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16,635. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 9, 1845.

TOURS AND NANTES RAILWAY.
MACKENZIE, PATERSON, AND CO.
REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.
Your Directors have the satisfaction to announce the amalgama-
tion of eight principal Companies in competition for the lease of this
Railway.
Among these competitors, your Company occupied a proud posi-
tion. They not only presented a subscription list of the ve:y first
class, and comprising much that was calculated to inspire public
confidence, but a depcdt fund, amounting to 6,425,000 n, or more
than double the caution-money required by the French Government.
It is gratifying to your Directors that, by common coment, even
amr,ngst their competitors, the first place was conceded to your Com-

NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, and MID-
LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Direction beg to inform the Shareholders: that
the Sections, Plans, and Books of Reference, were duly lodged with
tke Board of Trade, and the Clerk of the Peace at Nottingham, on
the 30th of November, but owing to the circumstance of several
sheets of the section having been abstracted froth the lithographer's
office, its completion was retarded several hours, and consequently
could not be lodged with the Clerks of the Peace at Chesterfield and
Newark, until two o'clock in the morning following. The Directors
gladly take this opportunity of stating that the Shareholders of the
Sheffield, Ashton-ender-Lyne, and Manchester Railway, at their
meeting at Sheffield, on the 3d December, unanimously confirmed
the arrangements heretofore made by their Directors for the lease of
this, and the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway. The Com-
mittee continue to have the greatest confidence in the success of the
undertaking, and are satisfactorily assured that the trivial delay re-
ferred to will cause no impediment to the progress of the Bill.
The Direct n's are hanpy to inform the Shareholders that the full
deposit of 10 per cent. has been paid upon the capital, a great part of
which is invested in Government securities, and the remainder se-
cured at three per cent.
By order,
Mansfield, Dec. 5, 1845

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS Of TIIIS DAT.
TIMES.—The Ministerial decision is by this time
universally received not merely as a fact, but as the only
thing that could have been done. The denials are few
and vociferous. In the midst of an all but universal mur-
mur of approbation a few malcontents reiterate nega-
tives and abuse, and enjoy that distinctness of audience
which is the privilege of singularity. Under colour of
not believing an announcement, which to them, of
course, is disagreeable enough, they daily discharge
showers of conditional invective on the Ministers who
have been so unkind as neither to value their opinions
nor fear their indignation. It is impossible to believe
this shocking intelligence (they argue), for then that
enlightened and high-minded Minister whom we brought
into power, who then pledged himself most solemnly
that he would always walk in the light of the Con-
stitution—that is, in the light of the sliding-scale—and
whose most intimate and confidential allies and
organs we have always been, would be guilty of
the foulest and most diabolical treachery to his
Sovereign, to the nobility and gentry, to all orders and
estates of men, to the clergy, to the farmers and la-
bourers, and above all, to our own most noble selves.
The supposition is laid down fearfully and humbly
enough. We cannot believe that Sir Robert Peel has
been so base, but if he has, then he may see his portrait,
done in a bold, clashing style, in the columns of his par-
ticular friend. The fabric of abuse built on this contin-
gent foundation reaches to the clouds. There is Alp
upon Alp of rage and scurrility. For our own part, we
must confess ourselves so astounded by the fury of this
demonstration that we lose sight of the conditional ele-
ment. We have already pointed out the wanton folly
and cruelty of this course. Though a mere private and
ridiculous pique, the disappointed agitators are leading
their dupes into the most gratuitous absurdity and ruin.
