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ungrateful were any of my race to pass that door without some
tribute of respect—what would I not have given to have been
ths umbrella he immortalised in Paul Pry 2—it was the great,
the incomparable Liston. That he may now in his private life
enjoy that heartfelt cheerfulness he so freely imparted to others
in his public one, is my sincere—my fervent—prayer,"
The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic
and spirited woodcuts by Landdls.

LECTURES ADDRESSED to the WORKING
CLASSES. Part VIII. By W. J. Fox.
This part contains Lectures VIII., IX., X., and XI.
Of these, the first three are devoted to a comparison of
Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine in their lives, prin-
ciples, and political influence. The last resumes his
review of " Living Poets, and their Services to the Cause
of Political Freedom and Human Progress"—Leigh
Hunt being the poet illustrated on this occasion.

SONGS, BALLADS, 6-c.
A collection of little poems, for the most part evincing
facility of versification and a picturesque conception.
The following fragment is a spirited little affair, and we
should have been still better pleased with it, had the
author correctly accentuated " Genoa" in the first line.
The error is the more remarkable, as it does not occur in
a subsequent passage:—
" Ah, long may Genoa's maidens strain
Their tear-dimmed eyes—."
FRAGMENT OF A BALLAD ON THE BATTLE

OF CRECY.
Then forth Genoa's bowmen stept,
One bound each archer forward leapt
To daunt their island foes—
As when the storm's brief lull is o'er
Forth bursts the tempest's mighty roar
Their war-cry hoarsely rose.
They bound again—again their cry,
The shout of thousands, bursts on high
And rolls along the plain.
Ah, fools—they are not hearts of hare
You rouse—in vain you rend the air
With shouts—you bound in vain,
For many a banner must be ta'en,
And many a hauberk cleft in twain.
And many a knight must press the plain,
From earth no more to rise again,
Ere England quit the field.
Yon ranks are not the timid deer
Who fly the hunters' shouts—but here,
At bay, stand those who know not fear,
Who win them shall, I trow, pay dear,
For shattering axe and rending spear
Yon host full well can wield.
Hark I to that sound the crossbows' ring,
A thousand quarrels hurtling sing
Through air towards the foe—
There rose fair England's yeomen's cry—
A pace each archer steps—on high,
Their arrows, whitening air, fast fly,
Like wintry drifts of snow—
But not like flaky snow they fall—
The shrieks of agony, and all
That meets the ear and eye,
Pierced brains and riven morions tell,
And breasts transfixed, proclaim full well
To meet them is to die.
Ah, long may Genoa's maidens strain
Their tear-dimmed eyes across the main
To catch their white-winged galleys—vain,
They sweep the deep no more—
Fast, fa,t they fall—on Crecy's plain
They slumber ne'er to wake again
Amongst the dying and the slain,
In dust and curdling gore.
Ah, long shall Genoa's matrons wail—
Fast falls that deadly iron hail,
Death rides the clothyard shafts that sail,
Blood-thirsting, through the sky;
Against that flight, that with no fail
Pours on, nor plate nor iron mail,
Buckler nor helm, would aught avail;
Well may the falling sigh
They ever left their own loved land
On Crecy's gory plain to stand,
For life-bought gold, to try
How well an English yeoman's hand
The tough yew-bow can ply;
I trow that none for long that blast
Of death can face and live. See, fast
Their thousands crowd in eight ;
With hellish yells at.d wild uproar
And shriek and curse and groan they pour,
The trampled dead and dying o'er,
From out the bloody tight.
Hark to King Philip's wrathful shout,
" Sweep from our path yon rascal rout,
The dastard rabble slay ;
St. Denis ! 'Tis our proper meed,
We might have known in hour of need
Such churls would flee the fray."
The men at arms are in the throng,
The flying down are hewn,
Their trampling steeds they spur along,
The plain with dead is strewn ;
In vain they fly the death they dread,
They fly the foe in vain,
Hurled 'neath the chargers' iron tread,
Or by their riders slain.

TEXAN BONDS AND LANDS.

