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16,640.

DUDLEY, MADELEY, BROSELEY, AND
IRONBRIDGE RAILWAY, WITH EXTENSION TO
SHREWSBURY.
At a meeting of the Managing Committee of this Company, held
at the Stork Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday, the 10th of Decem-
ber; 1845, •
• • WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, •
• The following Report of the Committee was read :
The Managing Committee of the Dudley, Marleiey, Broseley, and
Ironbridge Railway Company, with extension to Shrewsbury, feel
that it is due to themselves and to the Shareholders, to lay before
them, Lathe earliest 'possible period consistent with due inquiry, their
preses t position, consequent upon the circumstances which will be
found detailed in the following Report :
Mr. Francis Giles became the engineer of the Company on its for-
mation, and the Committee were induced to place confidence in him
from the fact of his having been employed by Mr. Robert Stephenson,
in his absence, to lay out several important lines in the vicinity of
the line of railway projected by this Company.
Mr. Giles attended a meeting of the Committee at Birrninghani,
early in October, when he gave positive assurances that he was ra-
pidly proceeding with his work, and had made such arrangements
as would enable him to complete it In good time ; and from that pe-
riod till the end of November he constantly reiterated those assu-
rances to the Committee, to the respective solicitors, and to the se-
cretary, both orally and in writing. Every assistance was rendered
which he required, and extracts from the correspondence will abun-
dantly testify that all was done by the Codunittee and the officers of
the Company to enable him to eomplete his work by the 29th of No-
vember. His applications for money were, in every case, complied
with, and the sum of 4,0i01. was at various periods advanced to him,
on account of his own and the surveyors' charges ; the last payment
of 2,000/shaving been made,•at his own solicitation (though not with-
out considerable hesitation on the part of the Committee), in order to
avoid the possibility of his operations being retarded for want of
funds, or to afford any possible pretext for their being inefficierely
performed. Of this sum, Mr. Dugdale Houghton, the Company's
surveyor (Mr. Giles's brother-in-law), has accepted his (Mr. Giles's)
liability to him for 2,000/., and Mr. Giles has paid Mr. John Brettell,
another surveyor, 3001., thus leaving him (Mr. Giles) the sum
of 1,7001.. - •
The anxiety expressed that all should be ready In time was only
equalled by Mr.. Giles's assurances that there were no grounds for
appreheniion, as the following extracts from the correspondence on
the subjeet will show : •
On the-17th of October, Mr. Collis, one of the Company's solici-
tor* thus addressed Mr. Giles— • •
" Great anxiety is entertained as to the sections and surveys be ing
ready in time. Ido hope you will use every exertion to get them
done, and well done."
On the '2Bth October, Mr. Collis writes to Mr. Giles—
" I trust you will get the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line
completed without delay; as time runs on. I am glad to tell you
that all goes on favourably, and everything now rests with you. You
have, of course, made proper arrangements as to the engraving."
_On the 31st, Mr. Collis says to a letter to Mr. Giles—
" I assure you most unpleasant rumours are abroad amongst our
proprietors that our sections and plans will not be properly done or
ready, as Dugdale Houghton will have told you. Now I have done
all in my power to put a stop to these reports. I entreat of you to
have the sections of the whole line from Dudley to Ironbridge and to
Shrewsbury, as well as the surveys, most carefully done. You have,
of course, made due arrangements as to the engraving of the sec-
tions."
In a letter to Mr. Collis, on the 9th of November, respecting the
Oldbury branch, Mr. Giles says, in reference to the plans which he
had received—
" The plans are, as I consider, in good condition."
On the 10th of November, Mr. Collis thus writes to Mr. Giles—
" I know you will pardon my expressing deep anxiety as to every-
thing being done in due time, particularly that we may have the Sec-
tions and surveys finished, as the middle of November Is nearly
arrived."
Three days afterwards, viz., on the 13th, Mr. Collis says—
" I hope you will use every means to complete the sections with
the least possible delay. I assure you we all feel extreme anxiety on
the subject. Should yon want me, or if I can do anything to for-
ward you, pray send for me, or let me know immediately."
The next day, the 14th, Mr. Collis again urges Mr. Giles onward,
by saying—
" We quite rely upon your having all ready, and that the sections
are in the hands of the lithographer. Bear in mind that the 29th is
only twelve days off, and that the sections must be sent before then
to us, and be i eady to deposit. I trust you will excuse my most
earnestly beseeching you to use every possible exertion to complete
everything as quickly- as practicable. The general impression is, that
we shall not be ready. We must not spare exertion of any kind ; in
fact, we must keep faith with the public."
On the 19th, Mr. Collis writes—
" I have just heard that Houghton thinks there is some misunder-
standing between you and the lithographer. If there be the slightest
foundation for this, I beg and pray of you not to lose an instant in
setting this matter right. Excuse my personally entreating you to use
every exertion, as I am daily pressed on the subject."
To this Mr. Giles replies on the 20th—
" I know of no misunderstanding between me and the lithographer.
Don't give credit to such nonsense."
The same day, the 20th, Mr. Collis writes to,Mr. Giles as follows—
" I am desired by the Committee to beg and entreat you to see that
the sections are completed, and placed in the lithographer's hands as
speedily as possible. I do hope you will excuse my writing so ur-
gently to you. Ido seriously assure you that we all feel that our
honour and characters are at stake, to say nothing of the large sum
of money • that would be sacrificed If our plans and sections are not
duly deposited."
