The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1845

North, Mr. Cullen, and Mr. Munck ; there was a fourth
director, but he had no authority to mention his name.
Mr. W. TAYLOR proposed a resolution to the effect—
that in reference to the above project it would not be ex-
pedient to carry out the views originally entertained
with respect to it, especially in the depressed state of the
money market, and the marketable value of the scrip in
the said company, and that the amount of 40,0001. and
upwards in this town having been drawn out of its
natural channel, causing a complete paralysis of business,
especially as that amount is, as it were, lying dead, and
no part of it likely to be returned, except at ruinous
loss, it is respectfully, yet earnestly requested that the
committee of management do take the above matter
into their serious consideration, to this effect, viz., that
the money now left in their hands be returned to the
shareholders, as soon as arrangements can be made to
that effect, minus the expenses already incurred. In
consequence of the general panic, and the change in
monetary affairs, it was now deemed the wisest course
to abandon the line, and for the money advanced to be
repaid minus the expenses, because, although at one
time this line was considered to be a very favourable
one. it was not thought so now ; the fact was, that two
other lines had been projected subsequently to starting
the Nottingham and Gainsborough line, viz., the Gains-
borough, Newark, and Nottingham, or Trent line, and
that supported by the powerful influence of the Midland
Company, with King Hudson at its head. It appeared
that a large portion of the deposits for the intended
Nottingham and Gainsborough were from the inhabit-
ants of this town, and he felt that if they were repaid,
minus the expenses, a large circle of individuals would
be relieved, and trade would be benefitted.
Mr. GEORGE SPARROW seconded the motion.
Mr. E. P. Cox rose and said, that he should oppose
the resolution just read, which was to memorialise the
Board of Directors of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough to abandon their line. On looking around
he saw a number of gentlemen who were shareholders,
and others who would derive a considerable advantage
by this line being abandoned, and would also be the
means of getting up other lines to a premium in which
they were interested. He had paid great attention to
the varions lines projected from this town, and had come
to the conclusion that the Nottingham and Gainsborough
was the most important and best. He conaidered it was
better than the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, the
Erewash Valley, the Nottingham and Lincoln, or the
Nottingham and Manfield Railway put together, and
they were now called upon to abandon this line, as it
was not conceived to be a legitimate scheme. The de-
posits had been better paid up than any other line in
England. Mr. Taylor talked about two lines being in
progress, one of which was stated to the town to have
been abandoned. He perceived. from the report of the
board of directors, that the Nottingham and Gains-
borough line was in an advanced stage, and would be en-
abled to apply to Parliament with a view of obtaining
it. The allotments in the rival line had not been paid
up, and he was sure the Gainsborough, Newark, and
Nottingham Railway was bound to fall to the ground.
It could not be prepared for Parliament, and he believed
the projectors of it had abandoned it. Their wishing to
amalgamate with the Nottingham and Gainsborough
was for the purpose of abandoning their line, and he
was of opinion that the Nottingham and Gainsborough
line was a legitimate one. There were a great number
who had embarked their capital in this line for the pur-
pose of making something by it, but which investment
had unfortunately turned out a bad speculation, but they
must make the best of it by selling out, and let it take
its own course. He would say, if they acted honestly
towards the shareholders, they would recommend that
the board of directors be requested to call a meeting of
the shareholders at large, and present to them a full
report of the position in which they now stand. If that
report was not considered satisfactory to the whole body
of shareholders, or three-fourths of them, then a resolu-
tion may be passed this evening for the directors to
abandon the line, which he should have no objection of
supporting. He had several friends who had embarked
their capital in it (the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Railway), and who were anxious it should be carried.
Let us go to Parliament with a determination of wish-
ing to carry it out. He moved " that a deputation
from this meeting wait on the directors of the Notting-
ham and Gainsborough Railway, for the purpose of
advising them as early as possible to call a meeting of
all the shareholders, for the purpose of placing before
them a full report as they possibly can, as to bow they
stand with regard to the Nottingham and Gainsborough
Line."
Mr. W. TAYLOR said he thought the object of the
meeting would be attained by Mr. Cox's amendment, and
therefore he would withdraw his motion.
Mr. JOHN HILL, Lenton, seconded Mr. Cox's amend-
ment.
