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TliE SbNl_ i4OITDON,_ THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1844.

commended to Min by his fullest conviction leadt;
as he knows, to nothing essential in religion, to
nothing at least both essential and good (for it may,
in many ways, lead to essential evil), while it
causes both offence and fear, not to say scandal.
We have already more than once lamented the
prevailing propensity to make such questions as this
before us the subject of newspaper discussion, but
what can we do ? Views are presented and even
acts are done that excite discontent and alarm from
one extremity of England to the other, and
the discontented and alarmed classes are composed
precisely of those whom we are most accustomed
and most bound to respect. Are we to impose
silence upon their remonstrances, even if we our-
selves could say that we stand indifferent in the
matter, which certainly we cannot say ? The
able and truly learned correspondent, -whose
letter we annex to these observations, proves, we
think, most satisfactorily, that even the letter of the
law does not enjoin any rigour of rubrical con-
formity, like that suggested in the Helston case,
upon either bishops or clergy ; but what it
the letter of the law did enjoin such
rigour ? The letter has been a dead letter
for at the very least two centuries. Now this
long desuetude would be treated as an absolute
repeal of the law in every country of the world
except England; and upon these obvious grounds
of reason, that in the lapse of many years changes
of manners arise, new institutions have birth, new
laws are enacted, to which it is natural to suppose
the dormant law would have been adapted had
not the law slept in the practical disregard of the
people. IN the secular code of England, and in
this code only in all the world, desuetude, as we
have admitted, does not work a repeal ; and
why ? Because in England, the Legislature has
for centuries been presumed to be always alive,
and awake, and vigilant to relieve our code from
mischievous or frivolous and useless laws ; an un-
merited compliment to the Legislature of the coun-
try, as was provel by all the cloud of disused and
obsolete laws swept from the Statute-book
in 1824 by the present Premier ; but a complimen-
tary notion which sufficiently explains why in Eng
land only desuetude does not work the repeal of a
law. " Cessante ratione," however, " eessal et lex.-
Our ecclesiastical legislature is not constantly sit-
ting—on the contrary, it has not for more than
a century sat for any effectual purpose; and,
therefore, by the analogy of all other codes
in similar circumstances, we are bound to con-
sider as repealed all ecclesiastical laws that have
fallen into desuetude. Even supposing therefore, in
defiance of the clear demonstration of our corres-
pondent, that the law relied upon by the Bishop of
Exeter was ever of force, it is of force no longer; and
why in the name of peace and common sense should
it be'now revived, with no other possible effect than
to distract the Church ?

LAW
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 20.
BURGESS V. BEAUMONT.

This was an action for services in the tuition of the
defendant's family.
The defebdabt pleaded that the plaintiff had hveti
guilty of dishonest and immoral conduct, and was not
fit to fill the situation of governess in a gentleman's
family. To this plaintiff demurred, and the argu-
ment came on this day.
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd appeared in support of the
demurrer; and the Court, after hearing Mr. Sergeant
Ryles for the defence, resolved that the plea was bad.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION'-HOUSE.

