,—Yesterday, at about a quarter to one .o'clock, as
the Railway steamer was passing Erith, on her way to
Gravesend, the after-deck passengers were alarmed by the
report of a pistol from one of the deck cabins, the door of
which was fastened inside. On forcing it open, a young man
was found with his head and arms resting on the table, and
a pistol, just discharged, in one hand. He at first appeared to
be dead, but on being raised he looked around him, and said
that he bad committed the act himself ; that he had come
on board prepared and determined to put an end to his exist-
ence, and expressed a hope he had succeeded in giving him-
self a fatal wound ; that his friends had driven him to it ;
and that he did not want any of them to know anything
about what he had done. Immediately on being landed at
the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Mr. Hodges, the master of the
workhouse, was sent for, and, at the desire of the unfor-
tunate young man he bad him removed there, and at
once attended by Mr. Saunders, surgeon to the establish-
ment. After a lengthened examination of the wound,
during which the patient, with great self possession, directed
the operators where to search for the ball, which he said he
felt in the back of his neck, the gentlemen declared it to
be their opinion that the ball, which penetrated at the upper
part of the bridge of the nose, pretty nearly as high as be-
tween the eyes, had either lodged in the neck or spinal
bone, or striking upon that bone, and being repelled by it,
had fallen into the oesophagus, and had been swallowed as it
passed into the stomach. With the probe, after various
trials by both gentlemen, the lodgment of the ball could not
be discovered; and, the external wound having been dressed,
the patient was put to bed in the sick ward, after repeatedly
refusing to give his name, or state who is friends were. On
his shirt was marked the name of " H. J. Colebrooke," and
the same name within the leather lining in pencilling on his
hat. He is about twenty-two years of age, in person slight,
and about five feet five inches in height. In his coat-pocket
was found a pistol, powder-horn half-full of powder, and in
his waistcoat-pockets some percussion-caps and a silver pen-
cil-case and metal pocket-comb. In his pantaloon pocket
there were Is. 6d. in silver.

CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—A gang of four or
five fellows are now going through the country dressed in the
garb of sailors, offering for sale a set of apparently handsome
decanters. They pretend to have come from a foregn port
generally Hamburgh, and that the decanters were for a
friend or relative • but running short of money, they are re-
luctantly compelled to part with them. They have duped
several Falmouth folks during the past week; for, upon ex-
amination, the articles were found to be worthless trash,
neither of the set being perfect, and all the refusal of the re-
gular trade. They are not licensed, and they decamped from
Falmouth in a hurry, having ascertained that the police were
on the look out for them, and are by this time, probably
offering their deceptive wares in some other town in the
county.—West Bnton.
THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Co-
burg, left the Bricklayers'Arms station of the South-Eastern
Railway at a quarter-past eleven yesterday morning for
Folkestone, where they embarked ou board the South-
Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company's steam •
ship the Queen of the Belgians, for Boulogne. The chairman
of the South Eastern Railway and Viscount Torrington and
Mr. Brown, directors, were in attendance on their Royal
Highnesses, who were accompanied by the Count de Jarnac
and Colonel Wyld.
TUB Nk.NV DEAN OF CANTERBURY.—It is said
that Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the vacant deanery at
Canierbury on the Rev. Wm. Rowe Lyall, Archdeacon of
Maidstone, and brother, we believe, of the Member for the
City of London,

