The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

THE S UN, LON DON, WEDNESDA X' EVEN ING, SEPTEMBER 3,144 b,

" A nice of er-dinner song for a party of gentlemen ; and
a nice chorus foe a eonvivi..l mreiing, wasn't it?'
" On the white man dine and sup!
Whet your teeth and cat him up l'"
" Symbolic Money" is an excellent urticle on the pro-
position brought forward by the Society fur the Eman-
cipation of Industry some few weeks ago, for effecting
the restoration of Quebec from the calamitous condition,
into which she has been reduced by the two confla"Ta-
dons that have laid two• thirds of that city in ashes:We
are glad to find such an advocate as the reviewer of the
doctrines we have repeatedly p:opounded on the subject
involved in the title of this ess9y. We quite concur in
holding with him, that of a'l the schemes for effecting
the desired object of re• establishing Quebec, " the most
philosophical in conception, and the rianst easy and safe
in execution, seems to be that suggested by the Society
in question." But we shall defer further commentary
till we have this writer's next promised paper to demon-
strate that "the mere that which is meant by ' money'
departs from its character of a symbol, the less it is
fitted for the uses which it is intended for." Truly, the
time is not distant at which Robert Peel will dis-
cover that there is more in " currency" than is
dreamed of in Lis philosophy (!!) of that question.