Mr. Cox said it was generally known that he was in-
timately acquainted with one of the solicitors of the Not-
tingham and Gainsborough Railway, and through him
he had collected a few facts, which were publicly stated,
as to the terms upon which the amalgamation was
offered. He would relate the terms as near as he pos-
sibly could. The Gainsborough, Newark, and Notting-
ham Company, had expended from 1,2001. to 1,5001., and
they would abandon this line in consideration of the
Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway paying their
expenses. The Board of Directors of the Nottingham
and Gainsborough Railway very properly rejected their
proposition. In the memorial he found the names of
two or three who were not share-holders, and who
had not signed the Parliamentary contract, and
one was a shareholder of the Derby and Grant-
ham line. He could also state that only three of the
Mansfield gentlemen who signed the memorial had
shares allotted to them, and therefore the others might
have considered it as a gambling speculation, in which
they had thought proper to embark. Mr. Cox proceeded
to assert that the Nottingham and Gainsborough line
was the best that had been projected, and that when Mr.
Bateman, the eminent engineer, first learnt that the capi-
tal proposed was 800,000/., he said that it was too small,
and that it ought to have been 900,000 L, but now that he
had been over the line (and he was at present in Notting-
ham) he said that the land was so barren that it might
be purchased for so low a price as to reduce the
capital to 700,000/. He (Mr. Cox) must say that
he blamed the Directors for their apathy and want
of energy. When he heard of this meeting to abandon
the line, he was anxious for an amalgamation, and
had hoped that Mr. Danks, Mr. Bradley and other
gentlemen would have pushed on the Nottingham and
Gainsborough line. He was satisfied that it would be
the best line. Hull had increased two-fold within the
last two years, and they were laying out fifteen acres in
making new docks. There could not be a more decisive
proof of the importance of that port, with which the line
they wished to give up would have another line in direct
communication. It was quite clear that this was a far
better route than the other.
After observations from Mr. Felkin and Mr. Wake-
field,
Mr. SHIPMAN observed that the Gainsborough,
Newark, and Nottingham Company said they had no-
thing to beg or propose. He would give them a short
history of No. 2 line. He did not know anything of No.
2 line until he met Mr. Bean, who said, "my plan
(meaning the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham)
has floored yours ;" but Mr. Bean did not see the great
leviathan behind him ; he did not see the great man
called Hudson, and the Midland Company, which
must be with them, cut and run. Their proposition
was, "will you (the Nottingham and Gainsborough) un-
dertake to pay our expenses, which will be 1,500 L, or—
that fatal word or,' about 2,000!., and we will abandon
our line." This is a brief history of No. 2 line, who had
nothing to propose nor anything to offer. They would
like to put their hands in our pockets, and take 2,0004 if
they could catch hold of it.
Mr. WAKEFIELD resumed, and after a few more obser-
vations, concluded by moving the resolution originally
proposed by Mr. Taylor, which was seconded by Mr.
Steegmann ; but that resolution having been withdrawn,
Mr. Cox's amendment became the original resolution.
The CHAIRMAN put the amendment, when nearly the
whole of the meeting voted for it.
On Mr. Cox's resolution being put, only twelve held
up their hands for it.
The following gentleman were afterwards appointed a
Deputation to wait upon the Directors at the next meet-
ing, viz.,` .he Chairman, Messrs. Felkin, Shipman, Steeg-
mann, and Bell.
REPLY OF THE DIRECTORS TO THE DEPUTATION.

In compliance with the arrangement made last night
at the meeting, the gentlemen forming the deputation
waited upon the Directors of the Nottingham and
Gainsborough Railway Company, who received them
courteously, and after deliberation verbally stated that
they had unanimously resolved as follows :—" That the
board will furnish the deputation with a list of the
Shareholders, and act on the decision of a majority
whether to carry on or break it up, if they legally have
power to do so."
A written answer was requested, but in the absence of
their solicitor declined.
I have received a letter from Mr. Wells, solicitor, since
the meeting last night, stating that the Gainsborough,
Newark, and Nottingham line is not abandoned, nor in-
tended to be, and that everything connected with the
surveys and level.; is going on, that plans may be depo-
sited with the clerk of the peace.

would pass on the south of, and within a short dis-
tance of the race ground and under Mansfield-road, so
as to allow of the road itself being untouched. They
would go to Parliament with a mile of railway and its
furthermost station already in their possession, having
arranged for its purchase with Messrs. North, Wakefield,
and Company, agreeing to pay them so much per mileage
for whatever coals they would have to take along it to
their present terminus near the canal at Old Radford.
