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LONDON FRIDAY EVENING SUN_ DECEMBER 12, 1845.
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REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
A MEETING of the ELECTORS of LONDON will be held
at the Guildhall, on MoNnav NEXT, December 15, at One
o'clock precisely, for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on
the subject of the existing corn-laws, in connexion with the prevail-
ing apprehension of a scarcity in the article of food.
The Right. llon. the LORD MAYOR will preside.

F CENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM-
smrs are appointed to leave the Custom House or Tower for—
HAMBURGII, carrying her Majesty's Mails—Every Wednesday
and Saturday Morniusg.
ROTTERDAM, carrying her Majesty's Malls—from Blackwall Pier
—Every Wednesday and Saturday at Ten, Morning.
ANTWERP—From Blackwall Pier—The Soho every Thursday,
at Ten, Morning.
HAVRE—From St. Katharine's Wharf—Dec. 14th, 20th, 25th
and 30th, at Eight, Morning.
From London Bridge Wharf, for—
OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
BOULOGNE—Every Thursday and Saturday Morning.
CALMS—Every Thursday and Sunday Morning.
HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning.
YARMOUTH—Reduced Fares—Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur-
day, at Six, Evening.
From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, for—
EDINBURGH—Reduced Fares—Dec. 13th, 50th, 24th, and 27th,
at Ten, Evening.
From Irongate Wharf, near the Tower, for
Saturday, at Eight, Evening.
BRIGHTON- and DIEPPE—Every Saturday, ec. 13th, at Eleven,
Morning ; 20th, at Three, Afternoon ; 27th, at D
Ten, Morning.
DOVER and BOULOGNE—The Magician—Dally.
To secure Berths, for Freight and Bills containing hours of
departure, fares, &c., apply at Lombard-street ; 37,
Regent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-street.

-RANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)
The COURT of DIRECTOES hereby give notice, that a HALF-
YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum
on the Capital of the Bank, will he PAYABLE to the Proprietors of
Shares registered in this country, on and after the sth of January
next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishops-
gate-street, between the hours of Ten and Four.
No Transfer can be made between the 16th instant and the sth
proximo, as the books must be closed daring that period.
By order of the Court,
G. DE B. ATTWOOD, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, Dec. 5, 1845.

QT. MARYLEBONE, DECEMBER 6, 1845.
TO BRICKMAKERS, &e.
BREEZE.—The Vestrymen of this parish hereby give notice that
they will meet in the Vestry-room of the Court-house of the said
parish on SATURDAY, December 27, at Eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon, to receive TENDERS from persons willing to CONTRACT for
the BREEZE and ASHES of the said parish for ONE YEAR, from
the 31st day of January next. Payment of one quarter of the year's
contract-money must he made to the said Vestrymen at the signing
of the contract, and good security given that the remainder he con-
tinued to be paid one quarter in advance throughout the contract.
The parish is divided into five divisions, for the purpose of contracting
for the Breeze, particulars of which, with the form of the contract,
and printed tender, may be had of the surveyor, Mr. Robert Seace,
at the Court-house, from Twelve till One o'clock daily.
Tenders to be sealed ; and no Tender will be received after Eleven
o'clock on the said 27th day of December.
By order of the Vestry,
C. FLOOD, Vestry Clerk.
Contractor to pay six guineas, as expenses of contract and bond.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.—Every
description of solid and other LEATHER CASES, for carrying
samples or stock, made to order. Solid Leather and other Portman-
teaus, Carpet Bags, Hat Cases, &c. &c., in great variety, always in
stock.
John Southgate and Son, manufacturers, 76, Watling-street, London.

Ai) ETROPOLITAN RAIL WAYS JUNCTION
LT a_ COMPANY.
The Committee of Management have decided to call a meeting of
the Sharholders of this Company for FRIDAY, the 19th instant, at
One o'clock precisely, at the Company's Offices, 11, Clement's-lane,
Loin bard-street, for the purpose of laying before them a report of the
present state and prospects of this Company, at which meeting they
are invited to attend.

J. T. CROFT, Chairman.
JOHN CHEESE, Secretary
Dated this eleventh day of December, 1845.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
CHAIRMAN—Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SoLicrroas—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, lioorgate-street.
SECRETARY—Z. Ilubbersty, Esq.
The Committee of Manatement have the satisfaction to announce
that, in compliance with the applications and suggestions of several
gentlemen of experience, they have instructed the several bankers
named in their Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the pre-
liminary deposits from this time until the 7th of January next, in
order that those parties to whom Shares in this Company have been
allotted may consult their own convenience by paying the first de-
posit at the present time, or paying the whole deposit on or before
the 7th of January next.

