The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

William BrockBopp, formerly in extensive business
as a grocer and tea-dealer in High-street, Southwark,
was brought before Mr. Traill on remand, charged by
William l3rocksopp, jun., his son, with stealing a gold
ring, a gold pin, and portfolio, his property.
On Wednesday last, the accused was given into
custody by his son on the above charge, when it ap-
peared that the articles above specified were taken out
of a box belonging to the complainant, and left in the
care of the accused, who had been for some length of
time struggling against adversity with a large family.
The complainant on examining the box, and finding
the articles missing, questioned his father on the sub-
ject, and it appearing the latter had pledged them,
and had objected to restore them, was given into cus-
tody by his son.
Mr. TRAILL, who could not help expressing his
surprise at a son bringing such a case before the pub
lie, adjourned it over, merely making the accused
enter into his own recognisance to appear this day,
the magistrate and every other person in court, who
heard the details, believing that an arrangement would
take place betwe the parties, and that no more would
be heard of the charge.
In this expectation, however, a disappointment was
experienced, for when the case was called on, the
complainant immediately appeared, and, in answer to
Mr. Traill, said that no arrangement had been en-
tered into respecting the charge. The accused then
handed in a note, of which the following is a copy,
that he received from his son since the last exami-
nation :

" 13, Norfolk-place, Kent-road, Oct. 16.
" Mr. Brocksopp,—lf you are willing to deliver me
the articles I claim, viz., the two rings, gold pin, and
portfolio, or give me the tickets and the money fur which
they are pledged, I will drop any further prosecution.
If they are not delivered up on these terms, you must
take the consequences. If not settled by to-morrow by
four o'clock, my solicitor has my instructions to make
out the necessary brief.—l remain, Sir, yours most re-
spectfully, " WILLIAM BIIOCKSOPP.
" To Mr. W. Brocksopp, sen."
Mr. TRAILL said that he expected to have heard
no more of the charge, when the complainant imme-
diately answered, that as the prisoner did not think
proper to restore the jewellery articles, he should go
on with the charge. He then proceeded to describe
that the rings and pin belonged to him, and that the
box from which they were taken was opened without
his sanction by the prisoner.
Mr. TRAILL said that, after all, the complainant
could not produce evidence of the stealing of the ar-
ticles, the utmost being that of illegally pawning
against the father.
_ _ _

-The complainant said that he was still willing to
forego the prosecution, if the accused restored him
the articles.

The accused (in strong terms) denounced the con-
duct of the complainant, for the harsh steps he had
adopted towards him, and said that, even if he was
adjudged to restore them, he had not the means of
doing so.
The complainant said that, if he did not proceed
with the charge, the prisoner would not stop until he
deprived him of all his property ; that his father, some
time ago, was the cause of preventing him from ob-
taining 2,0001.
The prisoner denied the assertion.
Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)--Then, I suppose,
you have adopted this proceeding against your father
out of revenge ? The complainant, however, declared
that such was not the case, and complained loudly of
his father's general misconduct.
The accused retorted.

The magistrate stopped the recrimination between
the parties ; and, after some further evidence respect-
ing the charge, adjudged the accused to restore the
gold ring and pin to his son, saying at the same time
that if he did not consent to do this, an order would
be immediately issued to compel him.
The accused declared that he was wholly unable to
redeem the articles ; and he was then informed of the
consequences if he neglected to obey the order made
upon him.
William Batty, the proprietor of Astley's Amphi-
theatre, was summoned at the instance of Birch, the
informer, for suffering certain exciseable liquors to be
sold on his premises without a licence for that purpose.
Mr. Humphries, the solicitor on the part of the de-
fendant, contended that an information of that nature
must be laid by an officer of excise or some person
authorised by the Board, and not by a common in-
former. After some discussion upon the point, it,
however, was over-ruled, and the case proceeded.
Birch then called his witness, George Pratt, who
stated that he was a watchmaker out of employ, and
that, on Tuesday night last, he went to Astley s Am-
phitheatre. While in the theatre he went into the pit
saloon, and was served by a female with a glass of
gin-and-water, and some time after had a repetition
of the " dose," when he observed a lady taking a
glass of wine, and two gentlemen called for a glass
of brandy-and-water, with which they were also
served. He added that he was acquainted with the
person of Mr. Batty, and saw that gentleman going
into the private entrance of the theatre, when he
(witness) was going into the pit.
Mr. Humphries said it was incumbent on the in-
former to prove that the defendant was the owner of
the theatre.