On the 21st, Mr. Giles replied as follows—
" I beg that you will not be in any anxiety about lithographing the
sections. Mr. Houghton will get some done in Birmingham. I will
get all the rest done, and have provided for it. You shall deposit on
the 29th. I come to Birmingham ablegt, by express train,
to meet my troops, who are all to asse at Dee's to-morrow
night."
Mr. Collis's next letter to Mr. Giles is dated November 21st, in
which lie says— • •
"I know you will not like my troubling you with these repeated
urgent letters, but I confess I am so strongly pressed by numbers of
people daily, that I feel painfully anxious that we should not fail in
keeping good faith with our shareholders."
Mr. Giles replies on the 22d—
" If you come to me to-morrow, in order to be made certain of my
work being done, I will even show you my plan and arrangements
for it—otherwise be assured of it."
The Committee, feeling that the foregoing extracts abundantly
confirm the assertion with which they set out, will now refer to the
statements made to them by Mr. Joseph King and Mr. Heath, two
active members of the Committee, who were in Birmingham, watch-
ing the later proceedings.
Mr. King states that he went to .Birmingham, at the urgent re-
quest of Mr. Collis, in company with him and Mr. Heath, on Thurs-
day, the 27th of Noveniber, and that he remained there till Satur•
day night, with the exception of a few hours on Friday, during which
period he had every reason to believe that the business was pro-
ceeding satisfactorily. -
Mr. Heath reports that he accompanied Mr. Collis to Birmingham
on the 18th of November, at his, request, to have an interview with
Mr. Giles, who had stated that he should be there that night. They
and Mr. Wainwright saw Mr. Giles after midnight, at the Royal
Hotel, when he gave them the most positive assurances that every
thing would be ready in time. The following Monday, the 24th, Mr.
Heath again went to Birmingham with Mr. Collis, when Mr. Giles
repeated his former assertions that everything would be ready.
Three days afterwards, Thursday, the 27th, Mr. Heath, at Mr.
Collis's request, once more went to Birmingham, accompanied by
Mr. Collis and Mr. Joseph King, and remained there until he had
seen the various gentlemen start on Sunday night to make their re-
spective deposits.
About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon Mr. Heath saw Mr.
Houghton deliver the plans to the several solicitors, in doing which
he (Mr. :Houghton) expressed his obligations to them and the other
gentlemen connected with the Company, for the assistance they had
rendered him, adding that the sections would be ready in half an
hour.
After this interview with Mr. Houghton, the party left to prepare
for starting, and returned to Mr. Houghton's office about half-past
five o'clock. In the afternoon, where they remained until twenty
minutes to nine in the evening, and during this period, facts of such
importance are spoken to, that the Committee feel bound, not-
withstanding its length and the reluctance of Mr. Heath,
to give a large portion of his report in detail. After stating that they
found Mr. Joshua John Peele, of Shrewsbury (solicitor to the Wor-
cester and Crewe, and also to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail-
way Companies), and Mr. Hood (a relative of Mr. Roy, the other so-
licitor to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company), in Mr. Hough-
ton's waiting- room, ready to convey the Worcester and Crewe plans
for deposit, Mr. Heath thus proceeds :
" Between seven and eight o'clock Mr. Peele was sent for by Mr.
Houghton, and he remained in Mr. Houghton's room until after the
delivery of the sections by Mr. Houghton to the respective solicitors.
At this period I became very anxious, and requested Mr. Collis to see
Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis accordingly went into Mr. Houghton's
room on the first floor, but immediately returned and told us that
Mr. Houghton positively insisted on his leaving the room. Shortly
after this Mr. Giles came out of Mr. Houghton's room, and on my
asking him respecting the sections, Mr. Giles said that they had
been out of his hands some time, and that they were under Mr.
Houghton's care, upon which I again requested Mr. Collis to go to
Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis, consequently, went a second time, but
came back directly and said that Mr. Peele (whom I saw in
Mr. Houghton's room when the door was opened) refused to admit
him, telling him (Mr. Collis) that Mr. Houghton would soon hand out
the sections. Mr. Collis further said that he had remonstrated with
Mr. Peele on the impropriety of his being in Mr. Houghton's room at
such a moment. Thus matters stood, the solicitors and myself remaining
in a small room adjoining Mr. Houghton's, in a state of great anxiety ;
a person being then stationed in the passaged a
to the doof usor of
Mr. Houghton's room, who positively refused to allow any one
to pass to It. Soon after eight o'clock Mr. Peele, from Mr. Hough-
ton's room, called the respective solicitors of the Company, who ac-
cordingly went into the room, whither I followed them ; and where
I saw Mr. Houghton give to each of them certain rolls, which he
said contained the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line com-
plete, except the section of the breach from Rudge to Wolverhamp-
ton, which he said should be delivered out in a few minutes, if it
could be found. adding that they were then engaged in looking for it.
We then left Mr. Houghton and went into the anti-room, where we
consulted together as to the propriety of the solicitors at nce pro-
ceeding to their respective destinations (the evening being so far ad-
vanced), to deposit such sections as they had ; but it was at length
agreed that Mr. Houghton should be again distinctly asked if the
rolls he had given to each of the solicitors contained the sections of
the whole line, except the Wolverhampton branch; for which p-
pose Mr. Collis once more went to Mr. Houghton's room, Mr. Wain-
wright, another of the Company's solicitors, following him.