Their make-believe incredulity fails to make the farmer
incredulous also ; it only makes him conclude that he is
on the eve of a dreadful calamity.. In spite of them he be-
lieves, or rather knows, that the days of protection are
numbered, but.he listens:to his treacherous advisers just so
far as to think his wheat therefore will soon be good
for nothing. This is sufficiently indicated by the state
of the corn-market yesterday, as our readers will find
under the proper head. Since the continual meetings of
the Cabinet, the letters of Lord John Russell and Lord
blorpeth, and other ominous circumstances created a
general persuasion that something decisive would be
done, we are told that wheats have suffered a decline of
3s. to 4s. per quarter, and all other kinds of grain have
fallen in proportion. That this haste to sell arises from
a mere political delusion is clear from the fact that all
the best authorities, both in the Corn Exchange and the
whole mercantile world, are unanimously of opinion
that the repeal of the corn-laws will certainly, imme-
diately, and most considerably raise the prices all over
the world. We do not see how it can be otherwise. Nay,
if we have any one misgiving as to the wisdom of the
Ministerial measure, it originates in the thought of
what may possibly arise from the whole current of
British speculation being for the first time allowed free
play on foreign produce, just at the crisis when
the stock is most unusually low. The farmer is, of
course, only too easy a prey to these alarmists, from the
circumstance that his boasted protection has, in a man-
ner, insulated him from the corn trade of the world, and
kept him profoundly ignorant of it. He has not known
a regular competition with it; and has, indeed, known
nothing about it, except that it is a certain frightful in-
finity of mischief. Little is he aware that the average
of importations from the whole world does not exceed
the produce of one English county, or half the demand
of our metropolis, and, what is more, that it would take
many years of labour, skill, and money to increase that
importation. Hence the fatal facility with which he is
duped by leaders as ill-informed, perhaps, as himself.
Any well-informed authority will open his eyes to his
error. Corn is not only a most legitimate, but a most
natural subject of speculation. From the earliest
times accumulations of grain have been the chief
means of increasing wealth, of acquiring influence, of
sustaining power, of preserving nations, and benefiting
the world. The certainty that, in a cyele of years, the
staff of life would become scarce and precious has led the
merchant and the prince to hoard up the redundance of
good years in order to supply the deficiency of bad ones.
The more accumulation, the more cultivation there has
been. It is the peculiar vice of the sliding-scale that it
has reduced the most beneficial of speculations into a
mere cast of the die. It has taken the trade from the
farmer and the merchant, and left it in the hands of the
gambler. While all other buying and selling has been
regular, honest, and profitable to all parties—while the
buying and selling of money, stocks, bills, and all
kinds of artificial and conventional wealth has been
the employment of prudent men—the buying and
selling of grain alone has been degraded to the
level of the roulette-table and rouge et noir. It
has been regular only in uniformly wrecking the
character and fortune of everybody who engaged in
it. Judicious and respectable men have instinctively
shunned it, and preferred any other use of their money
and exercise of their wits. There is, then, some reason
to fear an extravagant competition by the British
capitalist for the hundred thousand quarters of foreign
wheat still within his reach. It is a mere nothing com-
pared with the enormous sums available and ready fur
speculation, or with the sums actually embarked in
other speculations of a much more uncertain character.
We believe it to be within the capacity of half a dozen
merchants of London to monopolise all the redundant
produce of the world, both now existing and for years
to come—a monopoly far more likely to set up the
farmer than any sliding-scale his friends have ever
given him. At any rate, before he listens to a set of
disappointed alarmists, let him ascertain for himself the
quantity of corn which can at present be brought into
the market against him, and then ask, from his own
knowledge of agricultural affairs, how soon that can be
multiplied in any very ruinous proportion.
CHRONICLE.—We are willing to admit, that no one
who is earnestly desirous for the accomplishment of any
object—for the success or public adoption of any favou-
rite principle—can be indifferent to the support of the
Times. We have therefore seen with the greatest satis-
faction the clear and unqualified advocacy which our
Contemporary has recently given to the general princi-
ples of free trade, and especially as far as they relate to
the corn-laws. We were, however, totally unprepared
to find the columns of the Times used for the purpose
of resuscitating, or attempting to resuscitate, one of the
most flagrant and barefaced fallacies ever advanced for
the purpose of supporting monopoly, or affrighting the
nation from the bare consideration of free-trade doc-
trines. It is a stale, and, until we saw it repeated in the,
Times yesterday, we thought a worn-out trick of the sup-
porters of the protective system, to attempt to confound
duties imposed for the purposes of protection with those
imposed for revenue. It was by this juggle that the
protective system was first introduced, by which it
attained the firm footing which it did in this country
and others, by which it is still maintained here and else-
where, and by which the prejudices and fears of man-
kind aro aroused to its support whenever its existence is
threatened. A repeal of the corn-laws is, or rather has