Birch immediately drew forth a bill of the play, to
prove the fact ; but this description of evidence not
being considered sufficient by the magistrate to sus-
tain a conviction, Birch then said that he had no other
means then of proving the fact; that everybody knew,
since Ducrow's death, that Mr. Batty was the pro-
prietor. I thought, added Birch, that no objection of
this description would be urged.
Mr. TRAM. said it was most important to prove
the ownership of the premises where the alleged in-
fringement of the Act took place.
Birch then said that he procured the bill of the play
to save the trouble of applying at the Lord Chamber-
lain's office; that in case the magistrate considered
the allegation not proved, ho should obtain other evi-
dence.

Mr. TRAILL—You must before I can convict.

The summons was then ordered to stand over for

PARLIA
the above pnrpose, and on Mr. Humphries apply..-,
for the costs, the magistrate, iri reply, said that he
snow,.
14 be guided as to whether the informer should
pay all the costA on the final decision of the in-
ormat!e2:

EXETER COURI aBANKRUPTCY.
PURITY OF ELECTION IN CORNWALi4.

IN RE ROBERT EVERY.

The insolvent, a farmer of Callington (Cornwall),
was opposed by Mr. Whiteford, of Plymouth, for a
debt incurred by judgment against him, in an action
for " malicious" trespass. lie had rented a farm
called Castlewick, of Dr. Penny, and forcibly kept
possession, on the expiration of the lease, against the
new tenant, after his furniture had been removed.
After a long examination he was remanded.
A curious electioneering anecdote came out in the
examination. Captain Poade, of Slades, son-in-law to
the late Dr. Penny, was latterly insolvent's landlord.
During the election for East Cornwall, insolvent said
he met Mrs. Poade in the street at Callington. She
asked who he was going to vote for ? " I don't
know," said he. She said, "To be sure you vote for
Lord Eliot." He said, "Why have you not done as
Lord Eliot has ?" (His Lordship had recently re-
mitted part of his rents, and insolvent complained that
his rent was too high.) She said, " This is no time
for such a discussion as that." He answered, "You
have used me:very ill. She took a blue ribbon from
her reticule, and tied it to his button-hole. "There,"
she said, "go along and vote for Lord Eliot, and you
shall have no cause to complain." "And so," said the
insolvent to the court, "I did go and vote for Lord
Eliot, and this is the way she has served me."

PAPERS.

-"ORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS
FingT "'"f; INTO THE STATE OF
FOR "INV "T) POPULOUS DIS-
LARGE 'Grit' '$ Al.-