Mr. Collis returned immediately, and reported that Mr. Hough-
ton had told him, contrary to what he (Mr. Houghton)n
the
had
previously stated, that the respective bundles did not contain
whole of the sections with the exception of the before-mentioned
branch. Upon this the solicitors and myself held another con-
ference, during which Mr. Collis partially unrolled one of the
bundles of Sections, and it appearingthat Dudley, was upon one sheet
and Shrewsbury upon another. the solicitors and came to the con-
clusion that the rolls which they had received comprised the sections
of the entire main line, contrary to Mr. Houghton's last statement.
Immediately upon this discovery being made, Mr. Peele called from
Mr. Houghton's room for Mr. Collis, whither he went, returning
directly, and stating that Mr. Houghton had now informed him that
they,' respective rolls did contain the Whole of the Sections of the line,
with the exception of the Wolverhampton branch. The same state-
ment as to the correctness of the rolls was mad
Collis ande his Mr. Houghton to
the other solftsitors of the Company. Mr.colleagues
then started, at twenty minutes before nine o'clock."
Mr. Heath concludes as follows ra-" Observing, with much pain,
that attempts have been made to impute blame to the solicitors, in
reference to their eonrinct on Sunday, the 30th of November, and
preceding days, and particularly that a scene of gross confusion and
disorder occurred in the surveyor's room, in which they are impliedly
charged as participators, I feel that though I have shown they were
rigidly denied access to Mr. Houghton's room, I owe it to the Com-
pany, to these gentlemen, and to myself, as a member of the Manag-
ing Committee, to declare that a more unfounded calumny could not
have been uttered. I was with these,gentlemen during the Whole of
Sunday ; I had many opportunities of observing their unremitting
exertions on the preceding days—l may say nights also ; and I have
great pleasure in stating that, with whomsoever the blame of this
failure may rest, it was in no way attributable to any want of ar-
rangement or zeal, or activity, on the part of the solicitors, or of the
secretary, their conduct throughout, and especially during the most
critical period, having been praiseworthy in the highest degree,"
The Committee have also received reports from the solicitors, re.
ferring. to the circumstances detailed Int Mr. Heath, and speaking
in the highest terms of the exertions made by Mr. Houghton to com-
plete his portion of the work in good time, up to the period of the
delivery of the plans ; but they do not think it necessary, after quot-
ing at so great a length from Mr. Heath's statement, to allude to
them further at present.
Notwithstanding the foregoing facts show it was next to an impos-
sibility to make the deposits in time at Shrewsbury and London, the
Committee think it no more than justice to state, that the most
strenuous exertions were made to do so, Mr. Anstiee posting to the
former place, a distance of forty-five miles, in three hours and twenty-
seven minutes, and Mr. Wainwright arriving at the Board of Trade,
in London, upwards of ore hundred and fourteen miles, by the aid of
a special engine, in three hours and forty-six minutes, both gentle-
nien having been retarded on their way by accidents on the road.
The journey to Stafford, twenty-six miles, might have been readily
accomplished by Mr. Collis, but he was detained a long time on the
road between Birmingham and Walsall, in consequence of tile great
misconduct of hisisoettsys, which was such as to induce suspicion
that unfair means had beensemployed to retard his journey. By
great exertion Mr. Collis ultimately reached Stafford in due time.
Mr. Houghton made the deposit at Worcester also in good time.
As soon as the failure in the deposits was known, a. meeting of the
Committee was hastily surninOried at Dudley, when Mr. Giles and
Mr. Houghton attended. 'Pipit former offsred no excuse for his GOR-
aisappointed, adding that no
duct, further than that he had beeil
parties could have behaved better or soled more handsomely, than
the Committee and the officers of the Campauy 04 behaved towards
him; and lie at once admitted, that even if the lateneSs of the de-
posits could be get over; his sections were in some iestatiece eet de-
fective, that they would not bear a searching examination. In
swer to questions which were f4essed upon him, he said " That the
sections of the cross line from Stoustsselge to Wolverhampten were
strictly correct ; In fact, he believed the ecetiens of tile wholscheme
were complete, with the single exception of thebranejs to
hampton. ' Houghton expressed his sorrow at the feitore t 4 4,ts
posit, and his regret at the mis-statement made by him to Mr,
ha
on Sunday evening; justiMq himself, however, by saying that e
was greatly excited at the Stoles from his previous exertions,
and that he corrected birriicy hinediately. This, the
Committee may remark, is opposed to Mr. liesstls'a statement, by
which it appears that some time elapsed Were air. Houghton re-
celled his previous answer, and this geutielllan Is continuedAy pi!,

I several solicitors. Mr. Giles, after informing the Committee that he
had known amended sections deposited after the 30th of November
to be received in Parliament, where notice of such emendations had
been given to the landowners, offered to make correct sections at his
own expense, to enable the Committee to apply fer their Bill ; and
Mr. Houghton also offered his personal services, free of charge, in
the event of their determining to proceed, and the application proving
unsuceceful. Under these circumstances, taking into consideration
the fact that the cress line from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton
formed a very important, and to a certain extent independent por-
tion of the projected railway, and that it was probable, from what
Mr. Cps had stated, that they should be in a position to apply for a
Bill for it in the ensuing session with a reasonable prospect of suc-
cess, the Committee agreed that the solicitors should nertnevith take
the opinion of the Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Berson, Hall, and
Company, ee to the course the Committee should pursue; and also
send competent person,. to ascartell what sections had really been
deposited. Mr. Giles had stated that he should at ollee proceed to
make entire new sections of the whole line.