At or near their station at Cinder-hill, they would come
into contact with their line from Mansfield, which, or
some other equally eligible for the purpose of the Mineral
Company, would no doubt be constructed. Thus a
source of supply of other kinds of coal from all the coal-
fields up the Leen Valley up to the neighbourhood of
Mansfield, would be opened, and these coals would be
received at Cinder-hill Junction from such railway along
the Mineral railway. In the first place, it was intended
that Nottingham should profit by an increased supply of
coal ; this railway would come across other means
of communication, and thus would draw supplies from
various quarters. They would by this railway be
enabled to obtain coal of all descriptions (which now
they could not do without making a transit of, in some
cases, as much as twenty miles), which could be brought
to Nottingham, and to be delivered by them at a price
per ton of two shillings lees than is now paid, although
the price at the mouth of the pit were not lowered one
farthing. Other details there were which could not be
fully gone into, or be made here the subject of discus-
sion. The public would be protected from monopoly,
and low prices would invariably be secured to them, be-
cause its construction would materially increase the
supplies, and the Company being vendors, and bound
not to pay themselves more than 10 per cent. on their
outlay, the difference in cost would be clear gain to the
consumers. The capital for constructing the line, in-
cluding the branches and all working expenses, would
not be more than 50,000/. or 60,000/. The original
capital of the Company, it was proposed, should consist
of 40,0001., in 4,000 shares of 101. each.
Mr. WOODHOUSE, their engineer, had stated that the
engineering would be found to be light compared to what
he anticipated, as those who knew what Nottingham rock
was were aware that they would be enabled to construct
it without difficulty.
Mr. W. TAYOR said, though the plan was feasible and
useful in relation to Nottingham, he felt that unless it
included the large manufacturing suburbs (Radford,
Basford, and Carrington), that it would be incomplete ;
and, therefore, it was now proposed to accommodate,
by branches and depOts, those districts. The mere cir-
cumstance that at Cinder-hill was a large supply of coal,
lying more proximate than any other equal supply, re-
quiring less than two miles of rails to bring it to a depot
from whence it might be cheaply carted to the doors and
furnaces of consumers, and further that, as such line
would, in all probability be intersected by the Mansfield,
Ambeigate, or other proposed railway, in the valley of
the Lean, had induced them to terminate the Mineral
Railway at Cinder-Hill.
Mr. H. M. WOOD entered into a lengthened descrip-
tion of the route of the line, its gradients, and the esti-
mated cost of its construction. The plan was looked at
with considerable interest, and appeared to be generally
approved.
In answer to Mr. Felkin, Mr. WOOD said, the reason
the line passed on the Nottingham side of the race-
course was, because it would not then involve the de-
struction of any buildings, and would thus avoid oppo-
sition and expressions of unkind feeling on the part of
those whose property would otherwise be injured. The
line, as delineated on the plan, does not cut through
any house ; it does not affect a single brick. The
height of the viaduct necessary would be 40 feet ; this
would be so constructed as to pass free of the Alfreton
road. The line would be a single one all the way. He
(Mr. Wood) had discussed the probable expense with
Mr. Woodhouse. and he had agreed with him that the
estimates were within the amount to be required.
Mr. HARRISON, representing Messrs. Barber and
Walker, said they would send their coal to Nottingham
for 2s. per ton less than at the price proposed, if the line
were carried forward to Watnall, and providing the com-
pany would reconsider their plans, and consent to post-
pone the scheme to another session of Parliament, so
that some means might be proposed to bring Messrs.
Barber and Walker's coal to Nottingham.
A lengthened discussion ensued, in which Messrs.
Harrison and Brentnall, agents of Messrs. Barber and
Walker, and Messrs. Cripps, Booth Eddison, George
Parkin, Felkin, Taylor, Plant, Gee, and others took part,
which ended in the meeting being adjourned, to give
Messrs. Barber and Walker, and other coal owners (if
desirous) an opportunity of conferring with the acting
Committee as to the propriety of extending the line to
Watnall or other districts, in the event of other compa-
nies not gaining Parliamentary sanction to those projects
which would render such extension unnecessary.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.
STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 6M—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield,
21—Caledonian, 914—Cambridge and Lincoln, 3—Derby
and Crewe,.4lA7cirand Junction, 227—Ditto, 40/. Shares

M.), 52A-Leicester and Birmingham, I%—London and
Birmingham, 213—London and York, 358—Direct Northern,
134—Manchester, Sheffield and Midland, Fifth Shares, 1114
—Midland, 139—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19—North Union (A),
204—Ditto (B), 142—North Staffordshire, 43/4—Nottingham
and Boston, 214—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
13—Trent Valley, 16—Dutch Rhenish, 71j8.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bideford and Tavi-
stock, 17s. 6d.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 7—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3—Ely and Hun-
tingdon, 514 c.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 2 11-16
Glasgow and Dumfries, 214—Leeds and Thirsk, 111/—Lei-
cester and Birmingham, 215.—Leicester and Tamworth, 475.

—Lynn anti Dereham, 614—North Staffordshire, 51.35. 3d.
—North Western, 62s.—Nottinghan and Mansfield, 2'A c.—
Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 234 c.—
Oxford, Worcester, and Welverbampton, 151/2—Shropshire
Mineral, 475. c.—South Midland, 61. 2s. c.
BRISTOL, Nor. 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
80—Ditto, New, 63/4—Bristol and South Wales Junction, Ex-
tension to Monmouth, 114—Manchester and Southampton,
23/4—Midland, New 18%—Vale of Neath,
SHEFFIELD, NOT. 24.
STOCK ExcnANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3., 6/. Is. 6d.—Goole and Don-
caster, 234—Grimsby and Sheffield, 10—Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire, 3/. I Is. 6d.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 2%.
LEEDS, Nov. 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tales are—York and North Mid-
land, Scarborough Branch, 504—Huddersfield and Manches-
ter, 71/2—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17—Leeds and Brad-
ford, 42%
,cash—Ditto, Extensions, 381/2 cash—Leeds and
Dewsbury, 13 cash—Leeds and Thirsk, 1034 cash—New-
castle and Berwick, 1034—Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 15 cash—Wakefield Pontefract, and Goole, 30
c. n.—London and York, 3/. 7s.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 3%

—Direct Northern, 13/4.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preettin-,
33/4—West Riding Union, 6 %s—Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,
&c., 12s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 3s. 6d. p.—Lancashire and
North Yorkshire, 7s. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 10s.
dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 6s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—North Western, 21. 19s.—
Wakefield and Bradford, 2s. 6d. dig.—Wakefield and Harro-
gate, 7s. 6d. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%.
HULL, Nov. 24. _ _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 614--
Leeds and Thirsk, 123/4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 3A—
Grand Union, 114.
YORK, NOT. 24.
STOCK EXCAMME.—The sales are—Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 9% —North British, New Carlisle BrErich, 2i. 14s.—Lon -
don and York, 3S(—Grand Union, 14 9s. 6d.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—welsh Midland, 2%.

CHINESE POLICY.
It is to be hoped that the importance of our relations
with the Chinese empire will not be estimated by the
amount of intelligence which generally reaches this
country by the overland mail. Little correct and ex-
plicit information on this subject appears to find its way
to the Indian journals. A few hasty private letters,
communications dictated by the overflowing bile of some
officer living in a sort of exile at Hong-Kong, and the
highly-coloured statements of merchants, whether pros-
perous or unprosperous, added to the meagre articles
of a half-starved press, constitute the sole basis on
which they erect their speculations. There is, conse-
quently, little reason to be surprised at the narrowness
of their views and the general indecision of their lan-
guage ; and still less cause have we to wonder at the
vague, shifting, contradictory notions of such of our
Contemporaries here at home as live in helpless depend-
ence on such guides, in all that relates to the policy of the
further east. To do the Indian press justice, however, we
must admit that it has recently put forward correcter
views, respecting China:and the. Chinese, thanks habitual
copyists in England, who, affecting to be for once inde-
pendent of their teachers, have fallen into the grossest
errors. When we argued some time back that it would
be impolitic to restore Chusan to the Chinese under pre-
sent circumstances, the fickle oracle of Printing House-
square, with tolerably well-feigned indignation, de-
nounced our suggestions as highly profligate. With a
sort of Malay energy, which so frequently urges that
journal into the practice of running a-muck, it flung
itself into an offensive attitude, and prepared to make a
surrender of reason to its destructive propensities. But
happening to be more familiar with the facts of the case,
we were enabled, by a very few plain words, to still the
rage of our Contemporary, and may hereafter, perhaps,
enjoy the advantage—if advantage it be—of having
it as our coadjutor in this matter. We
repeat, theretbre' that Chusan ought not to
be evacuated. Not because it would most likely, in that
case, fall into the hands of the French—though that, we
