The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

No. 16,629. LoNpON, TUESDAY MORNING SUN. DECEMBER 2, 1845,
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DIRECT BIRMINGHAM and LEICESTER
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in stating, for
the information of the Shareholders in this undertaking, that the
Plans and Sections of the line, with the accompanying Book of Re-
ference, have been deposited at the several places prescribed by the
standing orders of the Houses of Parliament.
By order of the Board,
F. KNIGIIT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 36, Temple-street, Birmingham.

WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
to the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
of this line, were all duly deposited on the 29th ult. at the office of the
Board of Trade, pursuant to standing orders, and that in fulfilment
of their p,edge they resolve on going to Parliament in the ensuing
session. By order,
C. W. JACKSON, Secretary, pro tern.

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THE THREATENED SCARCITY OF
FOOD IN IRELAND.

(Abridged from the Liverpool Journal of Saturday.)
The Mayor of Liverpool having declined to call a town
meeting for the purpose of memorialising Government on the
threatened scarcity in Ireland, a public meeting of the in-
habitants was held last night at the Royal Amphitheatre.
The doors were opened shortly after six o'clock, but long
before that hour a vast crowd filled Queen-square and Great
Charlotte-street. The rush on the opening of the doors was
tremendous, and in about ten minutes the house was literally
overflowed, thousands outside pressing eagerly but uselessly
for admission.
W. BROWN, Esq., took the chair, and when silence was
restored, he proceeded as follows :—Gentlemen, you have
done me the honour to request that I would preside over
your deliberations this evening. I have no doubt that you
will give me all the support you can, in order that every
gentleman who may be pleased to state his views to this
assembly on the present unpleasant position in which you
are placed from the failure of the potato crop and
the deterioration 'of the wheat crop, may do so
gentleman gentlemen,
t oo
with satisfaction to himself.—(Hear, hear.) I do
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necessary
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call a
suppose,
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me to exercise the privilege of a chairman to
taking place, I have no doubt I shall have your cordial sup-
port to maintain the authority of the chair.—(Hear.) Gen-
tlemen, the friend who was pleased to nominate me as your
chairman this evening, has already informed you that a re-
quisition was sent to our chief magistrate, signed by 5,800 of
his fellow-townsmen—gentlemen of different religious per-
suasions, and of all political parties.—(Hear, and cheers.)
That requisition requested that his worship would call us to-
gether to deliberate and to consider what measures we should
adopt to alleviate the distresses which are likely to overtake
a large and humble class of our fellow-subjects. To that re.
quisition, Gentlemen, he was pleased to answer that he did
not think the time was come for calling us together under
his auspices.—(Laughter and hisses.) But, Gentlemen, to
put you in full possession of the respectful requisition that
was sent to him, and the very letter of his answer, I think it
will be best to read both for your consideration ; and as my
voice is none of the best, my excellent friend, Mr. Cooke, has
promised to relieve me of that part of my duty. He will also
be good enough io read the requisition of a number of your
fellow-townsmen—the mayor having declined to call us to-
gether—requesting that we should assemble under the pro-
tectior. of the Constitution to express our own opinions fully
and fairly to her Majesty's Government.—(Hear and cheers.)
Mr. J. B. Coosa here read the requisition to the Mayor,
together with the Mayor's reply.
,The CifaittstaN then -continued os follOWs :=—Gentlifneif,
that the first requisition to the Mayor, and the second re-
quisition to you, was signed on no light grounds, I think we
have very ample materials to show.—(Hear.) The first that
I shall bring under your consideration is correspondence that
took place between Lord Cloncurry and the Prime Minister.
The Government were so sensible of the danger that threat-
ened the country from famine that they assured his Lordship
that it occupied the most serious consideration of Ministers.
The next that I shall call your attention to is the Mark Lane
Express—a paper that is the avowed organ of the agricultural
interests of the country. The Express tells us, and reiterates
the statement from week to week, that many cargoes of po-
tatoes have arrived in the Thames so very decayed and rotten
that they were thrown overboard.—(Hear, hear). It also leads
us to believe that the accounts from all parts of the kingdom
are by no means favourable to the preservation of the potato
crop throughout the winter, for the sustenance of those who
live, most unfortunately, on that description of food. Every
newspaper throughout the kingdom has from time to time
reiterated the same facts; and that we are not now in a state
of distress, when we are paying 400,0001. a week more for
provisions than we were paying this time twelve months, is
what you will not readily believe.—( Hear, and applause). I
will also call your attention to resolutions passed in Dublin, at
a meeting at the Mansion-house, where Lord Cloncurry pre-
sided, and the Lord Mayor was present ; and perhaps my ex-
cellent friend, Mr. Cooke, will again do me the favour of
reading those resolutions, for they are satisfactory to my
mind, and I think they will be perfectly satisfactory to your
minds also, that the grounds upon which we have assembled
to-night are no light grounds, taking into consideration the
evils likely to arise from the disease of the potato crops during
the winter and the coming spring.
THOMAS THORNELY, Esq., M.P., then rose and said—Gen-
tlemen, there are many of us here present who have all our
lives been free traders. There are many of you, gentlemen,
I trust, who have long entertained free trade opinions; and
as to the rest of you, gentlemen, if you have not already
adopted them, I beg that you will direct your attention to
the present crisis of distress, and I think that you will then
agree with those of us who have long entertained those
opinions which I have expressed, that there ought to be
an immediate end put to those laws which prohibit the free
importation of food into the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have lately made some inquiries
in our corn markets as to the prices of grain—particularly
in the month of May last and in the present month of
November—l found that the wheat of the old crop of Ireland
in May last was at 6s. 3d. per 70 lbs. ; that the same article
of wheat of the old Irish crop is now at 9s. 3d.—that is an
advance of nearly 50 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) I found
that oats in the month of May were at 3s. per 45 lbs.,
and that they are now at 3s. 2d. for the same
quantity; that meal was at 225. 6d. per 40 lbs., and that
it is now at 345.—(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, it pleased
the Legislature, as you all recollect, some time ago, to im-
pose an income-tax upon all persons whose incomes ex-
ceeded 1501. per year, to an amount of something like 3
per cent. ; and, gentlemen, great was the outcry throughout