XAGAZINES—(C 61•41. TIN LIE D ).
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lir. HOOD'S -MAGAZINE.
Ly• 11 oW er of t continues to fill the chair once occupied
poor Hood, with a spirit which does honour to the
tons eq. of h s lamented predecessor. He contributes
end,-
of " the Bushranger of Van Diemen's
the ,- a portion of the second series of his " Tales of
sesalonies." Very clever chapters these are; full of a
dettitla.tain d interest, and marked by great power of
of
kithrPti°ll. " Preparations for the Fight," " The
a It_ rangers new Stratagem," " the Skirmish," and
over Ullman making a declaration," all of these are
80. Perhaps, in chapter 19 and chapter 23, Mr.
seaf7lati is somewhat of a more essential cockney than
ilo with in the existing varieties of that genus.
vi"ltaan is the cockney rather of Seymour's coarse but
tri,„r°lll caricatures of cockney sportsmen than a por-
e! "i'll'e of real life. " The Bar of Ea gland" is- a sort
tro!tndication of those gentlemen who being barristers
sokliketvise reporters for the press, which is much tco
to7,a, rate for the purpose. The resolution of a bar-mess
14414'e}.r exclusion was a preposterous and presumptuous
shoe eiltY which has already
.cut its own throat, and
ws7 •1 be left to the oblivion it challenged. " Rambles
Al eh Behemian Villages," are quite pleasant enough
:itieplf
Ikuotuumsuheartily wish we could avail ourselves of the
to accompany the agreeable author on such
tg7t esque expeditions. " Endymion," is most moon-
-8,1; xlYstie, dim, and somewhat incomprehensible
kite '3l' keeping which the picture of such a stolen
2S wail on the part of a lady probably required. The
s Tlatt 3d chapters of " the Chronicles of the Fleet,"
Taite Turnkey's Daughter," are rather heavy. " A
. aof ,
18 t,,, -13 ew Zealand" is a savage piece of drollery. It
tich‘:"a' good to abridge ; and then, it is so like one of
ts :ri•ch Heyne's diabolical jokes, that we are tempted
',l-•' a lage extract. Here it is—
ho, r,tie neath a roof thatched with the leaves of the flax plant
'' tuatnereboo. His form was untrammelled by the dossesartifi-
'raiiit of braces, because he was without that article of
nerh_,:which those conveniences are intended to support
Dr
s-• had he shoes or stoekings, or waistcoat, or coat, or shirt,
at his t-col ar. His only garment—a sort of mat which
'r?iei
sede, , his Person when he went abroad—was carelessly laid
risnai tilsPlayiug without encumbrance the elegant patterns
ideas in various devices on his bistre-coloured skin ;
IDs" ?t, smiled as he thought of his coming repast, he showed
nrti edable row of teeth strong and firmly set to make a fat
tt!omble
de:Io. his left hand was a bit of fern root, at which he con-
ti ," , sled to nibble while he waited for his breakfast ; in his
kilit'..t tie held a native tomahawk with which he was wont to
„", jinveor a wife occasionally when it pleased him to do so.
„ 'kte was an unsophisticated child of nature !
init "Isere, he said, as he threw away his fern root, and gave
.. eil, al ia w k a little flourish : 4 Where ill Wirrilarriwow I
ilttowarriwow appeared.
lord g,n.e Was as little trammelled by artificial restraints as her
retetnti3,,mg engaged in the domestic duty of preparing the
tiewaal meal she had dispensed with the mat which some-
eanmr led her charms from stranger's eyes; and she stood
Pirs,,,,!' had formed her, perfectly unconscious that her ap-
tet.orrailld have excited considerable surprise in the Re-
-lew 7:',,.! of the white people. She stood—in the wilds of
-.TN; .`,„atid—tin the unsophisticated state of nature's love-
sprig of'''''',lave a row of shirk's teeth round her neck, and a
'little iol,ze
„,IJlOndent from her nose, she was a pea tical il-
"'lee Is - ' gtei most heal and delicate iSea of ' beauty
two_
_poetical ,
' 11),„"1. d, adorned the most.
played —el ley lire ikfast,' Said the chief; as he spike he -
tdlith his toMahaWli—promiscuous-hke. -
zst,,,s;tetirrii:teae.rriwow pointed to the path which led to their
: Apaaelafhlte man comes 1'
vii "la sort of a man is he?' said the chief, his mouth
. all With anticipation.
T l'air fat one l'
e 's_ e WafY
ers eyes sparkled.
(s tgr'er. yourself,' said the chief, ' with your mat.'
!boulders wife obeyed; she threw over -ratherpour
awaited .a sort of New Zealand Polka, scant,—med
wle the appro ,
11 Mr, Auc, aco of the stranger.
cause it lead-°„"tu.,9 Snivelle arrived—nnt at the door—be-
dwelling, -1° u°ori—but at the entrance of the chief's
.. Hs _
ry
rae,rictTlie.
.eyed the lady with intelligent curiosity.
chief frowned, and then smiled as he made a rough
smile to calculation of tenpenny nails.
Snivelle beheld the native's teeth, and tried to
~ The, but he could'ut.
tight • .. chief looked at him earnestly; Wirriwarriwow was
le_ s the stranger was very fat ; but he might get fatter.
omraereboo meditated.
.`` Mr. Snivelle was rather at a loss to communicate his
l'dtes t
o these Aborigine= —and very original he thought
certainlyi they were; but, seeing that he could not speak the.r
7,'lgteage, and they could not speak his, he was unable
' .oasmunicate his ideas by speech ; but he remembered
thatsad
the language of signs is uoiversal. He opened his mouth,
'Da imitated the action of chewing with much energy.
. -..,
i .
wrnwarriwow comprehended him perfectly : with the
tvilliatgness to oblige natural to her see, she iinmediatrly pre-
eaud the stranger with the bit of fern-root which her hus-
'nod had but half eaten. The stranger took it ; smetled it ;
Paztd it with a knife which he took from his pocket, tasted it,
anl shook his head.
`` The chief looked at the stranger's knife, and his mit d was
troubled with strange visions I He stretched out his hand t..r it ;
tome pit, felt its edge, gave a chuciile in his throat which reseal-
hledi the gobbling of a turkey, and secreted it in a corner.
ale Snivelle was charmed with this instance of native inge-
b°ll mess.
The chief invited him by signs to a great feast. Mr. Sni-
e*lha being very huagry, accepted the invitation with the most
atietgetic readiness.
~1,1 Oae of his wives was dispatched to give intelligence to the
ertaerst, that a white stranger had arrived, so fat as to be valuable
enteret:.ll3a and exhibiting sundry foreign qualities curious and
Thni'fg.
riot. Ofeast prepared, an old and dignified chief, e sue-
sesami the tribe, presided. Having had the advanth p advantage of
eel. at ceternitnisailions with Europeans, the great man was
P,O and with the manners and customs of the white
that thin wishing wishing to show off on the occasion, he commanded
tothe occeal sheuld be prepared with a sumptuousness suitable
aide,, "'"n• The steam of the earth-ovens arose on all
/...
til, ,n, d''`e tv,,, „
s,eileat`lves t,,,,,,,T assembly sat doe n to table; that is to say,
e heir eese,,V'vir legs under them and sat on the ground,
ire e. ',dress ~f the in the dinner.
beintr , 'le tt;.., 'e Great Chief was magnificent in the ex-
his e),`" stliali 'e,„`T.that occasion a drummer's jacket, which
blit„h„' "" tied k'al was necessarily open in front ; around
die ' On .1- • a 'luo apron which had belonged to a ship's
dialer!nitat'" in Ne'l,,,' l',''ad he wore a judge's. wig, intended for a
by I ha. ," South Wales, but which, having been repu-
-4 oatise fo ' tunctionar, had beer. bartered by a trader with
en °Nt r a hog, and bad been seized by the Great Chief as
the te ' m'at tao rand for any other hea:d than His.
.At
a 1' of VI • g
s'ejecta ' e wig' he had placed a cocked hat. admiring
out an . gazed at him with a sort of awe. Mr. Snivelle looked
~•
TiZlioesi., . ,
J for the dinner.
With The first dies was a baked young woman, It was borne in
Tiis
clever
pOorLioMdiAcair
mSailniftAaliGisAitZs .reaaVr.hel.
two
ceremony. At tit., bet to..n was a stowed dog. There
two ~.'t honed missionary as a middle dish. At
. the sides weie
the, Piccaninny pies, with their toes appetisingly displayed er of improve
~tip the crust. e nt. The present Number has some papers of peculiar
us
tlioniereboo sat by his fiiand's side out of compliment, hilily and interest. - " Pictorial Art in its Christian
',l, to assist him to do Justice to the g sod things a oore him. aevelopmist," is
a Vao.tri-like piece of biography, but
dish'a detached with his finger: a delicate piece of the top much disfigured by a species of tectorial puritanism which
or his guest, with a cut of the centre oue which he accom- cannot away with the human loveliness of the type Of
4_l4lshed with his tomahawk, and poireed out the piccaninne's
as the most delicate morsel. But Mr. Snivelle turned affaelle's second manner, but is moved to ecstatic
very
ou•
e, and felt very sick. The Great Chief was pleased to take rapture by the ling, though certainly el sated ex-
and
of his indisposition. He pointed to the banquet. pression—the deep sentiment, not a lie tic marred
his dusky
Snivelle shook his head, and endeavoured to make by the hard drawing of Perugino, the early master of
"ta,t,t,u,,st_ki friend understand that he was not hungry.
least,L:as natives
deliciousre gard e d him with pity and amazement 1 The the " divine Urbino," and the penultimate glory of the
vat;
tThheeyyrteaglakredd am. Umbrian school. The noble creations of the Florentine
school, the delicious works of those master-hands whose
among themselves and pointed at the stranger, labours were consecrated to the taste, elegance, and
said some
iviliclinal
guished • vvdor.d:dtioihn, he
began to to think; lovingly. They munificence of Lorenzo de Medicis, are stigmatised as
With muienh the Great Chief: fartunately that distiu- pertaining to a school of " naturalism ;" and Raffaele
tassophistocat
eoditeness he interpreted
was able to speak a few words of English.
" Great Cie savages to th • the conversation of the himself—the great and good—is mourned over as hav
ing passed over, after painting his great picture of
their guest. The talk ran thus :
~ .e.r. . le—.
ii
Itsirea.t Chief—. Say you climb tree?' the " Dispute of the Holy Sacrament," to Paganism (!)
„ lel Augustus Sniv 11 —. N ' forsooth, in which relapsed state he continued all
Sayeyoeu catch fish?' the rest of his toe short life, because—he never
r. A. Snivelle—. No.' more returned to the hard style of the "Christian'? art
14 Great Cif
:Moire- at' Chiteeff: Say you make mat ?' of Perugino. The writer of this paper may be a good
. Itle. A. Snivelle 4, Great As Snivelle—' No.' Cathelic, but he is a very bigoted critic. It is strange
Say z:oii
,fight?' • that even the chastened grace with which Raffaelle has
.4 Great
4:4:itr_est Chiefschiefie Brother say you no goad " of female beauty, cannot—in his second manner—pro-
'A. Snivelle—' 11 , Eh: tect him or his admirers from that preposterous charge
Chief_' Se you nice and fat.' of e naturalism." (i. e. mater aism), which M. Rio and
r• Snivelle—. They are very obliging.'
4. ;."1-reat Chief—.Rumohr (or his Italianische Forsehuayen) have brought
els C ' Say you no good only to eat.'
a • enivelle—. I wish I could get something to eat.' into vogue, We have been somstim, sat a loss to account
but
tGher,:at Chief—' Little mistake. They say not yon eat, for the sudden irruptionof a species of v andaism, or heresy
I eat ou ' in art, thus directed against the prince of painters.
.. es_y .
. Mr. Snivelle__ What I' The almost contemporaneous origin of this twaadle,
eat Great chide.. Say they make you very fat, and then they with the "su Idea apparition" (as we somee here, lately,
jou up.' saw it termed) of two score of German students at the
.. hlr. A. Snivelle--. The devil they will I' Vatican, at the " Santa Marie del P. polo," and other
tsso.". a 5,..: Snivelle jumped up quickly. The natives jumped up old churches of Rome, alio had descovered that the
'sae es' hey were very merry, and they danced round the white pictures of what the writer whose paper is slow befere
the 'Cid sung a festive song. Pummereboo acted as leader of us calls the " Peruginesque style" were pervaded by a
tre d; the rest joined in chorus. The following. is a
feeling of mere orthodox Catholicism than these pro-
vlei alsen of the rouudelay as sung by these unsophisticated
dueed by Raffaelle between 1510 and 1520 (in
ran of nature :
" Wallaloo ! Wallaloo 1 which latter year he died). The consequence was
Love white man and eat him too 1 that they returned to Bavaria, to produce those
Stranger white, but that no matter 1 clever—certainly—but stiff, hard, and mannered
Brown man fat, but white man fatter ! frescoes, which are the pattern types of a school that
Put him on hot stone and bake him I an overweening but ill-informed taste—directed by still
Crisp and crackling soon will make him. more deficient sentiment and knowledge, is now attempt
Round and round the dainty goes ; ing to introduce, under some such meretricious and uns
Eat his fingers I eat his toes ! meaning appellation as that of " decorative art"—into
His body shall our palates tickle ! the atria and saloons of our great public edifices. Of
Then we'll put kis head in pickle ! " Darky Duff, the Madman," a tale of South Munster,
On the white manCHORUS,
dine and sup, being rudely broken off at its "agony point" of interest,
The Whet your teeth, and eat him up I" we have no meaas, as yet, of reporting any formed
opinion, but it seems likely to turn out a clever sketch.
ream. Great Chief bad the kindness to interpret these senti-
kls to Mr. Snivelle for his informatioh ; but that gentleman, " Anecdotes of the Bastille" are continued in this Num-
alese","p acquiescing in this disposal of his person, capered ber, and serve to renew the feeling of astonish-
tmee with fright even more energetically than his entertainers. ment amounting almost to indignant contempt—
eh": it was in vain that time endeavoured to escape from the with which we have ever contemplated the marvel
to mid circle -, he was hemmed in by the savages, and to his of , a great and gallant nation like the France of
ses-ae„l'v the circle grew less and less every moment ! In his the last two centuries, submitting, tamely, to the bru-
e fear be gave up all his valuables ; his watch, his spy- tality and wantonness of an abuse of despotic power.—
aye:, his moustache-brush in an ivory case, his gold chain—his far, very far more disgustingly atrocious than any which
TheYthing. The natives were delighted with his liberality.
was ever habituatly tolerated by the abject slaves of
Y Sung, and theyjumped, louderand higher than ever.
sa;::tild now they closed nearer and nearer, and Mr. Snivelle tte Ottoman Sultans, or the but half-civilised serfs of
les hat louder and louder: at first a friendly native seized tine great Khans of Tartary. We allude, of course, to
- 'at ; end then another tore off his coat ; and a third dis- the /titres de-cachet, and the horrors perpetrated
r.tetuabered him of his waistcoat, while a fourth untrammelled under their authority. In the continuation of
the
In of that part of his apparel which is ever considered, in Countess Clemence," by the editor, we recognise
civilized life, most indispensable; and presently he stood be- further evidence of those powers which we have
!ore them in nature's garb alone, as the poets express it, which before described as b.dng generally exhibited
is the most unpleasant. one that can ire ; and the savages re- in his former chapters. But the most interesting sub-
ird to find him fatter even than they had hoped ; and one, ject for extra :t will probably be the following notice of
t„,',T,l ti his tomaha.wk, was about to salute him
theieith ahnatin-
:he "Iron Masque," in the note to which we need
hr. I,anteated salutation. of its edge. of flint,ahemscarcely point to the iron-heartedness of the modern
ststr.,.. it fear lending him wings, as eua unhappy she
remarks on traditions that dye the bad memory
' luut its made a desperate bound through the excited throng,
arid chile the savages set up a yell of anger and disappointment of their wicked house so deeply as these.
at his e-ape, fled to the woods and concealed himself in the On the 18th of September, 1698, arrived at the Bastile. M.
, te
rink Of a hollow tree. de St. Mars, its newly-appointed governor, and with him,
" There, for three long days, and three longer nights, did he concealed in a closed litter, the my.terious prisoner known
remain ensconced, hungry and cold, and making many silent by the name of "Le Marque de Fee." In the fortresses of
vows that, if ewer he escaped from the hands of these unsophis• Pignerol, Exiles, and Les Isles Sainte Marguerite, he bad
himself
children of nature, he would ever afterwards content already languished in captivity since
.the year 1671. He was
without
with melt minor advantages as civilisation offered, always treated with the greatest distinction, and provided
which seekin,, for the attractions of primitive simplicity, of with everything he required or asked for. The Governor,
""ich he had e"xpe,ionced a New Zealand specimen. At the and M. Rosarges, the Major of the Castle, alone had access to
et" of three days, hearing no sound of his enemies, he ventured the prisoner, in whose presence they rarely presumed to sit
° Peep from his covert, and seeing the coast clear, he made the down. Ile wore at all times a mask of black velvet, so se-
-13 i
se-
best of his was to the nearest Eurooean settlement, where be cured upon his face that he was unable to remove it, yet so con-
trrlyed ' a wiser and a thinner man.' structed as to admit of his seeing, eating, and breathing with
" The next day he returned to England, and from that time 1 facility. He dit-d, as it was reported. suddenly, on the 19th of
f°""i'd, We:re-vet. he heard a .tuatiin,nial entl-o, m! 7 ,xtolling ! Norsie!. a 17,,3, atter an i, ,I...itesitten of a I.w hours, was
tl''' 'f,4,, n-::,, •of a man in his usiutal sees, : s-Ss? ' -- ea: :a a e iiellueesheet e.: • tl-„ :. ..,,: I buried next day
Isis aeventue hi New Zselaud; aud ti,ac.k:o, ii, .- :. ~, :,,,, i:, ~,,.. ,- .... ~, , Kt. p.o, i....,. . ~ .. -- of Marcliiali, in
had escaped visa the watering mouths of Pummere- the presence of M. Resarges and the Sergeant-surgeon of the
and Wi riweva and the rest of the copper-coloured Bastille. The funeral cost forty livres. He had been a pri.
it
°mitt', h‘i Id slug tits song at the natives; saner at the Bastille lave years and sigty-two-days.*