TIIE FRENCH FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.—This
case, which has created very great interest in this
country and abroad, as being the first application
under the Convention Act, was again brought for-
ward, upon an application to the Lord Mayor to
grant a warrant to arrest Jaques Besset, a French
merchant residing in London, accused of the French
crime of " fraudulent bankruptcy."
Mr. E. James applied as counsel for the pro-
secuting creditors, and narrated that the Court of
Queen's Bench held the warrant bad upon the ground
of a defect in the statement of the crime and the
direction to the gaoler, and had made no decision as
to the substance of the crime itself. By granting a
warrant, the Lord Mayor would afford an opportunity
of initiating proceedings de novo, and thus clear away
a difficulty only occasioned in the first instance by
the illegality of the instrument upon which Besset
was committed to the custody of the keeper of the
gaol. The necessary documentary proofs recognised
by the French law were ready, and the Learned
Counsel submitted that there could he no valid ground
for refusing the warrant under all the circumstances.
The LORD MAYOR intimated that he would attend
to any witnesses the Learned Counsel might think
proper to call.
Mr. Jean Elme Vincent Dubois then produced the
original warrant against Jaques Besset, which charged
that individual with " fraudulent bankruptcy," a com-
plex offence, committed by more than one person.
Witness knew Besset, and that the warrant, signed
by a competent authority, had been issued
against him upon the depositions and documents of
correspondence proved before the Tribunal of the First
Instance, in Paris.
M. Alphonse Dost Noel, a French notary, stated
that he was acquainted with the French law, and the
criminal law of France. He deposed to the legality
of the French warrant, and the course of proceeding
from which that warrant resulted.
The LORD MAYOR said that he had looked very
particularly into th© Act, and as the person accused of
fraudulent bankruptcy could not be committed for
such an offence in this country, he did not see how
he, as a magistrate, could be justified in issuing a
warrant for the apprehension of an individual so
charged.
Mr. James impressed upon his Lordship the very
grave importance of such a decision. If this warrant
could not be granted, the whole object and intention
of the Act would be defeated. The object of the
Convention would be frustrated if a large and liberal
construction of the Act were not given. It was not
necessary that the crime should be a crime known to
the laws of this country. It was a crime against the
laws of France, but must be supported by such evi-
dence as, if it were a crime by the laws of this country,
would justify a magistrate in committing.
The LORD MAYOR—He is charged as being an
accomplice ?
Mr. James—No. He is charged with having com-
mitted a crime of " complicite"—a very different thing.
The Learned Counsel then cited French authorities
upon the subject, and urged his Lordship to grant
the warrant.
The LORD MAYOR said he was not convinced, by
what he had heard, that he would be justified in
acceding to the application.
Mr. James—Really the effect of this decision of
your Lordship will be to neutralise the important
objects of the Act of Convention.
The LORD MAYOR—I have looked through the Act
with great care and attention, and I cannot come to
any other conclusion.
Thomas Batt, a labouring man, was charged under
curious circumstances.
On Saturday last the prisoner was brought before
the Lord Mayor.
A policeman stated that at nearly half-past ten
o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner in the street
with a cask on his head, and stopped him. The pri-
soner said, upon being questioned, that a person
named Darby had given it to him to carry. This ex-
cuse, in such frequent use with thieves, and the igno-
rance of the prisoner as to the contents of the cask,
caused very strong suspicion that the property had
been stolen out of some cart or warehouse.
The prisoner, upon being asked by the LORD
MAYOR what he had to say about the matter, de-
clared that a Mr. Darby had given him the job at the
end of the Minories, and had told him to go to the
corner of Chiswell-street, where they would meet,
but the policeman thought proper to take him to the
station. house.
The prisoner was remanded, and inquiries were
'Mrected to be made respecting the cask, which was
ind to contain mustard.
acs Yesterday, when the prisoner was placed at the
/Iv, a man of respectable appearance, who stated his
!line to be James Darby, came forward and ex-
plessed much regret that the prisoner, who had not
lommitted the slightest offence, should have under-
,gene four days' imprisonment, and be placed at the
bar as a common felon.
`ln answer to questions from the LORD MAYOR,
the witness who thus came forward stated that he
resided at No. 5, Paradise-place, Finsbury, and was
a drysalter. That on Saturday morning, as he was
sitting at his breakfast, the prisoner, of whom he had
no knowledge, called upon him with a recommenda-
tion from a person with whom he was well ac-
quainted, for employment, if any opportunity should
occur. Having been requested to call in half an hour,
the prisoner was punctual, and walked with witness
td the top of the Minories, near Tower-street, where
witness gave him the cask of mustard, and desired
him to go on with it to the bottom of Chiswell-street,
where they would meet. Witness never had seen
the man since until he saw him at the bar, and ac •
tually thought that he had been run over in the
streets, and probably consigned to an hospital.
The LORD MAYOR asked how it happened that the
witness delivered the cask of mustard to the prisoner
in the street, and not at his house or warehouse ; and
intimated that the very remarkable description of the
delivery was of itself calculated to excite suspicion
against more than one party.
Mr. Darby handed to the Lord Mayor an invoice
of the cask of mustard, which it appeared had been
purchased at a house near the spot in which he had
delivered it to the prisoner. He stated at the same
time that he was not obliged to let people know his
way of conducting his commercial transactions, and
he asserted that the officer had no right to stop the
prisoner, but ought to have accompanied him to
Chiswell-street, where the whole mystery would have
been solved at once.

TRY THE CIVIL COURTS-LAY

BAPTISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Silt,—Great dissatisfaction appears to reign at many
of the decisions given of late by Bishops upon com-
plaints made against many of the clergy. Now, as it
is not generally known that charges against the
clergy for non-conformity to the Book of Common
Prayer may be made before the civil courts, I beg to
solicit space to point out the authority, in case parties
should prefer a civil to an ecclesiastical tribunal.
The Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, of
the Ist Elizazeth, declares, that" it is enacted and or-
dained by the authority aforesaid, that all and every
Justice of Oyer and Determiner, or Justice of Assize,
shall have full power and authority, in every of their
open and general sessions, to inquire, hear, and de-
termine all manner of offences that shall be
done contrary to any article contained in the present
Act, within the limits of the Commission to them di-
rected, and to make process for the execution of the
same, as they may do against any person being in-
dicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted
thereof." It also enacts, that if the offender first re-
ceive punishment from the Ordinary, no proceedings
shall be taken in the civil court, and if the party have
had punishment awarded by a civil court, the party
shall not be liable to be brought afterwards to answer
for the same offence before the ecclesiastical court.
This Act of Elizabeth was not repealed by the sub-
sequent Act of Charles 11. for the Uniformity of
Common Prayer, but was confirmed fully by this
latter Act, enacting, " That the several good laws
and statutes of this realm, which have been formerly
made, and are now in force for the uniformity of
prayer and administration of the sacraments within
this realm of England, and plans aforesaid shall stand
in full force and strength, to all intents and purposes
whatsoever, for the establishing and confirming of the
said book, intituled, ' The Book of Common Prayer,
and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites
and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of
the Church of England,' &c. &c., hereinbefore men-
tioned, to be joined and annexed to this Act, and shall
be applied, practised, and put in use, for the punishing
of all offences contrary to the said laws with relation
to the book aforesaid, and no other."
I believe, at the present time, there ariV
suits before different ecclesiastical courts ftler=
gymen of the Church of England for refitSV:.
parties who have been baptised by Dissegitiiiitnisi,
tars, and this after the decision of the C9trre-of,llrivi'
Council against the Rev. Mr. Escott Icethb *same
offence, and his suspension from the performanCe ot.
the functions of his office for three months.