been—for we would still fain think that such a fallacy
now finds but few supporters—held by a large class as a
matter of unquestionable justice, but from consideration
of " The Debt ;" and free trade an unquestionable be-
nefit, but for the large annual revenue to which our re-
sources are pledged. These are the pretences which
have been artfully put out for the purpose of inflicting an
impost, in the shape of protective duties, on one part of
the community for the sole benefit of another ; by which,
under the plea of revenue, one class has been enabled to
exact a tax, for its own private uses, from all others. But
the Timesis surely not, at this time of day, after this selfish
fallacy has been laughed to ridicule, about to attempt to re-
vive it ; at a moment, too, when a large portion of the public
is in the most sensitive state with regard to changes which
our Contemporary now, with the majority of the coun-
try, deems inevitable. It is a time when the duty of
the press is rather to seek out and eradicate existing
errors, and to allay groundless apprehensions, than
again to drag to light and give the sanction of its autho-
[ADVERTISEMENT.]-ICING'S EVIL OR SCROFULA rity to prejudices, which even those who have been most
EFFECTUALLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINT.. interested in the maintenance of a vicious system no
MENT.—Very lately some of the most surprising cures in this longer venture to appeal to. And yet we find that, in
terrible complaint have been made by the powerful virtues of an otherwise able and useful article, in yesterday's Times,
these :universal medicines. If space would admit, the par- this fallacy is put forward in a most imposing and mis-
ticulars of some few cases might be cited, which would no chievous form. In speaking of the effects of a repeal of
doubt :astonish our greatest medical men. Suffice it to say, the corn-laws our Contemporary says :—" But every great
that many who had been cripples for years have been restored
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fessor Holloway s Establishment, 244, Strand, London. spects, will lose altogether and for ever in point of re-
nts WONDER or WONDERS.—AR enormous bear venue. Nor are we justified in expecting that this loss
fed upon bread for the last twelve months, challenges coin- will be solely in the article of corn. Mr. Cobden
parison with any of the prizes at the Bazaar. This animal very recently informed a French journal that the League
will be exhibited dead and dressed, so as to show the depth confined its attacks to the monopoly of corn, because its
of fat, during Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, members knew that this being abolished, the aristocracy
the four days of the cattle-show, in front of Mr. Ray's pre- would unite to suppress all others. This means, that if
mises, No. 8, King-street, Baker-street, two doors only from the duties on corn are once removed, all other customs'
the Bazaar, and was fattened by those celebrated perrequiers,
Messrs. Ross and duties will follow. Is the country prepared for this ?
perfumers, hair-cutters, and hair-dyers,
Sons, 119,
Bishopsgate-street, London, of whom only can the
genuine bear's-grease be obtained. Are the national revenues such as to enable us to dis-
pense with customs duties altogether ? Can we afford
Nothing could be better devised than Nicoll's Re- to lose twelve or fourteen millions a year at once ? If
gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature of our climate, we do, how are we to replace it ?By direct taxation ?
forming, as it now does, not only the sine qua non of the Do the people of England then seriously prefer direct
railway traveller, but is equally so adapted for any gentleman to indirect taxation ? If so, we should like to ascertain
taking out-door exercise. It may be said distinctly to mark from what time this penchant may be dated. All these
century, if that is rightly considerations must force themselves on the minds both
shrei much at ease. an unpretending of the public and their rulers. That which we pro-
andghly phecied may soon take place_;a concentrated attack
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avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac-
knowledged as a vast improvement over the old great coat, 1
associated in our remembrance with an uncomfortable sensa- trade haveadvocating those doctrines, in order to
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tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very clumsiness, show how utterly inapplicable are the esigns
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Times.
defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering to them in the passage which we quote
itsfrom
with the proper circulation of the blood.
are black, blue, brown, and olive ; also the clerical mixture tive duties, so far from assisting in any degree _
called Oxford, and can be bad of the patentees, or only of ' efficiency of those imposed for the purposes f
The principal hues , The proposition carries its absurdity on face. Prottehce-
the most respectable clothiers out of London. Every winter
revenue—so far from aiding the Exchequer, are the
paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with most insidious enemies with which they have to contend.
the words, °'Registered 6 and 7 Vie., cap. 65. 11. J. and D. Protective duties, like revenue duties, raise the price of
Nicoll, 114, Regent-street, London. ' commodities to the public, limit their consumption, cramp
DEATH OF TOWNSEND, THE PEDESTRIAN.—The the powers and contract our commerce, without yielding,
veteran," so well known in sporting circles, expired latelyeoefrircehvepnruies.atelif:dhie.
in the Clifl'e Workhouse, Lewes, and was buried in South- goes amountto
over churchyard. He was 54 years of age. Townsend was .
d ls—and if it does not, then it is not a protective
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time.