By order of the Board,
Z. HUBBERSTY, Bescetary.
Ifoorgate-chambers, Moorgate-street, Des. 9, 1845.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDIN-
BURGH, and DIRECT GLASGOW JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a Branch by the North Tyne to Maxima.
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 25. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and II Vie., cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Sir Charles M. L. Monck, Bart., Belsay Castle, Northumberland
Saville C.ll. Ogle. Esq., M.P., Kirkley-hall, Northumberland
William Henry Charlton, Esq. Hesleyside, Northumberland
Robert Charlton, Esq. Lee-hall, Northumberland
Thomas Cookson, Esq. Swinburn Castle, Northumberland
Mr. John Crawford, paper manufacturer, Warden, Northumberland
Mr. Edw. Campion, iron manufacturer, Hareshaw Ironworks, North-
umberland
Ralph Wm. Grey, Esq. ChMchase Castle, Northumberland
Mr. John Green, iron manufacturer, Ridsdale Ironworks, Northum-
berland
Mr. Wm. Grace, Saltwick, Northumberland
J. llaggerston, Esq. Reedsmouth, Northumberland
Nicholas Manghan, Esq. Newbrough-lodge, Northumberland
Charles Atticus Monck, Esq. Ilumshaugh, Northumberland
Thomas James, Esq., Otterburn Tower, Northumberland
Rayne, paper manufacturer, Haughton, Northumberland
Smith Stobart, Esq. banker, flesh= Abbey, Northumberland
Captain R. Jobling, Newton-hall, Northumberland
Rev. Wm. Kell, rector of Corsenside, Northumberland
W. C. Trevelyan, jun. Esq. Topsham, Devon
Sir John Fife, Knt. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Thomas Gray, tobacco manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Charles Rayne, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Henry Glynn, C.E. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Wm. Anderson, jun. coal-owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Wm. hunter, colliery reviewer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. John Coulson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Alexander George Gray, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Captain John Kelly, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
T. C. Granger, Esq. M.P. Durham
Andrew White, Esq. Tunstal-lodge, Sunderland
Richard White, Esq. Thorney-close, Sunderland
I. J. Moore, Esq. Hilt house, Sunderland
Mr. Michael Brown, merchant, Sunderland
Hugh Dixon, Esq. manufacturer, Sunderland
Shields
Thomas Bell, I.!.:sq. alkali manufactory, South
Mr. Joshua Greene, merchant, Gateshead
William Ilymers, Esq. J.P. Gateshead
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., Grange and Fountain-hall
C. Craigie Hackett, Esq. Lawhill
John Dick Lauder, Esq. jun. Grange and Fountain-hall
Andrew Wilkie, Esq. one of the magistrates of Edinburgh
William Girdwo^d, Esq. magistrate of Leith
Robert Laurie, Esq. merchant, Leith
John Anderson, Esq. jun., merchant, Edinburgh
John Gibson, Esq. provost of Lanark
Thomas Brownlie, Esq. Convener Trades-house, Glasgow
William Bankier, Esq. provost of Calton, Glasgow
Sir John Trevelyan, Wallington, Northumberland
James Wolfe Murray, Esq. St. Andrew's, Fife
Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Esq., Wallington, Northumberland
William Oliver Rutherford, Esq., of Edgerton, sheriff of the county
of Roxburgh
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS.

NORFOLK RAILWAY.-GOODS TRAFFIC.
The Directors respectfully give notice to the public that the
goods trains arc now running.
The Company undertake to forward all sorts of merchandise,
grain, cattle, &c., between Yarmouth, Norwich, Attleborough,
Thetford, Brandon, and London.
The classification of goods, and scale of rates, may be had on ap-
plication at the Secretary's office, London, and to the Superintendent
of the Norwich Station

RICHARD TILL, Secretary.

Guildhall-buildings, London

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of an-
nouncing that the requisite notices of the intended application to
Parliament in the next session have been given, and the deposits of
Plans and Sections with the several Clerks of the Peace and the
Board of Trade, as required by the standing orders of Parliament,
have been duly made.
Applications for Shares may be made until the 27th instant, when
the lists will be closed for allotment.
ISAAC COOKE and SONS, Bristol,
BAXTER, ROSE, and NORTON, Solicitors.
3, Park-street, 'Westminster,'
December 1, 1845.

OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 43, Moorgate-street.
THE MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Hubert de Burgh, Esq., Chairman.
Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman.
Lord Albert Conyngham Deane John Hoare, Esq.
Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dickson John Lane, Esq.
Charles Collins, Esq. Malcolm Maclean, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq. Richard Christopher Preston,Esq.
Frederick Win. Etheridge, Esq. l Richard Twiss, Esq.

♦. 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 be received after the 27th
instant, and until that period they will continue to be received at the
oMces of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; of the Solicitor, F. T.
Gell, Esq., Carlton-chambers, 8, Regent-street; and of the following
Brokers :—R. H. Wilkins, Esq., 4, Bank-chambers, London; Henry
lbrenchly, Esq., Cashion-court, Old Broad-street, London.
R. MORTON CALET, Secretary.

