The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

ning-jenny were invented. (Great laughter and
heers.) • And to prove their prophecies and uphold
their theory, they sustain laws which shut us out of
thounarkets of the world; and when they -have de-
prived machinery of fair play, turn round and say-
- Behold the ruin it has brought !" Over production!
Certainly, if we narrow the range of human action by
the paltry boundaries of class interests—if an area of
A square mile were enclosed by a wall, and you were
to abandon it to families, the time would soon ar-
r7ve when the tailor and shoemaker, anal the- builder
and the smith, would all raise the cry of " over pro.
daction."—(Henr., hear.) The wickedness of our
monopolists has closed against us the doors of America
and a great part of Europe to British skill, and well
may the pent-up inhabitants of this island exclaim
against over production—though ragged and naked,
with unfurnished walls and famished stomachs.—
(Applause.) Nothing less than the earth had God
given to the children of men—nothing less than free
access to all its people and all its productions will
meet the exigencies of the case. This is free trade, or
equity applied to commerce ; and this simple remedy
would terminate the monopolist's watchword, " over
production," at once.—(Loud cheers.) .
Potenaun COBDEN, Esq., rose at the conclusion of
lir. Thompson's powerful address, to move a vote of
flaanits to the Hon. Members for Bolton and Bury, I
and to Mr. Thompson for their addresses. After
alluding to the fact that Mr. Thompson was about to •
tiit-this country for a time to sail for British India,
jir. Cobden said he had observed in that day's Times
a letter signed " One in the Secrets of the League,"
in which the writer stated that the inten- •
tion of. the new League fund was to contest
Parliamentary elections. This •writer stated that the
greater part of the -money. raised by the ladies' bazaar
had been spent in the Stockport election.—(Laughter.)
Now, unfortunately for the man in the secrets of the
eague, he had made a bad selection of his borough,
for,there was hardly a man, woman, or child in Stock-
port but could have told him that when he was re-
turned, for that borough it was not Richard Cobden
that, carried the. election, it was the decisive fiat of the-
people against monopoly.—(Cheers.) They were de.
terminedto vote for free trade: and not only was the
electioucatrie&without the expense of one farthing,
but .50,0001., could not have returned a monopolist.
—(Cheers.) • He should not have alluded to the foolish.
letterreferred to, but there was nothing like nipping
the tactics, of the enemy in the bud, for as they could
not..prevenbthe League getting the fund, they thought
tlaey might be expected to attaibute all sorts of mo-
tives, which it would be their policy at once to meet by
prompt contradiction.—(Cheers.)
iaARK PHILIPS, Esq., seconded the resolution, which
was carried by acclamation, and the meeting soon after-
ards separated.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

A special gvnerat meeting of the Directors and
Proprietors of :this Railway- WAS held yesterday at
their offices at Shorediteh, for the purpose of receiving
ti,: Report of the Engineer of the- Company on the
stat,e of the ra;lway. The meeting was extremely
ill attended, and at .the Directors' table we noticed
T. W. Rathbone, Esq.; David Hodgson, Esq. ; and
John Nather, Esq., three of the Directors from
I.Tvernool.

ieos,,,No.ur,T, Esq., took the Chair, and stated
he felt it incumbent on him to address a few
obqr,rvations to them on the circumstances under
which they met that day. On the 31st of August
they received a Report from the Engineer stating that
the line would be ready on the 16th of the following,
month. Circumstances, however, occurred, which

rendered it necessary that the meeting called for the
Mil of September should be adjourned to this day.
lia-beg-red to return them, for his own part and his
brother Directors, sincere thanks for the confidence
reposed in them when they were disappointed
in viewing their property, which ran through
fertile and populous districts. He was extremely
happy in meeting them that day, as it enabled the .n
to give the Shareholders the reasons for the delays
which had occurred. lie could not help observing,
that, in all enterprises like this one, the Shareholders
and Directors could only be- moved by one common
interest. What could bring so many of his lion.
Friends all the way from Liverpool, if they had not
the interest of the Company at heart ? Their great
stitntilus, of course, was the hope of future remune-
ration
„in. the success of the Company.' It had got
abroad that the Directors of Railway Companies pos-
sessed great patronage;. he could only say, that he
never exercised one pennyworth, and he never
would.--(CLers.) When the Directors appointed
any person to a situation in the Company, the first
and,only consideration was qualification. The next
cireilistance to which he would allude, was that of
thc#,,epcctatians with respect to the line. He held
in Ins'iianda statement„ showing the progressive state
of 21 Seventtion, miles of railway - now • tom-
pie „,,g4 found that, in the year 1840, dur-
ing,i,dckeeri. weeks,.. ,the receipts „: were 10,4511. ;
in -41, the .receipts were, during tin?, same
period, , 14,090/. Included in . this were- the
receipts from the Northern and Eastern Company
were not received .durh: the corresponding.
pr, irk 1840. In the year 164'2 Ile.n2qeipts from
t orthern and Eastern Company were' smaller, as
the tolls to them hod been reduced: yet in the.:fifteen
weeks of 18'42, the receipts were .17,45.5/. When.l2e
considered the places of commimication..between oie
two extremities of the line, Colchester, ChelLiforck
f.clii.othn.. places, and the traffic that would take.,.
place independent of that between Colchester and
.LOndon, he could not but congratulate the Share-
holders. The first document that would he, read to
them would be the Engineer's Report of the 31st of
August.

