The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

DUDLEY, MADBLEY, BROSELEY, AND IRONBRIDGE.—
PROCESS STOPPED.—BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY NIGHT.
—The committee of this railway met to-day, at the Stork
Hotel, in this town, and after a discussion which occu-
pied several hours, it was decided, that in consequence
of the failure to lodge the plans and sections in due time,
and their generally defective state, not to proceed with
their scheme in the next session of Parliament; but to
return to the shareholders two pounds per share, re-
serving what remains of the deposit (12s. 6d. per share)
to meet the expenses already incurred, which were
stated to be ss. 6d. per share, and the further expenses
required, in order to proceed in the following session.
AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY.—This project, which iS
to connect Ayr with Dumfries, progresses amain. At
Dalmellington, on the route of the litre, most important
beds of mineral wealth have been discovered, as also in
other portions of the district. Colonel Cathcart has
leased his iron-fields at a higher fixed rent than was
ever before paid in Ayrshire, and since this was done,
about a week ago, two other proprietors have dis-
covered extensive fields of black band iron ore, and are
in treaty for letting them to wealthy and influential
companies. _ _

Within the last few days considerable improvement
has been made at the Shoreditch terminus by the com-
pletion of a suite of waiting rooms for passengers.
Those of the first-class are fitted up in chaste style.
There is also a more extensive departure platform. At
the end of the rooms convenient parcel and booking
offices have been erected. The new stations at Brent-
wood are almost completed. They are built of red brick,
in the Elizabethian order.

NEWCASTLE AND BERWICIL—The operations on the
part of the line contracted for by Messrs. Grahamsley
and Reid have for several days been suspended, in con-
sequence of the labourers having struck for an increase
of wages—from 15s. to 18s. per week.
General Pasley, the Government inspector,of railways,
visited Norwich in the early part of the week, and in-
spected the works now in progress in connexion with the
Norfolk railway, and the new iron bridge over the river
Trowse, which will connect the line with Yarmouth,
preparatory to its being thrown open for passenger
trains on Monday next. The bridge is constructed of
iron. General Pasley was understood to certify its

security.
NORTH BRITISH.—An interdict has been laid against
this company by a gentleman named Renton, residing
at Mordington, in consequence of the company having
taken possession of more ground for the purpose of
the railway than they had applied fer in their Bill last
session.

RAILWAY SR A.11.E MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 4 p.—Bideford and Tavistock 15s. d.—
Caledonian, 3 p. ex n.—Cambridge and Linceln, 2% p.—
Chester and Birkenhead, 454—Derby and Crewe, 2% p.—
East Lincolnshire, 1% p.—Ediburgh and Glasgow, New
Quarter Shares, 34 p.—Ditto, Half Shares, 8 p.—Grand
Junction, 2354—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 324 p.—Goole
and Doncaster, ss. p.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4%
p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 20s. p.
—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1% p.—London and
Birmingham, 212—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 p.—Manchester.and
Leeds, Fifth Shares, 11% p.—Matlock and Midland, 17 p.
—Mold Junction, 10 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 p.—Oxford
and Birmingham Junction, 1 p.—Preston and Wyre, 31—
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 31,
p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 40s. p.—Shrop-
shire Union Railway and Canal, par.—South Midland, 234 p.
—Trent Valley, 14% p. —Trent Valley and Continuation, ss.
dis.—West Riding -Union, 4% p.--Belfast and Ballymena,
par.—Dutch Rhenish, 435. 9d.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 7—Buckingham and Bletchley Junction,
49s.—Caledonian, Extension, 3—East Lincolnshire,2— Grand
Union, 06—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, 7%—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 795. 6d.—
Manchester and Southampton, 3 c.—North Cheshire, 514—
North Staffordshire 6—Nottingham and Boston, 214—I\ot-
tingham and Mansfield, 2%—Sheffield and Manchester, Quar-
tars, No. 3, 6%—Paris and Lyons (English), 21/$.
YORK, Dim. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Durham and Sunder-
land, New,•guarranteed 5 per Cent., 13/4—Midland, New,
191 A—York and North Midland Extension, 254—Ipswich
and Bury, 4%—Newcastle and Berwick, 1114—London and
York, 41/6—Grand Union, 11. 9s.—Leicester and Bedford,
11. Bs. 9d.—Welsh Midland, 2.
SHEFFIELD, Disc. 11.
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STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby Railway
and Dock Extension, 514—Leeds and Dewsbury, 14%-ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1414—Trent Valley,
1614—Cambridge and Lincoln, 31A—Grand Union,"Notting-
ham to Lynn,l%—Manchester, Midland, and GreatjGrimsby,
2—Wakefield and Harrogate, 11. 16s.
HULL, DEC. 11.