The LORD MAYOR said the policeman was perfectly
justified in apprehending a man under such suspicious
circumstances, similar as they were to those under
which numbers of thieves were daily taken into cus•
tody. Whatever might be the opinion of Mr. Darby
as to the confinement of the poor man, he (Mr.
Darby) certainly was the cause of it himself by the
extraordinary course he had pursued.
Witness—l shall deliver my goods how kid where
I please.
The L•RD MAYOR thought if the witness did so
he might subject his messenger to similar treatment
at another time,

The prisoner was then discharged.
CLERKEIV WELL.
Four fashionably-dressed young men, named
Walter Sap, William Allen, William Foy, and
Chlrles Ross, were charged with knocking at
doors, ringing bells, breaking windows, and otherwise
annoying the inhabitants of Brunswick-square and
its vicinity, on the previous night. Ross described
himself as a clerk in the office of an army agent. Police-constable Dunne, 71 E, deposed that being
on duty in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, on the
previous night, he heard this prisoners, with six others,
shouting and hallooing in Hunter-street. Soon after
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night-dress,
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damyt the door of 26 and
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then rung the bell of Mr. Maddox, a surgeon, in the
square, very violently. They then returned to Hun-
ter-street, throwing halfpence at the windows as they
went, along, and shouting loudly. They continued
this conduct along Judd•street, and into the New-
road. Witness once attempted to stop their pro-
ceedings, but they pushed him away, and seeing so
large a number, he thought it better to follow them
until he could meet assistance, which he did in the
New-road, where the four prisoners, who were by far
the most ill-conducted, were captured. It was then
two o'clock.

Mr. George Worrall, 28, Hunter-street, Bruns-
wick-square, deposed that himself and family were
greatly alarmed by the shouting and the smashing of
glass. A pane in his parlour window had been broken.
Emma Andrews, servant to the Rev. Mr. Cum-
ming, deposed that Mrs. Cumming had been so much
alarmed by the noise that she was still in a state of
great nervous excitement. Her mistress was under
the impression that the house was on fire, and jumped
out of bed and knocked at witness's door in the
greatest terror.

Mr. Herbert Sniggs, of 17, Hunter-street, deposed
that his family had been greatly alarmed from a similar
cause. A pane of glass, value Bs. 6d., had been
broken in his window.

The prisoners said that they had been at a harmonic
concert in Lamb's Conduit•street. They denied the
charge.

Cctiirth said it was most disgraceful conduct,
and their demeanour in court, which Was expressive
of anything but regret, was not at all creditable. Tie-
sides, they had imputed gross perjury to the police-
man, who, it was evident, told the truth. He would
fine them each in the full amount of damage proved
to have been conlinitte64. by them, l is. 6d., and 21., or
a month's imprisonment.

expression used in it of property detained " without
any just cause."
The MAGISTRATES, after perusing the Act of Par-
liament, expressed their opinion that they had juris-
diction in the case, and if the defendant thought he
had any legal justification, he should have appeared
and pleaded it, and then the matter would have been
properly argued. At present it was positively sworn
that the pony belonged to the complainant., and as it
appeared to be unlawfully detained, they should make
an order for its restitution.
The defendant soon afterwards entered the court,
and he was informed of the decision of the magis-
trates, when he stated that he had refrained from
attending to answer the summons in accordance with
the instructions he had received from the authorities
of the Court of Requests, and if the order was made
he would not obey it. He added that he had no
desire to treat the bench with any disrespect, but
he must express his opinion that the magistrates had
no jurisdiction in the case.

The BENCH said they should certainly sign the
order, and Mr. Latter received instructions to draw
it up in the usual form.

HORRIBLE MURDER AT YAR-
MOUTH.