the country, and numerous were the petitions most properly
presented to Parliament against this tax ; but here is a tax
—an advance in the prices of food between the months of
May and November, which has abstracted from the pockets
of the poor man, not a 3 per cent., but an enormous tax,
which renders it a difficult thing for that excellent class of
the people—the labouring class of this country, of which
I shall never speak without respect—(Loud cheers)—to avoid
great misery and great suffering in the crisis which is so
likely to increase.—(Hear.) Well, now, gentlemen, several
of the great towns of this country, seeing what is before
us, have come forward and addressed the Prime Minister,
to express their sense of the approaching famine. The
people of Manchester were called together by the Man-
chester men ; the people of Salford also ; the people
of Birmingham have expressed their opinions ; the people of
Sheffield have done the same ; the men of Leeds have called
together the people of that great manufacturing town ; and
all these have unanimously adopted the measure of addressing
the Prime Minister on our present prospects.--(Cheers.) And
1 have also heard that the inhabitants of the City of London
will be convened, in a short time, to express their opinions.
—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, our respected Chairman has in-
formed you of our proceedings—of having addressed the
Mayor ; and I must say we should have shown ourselves a
cowardly set of people if we had been prevented by any cir-
cumstances from meeting in this place, and expressing our
opinions.—(Cheers.) My friend, Mr. Thomas Baines will
read to you some further reports, of a most extraordinary
character, of the loss of the potato crop. In the meantime,
from what the Chairman has stated, from the public proceed-
ings in Ireland, and from what you have seen here at home
in Lancashire, you cannot for a moment doubt that serious
damage has been inflicted, generally, on the potato crop. I was
in London but a few days since, and I was there informed
that at one of the wharfs of the Thames vessels had arrived
laden with a thousand tons of potatoes from Yorkshire; that
those potatoes were so completely destroyed that the vessels
were ordered to be taken into the middle of the Thames, and
that the potatoes had been then thrown overboard.—(Hear.)
But a couple of days ago I read a letter from a clergyman
residing in a remote part of Ireland, ordering from Liverpool
a quantity of rice, to avert, as he said, the approaching fa-
mine under which the people will suffer. Well, now, Gen-
tlemen, what is to be done? I say that, as it is apparent to
the people that these deficiencies in the potato crop are so seri-
ous, and the injury done to the wheat crop have deprived them
of their resources, it is incumbent upon the Prime Minister to
call Parliament together ; to say then what his convictions
are—if they can be called convictions ;—and he would come to
the conclusion, which I think he ought already to have come
to, if he could have divested himself of ancient prejudices
in favour of the sliding scale—that those laws prohibiting the
entrance of food into the kingdom ought to be repealed.—
(Cheers.) It is known that her Majesty the Queen, by the
advice of the Privy Council, might admit provisions free of
duty until the time of the meeting of Parliament, and I think,
gentlemen, that if her Majesty were to do so, such an order
in Council would be the strongest evidence in our favour; be-
cause, by so doing, it would be admitting that the present
laws are defective, and ought to be abolished.—(Cheers.) It
is extraordinary that in this great town of Liverpool, where
you receive from every corner of the world, every day of your
life, articles of foreign production, where you see all such ar-
ticles bonded at the Custom-house, that you never see such a
thing as an importation of food.—(Hear, hear.) It is extra-
ordinary, gentlemen, that,lin this town of Liverpool, if you go
into the ship-building yards, you see the ingenuity of
your ship-builders displayed in considering in which way
they shall construct a ship to carry the greatest quantity
of merchandise, and to sail with the greatest facility; it is ex-
traordinary that you in Liverpool were the first people of
the world who constructed a railway—that between Liver-
pool and Manchester—and that the principle of which has
been since, and is now being imitated throughout Europe
and America—that you constructed that railway, and con-
struct others to save time and give speed to your under-
takings ; it is extraordinary, I say, doing this, that you
should submit to those laws, whereas the importation of
wheat, flour, grain, and meal, are essential to the happiness
and welfare of mankind ;—that, I say, you should submit to
laws which, instead of allowing the distribution of these,
stop them at the very threshold, place them in bond, and
render them as lost —(Loud cheers.) I say you are the most
inconsistent people in the world, if you build a ship to sail
with speed, construct a railroad to gain speed and save time,
and yet allow wheat, and flour, and provisions of all kinds,
to be taken from you and placed in bonded warehouses, in-
stead of circulating and giving cheap food and comfort to
the people. Gentlemen, there are at this time no less than
from 700,000 to 800,000 quarters of wheat and flour lying in
bonded warehouses in this kingdom ; this is wanted to grind
with the new and soft wheat, the produce of this last harvest ;
but you allow it to be bonded, and this misirable wheat of our
own production is prevented yielding such good flour as it would
have done if it had been properly mixed. There has been a
suggestion made, and the time may come when, if no other
plan is resorted to, we may propose that it be followed—that
by subscriptions we shall seek to relieve the sufferings of our
fellow-subjects ; but I will tell you this, that if each man
subscribes to the full extent of his means, it would not add
one ounce of food for the consumption of the people.—(Hear,
hear.) It would only bring more competitors into the market
and raise the prices of provisions. The only way of reducing
the prices of food, and so lessen the distress is—instead of
increasing prices by subscriptions, to open the ports—(Loud
cheers)—and thus to compel the Ministers and Parliament to
supply us as we would ourselves do, if left to ourselves.—
(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, before the close of these proceed-
ings you will be called upon, 1 understand, to concur in a me-
morial to Sir Robert Peel, as First Lord of the Treasury, ex-
pressing your opinions on the present state of affairs. You
will state, in your memorial, your serious apprehensions of
famine—of universal famine ; and really, whe heathrowst
the state of our fellow subjects in Ireland, my
f
rbe
within me to think of the misery that will inevitablyos
occasioned to that people, whose only means
has aultogether
is the potato crop, which, as we all know,
that that most
failed.—(Hear, hear.) I am indeed ha Pl*
.
industrious people have found so much and such liberal em-
ployment in the commercial and manufacturing towns of
England, at a higher rate of wages than that given them at
re useful in our docks and in
home. I rejoice that they a
th' t
l 1 that, in respec , the coral
labour generally. lam g towns of En land afford so much
mercial and manufacturing
but
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employment it
the pe
and misery impending
in that country are such as to clezugid