STOCK ExcwANGE.—The sales are—North British, Carlisle,
2/. 2s.—axholme' 2%—Fleetwood, Preston, and 'Vest Rid-
ing, 27s.—Grand
Union, 275. 6d.—Great North and South
Wales and Worcestor, JlL—Hull and Barnsley Junction,
395. 6d.—London and York, 4—Nottingham, Erewash,
2N—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 2—Nottingham
and Boston, 1%.

IRELAND.
TFIE POTATO DISEASE.
DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—There is no feature of novelty
the accounts from the country received this day.
The Clare Journal, a Conservative paper, contains the
following :—" Very absurd statements are put forth by
those tie ho assume that the losses of the people by the
disease of the potato crop have been greatly exaggerated.
True, some few persons have been fortunate in their
crop escaping altogether the prevailing rot, but what are
they among so many ? And all those who have escaped
are those whose crop has been nearly, if not altogether
confined to red potatoes. These may here and there be
found ; but when it is remembered that the great bulk
of potatoes belonging to nineteen out of every twenty
persons are white, and that in no case have those
escaped, it may be fairly presumed that the losses have
been enormous. We repeat it, and we care not who it
displeases, that there are not now half as many sound
potatoes in the country as there were last December."
The Dean of Achonry has addressed the following to
the Freeman's Journal:—

" Deanery House, Ballymote, Dec. 6, 1845.
" Sir,—You will much oblige me by giving insertion to
the inclosed copy of a letter which I forward by this post
to Lord Cloncurry.
" I am anxious to amend my former incomplete report
by the additional information which I have since ob-
tained in pursuing my anxious inquiry on this impor-
tant subject.—l remain your obedient servant,
" Ell. N. HOARE."
" Deanery House, Ballymote, Dec. 6, 1845.
" My Lord,—Having replied, at some length, on the
19th ult., to the circular issued by the Mansion-house
Committee, respecting the potato crop, and having an-
swered the first query rather vaguely, I beg to state
that, from further inquiries, I feel myself enabled now to
speak more decidedly as to the extent of the failure of
the crop in this neighbourhood.
" I regret to state that the report which I have to give
is not very favourable. In the heavy lands many of the
farmers have lost more than half—in some cases as
much as two-thirds. I believe that a moderate average
on such lands is one-half lost ; and taking into account
the higher soils, in which the crop has not suffered so
much, I think one-third, at least, is the average of the
crop which is mote or less unsound.
" It is to be borne in mind that there is still great un-
certainty as to the preservation of that portion of the
crop which has been pitted. I have known cases in
which apparently sound potatoes have been placed care-
fully in a dry loft, and after a week or ten days have
turned out bad.

" Again I would remark that the only effectual means
of relief for the people, who bear the visitation most pa-
tiently, is to be found in providing them with employ-
ment. It is melancholy to see those idle who are able
and willing to labour, while so many useful works
might be laid out in which they might be employed.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
obedient humble servant,

" ED. N. HOARE, Dean of Achonry.
Right lion. Lord Cloncurry, &c., &c."