parry.
In the actual state of the money market, and in the present de-
pressed situation of railway property in general, your Directors
deemed it prudent to prefer rather a fraction of a concession, obtained
upon the very beet terms, than to run the risk of a probably reckless
competition, that could not fail to be ruinous to the Company who
should obtain it.
To arrive at a resnit so much to be desired, and to include in this
arrangement all the bona fide competing Companies, your Directors
made many successive sacrifices. They have succeeded in retaining
one-fifth of the stock, and seven Directors (four French and three
English) in the consolidated Company, via.:—
CAPITAL. Francs.
Mackenzie, Paterson, and Co. ..... • ... 8,000,000
Currette and Co. .. ••••• • .• .• 6,000,000
Drouillard and Co. •••••• .. • • • ........... 5,000,000
Raigecourt and Co. .. •• • • •• • .... 5,000,000
Lefevre and Co. • •
O'Neill and Co. ..
Delamarre and Co. . .
Basse Loire .

T. IL RIGBYE, Secretary

FOR EXPORTATION OR GENTLEMEN TRAVELLING.
THE STOMACH AND ENEMA PUMPS,
and RESERVOIRS, invented by J. READ, arc sanctioned by
the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the most eminent
members of the profession in this Kingdom, the Continents of Europe,
India, and America, vide " The New York Medical and Physical
Journal," the " Life of Sir Astley Cooper." These distinguished
patronages induced-a host of unprincipled adventurers to palm on the
public spurious imitations as improvements on Read's patent Foun-
taM Reservoirs,lwith the incumbrance of chains and stopcocks. These
facts have been made known to the patentee by the number of the
paltry instruments that are sent him from all parts of the kingdom,
and frequently from India to repair, and are not worth the expense of
carriage ; but as a protection against those piracies, J. R. has in-
structions from the lion. East India Company to place their mark
on all his instruments sent to their presidencies. But in vain may a
humble mechanic attempt to defend himself against such wholesale
frauds, when instruments with all the imperfections above alluded to,
are boldly and falsely advertised as Read's Patent Pumps. The
genuine instruments are manufactured only by the Patentee, at 35,
Regent-circus, Piccadilly. None are genuine except stamped with
his name.

40,000,000
Directors—Messrs. The Baron Sarget, Regent of the Bank of
Bordeaux; Edward Caillard and Bagnieres, Directors of the Messa-
genies Generales of France; Monternault, ancien magistrat ; William
Mackenzie and J. D. Barry, Resident Directors in Paris ; and Richard
Paterson as a member of the Board in London. The other members
of the London Board are Mr. John Anderson, Mr. Bagshaw, and
Captain Chamier, R.N.
The competition of the " Postmasters' Company" did not in the
least alter the determination of your Directors as to their bidding.
They had made up their minds, whatever might be the number of
competitors, not to accept the lease of this railway unless for a term
that could not fail to be highly remunerative to the Shareholders
(considered only with respect to the actual traffic), in addition to the
mathematical certainty of the repayment of the capital in the term
of the lease, by the operation of a moderate sinking fund.
The result of the adjudication is, a lease to the consolidated Com-
pany for a term of 34 years and 15 days, to be computed from the
period of the opening of the line to the 'While, throughout its entire
length from Tours to Nantes. The maximum term fixed by the law
relating to this railway was 35 years.
As to the general conditions of the grant, it may suffice to say,
that they are precisely the same in every respect as those of the Or-
leans and Bordeaux Railway, except that in the case of the Tours
and Nantes Railway the Company are bound to repay the Govern-
ment the actual cost of the land for the seat of the railway and its
accessories.
The Company will thus have to support only about one-half of the
entire cost of an admirably constructed railway, stocked and appointed
in the most efficient manner. They will, consequently, have only
one-half the capital on which to provi le a dividend, with the whole
net revenue of the line applicable to that purpose.
After the distribution of a return equal to eight per cent. per an-
num to the Shareholders, the Government is entitled to one-half of
the surplus profits, but not until after the first five years of the open-
ing of the line throughout to Nantes, and net even then unless the
aggregate profits of the preceding years shall have been equal to six
per cent. on the capital actually expended, plus a sinking fund.