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE.
We have but one chapter if St. Giles and St. James
in the present number. St. Giles, attired in decent
livery, arrives in London to attend on young St. James,
who has engaged him as a groom. On his way to St.
Jam s's square, he passes the Old Bait y, and s
es
fifteen human beings hanging in front of Newgate. The
author thus proceeds:—
" Reader, pause a moment. Drop not the book with sudden
indignation at the writer who, to make the ingredients of his
story thick and slab,' invents this horror. No ;he but copies
from the chronicles of the Old Bailey. Turn to them, incre-
dulous reader. and you will find that on the trilmy morT:ing of
the twenty-third of June, in the year of our offended lend, one
thowand seven hundred and eighty- four, fifteen human beings
were hanged in frent of Newgate death. offerings to the laws
and virtues of merry England. It was the first day, too, of the
new drop; and the novel engine must be greeted with a gallant
number. Fame has her laurels : why should not Justice have
her ropes? There was, too, a pleasantry—the devil, if he joke
at all, must joke after some such fashion—in trying the sub-
stance and capacity of a new gallow', by so much weight of
human flesh convulsed in the death struggle. And so—great
was the legislative wit ! there were fifteen to be strangled. A
great example this to an erring, law-breaking world of—the
strength of timber 1
" The Lords of the Privy Council had met, with good King
George the Third at their head, to correct the I,Tces of the
land. There was death for the burglar—death for the footpad
—death for the sheep-stealer—death, death, death fora hundred
different sinners. The hangman was theaaocial physician, and
was thought to cure all peccant ills.: Horrible, ghastly quack !
And yet the King's Majesty believed in the hideous mounte-
bank, and every week, by his Lords of the Giuncil the
wise of St. James's—the Alagii of the kingdom—the
starred and gartered philosophers and philant h ropists—
every week did sacred royalty call upon Jack Keich
to cure his soul-sick children! Yea; it was with the
hangman's fingers, that the father of his people touched the
people's ill. And if, in sooth, the malady was not allayed, it
was for no lack of paternal tending, since we find in the Old
Flatley Register—that thing of blo,d, and bigotry, and igno-
rance—that, in one little year, in alm )st the first twelvemonth
of the new drop, the hangman was sent to ninety-six wretches,
who were publicly cured of their ills in the front of Newgate !
And the King in Council thought there was no such remedy
for crime as the grave ; and therefore, by the counsel of his
privy sages, failed not to prescribe death-warrants. To reform
man was a tedious and uncertain labour : now hanging was the
sure work of a inute."
Faint with horror at this disgusting sight, he seeks
refuge in a public-house, and there is met by Tom
Blast. He hi-pes Blast does not recognise him. St.
Giles has his pocket picked by an urchin who takes re-
fu,;e with Blast. St. Giles would fain recover the hand-
kerchiaf which had been a cilye de amour, and Blast
makes the boy who had found it deliver it up. St. Gile;
- •

AQterj

about t givm him money, when Blast inferp.ses,—

" "Tisn't right ; not at ill proper; not at all what I call
natral'—and here Blast whispered in St. Giles's ear—j that
money should pass atween brothers.'
Yes, St. Giles's nlothe.r was dead, and left this

wretched orphan to the care of Tom Blast, who was
traiiiintr, him for Newgate and the gallows. The next
article is a thoroughly" German " defence of optimh,m,
ani then felows, perhaps, the best rcc,unt that has ye
appeared of the pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Treves,
by the Englishman in Prussia. " The Poor Mao's
F kit' " is a biting satire, biting from its very truth
fulness :

The Poor Man's Friend ; the best of friends,
A friend when others fail ;
For he the starving poacher sends
To banquet in a jail."

Pine Apple Shut " is a quaintly- told story of Mr. and
Mrs. Pratt, who, having a pinery, flattere.i thcinselveF
chat they possessed a mark of ari• to,tratic
which never could become vulgar. But, alas I Inter-
tourse and nterprise have made ..notlo-r onslaught into
the stronghold of the exclusiv.•s•of the earth. New Pro-
vidence pines :ire 501.1 in tl.• ~treet, 1.011i.i.1.1

penny a slice, and Mrs. Pratt, muttering the wotds
" French Revolution," dies of cheap pine-apples. The
account of the " Colony of Mettray, near Tourm, for the
Reformation of Young Criminals," is a very valuable.
cautiibution. It is entitled " The Ctilld and the Cci
initial." In the article " Serving ;he roun ry," the true
m•-aning of that intrh tibuied phrase is prop-fly
laid down, and confi ted within ju-t limits. As Ve
writer truly observes, it is " a gr,,ss inj istlee to describe
the men who serve and fight in any cause foe a stated
it!re as serving th-ir country." Coventr% Pat more con-
ributes a fanciful poem, ntitled " Young and Old
England," and Juniper Hedgehog, Prince of Cabmen,
indicts a letter to Sir J. Tyrrell, on an eulogy passed by
him on the Duke of Wellington at Conservative
Malden True-blue dinner, at which the Baron,,t
quoted the words of some one who said the
Duke was the greatest man who had appeared
since the time of our 0-iviour, adding, "if that
knguage is too strong to apply to him as a man, his
claims on the country c .uld nyt be overrated." Most
severely, yet most justly is the utterer of this blas-
phemous trash rebuked by the indignant cabman, who
If he lashes his horse as he does his - Bart. must
stand in some danger from the officers of the Animal's
Friend Society. Of the remaining articles in this Num-
ber we would commend to the esp,,cial attention of our
brother litterateurs, the article on " The Position of Men
of Letters." It is a paper, by the study of which we may
all profit.