The deliberate written opinion of the Parliamentary agents has
been obtained, to the effect that it was " a very reasonable and
proper ease to bring before the Standing Orders Committee, with a
view of obtaining a decision in favour of the Bill preceeding,” But
information was afterwards received from the parties sent to search
at the offices of the Clerks of the Peace, that the sections of the im-
portant prose line from Stourbridge to Wolvehampton had not been
deposited, that sections of several miles' of the main line had also
not been deposited (despite the deoiSiVe statements of Mr. Giles and
Mr. Houghton, the latter of whom delivered out the sections), and
that those which had been lodged were extremely incoerect in detail.
In the altered circumstances of their affairs, the Committee were
at anee convinced that their only course was to advise the share-
holders to ebanden all thoughts of an application to Parliament for
a Bill in the ensuing seasion, and to consider what steps should be
taken to protect the shareholders from the consequences of the eon.
duct which it has been their painffil duty to detail.
With this object, as well as with respect to the future operations of
the Company, the Committee have called Mr. Sergeant Allen and
their Parliamentary agents to their aid, and they will most Anxiously
and carefully consider the propriety of taking such steps in reference
to competing lines in the next session as they may be advised.
One course whießthe Committee propose to adopt, is forthwith to
return to the Proprietors the stuns of 21. per share, on such condi-
tions as counsel may deem necessary for the purpose of enabling the
Committee to prosecute the undertaking in the session of 1847,
should it be found expedient to do so.
The liabilities of the Company will be forthwith ascertained and
discharged ; and the Committee beg to inform the Shareholders that
every regard has been paid to economy consistent with the progress
of the scheme ; and further, that no expenditure has taken place
since the 30th of November, saving such as was actually necessary
for ascertaining their real position.
Tho Committee desire to record their unabated confidence in the
Intrinsic excellence of the line, and to express their regret that a
scheme, supported by such an array of noblemen, Members of Par-
liament, landowners, ironmasters, and other gentlemen, whose in-
terests demand its construction, together with a large proprietary of
unexampled respectability, full one-half being local, should have
been frustrated by the circumstances which they have set forth.
They are consoled, however, by the conviction that a railway so Im
peratively demanded by the locality, pbsspssing gradients superior to
any other line in the district, accommodating South Staffordshire
and Shropshire in a manner that no other scheme can do, bringing
the respective places in its course much nearer to each other than
any other project does, and gaining, as it has, so great an amount of
public favour by its undoubted merits, must shortly be carried out.
It now only remains for the Committee to say that they should
fail in fully discharging their duty, if they did not express their per-
fect satisfaction with the conduct of the selicitors and the secretary,
all of whom have paid the most unremitting attention to their re-
spective duties, and have used their utmost exertions to advance the
interests of the Company.
The report having been read, the following resolutions were
unanimously carried:-
1. That the report now read to the Committee be adopted and
published, at the discretion of the Committee, in the local and daily
newspapers.
2. That the further services of Mr. Francis Giles, as engineer to
this Company, be at once dispensed with.
3. That the Committee of Management take such proceedings
against Mr. Giles, their late engineer, as counsel may advise.
4. That the warmest thanks of the Committee are eminently due
to Richard Heath and Joseph King, Esqs., for remaining in Birming-
ham during the eventful period ending with the 30th of November,
and lending their valuable assistance to secure the deposit of the
plans and sections.

WILLIAM COLLINS.
5. That the thanks of the Committee be presented to Mr. Collins,
M.P., for his able and impartial conduce in the chair.
WILLIAM CHANCE.
OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 43, Moorgate-street.
THIS MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Hubert de Burgh, Esq., Chairman.
Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman.
Lord Albert Conyngham Deane John Hoare, Esq.
Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dicksoa John Lane, Esq.
Charles Collins, Esq. Malcolm Maclean, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq. Richard Christopher Preston,Esq.
Frederick Wm. Etheridge, Esq. Richard Twiss, Esq.

A. W. Hillary, Esq.
The Committee of Management have deferred closing their Share
Lists until they were assured that the standing orders of Parliament
had been complied with. The Plans and Sections having been duly
deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the
Peace of the counties through which the line passes, they now give
notice that no application for Shares will he received after the 27th
instant, and until that period they will eontinue to be received at the
Offices of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; of the Solicitor, F. T.
Cell, Esq., Carlton-chambers, 8, Regent-street; and of the following
Brokers :—R. H. Wilkins, Esq., 4, Bank-chambers, London; Henry
Brenchly, Esq., Cashion-court, Old Broad-street, London.
R. MORTON COLEY, Secretary.

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REPORT.
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I have not yet completed a detailed estimate, but from calcula-
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)urine the survey, I have had every opportunity of ascertaining
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11. T. EDWARDS, Acting Engineer.