We procev;driatsoountchewtooogdusetmeithfr,otmhe
TRICTS.
'teresting
'io4llo;ing
:aligid-Oe'sri;:a;'s 'illustrating the almost inconceivable condi-
tion of wretchedness which prevails among a numerous
community in one of the largest suburban districts
of London :
" The evils which 'you described in 1838 as referable
to these districts still continue, and with increasing viru-
lence P—At the present moment with increasing viru-
lence, certainly.
" The districts referred to contain a vast population,
not in ono part of London, alone, but in different parts
of it, to which the same considerations apply ?—Th
fever districts of the metropolis are situated in different
parts of it ; and it is in accordance with ordinary ex- '
in some of these districts,
perienee to find fever raging
have found, on my
iamt
mt the
nvi etyryfrtoi min e thatt. I
!loft% se r fro enjoying a temporary
a
personal examination, some localities in which there was
not a single house in which fever had not pl.vailed, and
in some cases not a single room in a single hogse in
which there had not been fever. I observed this parti-
cularly in certain localities in Bethnal-greon and
chapel ; now, during the present year, there has been a
very remarkable absence of fever in these its ordinary,
seats, while in other districts it has been more than com-
monly prevalent.
" Did you attribute that, in those districts, to bad
drainage, or want of water, or some causes of that kind?
—ln every district in which fever returns frequently,
and prevails extensively, there is uniformly bad sewage,
a bad supply of water, a bad supply of scavengers, and
11 a consequent accumulation of filth ; and I have observed
this to be so uniformly and generally the case, that I
have been accustomed to express the fact in this way. If
you trace down the fever districts on a map, and then
compare that map with the map of the Commissioners of
Sewers, you will find that, wherever the Commissioners
of Sewers have not been, there fever is prevalent ; and,
on the contrary, wherever they have been, there fever
is comparatively absent.
" This statement is made in your report—' It appears
that the streets, courts, alleys, and houses in which fever
first breaks out, and in which it becomes most prevalent
and fatal, are invariably those in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of uncovered sewers, stagnant ditches and
ponds, gutters always full of putrefying matter, night-
men's yards, and privies, the soil of which lies openly,
exposed, and is seldom or never removed. It is not pos-
sible for any language to convey an adequate conception
of the poisonous condition in which large portions of
both these districts always remain, winter and summer,
in dry and in rainy seasons, from the masses of putrefy-
ing matter which are allowed to accumulate.' Does much
of that to which you refer still remain in the same state?
—lt is essentially the same. I have very recently been
over the same places with a distinguished foreigner, who
takes an interest in the welfare of the humblerjelasses, and
who was desirous, his attention having been drawn to
these reports, to test their accuracy by a personal in-
spection of the places described. Before we set out on
our visit he could not conceal that he thought the de-
scription exaggerated. From the cleanliness, neatness,
and apparent healthfulness of the main streets and
thoroughfares in London, he could not bring himself to
believe that there could be large districts containing
hundreds of thousands of the people allowed, year after
year, to remain in such a neglected and poisonous con-
dition. 'lt would be incredible,' said he, it would be
unworthy of your state of civilisation, were such descrip-
tions true, even of a few isolated places; but when it is
asserted that they are true of the localities in which a
very large proportion of the population resides, I own I
feel curious to see these places.' It so happens that the
district over which I took this gentleman has been im-
proved in some respects since these reports were written.
A common sewer has been made in the most densely
crowded and filthiest locality; and the very worst place
1 ever saw, namely, Baker's Arms-alley, a narrow court
in Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, has been materially
changed for the better, by the building of the Blackwell
Railway directly through it. But these improvements
relate only to a few of the larger thoroughfares ; the
places most concealed from the public view, the most
close, crowded, and filthy districts, remain wholly un-
altered. When my foreign friend saw these places, he
admitted that the wretchedness of their condition had
been understated—when ho expressed his astonishment
that a concern for the common safety had not induced
the authorities to attend to the sanatory condition of
these extensive districts, I told him (but he thought the
statement scarcely mended the matter) that these places
were as unknown to our legislators, to almost all our
people in power, as, an hour ago, they had been to
himself.

" Have you, from your experience in these matters,
formed a strong opinion that fevers and other diseases
to which the humbler classes in these populous districts
are subject, might be, to a great extent, removed by
cleansing, draining, and improvements in building ?
Every day's experience convinces me that a very large
proportion of these evils is capable of being removed ;
that if proper attention were paid to sanatory measures
the mortality of these districts would be most materially
diminished, perhaps in some places one-third, and in
other places even one-half.
" Are you aware that the rate of mortality is actually
found to be nearly double in some of the neglected dis-
tricts in the east, compared with what it is in the western
part of London ?—I am ; and this interesting and im-
important fact is dependent on several circumstances,
and not on any one cause. Thus a larger proportion of
the people who reside in the western part of London con-
sist of the wealtkier, while the eastern part is prin-ii-
pally inhabited by the poorer classes. The higher ♦alue
of life indicated in the western district is partly owing to
the better food and clothing of the wealthier classes, to
their more temperate habits, and less exhausting labour,
and especially to the better care taken of their infants
and children, and, in general, to the more favourable
circumstances under which infancy and childhood, the
most precarious and mortal epochs of human life, are
placed. But still the poorer classes, in these neglected
localities and dwellings, are exposed to causes of disease
and death which are peculiar to them ; the operation of
these peculiar causes is steady, unceasing, sure ; and the
result is the same as if twenty or thirty thousand of
these people were annually taken out of their wretched
dwellings and put to death, the actual fact being that
they are allowed to remain in them and die. I am now
speaking of what silently, but surely, takes place every
year in the metropolis alone, and do not include in this
estimate the numbers that perish from these causes in
the other great cities, and in the towns and villages of
the kingdom. It has been stated that "the annual
slaughter in England and Wales, from preventible
causes, of typhus fever, which attacks persons in the
vigour of life, is double the amount of what was suffered
by the allied armies in the battle of Waterloo." This
is no exaggerated statement ; this great battle against
our people is every year fought and won ; and yet few
take account of it, partly for the very reason that it takes
place every year. however appalling the picture pre-
sented to the mind by this statement, it may be justly
regarded as a literal expression of the truth. lam my-
self convinced, from what I constantly see of the ravages
of this disease, that this mode of putting tha result does
not give an exaggerated expression of it. Indeed the
most appalling expression of it would be the mere cold
statement of it in figures.