Everything in the reorn which he had occupied was carefully
destroyed, including bedstead, bed furniture, tables, chairs,
and other utensils. Every silver or metal article used
by the prisoner was melted down. The chamber he had
tenanted was entirely renovated, its walls scraped and repainted,
and doors and window frames burnt. On the burial registry
of St. Paul's cemetery, his age is stated to have been f•
rty-
five years—an obvious and premeditated inaccuracy, as he was
at least thirty years older. The precautions enforced in regard
of " Le Masque de fer" during his captivity in the Bastile were
all calculated to excite the public curiosity respecting him to
the highest pitch.
When he assisted at mass, he was expressly ordered neither
to speak r,or exhibit himself, and soldiers stood by him with
loaded muskets to enforce obedience. He was accustomed to
be indulged in every gratification consistent with the severity
of close incarceration, particularly in his inordinate love of fine
linen, lace, and rich plate. From the year 1671, until his
death, le Masque de fee had never been removed from the
custody and immediate surveillance of St. Mars. His lystory
antecedently to 1671, when he must have been upwards of
thirty years old, is a blank impenetrable mystery ! It is stated
that the prisoner one day wrote, his name on the back of a
plate, which a servant, thinking thereby to pay his court to the
governor, placed in his hands, and was rewarded for his
officiousness by the loss of his life. On another occasion, when
confined at Pignerol, the mask had contrived to write some
communication upon a shirt, which a peasant found floating
upon the water of the castle ditch, and brought to the go-
vernor. St. Mars rigidly questioned him, and was apparently
not satisfied with the peasant's assurance that he could not
read, for, two days after, the man was found dead in his bed.
Le Masque de fer' beguiled his hours of captivity with music,
and was a proficient on the guitar. By the surgeon of the
Bastille. who was occasionally called in to attend him, he was
described as being a very well-made man, with a clear brown
skin, and a soft pleasing voice. It is alleged, that the day
after the burial of le Masque de fer,' the gravedigger was in-
duced, by a heavy bribe, to re-open the grave, for the purpose
of exami,ing the body, which was discovered to have been de-
prived of its hsad, in lieu of which a large stone had been
substituted. Louis XV., during his minority had been very
solicitous to know the secret of 'le Masque de fer ; which,
however, was only revealed to him by the Regent, Orleans, on
the day he assumed the reins of government. The young king
was observed to receive the important communication with
much appearance of interest and emotion, and heard to
ex-
claim, Eh bien, vivait encore je lui donnerais sa liherte !'
Perhaps the most plausible of the theories extant with re-
gard to ' le Masque de fer,' is that which supposes him to have
been an elder brother of Louis XIV., the well-accredited off-
spring of an intrigue of Anne d'Autrich, whose legal legitimacy
it might bee been so difficult to dispute, that •to conceal its
existence altogether appeared the most obvious course.

RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES

IN THE
RINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN Eta
SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

NAMES or RAILWAYS. .8 .0 s
A a, ,1-4 g

'NGLAND,

Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept
2. 2. 2. 2.
4% 4%

Aberdeen • • • • •• • • • • . • •
Airdrie and Coatbridge • •
Arbroath and Forfar • • • •
Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
Bandon and Bantry . • • • •
Belfast and Ballymena • •
Belfast and County Down
trktilid.Lan.&Ches.Jtic.
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. New (iss. at 7 dis.)
Ditto half Shares .. • •
Birminghm&Oxtrd•June.
Blckburn, and Preston..
Blckburn, Darwn,& Boltn
Bolton, W igan, & Liverpl.
Boston, Stamfrd and Birm
Brighton, Lewes, & East.
Bristol and Exeter. • • • • •
Ditto New .
Bristol and Gloucester • •
Bristol and S. Wales June.
British and trials Union. •
Caledon. and Ayrsh. June
Caledon. & Dumbar. June
Caled niau .• • • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Extension • . • • • •
Cambridge and Lincoln..
Chet.ter and Birkenhead
Ditso New Shares • • • •
Ditto Half Shares . • • •
Chester and 11. lyhead •
Cheltenham and Oxfo7d
Chichester and Brighton
Churuet Valiey •••• • • • •
Clitheroe Junction • • • • • •
Clydesdale Junction • • • •
Cork, Blackrek & Passage
Cork and Band On.• • • • • •
Cork and Killarney .• • • •
Cnrk and Waterford •
Cork and Youghal •
Canterbury and Dover
Coventry and Leicester •
Cornwall . • • • • • • • • • • • • ••
Derby and Crewe . • • • • • •
Direct Lon. and Manchstr
Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth
Direct Northern • • • • • • • •
Direct Norwich .• • • • • • • •
Dublin and Belfast June.
Dublin, Belfast, & Colrr e
Dublin and Drogheda. • • •
Dublin and Galway . • • • •
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath • • •

a' After all the theories broached and volumes written upon
the question of " le Masque de fer," the subject remains as
deeply involved in mystery as ever. He has been at times
supposed to be the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Monmouth,
the Superintendent Fouquet, the secretary of the Duke of
Mantua, an elder or younger brother of Louis XIV., or the
Comte de Vermandois, a natural son of Louis XIV. by Mdlle.
de la Valliere. None of these conjectures, however plausibly
handled, carry conviction. Every record tending to throw
light upqn the identity of this remarkable captive, had been
carefully suppressed. Louis XV. was heard to say, in refe-
rence to the conjectures rife respecting him, " Laisse-les dis-
puter, personne n'a encore dit la verite sur le Masque de fer."
One day the Duc de Choiseul pressed Louis XV. on the sub-
ject, but could obtain from him nothing mere, " Sinon que
de tout ce qu'on avait imprime jusque la sur le Masque deter,
it n'y avait pas un mot de vrai ; et que de toutes les conjec-
tures qu'on avait faites la-dessus, it n'y en avait pas one de
vraie." Napoleon vainly endeavoured to ascertain the real
history of le Masque de fer, and was known to have
ea-
perienceci bitter mortification at finding himself foiled in all his
attempts to unriddle the mystery. Louis XVIII. being ques-
tioned on the subject, drily replied, " C'est un secret de
famille."

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The FARMERS' MAGAZINE. Vol. XXIII
No. HI., Old Series.
A Hereford ox, the property of John Hudson, Esq., of
Castle Acre, Norfolk, supplies the subject of a capital
engraving by way of frontispiece to this very good num-
ber of a most able and useful periodical. Au Essay on
Trees, by a Practical Farmer, illustrated by three en-
graviegs, will well repay the trouble of a perusal. There
is an infinite variety- of matter in this number's bill of
tare—a capital dish of " Joint. stock Banks," and a
" stout" contribution on " Ale and Beer." The number
of papers is so great, and they range over such a mass
of subjects, that we are too puzzled by over-abundance
of choice to select any as more worthy than others
of beirg extracted. We must add, however, that this
magazine is out of all comparison the cheapest " two
shillings"' worth that we know of.

THE BPOIrTIAG REVIEW.

