The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-10 00:00:00

SYSTON AND PETERBOROUGH
RAILWAY.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT).
STAMFORD, ARCH B.—This day OUT quiet town has
been in a ferment occasioned by the clerk of an attorney,
who is also a manorial steward to the Marquis of Exeter,
carrying about a petition to the House of Commons against
this railway : the objection to the line is that its crossing the
road on the level near the bridge will be dangerous.
A little handbill was soon distributed in the town to
caution persons against being entrapped, as this objection is
the only bugbear the Marquis of Exeter can take against the
Bill. At twelve o'clock the enormous number of 26 persons
had signed this precious document, although it was headed
by " Chas. Haycock, Mayor," who bad on the previous day
also solicited signatures. His Worship, it is reported, is
about to add a weather vane argent to his coat of arms, he
having signed the memorial in jiwour of this line. At the
close of this day not sixty inhabitants had signed the peti-
tion. The memorial in favour of the line now before the
Board of Trade was signed by 2,000. It is expected that
Sir George Clerk will oppose the wishes of his constituents
on this most important measure for the benefit of the town.
The following excellent bill was issued yestarilay evening:—
" TO THOSE WHO SLAVE SIGNED, AND THOSE WHO CONTEM-
PLATE SIGNING, THE PETITION AGAINST TIIR SYSTON AND
PETERBOROUGH LINES CROSSING ON A LEVEL AT THE
BRIDGE.

"Gentlemen,—Spare your humanity, since you will not
extend it ! The evil you sign against is most problematical
—the good you would oppose most positive ! You tell us
our lives would be endangered by the railway—we tell you
our lives are in danger without it ! You tell us that life
may be lost by an accident—we tell you that our lives may
be lost from starvation lirs We ask for work, that we may
live—we are told we are permitted to live in a workhouse!
A railway is offered which will bring to our own desolate
homes the comfort and blessing of cheap coal—and you
mock humanity by refusing this, affecting to regard our
safety!, Truly "the corruption oireason is worse than bru-
tality itself." Pray retire to your own cheerful firesides, eat,
drink, and be merry—think for yourselves if you please; but
leave us alone. We ask not your aid—we seek not your ad-
vice—we detest and despise your opposition.
" Signed, on behalf of the poor
" H
* Coals are n'olll 2Gs. to 30s. per ton.

CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY LINES.
A meeting of the Trustees of the Paper-mills, Turnpike-
road, took place at the Red Lion, Cambridge, on Saturday,
the Rev. Dr. Graham in the chair. The following Trustees
were present :—The Rey. Dr. Webb (Master of Clare); G.
Pry-me, Esq. Ebenezer Foster, Esq. ;G. Fisher, Esq, ;C.
Pemberton, Esq.; H. J. Adeane, Esq. ; W. P. Hammond,
Esq.; Henry King, Esq.; S. Chambers, Esq. ; W. Swann,
Esq. ; and C. Balls, Esq.
The minutes of the former meeting having been read and
confirmed,

Mr. HAICCE, the Clerk of the Trust, stated that, in con-
formity with the resolution passed at the preceding meeting
(Saturday, March 1), he wrote, on March 3, to the Secretary
of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company, expressing
regret that the illness of the engineer, Mr. Buck, should have
prevented the solicitors of the Bill from sending an under-
taking to insert the two clauses proposed by the Trustees,
and requesting that they would, before the adjourned meet-
ing on the Bth, give the Trustees a positive undertaking to
insert the clauses, otherwise they would not feel themselves
any longer justified in remaining passive. In consequence of
that letter, lie had, on March the 6th, received a communica-
tion from the solicitors to the Cambridge and Lincoln Rail-
way, dated March the 6th, stating that they saw no objection
to the clauses, but that they could not have been
included in the first print of the Bill, inasmuch as
it was presented and deposited in the Private Bill-
office before they received them. They added, that
they expected that the engineer (Mr. Buck) would be shortly
sufficiently recovered to be in town; but should that not be
the case, that they would consult another engineer; and en-
tertained no doubt that they should be authorised to give
the undertaking required by the Trustees. A short discus-
sion ensued, in which some sparring took place between Mr.
Alderman Fisher, a promoter of the Bill, and C. Pemberton,
Esq., an anti-promoter ; and during which, Ebenezer Fos-
ter expressed doubts of the safety in grudging the small
fund requisite to petition. The Bill, he said, would be read
a second time on Monday, March 10th (this day), and three
clear days required by the standing orders alone remained to
petition. They had not the undertaking to secure them ;
only a repetition of the promise. lie had seen so many
trickeries in London with Parliamentary agents and railway
Bill solicitors, to make him fear the Bill might be hurried on
to a third reading, to the exclusion of their power of pe-
titioning.
G. PRTME, Esq. (late M. P. for Cambridge), explained,
that by the Board of Trade's recent decision, the Cambridge
and Lincoln Railway Bill could not go into Committee till
after Easter. They had three weeks for adjournment
and petition if the undertaking was not sent.
After some conversation as to the most convenient day for
adjournment, 11. J. Adeane, Esq., proposed the following re-
solution :
That this meeting do adjourn to Thursday, the 20th
inst., at twelve o'clock, in the expectation and reliance, that
previously to that day, the solicitors to the Cambridge and
Lincoln )lailway Bill will give the undertaking required
from them, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to
them."