" But great as th© mortality from these causes may be,
do you think the mortality alone includes the whole of
the evil?—Certainly not; the number of people who die
can ho taken only as an indication of the much greater
number who fall sick. The mortality, even of the
London Fever Hospital, to which the worst cases of fever
in the metropolis are sent, is not, on an average of ten
years, more than one in seven; in some years it is not
more than one in ten or twelve, and, comparing the
number attacked with the number that die over the
whole kingdom, the mortality would not, in ordinary
years, amount to one in twelve ; so that the number of
sufferers from this disease is at least twelve times greater
than the number of persons that actually perish from it.
" The classes of the population referred to are chiefly
those occupied in labour; in case of their being affected
by fever they are, of course, disabled from obtaining sub-
sistence for their families?—This is among one of the
most powerful causes of pauperism. The returns made
in the year 1838 to the Poor-law Commissioners from
the twenty metropolitan unions, in answer to queries
sent to the medical officers, with a view to ascertain the
actual prevalence of fever during one year, contained in
the several unions, as well as the number actually
attacked with fever. From these returns it appears, that
of the total number who received parochial relief in most
of the districts, a very large proportion received it in con-
sequence of their being ill with fever; but in one district,
namely, St. George's, Southwark, out of 1,467 persons
who received parochial relief, 1,276, that is, the whole
number with the exception of 191, are reported to have
been ill with fever. This is an unusually large propor-
tion; but these returns in general place in a very striking
point of view the pauperising influence of fever.
" If this be the case, the power of the humble classes
of getting their bread and maintaining their families is
extremely diminished by the neglect of sewage, draining,
and cleansing which exists in these localities?—There is
a special reason why it must be so, the knowledge of
which has been taught by large experience, though that
knowledge has hitherto been confined to very few: but
the fact itself is one which ought to be familiar to the
mind of every man, and more especially to that of the
legislator. There are certain diseases which prevail so
remarkably at certain epochs of life, that you may
assume that three-fourths of the persons who die at those
epochs die of those diseases. Now it is established by
indubitable evidence, that of all the acute diseases to
which the human frame is subject, during that variable,
but most important, period of human life which inter-
venes between puberty (when the dangers of infancy and
childhood have been passed) and old age—of all the
acute diseases which cut short this, the most precious
part of the term of existence, and the only part of that
term which it is in the power of human precaution and
wisdom to extend indefinitely, fever is incomparably the
most prevalent: so prevalent, indeed, that it may be said
to be the disease of adolesence and manhood. I was
first taught this fact while making some researches into
the cause and results of fever, derived chiefly from the
records of the Fever Hospital, and as long ago us the
year 1830 I published a table exhibiting 01,3 evidence of
it. I took out one by one the. ages of all persons who
had died of fever in this hospital during the four years
from 1825 to 1828, both inclusive, being [the four years
immediately preceding the year in which I was making
the investigation."

We are able to state, from authority, that one day
next week a marriage will take p ace between the Hon.
Horace Cochrane, second son of the Earl of Dundonald,
and Mrs. George Carnegie, widow of the late George
James Carnegie, Esq., nephew to the late Earl of Nor-
theek—Court Journal.