REMINGTON'S LINE,

TRENT VALLEY, CHESTER, and HOLY-
HEAD CONTINUATION RAILWAY.
he Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
to the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference
of this line, were all duly deposited on the 29th ult. at the office of the
Board of Trade, pursuant to Standing Orders, and that in fulfilment
of their pledge they resolve on going to Parliament in the ensuing
session. By order,
C. W. JACKSON, cesretary pro tem.

THE LONgor-Ygli'--lANCHESTER
DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY COMPANY.

Company's Offices, 29, Moorgate—street.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Directors beg herewith to inform the Shareholders in the
above line that the whale of the Plans, Sections, and Rooks of Refe-
rence for this railway were duly deposited, preparatory to the ap-
plication to Parliament,
(Signed)
Ist December, 1845,

HENRY W. MATIIEWS, Secretary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
TO PROPRIETORS.
Notice is hereby given, that the Dividend for the Half-year ending
October 30th last is now hi course of payment at the office of the
Institution, between the hours of Eleven and Four o'clock.
R. J. LONGIZOTTOM, Secretary.

C HESTER AND MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY, WITH A BRANCH TO BIRKENHEAD.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
to the Shareholders, that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Re-
ferenece of this line, have been all duly deposited at the offices of the
Board of Trade and of the several Clerks of the Peace, in compliance
with the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament.
By order of the Board,
a A. BORRETT, Secretary.

BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, AND
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
The Committee of Management have now the satisfaction to state
that the Plans, Sections, Books of Reference, &c., have been duly de-
posited with the Clerks of the Peace for the counties through which
the line runs, and with the Board of Trade, and they invite the
strictest investigation to ascertain that this Company has fully com-
plied with the standing orders of Parliament.
GEORGE FARRER, Secretary.

EASE IN' WALKING,
WILLIAM BADDELEY, of 130, STRAND,
is induced to give publicity to his much-admired PRE-
PARED LEATHER (so noted for extreme SOFTNESS and
D URABILITY), in consequence of the patronage lie has received,
and the general satisfaction given by him in manufacturing the above
into BOOTS, &c., on his peculiar fltting principle of combining
elegance with ease. An extensive assortment of best made articles
always ready on sale. Established in 1767.

DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Directors beg to Inform the Shareholders that the Plans, Sec-
tions, and Books of Reference for this Railway, have been regularly
deposited preparatory to the application to Parliament.
SIDNEY ➢IILNES HAWKES, Secretary,
48, 3loorgate-street.