are prepared to maintain, ought to be an additional in-
ducement for us to do justice to ourselves—but because
the Mantchoo Government of China has not fulfilled its
engagements with us. The most factious and prejudiced
journalist will probably admit that there are more ways
than one of breaking a treaty, and that the most cun-
ning and subtle infraction is as much a breach of com-
pact as a gross and clumsy infringement. This truth,
which, out of deference to common sense, must be recog-
nised, will supply us with sufficient reasons for insisting
on the retention of Chusan. We formerly rested our
arguments chiefly on what has taken place at Canton
ever since the peace ; but facts are coming forward
singly, and invested with no pomp or iappearance of in-
terest, which ought to be regarded as still more signi-
ficant and conclusive. In reality, the Chinese authorities
carry on the war against us still. They have only changed
the phenomena of hostilities, and for material imple-
ments substituted others, fashioned in ethical and poli-
tical forges, which they trust will prove far more effec-
tual. In plain English, the Mandarins at all the con-
sular ports, acting of course under instructions from
Pekin, are labouring to undermine the foundations of
our commerce, and, by instigating the multitude to put
in practice a perpetual system of annoyance and auda-
cious insolence, to drive us from those much coveted
markets in disgust or despair. They who understand
the civil polity of China will be able to perceive bow
this may be done, though the Chinese people be gene-
rally well disposed towards us. Mobs under such a
despotism as that of the Mantchoos are swayed by two
impulses—the one natural, which they would obey if
they could; the other communicated to them by autho-
rity, which, as a rule, they must obey. When engaged
in persecuting an Englishman under the eye of the
Mandarins, they overact their part in order
to ward off from themselves the suspicion of
favouring the outside barbarians. It signifies little to
their victim, therefore, that in their hearts they are sorry
for what they do, and prefer their commercial visitors
from the sea to the ruthless tyrants from Mantchooria,
to whom their own want of courage has given an irre-
sistible ascendency over them. But, however this part
of the question may really stand, every communication
we receive from China may be said to lay before us fresh
proofs that the Tartar authorities are resolved to render
the treaty with Great Britain as nugatory as possible.
Our exclusion from the trade of the north-east coast be-
yond the thirty-second degree of latitude, may be matter
of regret, because it was in that part of the empire that
we might have found the best market for our woollens;
but the fault was our own, and arose out of that hasty
and pedantic diplomacy which has so frequently marred
our prospects in the east. The Chinese had a perfect
right to overreach us if they could. They were not
bound to consult our interest. All they had to do
was to watch over their own. Accordingly, nothing
can be further from our intention than to blame them for
what must be regarded as our own blunder. But that
system of petty vexations—that constant obstruction of
our trade—that fanatical and ferocious persecution
which has been unremittingly carried on against our
countrymen at Canton—and those clandestine hostilities
which have been incessantly pursued against natives of
all ranks who either favoured us while we were in force
in the country, or are suspected of having a leaning to-
wards us now—these things, taken collectively, consti-
tute a good ground for entering into fresh negotiations
with the Government, and demanding other conditions,
which, from its character, it may be more likely to
fulfil. Meanwhile we may, without the least shadow of
injustice, retain possession of Chusan, where an im-
mense trade with the Chinese could be carried on with
little chance of unpleasant collisions between us
and them. As has been repeatedly shown in time of
war moreover—and wars will one day or another
unquestionably arise—the possession of this island
must prove of the highest importance, commanding as it
does the entrance to the Yang-tze-Kiang, which has
justly been denominated the great artery of the empire.
But it is as a means of preserving peace that we are
chiefly disposed to value it. Under present circumstances
the renewal of hostilities may, in our opinion, be con-
stantly looked for, considering the evil disposition of the
Mandarins, and the kind services which the emissaries
of certain friendly Powers are so actively engaged in per-
forming for us in China. To prevent the evil conse-
quences of these and other causes of misunderstanding,
we have no representative at the Court of Pekin or on
the coast, for Sir John Davis is little better than a cypher.
All his energies evaporate in squabbles with the British
merchants at Hong-Kong ; and if this were not the case
he is obviously quite incapable of coping with the subtle
diplomatists of China. A new mission to Pekin, there-
fore, might be very prudently undertaken just now, and
the ambassador who should conduct it would find suffi-
cient employment for his abilities, however keen
or brilliant they might be. He might remove
much misunderstanding, and postpone conside-
rably the period of inevitable collision between
the two countries. We say inevitable collision,
because it would, in our our opinion, be wholly impossi-
ble to pruerve for any great length of time purely pa-
cific relations with such a Government .s that of China.