COPPER TANKS AT ST. HELENA.
Some letters lately appeared in the Times, stating that
the water supplied to the India ships touching at St.
Helena contracted poisonous qualities, by being kept for
a long time in tanks of copper. Some of the passen-
gers and crew of the Moffhtt, from Bombay, having
been seized with severe symptoms, and of a suspicious
-40,• the symptoms were attributed to the water
This induced Messrs. Ma-
being poisoned as a.—
:ofessio. nally attending
son and Dawson, the doctors i;
iry into the
one of the parties, to institute an inji-.7
matter, for which purpose Dr. Venables, a i:
St. in-
cent-place, Islington, an eminent physician, well
versed in animal chemistry and toxicology, was re-
quested to undertake and assist in the investigation.
The report is so far satisfactory, inasmuch as it nega-
tives the presence of copper in any form, the analysis
showing that the water did not afford even a trace.
A specimen, taken from an iron tank in which it was
kept on board the vessel, held a large proportion of
peroxide or rust of iron in mechanical diffusion. The
peroxide, it is observed, was evidently derived from
the rusting of the tank, and diffused through the
water when agitated or disturbed. Otherwise it was
found tolerably pure and wholesome, free from any
bad taste or smell, specific gravity 1.0025 slightly
acidulated with carbonic acid, and probably holding
a trace of iron in solution. Some very useful obser-
vatiGns upon the danger of using water kept in copper
vessels follow. Thus it is stated :—Copper is not
readily attacked by pure water, but under the joint
influence of air and moisture it is corroded. By agi-
tation the crust becomes detached, and is diffused
through the water. A fresh portion undergoes the
same process, and by a succession of corrosimis, &c.,
the water may become strongly impregnated wio a
poisonous form of copper, which, by the agitation of
the water in the casks communicated by the motions
of the ship, will be mechanically diffused, and persons
drinking it almost to a certainty poisoned. During
cooking, too, the insoluble oxide may be rendered so-
luble, and thus converted into a still more active and
speedy poison. Hence the propriety of doing away
with copper tanks if in use, and their replacement by
others of a less deleterious nature, are strongly urged.
The labours of Dr. Venables and his colleagues are a
public benefit, and highly creditable to their zeal and
philanthropy.

THE OPENING OF THE NEW
EXCHANGE.

The preparations which the joint Gresham Com-
mittee are making for the reception of her Majesty
Queen Victoria and her Illustrious Consort, on the
opening of this magnificent edifice, on Monday, the
28th inst., are upon the most extensive scale. The
Chairman of the Gresham Committee, Richard Lam-
bert J0n,15, Esq., and a special sub-committee, have
met every day during the week, in order to give the
necessary direction: ;and, seconded as they have been
by the energy and abi;:tY of Mr. Tite, all the arrange-
ments for the grand ceren2onial are in a great state of
forwardness.
in front of the
At the west end of the fcrui:ding,
portico, is a temporary coverirq,
which is so con-
trived that if the weather prove favlaux: it
3ble can be
removed on the morning or the day appoi.2 ted for the
royal visit.
Her Majesty will be received at this barrs'er) in
front of the steps of the portico, by the Lord Mai "1.,
the Court of Aldermen, and by Mr. R. L. Jones, the
Chairman of the Gresham Committee, the Master of
the Mercers' Company, and a certain number of the
Court of the Mercers, thus representing the two cor-
porations, who are the joint trustees of Sir Thomas
Gresham, the original founder of the Exchange. ller
Majesty will be conducted quite round the merchants'
area in procession, attended by the former gentlemen
and the architect, who will explain the nature of the
arrangements and decorations of this important part
of the structure. The procession will then continue
up stairs, through the grand staircase of Lloyd's to
their magnificent apartments, to their library, which
is to be fitted up temporarily as a throne-room. Her
Majesty will here receive the address, and afterwards
retire to the private apartments fitted up for her until
the banquet is ready.
As the new Exchange is fire proof, or rather as
each separate establishment is distinct from its neigh-
bour, a door-way, in order to obtain a suite of rooms
for her Majesty, has been cut through one of the
party walls into the apartments to be hereafter oc-
cupied by the Corporation of the London Assurance.
These rooms are in the front, towards Cornhill, and
are now being arranged with the same simple ele-
gance which characterises the rooms built for her
Majesty at the Farnborough station by the same
architect.