SPALDING. AND BRANDON JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders
that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, were duly depo-
sited with the several Clerks of the Peace and the Board of Trade
on Saturday last, the 29th November.
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 78, Cornhill, Dec. 1, 1845.

No. 130, Strand, corner of Waterloo-bridge, London.

FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETII,
Price 2s. 6d.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD,
AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management, in accordance with their Resolu-
tion of the 14th Novemher last, whereby they undertook to provide
the necessary expenses for completing the surveys, &c., previous to
the allotment of shares, have great pleasure in announcing to the
respective applicants that the Plans and Sections, together with the
Books of Reference, have been deposited with the Board of Trade and
the several Clerks of the Peace, in compliance with the standing
o,:iers of Parliament, and that the Allotment of Shares will shortly
be ani:"unced

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GRAND UNION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to inform the Share-
holders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, were duly
deposited with the several Clerks of the Peace and the Board of
Trade on Saturday last, the 29th November.
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 78, Cornhill, Dec. 1, 1845.

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Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Johnson, 68, Cornhill ;
Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; and all medicine venders.

MILLAR AND CARR, Solicitors
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap.

CHELMSFORD, MALDON, AND BLACK-
WATER RAILWAY.

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HREW sgatY and LEICESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have much satisfaction in an-
nouncing that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have
this day all been duly deposited with the Board of Trade, Clerks of
the Peace, &a., pursitant to the Standing Orders. •
By-ord,er,
.1. tr.-JP.LLICOMLIC; Seastray.-'
IS, Finsbury-place.

The Board of Directors have the satisfaction to announce to the
Shareholders that all the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference,
have been lodged in conforitity with the standing orders of Parlia-
ment, and that application will be made for an Act in the ensuing
session. By order of the Board,

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.

Nov. 29, 1845,

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON
RAILWAY.
19, Great George-street, Westminster, Sunday, Nov. 30, 1845.
The Committee of Management announce with much pleasure that
the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference of their proposed rail-
ways, from Cheltenham to Southampton, and to Salisbury and Poole,
have been duly deposited with the Clerks of the Peace and the Board
of Trade, conformable with the standing orders of Parliament.
JOHN WALKINSIIAW, Deputy-Chairman.
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BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
Office, 3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street, London,
Dec. 1, 1845.
The Committee of Management of this Company have much sa-
tisfaction in informing the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections,
Books of Reference, &c., have been duly deposited with the Clerks of
the Peace and the Board of Trade, and that the
,requisite capital
has been subscribed and invested.

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EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary.

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
SITTINGS AFTER MICHAELMAS TERM.
AT LINCOLN'S INN—AT TEN EACII DAY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor).
Dec. 4—First Seal ; appeal motions.
Dec. 5 (Petition day) ; unopposed petitions and appeals.
Dec. 6,8, 9—Appeals.
Dec. 10—Second Seal; appeal motions.
Dee. 11—Appeals.
Dec. 12 (Petition day); unopposed petitions and appeals.
Dec. 13—Appeals.
Dec. 15—Third Seal ; appeal motions.
Dec. 16, 17, 18—Appeals.
Dec. 19 (Petition day); unopposed petitions and appeals.
Dec. 20—Fourth Seal ; appeal motions.
Dec. 22—General petition day.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor of England.) •
Dec. 4—First Seal ; motions.
Dec. s—(Petition day), unopposed petitions, short causes,
and causes.
Dec. 6. 8, 9—General papers (pleas, demurrers, and excep-
tions, and further directions).
Dec. 10—Second Seal ; motions.
Dec. 11—General papers.
Dec. 12—(Petition day), unopposed petitions, short causes,
and causes
Dec. 13—General papers.
Dec. 15—Third seal ; motions.
Dec. 16, 17, 18—General papers.
Dec. 19—(Petition day), unopposed petitions, short causes,
and causes.
Dee. 20—Fourth seal ; motions.
Dec. 22—General petition day.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce,)
Dec. 2—Bankrupt petitions.
Dec. 4—First seal ; motions.
Dec. s—(Petition day); petitions and causes.
Dec. 6—Short causes and causes.
Dec. B—Bankrupts' petitions and causes.
Dec. 9—General paper.
Dec, 10—.-General seal ; motions.
Dec. 11—General papers.
Dec. 12—(Petition day); petitions and causes.
Dec. 13 —Short causes and causes.
Dec. 15—Third seal ; motions.
Dec. 16—General paper.
Dec. 17 and 18—Bankrupts' petitions and general papers.
Dee. 19—( Petition day); petitions and causes.
Dec. 20—(Fourth seal); motions and short causes.
Dec. 22—General petition day; bankrupts' petitions and
petitions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Wigram.)
Dec. 4—First seal; motions and causes.
Dec. s—(Petition day), general paper.
Dec. 6—Short causes, petitions (unopposed first), and
causes.
Dec. 8, 9—General papers.
Dec. 10—Second seal ; motions and causes.
Dec. 11—General papers.
Dec. 12—(Petition day), general paper.
Dec. 13—Short causes, petitions (unopposed first), and
causes.
Dec. 15—Third sal ; rnotlori3 and causes.
Dec. 16, 17, 18—General paper.
Dec. 19—(Petition day), general aper.
Dec. 20—Fourth seal; motions, short causes, petitions
(unopposed first), and causes.
Dec. 22—General petition day; petitions and causes.
(Sittings of the Right Hon. the Master of the Rolls after
Michaelmas term, atl the Rolls' Court, Chancery-lane—at
ten each day.)
Dec. 4—Motions.
Dec. s—Petitions ; the unopposed first.
B—Pleas, demurrers, causes, further directions, and
exceptions.
Dec. 9—Petitions ; the unopposed first.
Dec. 10—Motions.
Dec. 11, 12, 13—Pleas, causes, &c.
e.
'
Dec. 15—Motions.
Dec. 16—Petitions ; the unopposed first.
Dec. 17, 18, 19—Pleas, causes, &c.
Dec. 20—Motions.
Dec. 22—Petitions ; the unopposed first.
Short causes and consent causes every Tuesday at the sit-
ting of the Court.
NoTice.—Petitions must be presented, and copies left with
the secretary, on or before the Saturday preceding the Tues-
day on which it is intended they should be heard. Those
requiring service must be presented on or before the Friday
preceding.