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NEW DOCKS AT LIVERPOOL.—TIL O uommittee of
the Dock Trust are proceeding to Parliament for power to
construct several large new docks, on an extensive site at
present principally covered with buildings. The Journal
states, that the Committee will apply to Parliament for
power to purchase all the property west eta straight line
drawn from the end of Kitchen-street to Canning_ at
that point opposite the Custom-house where Mrs. Robinson's
property is situated. This line, i., will be seen by laying a
Canning-place,
rule on the map, runs at the back of the houses 6 Mersey-
street,dock, enters Hurst-street, and crosses Garden-street, Mason-
street, Sparling-street, and along to the termination at the
lower end of Kitchen-street. All the warehouses in Lower
Sopeakl paralleling-stree,tv,iathnidthaellKAilrnagp,spiDngockw,il7l
srun-
ningaith intoouso theroo c tonnil 3bleo c
a. rr
id feet.e up
At
totwhaerdes Mersey-street,
end,
erse.,..street, its—
proposed width being 380 feet, and its length 720 Between
stird, olllosite the Duke's
feet
long
Docktlie s e , twoextending
docks
and 170 wide.
These measurements are taken from the plan, and are suffi-
ciently accurate for the purpose of understanding the
design. Around these docks is traced a space of 70 feet
will
o
r-
;ter% t, o a
wide for quays, sheds, or warehouser, and along the
boundary line from Kitchen-street to the Custom-
house, will run what we suppose will be a public road, branch-
ing down, at intervals, to the Duke's Docl. King's Dock, &c.
It is also proposed to purchase a part of the property east of
Sefton-street, for on the Harrington property is to be con-
structed a large dock, beyond the Little Toxteth Dock,
1,450 feet long, and 380 feet wide. This leviathan will swal-
low up the Harrington Dock, slips, &c. The plan does not
stop here. The committee proposes to purchase all Nova
Scotia, and in it to construct a large but irregular dock, em-
bracing the Manchester Basin, with deptes for the coasting
trade on each side, one approaching the baths, the other ad-
j4ning Ole graving do4s. The premises to be purchased
number 643,--Liberpo446ion:
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EGYPT.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OE JERUSALEM.

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 30.—0 n the morning of the 26th
we received from Cairo the melancholy news of the
death of Bishop .Alexander, of Jerusalem, who, it ap-
pears, died only five hours distant from Cairo, on the
desert. He was accompanied by his lady and daughter.
Colonel Barnett received an express shortly after his
death, with a request to send out and bring the body to
Cairo, An autopsy was held on the body by Dr. Ab-
bott, and it appears he died of an apoplectic fit.
Great preparations are making in Cairo for the wed-
ding of the Yacha's daughter.

TURKEY.
NEW COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND THE PORTE.
RAILWAYS IN TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.—The principal intelli-
gence I have to-day to send you is, that Russia has at
last entered into a new commercial treaty with the Porte,
which will place her in the same commercial relations with
this country as the other nations of Europe. This measure
so long urged, especially by Great Britain, on the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh, and so long delayed, has certainly
been very reluctantly adopted. Since 1839, when
England and other western states trading with the Otto-
man empire formed their present common treaty of com-
merce, for so their separate treaties may be called, with
the Porte, it has been a constant complaint against Rus-
sia that she has refused to trade with this country on the
same terms as other nations.

It is perhaps necessary to remind your readers that
the commercial treaty of 1839, alluded to, was framed
for the express purpose of putting an end to a system of
trade which was alike injurious to the foreign and the
native merchant, and to the general consumer. Up to
the date just named, many of the most important objects
of commerce in Turkey could not be brought into the
sold to firmanfro
certainm
merchandisesm thee
sasr
ekd oet
Turkishfe e eTr otheheeein Government.
Thisimportation
firman
withoutrm an
was a
merchants for a sum a good deal under the value of the
,arboynvainrdtuiseeofoothrne
or wool,
or
becwamhaetepvoesr-
it might be, was then sold, again, and a third time,
perhaps, before it came fairly into the public mart.
And by this means a very large revenue was secured
to the Porte, and the most vicious monopolies were
established. In the interior provinces of Turkey
especially, this system was found to be most vexa-
tious, ruinously to the disadvantage of the fair,
unprotected trader, whilst it enriched enormously fa-
voured individuals. The public revenue, however, ac-
cruing therefrom could not be dispensed with till some
other source of revenue should be opened. England,
therefore, and other nations agreed with the Porte that,
on the condition of these firman monopolies being
abolished, the import duties on foreign merchandise and
the export duties on the home produce and manufactures
of this country should be considerably augmented. The
tariff was accordingly raised to 5 per cent. for imports,
and to 12 per cent. (altogether) for exports. By this
arrangement all parties were great gainers. By the
suppression of monopolies the commerce of Turkey with
foreign nations has, within the last few years, been
much increased. But Russia refused from the beginning
to adopt the new arrangement, and by so doing she set
all fairness at defiance, as she necessarily partook of all
the advantages which England and other States had
been glad to purchase at a heavy cost. The tariff to
which Russian trade till now has been subject in this
country has only been 3 per cent, for import
duties and 5 per cent. for exports. She has
thus for several years enjoyed here immense com-
mercial privileges, which she has had all to herself,
and of course Russian merchants have thriven, in what-
ever part of the Ottoman empire they have opened busi-
ness, above those of any other nation. These advan-
nit
eaeggg eowst aat
with
ot not, oeot
f,
etoarwt.
oee vya
see ra,er, tota
h the
ebre foreignrelinquished.
Cabinet
sotfatse ts.
rA
efTtt
eehrres ab
Et
11 orfignghg.
has consented to be placed on the same commercial foot-
lish and French merchants here naturally rejoice
much in this event ; the more so as they had fully
persuaded themselves that it would never be brought
to pass.