INFRINGEMENT AND ABUSE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL LAW.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Srn,— Although not personally known to you, and
feeling that my present address may excite a prejudice
against me and my cause, yet such is my opinion of the
generosity that actuates the minds of the guardians of
the English press, that I am induced to entreat of you
to lay before your readers the gross injustice with which
I consider myself treated, and the flagrant violation of
civil, social, and natural rights that I think have been
perpetrated in my person on an American in this country.
In the spring of 1841 I arrived in this kingdom with
a capital of upwards 10,0001., a large portion of which I
invested in saw-mills, machinery, &c., at Hull, but from
subsequent vexatious, illegal, and unjust proceedings, I
was compelled to relinquish my business, and to sacrifice,
in a great measure, my property.
In June, 1843, having in my possession some Treasury
notes on the United States of America, I was, at the in-
stance of Messrs. Bush and Mullins (solicitors), arrested,
and by them charged before the magistrates at Guild-
hall with having committed a forgery on parties in the
United States. On the ri-presentation of said solicitors,
who prayed for a remand to enable them to procure evi-
dence from the United States to support the charge
against me, I was subjected to remands from time to
time for the period of four months, during which time I
was confined in the Compter prison. On the sth of
October, 1843, I was taken to Guildhall for the purpose
of obtaining my discharge from the city magistrates.
The prosecuting solicitors, anticipating that I should
be discharged, as they had not been able to
procure evidence to substantiate the charge, they
had obtained a warrant from her • Majesty's
Secretary of State, and on it had me removed
before the Bow-street magistracy, assuming that
the city magistrates were not competent to adjudicate
the charge against me. After a patient investigation
be`bre Mr. Jardine I was discharged. The charge at
different examinations had assumed different forms and
features to suit the purposes of my prosecutors. My
funds in Londoe, to the amount of between three and
four thousand pounds, had been attached ; my papers,
accounts, and even my most private correspondence,
were in the course of proceedings seized and examined,
and the prosecution then assumed a civil form. Messrs.
Bush and Mullins, on the ground that I was in-
debted to J. Little and Co., of New York, had me
thrown into the debtors' prison. In order to obtain my
release I was compelled to leave my money under at-
tachment as security, whilst I consented to a commission
being sent to the United States, that the prosecution
might if possible rake up evidence against me. Two
years expire, and that commission is not fulfilled, and I
have been subjected to the vexatious proceedings of a
bill of discovery. In the meantime I instituted suits for
damages to my person and property, and for the reco-
very of my money held under attachment. The Re-
corder appointed the 7th of October for a hearing of the
case ; but the prosecutors aforesaid defeated my
object and the arrangement of the Learned Recorder,
by having me arrested on the sth inst. I was sick : I
had for weeks been confined to my bed ; I had just
risen from it. I was taken upon a warrant obtained
through the medium of his Excellency the United States'
Minister. I was confined in a cold cell at the Bow-
street police station, and on the next day brought before
Mr. Hall, who, upon ex parte statements and the deposi-
tions upon which he granted the warrant, and without
affording me an opportunity to rebut those statements,
committed me for transmission to New York for trial.
The old charge of forgery is renewed against me and
in an article of this kind I cannot trace its ramifications,
but I solemnly say the charge is false, the prosecution
unfounded, and the evidence adduced to sustain it con-
tradictory and paradoxical in the extreme. But were I
guilty,"which I again emphatically declare I am not—l
contend that my arrest is illegal. I have been arrested
and committed under the International Treaty, which
was not ratified until August, 1842, whilst the crime
with which I am charged is alleged to have been com-
mitted in April, 1841. The Constitution of the United
States of America expressly states that no " Bill of
attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." Hence
my arrest and imprisonment is quite at variance with
the Constitution of my native country, and every prin-
ciple of English law and justice. I have applied for and
obtained a habeas corpus to have my case disposed of by
high legal authority in this country, before I am forced
out of it a prisoner to New York. lam convinced that
Englishmen, who are proverbially lovers of fair play and
equal justice, will denounce as tyrannically illegal, un-
just, and oppressive, the treatment I have received, and
am still subjected to, in their land of freedom.
Apologising to you, Mr. Editor, for thus trespassing
upon your time and valuable columns, and hoping that
the persecution and suffering I endure will be deemed an
excuse for this otherwise unwarrantable intrusion, I am,
Sir, your obedient servant, J. C. CLINTON.
Westminster Bridewell, Oct. 22.

THE NEW BISHOP-DOING
HOM AGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- - - - Sin,—As the new Bishop, after his consecration, will
be required to do homage to her Majesty, 13. fore he will
be entitled to enter upon the temporalities of the see,
perhaps the following extract, explaining the grounds
upon which the Crown claims the right to ecclesiastical
property, and also the form of homage required to be
performed, may not be uninteresting to many of your
readers.