JOHN WIIEELER, Secretary.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE
WEXFORD, 'WATERFORD, AND VALENTIA RAILWAY.
John Attwoco, Esq., M.P., Chairman.
William Richard,7on, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
The Lord viscount In3estre, M.P.
R. Spooner, Esq., M.P.
James Henry Attwood, Esq.
William Campbell, Esq.
A. Miller, Esq.
The above Committee of Management beg to inform the
holders that the Plans, Sections, andßooks of Reference, were lo Ned
at the office of the Board of Trade, and the respective offices of the
Clerks of the Peace of the counties through which the line passes, on
Saturday last, the 29th day of November, in conformity with the
standing orders of Parliament.
By order,

ELY AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S RAIL-
WAY.
The Provisional Directors have the satisfaction of announcing
that the Plans, Sections, and Rooks of Reference, were duly depo-
sited with the Board of Trade and the Clerks of the Peace on Sa-
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much less expense tkan he originally contemplated.
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THE REGISTRATION IN LANCASHIRE.—The public
in Manchester and its vicinity, or rather the free-traders in
these localities, are responding to the call of the League to
qualify for the counties in good earnest : within a week more
than 100 applications have been made. That the members
will increase in something like arithmetical progression up
to the 31st January, 1846, there is every reason to expect,
judging from present appearances. The higher class of Re-
formers, now that the plan is likely to succeed, are qualifying
themselves, and for such counties as apparently stand most
in need of such assistance. A regular canvass in districts will
be resor;,ed to, in order that no stray free-trader may escape,
The feeling on this great question is evidently most intense,
and the prospect of an early repeal of the corn-laws is giving
such an impulse in the right direction, that the monopolists
must, it is pretty clear, strike their colours. The League is
at work late and early.—Leeds Mercury.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF Losnori.—The ninth
anniversary meeting of this Society was held on Satur-
day, J. E. Gray,Esq., F. R.S., President, in the chair. From
the report of the Council, it appeared that sixteen new
members had been elected since the last anniversary
meeting, and that the Society now consisted of 182
members. The President congratulated the members
upon the progress the Society had wade, and pointed
out the advantages it held out to botanists. The report
was unanimously adopted, after which a ballot took
place for the Council for the ensuing year, when the
Chairman was re-elected President, and he nominated
J. Alters, Esq., F.R.S., and Edward Doubleday, Esq.,
F.L.S., Vice-Presidents. The meeting was very fully
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the costume of the nineteenth century, if that is rightly
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avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac-
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associated in our remembrance with an uncomfortable sensa-
tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very clumsiness,
defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering
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their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable oils applied to
the hair are worse than useless.
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This railway is designed to connect, by the shortest practicable
route, the port of Liverpool with Preston and other places to the
northward, and with Blackburn and other places to the eastward,
and to supply Manchester, Wigan, Bolton, Oldham, Stockport, and
other manufacturing districts in Lancashire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire, the advantage of direct railway communication with
Southport and the west coast of Lancashire.
One portion of this railway will diverge from the present line of
the North Union Railway at or near Farrington, and by forming a
communication with the Blackburn and Preston Railway there, will
accommodate the traffic both of Preston and Blackburn, and the
places beyond. From Farrington it will proceed by Ormskirk, and
thence past Kirby (where it will form a junction with the Liver-
pool and Bury Railway), and terminate at the intended new sta-
tion of the Grand Junction Railway Company at Edge-hill, Liver-
pool, from whence there will be access to the north and south
docks, as well as to the Lime-street station in that town. This
portion of the main line will be twenty-four miles in length, and
will bring Liverpool within twenty-seven relies of Preston, and
thirty-three miles of Blackburn. Another portion of the under-
taking will consist of a trunk line from Southport, passing St. John's,
in the village of Burscough, near which it will intersect and form a
junction with the line from Farrington to Liverpool, and proceed
thence through the Douglas Valley to Wigan, where it will avail
itself of the North Union station in passing through the town, pro-
ceeding thence by Hindley, Atherton, Tyldesley, Ellenbrook, and
Worsley, it will form a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway near Eccles, and with the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Railway in Pendleton.
By means of a junction with the Bolton and Leigh Railway at
Atherton, the advantages of this line will be extended to the town of
Leigh. The length of this trunk will be about twenty-eight miles of
new line, bringing Southport within thirty-three miles of Manchester,
sixteen-and-a-half of Wigan, and twenty-six of Bolton, and reduc-
ing the time occupied in the journey between Southport and Man-
chester from four hours to little more than one, and between that
favourite watering-place and other manufacturing districts in like
proportion ; at the same time substituting for a dilatory and expensive
means of transport, the dispatch and economy of a thorough railway
communication.
The line between Wigan and Manchester will pass through a popu-
lous district, possessing extensive manufactures ; and the coal-field
it will traverse and lay open to the manufacturing districts, as well
as to Liverpool, is second to none in this part of England in richness