One of the most brutal and unprovoked sacrifices
of human life which it has ever fallen to the task of
public journalists to record, took place yesterday at
Yarmouth, under the following circumstances :—The
deceased, named Harriet Candler, was a widow
woman, very quiet and respectable, was a member of
the Wesleyan Society, and managed a kind of chan-
dlery shop, selling flour, oatmeal, pollard, &c. The
night policeman on duty found her street-door par-
tially open ; he called to her, but receiving no answer,
proceeded to examine the till, suspecting some
robbery had been committed. Lying down by the
side of the till, with her head forced under the
counter, he found the deceased, literally deluged in
her own blood. 11er skull had no less than five wounds
inflicted upon it; one of them in the left side so severe
as to throw the upper portion of the bone so as to
*verlap another brokers part of the skull. On the
right side of the neck a wound had been inflicted suffi-
ciently severe to sever a portion of the vertebrae of the
neck, and one of her fingers was cut off, probably
whilst uplifted in defence. The following is the pro-
bable history, as gathered from the evidence at the
coroner's inquest (proceeding when this report left):—
Deceased lived quite alone in the house, and went to
a public-house opposite to purchase her supper beer,
leaving the street door closed, but unlocked, whilst
she was gone. During an absence of ten minutes,
the murderer or murderers (probably two) secreted
themselves in a bin where peas or bran was kept. The
deceased sat for a time reading a religious work, and
drank a portion of the porter; she then went into a
shop to take the money out of the till, when
she was felled to the ground by the murderer's
hammer. The first blow rendered her insensible ;
the remainder were given lest the " intent
and not the deed" should confound them. A
knife covered with blood lay by the side
of the deceased, but the surgeon was of opinion
that the wound in the neck was inflicted with the
cheese-cutter (a kind of short axe) which contained
a portion of blood upon it. Last Saturday deceased
had taken a division of property amounting to 1501.,
left by her husband's mother and uncle. Several of
her relatives live in Yarmouth and neighbourhood,
and received similar sums ; it became common talk
amongst them, and the deceased was incautious
enough to say that 'as the 150/. was for her son, she
should put it under her bed until she could hear from
his trustee, as she expected a much larger sum. This
got noised abroad, and parties doubtless sedulously
watched her movements on the night in question,
in order to plunder her, and as they were recog-
nised and known by her, to murder her rather than
be detected. The 150/. was taken without disturb-
ing the bed; 1001. was in a cheque on Messrs.
Gurney and Co.'s hank. During the inquest a
portion of money, consisting of gold, silver, and
about 8/. or 10/. in coppers, were found near the Bat-
tery, in a bag which was taken from the deceased's
premises the night of the murder—the contents of the
till, doUbtless. It had, wrapped up in it, a man's
purse_coataitiing-a token, enveloped in four papers,
and written upon, in a man's writing, " The Lord
said unto my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I
make thy 'enemies my footstool." No clue has been
at present found: A reward will, we believe, be of-
fered; but at this moment no-tidings of any noise in
the next house, or anything likely to lead to the de-
tection, has been discovered. There were several
places where the murderer had wiped his hands upon,
and the till was found thrown up in one corner of the
shop, empty.—Yarmouth Chronicle of Tuesday.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
is the Metropolis, showi g the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in tile Week ending Saturday, the
16th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General :

Weekly
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of
Five Years
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 255 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOl 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 154 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3B 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion .
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay 69 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified 1069 942
Deaths from all Causes .. 1072 946
DEATHS FROM THB PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER

THE ABOVN MEADS.

Total. Weekly Average
of Five Years.
Consumption
Scarlatina B4 34
Pneumonia
Dropsy ... . . . 24 35
llooping Cough 23 33
Typhus 32 31
Small Pox 5l 15
Disease of the Heart
Measles 25 28
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 5 9
Diarrhoea..
Sudden Deaths ... 17 15
DISTRICTS.

West
North l9l 171
Central
East
South 333 Z 42

Total ..» .......»..1019 946

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
beg to contradict the statement in the re-
port of the proceedings at Bow-street on WednesA
day last which emanated from your journal, and
which was circulated through the majority of the
other daily paperc
Your report stated, that on the fine of 21. being in-
flicted, and the money not forthcoming, I was locked
tip (or to that aeect); in contradiction of which, I
beg leave to assert that the fine was immediately
paid, and, also, that if the amount had been 101. I was
prepared to meet it. In giving publicity to this, you
Will greatly oblige, Sit, yours, very obediently,,
It. HATT.
Eagle Coffee-house, 97, Drury-lane, Nov. 19.

ACCIDENT.— About twelve o'clock yesterday g
serious accident happened in Piccadilly, to a breaks-
man in the employ of Messrs. Dickensons, of Curzon-
street, Mayfair. It appears thet he was breaking in a
horse prefiousl?% to puttink in harness and
on its attempting to run away with kith, he pulled it
up rather sharply, and consequently it fell over, break-
ing the unfortunate man's leg off short a little above his
ankle, by reason of his being thrown under the horse.
He was itruhediately carfied to St. George's Hospital,
ith(frt lie nt_it lies lti a Very precarious, state.
ADvEutrBE4Fia. Ai4ifitEti E*ittAdttnii,*aßi
CURE OF ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S
Casey, residing at No. 1, Compton-place, Brunswick-
spluarei had suffered from a chronic asthma for more than
three years. Phis pc,'ci than iirtis rio peat sufferer that
he did not dare go to bed for fear of the phiegih
him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon a
table ftl half .an hour lest he should be suffocated ;
nevertheless, this person ig from, morning
to night, sleeps as well as ever he did in his lite,
fact, is completely cured by the use of Holloway's Pills.
Aold 1-1611oW4's Ointmes9at 244, Strand (where
advice may be had gratis), anu alinbllt all tespevtable
vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world.
. eauutftdE lounEttv..—Last night information was
circuiateu iu pf thmietropolitan
police of another of those daringcarnagerouticilt‘e *h el
have of late become so frequent, having occurred at the
west-end. It appears that while the carriage of the
lion. E. Phippoi of 64, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
was proeeeding through Hanover-square or Brook-
street, soilie thieVes Cobtrivea to detach a large wicker
basket that had been fastened to tile port 9f the car-
riage by straps, which were afterwards found io !lave
been cut. The basket, which was covered with oil skin,
contained a great quantity of very valuable property, in-
cluding Cashmere shawls, velvet scarfs, barege shawls,
lace collars, and robes of lace, two capes trimmed with
point lace, a lace bonnet, silk bonnets, blonde caps,
ostrich feathers, flowers, parasols, and many other ex-
pensive articles of ladies' apparel.
AFRICAN NITRATE OF SODA.-7t is said that
nitrate of soda has been discovered in large quantities
on the coast of Africa, and that samples have been re-
ceived in Liverpool, equal in quality to that brought
from South America. It is expected that this article,
like guano, will give employment to a considerable
amount of shipping. It is said to be found in beds on
the surface of the ground, fifteen inches, in thickness.—
Liverpool Times.