3%2%1
3% 3%

9%1 9%

Pi -

Ditto New .• • ••• • •
Dundee and Peril •• •
Durham and Sunderland
East Lancashire (No. 1)
Ditto (No. 2) .. ••• • .• 11,41 12
Eastern Counties .• • .... 20% 21
Do. NOV .• • • • • .
Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No •1 1%
Do. do. N 0.2 %p 28
East Denham & Norwich 1%
East Union .•••• • • • • -
Ditto Extension
Edinbgh, Glas.' and Dum -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 9
Do. Quarter Shares •• • -
Do. New Quarter Shares 1
Effinb. Leith, and Grantor --
Do. Pref. 5 per Cent -
Edinburgh and Northern -
Edinburgh and Peebles • • -
Edinburgh and Perth.• • • -
Ely and Huntingdon • •
Enniskillen and Sligo •• • -
Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr
Fit wood, Prstn, &W. Rid. -
Garnkirk and Glasgow • • -
Glasgow and Ayr. ••• •• -
Do. Quarter Shares •• • • -
Glasgow and Greenock • • -
Ditto New............
Ditto Preference ••• • • -
Glasgw, Dmfrles, and Car. -
Glsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard. -
Glasgow and Belfast Un. -
Goole and Doncaster . • •
Grand Juncti0n..........
Ditto Half Shares .• • • -
Ditto Quarter Shares • • •
Ditto New Quarters • • -
Ditto Eighths •••• • • • • •
Grand Union . ••.• • •• • •
Great Eastern & Western •
Gt Grimsby &Dk Extens. •
Gt Grimsby and Sheffield
Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) 26
Ditto Extension • • • • 1314
Great M0n5ter..........
Gt Northern of Scotland 3%
Grt Northern of England 223%
Do. New 401. Shares • •
Do. New 301. Shares ..
Great Western •••• • - • • 177 g
Ditto half' Shares •• • •
Ditto Fifths •••• • • • • 39
Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports. 3%
Harwich . • .• • • •• •
Hudrsfid&Man.lt.&Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough • •
Hull and Selby - ••• • • •
Ditto Quarter Shares • •
Ditto Half Shares .• . •
Inverness and Elgin .• • •
Isle of Jersey
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray ....
Killarney Junctions ... .
Lancaster and Carlisle • • r
Lancaster and Preston ..
Let di and Bradford •• • •
Ditto Extension ..
Leeds and llsbury •• . • 40 40
m
Leeds an.lThirsk •• • • • 21% 20%1
Leeds &W. Riding June. 18 18%
Leicester & Birmingham 2 p 3% 3%
Leicester and Bedford .• • 31,4 p 41% 4
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jne.
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liv. Man. &GtN. of Eng.
Liverpeol and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares •• • .
Ditto Quarter Shares.•
Liverpl,Ormskrk,& Prstn
London and Birmingham 225
Ditto Thirds • ..... •• • •
Ditto Quarters -•••• • • 28
London and Blackwell • • 1034
Lon.&Man.(Remington's) Ipi 4
London and Brighton. •• • 77%
Ditto Consolid. Eighths
London and Croydon •• • • 26%
Ditto New. ••••• • • • • 11%p
Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt.
London and Greenwich • • 10
Do. Pref. or Privilege..
London and South Westrn 79
Do. New Cons. Eighths
Do. New, 501 Shares..
Do. New, 401. Shares..
London and York .• • • • • •
Ditto (Bawtry)
London and Windsor •
Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl 31,E1
Lmr,yyLondonderryaihaaennsd,iteDErleayrn:
d.
h.a.Colerainem.Leeds. ..
: .:
.: 458 %I
Londonderry & Enniskilln 3
218
Ditto Half Shares • • • .
Ditto Quarter Shares.. _
Ditto Sixteenths • • • ...
Manchstr and Birkenhead —2% 3%
Manchester &Birminghm 72 _ 74%
Ditto Quarter Shares .. 13 13 12%
Ditto New Quarters . • 11 10%
Do. Con. & welsh Junc. —3% 4
litmehestr, Boltn, & Bury _
itchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk 9 p 9%
Man. Shef. and Mid. Juno. _ 8% 101%
Manchestr & Southamptn _
Midland .. ••. • • • 175 176
Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • •
Ditto New
Do. Con. Birm. & Derby 134
Midlnd Gt Westrn (Irishl
Do. Extension to Sligo
Newestl & Daringtn June. 55 5%
Ds. New (Brandling)
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle
Nwestle, Durham, & Lan. 5
Newport & Abergavenny 314
Newry and Enniskillen 3% 4
Newark and Sheffield . 6% 534
North British • • • • . • 30%
Ditto New Shares . . • •
10
Northern and Eastern ..
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
• Do. Quarter Shares ..
North Devon . • • • • • • • • • •
North Kent • • .....
North Staffordshire •
North Eastern
North Union (A) • • • • • . • •
Ditto (B) • • • • • • • •
North Wales Mineral • •
Ditto New Shares •
North Western •• • • • •
North Wales ••••• • • • • •
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New • • . .
Not., liel,•oir, & Granthm
Nottingham and Boston..
Nott., Es wall. Val. & Man.
Nottingham & Mansfield
Oxford and Birming. June
Oxford and Worcester • •
1 Oxford and Cambridge • •
Perth and Inverness .• • •
Portsmouth Direct • • .• • •
Preston and Wyre ..
Ditto Half Shares •• • •
Do. Pref. a per Ct. Guar
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div.
Preston & Wyre EXtens.
Richmond & W. End June
Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring
Scottish Central • • • •
Scottish Midland. • • • • • • •
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares • •
Ditto ditto (No. 2)• •
Ditto ditto (No. 3)• •
Sheffield and Lincoln-
Sheffield and Rotherham
Shrewsbry& Grand June.
Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe 5% 5 4%
Shrws.,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir 814 8% 9 %
Shrwebry & Trnt Val. Us. 4 5% _
Shrws, lierefd,& N. Wales 5
Slamannan . • • • • ........ —
South Devon . .• ........
South Midland.. •••• • • • • 714 8741
South Eastern' and Dover 48 49%
Do. New (iss. 32/.) No. I 23% 23%
Do. (iss.33/.65.8d.)., 2 16%
Do. (iss. 301.) 3 9 874 9%
Staines and Richmond •• • 3%
Sta ffordshire &Shropshire 111s3
Stirling and •Dunfermline
South Wales •••••• •• • • • • 6%
Tean and Dovo Valley • • 374
Trent
and j. •0.. 23% —3li _3l.
Vale of breath ••• • • • • --
West London, Old Shares
West End & Sothrn Coun.
Wexford ald Carlow • • • •
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfil,Wxfil,Wick & Dub 2% 2%
Wakefield and Bradford. •
Wakfld,Pontefrct, & Gool
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London . • •
WeSt Lancashire ........
Worcester and Tring • - • •
Whitehaven and Furness
Do. New Half Shares • •
Welsh Mitland • • ...... 4XI 4%1 4%
We't C0rnwa11.......... -
West Yorkshire • • • • •" •
Wilsontwn, M.& Coltness
Wilts, Somrst, 3s Weymth 4%
Yarmouth and Norwich • •
Ditto New . ........ • •
York and Carlisle .• ••• • • 6M 5%1 7
14
York and North Midland 109 _
Ditto Half Sban •• •: - _

The illustrations of the present number are, a portrait
of " Refraction," the winner of the Oaks, engraved b 3
Hucker, from a portrait by A. Cooper, R.A., and a
boauiitul little picture (engrave d by Scott, from a paint-
ug by J. list: t man). entitled, The Fruits of the First."
l'he subj•-et being the looking over the gime-hags after a
day's partridge shooting. Ft om the letter Tress illustrating
t ie ti...attre we extract the following sensible advice to
sp.rrsmen _ _ _ _ _

"There isn't a pleasanter month in the whole year than Sep-
tember. and there iste a pleasanter sport in the whole month—
perhaps it could he but justice to add v,ar again—than par-
tridge stunting. But then a man must have the proper spirit
to appreciate it, and the proper tact in practising it. What a
pity that such a nice, social, round-the-farm sort of amusement
should ever become the outrageously magnified toil and trouble
,ome people are so fond of making it. What really reasonable
reason can be given for a man knocking himsel up at half-past
four A. Di., to knock dov.r: part, idges on his own home in
England, because such a virtue is necassary for the snipe-
shooting in the swamps of the Indies? (Jr why, forsooth,
should the man who does not disdain the aid of Japer or Juno
to find his game, refuse that of Gimcrack or Jim Styles to
carry it ?"
•
THE STUDENT; or, YOUNG MEN'S

314 4IA,
414 4%

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3%1 -3-*g.l 3%

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18 18%

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EDINBURGH, AUG. 30.
STocs Excumws.--The sales are-;-Aberdeen,
*WOW; Nag, ad Elgin, Zr. ICP‘rBttirat

31. los.-
- iv!'