and variety.
This railway will also afford increased facilities for conveying the
produce of the abundant agricultural district, lying between the
River Alt and the Douglas, to the manufacturing communities of

Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Notwithstanding the present uncertain, dilatory, and expensive
means of access to Southport, the numbers resorting thither are very
great, and rapidly increasing, and it cannot be doubted that the faci-
lities and economy in time, as well as money, of a direct railway
communication, would give rise to an accession of traffic far exceed-
ing the ordinary ratio of estimated increase.
The benefits resulting from the construction of these lines will be
obtained at a comparatively small outlay. The country throughout
is easy, and of a level character, rendering the works light, and the
gradients highly favourable. There are no, engineering difficulties,
and the advantage of terminal stations, and access to and through
the principal towns, are already provided by the establishments of
the Grand Junction, Manchester and Leeds, North Union, and Liver-
pool and Bury Companies, whose cordial co-operation is guaranteed
by the participation of those Companies in the capital, and conse-
quently In the success, of the undertaking.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Committee of Management of the Liverpool and Preston,
'Manchester and Southport Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit to you scrip certificates of
shares (or bankers' receipts for shares), held by me in the
Southport and Euxton Railway Company, and numbered as at foot.
I request you will allot to me. shares of 20/. each in the Liver-
pool and Presto/a, Manchester and Southport Railway, and I under-
take to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to
me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and execute the Par-
liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Numbers of Scrip Certificates • • • • • • •
Christian and Surname in full.
Residence • . •'
Place of Business (if any) ...... •••• • • • •

Witnessto Signature.. • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • •
* Note.—Approved holders of shares in the Southport and Euxton
project of last session, who have forwarded their Scrip Certificates
or Bankers' Receipts, and shall, on or before the lath November in-
stant, make application in the form above, will be entitled to three
shares in this undertaking for each Southport and Euxton share.
Printed forms of application may be obtained at the offices of the
solicitors.
I reference will be required where parties apply in respect of
Southport and Euxton shares not originally allotted to them ; and in
order that tho Parliamentary Deeds may be signed by responsible
parties, the Provisional Committee think it necessary to reserve the
right of withoAding shares In cases where the references are not
deemed satisfactory.

the attention and the care of Ministers—(Hear, hear)—
and to induce them to adopt measures which may remedy.
the evil so far as it is possible to be done.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) We have, Gentlemen, within forty-eight
hours, been surprised and delighted with the declara-
tions of two of the most distinguished statesmen of
this country in favour of those views which most
of us here present have entertained for so long a
time, and which your presence here shows you also generally
entertain—l speak, Gentlemen, of the admirable address
written by Lord John Russell, at Edinburgh—(Cheers)—to
his constituents, the electors of the city of London.—(
cheers.) Gentlemen, I honour—l respect Lord John Russell
for that clear and that definite declaration at such a moment.
Lord John Russell is a statesman of high character and of
great intellect, to whom no one, let him be a political oppo-
nent entertaining political opinions however strongly ad-
verse, will deny the possession of abilities of a high order—
(Hear, hear)—that he is a man of the greatest integrity,
energy of mind, and benevolence of purpose.—(Loud and
long-continued cheers.) That declaration of Lord John Rus-
sell goes to this effect :—That the time has gone by for pro-
posing a fixed duty; that the approach of the close of har-
vest should no longer be attended by those anticipations, so
often realised, of failure and of consequent distress—(Hear)
—but that every impediment to the importation and to the
free and unqualified circulation of food should be swept away.
—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, there is another statesman—l mean
Lord Morpeth-L(Loud cheers )-whose characterland talents
are, like those of Lord John Russell, of the very highest order
—whose character• is equally unblemished; and he has,
within the last two or three days, written a letter, which was
read at a public meeting. held the other day at Sheffield, ex-
pressing his individual opinion—an opinion come to without
consultation with any other and without concert—that the
corn-laws ought to be entirely abolished.—(Loud cheers).
To those gentlemen who have been working through a long
series of years, for the obtaining of the abolition of these
laws, such declarations coming from these quarters could not
but prove satisfactory, and might further, be received as
very convincing testimonials that the doctrines they held
and maintained were right and sound.—(Loud deers.) And
now it is is our power, I believe and am convinced, by a
firm, and unqualified, and conscientious expression of our
sentiments—sentiments embodied in the resolution I am
about to read, and in others which will be read too, and which
will be carried by you—to put an end, at once and for ever,
to the abominable and detestable existing corn-laws.—(Tre-
mendous cheers.) Mr. Thornely concluded by proposing and
moving the following resolution :—" That the alarming
failure in the potato crop throughout the United Kingdom,
confirmed in the case of Ireland by several reports from tl4e
Cornnitssiiiner.4'spedially'atiiinted- bl her 'Majesty's Govern-
ment to investigate the subject, and by other persons of un-
questionable veracity, together with the injury done to the
wheat crop, art! calculated to excite the most serious appre-
hensions of imp=ending famine."
LAWRENCE HEYWORTII, Esq., seconded the resolution.
Mr. BAINES read a long report stating the condition of the
potato crop.
W. RATRBONE, Esq., proposed the next resolution—" That
we have now assembled for the purpose of expressing our
strong convictions of the responsibility which rests upon her
Majesty's confidential advisers, if they do not take imme-
diate steps to avert, as far as possible, the awful consequences
of a deficient supply of the necessaries of life."
A. H. WYLIE, Esq., seconded the resolution.