NEW ORLEANS, JULY 14.—Texas lands are in de-
mand, particularly those held by Mexican titles ; but
Texas Treasury notes and bonds have not advanced,
nor is there anything doing in them at any price. They
are quoted thus in New Orleans :—Red Buck, 13c.
to 14c. on the dollar ; Interest Notes, 15c. to 16c. ;
Bonds, 8 per cent., 19c. to 20e. Bonds, 10 per
cent., 20c. to 21c. The Red Bucks are notes first
issued by the Government, and they bear no inte-
rest ; they began to depreciate, and notes bearing
interest of ten per cent. were next issued to prevent
depreciation, and a law was enacted allowing
holders of the first issue to fund their notes and
take bonds drawing ten per cent. interest. The
next year the law was changed, and only eight per cent.
was allowed. The various issues of the Government
may be safely estimated at ten millions of dollars. Nor
is it true that this debt will be paid by Texas immediately,
on its annexation to the United States. These promis-
sory notes and bonds are the last thing that will be paid.
There are very many individual claims which will be
promptly paid by the Government—to wit, supplies
for the army, money advanced, personal ser-
►ices, &c. These stand as debts against the
Government, nor have they been liquidated by
bills or bonds. The Government will, in all pro-
bability, never pay more than ten cents on the dollar
on these bonds and bills, and that too for the reason
that the Government and people never received even
that amount for them. They are chiefly held by brokers
and speculators in New Orleans, who wrung them from
the oppressed Government and its poor people for•the
amount of from three to eight cents per dollar, and the
Government will doubtless pay what they justly owe,
and ❑o more. Is it right or just they should ?
The brokers have tried many ways to secure their
Texas claims to the full amount on the face of them, but
they will never succeed. It is now a conceded point
that some persons were bribed by certain persons by an
offer of 30 per cent. on the amount of the debt, if they
would cause it to be stipulated i❑ the articles of annexa-
tion that the United States should pay the Texas debt.
One treaty was drawn up for this purpose, but it was
not ratified. Persons then commenced negotiations else-
where, and thought they could lull the people of Texas
by offering them another boon, but it would not do, the
people discovered their schemes. _

In Texas a national debt is truly and practically a na-
tional blessing, and I will demonstrate it. About nine-
tenths of the people have not as yet received from the
General Land-office the titles to their lands. The land-
office expenses will amount to an average of about fifty
dollars each. These old notes and bonds are received at
par value—fifty dollars of them can be bought with seven
dollars par money—so that the person, while he is only
paying seven dollars in par money, is really paying fifty
dollars of the Government debt, but if any other nation
was to assume the debt, it would raise the money to par
value, and the citizen would have to pay fifty dollars
in par money, and, instead of the Government getting
any benefit from the remaining forty-three dollars, it
would go to brokers and bond• holders, and the Govern-
ment would get no more than if it was only ten cents
per dollar. It is not true that each dollar is good for
one acre of land—it is true that you can enter land at
two dollars per acre, but then you must pay for location,
surveying, &c., in good money. It is not here as in the
United States: here the Government pays for no sur-
veying or any other expense—all is paid by the locator.
It is true that a Bill was introduced in Congress
(and passed) by that talented, patriotic statesman, D.
S. Kaufman, appropriating a portion of land to pay
the public debt, but it is only to pay it as it was
issued, say ten cents. per dollar. Major Kaufman has
ever been foremost in the cause of integrity and pa-
triotism, and Texas is more indebted to him for an-
nexation than to all her other politicians to-
gether. Major Kaufman is in Congress, and the
people of Texas are thereby deprived of his great talents
in the Convention. But there are some few men of fine
talents in the Convention. General Rusk, Colonel
Love, Colonel Mayfield, Volney Howard, Esq., Go-
vernor H. G. Runnells, General Darnell, Colonel Hogg,
Charles S. Taylor, Esq. These are the only men of
talent in the Convention, but the small fry are nume-
rous, such as county court lawyers, justices of the peace,
and quondam judges.

PRIZE MONEY for the CAPTURE

THE HEROlNE.—Commander (the lieutenant) Fodte,
and the officers and crew late of the Heroine, 6 brig, who
captured, on the sth of April, 1843, the slave schooner
Maria Louise, will be paid, on and after the 28th instant,
the amount of prize-money, 637/. 125., arising from the
slave and tonnage duties, in the following proportion :
Lieutenant commanding 79/. 14s. ; second class,
28/. 17s. Id. ; third, 14/. 18s. 6d. ; fourth, 91. 12s. 4d. ;
fifth, 4/. 16s. 2d. ; sixth, 31. 4s. Id. ; seventh, 11. 12s.
THE ALBATROSS.—Commander Reginald Yorke and
the officers and crew of this 16-gun sloop will have an
account of the Spanish slave brig Constancia, seized on
the 30th July, 1844, deposited in the Court of Admiralty
on the 26th instant.