EAST DIREHAM AND NORWICH
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the pleasure to inform the
shareholders and the public that they have concluded arrangements
for leasing the above railway to the Norfolk Company, at a rental of
41. per cent. per annum en the outlay, and an equal division of the
surplus profits.
The Plans and Sections relating to th's undertaking have been
deposited at the Board of Trade, and with the several Clerks of the
Peace, in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament.
In order to comply with the standing orders of the House of Lords,
as recently altered, it is necessary that the deposit of 1/. already paid
should be increased to 21. 2s. It is also necessary that the scrip
should be called in and re-issued, and new Parliamentary deeds
executed.
The shareholders are, therefore, required to pay, on or before the
Ist day of January next the further sum of 11. 2s. per share on the
shares respectively held by them, and for this purpose to deposit with
the Secretary, at the Company's offices, Norwich, the scrip now held
by them, together with an application for registry and exchange, in
the annexed form, on or before the 24th day of December instant
The requisite order to one of the Company's hankers to receive the
increased deposit will be issued within three days after the registry
of the scrip, and on the production of the banker's receipt, and the
execution of the new Parliamentary contract, the new scrip certifi-
cates will be issued.
All scrip, in respect of which the shareholders shall fail to take the
necessary steps for payment of the required deposit within the speci-
fied period, will be forfeited.

EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman.

Norwich, Dec. 8, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY AND EXCIIAICGE

OF SCRIP.
To the Committee of Management of the East Dereham and Norwich

.
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit scrip for shares in the
above Company, in respect of which I request you to issue me new
scrip, and I agree to pay the further deposit of 11. 2s. per share on or
before the let day ofJanuary next, and to execute the new Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of December, 1545.
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JOHNSON, Matott.
ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber
of the GUILDHALL of the City of LONDON, on Tunas-
PAY, the 11th day of December, 1845,
Resolved,—That great, powerful, and wealthy as this nation is, by
far the largest portion of her Majesty's subjects in England, Scotland,
and Wales have long been reduced for their principal support to pota-
toes ; that all classes, but especially the poor, have been, and are,
great sufferers from this result of the national economy ; that the
blight which has fallen upon th4t root has subjected the people to
great anxiety and distress, and to the danger of: amine ; that the
sufferings are attributable to erroneous legislation, which, by ex-
cluding the importation of food and restricting commerce, shuts out
from the people the bounty and goodness of God.
Resolved,—That this Court do present a dutiful and loyal address
and petition to her Most Gracious Majesty, founded on the foregoi,g
resolutions, earnestly and anxiously praying, that her Majesty will
graciously use all means in her Majesty's power to open the ports of
this kingdom for the free importation of food.
MEREWETHER.

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plication to Messrs. TIIRESIIER and GLENNY, East India and
Colonial Outfitters, 152, Strand, London, where all outfits are sup-
plied at the wholesale prices.