Despotisms are like children, easily forgetting past dis-
asters and chastisements, end prone to proc,nke fresh
ones by acts of petulant caprice. In the actual p,:,sture
of affairs, however, an able English statesman at Peittl
might possibly check the tendency of the Mantchoo
Court to insolence and injustice, and thus preserve it
for a while from those humiliations which it seems at
present to be courting ; for great prepararations, we are
told, are making for resistance or aggression, new im-
provements being attempted in military discipline, in the
fabrication of arms, in the science of tactics, and in the
erection of fortifications. They discern clearly enough
what is about to happen, partly from knowing their own
designs, and partly from observing the inevitable course
of events. It remains to be seen whether they will find
us prepared for the struggle or not ; but there will cer-
tainly be considerable danger should our interests in
that part of the world be confided to no abler hands than
those of Sir John Davis.—Chronicle.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON BOARD A BLACKWALL
STEAMER.—Yesterday, at about a quarter to one o'clock, as
the Railway steamer was passing Erith, on her way to
Gravesend, the after-deck passengers were alarmed by the
report of a pistol from one of the deck cabins, the door of
which was fastened inside. On forcing it open, a young man
was found with his head and arms resting on the table, ,and
a pistol, just discharged, in one hand. He at first appeared to
be dead, but on being raised he looked around him, and said
that he had committed the act himself ; that he had come
on board prepared and determined to put an end to his exist-
ence, and expressed a hope he had succeeded in giving him-
self a fatal wound ; that his friends had driven him to it ;
and that he did not want any of them to know anything
about what he had done. Immediately on being landed at
the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Mr. Hodges, the master of the
workhouse, was sent for, and, at the desire of the unfor-
tunate young man he had him removed there, and at
once attended by Mr. Saunders, surgeon to the establish-
ment. After a lengthened examination of the wound,
during which the patient, with great self possession, directed
the operators where to search for the ball, which he said he
felt in the back of his neck, the gentlemen declared it to
be their opinion that the ball, which penetrated at the upper
part of the bridge of the nose, pretty nearly as high as be-
tween the eyes, had either lodged in the neck or spinal
bone, or striking upon that bone, and being repelled by it,
had fallen into the oesophagus, and had been swallowed as it
passed into the stomach. With the probe, after various
trials by both gentlemen, the lodgment of the ball could not
be discovered ; and, the external wound having been dressed,
the patient was put to bed in the sick ward, after repeatedly
refusing-to give his name, or state who is friends were. On
his shirt was marked the name of " H. J. Colebrooke," and
the same name within the leather lining in pencilling on his
hat. He is about twenty-two
.years of age, in person slight,
and about five feet five inches in height. In his coat-pocket
was found a pistol, powder-horn half-full of powder, and in
his waistcoat-pockets some percussion-caps and a silver pen-
cil-case and metal pocket-comb. In his pantaloon pocket
there were ls. 6d. in silver.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—A gang of four Or
five fellows are now going through the country dressed in the
garb of sailors, offering for gale a set of apparently handsome
decanters. They pretend to have come from a foregn port—
generally Hamburgh, and that the decanters were for a
friend or relative; but running short of money, they are re-
luctantly compelled to part with them. They have duped
several Falmouth folks during the past week ; for, upon ex-
amination, the articles were found to be worthless trash,
neither of the set being perfect, and all the refusal of the re-
gular trade. They are not licensed, and they decamped from
Falmouth in a hurry, having ascertained that the police were
on the look out for them, and are by this time, probably
offering their deceptive wares in some other town in the
county.— West Briton.
THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY= 'Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Co-
burg, left the Bricklayers' Arms station of the South-Eastern
Railway at a quarter-past eleven yesterday morning for
Folkestone, .where they embarked on board the South-
Eastern and Continental
foraSteamcket Company's steam •
ship the Queen of the Be Boulogne. The chairman
of the South-Eastern Railway and Viscount Torrington and
Mr. Brown, directors, were in attendance on their Royal
Highnesses,
who were accompanied by the Count de Jarnac
and Colone Wyld.
THE NEW DEAN OF CANTERBURY.—It is said
that Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the vacant deanery at
Canterbury on the Rev. Wm. Rowe Lyall, Archdeacon of
Maidstone, and brother, we believe, of the_Member for the
1 City of London.