The resolution having been seconded by Wm. Parker
Hammond, Esq , was carried unanimously ; and the meeting,
after the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman, which he
acknowledged, separated.

PETITIONS AGAINST THREE RAILWAY LINES.
At the same time and place in Cambridge, the Com-
mittee . appointed by a meeting of the Ely Turnpike
trustees held on Monday, March 3, met for the purpose of
carrying out the resolutions passed on that day. The re-
solutions were that petitions be forthwith presented to Par-
liament against three railway lines, viz.—l. The Cambridge
and Lincoln Railway ; 2. Cambridge and Huntingdon ; 3. The
Ely and Bedford; and that committees be appointed to draw
up the petitions so resolved. The Committee accordingly
met on Saturday, C. Pemberton, Esq., in the chair, and agreed
upon the draft of three petitions in conformity with the above
resolutions.

FlRE.—Betweeen three and four o'clock on Satur-
day morning considerable alarm was created, from a fire
being discovered in one of the sheds belonging to Edwards
and Bennett's hay and straw-yard, adjoining the extensive
premises of Messrs. Goding, brewers, Belvidere-road. A
man who slept in the yard was the first who discovered the
fire ; he instantly raised the alarm, when the police-con-
stable who was on duty ran for the West of England and
Waterloo-road engines, while those connected with the place
proceeded to get the horses out—sixteen in number, all of
which were turned loose into the road. Several of the fire•
men belonging to the West of England establishment
arrived just as the fire was obtaining a hold, but a
plentiful supply of water being on the premises, they suc-
ceeded, by means of buckets, in preventing the fire from
extending, and which they ultimately succeeded in extin-
guishing. had the discovery been delayed a quarter of an
hour longer, the whole place must have been destroyed, and,
in all probability, the whole, or at least a great portion, of
the brewery would also have fallen a prey, as the access from
the road is extremely difficult for engines.
NOVEL MODE OF PERFORMING DIVINE SERVICE TO
TILE DEAF AND DUAlll.—Yesterday afternoon the following
novel mode of performing Divine service to a congregation
consisting chiefly of deaf and dumb persons took place at the
chapel of the Scottish Hospital, in Fleur-de-lis-court.
Trinity-passage, Fetter-lane. 'I he sermon was preached by
the Rev. John Adey, and was rendered intelligible to the
deaf and dumb portion of the auditory, of whom a great num-
ber of both sexes had assembled, by a Mr. Banks, a gentle-
man who is conversant with the modes of signs used by the
deaf and dumb, interpreting every word as it was uttered by
the preacher, and the rapidity of his motions in effecting this
was truly astonishing. The chapel has been opened by the
Society for the Relief of the Destitute Deaf and Dumb, thus
affording an opportunity for that afflicted portion of the com-
munity the privilege of being enabled to attend Divine ser-
vice, from which by reason of their infirmity they had been
shut out.