We understand that his Majesty Louis Philippe
has presented the sum of 10,000 francs (4001.) to the
Sociiti de Bienfaisance, established in London by the
Comte d'Orsay, for the relief of distressed Frenchmen.

NEW RAILWAYS FOR CHESHIRE
AND LANCASHIRE.
In the movement going on for extending or im-
proving existing railways, and providing new lines to
ne et the wants of districts and towns hitherto with-
out such aids to cheap and expeditious locomotion,
this portion of our country, as it was amongst the
foremost to embrace the advantages of the railway
system, is not behind other portione of the kingdom,
or the least extensive in its projects; and it is satis-
factory to observe that these are, without an exception,
legitimate projects, and such as must eventually be
profitable, as well as useful, in their results. It was
naturally to be expected that, as the system pro-
gressed, and its advantages became universally re-
cognised, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
ceula not long remain the sole connecting line
between the River I...iere.ey and •the manufacturing;
districts to the east and north, by which the com-
merce of Liverpool is fed, and which draw from us
their raw material. The important towns of Preston,
Lancaster, Bolton, Wigan, &c., would not long con-
tinue satisfied with the imperfect and circuitous com-
munication originally provided for them ; whilst the
traffic of the a uth as naturally would require the
shortening of the elbow formed by taking it along
the Liverpool and Manchester line to a junction with
the direct southern line at Warrington. Accordingly,
we now see proposed a number of lines, northward
and eastward, diverging to these towns from Liver-
pool as a centre, with a line to the south materially
shortening the route to Birmingham and London.
But, in addition to these lines, a new feature has
presented itself to us, in the projection of a number
of new railways from the opposite side of the Mersey,
hitherto isolated, to Manchester, Yorkshire, and the
southern counties. The proposed formation of ex-
tensive docks at Birkenhead, and the spirit of enter-
prise existing in that rising locality, have originated a
desire to connect it directly with the seats of manu-
facturing industry; and, accordingly, measures have
been taken for an application to Parliament in the
ensuing session for powers to carry out these projects,
which are far from being insignificant in their extent,
or without a degree of feasibility and public, as well
as local, advantage. To enable our readers to appre-
hend at a glance the direction and connexions of all
these schemes, on either side of our river, we have
prepared as accurate a map of the country and the
lines proposed as circumstances would allow, and
sufficiently so to convey a fair idea of their direction
and objects to which we beg the attention of our
readers, while we proceed briefly to notice them in
detail. And first we shall examine the Cheshire lines.
The first of these in importance, is that proposed
to connect the Cheshire side of the river with Man-
chester, Stockport, and Yorkshire. This line com-
mences near the Sutton station of the Chester and
Birkenhead line, and proceeds, skirting at a short
distance from the estuary of the Mersey, by Childer
Thornton, Whitby, Thornton, Elton, and Frodsham,
to Preston Brook ; fiom thence by Daresbury, Grap-
penhall, Bollington, Warburton, Dunham-Massey,
Bowden, and Lymm, to Altringham, thus passing
through one of the most fertile valleys in Cheshire, or
the kingdom, from which the population of Man-
chester at present draw a great portion of their agri-
cultural produce. From Altringham the line pro-
ceeds by Sale and Ashton-on-Mersey, where it
crosses the river, through Stretford and Chorlton-
cum-Hardy, to a junction either with the Manchester
and Liverpool, or with the Manchester and Bolton
Railway, in Salford. Powers are also proposed to be
taken for the erection of an independent station ad-
joining that of the Liverpool and Manchester and
Manchester and Leeds Companies, near the Victoria-
bridge.
The distance by this line between Birkenhead, or
Liverpool, and Manchester, will be about eight or
nine miles more than by the existing railway com-
munication. There will, however, only be 33 miles
of new railway, viz., from Hooton station to Man-
chester, to construct ; and, when we consider the
favourable nature of the country to be traversed, the
absence of any great works, and, above all, the im-
proved state of railway science, since the Liverpool
and Manchester line was formed, its comparatively
inexpensive character will constitute it a very
formidable competitor with that line, even for the
, traffic of Liverpool itself.
To connect Chester with Manchester, Stockport,
&c., it is proposed to make a branch from the line
above described, commencing near Elton and running
by Crouchton, Backford, and Moston, to a junction
with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway in the
townships of Upton and parish of St. Mary-on-the-
Hill, Chester. It is important to mention that the
promoters of this latter line (generally called the
Chester, Preston Brook, and Stockport) have joined
interests with the direct Birkenhead line. To con-
nect Stockport with both Birkenhead and Chester
another branch is proposed to diverge from the main
line at Altringham, and, passing by Northern, Bids-
bury, Cheadle, Mosely, to join the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway at Heaton Norris, near Stock-
port. It is also proposed to connect the line with
the Churnet Valley line, and a proposed Buxton line,
by a branch to Bramhall ; and by two other branches
it is proposed to be connected with the Manchester
and Leeds line near Oldham, and the Manchester and
Sheffield line, between Ashton and Hyde, thus se-
curing a portion of the traffic of Yorkshire, Lincoln-
shire, and Derbyshire.
As might have been expected, at a time when capi-