Another event, which may turn out to be of much
greater importance still, I have now to mention to you.
Three railroad companies—one in England, one in
Belgium, and one in Sardinia—have made proposals to
the Ottoman Government to undertake, on their own
risk and responsibility, lines of railroad in Turkey, on
the condition, of course, of possessing a secure right of
property in the enterprise—a right of a sort which no
European has ever yet been suffered to hold in this
empire. The Porte, lam informed, is now entertaining
these proposals with a very good will to close at least
with one of them ; and as Reschid Pacha will now be
at the head of affairs here, one may feel pretty sure that
Turkish bigotry against European innovations and
improvements will not be allowed to hinder the fair con-
sideration of a; project which looks so full of promise of
progress for thg country. It is certainly too soon to an-
ticipate the consequences of such a project, yet so preg-
nant with mighty consequences must it be, should it ever
be rz..alised, that it is difficult not to look forward to
them. One word only, however, I will say thereupon;
viz., that frequency of communication and intercourse
between different parts of this empire, or between any
two of its distant and important sites, seems the only
possible means of rousing its inhabitants into a sense
of their being not scattered like communities, or rather
mere groups of individuals—but a people; and that as
the people, or popular liberties in other countries have
produced all the great mechanical inventions of the
present age in the west, so the introduction of the
greatest of these inventions into the east would in its
turn produce a people—would, if anything could, give a
public life and will, a consciousness of aggregate
national existence to numerous populations which at
present exist in utter disconnexion, simply as loose
crowds, inhabiting the same place. Au reste, not to
dwell on a view which may seem to you unfit for a
letter, all are agreed that the first want of this empire
is the want of roads. Instead of roads, then, to give
railroads would be making a giant stride in advance.
And as to the practicability of the thing, I have the
opinion of a very accomplished Turk, holding an
important office under the Government of the Porte,
and of several Europeans who have long been
inhabitants of this country, that the enterprise would
offer every probability of success. Three lines
of road have even already been spoken of—one from this
capital to Adrianople, another to Smyrna, and a third to
Varna. I will speak only of the advantages which the
Adrianople line would present. That city has very ex-
tensive commercial relations with Constantinople, and
yet the communication between these two first cities of
the Ottoman empire is a most fatiguing, tedious, and ex-
pensive one. By land it requires four or five days' tra-
velling on horseback on bad roads (the distance is 150
miles, and by water there are in every season difficulties
of another kind. The port of Enos is nearly blocked up
with the accumulated deposits of the River Maritza, and
is therefore a very unsafe harbour, and the river itself,
full of rocks, in winter has its banks generally over-
flooded, and in summer has often so scanty a stream in
its channels, that large boats cannot sail up to Adrian.
ople. A railroad, consequently, on this line would offer
the best prospects of success. lam assured by those
whose opinion is of weight, that the speculation could
not fail to be a very profitable one. The English
proposal on this subject to the Porte has
come from two substantial mercantile houses of
Liverpool. I hope it will meet no impediment from the
question of property, the very considerable property its
telopt ion would give to foreigners on the Ottoman territory.
If this qnestion does not interpose a hindering obstruc-
tion, one will have to rejoice that the rage for railways
has taken this eastern direction, for whilst lucre by the
establishment of railroad lines in this country would
primely be sought, this appetite for gainful enterprise
would furnish, at the same time, the most powerful
means of giving a civilising impulse to the whole east,
whereby the work otherwise of centuries may haply be
accomplished in a single generation.
I told you in my last letter that the disarming of the
Lebanon had been completed, and with respect to the
Lebanon, strictly speaking, this information was correct.
But I learn that numerous bands of Druses and Mare-
nites have taken refuge in the Hauran, a mountain close
upon the Lebanon, inhabited by the tribe of the Metualis,
which spot, from its strong natural defences, it will be
extremely difficult to disarm. The disarming of it by
Ibrahim Pacha was made at a very great sacrifice of
men, and it is said by many that unless the inhabitants
can be induced to surrender their arms on terms, the
military force under Namik Pacha must be increased in
order to effect that purpose.
M. de Bourquenay has addressed a note of an apolo-
getic character to the Porte, on the subject of the me-
nace made by the Belle Poule to violate the Ottoman
territory to rescue the French dragoman who had been
arrested and put in prison, as I wrote to you in a former
letter, by the Turkish authorities. It appears that the
boat's crew of the French steamer did not on that occa-
sion land ; but their commander threatened only to do
so, if the demand of the French Consul were not com-
plied with. It is to apologise for this threat that the
French Ambassador has addressed the note I speak of
to the Porte. His tone is much changed since his late
explosions. But no doubt in this instance he has acted
with the dignity befitting the representative of a great
nation in apologising for a gross insult offered to the Ot-
toman Government by the malapert hot-headed violence
of the French Consul at Beyrout.
A dispatch from Reschid Pacha has been received by
the Porte, in which the ex-umbassador from this country
to France declares be shall with all possible expedition
take his departure from Paris. He is expected here
on the 14th of next month, but may possibly arrive on
the 4th.
I have just learnt that the Porte has issued circulars
prohibiting the exportation of corn from Roumelia, after
the expiration of a month, on the pretext of the great
isncasrcsirtiya.thaßt
netxtihstiss throughoutntohiemepmopritraen,tbtu especially
in be spterceiaatlelyd•
of at the close of a letter; therefore, having mentioned
the fact, I will say no more.—Chronicle Correspondent.