Your Directors would just observe, that a sinking fund of one and
a half per cent., improved at four per cent. compound interest, (i. e.,
extinguishing a four per cent. stuck, by paying off a certain number
of Shares annually), will liquidate the whole capital of the Company
in 33 years 46 days. There will then remain nearly one year of the
lease unexpired, together with the value of the stock, materials, and
stores, to be repaid to the Company by the Government, or the future
lessees of the railway, within three mouths after the determination of
the term of the lease.
The revenue of the last year of the term, together with the amount
of the valuation of the stock and stores of the Company, will amount
to several millions of francs, which will be either distributed in the
shape of a bonus to the ultimate Shareholders, or the annual sinking
fund may be reduced to one and a quarter per cent. on the capital
from the commencement, as the Directors may determine.
Considered in alt its bearings, and more especially with respect to
the strong presumption that the first lessees of the French railways
will be lessees in perpetuity, subject to a fine of some sort on renewal
of the term, your Directors are led to believe that the grant of this
railway, upon the terms upon which it has been obtained, will be one
of the best, if not the very best railway property in France.
The foregoing arrangements as to the distribution of the capital
amongst the competing Companies will enable your Directors to give
one share in the consolidated Company for every five of the reduced
shares in this Company. Parties entitled to fractions of shares may
render them available by joining several together, and dividing the
whole shares afterwards, for which every possible facility will be
given.
The rights of 3 the Shareholders will be preserved intact, although
they may have omitted to exchange their old receipts for new ones
in time for the late competition.
The adjudication pronounced in favour of this Company, on Tues-
day, November 25th, was approved by Royal Ordinance, in the offi-
elal " Moniteur" of liriday, the 28th of the same month. Such is the
favourable light in which this consolidated Company is viewed by
the Government, that the Royal Ordinance approving the statutes
of the Company, usually a work of some months, has been already
obtained.
The Company is thus definitely and legally constituted a societe
ationyrne, by which the liability of a shareholder is limited to the
number of shares of which he is the proprietor.
The first duty of your Directors will be to return to the Share-
holders the excess of the deposits paid, after retaining 5/. per share
on the consolidated shares, at the same time to give a voucher
for the number of shares to which each shareholder is entitled.
This duty will be entered upon as soon as the necessary forms can be
prepared and printed, on Friday, 12th of December.
The Certificates of Shares in the names of the Proprietors will be
issued as soon as they can be got ready. The statutes of this Com-
pany permit that the Shares may be transferred to bearer, when 10/.
per Share shall have been paid up, after which no transfer will be
required.
The works of construction are in a great state of forwardness nearly
throughout the whole line, but more especially so on the first and
most important section, between Tours and Angers. No time will
be lost in taking the requisite measures fur bringing this highly pro-
ductive section into early active operation in connexion with the
section of the Bordeaux Railway between Orleans and Tours.
Finally, the capital is more than sufficient for the completion and
stocking of the railway.

BRANDY AND CAPSULES.-Mr. BETTS
(the late firm of J. T. BETTS and CO.), Patent Brandy
Distiller, 7, Smithfield Bars, feels it due to himself and the public to
state, that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDY was not,
and never has been know• to any person except to himself and ene
of his sons. And that ho was succeeded in the business of the
7, Smithfield Bars, by his sous, J. T. BETTS, jun., and CO.,
on his retiring therefrom, in 1843.
Mr. BETTS further states, that he is the sole Patentee, manufac-
turer, and vendor of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering
for the mouths of bottles), that no other Brandy in England, except
BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, is thereby protected; the Patent
Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must
have been surreptitiously obtained.
Metallic Capsule Manufactury, 1, Wharf-road, City-road.

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WILLIAM MACKENZIE,
Paris, December 6, 1845. JOHN DAVID BARRY.
RICHARD PATERSON.
2, Capel-court, London, December 8, 1845.

GRAND EASTERN AND WESTERN
METROPOLITAN CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION.
Under the sanction and immediate patronage of
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., G.C.8.,
G.C.IL, F.S.A., &c. &c. &c.
Capital 500,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. Deposit 1/. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered according to Act of Parliament.)
COMMITTEE.