talists are so eagerly seizing hold of every line of
country which offers facilities for railway schemes, so
favourable a country as the route of this line from
Birkenhead to Manchester is not without claimants
to its possession. Amongst these we observe that a
Company, or rather a combination of three powerful
Companies—the Midland, the Sheffield and Manches-
ter, and Manchester and Birmingham—have given
notice for a line from Altringham to Manchester,
passing by almost the same route as the Birkenhead
and Manchester line. This proposed line, we may
remark, possesses a valuable feature, inasmuch as,
instead of communicating with the Liverpool and
Manchester line, and using their station at Victoria-
bridge, its promoters adopt the southern entrance
into Manchester, in allowing themselves to be bullied
out of which by the Leeds Company the Liverpool
and Manchester Board committed so fatal a mistake.
We do not think, however, that any serious appre-
hension need be entertained as to the success of
the scheme from this or other competing claims.
On the contrary, we consider it very likely, and in-
deed advisable, that such a compromise will be en-
tered into as will enable the Birkenhead people to go
to Parliament with the influence of these parties in
aid of their own. The giving up a portion of their
scheme into such hands might even operate advan-
tageously, by securing to the Birkenhead Company
a greater portion of the vast traffic of which these
. Companlee have the -disposal. We speak, however,
mer4y our own opinion, with no authoritative in-
formation as to the course likely to be pursued.
Another project is by the Directors of the Birken-
head and Chester Railway—viz., a tunnel from their
atation In Grange-lane to the docks forming at
Wallasey 11001, Upon this, however, we need not
remark as a noveltee for, in fact, such a communica-
tion was a necessary to these docks.
To the south of Chester :noportant projects are also
on foot. Notices have been even of an application
tit Parliatnent for the necessary powers to construct
a line of railway, commencing at Shrewsbury, and
passing, almost in a direct line, hi Hadnall and
Wem, approaching the town of Wellingte: n, which it
peeeee a little to the left, then crossing a detached
portion of Flietehire, and proceeding thence, on the
Cheshire side of the valley of the Dee, to hete.:`'l%
This line will make the distance by railway between
Shrewsbtify and Chester about thirty-six miles; and,
in connexion with the proposed Shrewsbury and
Wolverhampton line, will form a competing line
from Birkenhead and Chester to the south. A re-
fetenee to the map in our paper will show the capa-
bilities of this line to accommodate, by branches, the
important mineral and agricultural towns and dis-
tricts through which it passes.
A connexion is also proposed to be formed between
the Cheater and Holyhead line and the manufacturing
districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, by means of
' iitaneh to the proposed Birkenhead and Manchester
line, the Value of which, as affording to those districts
a shorter route for the passengers and goods traffic of
Treland and the mineral produce of Wales, we shall
not ettiarge upon, having already exceeded the limits
we proposed to Quote t, the Chester undertakings.
On the Lancashire side of the Mersey, one of the ,
tfiNat striking prospects is the line from Liverpool to
Bolton still WssTan. This line passes through the
heart of the great coal district of Lancashire, inter-
secting the Wigan coal beds, and proceeding by those
of Peititterton, Winstanley, Billinge, Knowsley, &c.,
through Walton teral Bootle to a station near the
North Docks of Liverpool. By this line the im-
patalist towns of Chorley, Preston, &c., will also
obtain a shorter, communication with Liverpool.
By another line, commencing at the north end of
Liverpool, it is proposed to connect that port still LIEL. Gr°°°
more directly with Ormskirk and Preston ; and, by On the 23d ult., at the Royal Naval
Graff
the formation of branches from it, to join the pro- Lieutenant Vosper, R.N. bill
On the 11th inst., at Hull, Miss Priscilla g0e,1)„..,,,
nosed Blackburn and Burnley line near Blackburn,
On the 13th inst., at Reading, Henry Gat_
and to fx-m a communication with Southport. vile/4
We co/Le now to an examination of the lines pro of
-
6 r aonds Esq., aged 61.
_yo n the 14th inst., at Arlington-street, Caw
~And Junction, and first, as the 'nest the ' •
jeeted by the la.. the by which £t
. we- take line Hall, Essex.
14th inst the Rev. Edward H. Greene,
olive'
important to this toNs._.
•;•pute into Liverpool. The I O. the 16th inst., at Howland-street,
is proposed to shorten the ..
fleeted commences in,Sar, ah Eyre, aged 74. 3101°91
branch by which this is to be 4, M the 15th inst., Rebecca, the wife Of esP
the township of Kekewick, runs ..nrough those a St.. Helen's-place. de-park' d
' crosses
Daresbury, Norton, and Runcorn, am.
ncy.rn. Q. On the 16th inst., in Oxford-terrace, 7:el4.°life
river at a narrow about two miles above h. On the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth liver St. John, late of the 31st Ma.dr„as_nyclispbot
~004)._„0
From this point it proceeds, almost in a direct '
by Cuerdley, Widness, Upton, Speke, and Childwall, ro
njot the en 2Cohtlaipilni Chaplin,
Fitzroy--
csrot,
aitghp-osntrdeeert,,s_Peuntdn,eke•r:, Thricoradissirp
crossing in its course the Runcorn Gap Railway, to On the 20th inst., at Half-Moon-street, E
a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Rail- Lan, bert, Esq., 40
aged 22.
way at or near. H ' uyton. By the formation of this iial)o.o,l ff
14.
line a saving of distunce is effected between the two OTh : : Printed and i'ublish® hY S%"l two
t 2. Strand, Di
Printer, at e`l"
points of about eight milee.
—ete,`" in
124 Thursday, November 1, the Precinct of the 8011 •
Another important line of the same Com•pay is
that proposed fx.egt Crewe to communicate wYtli ew- bliddff*,
2