far, 251.-Ditto, Half 6
-Edinburgh
15L-Armagh and Portrush,
2/.-Banffshire, 21. - British and Irish Union, 3/. lls.-
Belfast and County Down, 3/. 155.-Cambridge and Lincoln,
1.
AJPbpluuul
re New,spenrrb.
gft-clriehhottrit:aeCcoa.)
Arbroath,
E.3eoGo:7diEll.
Glasgow,
sgnidlui
obisrlanwu.
.60tbsrldh:gd.6a9.:dh D.
6d.-Ditto,
ni
6d.-Direct
ei
,bnct
Gantbttlioitnlinuto,
3/. 10s. -Caledonian, --Caledonian Extension, 3/.
d
N"oN'ret3hlive,rnll7,
8s .12.1_6. LI. -DD
Dundee
ddy
eed
ace s daa ann 1
and
Glasgow,
stgughQGhro gate, 2/. 17s. 6d.L-Edin-
grlu
n:nttadeonrnads
n220115r1t1.
Northern,
Peebles,rsonss-22IDDi.
Dumbarton,ltt27ttooss
;Sept. Aug. Sept. _
2. 30. 1.
6d.-Edinlsurgll and Perth, 1/. 135.--Glasgow and Ayr-
"b' shire, 711.-Ditto. New Stock, 22/. - Ditto, 17/. 10s.-
Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3/. 18s.-Glasgow and Gam-
- kirk, 41/. - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. Is. 6d.-
Glasgow and Greenock, 21/.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. ss.-
,17• Ditto, Preference, 2/. - Great North of Scotland, 3/. 7s.-
4% Inverness and Elgin, 1/. 2s. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ardros-
- san 51. 155.-London and York, 6/. 108. -Monkland and
liirkultilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 1/.-North British, cx one-
- fifth, 29/.-Ditte Halves, 9/. 5s -Ditto, One-fifth, 81. 10s.-
- North Wales Mineral,
New, 6/ 55.-Perth and Inverness,
2/ 53.-Scottish Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Midland, 2/. 75.-
_ • Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4/. 155.-Shrewsbury
and Hereford, 1/. 153.-Slarnannan, 181. 10s.-South Mid-
- land, 9'.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 1/. 175.-lean and
Dove Valley, 3/. 15s. 6d.-Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin,
-1/. 165.---Wishaw and Coltness, 39/.
HULL, SErr. 2.
STOCK ExCUANGE.-The sales are-Durham and Sunder-
- land, New, 4-1/4-Eastern Counties, 2014-Ditto,No. 2, 205.-
- London and Croydon, New, 368.-Preston and Wyre, Half
shsres, 91/2-Blackburn, Darwen, and B dton, 1014-Eastern
- Union Extension,3l/3-lluddersfield and Manchester Railroad
- 4nd Can a 1.20 -Nort h British, Half Shares, 9 %-North W ales.
- 414-Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 3-Cambridge and
- Lincoln, 45%-Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 4-Direct Northern,
- 314-East Lincolnshire, 3% p.-East Coast, 235. p.-Glasgow
and Dumfries, 314-Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 4147-
_ Grand Union, 455. p.-Great Eastern and Western; 21s. p.
-Lancashire and West Yorkshire, 555.-Leiscsster and Bed-
- ford, 3% p.-Leicester and Birmingham, 31/2-London and
- Birmingham Extension, 355. p.-London and York, 75-
, Manchester Buxton, and Matlock, 914-Manchester, Shcf-
'-4 field, and Midland, 9 -Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
61/5-Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, SOs. p.-Notting-
-314 ham and Boston, 495. p.-Nottingham and Mansfield, 31/2-
- North Western, 6-North Staffordshire, 7-Rugby, 2%-
- Rugby and Huntingdon, 55a -South Midland, 7% p.-
- Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 714-Shrewsbury and
Trent Union, 5%-Staines and Richmond, 3%-Tean and
Dove Valley, 21,4 p.-Trent Valley Continuation, 4-Wake.-
- field and Bradford, 514 p.-Welsh Midland, 514-York and
- Carlisle, 614-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 455. p.
9 YORK, SEPT. 2.
3 STOCK ETCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Union Exten •
gy- i sion, 31. lls.-Great North of England, New, 34-Midland,
2% New, 26%-Newcastle and Darlington unction, New
- • (Brandling), 4514-North British, New, 1014-York and
- North Midland Extension, 251A-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4
ex new-Chthei oe Junction, 6-Grand Union, 4-Leeds
- and York, 8%-Leicester and Bedford, 43/4-London
_ and York, 71. 85. 9d.-Manchester, Buxton, &c.,
- 10-Newcastle and Berwick, 263/4-Nottingham, Erewash,
- and Ambergate, 51/ North Staffordshire, 71/8-Sheffield
- and Lincolnshire, 711-Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North
- Wales, 5-Welsh Midland, 51,2-York and Carlisle, 6%.
SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 2.
STOCK EXCITANGE.-The sales are-Midland, 175-Shef-
-
- field and Manchester, Quarter shares, No. 1, 181/2-Darby
- and Crewe, 51/4-East Lincolnshire 8-Goole and Doncaster,
4-Grimsby and Sheffield, 17%-drimsby Railway and Dock
Extension, 9-London and Windsor, 425.-London and
York; 73/4-Direct Northern, 31/2-Leeds and Thirsk, 21-
_
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 1214-Sheffield
- and Lincolnshire, 6%-Wakefield and Harrogate, 703.-
- Welsh Midland, 51/5-York and Carlisle, 6'l's--Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 12%.
lIUDDERSFIELD, SErr. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Essex and Suffolk,
17s. 6d. p.-Grand Union, 3%-Glasgow and Dumfries, 2%
-Huddersfield and Manchester, 2014-Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction, 16% ex new-Leeds and Thirsk, 22-
Manchester, Birmingham, and WTelsh Junction, 4%-Not-
tingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 5-Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire, 71/2-Yorkshire and Glasgow, 4%-Shrewsbury, Here-
ford, and North Wales, 5-Clitheroe Junction, 5%.
EXETER, SEPT. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North Devon, 21% p.
-Exeter and Yeovil, % p.-Exeter and Exmouth, % p.-
South Devon, 36-Aberdeen, 4%.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.
NEWBURY, SEPT. 2.—ln compliance with a requisition very
numerously signed by the principal inhabitants of Newbury and
its vicinity, who " are anxious to promote the construction of
this (Bett,ell'e) line of railway, being convinced of its great
importance and value to the locality," a public meeting was
called by the Mayor, and held to-day at the Mansion-house,
for the purpose cf taking into consideration the best means
of furthering the undertaking. The meeting was very nu-
merously attended. Amongst those on the platform and
around it were Alderman Hughes Hughes; George Adam,
Esq., of London; Joseph Brown, Esq., R. Etwall, Esq.,
M.P. ; Wm. Chadwicke, Esq., London; John Bothell,
R. Watkins, Esq., Rev. Dr. Binney, Rev. J. 11. Ashworth,
Mr. E. Slocock, Mr. C. Slocock, Colonel Burslem, Mr.
Wosey, Mr. W. Gray, Mr. II ulbert, Mr. Westlake, Mr.
Sharp, and many others of the leading persons of the
neighbourhood. Shortly after two o'clock the chair was taken
by the 11ayor of the Borough, and the requisition for con--
vening the meeting having been read, the Chairman called
on Alderman Hughes Hughes to address the meeting.
The worthy ALDERMAN observed that he was a member of
a dcpu'ation from the provisional directors of the Oxford
and Southampton Railway Company, who had come to
Newbury in order to express to the inhabitants of that dis-
trict the anxiety of the board that their project should be tho-
roughly understood by all those whose interests it affected—
(Cheers)—and also to gather their sentiments with regard to
the undertaking. In point of fact they had come to ask their
4 suffrages on its behalf, and, as far as he was enabled to judge of
the value and the reception they had met with, he was sure
those suffrages would not be refused.- (Cheers.) He would
not detain the meeting by entering into any details or explana-
tion of the scheme, as there were several other gentlemen pre-
sent who were anxious to do so ; he would only say that he was
confident the railway projected by Mr. Bothell was well calcu-
lated to benefit, not only this town and neighbourhood, but the
kingdom at large, and he would therefore promote it by every
means in his power.—( Cheer:. )
Mr. BETMELL next addressed the meeting. The plan of
the line he said had been laid before him by the engineers
(Messrs. Birch) ; it was not projected by himself; but he saw
the important advantages which must arise from the construc-
tion of it, especially to this locality, and he at once formed a
company to undertake the work.—(Cheers.) There had been
very little difficulty with regard to that part of their proceed-
ings ; for in point of fact the project met with universal sup;
port.—( Hear, hear.) The merchants of the north and those in
Loro!on, as well as the shipping interests in Southampton, were
all in its favour.—( Cheers. ) The Board of Directors of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company had declared
their intention of giving the line their most strenuous support
—( Cheers) ;—and with reference to the public confidence, he
might state that although the scheme had only been adver-
tised four days they were deluged with applications for per-
: mission to subscribe.—( Hear, hear.) Frcm Southampton
alone they had offers enough to make up the whole amount
. of capital required. All those who were acquainted
- with the progress of railways throughout the kingdom must
- be acquainted with the improvement they had effected in
every village at which they touched.—(Hear, hear.) New-
_ bury had not at present any railway communication with
_ other parts of the country ; but if the proposed line
- were constructed, it must be obvious that such an im-
portant town as this, having a great market for agricultural
and other produce, would be considerably benefited
(Cheers.) Of the importance of a direct railway communica-
tion between the manufacturing districts and Southampton
to the latter place a proof was given by the inere ,se of traffic
- since the opening of the South- Western line ; and Mr. Ed-
wards, the collector of customs there, gave it as his opinion
r6A'
that a direct means of communication were established, the
amount of exports would in one year be raised from
one to ten millions.—(Cheers.) There could be little doubt
also that in twelve months after this railway was opened New-
bury would be enjoying increased prosperity in proportion with
Southampton.—( Hear, beer.) It was inteneed that the line
should commence from a poi,it, a little north of Winchester and
short of Andover-road station, proceed to Whitchurch, near
Newbury, and from thence to Didcot, where it would join the
Oxford and Didcot line leading to the north. Upon looking at
the map, it would be seen that it was the most direct line from
Southampton to Oxford. It would cornett also Gosport
and Portsmouth with this district, and also the important
market towns of Newbury and Winchester.—( Hear, hear.)
They would thus have an opportunity of sending their grain
at a cheap and rapid rate to be shipped round the coast, and
also of forwarding it to the Government victualling-yards.—
(Hear, hear.) In addition to this they could send their oak
timber to the dockyards of Portsmouth ; and not only would
they do this, but they would open a direct means of traffic for
manufactures to all parts of the world from one of the most
convenient ports in the kingdom.—( Cheers.) Such matters
as these could not fail to be capable of the most beneficial re-
sults. He believed there was another plan of making a line
in this district, which included a branch to Swindon ; but be
thought it was a most important point for the Newbury people
to secure a direct line through their own town.—( Cheers. )
It was also suggested, when this project was first laid before
him, to have a branch to Swindon; but he declined adopting
the suggestion, because he had not the means of communi-
cating on the subject with the managing parties of the Great
Western Railway. But he was prepared to tell the meeting
that when those managing parties had been asked if an under•
standing upon the point was not come to—that is, if they re-
fused to make a direct line from Newbury to Swindon, and the
people of Newbury wished that such a line should be made, the
Oxford and Southampton Company would be prepared to un-
dertake it.—(Cheers.) Irrespective of mercantile traffic, it
would also be found that there was passenger work enough to
warrant the construction of this railway. It would be connected
with a point which would lead to every part of the kingdom.
The !ovulation of this company had led to the formation of
three or four other companies for various lines. One of them,
which was projected to run from Rugby to Manchester,
• through Macclesfield, would shorten the distance between those
two places by 15 miles ; and as the distance from Southampton
to Manchester, by the Oxford and Southampton line, was
. under present circumstances shorter by six miles than the dis-
- t ince from Manchester to Southampton via Cheltecham, no
- less than twenty-one miles would be saved by adopting the
- scheme under the consideration of the meeting.—(Cheers.)
The traffic also would be at infinitely less cost than on any other
line.—( Hear.) There were many other advantages connected
with the project, with which he would not trouble the meeting
- by detailing them. The traffic between the important town of
- Birmingham and its neighbourhood would be secured by it, and
- it was quite clear that it must have the support of the Govern-
_
ment, inasmuch as it would afford great facilities of sending
- military and naval stores from one end of the kingdom to the
- other. Hear, hear.) Before he sat down he begged leave to
- mention another important matter. It was positively ascer-
tained that the line could be opened within twelve months
2% from the time the Bill sectioning it had received the royal
3- -
assent ; and the read would be laid down by the engineer in
2% such a manner as best would consult the wishes of all the land-
- owners whose interests would bo affected by it.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CHADWICKE, a gentleman who said he had consider-
able experience in the construction of railways, said he thought
that the engineers had done ample justice to all parties in laying
out this line. The principal difficulty in suggesting lines of
railway was to avoid interfering with valuable property, and in
this instance much engineering skill had been exhibited in
ll
avoiding the domain of the Earl of Carnarvon, without a i
detracting from the usefulness of the work.—( Hear hear.) n
another line proposed he saw many difficulties, which it would
be almost impossible to encounter, especially i n the neinhbour-
hoo I of Belay.
The Rev. Dr. BINNEY them came forward, and congratu-
lated the meeting upon the value of the project and the success
with whieh it was likely to meet. Ha moved' a re.,,iution
to
„.cfr tine known as Bothell', t- ffoi dial tie toe-ot
direct mean s o rerinneunicat ion bet , :ti ounipt on and
frae,as -slermieh the, towti of Newhoi y s scrusts .:1
by all legitimate means, and would request their representa-
tives in Parliament to further the same accordingly.
srt L Sum= having teceudvd tin resQlution,