Extract from the preamble of Act of lit James I. c. 3.
" Whereas all the Archbishoprics and Bishoprics
within this realm, were in ancient times founded by his
Majesty's most noble progenitors, Kings of this realm,
and in respect thereof, his Majesty is lawful and rightful
patron of all and every of the same," &c. &c.
BISHOP'S OATH ON DOING HOMAGE. ,
" I - Bishop of - will be faithful and true, and
faith and truth will lead unto you, our Sovereign Lady,
and your Heirs, Kings of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and I will do, and fully acknowledge
the services of the lands which I now claim to hold of
you, as in right of the Church. So help me God."
I am, Sir, yours &C.,
WITNESS.
Ilfracombe, Nov. 12, 1845.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
yonr paper of Saturday last I observe a letter
from Sherborne terming the report of the railway meet-
ing
,held at Weymouth on the 17th instant, a part of
which appeared in your journal the following day, as in-
complete and inaccurate, inasmuch as Sir John Audrey
is named as a Director of the Great Western Company
instead of the Weymouth, Somerset, and Wilts Company,
and that Mr. Eliot is described as taking the opportunity
of informing the gentlemen of the Great Western Com-
pany of the dissatisfaction, &c., instead of the gentlemen
of the Weymouth, Somerset, and Wilts Railway Com-
pany ; and further, Mr. Bt unel is made to say that the
engagements of the Great Western are very numerous.
So they are, I doubt not ; but Mr. Brunel did not tell
the meeting so. And Mr. Hopkins said nothing about
the Great Western monopolising the whole of the south
coast, nor is it evident how they can monopolise the coast
at all by an internal line. In reply, allow me to ob-
serve that it is immaterial whether in the delay of the
construction of the works at Weymouth the complaint is
directed to the Great Western Company, or the Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Company, as, virtually, they
are one and the same company. The Great Western
Company having been the originators of the line, car-
ried it through Parliament, and have since leased it to
themselves in perpetuity. Mr. Brunel did tell the meet-
ing that the engagements of the Great Western were
numerous, and that those engagements would not cease
until after the 30th November, and words to that effect are
attributed to him in the report of the meeting which ap-
peared in the Dorset County Chronicle (a copy of which
I forward you). And, lastly, as regards Mr. Hopkins,
I copy an extract from his speech as reported in the
before mentioned paper, where, in speaking of the two
competing lines, Weymouth to Exeter coastwise, and
Bridport to Exeter, with branches to the coast, he says,
" Was it to be endured that the Great Western should
have the monopoly of the country, and that 1.0 indepen-
dent Company should carry out a line however its supe-
rior merits might recommend it ?"
I admit that my report is incomplete, as, had I sent a
verbatim one, it would have occupied an entire page of
The Sun. It is though substantially correct.
I should have been at a loss to understand why your
cot respondent had so trifled with: the columns of your
paper had I not good reason to believe that he had an
engagement from a morning paper, and was annoyed at
being forestalled by the report first appearing in The
Sun.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Weymouth, Nov. 24, 1845.

YOUR REPORTER.

ACCIDENT AT THE OPENING OF THE BRIGHTON
AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.—The Brighton and Chichester
Railway was opened yesterday (Monday) as far as Worthing,
General Pasley having certified that the line, although only
one set of rails is as yet laid down between Shoreham
and Worthing, is fit for traffic. The first three trains
from Brighton, and the first two from Worthing, went
' through, carrying a considerable number of passengers ;
but the third train from Worthing, which starts fifty -five
minutes after twelve o'clock, on arriving at Lanieng,
within a short distance of the residence of the late Sir
Thomas Lloyd, Bart., met with an accident which intteirn-
rupted the traffic for the rest of the day. At the
sioquestion two horses wers drawing a train
ratf
her
earth-
waggons on a temporary line of rails, or r
permanent rails which are laid down for about
the
this locality; and the driver neglecting ahtahlf a otniiletline
started off into the permanent line r J
pre-
caution of holding the leading horses kiyltsltioe.uhrtidelse,tthhee animalengine
was coming up, and the tender,
which
clran over it. The tender
a(rails just
isn advance of the
the horse when engine, knocked down the horse
was capsized off the rails,'
but remained on one of the rails
engine was also thrown over
and falling over
be-
tween the front and hind wl:eels, killed it on the spat. The
Fortunately, the pace of the
so as to obstruct the passage.
fur two hours,
train being slow, none of the passengers. were injured; but in
consequence of
the accident they detainedwere
when they were removed to another train and proceeded to
Brighton.
All subsequent trains were more or less delayed,
the whole of the afternoon being employed in an endeavour
to get the engine and tender righted. The driver of the
horses was taken into custody and handcuffed.
NEW ZEALAND.—lntelligence from Cook's Straits,
to the 17th May, came to hand yesterday. There had been
no outbreak, but it is clear there will be one as soon as the
Government attempt to remove the natives from the valley
of the Hutt, which has been three times paid for. Raupahara,
one of the chiefs concerned in the Wairau massacre, and to
whom the money was paid fur this land 14y Governor Fitz-
roy, had been to the Hutt to endeavour to persuade the na-
tives to leave, but they treated him with perfect contempt.
The Government must either give up New Zealand or force
the natives from this land, which has been so dearly paid
for; and whenever they attempt to give the settlers posses-
sion, then will the scenes of the north be re-enacted in the
south.—Sydney Morning Herald, June 19.
Earl Ducie has consented to take the chair at the
Anti Corn-law meeting, to be held in the public rooms,
Broadmead, Bristol, on Friday, the sth of December.
Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, 111.P.5., will be
present on the occasion. Mr. C. Villiers, M.P., is also ex-
pected.---Bath Journal.