CONTINUED DECLINE IN THE CORN MARHET.--At the
Corn Exchange this day, there was a further decline in
wheat of from Is. to Is. 6d. per barrel of 20 stone; and
of 6d. to Is. per barrel in oats and barley.
THE LATE FAILURE.—At College-street police-office,
this day, Mr. O'flea temiered informations against
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, on charges of em-
bezzlement, and of receiving money under false pre-
tences, for that they had received 5001. from Mr. Yeates,
to be by them, in their capacity of stock brokers, in-
vested in Government Stock, and which they did not so
invest as ordered, but applied to their own purposes, or
to purposes foreign to the intentions of Mr. Yeates. The
magistrates postponed receiving the informations pending
the Commission of Bankruptcy, now sitting on Messrs.
Labertouche and Stafford, but ordered that a copy of the
informations should be lodged with the bench for further
consideration.
ASSISTANT-BARRISTERSHIP OF WICKLOW.—Mr.
Armstrong, Q.C., has been appointed Assistant-Barrister
of Londonderry, in room of Mr. Lendrick, who has, at
his own 11 quest, been transferred to the chairmanship of
Wicklow, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Tomb.
A letter from Clonmel, received this morning, says:—
" Alderman Hearn was this day found drowned in a
water-vat in his brewery in this town."
NATIONAL GLASS COMPANY OF IRELAND.—We are
most happy to announce that this truly Irish company
has already so far progressed that it will be in a position
to supply glass of native manufacture very early in the
spring.—Evening Post.
The Museum of Belfast is about to become the de-
pository of an interesting relic of the eighteenth dynasty.
Sir James Emerson Tennant has brought from Thebes
the hand of the colossal statue of Amunulph IL (born
B.C. 1580), which travellers used to remark at the
south west propylon of the Grand Temple of Kamuk.
The four fingers are two feet five inches across, which
would correspond with a full-length figure of fifty-six
feet. The Pacha has permitted its exportation, and it is
intended as a present to the town of Belfast by their late
representative.—Belfast Chronicle.

RISE IN POTATOES.—Potatoes, which were here-
tofore selling in Liverpool at the rate of Bd. a peck, have
risen to 10d., and on Saturday, to a shilling.—.3fanchester
Guardian.

THE STEAMER MASSACHUSETTS. LIVERPOOL,
THURSDAY.-It will probably be recollected that this vessel
sailed from Liverpool under canvass and the screw, for New
York, on the 22d of October last. This morning her- con-
signees, Messrs. Hamden and Co., received a letter from
Dublin, s*ating that she had arrived out at New York on the
18th ult., after a passage of twenty-seven days. This infor-
mation has been given by a passenger who had landed in

Ireland, but we Cannot trace it to any authentic source. The
probability, however, is that any New York ship inward
bound landing a passenger on the Irish coast would forward
papers to Liverpool ; as this has not been ckne the accuracy
of the report is rather doubted.