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place
Edward Duke Moore, Esq., Arlington-street
George Augustus Brown, Esq., Gower-street, Bedford-square
Augustus William Hillary, Esq., Cadogan-place
James Tracy, Esq., Great Winchester-street
John Gardiner, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's-park
John Berkeley Cotter, Esq., Norfolk-street, Strand
William Walmsley Terrington, Esq., Great Winchester-street
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
George Leslie Lee, Esq., Gower-street, Bedford-square
David Pollock, Esq., Q.C., F.R.S., 20, Montague-street, Russell-
square
George Peters Irvine, Esq., Travellers' Club, Pall-mall
James Barrett, Esq., Pall-mall
Charles Robert Thompson, Esq., Winchester House
George Frederick Minton, Esq., Berners-street.
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
STANDING COUNSEL—Mr. Sergeant Chanaell ; Thomas Bourdillon,
Esq.
Souorroas--Messrs. Bourdillon and Sons.
SURVEYORS—Messrs. lloggart and Norton.
SECRETARY—Edward Hoare, Esq.
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interment, will afford the facility of a more economical conveyance
by water.
In the most crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis, even in the
midst of depravity and crime, we see grave-yards towering above us,
the pestilential of tainting the very atmosphere In which we
arc compelled to live. Our Christian feelings are continually out-
raged by revolting details of violated sanctuaries, and gross and hor-
rible indignities offered to the dead, to the great scandal of our na-
tional religion and character as a Christian people. Many attempts
have been made to remove this nuisance and reproach from among
us, and recent events occurring in Spaflelds and other burial-grounds
of the metropolis, as described in the public journals and in the evi-
dence given before the Committee of the House of Commons, have
awakened one general feeling of horror and indignation in the public
mind, and an anxious desire on the part of the Legislature to abolish,
at once and for ever, burials within the limits of the metropolis and
other great cities of the empire.
It is highly desirable to unite economyof expense with that decent
solemnity which is due to the remains of all, however lowly their
position ; securing to the wealthier classes the facility of indulging in
more splendid testimonials of respect to their departed friends; and
the promoters believe that the public will see and duly appreciate the
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more with the view of general accommodation, and securing econo-
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burial. This will strictly accord with the spirit of the recommenda-
tion of the Health of Towns Commission, by obviating the distressing
and often injurious necessity which arises from retaining for days, in
rooms occupied by the living, corpses in the various stages of decom-
position. Steam and other boats will be constructed for the purpose
of conveying the dead, the mourners, and friends of the deceased to
the Cemeteries, with all due regard to decorum, and equally adapted
for public and private funerals.
Cemeteries have become highly popular in this country and most
deservedly so ; they are equally in favour with the Legislature and
the public in general. Many of then are, however, situated at such
an inconvenient distance as to place them wholly beyond the pecu-
niary means of the humbler classes, except in their immediate neigh-
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The capital of the Association will be 800,0001., with power to in-
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newly-created shares. It will be divided into 40,000 shares of 201.
each, a deposit of 1/. 2s. per share to be paid at the time of subscrib-
ing. This will be followed by calls of 21. per share, as may be re-
quired, three months' notice being given of each call.
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* The report of the Parliamentary Committee will be flunished at
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAItES.
To the Provisional Gsmmittee of the Grand Eastern and Western
Metropolitan Cemeteries Association.
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objections which exist to its being an object of taxation
at all, as being the first prime necessary of life, the
greatest abundance of which should be secured by all
possible means—is peculiarly open to this other objec-
tion, as an object of revenue Under any circumstances,
the quantity of corn which would at any time be imported,
would bear but a small proportion to that grown at home.
But a duty imposed on that which was imported, as
long as it was operative, would equally raise the price
of all corn consumed ; and thus, for the sake of de-
riving a duty from two or three millions of quarters
of grain imported, the public would buy at an enhanced
price upon fifty or sixty millions of quarters consumed.
And this could be remedied by placing an excise duty
upon homegrown corn as upon home-made sugar, equi-
valent to that charged upon corn imported. To this
there would be the same obvious objection which exists
against all excise duties whatever. But the Times, in
quoting a recent expression of Mr. Cobleri's, ventures on
the most unfounded inference in support of the exploded
doctrine, now sought to be revived. " Mr, Cobden,"
says the Times, " very recently informed a French
jo4nal that the League confined its attacks to the mono-
poly of corn, because its members know that this being
abolished, the aristocracy would unite to suppress all
others. This means, that if the duties on corn are once
removed, all other customs' duties will follow." Who, be-
sides the Times, would draw such an inference, or such a
meaning from Mr. Cobden's expression? Mr. Cobden and
the League want to suppress monopolies, but who ever
heard of their wanting to suppress customs' duties ?