Dr. BLACKBURN read the following resolution :—" That we
find, from daily experience, that in all the articles we obtain
from foreign nations, and which are left to the natural opera-
tions of commerce, there is always procurable an abundant
supply for the wants of the community ; that we therefore
believe that it is owing to the restrictions imposed by the
corn and provision laws that there is not every year a store
of foreign grain ample enough to dispel the well-founded
alarm which is now inseparable from a failure in our own
harvests; that the operation of these laws is generally to
impoverish the labouring classes, and to reduce them to the
coarsest description of food on which existence can be
supported; that we are firmly convinced that the failure
of their only principal means of subsistence among
that large and helpless portion of our fellow-subjects, un-
less in some degree remedied by the instant admission of
all kinds of provisions duty free, will be productive ef con-
sequences too fearful to contemplate ; that we, therefore,
consider it the bounden duty of the Queen's responsible
advisers to advise her Majesty immediately to summon
the Parliament, for the purpose of recommeeding the total
and immediate abolition of a system which has been justly
said to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture,
the source of bitter divisions among classes, and the cause
of penury, and fever, and crime, among the people.' " He
then said, This resolution contains a very important sen-
timent—one which we would do well to understand
thoroughly in all its bearings and with all its necessary
limitations. It does not assert that our corn-laws are the
cause of deficiency in the harvest, or that any possible
arrangement of law could prevent those casualties to
which the crops of all countries are in the very nature of
things, and, by the ordination of Providence, always ex-
posed. Nor does it at all imply that a considerable failure
in the produce of the ground is not a serious calamity in
itself, calculated to entail great suffering on the humbler
classes in whatever part of the world it may occur.—(Hear.)
The great national evil which the corn-laws are intended to
protect us from is, in plain terms—a cheap and abundant
supply of food—certainly the oddest kind of national evil
that ever was heard of.—(Cheers and laughter.) And we are
not left to conjecture upon this subject, but are plainly told
so by the monopolists themselves. When the Duke of Rich-
mond said, " We don't grow glass, but we do grow timber"—
when Sir Edward Knatchhull waxed lachrymose about mar-
riage settlements and daughters' portions—and when Mr.
Miles, the acknowledged leader of the landowners' party,
stood up in his place in the House of Commons, and rated
the Premier in good set terms, because divers articles, such
as butter, cheese, and bacon, had been too cheap, imputing it
to Sir Robert as a crime and a violation of an implied com-
pact—that he had not kept up prices as was expected by his
supporters—the real purpose of the corn-laws comes out.
The more knowing ones of the party talk in a different style,
and wrap up their statements in a sort of misty verbiage in-
tended to deceive and delude ; but these simpletons blab—
(Cheers)—the secret; and as Arr. Escott said the Other day,
they damage their own cause most effectually. And is it
indeed to come to Ulla? - Are the poeple of Englaild.Scot-
land, and Ireland, to bow down their necks any longer
beneath this yokb? Let them now speak out—promptly
—clearly—loudly—in a voice that cannot be mistaken.
Let them, in tones that shall reverberate through the
halls of legislation, and ascend up to the palace of the em:
pire, tell those haughty oligarchs—who by their corn-laws
and their game-laws now trample down the people like mire
in the streets—that we will be their slaves no longer.—
(Great cheering). In this way, and in this way only, will
the victory of truth, and righteousness, and benevolence, be
secured. In this way, and in this way only, will the grim
and gory dragon of monopoly be hurled from his throne, amid
the joyous hallelujahs of emancipated millions. Dr. Black-
burn resumed his seat amid thunders of applause.
Mr. J. Bria.Ncn-En was introduced. He said :—Fellow
townsmen, after the very excellent speech of our respected
filend, Dr. Blackburn, you will, I am sure, quite agree with
me, that the less I say the better.—(Laughter and cheers).
I shall, therefore, confine myself to heartily recommending to
you the motion which he has proposed, and in seconding it
myself.—(Cheers.)
R. SHEIL, Esq., having addressed the meeting at consider-
able length,
Mr. CROOKE read the memorial, embodying the previous
resolutions.