THE GROWLER STEAM SLOOP.—The accounts of two
slavers captured by Commander Young and the officers
and crew of this steam-sloop—the Spanish brigantine
Veterano, seized 21st July, 1944, and of the Spanish
schooner Concepcion, seized on the 23d September, 1844,
will be deposited in the Court of Admiralty on the 20th
instant by the agents.

ESCAPE of YOUNG BONAPARTE
FROM ITALY.
You have seen the accounts of the arrival, some time
since, of young Bonaparte, to take possession of Bor-
dentown, the former residence and property of Joseph
Bonaparte: Mr. Mallaird, the old secretary of the ex-
King, and his son reside at Bordentown, with the young
Prince Canino, as is his title. There is quite a romantic
incident connected with this, on the truth of which you
may safely rely. The estate of Bordentown was be-
queathed to the young Prince, with the ex ieption of a
comfortable farm, which was left to Maillard. But the
father of Canino resolved that he should not take
possession of his property. Fearing that through
his prodigality his estate wouid be squandered,
or wishing to hold it in his own hands for his
own use, he resolved to detain the young Prince in
Italy. The son having derived his title of Prince
Canino from the Papal States, the father had control
over his person in those States, and could by the laws
of the kingdom imprison him there till he was twenty-
five years of age. The young Prince having resolved
to come to America and take possession of his
testate, the father, to prevent it, determined to throw
him in prison, and in the mean time, to preclude
the possibility of escape while they were in Florence, he
wrote to the various parts of Italy authorising the
authorities to arrest him if he should appear there with
the intention of embarking for any foreign country.
Finding himself locked in on every &de, the young
Prince gave himself up to despair, and awaited the day
when he should be carried to the Papal States and be
shut up in the walls of a prison. But young Maillard
in the meantime was active for his friend, though all his
efforts seemed abortive. At length but one day was left
in which to escape before the father should take the son
to prison. Almost in despair, young Maillard hastened
to Leghorn, and there to his joy found a Swedish vessel
bound for New York. Jumping into a carriage he hur-
ried back to Florence, and dressing himself in female
apparel (a sign agreed on between the two when Mail
lard wrote him), sent a note to the young Prince saying
a female wished to see him. Hastening to a by-street, he
found his friend awaiting him, who told him of the Swedish
vessel th..t was to sail next morning for New York. The
Prince needed no urging, instantly jumping into the car-
riage with Maillard, he drove with all speed to Leghorn,
where they arrived a little after daylight. The vessel
was to sail in two hours, and aboard of that miserable
craft with its miserable accommodations the young
Prince was hurried, and in two hours was making out
of port and away from the shores of Italy. After a pas-
sage of seventy-three days he arrived in New York.
Maillard went to London and took passage in the packet
for the United States. We saw him a week or two after
his arrival full cf delight to find his feet on American
soil. He is a nobleman, and loves the United States
better than half our own citizens. He brought over
with him several fine dogs and some pheasants, which
he has taken to Bordentown to turn loose in its parks.--
New York Letter, July 10.

BAD VENTILATION OF PLACES

OF WORSHIP.

Churches and chapels, though more lofty than schools,
are usually less in area, in proportion to the numbers
frequenting them ; and, though in most cases they are
occupied for fewer hours in the week, they seldom profit
by much pains taken to change the a;r, whilst they are
unoccupied. "In regard to churches," says a medical
witness, " many illnesses and deaths proceed from
faults of ventilation and warming ; from the rush of
oold air in one place on those who sit near the doors and
windows, and the want of fresh air in other places."
And if such be the case with the congregation, in a
building often of the most c)stly character, wherein a
trifling expense would permanently secure abundant
ventilation, what must be the injury sustained by the
preacher in the pulpit ? Placed on a height at which
his voice acts at a disadvantage, as if on pur-
pose that he may breathe an atmosphere composed
of the breath of all who sit beneath him on the floor,
he has to exert his lungs to the utmost pitch, while
they have the worst of the air to work with. And
the more promising his talents, the more success-
ful his exertions in interesting and edifying a multitude
of hearers, so much the sooner is he likely to be con-
signed to silence, consumption, and the grave. Still
more pitiable, if possible, is the lot of Sunday school
children, whom modern architects, and committees, and
commissioners, are apt to place in the recesses of a lofty
roof. Above the vent afforded by the windows, and
with rarely any ventilation in the ceiling, they have
the foul air of the whole building in a sort of halo round
their heads. And there, where they can scarcely see
the minister, much less hear him, with perhaps little
convenience for sitting, and none for kneeling, and with
their attention previously exhausted in school, they are
required, under penalty of chastisement, to keep still,
and silent, and awake, in an atmosphere which of itself
is quite enough to produce in a grown person, much
more in a child, inattention, restlessness, and drowsi-
ness. To say no more of the unhealthiness of a posi-
tion such as this, I cannot refrain from expressing my
apprehension that there must be hundreds of thousands
in the land who, having had these for their first im-
pressions of Divine service, have hence conceived a deep
and lasting averbion to the house of prayer.—The Un-
healthy Condition of Dwellings, 6-c., by the Rector of
Alderley.

