The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-28 00:00:00

C HESTER, WHITCHURCH, WEM, and
SHREWSBURY RAILWAY.
Capital 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 64. each Share.
Provisionally Registered.

The object of this Railway- is to connect Liverpool, Birkenhead,
Chester, with South Wales and the West of England, forming a
Junction at Chester with the Chester and Birkenhead and the
Chester and Holyhead Railways, and also at Whitchurcb, forming a
Junction with the Trent Valley Continuation and the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railways, and thence continue its
course through Wem to Shrewsbury, there forming a junction with
the Hereford and South Wales and West of England Railways, being
the direct route to Bristol. _ .

Full p:u-tculars, and names of the Provisional Committee, will be
published in a few days ; in the meantime applications for Shares
may be addressed to the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Vincent and
Sherwood, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Harper and Parry Jones,
Whitchurch, Salop.

enterprise and activity for which the Scottish nation is
so justly distinguished. In saying this, we mean to
speak, of course, comparatively. Scotland is by
no means so rich a country as England ;
but, ccrteris paribus, we may well doubt whether Eng-
land has not shown more alacrity and industry in im-
proving her sources of natural production. In any case,
tha extension of her fisheries, and nature has supplied
her with some of the finest in the world, has not been
prosecuted by Scotland with half the ardour or success
that she has shown and realised in advancing her agri-
culture and stock-farming. Much, even as to her
fisheries, she has accomplished, but she has not yet
availed herself of a tithe of the opportunities that pre-
sent themselves for profitably extending them in a hun-
dred localities upon her creek, estuary, and harbour-
ndented shores.

There is, perhaps, in all Europe, no landed gentry
who possess better, or more extensive, fishing fields
than that of Scotland, scattered, as their possessions are,
along a coast line of vast extent, washed with seas that
swarm with fish. It is much to be deplored that the
great landowners in these districts—take, for example,
the Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland—do not
far more largely avail themselves of the means which
are thus ready to their hands, of increasing their own
fortunes by vastly benefiting those of the hardy natives
who hold under them. They are fishermen by the acci-
dents of their birth, and the necessities, not less than
the advantages of their position. But their energies,
their intrepidity, their endurance, and fortitude, being
at present limited to little more than the care of provid-
ing for the immediate subsistence of themselves and
their families, are rarely accompanied by that perseve
ranee which permanent employment, at however high
wages, and the exertions of capital among them, would
be sure to stimulate. Fresh fish in the spring and
summer, and cured fish for the winter, with a scanty
supply of potatoes raised by that slovenly tillage of
neglected garden plots and closes which the sagacity and
sarcasm of the late Dr. MAccum.oca shamed, for a time,
into something like transitory activity, are too com-
monly the utmost achievements of their forecast and
their exertions. Having so few resources to fall back
upon, their poverty habituates them to a reliance more
or less, on one or two, exclusively, out of that limited
number. A wet summer or a protracted winter de-
stroys, or nearly destroys, their potato harvest. A very
boisterous season greatly diminishes the produce of
their fishery. The decay of their once valuable kelp-
trade leaves them little or no chance of repairing either
of these calamities. _

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning •• 54 minutes after 6 I Evening •• 26 minutes after 7

The followingare thequotations for the new lines :
Orlears and Bordeaux, 220 f. premium ; Boulogne, 110 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 50f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 20f.; ditto (Calon), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 35f. ; ditto (Rosamel),
7f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ; ditto ( Drouil-
lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 201. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compapie Meridionale), 10f. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 4f. 50c. ; ditto and Cette (Espe-
lets), 17f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, if. 50c. ; Paris and
Strasburg (Ganneron), 121.50 c.
LYONS, MAY 23.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,060 f., cash;
Orleans and Vierzon, 825 f., end of May; Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 730 f., ditto; Boulogne, 617 f., ditto; Nismes and
Montpelier, 590 f.