DOCIE-YARD.--It is likely that the present system
of mustering the workmen in the dockyards will be done
away with, and the old plan of " recalling" resumed. The
Lords of the Admiralty some time since ordered the authori-
ties at the dock-yards to report upon the system; ancl
rya
linclerltaud that 4 the reports invariably condemn it 'as an in,
ef:oieOt qbok and 4 W4:ste of One. Twenty-Ave boy§ are to
be enterei in this dockyard as apprentices to sllipwrighta.,,
Pepcmport kideffendog,

OCCASIONAL SKETCHES—HERE
AND THERE.
No. IV.
WITITEFIELD'S BONES!
" Whitefield's bones! and what of them? They have
long since been mingled with kindred dust —‘ massed
into the common clay.' Seventy-five years have sunk
into the grave of ages since the Prince of Preachers
was laid down in the narrow bed, from which he never
rose but in the spirit. Only the memory of Whitefield
survives—his immortal part is now wearing its crown,
and with the Elders be is waving his palm; but of the
tabernacle' in which he tarrlA on earth for a season,
no trace can remain. , It was committed to dust
long, long ago,' and nothing but the blast of the
archangel's trump shall collect the scattered atoms, and
bid the dry bones live."
Such may be, perchance, the exclamation of the reader,
on glancing at the heading of this sketch; but let me
crave his patience whilst I relate, as simply as may be,
the particulars of a pilgrimage which, scarcely more
than two months ago, I made to Whitefield's bones, for,
to the everlasting disgrace of those who might prevent it,
they are exposed to the public view " a marvel and a
show."

I was spending a Sunday at Old Ipswich, in the latter
part of last September, when, by accident, I fell in with
an old inhabitant of the town who had heard Whitefield
preach there. He was a sort of patriarch of the place,
and as he sat on one of the stones which surrounded the
ancient orthodox meeting-house, his grey locks stream-
ing from beneath his queerly-shaped hat, and attired in
his primly-cut old-fashioned coat, he appearel no bad
representative of the departed Puritans who, in former
days, had soberly and decently obeyed the call of the
Sabbath bell, and worshipped in the same temple whose
steeple now cast its shadow athwart the green sward
beneath.
A Sabbath in a New England village is quite a primi-
tive affair. The old-fashioned folk commence it on the
Saturday evening, but the custom is confined to, and
will probably die out with them. Where it is observed
in all its strictness, every occupation ceases about six
o'clock. All loud and boisterous talk is hushed, and the
old clock in the corner ticks audibly, whilst the family
circle, consisting as well of the domestics as of the
members of the family, gather round the wood fire, and
listen to the head of the house read and expound the
Scriptures.
As the bell of Old Ipswich church swung out that
bright Sabbath morning, it was a pretty sight to see the
village people coming from different points to the decay-
ing old church, which was situated, as most country
churches in New England are, on a hill top. Whilst I
was enjoying the scene, the old man to whom I have
alluded, and who was sitting on a stone, accosted me,
and asked if I was not a stranger in " those parts?"
On my informing him that I was, he became very
loquacious, and pointed out to me the various " lions "
of the neighbourhood, which consisted of such places
as " Heartbreak-hill," "Lovers'-lane," and other affec
tionately-named localities, and wound up by observing,
" I suppose, Sir, you've a-heard of Whitefield?" Of
Whitefield! to be sure I had; and then it occurred to
me that the celebrated preacher had often visited Ame-
rica, and recollections of a fine old mezzotint portrait of
him, which used to hang over the family mantel-piece
when I was a boy, became vivid, and my curiosity was
thoroughly excited as the old gentleman said, when I
nodded my head in reply to his query, " Well, I've
a-seen Whitefield ; George Whitefield stood on this
very stone," and he dropped his stick feebly from his
shaking hands, " and I heard him preach here."
" And do you remember anything about him?" I asked.
" Well, I guess, I do. I was but a bit of a boy then,
but here he stood on this stone, looking like a flying
angel, and we do call this Whitefield's pulpit to this day.
Mat other stone, further on, is the one on which they
tell the devil lighted when he jumped over the church.'
The mark of his toes is to be seen now; but that's non-
sense, and neither here nor there."
" He'd a-preached in Boston, on the common," con-
tinued the old man, "in the morning, and came over
here to give a sermon in the afternoon, and he went
from here to Newburyport in the evening. There was
folk here from all parts to hear'n; so he was obligated
to speak outside, for the church warn't half big enough
for 'em, and no two ways about it. I've a-hearn many
pa-arsons sin' that time, but none on 'em could come
nigh he, anyhow they could fix it."
"Do you remember anything of his sermon ?" I
inquired.
" Oh ! I was too young to notice aright, Sir, but the
preacher himself and the crowds of people, but I know
he had a very sweet voice, and, as I said when he
spread his arms out, with his little Bible in his hand, he
looked for all the world like a flying angel. There
never were so many people afore or since in old Ipswich.
I suppose, Sir, you'll be goin' to see his bones ?"
" His bones—whose bones ?" I asked, in some asto-
nishment.
" Why, Mr. Whitefield's. He was buried at New-
buryport, and you can see 'em if you like. The sexton
shows 'em, but only strangers go to see 'em, I here."