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Exeter, 101. 10s.—North Devon. 2.7. 105. prem.—South Mid-
lands, 6/. ss. prem.—",•cuth Wales, 5/. se.

IiUDDERSHELD, AUG. 23.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby Dock
Extension, 3.—Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales,
18s. 6d.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 31s.—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, 41s. 3d.—Huddersfield
and Sheffield Junction, 14 jy with new—Lancashire, York-
and North-Eastern, 15s. prem.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and P.,-t4ton, B—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 31/.,l—South 111 id-
kmds,

YORK, Aro. 23.
STocK ExcifAxog—The sales arc—Eastern Union Exten •
sion, 31/B—Great North of England, gow, 5431g—Ditto, ditto,
32—London and Croydon, New, 21. 116.—Midland, New,
261/3—North Britiah, New, 9;4f.;—York and North Midland
Extension, 24:1.—Leeds and Bradford, .5514 C—London and
York, 54—Manchester, Buxton, &c., B%—Newpastle and
Berwick, 24—North Staffordshire, 51. 2s.—Shre-wsbury,
Hereford, and North 'Vales, 331—South Midlands, 71. 12e.

ULL, :SUG 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen,
mid _Bolton, 91,4—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 11. 17s. 6d.—
Grimsby Dock Extension, 3—North British, Half Shares, 914
—Armagh; Coleraine, and Portrusb, 21. Is. 6d.—East Lin-
colnshire, 15s.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 3.sB.—Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 14s.—London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, 15s.—Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 1/. 17s.
6d.—riottingliam and Boston 13s.—Nottingham and Mans-
field, 275. Cal. Rugby, 2%.-South Midland, 714—Sheffield
and Lincohislilte Junction, 31/2---Shrewsbury, Hereford, and
North Wales, 44—Tvan and Dove Valley, 225. 6d.—Wake-
gekl and Bradford; 21. 18s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union,
7s. &L

EDINITEGH, Arc. 22.
STOCK Exert/I-WM-The sales are-Aberdeen, 3/. 35.-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21. I Is. 6d.-Arbrooll and For-
far, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares,' N.-Armagh and Porti7l3ll, 21. -
Banffshire, W. Is 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 7s. 6d.,-Bel-
fast and County Down, 31. 17s. 6d.-Cambridge and Li,"Cobb
3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 10/. 10s.Caledonian Extension, 2.1.
16s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 3/.175. 6d.-Clydesdao
Junction, W. - Direct Northern, W. - Dundee and Ar-
broath, :37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundee and Perth,
4/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Batligate, 2/. 9s. 6d.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 881.-Ditto, Quarters, 21/. 155.-Ditto, New,
15/.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 11. 17s. 6d.
-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 26/.-Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 17/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 1/. 145.-Ditto,
New, 1/. 25.-Edinburgh and Peebles,2/.155. 6d.-Edinburgh
and Perth, 11. 135.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 891.-Ditto,
New Stock, 22/.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 31. 145.-
Glasgow and Neilston, 21/. 10s,-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.
-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle; IL as. 6d.-Glasgow and
Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 55.-Ditto, Pre-
ference, 21.-Great North of Scotland, 2/. 15s. 6d.-Inver-
ness and Elgin, 11.25.-Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 5/. 15s.
-London and York, 41. 10s.-Londonderry and Coleraine,
3/. 17s. 6d.-Londonderry and Enniskillen, 31. 155.-Monk-
land and Kirkintilloch,33/.-Morayshire, 1/.-North British,
31/. 10e.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 55.-North Wales Mineral,
New, 6'.55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. Is.-Scottish Central,
71. 12s. 6d -Scottish Midland, 21. 2s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Chester, 4/. Is. 6d.-Slaniannan, 181.-South
Midland, 6'. 55.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 11s. 6d.-
Stirling and Dunfermline, 1/. 14s. 6d.-Waterford, Wick-
low, and Dublin, H. 165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 391.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER.

BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY AFTERNOON,-.-This afternoon,
the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the above
Company was held at the Company's offices, Lawley-street, in
this town.

Mr. Samuel Bowley took the chair.
Mr. SAUNDERS, the secretary, read the report of the Direc•
tors, which was merely a recapitulation of the agreement which
has been entered into between the Midland and Birmingham
and Gloucester Company.
Mr. GILL, of Plymouth, inquired what was the number of
shares in the Company ?
The SECRETARY answered 11,421 100/. shares; and in
answer to further questions, said that the shareholders in the
Worcester deviation line were being paid off.
Mr. GILL wished to know what the weekly returns on the
Gloucester line had been during the last two months?
The CHAIRMAN could not answer the question, as the
returns had been amalgamated with those of the Midland
Company.
Mr. GILL said he understood that the returns had increased
to the extent of 3,0001. per week.
The SECRETARY said this was evidently an exaggeration.
A short conversation ensued as to the Midland Company
being able always to fulfil their engagements, after which the
report was received and adopted.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the resolution declaring a divi-
dend, said it was right that he should explain to the share-
holders why the dividend was less than had been anticipated.
At their last meeting he had informed them that the dividend
would not be less than 11.:17s. 6d. per share. In consequence
of a claim which the Bristol Company had set up, but which
this Company did not acknowledge, the dividend would be
less by sixpence per share than had been anticipated.
Although the Directors did not admit the justice of the claim
of the Bristol and Gloucester Company, yet they had deemed
it right to avoid any dispute and give up the amount in ques-
tion, which would average about sixpence per share. They
had thought it better to do this than involve the Company in
any difficulties. It was only fair to the Proprietors, how-
ever, that he should state that the Directors had not bound
the Company. If the Proprietors were of opinion that the
claim of the Bristol Company should be resisted, they were at
liberty to take steps to oppose that claim. He thought, how-
ever, that it would be better to leave the matter as the Direc-
tors had recommended.—( Hear, hear.) He then moved that
a dividend of 11. 16s. per share of 100/. be declared, and made
payable on the 15th of September.
Mr. GILL inquired what was the aggregate amount of the
claim of the Bristol Company?
A PROPRIETOR said he believed that if the claim were not
made by the Bristol Company, the Gloucester shareholders
would have U. 18s. 6d. per share.
Mr. GILL said that would in the aggregate then amount to
1,1001.

The CHAIRMAN said the real difference in the dividend was
only about 6d, per share, as the dividend was made payable free
of income-tax.

The resolution was then carried.
The thanks of the shareholders to the Chairman and Direc-
ors closed the proceedings.

LONDON AND SOUTH ESSEX.