Mr. ETwALL, M.P., said, as a member of a deputation
from the towns of Southampton and Andover, he wis!7e:l to
ask when it would suit the convenience of the meeting to hear
an explanation with regard to the projected railway from South-
ampton to Andover :Ind Newliury?
Alderman HUGHES HUGHES said, although the promoters,
of the line now undi-r consideration had Ix en refused, a hearing
at the meeting recently held at Southampton, they were nut
disposed to follow the course adopted at that meeting. They
had been, he understood, most di,courteously treated at that
meeting, but they wished to act on the principle that " fair
play is a jewel," and would be anxious to hear any arguments
that might be advanced on behalf of any undertaking, although
different to their own.—(Cheers. )
The resolution wss then put and carried.
The Rev. J. H. ASHWORTH, in eloquent terms, stated that
his experience as a cl,rgyrnan enabled him to say that railway
communication had conferred great benefits on society gene-
rally throughout the kingdom. In no district, however,
was it more wanting than in North Hants, and, inasmuch
as the hoe now proposed would achieve his desire, he
hoped it. would be adapted. He moved a resolution to
the off:et that the inhabitants of the northern division of
the county of Hants would acquire by the proposed line
ready access to their county town and episcopal city, and an
advantageous outlet to the productions of their district.
The resolution was seconded by Colonel If URSLE3I, and
passed unanimously.
Mr. J. T. WasEsi- strongly advocated the propased line, and
said that although it would pass through a considerable portion
of his prop arty—he might say 16 miles of it—and perhaps create
a serious tojury, yet so convinced was he of the utility of the
road, he would give it his he:t support.—( Cheers.) He moved
a resolution to the effect that the continuance of the lire would,
in its northern progress, afford considerable accommodation
t.o those who frequented the important sheep markets of

lislay.
Air. HULBERT seconded the resolution, which was carried.
Mr. W. GRAY entered into a variety of statistical de-
tails, in order to show till ben,fit of the railroad
traffic; and said be was convinced that the present scheme was
pregnant good results. He proposed the next resolution,
to the effect that the population of Newbury, which embraced
60,000 inhabitants within an area of 10 miles, the abundance
of the agricultural produce, and the acknowledged ex, ellence
of the markets, entttled the district to increased commercial fa-

eilit ies.
Mr. C. SLOCOCK seconded the resolution, which passed.
Mr. 'WESTLAKE said, as a merchant of Southampton, he
begged to state that he gave his entire approbation to Mr.
Bethell's line of railway ; and he was also enabled to state that
the opinions of the merchants of Southampton accorded with
his own on this subj. et. ( Cheers.) He proposed that the
rapidly increasing importance of the town of
.Southampton de-
manded the most speedy and direct communication with the
trading districts of the north.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. EDWARD SIIARPE, and
adopted.
Mr. PARSONS then came forward to address the meeting as
a member of a deputation from the Southampton, Manchester,
and Oxtbrd Junction Railway Company: He spoke at consi-
derable length and in eloquent terms with regard to a line
which that Company had to propose, not, he said, in opposition
to Bethell's line, for he did not come there to offer opposition to
it, but he wished to bring under their notice two lines which
he said would combine advantages equal to Bethell's line and
the Direct Manchester and Southampton Railway, which
latter roads would cost two millions of money, whereas the lines
he had to propose would only cost 900,CiOC/. He proposed to
make two branchtt one to Swindon going through Hunger-
ford and HiglicLire, and the other through Ilstay to
Didcot, which would afford means of communication by
railways to all parts of the kingdom that could not be
given by Mr. Be.heli'a plan. It had, he believed, been
hinted that he had stolen Mr. Bethell's plan—( Hear, hear,
and I:.ughter)—but if the proper registers wtre searched it
would, he believed, be found that his line was registered, if
nut More or as soon as Mr. Bethell's, at least within a day or