AVIES'S BEST MOULD CANDLES, 6d.
per lb., with the improved Wax Wicks ; Store Candles,
5d.; Hale's Superb Composite, 934 d.; Price's, 10d.; Ogleby's Bo-
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Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 585. per 1121bs ; Mottled, 60s. and
G4s. ; White Windsor, Is. 4d. per Packet ; Palm, is. 4d. ; Old
Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Superfine
Sealing Wax, 4s. Gd. per lb.; Genuine Sperm Oil, 7s. 6d. per gallon
Ogleby's Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 4s. Gd. ; Solar, 3s. 6d.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Mar-
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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—We cannot satisfy the just impa-
tience of our readers by any positive intelligence re-
specting the steps to be taken in consequence of the re-
signation of Sir Robert Peel. Lord John Russell, as
we have stated, is not returned from Osborne House, and
the public must for the present be content with knowing
that the task of extricating us from our difficulties is
confided to him. For we must not disguise from our-
selves that the present is a crisis of great difficulty, not
to say even of national peril. A strong Government is
all of a sudden dissolved, because the Minister, yielding
to a strong sense of public necessity, has proposed a
measure of relief which the representative of the aristo-
cracy will not permit to take effect. If, after the matter
has been brought to such a point, the people were to ac-
quiesce in the rejection of their just demands, all hope of
relief would have to be abandoned, and our interests
would be sacrificed to an oppressive oligarchy. We
must carry the repeal of the corn laws now or never.
That it will be carried, in spite of all hostile influences,
we have not a moment's doubt. There is that
spirit in the people, that we feel persuaded that they
will not submit to an eternal corn-law, and will not
draw back from a contest in which both Sir R. Peel and
Lord J. Russell have_swited to lead them. But it is not
merely necessary that the repeal of the corn-laws should
be carried. It must be carried at once, and without the
excitement of a prolonged contest. We will not enter
into the details of a contest with the House of Lords
—the necessity of probably more than one change of
Ministry—of possibly' more than one dissolution of Par-
liament, amid the greatest national excitement—of an
actual swamping of the House of Lords—of a repeti-
tion of that ignominious coercion that carried the Reform
Bill, or that more ignominious submission by means pf
which Catholic Emancipation was passed. If we mean
to retain a House of .Lords as part of dur Constitution,
we must avoid permitting its members to place themselves
in an attitude of resistance to the public will and the
public good, in the cause of the most sordid self-in-
terest. Now of this'evil we run the greatest risk. If
the ground which the Duke of Wellington has taken
be that of opposing the repeal of the corn-laws, we may
anticipate the most obstinate struggle on the part of un-
wise Peers, battling for their personal interests under
the sanction of his great name, and the guidance of his
little prudence. But we trust that such is not the
ground on which his Grace has broken up Sir Robert
Peel's Government. We would rather believe that he
objected not to the repeal of the corn-laws as a matter of
public necessity, but to the performance of that task by
a Tory Government. Looking at the probabilities of the
case, we still hope that it will eventually be found that
he will not head an apposition to the measure, supported.
by one of the great teolitical parties in the country, and
adopted by the leaders of the other. We cannot believe
that he will close his glorious career in a struggle so
void alike of honour as of hope. But even if we escape
the calamity of -being opposed by the Duke
of Wellington, we must make up our minds
to a sharp contest with the House of Lords.
This is a point in which they fancy their
pride and their pockets both so interested, ,that the
majority of them will be inclined to resist under any
leader: and leaders`we may be sure they will find in the
abundant resources of ducal folly. We must not per-
mit ourselvs to doubt that the great majority of that
House is inclined to resist free trade, and will do so as
far as they dare. But though we should beat them in
the contest, it is a contest which, in the interests of
public order, it is most essential that we should avoid
The great measure of justice must be carried before the
opposition shall have had time to excite the public in-
dignation, and stir up other and more formidable ques-
tions than the corn-law. Now that the people ,of both
parties have entered upon the struggle, the work must
be done, and done out of hand. And the only way of
attaining this result is by letting the House of Lords
see at once that none other is possible ;—that there is
such an union, such a determination on our part as will
render it impossible to uphold any Government except
one that will in this matter do the work of the people.
This can only be done by the union of all, who, what-
ever may be their: party connexions, whatever their
politics on other points, are determined on the repeal of
the corn-laws. The members of the late Government are
as much interested in the success of such a measure as
those, whoever they may be, who shall take office for the
purpose of carrying it. They have not got rid of their heavy
responsibility with their places. They cannot have pro-
claimed to the world, by the very act of their resignation,
their deep conviction of the urgent necessity of a policy
which must have been most distasteful to them, without
being prepared to prove the sincerity of their conviction
by the most loyal exertions to ensure its success. Last
week we called on all Liberals to put: aside all party
considerations,' in order to enable Sir Robert Peel to
bring this momehtous question to a satisfactory and
speedy settlement. Circumstances are only so far
changed that we may now possibly have to require the
aid which we then proffered. The co-operation of ra-
tional and honest men, for this purpose, is still as
necessary, and still, we believe, as confidently to be
counted on. Sir Robert Peel, in the great step which
he has taken, has, after all, but acted on a wide-spread
feeling among that large and powerful section of the
Conservative party which be more especially represents.
Be his faufteirepast time- what they may, his 'last act
gives proof of a sincere regard for the public good.
His example in this respect will surely act most
strongly on the -great mass of those who trust in his
guidance, and - 'sympathise with his general pur-
poses. If such fi'e not the case, it would undoubtedly be
a grave question whether Lord J. Russell should attempt
to form a Government at present. It would perhaps be
necessary for us to pass through a preliminary process,
and prove to the- monopolists the hopelessness of their
resistance, by throwing on them the responsibility of
carrying on that government which they will not allow
others to conduct. Let the Duke call his brother dukes
around him, and see what kind of practical talent for
government he can get out of them. Let them try the
arduous experiment of fishing out an ultra-Tory to lead
the House of Commons in common grammatical English.
Let them break down in the hopeless enterprise—give up
power to those who can wield it—and acquiesce in the
law which the intelligence of the country imposes on
them. But this. prolongation of perilous strife—this
damage to the aristocracy—this interruption of the real
business of the .country—let us be spared, if possible.
It will be possible, if some little sacrifice of party and
personal feelingtan be generally made to a great object
of general interest. Happily, the very crisis which
imposes the necessity on us has loosened the bonds of
party. On the Liberal side, the ancient distinctions of
by-gone party names have long ceased to be realities;
and, thanks to Sir Robert Peel, what has been called
the Conservative party is now resolved into primitive
chaos.
HERALD.—We stated yesterday that the whole
Cabinet had resigned. Such is the fact ; the whole of
the Conservative Cabinet goes out together, and, we
have no doubt. will adhere to the Conservative party.
Whatever Sir Robert Peel's opinion upon the subject of
the corn-lavosethe country may be well assured that he
never did propose, and, in office or out of office, never
will either propose or support any change in the corn -
laws, unaccompanied by what he believes to be full
compensation to the landed interest through all its gra-
dations. Whence that full compensation is to be obtained
we are utterly-at a loss to conjecture, but it is no more
than an act of justice to the late Premier, as we
suppose we may call him now, to repeat it, that
he never did propose, as the infamous falsrication of
the Times asserted, an unqualified and total repeal
of the corn-laws. Nor, as we firmly believe, will
he ever propose or support any such measure. This is
most important, because whatever difference has existed
in the Cabinet has been merely a difference in degree
and not in species, and therefore cannot extend to the
Conservative party in either House of Parliament. Lord
John Russell has been summoned by the Queen, and is
',lSvw in attendance upon her Majesty as her confidential
adviser. And who is Lord John Russell ? A party to
the Lichfield House compact—one who has within these
last few days-pledged himself by a public document to
concede all the most extravagant demands of the Anti-
Corn-law League ; and, hear it you opponents of the
Maynooth grant, one of the party most solemnly pledged
to extinguish the Protestant, Church in Ireland, and to
establish the Roman Catholic Church in that great divi-
sion of the United Kingdom. Let Conservatives think
of this in tiro --'and they have but little time to think of
it —for whether Parliament be dissolved or not, the work
of ruin will probably commence the first week of
bruary, •
POST.--What may be the titotkcs of the ne* nits-
try seem a matter of. cousiderable (liiiitAtwn with the
political public. A tliesoliatlon of Parliament was the
first thieve that Sliggested itself to people's minds; as the
present house of Commons could hardly be expected to
furnish the Whigs with a working majority; but against
this measure it is urged that the Most serioas iticons
veniences to.the public inteteSt thltst liteessarny follow
on a dissolution. The loctEing up, for so Many weeks,
of the capital deposited by projected railway. companies
is mentioned-as one point desareihg of careful considera-
tion; and another ia, that many railway Bills, that were
not finished last session, must be brought forward
novo in the new Parliament, instead of hieing taken up at
the stage in which they were left at the peritid of prord-
gation in Afikust. This, it is argued; would not only. lei
a cruel infliction of eipeiise tipoii the eedipanias §d sati-
ated, but a positive breach of faith with them on thepart
of the Government and the house of Commons. Then
there is the state of our relations with Ameiietts Imes
gine Parliament dissolved when a hostile tne,s9ge
from " his- Excellency" Mr. Polk should arrive.
Whence are to come the sinews of war? In short, there
is embarrassment on all hands Let the new Minister
continue the present Parliament, and in all human
probability-he finds himself iu a minority; let him
dissolve it, and there is an equal probability that he will
be unable to "carry on the Queen's Government." lint,
as his friend Sidney Smith said, "Lord John Russell
will undertake anything—the command of the Channel
fleet, the building of St. Paul's, or the operation for the
stone." .It -is not to be wondered at, therefore, that lie
feels no hesitation in facing the perils of his present
position. Iris so much the way of the world to forget
old friends, especially when they chance to have no good
things to give away, that people talk very little about
the members of the late Cabinet. This may, perhaps, be
owing in some'sort to the habit of Sir Robert Peel, who
spoke oftenif himself and seldom of his colleagues; but
still he had colleagues, and men of "note and mark" in