But let some great proprietors emulate the noble
example of Mr. MATHESON, M.P., on his enormous pro-
perty of Lewis, which we yesterday described in our
columns. Let them reclaim their bog and moor lands
by drainage ; let them build and furnish fishing and
curing stations ; facilitate the purchase of nets, tackle,
and implements, where such aid is required of them at
the hands of meritorious individuals : let them cut
roads, deepen water ways, and avail themselves of the
substantial material which nature has every where
around them placed within their reach, of ereeling darns,
constructing harbours, and all other works requiring
only rude and massive masonry ; and they will be oul-
tiplying ten-fold the present value of their rent-roll',
and ameliorating a hundred-fold the physical comforts I
and condition of their poor tenants and compatriots.
When these primary elements shall have been got into
vigorous and well-combined action, then let the land-
owner introduce a simple but generous plan of moral
education for those whose social lot he will have already
so incalculably improved. What will be the amount of
free unalloyed enjoyment which they Rill thus secure
for themselves, who will move about wide domains more
overspread with an aspect of busy and contented in-
dustry and cheerful vigilance, amidst the most inhos-
pitable rigours that may at times beset the climate, and
gaze, with honest emotion, cn the noble contrast which
their own efforts, their own desire to amend the hard
existence of these remote but well- disposed people, and
their own spirited liberality have established, with
the desolate and savage and dispiriting fea-
tures that the same country presented but three
or four years previously. In Sutherlandshire,
in Caithness, and along the northern and north-western '
shores of Scotland, how much may yet be done, fraught
with better and more salutary influences than all that
poor laws can effect for a well disposed and kindly-
natured people. Let the same fine spirit which is now
diffusing life and activity to the most distant corners of
the " distant Lewis," visit the pauperised recesses of
Mull and Tobermory, or Sutherlandshire itself ; but not
to expel—not to eject—not even to force into an ill-pro-
vided-for emigration, a starving yet reluctant race of
hereditary but impoverished tenants. There are Dukes
in Scotland—Lords of the fairest lands in Sutherland-
Mire and Argyllshire, who, if they would betake them-
selves to follow out such plans as the wise and generous
proprietor of Lewis is now working for the improvement
of his property—and the people on it —might hope, like
him, to verify the glorious aspiration of our lyric poet,
snd " read their history in a nation's eyes." Let those
Dukes " go and do likewise."

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 20th inst. On
that day the Senate voted the entire budget, by a ma-•
jority of 70 to 5, and this closed the business of the
Cortes, which, as will be seen by a telegraphic dispatch,
was prorogued thrae days afterwards. The Court was
to set ou t for Catalonia on the 24th.

On the 20th the Three per Cents. closed at 321, and
331 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. 24 for cash, and
24i at 60 days; and the Debt without luterest at 8 3-16
at 60 days.

The following telegraphic dispatch has been received
at Paris :

" The Queen of SPAIN closed the session of the Cortes,
in person, on the 23d instant. The new Constitution
was promulgated on the same day."

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the affairs
of Morocco and Algeria, and the forthcoming discussion
-al the Budget. On the latter subject the Journal des
Debuts says :—" The Chamber of Deputies will be able
to enter on the discussion of the budget of estimates; at
the heginning of next month. The report of M. Bic,
NON'S r6p,,..is in the press, and will be distributed to the
Deputies in the -purse of a week. The five Bills, fur
the removal of the hu'el of the Minister of Foreign
credit for Algeria—
Affairs—for the extraordina.;
For the police—for the railroads-
-for the colonial
s railroad
regulations—and for the Paris and Ly,:_n ,
et
will probably be brought forward before the g
The report on the extraordinary credits for Algeria,
which amount to 14,430,000 f., was distributed on
Saturday, and will be taken into consideration on Tues-
day. The Committee, after having taken a full view of
the entire situation of Algeria, has made a rigid exami-
nation of all the questions connected with the conquest
of this country, its government, and colonisation.
On the day the Committee was formed it was made
acquainted with the projected expedition of Marshal
BCGEAUD against the Kabyle country. Marshal SOULT,
to whom the Committee applied fur a full statement of
the case, sent a summary of all the late reports from
the country in question. Soon afterwards the Minister
of War attended the Committee, and declared that, in
his opinion, the intended expedition would have favour-
able results, but he did not consider it urgent, and there-
fore the Government would not consent to any increase
of the effective force for this purpose. The Committee
admits the propriety of keeping up the effective force
for the present year at 82,000 men and 15,513 horses."
The Constitutionnel has changed its tone relative to the
failure of the commercial treaty with MoroCco, ati,d now
implies that the failure has been brought about by
English influence. M. GurzoT, of course, comes in for
a share of the blame. The following are observations
on this affair in that journal :
" A council of Ministers was held on Saturday relative to
the affairs of Morocco. It is stated that the resolution come
to was such as ,might be expected from the Cabinet which
signed the treaty of Tangiers, disavowed MM. Dupetit
Thouars and D'Aubigny, and indemnified Mr. Pritchard.
The convention negotiated by M. Delarue had a double ob-
ject—to regulate the question of limits, and to assure to our
commerce certain commercial advantages. It was the
execution of two articles of the treaty of Tangiers.
The convention has just been ratified by France,
but the Emperor Abderrhaman, disavowing his ple-
nipotentiaries, refuses the ratification. What course
will be taken ? The matter •is perfectly simple. General
Delarue will be disavowed without noise, and a new negotia-
tion commenced. It will be stated, it is already said, that
M. Delarue has gone beyond his instructions, and that
he was too exacting with regard to that Moorish Govern-
ment, which, in other respects, gives us so many proof: of
goodwill and deference. In thel frontier question' without
giving way to the cunning and tardiness of the Arab nego-
tiators, who would have prolonged the discussion to eternity,
relative to every blade of grass, M. Delarue decided the
question equitably, like a geometrician, and obtained the
assent of the negotiators. This-operation will be gone over
again, and Abderrhaman will receive some portion of
the territory which he claims. As to the commercial ques-
tion, it will be abandoned purely and simply, under the firm
of indefinite postponement, to please not only the Emperor
Abderrhaman, but also another power. Such are the poli-
tical exploits by which our Ministry will impress the Moorish
tribes with respect for France,and will perpetuate the remem-
brance of the victory of Islyl You will find that M. Guizot
and M. Duchatel will attempt to prove afterwards that by
this condescension they are giving the Maugrabins a high
p e rTlo rh aenbduws
ienaeksesniend At
hb -el-eKnacdher.''
idea of France I See, in fact, how the evacuation of Moga-
e
onshayreosfT localpienrtecreenstts.
Moga-
dore and the treaty of Tangiers have strengthened the Ein-
the somewhat
Five
pdeerp depressed.
Chamber on Monday was
closedT h The
at prices
85f.
Bisne t;hetheFNu
enwd
Loan,and
*Re: 121 f. 85c.; Orleans
Railroad Shares at 1,227 f. 50c.
817 f. 50c. ; Havre, 885 f, •
2 Avignon,uen, I,loof. ; Vierzon,
1,03 a. 50c • Basle,
270 f. ; Spanish Actives, 3u'frt; ; Spanish
Passives, 7%.
at The Three wlhsercre.ee;

TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28 1845.

Sambre and Meuse . . 4
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
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Australasia

LLOYD'S IPe.i.m.4.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 28.—Wind N.E., moderate breeze and
cloudy, with showers.
DEAL, MAY 27.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., light.—Sld.
Ethelred, Aden ; Ranger, Sierra Leone •, Belle Creole, De-
merara ; Rebecca, Honduras ; Cremona, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind N.E.--Arrd. her Majesty's
ships Electra and Illustrious, Bermuda ; Brunswick, steamer,
Plymouth, get ashore this morning in a thick fog, but came
off with the flood.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 27.--Sld. Royal Tar, steamer, •
Gibraltar.
OFF THE WIGHT.—Don Antonio, Valparaiso.
OFF DARTMOUTH.—Northumberland, Brid, Madras.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Sid. Wilberforce and Richard Rey-
nold, Quebec. Off, Abberton, Campbell, Port Phillip.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 27.—The Bolina, arrived here from
New. Zealand and the Falkland !Islands, reports the crew
and master of the Jane Grey were at Port William (Falkland
Islands), Feb. 10. She had been struck by a sea off Cape
Horn, and bore up for the islands, and was subsequently
wrecked on the West Falkland, Feb. 10. The Manney was
condemned at Falkland Islands, had discharged part of
her cargo, and was waiting a vessel from Monte Video to
take the cargo into Valparaiso. Her Majesty's ship Philomel
was lying there.
FALMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind variable and light.—Off,
Saline, New York, for Hamburgh.
OFF TILE OLD HEAD OS' KINSALE, MAY 25.—Henry Gar-
diner, Kinsale.
WHITEHAVEX, MAY 27.—The Catherine and Isabella,
from the Clyde to Liverpool, ashore near Booth, has been got
off, and put in here to repair.
PORT TALBOT, MAY 26.—The John Thompson,from White-
haven, with iron ore, grounded on a hollow near the quay at
Neath, and strained and filled, and has been discharged for
repairs.
BERWICK, MAY 23.—S1d. Mohawk, South Seas.
LONDONDERRY, MAY 20.—Sld. Harriet, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Cahawba, New York ; Agenora, Philadelphia.
COWES, MAY 27.—S1d. Unicorn, Swan River.
SWANSEA, MAY 25.—Sld. Elizabeth Beynon, Valparaiso.
OFF BRIGHTON.—Tiber, Charleston, for Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 27.—Arrd. Douglas, Farrell, Loango.
Sld. Epamonidas, Boston ; Eliza Ann, Rio Grande; Flibberty,
Bahia ; Emehe, Africa ; Diana, Barbadoes ; Isabela, .Phila-
delphia; Waterloo, New York; Junius, Nova Scotia. Off,
Ottoman, —.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 27.—The Elizabeth Vane, off and
for this port from Hamburgh, is ashore near here.
CLYDE, MAY 26.—Sid. Benares, Gilkison, Trinidad.
POSSESSION ISLAND, FEB.—Loading, Manley, Glover.
IcfrAnoE, 3lAncti 10.—Arrd. Fame London ; Lochinvar,
Clyde. 11. Aulaby, Southampton.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

Group F.

The Committee met again this day in Room No. I ; present,
the Right Hon. F. Shaw, Chairman ; Mr. Drummond, Mr. V.
Stuart, Mr. Bramaton, and Mr. Lockhart. The Committee pro.
ceeded with the adjourned case of the
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