The number of visitors to the dejeune will be about
1,400, beyond which number it is found that accom-
modation cannot possibly be afforded. Of these about
700 will be seated in the Ambulatory, and the same
number will be seated in Lloyd's apartments.
Mr. Staples, of the Albion, as has been already
stated, has the contract for the dejeune, which is to be
on the most splendid and liberal scale. The plate
will be supplied solely from the stores of the Corpo-
ration of London and of the Mercers' Company, and
not, as haskeen incorrectly stated, partly from the
Goldsmiths' Comrany.
_ .

In the Ambulatory and merchants' area every pro-
vision is being made to protect the company from
draughts, or the encroachments of bad weather. The
north and south entrances will he closely boarded up,
and ample protection will be provided at the east and
west ends. A very thick and brightly ornamented
carpet will be laid on the parts of the area and build-
ing on which her Majesty will walk, and under the
tables and seats for the company temporary flooring
and drugget will be laid down, so that there will be
complete security against damp. The seats will be
confined to a double row, quite round the Ambula-
tory, which, from its ample dimensions and noble
height, will admit of such a regulation, without at all
being liable to be prejudiced as to the view of its
architecture.

The tesselated pavement in the open area is finished,
but it is not intended to introduce the statue of her
Majesty, as has been somewhere erroneously repre-
sented, until the marble figures now being carved by
Mr. Lough, can be entirely completed. We are in-
formed, upon good authority, that that gentleman has
finished the model, but it was never intended for the
Gresham Committee to put up a mere plaster figure,
when a few months will suffice to complete the sculp-
ture in a material worthy of its subject, and the grand
position assigned to it.
Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at twelve
o'clock. A speech will be delivered, according to
custom, upon the visit of the Sovereign to the City, at
St. Paul's, by a scholar of Christ's Hospital ; and it
is believed, if her Majesty have time to hear it,
another will be spoken at St. Paul's school by one of
the youths on Dean Colet's foundation, of which place
of education the Mercers' Company are trustees.
The procession from Temple-bar to the Exchange
will be led by a certain number of the Corporation,
Aldermen and commoners, on horseback, in accord-
ance with ancient custom.

It is supposed by the Committee that her Majesty
will arrive at the Exchange at about one o'clock, and
leave the building on her return to Windsor at three.
Her Majesty will appear in state and in the state
carriage, accompanied by her Ministers and suite.
Most of the distinguished Members of both Houses
of Parliament, and all the leading merchants and
bankers, have been invited.
As the day appointed for the ceremony approaches,
the anxiety exhibited amongst the crowds who are
constantly seen collected around the superb edifice
becomes every hour more eager and urgent. The
following is a description of the interior :—Passing
through the grand portico, under a lofty archway, the
visitor proceeds at once to the grand area, or mer-
chants' walk, which is surrounded by an arcade sup-
ported on massive pillars. The area is beautifully
laid with a tesselated pavement, and the decorations
of the arcade in a building of such a structure form
the most novel and not the least attractive of its fea-
tures. These decorations are after the plans and
drawings of Mr. Sang, and have been elaborated
under his constant personal direction, on the system
of wax painting which he introduced into this coun-
try three years ago, the colours not being mixed with
oil, but with wax and some other ingredients, so as to
give not only peculiar brilliancy of tint, but a hard-
ness and smoothness of surface, combined with dura-
bility, unequalled by any oil painting.
The side walls and roof of the arcade surrounding
the merchants area, divided into compartments, have
afforded great scope for the exercise of this distin-
guished artist's taste and skill in arabesque painting.
The side walls are divided into arched panels, by
pilastres corresponding in character with those front-
ing the area, and the ornaments of the different
compartments, arches, and panels are at once strictly
classic, and in keeping with the architectural charac-
ter of the edifice. Each arched panel is surrounded
by a quiet gillosh frieze, upon a Pompeian red ground,
quite original in its details, embodying, amidst all its
brilliancy, a great many neutral tints, which soften
down the dazzling effect of the positive colours, and
give a light and extremely pleasant aspect to the
whole arcade. _ _ _