many instances. Of these, we believe we may safely
say that the Duke of Wellington strenuously and
successfully opposed to the last the repeal of the corn-
laws. Of the Duke of Buccleuch we are assured the
same may be predicted. Lord Stanley, we have
reason to think, was firm in favour of protection to
British industry ; in fact, we might go on to
enumerate the majority of the Cabinet, for it was to a
majority that Sir Robert Peel succumbed in his vain
attempt to establish free trade in corn. No endeavour
is made to account for this extraordinary proposal on
his part, though it is rumoured that he was seized with
panic at the run made upon the stock of bonded corn
for the purpose of exportation. Whether the cause or
the effect more prove the practical weakness of the
Minister, we leave others to Judge. "We tell the tale
as 'twas told to us." Some friends of the late Cabinet
are still sanguine of its speedy restoration to office—of
course without Sir Robert Peel at its head. What is to
become of him does not clearly appear. A correspond-
ent, indeed, last night informed us that Sir Robert Peel
will be immediately created a peer by the titles of Baron
Trent, Viscount Drayton, and Earl of Tamwortb, and
that in the House of Lords he will give his independent
support to that measure, of the policy of which he has
failed to convince his late colleagues." And here, for
this occasion, closes our budget of Ministers past, pre-
sent, and to come.
TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel has resigned, and Lord
John Russell has been invited to form a new Adminis-
tration. Such is the sudden and strange event which has
taken by surprise the whole political world ; and such
the verification, if not the fulfilment, of the intelligence
which yesterday week astonished our readers. At that
time another conclusion of the controversies which had
evidently long harassed the Cabinet was confidently and
justly expected. Sir Robert Peel had then gained over
to a total repeal of the corn-laws all his colleagues ex-
cept three or four, with whose co-operation, if report
speaks true, he might very well have dispensed. He had
just won the reluctant assent of the Duke of Welling-
ten, and his promise to propose the measure in the
Lords. It had also been settled to summon Parliament
early in January for this purpose. Our readers then
possessed an exact and literal transcript of the Minis-
terial state and intentions. We had not even omitted
to notice the " insignificant and doubtful" exceptions
to the general unanimity. Unless, indeed, it had been
possible to tell, not only what was in men's minds, but
also what might possibly enter into them, we are con-
vinced that not even the Cabinet itself could have given
a truer account of the state of affairs. Subsequently,
however, to the date of our announcement, the Duke
withdrew his assent, and joined the minority. The
Premier then felt that it was not his place, or perhaps in
his power, to carry the measure. On Saturday, accord-
ingly, Sir R. Peel iniormed the Queen of the difficulties
in which he found himself, and tendered his resignation.
Her Majesty, it is said, was pleased to express a great
desire to retain his services, if it could possibly be so
arranged. Sir Robert Peel could suggest no alternative,
and the Queen summoned Lord John Russell to her
councils. On Wednesday the whole Ministry resigned,
and is now only holding office till Lord John Russell
has selected a Government to supply its place.
Did we consult our own taste, we would not say a
word in vindication of our announcement, which has
ceased to be a matter of any importance now that
the result is known. What we said was then perfectly
true, and is, moreover, fulfilled, in its most important
feature—viz., the surrender of the corn-laws by Sir
Robert Peel and an immense majority of the Cabinet.
Of course no mortal man could foretel such a casualty as
that the Duke of Wellington would change his mind.
Had the sudden stroke of death or other calamity dis-
solved the Cabinet, that would not have vitiated the truth
of the statement. In every intention and every declara-
tion regarding the future there are reserves which it is
not necessary to express ; and admitting that the Duke
may have changed his mind most conscientiously, yet it
would have been an insult to specify that beforehand as
a particularly probable contingency. We will add, how-
ever, that even as far as he is concerned, our original an-
nouncement is nearer to a literal completion than certain
obstinate unbelievers imagine. The Duke, contrary to
the rumours which were all we had to depend
upon yesterday, will not risk the existence of the
Lords by raising them against the measure, or lift his
own voice against it. Though he will not propose it on
Sir Robert Peel's initiation, he will, we have reason to
believe, offer no obstinate resistance to it on Lord John
Russell's. We may, therefore, leave the question of our
veracity in the hands of the public with very little mis-
giving as to the issue. With the measure recommended
in a speech from the Throne a few weeks hence, with a
Ministry then perfectly unanimous in its favour, with
Sir Robert Peel and three-fourths of his colleagues
speaking and voting for it in the Lower House, and the
Duke of Wellington yielding a virtual assent in the
Upper, we will leave the population of Manchester, or
any other fifty thousand rational men, to decide which is
the truer prophet, we, or they who denounced the whole
' statement, letter and spirit, in their own peculiar style,
as "an atrocious fabrication," resting that courteous
denial on the utter impossibility of the Premier under-
' going so considerable a change of opinion, and, what
was worse still, giving them no information of it.
To Lord John Russell, therefore, we must now turn,
as the helmsman of the State through the present
crisis. We have frequently intimated that he and
his friends had at least a better claim to such
a measure as that soon to be passed, than
,the Conserva-
tive Ministry ; and immediately on the appearance of
his Lordships letter we said, that he had made the mea-
sure his own so thoroughly, that even if the Conserva-
tive Premier should afterwards declare for it, he would
hardly escape the stigma of unjust appropriation,
Fortune has, at last, distributed the parts of the political
drama with a fitness to which we have latterly been little
accustomed. Of existing statesmen Lord John Russell
is the nearest claimant. That is the utmost, perhaps,
that can be said for him. It is, as we have said, the
measure of the people. The people propose it. The
people are passing it, and it is a popular triumph. Lord
John Russell has the honour of being, not in the least
sense whatever the author of the measure, but the han-
diest, most opportune, most convenient, and most becom-
ing instrument—viz., in the hands of the people. He
will of course start very fair ; with his first
great measure made to his hands, his work cut out
for him, some small stock of popularity in hand, and
a neutralised, a divided, and embarrassed Opposition.
Had not the Whigs a certain happy facility of wast-
ing the best resources, and spoiling the fairest occasions,
we should augur well of his continuance and success.
His responsibility, however, must ate ady press heavily
upon him. Never was there a Ministry ev;-,ch did not
receive in its first formation the seeds of future &ma--
never one which could not subsequently trace its
calamities to the inevitable working of some constitu-
tional virus. His difficulty is the abundance of the
materials from which he has to make his choice; and not
merely the abundance, the variety, and, in some re-
spects, the discordance of those materials. Whig and
Radical, aristocratic and popular, not to say, plebeian,
are the colours which he must group and harmonise.
And well does it behove him to count the cost of every
choice and every rejection. Two paths lie before him
He may either reunite the old materials of the former
Whit; Ministry without going out of " the family" for
a single new name; which will be a simple way of
beginning, and, we Will add, a simple way of finishing,
his career. Or, he may endeavour to enlarge that
close connexion and widen that narrow basis, by taking
in a little of that rank Arid nobility which nature and
the people have created. Contusion decency as well as
common sense seem to suggest that the Cabinet of a
representative people should itself be representatiof its
ve,
and should therefore contain the real authors
measures, the foremost men of its principles, the reamers
of its constitution, and maintainers of its cause. Tel
the last few weeks opened their eyes, the VVhigs have
had nothing to do with that great measure which plecee
Lord John Russell at the head of the national councils.
If the new Cabinet is to be a mere re-union of that
exclusive coterie, all the world will he struck with the
ingratitude and insolence of a usurpation which so coolly
monopolizes the fruits of a victory gained by the indus-
try, the perseverance, the genius, and the patriotism of
others. It is not the Whigs who have displaced Sir
Robert Peel and brought in Lord John Russell. The
Whigs have had nothing to do with the present crisis
and the question now at issue, except in slowly ten-
dering their adherence at the eleventh hour, and being
ready to divide the suil. They are not the makers
of the new Cabinet. Zeither ought they to be its only
members.lce it is reported te: there Ore men who
hnn§ider . themselves not unfit to carry out the itself-
thti people, but who recoil with horror at
the least plebeian encroachrnetit " %wild the wind and
their nobility." On his qwfi triumphant battle-field
they i&lut tht relish stildief of the commonwealth.
Reinstated as they are by the million, they *ill not pit
with those who lead the million. Such surely are men
who *mild ashamed of their own fathers, if fortur
hid not thadt. tliettt ofartmetital as well as kind..
_ee
World will suspect another feeling besides theilieesptioc
xanityi 0t castes They will be thou
dare the preeD!!:! df Ohs tocower be-
'overpowering obligations ; perhe e. e
wheyghytnaurtnenlinder such
-v;ndependent. It
neat han influence SO energ.;::.: an" ' 4.j to admit
*AS A$ ii ii tt AA ,the tiOtidious Whig coui— ,
the brilliant essaist and feiietVef. Theenennis
Th ote practical greetness ulidotibtealy pttt his, p. n.
pitlar synteaihies to sip Micro practical test. If the N 4 higs
condescend to use trio oVtifiih:i 4hicii the people feces
ivt.sn them. they must also condescend to tuntiv?
leading: In a peculiar sense they. are now the repre-
sentativEs of Lie popither It is t-n-ir bowl to carry
out the Reform Bill. That Bill gave ii ulitictil t tist-
ence to the manufacturing masses. It gave to the buseis
aTd poPtilob§, I,ust, proportion in the State.
he reform of tae Jnicoli'es a. feforrn of the
Cabinet. The one is a function of the 01.14. e; An 4 thCre
will be an endless collision till the man of the people is'
admitted to the secret councils of the Sovereign- as- well
as to the public deliberations of the Legislature.
ADVERTISEII.—A,iaerti-is has arriyed ! the Minis-
terial plot works : eyi'atid Sittd, have
before us le commene nod de la fin. What the tertninae
tion will be. time alonee will unfold ; but at present the
"great fact" of the resignation of Sir Robert Peel's Ca-
binet is lege beyond doubt. In our impression of the
4th instal!, we distinctly announced that, owing ,to the
difficulties with which Sir Robert Peel found himself
surrounded, he had threatened to r9sign. The epPosi-
tion he has encountered from the Dulce of Wallington
and the high Tory members in tSe tCalisrtet, t() 1.65