The Report, which has already been before the
public, was then read, which stated that the line
would be cornplf:tod and open for traffic by the Ist of
October.

The- Engineer's Report was then read, stating that
the reason the line had not been completed by this
time was owing to the badness of the weather, the
went of iron, caused by the strike of all the colliers,
slip, and other causes, over which the Engineer had
no nattrol. The Report went on to state that large
suns-of motley had been expended in work caused by
the ;lips- on the- line.
The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Braithwaite, the
EnOnr,,was ready to answer any questions any Pro •
pelooT wished to put to him.
A SuAasnonnEn. wished to know when it was
likely the whole line would be opened ?
Mr. BitArrni,v_turn said that he was convinced, that
if they had anything like good weather, the line
woilid be completed in three or four weeks.
Mr. DANK'S said, that as the representative of a
considerable interest in the. line, he had walked over
the line between Brenton and olchester, in order to
judge for himself when it was probable the line would
be opened, and he felt convinced that it could not be
done in six weeks. He knew that the Engineer had
had great difficulties to contend with, over which he
halm) possible control. He (Mr. Thinks) would re-
commend, that for the first three months after the
li.neTwas opened, nothing but goods should be conveyed.
This would give confidence to the public.
Mr. T. W. RATHBONE said the Directors thanked
thesHon. Proprietor for his suggestion, which should
receive their earnest consideration.

..A..SHAItEHOLDEU said he wanted to put a few ques-
tions to Mr. Braith‘vaite. He had spoken of large
outlays of money, but he had said nothing as-to what
could be saved by selling what was called the spoiled
land. He wished to know if a large saving might not
have been made in purchasing the iron for the whole
line at once ? The Bristol and Gloucester Railway
had saved from five to ten pounds a ton by this course.
In the statement of the accounts there appeared for
the solicitor's bill, 18,C00/. ; he wished to know in
what,wav this had been incurred.
Mr- I:_itArruwAtrai said that considerable saving
would be made by the sale of the spoiled land. The
iron. could not be
there,.
ewa_sunot monePuyr ;101 a
dS e do
itall at the same time as
AntmAN said that the large amount of the
solicitor's bill had been caused by troublesome parties
who were continually \ preferring complaints before the
Magistrates, which
sive.. The Act of pNar'e)l.'e very
harassing and expen-
ponv.s. relating to title-deeds
iitiment provided. that all ex-
should be paid by the
Company.

ELnis wished to know -whether there would be
my.m4re money required for the completion of the
line..

Mr. BI AITHWAITE said that probably 10,000/. more
would be required, or less than that.
Air. LEMONS wished to know, what wls the amount
of the surplus property o.f the Company.
The CHAIRMAN said it was 80,000 i.

A SHAREHOLDER WiS;lOd to kl)01,V if Qenerai
'pas_
ley, the Inspector of Railway:, would require t‘: o
lines before traffic.
Ml'. BRAITHWAITE said tilt: ft probably h would re-
quire two lines to be complet ed before there was pas-
seDger traffic, but for goods, he thought hit would only
re!uire one.
After a short conversation, the Report was put to
the, rneeting, and was received .ind adopted.
te of thanks was then passed to the C it n: n
111(1't
Directors, and the meethg. separated.

BittirGlUNl'S Lucius.--About a hnndred
yardq•beyond the third milet stone., on the road lead-
ing from Brodick to Lamla: on closely noticing the
top of the Ben-noon ridge ()f mountains, contiguous
to Goatfell, there is strikingly ob.seivable the form
and figure of a man lying On hi 3 back—the head,
brow, ..eye-lids, and lashes—nose, -mouth, and chin
affording a most accurate lik,2:less. of Lord Breugham.
l'hei nose, especially, cannot. be 'better im.. tted by
the - most eminent sculptor. Mu t neck, shoulders,
bodjc., letr,s, and feet are also very distinct, well de-
fined, and proportioned. O r art of the rock on
whien Dtaxibarton Castle is L vields,it is said, a
corriget profits of the Duke of 'Wellington.