SOUTHEND! SAT RDA Y. —Yetterday afternoon a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Southend and its neighbourhood
was held in the large room of the Royal Hotel, to consider the
proposed London and South Essex Railway, and the propriety
of adopting measures for promoting it.
111 r. Tyerman, solicitor, of Gresham-street, London, at.
tended on behalf of the Company.
Colonel Kesterman presided, and there were also present
General Thompson, Lieut. Gooch, the Rev. Edward Lilling-
stone, incumbent of Prittlewell, the Rev. Fred. Hope, James
Tabor, Esq., James Haggett, Esq., John Harris, Esq., A.
Holt White, Esq.; M. Comfort, Esq., C. Giles, Esq., Archi-
bald Hunter, Esq., J. Scott, Esq., &c.
Mr. CLA RKE felt convinced that, by means of a direct corn-
manication with London by railway, the town of Southend
would be in a much better condition than it could ever be
without.--( Hear.) It could scarcely be doubted that the
scheme, if carried out, would be of incalculable advantage to
Southend, and to those other populous districts which were
altogether usssupplied by the Eastern Counties Company. At
present Brighton was easily accessible by railway, at moderate
prices, giving Londoners the benefit of a sea-side residence,
without the difficulty or expense of a long journey. By the
proposed line, Southend would be but little more than an hour's
ride from London, even to the very heart of the City. It had
been thought that Brighton would be injured by the influx of
weekly visitors, but such was not the case. He was assured by
the principal tradesmen of Brighton, that the business of the
town had greatly increased through the facilities afforded for
cheap and speedy communication with London. When the
railway was constructed, he (Mr. Clarke) saw every reason
to believe that Southend would be quite as good a place as
Brighton.
Mr. TY ERMAN said the Company had been formed to open
the nearest possible direct line of communication between the
metropolis and the coast. The object would be effected by the
construction of a line from the Stepney station of the Black-
wall Railway to the town arid harbour of Burnham, on the
river Crouch, with branches to Grays, Tilbury, and Southend.
The line would pass through or near Barking, Rochford, and
numerous agricultural towns, and at Ockendon would meet
the line of the Thames Haven Dock Company. The distance
from London of the principal places on the proposed line, or
immediately connected with it, would be—Barking, 7 miles ;
Ockendon, 17 miles; Tilbury, 22 miles; Gravesend (by a
steam-ferry from Tilbury), 23 miles ; Thames Haven, 27
miles ; Rochford, 37 miles ; Southend, 40 miles ; Town and
harbour of Burnham, 41 miles. By the proposed line
Gravesend would be reached from the City within less than
an hour, and Southend within an hour and twenty minutes ;
and, by the proposed extension of the Blackwall Railway
to the Thames Embankment and City Railway, the means
would be afforded for the most speedy communication with
the western districts of the metropolis. The present dis-
tance of Southend by road, from Whitechapel Church, was
forty-two mile., and the tediousness of both the land journey
and the river vos age' had hitherto been felt as a serious draw-
back to the peculiar advantages of its position. By means of
the proposed line Southend would become the nearest water-
ing-place to the metropolis, and more easily and economically
accessible than any other. The proposed line would also
shorten, by nearly two hours, the length of the voyage from
London to Sheerness, Herne 13ay, Margate, Dover, and the
continental ports. It gas proposed to carry the line beyond
Southend to the river Crouch, connecting it with the existing
natural harbour for colliers, fishing-smacks, and other vessels
at the south-eastern extremity of the county of Essex. The
line had been laid down so as to avoid all property of an orna-
mental or costly character. It travelled, for the most part, a
level or gently undulating country, and would be free from
works of a peculiarly expensive character. The net profits on
the estimated capital would amount to at least 10 per cent.
Mr. LEIFCIIILD was convinced that by such a line Southend
would assume a position it had never yet occupied. The pro-
perty of the neighbourhood would he increased 20, 30, or 40
per cent., in addition to the great local accommodation that
would be afforded.—( Hear, hear. )
The Rev. FREDERICK HorE proposed a resolution, affirming
the desirableness of forthwith taking measures for the construc-
tion of a line.

Lieutenant Goocts, R.N., seconded the resolution, which
vras carried.

The Rev. E. LILLINGSTONE, incumbent of Prittlewell,
moved that a memorial should be presented to the Provisional
Committee, expressing a hope that they would proceed with
their line, and promising on behalf of the inhabitants of South-
end their hearty co-operation.
Mr. COPELAND addressed the meeting, and stated that if
nothing better were done for Southend than had been done
hitherto, it would soon cease to be a watering• place altogether.
The present year had been the worst that Southend had ever
experienced, and a railway might go far to improve its position.
After same discussion, resolutions of approval were passed
unanimously in favour of the project.

SOUTHAMPTON AND MANCHESTER.
CHELTENHAM, SATURDAY.—A highly influential meeting
of the capitalists and inhabitants of Cheltenham took place this
day, at the public assembly rooms, to consider the best means
of ensuring a direct railway communication between Chelten-
ham and Southampton ; and to hear the statements of a aepu-
tation from the Manchester and Southampton Company, for
carrying that object into effect. The meeting was convened
by a full bench of the county magistrates, acting for the Chel-
tenham division, in accordance with a requisition signed by
nearly 1500 of the leading gentry arid tradesmen of the
borough. In the absence of the Honourable Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, Member for the borough, the meeting was pre-
sided over by James Gardiner, Esq., Lord of the Manor of
Cheltenham.
The proceedings were commenced by Mr. Edward Hopkin.
son, High Sheriff of the county, and Mr. Joyner Ellis Verner,
who spcke of the importance of the proposed line of railway to
the interests of Cheltenham.—( Cheers.)
Mr. WALKINSHAW being called upon to address the meet.
ing, said he would not debate upon the advantages of the pro-
posed line of railway to the great termini, Manchester and
Southampton, but he would confine himself to the benefit it
would confer upon the town of Cheltenham. Its advantages
to Cheltenham will be, that it will open the counties of Ilants
and Dorset, and other districts, almost hermetically sealed to