The memorial was adopted, and the meeting separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. ;30.—The Athol troop-ship, on her
way to Jamaica, with royal artillery, is at Spithead, to have
a few defects made good, and some additional scuttles cut, to
give more air and light on the lower deck. She will be finished
to-morrow, and sail on Tuesday.
The Trincomalee, a teak 42-gun frigate, cut down and
altered to a 26-gun ship, was floated out of dock yesterday,
and will be fitted for commission without delay. She is to
be armed with four 68-pounders on the main deck ; two 82
pounders on the upper-deck, and the other 20 guns will be
32-pounders. The alterations made in her construction have
been the suggestion of Mr. Corry, the secretary to the Ad-
miralty. She retains the bew of the Leda and Juno class,
and appears a fine vessel.
The Wanderer, 16, and the Childers, 16, have put into
dock to repair, and be got ready for commission.
The Ratler, screw steamer, is in dock to have a great hole
cut through the after part of her frame, to admit of her screw
propeller being unshipped when necessary, and hoisted upon
deck. The place will resemble the well of a fishing yawl,
and is to be lined with copper. Much trouble and delay
will be saved by this method of getting at the propeller,
when it requires inspection, or repair, as now it must be re-
moved from the outside, and got up over the vessel's quarter.
By simply having a rope made fast to the main boom, it can
be hoisted on deck with ease. The Rattler is, if possible, to
be got ready for sea by Saturday next, but to what part of
the globe she is to be sent is at present all rumour and con-
jecture.

The Scourge, mortar steamer, has entered a few men, and
her officers being appointed, she will commence rigging and
fitting next week. It is expected that the 56-pounder gun,
which she has in at present, will be exchanged for a 10 inch
84-pounder, and two carronades added.
The Fairy yacht continues daily trips to Cowes to receive
the commands of her Majesty. The Commander-in-Chief had
the honour of dining at Osborne House on Friday. He was
the only guest, except the usual dinner party. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert has expressed his intention to come
to the dockyard some day this week to inspect the royal
apartments in the Admiralty-house.
NAVAL RETIREMENT.—The extended time for the captains
of the navy to send in their names for acceptance of the
offca of th, Ad • cdtj- to iodic ivyu thy in,roosood allowance
of ss. 6d. per diem, with other advantages, expires this day.
It is confidently reported among naval people that 280 cap-
tains have accepted it. If so, there is little doubt but the
measure will be carried out. A few days must determine the
business, as those officers who have signified their wishes
to the Admiralty must receive official notice, either that
their names have been placed on a retired list, or that the
contemplated plan cannot be effected. The number of offi-
cers on the Admiral's list is 154, and it is intended to red.u,,
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it by promoting one captain to that rank on the deatft
three admirals.

PROMOTIONS.
Retired Commander of 1830—Glotworthy Gillmore, to be
Retired Commander of 1816.
Surgeon—J. W. Reid, front the Agincourt, to be acting
Deputy Inspector of the Hospital on board the Minden, vice
Dr. AN ilson.
Assistant-Surgeon—D. P Whipple, to the rank of Surgeon
and appointed to the Agincourt.
Clerk—Wm. G. Parminter, to be Paymaster and Purser.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—James Crawford Caffin, to Scourge; Jas.
RichartdenDaancts_res,
Etn RN . . Nimrod.
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Lieu Proctor, to command Harpy ; A. C.
May, to Alarm ; Augustus F. Webster, and A. S. Boot, to
Endymion ; William Thomas, to be Agent on board the Pa-
linurus transport ; A. Wordon, and E. 11. H. D'Aetb, to
Scourge ; M. Nolloth, to Bittern ; W. P. Priest, and W. 11.
Stewart, to Grampus; Frederick A. Boyce, and Edward Hill,
to Nimrod ; Peter A. Halkett, to Stromboli ; and W. 'l'.
Turner, to Crocodile; H. T. Lave, to Endymion ; N. N.
L. Lockyer, to Bittern.
Masters—George Collier to Scourge, John Dillon to
Alecto.

Pursers—J. F. Russell to Grampus, V. A. Haile to
Scourge.
Surgeons--Richard Butler and W. T. Rogers to Star, Dr.
R. Browning to Grampus, J. J. Crawford to Bittern, George
1). Maclaren to Joseph Somes convict ship, James Osborne
(a) to Barretto Junior convict ship.
Clerks in Charge—W. F. Maturin to Sparrow, Charles
DtWtteS to Lizard.