SINGULAR AND FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE
o.)N,Env,vrivE Crxn-IlousE.—On Saturday afternoon an
accident, which it is believed will be attended with fatal re-
sults, took place at the above named club-house. It appears
that one of the waiters, named Joseph Smith, aged 25, who
was assisting in drawing up coals from the cellar, through
the various trap doors, to the top of the house, which was
performed by means of a crane, essayed, at length, to go down
n the scuttle which had brought the coals up. He had not,
however, descended many feet, when the chain by which
he was suspended snapped asunder, and he was precipitated
into the cellar beneath, from a height of several yards. Ho
was conveyed in a state of insensibility to St. George's Hospi-
tal, where he remains in a most deplorable state of suffering
from a fractured spine and other serious injuries.
FRENCH STATISTICS.—A comparative table of the
being 361,000
fraorolo csf. ran I
franca
11e8s344t;hatnhet3 the pre-
ceding into France, during the years 1843, 1844, and 1845,
has just been published. The duties received in January,
01n841y5,10,350,
amounted
169 frteon cisi,'3b6e?
,1
ep-erere-
ceding year. In January last, the coffee consumed was
10,495 metrical quintals, in 1844 it was 9,655 •
quintals, and in
1843, 8,659 quintals, showing a progressive increase. Cotton
wool is put down in 1845 at 51,328 quintals in 1844. a t 43,927,
and in 1843 at 53,213 quintals. The importationof flaxen and hempen thread in 1845 was 10,277
quintals, in 1844 7 543
and in 1843 8,721, quintals. There has been a remarkable
increase in the introduction of raw cast-iron from 23,932
quintals in 1843, to 41,115 quintals in 1844, and 58,081
quintals in 1845. In January, 1843, there was received
for consumption 5,807 quintals of sesamum, an oleagenoua
seed, in 18. 44 the quantity was 11,484 quintals, and in 1845,
11,908 quintals. The importation of coal has shown a re-
markable progression. In January, 1843, it was 668,241
quintals, in 1844, 807,404, and in 1845, 1,241,032 quintals.
'There has been also an increase in wools. In 1843 the arri-
vals amounted to 20,126 quintals, in 1845, to 21,008, but in
1844 there were only 14,754 quintals. The increase of duty
received was greater in proportion which is to be attributed
to the greater quantity of line wool brought in. The con-
sumption of colonial sugar in 1843 was 60,807 quintals, in
1844, 66,291, and in 1845, 73,013. But there has been a
decrease in f ireign sugars. The import of cloths has been
this year rather greater than the last, but less than in
1843. These comparisons apply only to the quanties upon
which duties have been paid, and not to the gross arrivals.
Earl Fitzwilliam and a family circle, including Lord and
Lady Milton, are staying at Milton Turk, and are not ex-
peck to return -to town until after Easter.

VIE4FM' 7.""
LATER PROM AMERI-A-;:-
By an arrival at Liverpool we have reCelved \New Tarr • journals to the 12th of February. The Is4t Accounts f
Washington stated that the Committee of the Senate on e 7l>
foreign relations had reported on the TeXiaff question. 4117;4,:‘,.::,
report is very long, but the importance o 4 the document liea ,4
in its conclusion, which is as follows : F..
"The Committee respectfully recommend the adoption of
the following resolutions :
" Resolved—That the joint resolution from the'liouse of. NT
Representatives for the annexation of TexaSles the Unftisd
States be rejected.
"‘ Resolved—That t!!e several Bills and joint resolutions
originating in the Senate, the resolutions of sundry State
Legislatures, and the petitions and memorials ofmany citizens
of the United States, for and against the annexation of Texas
to this union, which have been referred to this Committee, do
lie upon the table."'
The Committee consisted of Mr. Archer, of Virginia,
Chairman, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Berrien, Mr. Morehead, Mr.
Choate. Mr. Buchanan only dissented from the report. Tha
discussion was expected to commence immediately, and no
doubt appears to have been entertained of the adoption of the
above resolutionF.
The money, stock, and commercial markets were in II buoyant state. Tho New YOrk Commercial Advertiser of the
11th of February says that the sales on the Stock Exchange
that clay were to a large amount. Kentucky Sixes improved
A ; Illinois special bonds, ; Morris Canal, 1 ; Erie Railroad,
A ; Stonington Railroad, ; Long Island Railroad declined,
; Norwich and Worcester, I' Canton Co., 14.
ExcuAscE.—Foreign—Bills on London are in fair demand
at 109; 110 i. On France, St'. 23g.