Let the Times tell its readers what earthly connexion
there is between " monopoly" and" customs' duties," and
on what grounds it treats them as synonimous. It is,
we freely admit, a fair subject for discussion, whether
direct or indirect taxation be preferable, and on which
much difference of opinion exists; but we wholly deny
that the questions of monopoly or unrestricted and open
commerce, of protection or free trade, are in any way
involved in that discussion. The leaders of the League
and the free traders, both in and out of Parliament,
have denied, in the most emphatic terms, any hostility
to customs' duties for the purposes of revenue; on the
contrary, their main anxiety has been to prevent their
being diverted into any other channel—to prevent the
Exchequer and the public being impoverished, for the
benefit cf privileged and protected classes.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
POST.—The Railway share business does not greatly
amend. Here and there a trifling improvement may be
found in the quotations, but this is owing rather to par-
ticular circumstances than to any general alteration in
the tone of the market. Manchester and Southampton
.1
to 14 prem. ; Rastrick's Direct London and Manchester
to dis. ; Remington's ditto 14 to 4 dis. ; Great
Western and Wycombe 4 dis. to 4 prem. ; South Union
to 4 dis. ; South Midland 2.43 to 34 prem. ; Madrid and
Valencia :4 dis. (buyers.) The shares of the Hereford
and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Company, upon which a
deposit of 21.25. has been paid, were done in the house at
par to 4 prem. The agreement which the South-Western
Railway Company have made with the London, Salisbury,
and Yeovil Company, which provides for extensions into
Cornwall, is apparently favourable to those companies,
and may be regarded as a sufficient indication of the
benefit locally expected from the measure. The advan-
vantages derivable to the shareholders in the new lines
will arise principally from the experience and exertions
of the parent company, since they will participate in the
profits accruing from the original creation of traffic, and
incur no risk. It has been felt by many persons that
the guarantee of the South-Western Company, who have
closed their capital account for some years, after com-
pleting one of the cheapest lines in the country, and
with an increasing traffic and few liabilities, is prefer-
able to that of another great and, to a certain extent, rival
company, with an open and unknown capital account, im-
mense extensions and engagements, a most expensively
constructed line, and great expenditure in the working.
These considerations, together with the original and
long-standing monopoly of traffic, and the exten-
sive local support afforded it, are, we under-
stand, the elements on which the promoters and share-
holders build their hopes as to the London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil line, and the Cornish extensions. One-fourth
of the capital stock is to be held by the South-Western
Company, and the guarantee is 54 per cent., a division
of profits, and other advantages. It is said, more-
over, that Parliament will give a preference to lines
which are supported by capital already in profitable
operation to those of entirely new companies, so that
the gains of the existing lines may in some measure
secure those of the new ones, and that absolutely new •
lines may be postponed until an increase of traffic in
the natural course shall call for them. At all events,
the Salisbury and Yeovil South-Western Shareholders
are, we hear, very sanguine of success, particularly as
the statistical returns of traffic look favourable. We
are no partisans, and may leave Parliament to settle all
disputes and differences between one company and
another. We would merely make known the views of
a company fully prepared, as we believe the one in
question to be, to seek its sanction in the way in which
they are placed before us.
TIMES.—A private leter from Fremantle says—" A
contract has been concluded with the Admiralty for the
supply of 400 loads of our timber for naval purposes.
There is little doubt but that this will lead to extensive
orders. We have wood in sufficient abundance to supply
all the navies of the world for 1,000 years, and only one
obstacle to contend with—viz., the want of vessels for
its conveyance. The sawyers are at work, and the
timber will be ready for putting on board before the Ist
of December next. Another contract has been taken by
two parties at Port Augusta and Flinders for the supply
of 180 loads of hewn wood, to be ready for shipment
about January next, and to be sent home in a colonial
built vessel called the River Chief." From the circular
of Messrs. Gibson, Ord, and Co., of Manchester, we learn
that there has been a month of almost unexampled de-
pression, with a corresponding decline in prices. Consi-
dering that the Bank vaults are well stocked, and that the
foreign exchanges are in favour of this country, this is
attributed entirely to the late railway speculation. There
is no scarcity of money, but confidence in the trading
community is impaired; and it is predicted that the pre-
sent pressure will continue until the most searching
scrutiny shall have separated the speculator from the
legitimate trader. In home trade nothing whatever is
doing. From China the accounts are considered un-
favourable, and no improvement is expected for months
to come, the market being already overstocked. with
British goods. The Calcutta market had not improved
in prices, and in Bombay the trade in manufactured
goods was stagnant, owing to apprehensions of a failure
in the growing crops.