In the semicircles, the wall arches around the whole
of the arcade, some very bold ornaments have been
introduced upon dark, positive grounds, all different
from each other in general design and the minutest
details. These are surrounded by clusters of fruit
and flowers, executed with almost incredible trans-
parency of colouring, upon a black ground, which
produces at once a most striking and pleasing effect.
Immediately under these wreaths of flowers and fruit
there are candelabra, in the style of the Logii of
Raphael. The middle panel is surrounded by scroll
ornaments, and has a Roman tablet in the centre,
enriched with arabesque, on which the different mer-
chants' walks will be inscribed.
The designs of the candelabra and medallions intro-
duced in the different panels vary almost in every
instance, while the mythological And comtnexcial

emblems represented in the compartments of the rust
and side-wall panels, give a character of the IS
agreeable variety to the whole. The base of the 5,14
panels is painted in neutral tints, and is skirted in
wainscot, which harmonizes well with the arniuteG-
tural arrangements of the arcade.
The arms of the different nations are introeucedf
into the principal covers of the roof; also the arms f
the Right Hon. William Magnay, the Lord Mayor °
London, the Mercers' Company, the Building CO;
mittee, Mr. Tite, the architect, and I‘.lr. Sang, t
artist.

ORLEANS, TOURS, kind BORDEAti%
RAIL WAY.
The engineer of the Chemins de Per has WI
visited the works on the line between Orleansr,
Tours, and gives an account of their progress. -1')
line from Orleans to Tours is about 71/ miles 1°135(;
and has many bridges crossing roads. There area
curves under 650 feet radius, and the gradients iuvc,
extremely favourable. From these facts, We 113a1
safely say that the, working of the line will be el
and secure ; and one trip through the country Willed
the line traverses will be sufficiently convincing it
the productiveness of the enterprise. It is difficni
to conceive why Bullot, Drouillard, Martin, snclS°3.:
refused the terms offered by the Chambers, in ,
The bridge which crosses the Loire at Mount Lc'e
is almost finished ; it is executed by M. LaYaUre,
Nantes, on the plan of the Fonts et Chausseeks s, 31/of
ti
is elegant, solid, and enduring. The only works of
importance which are still unexecuted, are the sta
at Tours, and the bridge which crosses the high
at the Faubourg Bannier at Orleans. It 'these
on be
ll
proper to enter slightly upon the details of ll
works. The earthNork in course of executi
tile right of the Fauxbourg Bannier appear., th°,lo
intended for the construction of a station. Iv e,
ready
reason to believe, however, that if it as not
been deciaed to accept the use or the arigr-it
Orleans ternnous in common with that cornP3n); of
Feni
is at least under :serious consideration. The par' rg
the railway near G:leans crosses the to be
Barmier on embankments, and a bridge i 3
constructed to cross the Nthway from Paris to ‘cied,
leans, This bridge, which.B not yet coalmen bie
will be of such magnitude as to occasion consideratbe
delay. After passing the Fauxbwirg Branie„dy
line is bifureated ; one branch join.- the °rt;st
station, and the other meets the Paris and Orle,. city,
nearly three-quarters of a mile from the latte`
The body of workmen employed on he earthW tho
does not seem to be so well organised as to give
best best result ; thus all the earth is removed 141%01a
of tumbrels, each drawn by three horses, which cow
drag a tenfold weight with waggons moving onloo,
porary rails. In conclusion, the works sti.iipptlf
finished between Orleans and Tours are sn'Det—itioo
advanced or unimportant to allow of the exPec, 1-845,
that the opening of the line may take place 311 Tho
on the anniversary of the day of adjudication. oiti,
greatest, and indeed almost the only serious diffic
lies in procuring the requisite stock, but thisepts.
probably be surmounted by proper arranget 0,01
As for the rails, by dividing them among
to
manufactories, they might be obtained in ti";
lit
commence laying them in the beginning of 18tbert
is to be hoped, therefore, that the month of Ocv-i,•
1845, will witness the opening of the Bordealllgo
—Railway Chronicle.