castle and Stoke, at which latter place it joins a line
to he formed by the Trent Valley Company to Staf-
ford. These projects, we are glad to find, have been
recently laid before a public meeting held at Stallbrd,
over which the Mayor of that town presided, and,
with some additional accommodation to be given to the
Pottery district, have been received as satisfactory,
and meeting the requirements of the towns in-
terested.

With respect to the communication to be given to
Shrewsbury from the Grand Junction line, upon
which, it will be remembered, the difference occurred
between that Company and the London and Birming-
ham, two projects will be offered to the consideration
of Parliament; one a line running from Shrewsbury.
by Wellington, to Stafford, and another branching off
near Wellington, and proceeding on to Wolverhamp-
ton. Another line is also projected, we believe, by
the London and 13iriningham, proceeding from the
proposed Chester and Shrewsbury line, near Wen), to
the Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton line near Wel-
lington, then cutting off the angle formed by carry-
ing their lines to Shrewsbury, and reducing the dis-
tance between Wolverhampton to Chester by this
route to something near that by the Grand Junction
route. A communication is also proposed to be made
from the Chester and Shrewsbury line passing by the
town of Wrexham and joining the Chester and;
Holyhead line about midway between Holywell and
Chester.
We now come to the new projects of the Liverpool
and Manchester Company. It has long been acknovi:
ledged that the stations both in Lime-street and at:
Wapping were insufficient in size and arrangernen:
for the traffic of the Manchester and Liverpool and
the Grand Junction lines. To remedy these defects
it is proposed to purchase the buildings adjoining the
station in Lime-street, as fin- back as Hotham-street,
including some on the east side of the same streett
the north side of Gloucester-street, and the south
Sidney-street; the dwelling-houses adjoining thl
station at the bottom of Gloucester-street and LOP"
Nelson-street. Upon the site thus formed an exte!,
sive station will be formed, capable, it is thought, '°`
furnishing the accommodation requisite. The state
l
at Wapping is to be extended, by the purchase cflseaf
and buildings, warehouses, &c., on the north side
Crosbie-street, and adjoining the station ; the Ware:
houses and buildings on the west side of Waypip.,f
and on either side of Iromnonger-lane, fronting t
King's and Queen's Docks. The funnels and weW
at Edge-hill are likewise to be enlarged ; a new We.
nel to be made to Smithdown-lane, and another frl
Edge-hill to terminate at or near the Waterloo Doc t
in the north end of the town. By the carrying lin
of these several projects much greater facilities 11:
be afforded to the commerce of the port than at per
sent it enjoys.
Another project is the formation of a line brand:
ing off from the main line at Barton, and passing will
Worsley, Swinton, and Pendlebury, to a junction
Clifton with the proposed Manchester, Bury, sv;
Rossendale Railway. A short line is also to be take,
from a point between Newton and Parkside to
North Union line, to reduce the an* at present rct
be gone over in order to get from the latter line lb
Manchester. It is further proposed to form a brsncar
from Barrownook Moss, in Rainford, in the parish at
Prescot (there to unite with an intended railway Alf,
the St. Helena and Runcorn Gap Railway, near itut
ford, a junction with the North Union at Euxt°l3„;
and terminating at or near Lightbody-street, 136411
dary-street North, Victoria-road, Great flovir.,
street, and Regent-road, in this town. Of this It:
we have not been able to procure a plan in time
enable us to include it in our map. The line fr%
Barrownook Moss, however, is intended to reduce ti
present distance by the Liverpool and Manchester s;
North Union lines to Preston and Lancaster, antl
it passes close to Ormskirk, is expected to remove ,„n
necessity of the proposed Liverpool, Ormskirk,
Preston line. The communication with the north
of the town will, of course, be a valuable feature
the line, if constructed. of
In conclusion, we shall regret if in the course,..

these remarks, explanatory of our plan or in the r
itself, we shall be found to have done injustice o,l°o
of the lines enumerated. Our object was certaillej
be impartial and just to all ; and if we have den us
we shall be most willing to make all the reparation
our power.--Liverpool Standard.