Some of the shareholders in the Rugby Railway Com-
pany, which lost its Bill last session, are complaining
that their deposits (less the expense) are not yet repaid
them. They think that ample time has elapsed to allow
of all accounts being settled and all claims satisfied.
CHRONICLE.—The railway deposit question creates
uneasiness, not only amongst the monetary interests in
the City, but throughout the country. The trade circu-
lars from Manchester complain of the badness of trade
and pressure for money, which they attribute to the
speculative action in railways, and the large amounts
locked up in deposits in the banks. We are inclined to
think that the anxiety on this subject will be found to
be greater than circumstances warrant. The supposed
amount of deposits is much larger than the actual one ;
when the real amount of them transferred to the Ac-
countant-General transpires, it will he seen that the cal-
culations have been greatly beyond the truth, made upon
the basis of proposed capitals.
The Corn• market was quite depressed to-day, and a
considerable fall in prices was experienced. This shows
that the rumour of corn-law repeal begins to take root,
and that there is more corn in the country than has
been generally credited.

OPENING TILE PORTS. WESTMINSTER REFORM
SOCIETY. —Last night a meeting of the Committee which
was appointed at a recent meeting of the Westminster Re-
form Society, convened to take into consideration the pro-
priety of holding a public meetiag of the inhabitants of the
city of Westminster, to memorialise her Majesty, for the
purpose of inducing the Ministers to open the ports, for the
admission of grain free of duty, was held at Stannard's
Hotel, Charles-street, Covent-garden, to carry that object
into effect, a delay having been occasioned in consequence
of the rumour that the Government had come to the deter-
mination of recommending to Parliament the repeal of the
corn-laws; Mr. Prout in the chair. Mr. Pouncey said that
Lord John Russell had remarked, that after the public
voice had been so unanimously declared in favour of total
repeal, the Government would not take upon themselves the
responsibility of continuing the corn-laws. He thought so
too ; at the same time they ought not to hesitate, since
knowing that the Premier was favourable to free trade, they
ought to give him their support, in order that he might be
able so carry out any proposition he might offer for a total
and unconditional repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. Tubor, Mr.
Lewis, Mr. Reeve, &c., having spoken to the same effect, a
sub-committee was appointed to take measures to convene a
meeting of the electors early in the ensuing week. Thanks
were then voted to the Chairman, who expressed his con-
currence with the resolution unanimously agreed to, and the
meeting separated.
LORD DRUMLANRIG AND THE PRIZE-RING.—ViS-
COIDA Drumlanrig has published a letter respecting the action
about to be tried in the Court of Exchequer, brought by
Caunt, the pugilist, for the recovery of the battle-money in
the late tight for the championship of England for 2001., paid
over, under protest, to liendigo by the stakeholder, in which
his Lordship most positively declares, that if Caunt or Spring
or any of the parties go to trial, he will exert all his influence
on future occasions to prevent them from entering the ring.
his Lordship, who has been a great patron of boxing and a
backer of pugilists, expresses his indignation at the attempt
to reverse the decision of a referee, from which there is no
appeal, by commencing an action for the recovery of the
stakes. On the other hand, it is contended that the referee
(Mr. Osbaldeston) was not appealed to by the • umpires, and
consequently his decision is invalid. Tlie issue will shortly
be tried, and as thousands of pounds in bets are depending
on the verdict, the result is looked to with great interest by
the sporting world.

SPA-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND.—The decision of the
question referred to Mr. Bramwell, respecting the Spa-
fields burial-ground, will not be known until he has made his
award in the matter • nor will any evidence or report he may
receive he suffered to be made public, the learned arbitrator
having decided that the proceedings should not be reported
until he has come to a determination on the subject. It seems
that a surgeon or chemist is to maks an examination of the
ground, and to report what portions should be closed, and
whether the referee will be satisfied with that report, or re-
quire further evidence, will, of course, be for future considera-
tion.