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF ILLICIT
SPIRITS OF NITRE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
have communicated to my client the letter of
your solicitor of the 6th instant, in reply to a letter from
me addressed to you of the 4th of the same month, re-
quiring from you a refutation of an imputation upon the
character of my client, Mr. Philip M•rris, of Birming-
ham, chemist, contained in an article in your paper of
the 13th of November last, head( d, " Further extensive
seizure of illicit spirits of nitre," in which letter your so-
licitor stated that the columns of the Morning Herald
are open to the contradiction, under my hand, of any
mis-statement or error which may have appeared
therein ; and in compliance with this offer, and on be-
half of my client, I beg to make the following statement,
as communicated by him to me, the truth of which, from
evidence laid before me, I have not the least reason to
doubt :
You state that, from orders given at this place
(meaning, I suppose, London), it was ascertained
that a large stock of the same description of spirits
had been sent by canal to Birmingham by
order of Bailey himself, and that the Birmingham
officers of Excise, acting upon information they had
received, proceeded to the premises of my client, and
found no difficulty in discovering the object of their
search, and pronounced the stock of spirits there found
to be part of the goods manufactured in the illicit dis-
tillery in the Globe-road, and sent by the carriers to
Birmingham. This, sir, is perfectly correct, and no
difficulty could be experienced, for each of the carboys
of spirits at the carriers in London were directed to my
client in Birmingham, and were sent to him at his
warehouse at Birmingham, without the least attempt
at concealment, and which directions were found on
the carboys in his possession, so that no fraud could
have been anticipated or thought of by Mr. Harris in
the transaction ; and so fully were the officers of Ex-
cise aware of the bond fide nature of the transaction
on his part, that upon being shown the invoices and
other documents sent by Bailey and Company
to him, they did not remove the goods from the ware-
house, where they have remained until a few days ago.
With espect to the price paid for the article in ques-
tion, that at which my client purchased was the then
market price, deducting about 2-i per cent. for immediate
payment.
And further with respect to the quantity, except one
carboy sent as a sample, only nine carboys were ordered
by him, being the quantity seized—a small quantity
compared to that which he is in the habit of buying in
the ordinary course of his business.
As the goods had only arrived in the possession ofMr.
Harris two days prior to the visitation of the officers of
Excise, and they had not then been paid for, he had no
motive for disputing the seizure, as no pecuniary loss
could accrue to him in consequence, and he is advised to
leave this question to be settled between Messrs. Bailey
Brothers and the Excise.—l am, Sir, your obedient ser-
vant, SAMUEL DANKS,
Dec. 9, 1845. 3, Waterloo-street, Birmingham.