641
BRUTAL Cast.—Between five and six
Monday afternoon last, the hackney-coach No- 19h,„„ble
called off the stand in Farringdon-street, by a reejlec-00
looking man, in company with a young female. 00
coachman was ordered to drive to Eaton-square', the
arriving in that locality, the man jumped out of
coach, and, closing the door after him, intimated to
coachman that he was known in the neighbourh.oen, sic,
did not wish to be seen in company with the tenter
whom he directed to be taken to " Wright's," 6egut,
mews, Grosvenor-square, where he would call the fell
ing morning, mid pay whatever expense might bßrej,
curred. Ile then paid the fare and quickly disapPeis%
The coachman having now some doubts as to
being all right, got from his box, and, on opening the
coach-door, he perceived the female lying across tco
seats with her clothes disordered, and on fineingflel
all his efforts to arouse her were fruitless, be e.;O,
a police-constable, and she was driven to the ,staildot
house, where she was attended by a surgeon, wi'°„(jef
mediately discovered that she was labouring ,11:t 0
the effects of some powerful narcotic, and w:
gross outrage had been perpetrated whilst unclelol
influence. She was directed to be immediately renicPoil
to St. George's Hospital, where the stomach puWP
other remedies were promptly applied, and in a P;sl
time nearly the whole contents of the stomach werfLd
tracted, and the patient was gradually brought to a e7,of
of consciousness, and the following morning the_Loll
girl, whose mental sufferings appeared to be very S',,so
gave the following statement:—She said her natnetoe
Ann Ball, and that her friends resided at No. 7, P"„i0
court. She had left her situation as housemaid in 5 fig
tleman's family about a fortnight since, and Was lizer
ceeding along Piccadilly on Monday afternoon, 00
way to inquire after another situation, when she Weis,,o6o
costed by the above individual, who, although she of
nothing whatever of him, had spoken to her on en yr
two former occasions, and who now prevailed uPlithei
to accompany him to the City, where on arriving .00(
went to a tavern and had some brandy and water: 'Ol
which, on entering the coach, she almost suddenle;oo
her senses, although perfectly sober before that tie
[This latter statement with regard to her being sobeivil,
coachman has corroborated.] A description of theesoll
lain has been given to the police, who are in active sloe
of him, and it is sincerely hoped he will not long e
that punishment he so justly merits.
lsT 01j
AGRICULTURAL SERVANTS' HIRINGS IN TILE -
-Whitsuntide and Martinmas are the usual 6(12100
hiring agricultural servants in the more ne_."—slo
I counties. At nearly all the hirings this Martingi'boti
wages of servants of both sexes, taken altogether,
been on the advance, and the engagements more ne 001
rous. At Carlisle the attendance of servants WOOOO
usually large on Saturday week, and good men ser,
0
were engaged, at wages ranging from 61. 105., ./.
91. 10s. for the half-year ; half-grown lads were ea §er
for 4/. 10s., SL, and 5/. 10s. each ; known woraen_nef
vents were hired at 41., 4L 10s., to 6L ; and the ruhitel
girls got from 31. to 41. 10s. each who were,,
The servants get their victuals, and lodge and ei'vp
their masters' houses in the northern counties-
above quotation of wages, with very little variation'ogi
apply to the hirings which took place at CoekeZter
Keswick, Wigton, Brampton, Penrith, Appleby,
and other places.— Provincial Paper.
Nre te ruf
IMPORTATION or DUTCH OXEN, -I
afternoon, at four o'clock, the steam-packet
Captain David Dunlop, arrived at the St. Kathy fifif
steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam. She brouge"4,"
six head of live oxen and cows, and an immeneed AI;
thy of live poultry, chiefly geese, turkeys, se"
The importation of all kinds of live poultry Is. 00
tied on to a greater extent than usual, as the le,° nee
Dutch coast may be expected to put a stop to toy ow
in a few weeks, and dealers are bring 00
fattenedll:,
quantities at present to be fattened for
BIRTHS. - - the rloi

On the I:st inst., at Porde House, Devonshire, - „ti,
,ight, Esq., High Sheriff of the GO' .0
Henry Cartw. 0
daughter.lab°
On the sth inst.,. at Malta, the lady of Robed
Ito
Hunter, Esq., of a son. e
he Vicarage, Guilsboraugh' 94
On the 17th inst., at 11.
of the Rev. J. D. Watson, o: a daughter.
vfotilkea' I
On the 18th inst., the lady o)` John Jocelyn - - ie
A
of Eriviatt, near Denbigh, of a daughter. uth , the
On the 19th inst., at Regency-squar,l, Btig"l3
of Captain William Preston, R.N., of a so. n. °Ail
On the 19th inst., Mrs. Gambier Parry, ol- a B°`':,.., tho
On the 18th inst., at Norwood-green,
of Lewis Berger, Esq., of A daughter. Pt Vilf
4
On the 19th inst., in Wilton-street, the lady „celo
miGidlee-, f,
Is.
Jenner, Esq., of a daughter. genii
On the 19th inst , at Camberwell, Mrs.
Smithers, jun., of a son. - „d
MARRIED.
On the Bth of October, at the Episcopal Chafrass4 AO:00Y'
Cairo, Duncan M'Plierson, Esq., M.D , of the ga_ 004,4,
attached to his Highness the Nizam's service, tuvAiebi`li•
daughter o.f Archibald Iver, Esq. Carlton-street, f',7oZev,tsP,
On the IVth inst., at Layton 'Church, Esselc 'Sent Goof
Kemble, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, lacti_daugbt
Michael's Chit- eh, Lambeth, to Charlotte, sewn,'
Stephen Wildman Cattley, Esq., of Layton.