POLICEMEN, SERVANTS, AND FAMILIES. The
eyes of Franee were opened by M. Michelet, in his eloquent
and starling work, entitled " Priests, Women, and Fami-
lies," to the machinations of the Jesuits, and to the mischief
occasioned by their influence in private life. A Michelet is
very much wanted in this country, to awaken Englishmen
to the tricks and manoeuvres of another fraternity, not less
destructive of domestic happiness than those of Jesuitism.
We allude to the metropolitan constabulary ; and, ob-
jectionable as may be the order of Ignatius -Loyola,
perhaps it is not more than that of Robertus Peel. This
society was ostensibly instituted for the preservation of
the peace ; by quelling disturbances, putting down apple-
women, apprehending pickpockets, removing obstructions,
and taking beggars and disorderly persons to the station-
house.- I,ts real object has at last become apparent, being no
other than universal domination. Its members, disguised
in plain clothes, are now known to mix in all societies, to
whose manners and peculiarities they are instructed to
adapt themselves. They mingle, as exquisities, in the sa-
lons of fashion ; they creep, as cads, into the " crib " of the
costermonger. They frequent every species of tavern, from
the first-rate hotel to the jerry-shop ; and neither the free-
dom of the tap nor the sanctity of the parlour is safe
from their intrusion. They thus insidiously worm
themselves into all sorts of secrets, and ascertain Who is
who, what is what, and what is going on; to the utter sub-
version of all privileges of Britons. But the evil does not
stop here. In his uniform, the policeman is notorious for
scraping acquaintance with servants at area railings. What
if the joint that went down only half finished re-appears
three-quarters gone, and the fowl removed with one wing
comes up minus the remaining one? What if his tea and
sugar go with railroad rapidity, his butter melts in the
coldest weather, and his beer wastes without a leak in the
barrel ? How much longer are free-born Englishmen to sub•
mit to the espionnage, and to he victimised by the voracity of
s.n X 10, a I 15, or a Z 20?—Punch.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF TUE LOCUST.—In the
summer evenings it is common to see upon the trunks of
trees, reeds, or any upright object, a heavy-looking lump-
backed, brown beetle, an inch and a half long, with a scaly
coat, clawed lobster-like legs, and a somewhat dirty aspect;
which latter is easily accounted for by the little hole visible
in the turf at the foot of the tree, whence he has lately crept.
I have sometimes carried them home and watched with
great interest the poor locust "shuffle off his mortal," or
rather earthly, "coil," and emerge into a new world. The
first symptom is the opening of a small slit which appears in
the back of his coat, between the shoulders, through which,
as it slowly gapes wider, a pale, sickly-looking texture is
seen, throbbing and heaving backwards and forwards. Pre-
sently a fine square head with two light red eyes, has dis-
engaged itself, and in process of time (for the transformation
goes on almost imperceptibly) this is followed by the libera-
tion. of a portly body and a conclusion; after which the
brown leggings are pulled off like boots, and a pale, cream-
coloured, weak, soft creature very tenderly walks away from
its former self, which remains standing entire, like the coat
of mail of a warrior of old—the shelly plates of the eyes that
are gone looking after their lost contents with a sad lack of
" speculation" in them. On the back of the new-born crea-
ture lie two small bits of membrane, doubled and crumpled
up in a thousand puckers, like a Limerick glove in a walnut-
shell ; these now begin to unfold themselves, and gradually
spread smoothly out in two large beautiful opal-coloured
wings, which by the following morning have become clearly
transparent, while the body has acquired its proper hard
consistency and dark colour ; and when placed on a tree the
happy thing soon begins its whirring, creaking, chirruping
song, which continues with little intermission as long as its
harmless happy life.—Meredith's New South Wales.
The Guardians of the Alartley Union, in con-
sideration of the disease in the potatoes, have, at the sug-
gestion of the chairman, P. V. Onslow, Esq , unanimously
agreed to give the inmates bread and cheese in lieu of po-
tato meals. In consequence of this considerate alteration,
the poor in the house will have three servings of bread, &c.,
daily.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
PERSHORE.—BURGLARY.—Ourreaders will perhaps
remember that in the month of September, 1844, some per-
sons unknown burglariously entered the dwelling-house of
Mr. William Boulter, landlord of the Plough Inn, in this
town, and stole thereout, among other things, a number of
silver spoons. Although strenuous exertions were made by
the police at the time of the occurrence, no trace or tidings of
the thieves could be obtained from any source, and con•
getting back the spoons vanished
plNe of
lr.Boulter. Judge, then, of his sur-
fsreoqmueiitthl3 e-
breastevery ohfo
sur-
prise on Superintendent Harris entering his dormitory
the other evening and displaying the missing artic'es to
the astonished host ! It seems that in the latter part of last
month a police-constable named Harwood, whilst searching
the house of a labourer in Birmingham, named Knight, found
a number of spoons concealed in the clothes box of a woman
named Attwood, who lived in Knight's house, and as she
could not satisfactorily account for the possession of them,
he brought them away, and on showing them a few days
since to Superintendent llarris, the latter recognised them as
belonging to Boulter. The superintendent then pr,ceeded to
Birmingham, apprehended Knight and Attwood, and brought
them to Pershore. In the box of the latter he found thirty
or forty articles which are supposed to be stolen. The pri-
soners stand remanded till Friday next.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.
TURF DEFAULTERS.—A subscription has been en-
tered into by several parties connected with sporting matters,
with a N iew of establishing and circulating a monthly perio-
dical, to be called and entitled " The Black List," and which
will contain the names of all known turf defaulters and
others who refuse to pay lo A bets convected with sporting.
A few weeks ago a fisherman, named Gillam, met
with a singular accident, which has occasioned the loss of
his arm. It appears that a dog-fish became entangled in his
net, and in removing it his finger was pricked by the back-
bone of the fish. A few days afterwards his hand began to
get painful and swell ; and on Saturday last he was obliged
to undergo amputation of the arm, which was performed by
Mr. GATill Pocock.--. riiitton, Gazette,