ON THE PATRONAGE OF RAIL-
WAYS IN FRANCE.
(naom A CORRESPONDENT.)
It is worthy of remark that, in France, the value of
railway shares is net based on the importance of the
line, or on the length of lease granted, but more invari-
ably on the reputation and credit of the banker or pro-
jector of the Company. When, therefore, a new line is
proposed, persons seek first to inform themselves who is
the projector. This observation is not applicable to the
Orleans, Rouen, or St. Germain Railways, the daily re-
turns of which are ascertained.
Patronage is then of great weight in France. As
proof of this, we may cite the example of what occurs
on the Versailles right line (rive droite), the Versailles
left line (rive gauche), and that from Strasbourg to
Basle. The shares of the left line (rive gauche) are
worth 295 francs (11/. 15s. 2d.) ; it has, notwith-
standing, a debt of four millions, and has not, as 3 et,
made the least return to its shareholders. The right
line (rive droite), the shares of which are worth 455
francs (181.), produces less return than that from Stras-
bourg to Basle, which has a far fairer prospect of ul-
timate success, although its shares are only 245 francs
(10/). The line of railway from Paris to Strasbourg, of
which the works are in active operation, that from
Dijon to Mulhouse, from Zurich to Basle, from Stras-
bourg to Lauterbourg, opening a communication with
Belgium and Holland, will be shortly in progress, and
will constitute the future prospect of the line from Stras-
bourg to Basle, which will join the main lines, whilst the
railways in the vicinity of Paris will deteriorate in value
in proportion as other lines are established. The divi-
dends, in 1844, were very large, a result to be attri-
buted to the federal games (du fer) ; this year, they
promise to realise as much as in 1843, notwithstanding
the disturbances in Switzerland, which have exercised a
baneful influence on the receipts.
,hence, then, arises the difference in the prosperity
,v .. 9
of this railway compared with others It is to be
traced to
Contafluence of patronage, it being well known
that the oucil of Administration for the line from
Strasbourg to Basle receives no pay, excepts no indem
le of
-
nification, and does not endeavour to force the sa
the shares?
As a last example of the power of patronage, we may
quote the Northern line, the shares of which,m. in the
commencement, were at 380 francs premiuThis
enormous difference is only to be accounted for by its
being assigned to the Princes of France ; in other hands
the premiums would have been inconsiderable.
_