I made up my mind that 1 would see them too, if pos-
sible; but I regarded the affair as an old man's story,
until I learned from other quarters that what he had
stated was true.
I attended service in the church, which is one of the
oldest in America, and was, therefore, more interesting
than a modern erection would have been. There was the
old pulpit, with elaborate carvings about it, and of a
forty-parson power size. It was surmounted by an
enormous sounding board, which was decorated by a
gilded star. There had been a similar gorgeous decora-
tion in front of the pulpit, but it had been considered too
gay by a rigid deacon, who scraped off, with his own
pious hands, the gold leaf. The pews were very capa-
cious, and square, old-fashioned high-backed chairs be-
ing used as seats. In a very high and deep gallery was
an ample space for the choir, which was an exceedingly
good one ; and en peasant, I would observe that the
Americans are far beyond us so far as hymn singing is
concerned, and it would not be amiss if some of the dole-
ful tunesters in our churches and chapels would imitate
our transatlantic brethren in this respect. After listen-
ing to the delightful congregational singing in New
England, the monotonous, melancholy music of our me-
tropolitan dissenting choirs, seemed to me dismal in the
extreme. But to my more immediate subject.
On the following day, I went over to Newburyport
by railroad, and having previously ascertained the into-
resting spots, I proceeded first to the house in which
Whitefield died. It stands in School-street, and was at
one time the residence of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons,
the first regular pastor of the Presbyterian Society in
the town. It is a plain, unpretending structure, consist-
ing of two floors, and possessing no other claims to at-
tention than its being near the spot where the last scene
of Whitefield's career was enacted. I knocked at the
door, and asked of a servant girl who answered my sum-
mons, if I might be allowed to see the room in which
Mr. Whitefield died, taking it for granted that so memo-
rable an occurrence must have been familiar to her mind.
She looked me in the face for some time, and then
replied that no one of that name lived there ; and finding
I could make nothing of her, I was turning away, when
a lady came forward from a side room, and on learning
my business, and receiving my apologies for the intru-
sion, very courteously showed me up a flight of stairs
into a chamber which she said Mr. Whitefield used to
sleep in.
I surveyed the room with some interest ; but the cha-
racter of it must have been greatly altered since White-
field's time, for there was a, very pretty French bed, and
smart window curtains, and portraits of George Wash-
ington and General Jackson, and a whole army of Pre-
sidents, and a view of Bunker-hill Monument, and similar
matters, but nothing whatever to remind me of White-
field.

" Here is the place he died in," said the lady ; and
she showed me a little entry just outside the door of the
bed-chamber, directly over the entrance to the house.
A window in this recess commanded a view of the road
in front of the dwelling.
" He lay, the night before he died," said the lady,
"in that bedchamber, and when he was took for death
he ran out to this entry-window for breath, and died
whilst sitting in a chair opposite it."
A host of thoughts crowded to my mind as I stood on
the spot where the great mau gasped, and gasped for
air, and then breathed out his life. So simply and so
graphically is the last scene of all described by his ser-
vant, Richard Smith, who attended him from England to
America the last time he ever crossed the Atlantic, that
I cannot forbear quoting here from his narrative. There
is no flourish or parade about it ; its interest lies in the
little facts which it records, and which, in connexion
with Whitefield, are of such deep interest. " The ac-
count," it has been said, " has all the constituents of a
completed drama;" and what could close it more graphi-
cally than that single, simple fact, of " the people who
went weeping through the sti eels to their respective places
of abode ?"
"On the morning of his death, at a quarter-past four, he
waked, and said, 'My asthma, my asthma is coming on ; I
wish I had not given out word to preach at Haverhill, on
Monday ; I don't think I shall be able • but I shall see what
to-day will bring forth. If lam no better to-morrow, I will
take two or three days' ride!' He then desired me to warm
him a little gruel; and, in breaking the fire wood, I waked
Mr. Parsons, who, thinking I knocked for him, rose and came
in. He went to Whitefiekl's bed•side, and asked him how
'
he felt himself. He answered, am almost suffocated.
I can scarce breathe, my asthma chokes tae.' I was
then not a little surprised, to bear how quick, and
ttle saw no danger, only that he had a great difficulty in
y clock. I went to him, and for about five
s five o
with what difficulty, he drew his breath. He got
out of bed, and went to open the window for air. This was
Frilalcuthing, as I had often seen before. Soon after he turned
to and
other
said,
I am
' I said, I hope not, Sir.' He
ranto me,
the panting for breath, but could get
no relief. It was agreed that I should go back for Dr.
Sawyer; and on my coming back, I saw death on his face;
and he again said, /am dying,' His eyes were fixed, his
under lip drawn inward every time he drew breath ; he went
1 towards the window, and we offered him some warm wine, with
some lavender drops, which he refused. I persuaded him to
sit down in a chair, and have his cloak on ; he consented by a
sign, but could not speak. I then offered him the glass of
warm wine; be took half of it, but it seemed as if it would
have stopped his breath entirely. in a little time he brought
up a considerable quantity, of phlegm and wind. I then
began to haye some small hopes. Mr. Parsons said, he
tbnAght Whitefield breathed more freely than he did, and
won d ree9YOL said,' No, fir, he is certainly dying.' I was
i Continually employed n taking the phlegm out of his mouth
With ahandkerchief, and bathing his temples with drops, rub-
! Bing his wrists, &c., to give him relief, ifpossible, but all in vain ;