two afterwards.—( Laughter.)
Mr. BE i HELL. —NV hen was your line registered? Mine was
registered on the 7th of August.
Mr. PA RSONS. —I cannot exactly say—(Laughter)—but I
assure you, upon my honour, I had the scheme in my head
before then. He disputed not the utility of Mr. Bethell's
railway, but he thought that two lines, giving great facilities in
an agricultural district like this, would be more advantageous
than one.
Mr. ETWALL next proceeded to address the meeting, and to
introduce his project on behalf of the Southampton, Andover,
and Newbury Railway, and some interruption took place.
The Horicurable Member, however, detailed his plans, and
stated that a prospectus of the line would appear in a few days,
and he had no doubt it would be received with satisfaction by
every person in that neighbourhood.
Mr. BETH ELL was heard in reply, and stated that Mr. Par-
sons had pirated his plan.
Mr. PARSONS denied the assertion.
Mr. BET HELL then asked Mr. Parsons to produce his maps,
and he would show him that he had done so.
Mr. PA RSONS said he could not produce his maps. He had
unfortunately lost them on his way down from London.—
" Oh, oh," and laughter.)
Mr. CHADWICKE said lie would show from Mr. Parsons's
own plans that it would be impossible for him to carry it out
so as make the line west of Ilslay.
Mr. PARSONS —Then I will take the east side.—(Great
laughter. )
'1 he discussion then terminated.
Mr. Watrxtrts then moved and Mr. BARRETT seconded a
vote of thanks to the Altiyor for his impartial conduct, which
was unanimously passed.
The late hour of the evening at which the proceedings of the
meeting were brought to a close precludes giving more than an
outline of what was uttered by the speakers.

GREAT NORTHERN OF FRANCE.
Yesterday the first general meeting of the proprietors of this
(Resamers) Company, whose line is to run from Paris to the
frontier of Belgium, with branches to Calais and Dunkirk, was
held at the London Tavern, Bishops,Tate. street. Mr. J. D.
Fowles, directtr of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, in the
chair. The other directors present were Mr. John Catley,
Mr. Archibald Paull, director of the London and Yolk ; Mr.
George Pollard, chairman of the West Yorkshire Railway ;
Mr. John Rawson, Halifax ; Mr. J. llopkinson, Mr. Joseph
Esdaile, and Mr. John Frith. There was a numerous attend-
ance of shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN addressed :the meeting on the position of
affairs. The directors had had the line surveyed by com-
petent engineers, with the intention of making a tender to
the Government, but the f. eling in France was so strung in
favour of an amalgamation with other lines, that they at once
gave up the idea. The feeling of the Government was also
strongly in favour of amalgamation, and the public
M nister gave it as the opinion of the Government that they
were decidedly anxious for the amalgamation of all the great
companies in France, to take the railways into thi it
own hands, as they had foreseen the possibility of their
falling into the hands of parties who could not efficiently carry
them out ; persons who, when it became necessary to make
payments to work them out, would be unable to do so. The
Government felt the probability of a financial crisis arriving in
France in connexion with this species of property, and urged
upon the companies generally the propriety of amalgamating,
as likely to be beneficial to the companies themselves, and give
greater security to the public. The terms upon which these
contracts were to be made were a lease of forty-one years and
a few days, so that the Government of France could not be in-
jured by the principle of amalgamation. The French press
questioned whether these amalgamations would be legal; but
there was no law to prevent amalgamations. The result was,
that six companies connected with France had amalgamated,
arid the portion of shares allotted to the Great Northern was
of which 20,560 would be retained by the French
Committee, and an equal number allotted for distribution
amongst the English proprietors, at 2/. per share. It was
determined by the Directors that the payment to be made
should be'bl. per share on those which were now to be allo-
cated. This could not operate injuriously to the shareholders,
because they would have the less to pay upon the whole num-
ber Of shares, or if they were to sell in the market they would
get the price to which such a payment would entitle them. On
the Bth of September the proportion of the English division
of the capital would be paid into the hands of the Government,
and notice would then be given to the shareholders when they
were to receive their proportion of the shares to be allotted
them, and the balance due on account of the money they had
already paid on their shares. The proportion of shares would
be in the degree of 20,500 to 150,000. There would be en odd
balance of 500 shares. When they received the shares from
France, notice would be given to the shareholders, and the
balance would be returned without expense.
Mr. WALLER, after adverting to the successful termination
of the Directors' negotiations with the French Government,
propoied a resolution, which was seconded and passed
unanimously, that the 500 surplus shares be left at the dis-
posal of the provisional committee for their services, and the
meeting separated
• •

LONDON AND SOUTH ESSEX.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Rayleigh and its
neighbourhood was held at the Golden Lion Inn, Rayleigh, on
Tuesday, to ascertain the general feeling with regard to the
benefit and accommodation ikely to arise by a direct rail Way
communication from London to Southend, pas Sing through or
near the town of Rayleigh. Mr. E BulWer presided.
Mr. J. MAYN said it was the wish of the inhabitants that the
line should pass as near Rayleigh as possible.
The Elev. J. T. ULETT moved the'first resolution, affirming
the desirableness of the line, which was seconded by the Rev.
E. B. MARRIOTT, and adopted.
Mr. TITS, the architect, said it had been the object of
Mr. Locke to brint, the line as near the town of Rayleigh as
possible, and the levels had been taken with that view. The
line was laid down going as near to Billericay as the country
would permit. The Directors were not a little surprised
to find that a rival scheme had been promoted by the inha-
bitants of that district. The line would come near Ray-
leigh. Cuttings of any magnitude through the clay hills of
that part of the country would not only be attended with diffi-
culty, but with great expense. Since the meeting at South-
end, the attention of the people of the Netherlands had been
drawn to the facilities which this line would give, in communi-
cating with the continent, and it appeared that a larMe stream
of traffic to Belgium and other parts might be brought upon it.
The gentlemen present might feel surprised to be told that by
means of this line the journey from London to Brussels could
be accomplished in ten hours. They would leave Fenchurch-
street by this railway, embark at the Crouch, and by means of
railways completed, or in process of construction, they could
reach Brussels in that short space of time.
On the motion of Mr. A. HOLT WHITE, seconded by the
Rev. J. PILKINGToN, a resolution was passed to the effect,
that a memorial, embodying the sentiments of the meeting,
should be forwarded to the provisional committee of the pro-
, jected line.

COMBINATION STRIKE ON THE GREAT SOUTHERN AND
WESTERN RAILWAY. —We regret to learn that a most dan-
vrous combination has manifested itself on the railway be-
tween Carlow and Ashy. The combination appears to be the
result of a settled and matured plan of operations; and that it
sssumed a formidable aspect me gathered from the fact,
that some of the combinators are s btrangers from Tipperary,
and who were the leaders In the emeute which took place on
Friday last, about four miles from this town. On that day a
party of about 200 men quitted the work near
s Athy, and
fi tie-
molded higher wages—for the labouiers, an increae ove
shillings, or fifteen shillings a-week ; and for the car-
owners, from four to six shillings a-day. On the
demand being refused, they proceeded alcrg the lire
towards Carlow, and called on the workmen to
4s strike," and where their commands were
o,ngorteafpromptly
r
• bu•
tthe
contractors,andattendedconsequence,
results
them•
joined
for t let
to
attack
a dispositionuthood, who took
part with the overseers, and exhib'ted• g
the rioters, who returned shortly after' the occurrence towards
Athy. In consequence of this movement, the works were
interrupted on some parts of. the line, and serious annoyance
given the contractors. The parties engaged in these lawless
procee ;:gs were
summoned to Athy on Tuesday last, but
the case was postponed until that day week.-- Carlow
Sentinel.

arrival of Theßhiril. at ti,Rt place
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Ada flag-ship L Formidatie. LL
His Royal i-lighnes is on
his way to Leghorn, whence he would proceed to the baths of
Luoca, for the recovery of his health.