--
SPORTING IN
TAT It RSALUS—YESTERDAY.
. THE DERBY•
decidedly a point above the market
0 agst Malcolm ; and 500 to
Tim only bete ldd in the room were 7 to 1 agst Sting to
plOriOcle.)(;S5totiolt:1;
snlaidd,3oo
to 1
15 agst Traverser. In the cours43 of the day the following
bets were made at one of the club houses; 400 to 10 agst
humdrum; 600 to 15 agst Lloorrah ; And 1,000 to 20, and
1,000 to 25 agst Tug-net
CHESTER CUP.
500 to 10 apt The Baron—t aken.
The Duke of Bedford's Prologue, by Camel, died a few
days ago.

DEATH IN A WORKHOUSE FROM OVER-EATING.
—Yesterday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest in the St.
ghat
,rupture from.
that
Marylebone 'Workhouse, New-road, on the body of James
Ocoltagan, aged ten years, an inmate from infancy. it ap-
ne.:Ted that on Sunday last deceased went to take teith
L, ^i-ter in the girl's ward of the workhouse. lathe
PP-5 -- ''e returned and went to bed, and about midnight
etching , '+ll cholic. lie was taken to the sick ward and
IVaS' selitd ir..„ 'lien, one of the resident surgeons, but he
stomachomacl
iittinided b.s i1ir,,..., on the Monday morning. Mr. Allen
died at luilfsi Eke, -,1 the body and found the stomach
deposed tha lie had ofous.,
HI of food partly digeSteg. ..piece
eof
-)hoetatto, not
- , on chop
d;ghisted; blocked up the passtgo ..
k small
of the s
into the The, and the resUit -was . been informed
And death. The "%Ones said that hehau . : Ipreceding
is
deCeased had eaten very heartily the do-,
;It'aill; lie was an invalid, and was alloWed i ~..„,_ , unusual
for (liana viers, day. Mr. Wakley said it was a T ‘4'..,.b.ce,ss of
thing for the infinite of a vVorkhouse to die from t -eld her
food. The sister of decease di a fine girl of thirteen, b, -'ll4
brother never complained of any sort of ill-treatment, ...
that his nurse and the doctor allowed hint in the shape of food
evervthing he required. She also was most kindly treated.
Mr.Vakley remarked that it must be most satisfactory to
the rate-payers to hear that. their money was so humanely
expended. Verdict.—"Death from rupture of the stomach."
.The Rev, W. Marshall, a clergyman of the Esta-
blished Church, was last week received into the Roman
Catholic communion at. Oscott. Mr. Marshall was curate to
Archdeacon R. Wilberforce, and is the second persos of tha
SAME name who has lately left the Fast. Establishment
~,,,.