NORTH DEVON RAILROAD'
via TIVERTON. fresie"
(Abridges from the Second Edition of the
Timt'B.) Tiverol
An important n: feting of the gentry of seder
and its neighbourhood, ii,!= well as the leadia,giyertoef
men of the town, was held at the Guildhall,
r
Friday, October 18. te tb°
quisitioe
The meeting was convened by
pe
Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gai.'ilef,la' 4.lisecite.' °jots
consider the propriety of co-operating w:w d
of Southmolton and Barnstaple for the p.';:;`,ltil
extending the railway from Tiverton to the oh off'
Devon, via Southmolton, and for taking 511°4i
means as might be necessary for endeavor
secure to the country between Tiverton en' 0
staple the advantages of railway communication•def,
The meeting was most respectably atet/d3..-1'
Among the gentlemen present we obsery 1;00'
Heathcoat, Esq., M.P., W. Hole, F. Hole, It t,
ford, A. Brewin, Rev. Carew, of Collipli! 1/.
Toms, J. Barne, F. 0. Patch, --Bendel), geoPli
Tripp, J. Loosemoore, Carew, Jun., Esclra",i
ind
Besley, Trix, Ellerton, Parkhouse, Pairre, an
all the leading tradesmen of the town. 04'
The Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gaylen'
the
having taken the Chair, o
Mr. lIRATHCOTE, 21. P., moved the adoptiev
01011
following resolution :—" That it is the opinionte,
meeting that in the event of a railway being el. De
from the Bristol and Exeter lire of railway .010,
staple and the North of Devon, the most desl.„tot
line in mercantile, agricultural, and
view, is by the way of Tiverton and Southinoltec...,,,el'
that a memorial, expressing the opinion of this,',/
ing, be signed by the Mayor on its behalf, and, tiolisej
diately forwarded to the Directors of the Bils-
Exeter Railway Company,"bey
The memorial was subsequently signed oe
general poaito
of the meeting by W. H. Gamlen, Esq., Marr'„dia
Mr. F. 0. PATCH had great pleasure in se°°;o4
the resolution and the memorial, which were c
unanimously.
A Committee was then appointed for the Partele
of co-operating with the Committees at Bar,r,t,
and Southmolton, in the furthering of this Obrawic.:
Colonel HARDING moved, and Mr. Alderman ,b
seconded, a vote of thanks to the Mayor, %lb''^
cordially carried.
-101
The MAYOR, in acknowledging the con3P
to
said it was the most influential, as well Ito
rous meeting, which he had been called or
preside over.
(11"
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the -0 ,
office, from the Governor of New South lirenles. fri;
ALARMING INTELLIGENCE.—MURDER.---tes or;
day evening considerable alarm was created ill t‘rrea ;
by a report that a inizn had been horribly 13211 r-e
the neighbourhood of Whorlton. The discovello f°
made by a party of boys wiio had wandered thatoolti,r,
the purpose of gathering blackbt:',
ries. There 1;0 po
no mistake about the matter—they actually saw aleci
r,,
and the gaberlunzie-like dress in whia; it was °
"Here lay Duncaiz, A
His silver skin laced with his golden bit.'er ntittv
And his gashed stabs looked like a breach ,:11"
For ruins wasteful entrance." ,dos 110
3 of
It was a trying moment, and fully-bore out the
Macbeth, that no person, at the same time,. 'doicil
" wise, amazed, temperate, and furious." They billed)
left the scene of horror, and did not venture to
anything of their dreadful secret, until safelf - coy'
within their respective domiciles. Rumour thieoVO4
menced to do its work, and in a short time a o, 11.4
coach, with a county officer and a town's polieeo3'erfolL
accompanied by a guide, were on the road, t° P t
the offices of humanity and justice. The fatal seveli'
reached, and one of the policemen, on touching t,11,(3,, 015
declared that it had been dead for a consideraa' Are"
The discovery was soon made that the object wasTpet
man, and the result of the night's aiventure ha, OD
source of considerable merriment. One repo: La T'd
that it was " a man of staw," whose original mifigbs:
to frighten birds, but was never intended to 'id Pip
man ; while another alleges it to have been ParOr °AI° -I
remains of a dead animal. It is impossibl yei eu-
determine, as the officers of justice are net fimunieative on the subject.—Newcastle Advertise-
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