The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, August 11.
Their Lordship met at Five o'Clock.
Thf?, Consolidated Funds Bill, the Exchequer Bills
Bill, the Slave Trade (Portuguese Vessels) Bill, the
Eoroughs Incorporation Bill, the Coventry Bounda-
r:es Bill, and the Manchester, Birmingham, and Bolton
Police Bill, were read a third time and passed.
BOROUGHS INCORPORATION BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from
Birmingham against the Boroughs Incorporation Bill.
He apologised to their Lordships and the petitioners
for not having presented the petition sooner, which
was occasioned by its having been mislaid.
NEWFOUNDLAND BILL.

Lord RIPON having moved the Order of the Day
for the third reading of this Bill,
The LORD CHANCELLOR ordered Mr. Burge,
the counsel for the House of Assembly of Newfound-
land, to be called in.
Mr. Burge then appeared at the bar, and addressed
the House against the Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the question,
that the Bill be read a third time, which was carried.
On the question that the Bill do pass,
Lord CAMPBELL said, he thought the able address
they had just heard, required some consideration ; he
should content himself by moving the omission of one
clause, the sixth. The Noble and Learned Lord briefly
stated his objections to the clause.
The Earl of RIPON said, there was only one point in
the Noble Lord's objections to which he wished to refer,
that was the opinion he had quoted from Sir John Har-
vey. It was true that he did not recommend this par-
ticular mo!e of dealing with the difficulties of the ques-
tion, but at that time he had not so full a knowledge of
what those difficulties were as he subsequently acquired.
His second dispatch, in which the particular form of
government enacted by the sixth clause was established,
contained his more matured opinions on a better know-
ledge of the practical difficulties of the case. The object
of the clause was only to enable the Legislature to pass
such measures as should be for the benefit of the com-
munity.—The Bill was then passed.
BANKRUPT LAWS.

Lord BROUGHAM said he was about to state his
reasons for withdrawing a Bill of which he bad given
notice, and pressing it no further. The purpose of
the Bill was to enable debtors and creditors
voluntarily to enter into arrangements for the benefit of
bath, securing protection to the one and the distribution
of the estate among the others. The Bill had been pre-
pared after much deliberation, under the direction of the
Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, and the more
they considered its provisions the more they would be
disposed to argue that it was founded ',in just principles,
and that its details were calculated to carry those princi-
ples into effect. He rejoiced to say that another Bill,
presented at the same time, had passed the other House
of Parliament, and now waited the Royal assent. It
was due to her Majesty's Government upon this
occasion that he should once more express both
his own gratitude and that of the parties who
would be benefited by the Bill, for their hearty,
steady, and effectual support of the measure, which was
a great amendment of the law. The Bill did not in
the slightest degree diminish the security of the creditor
in his just and lawful demands, while it would mitigate
in every respect the harsher features of the law of per-
sonal arrest. One part of the measure they had taken
from a neighbouring country, Scotland, namely the cessio
honorum, but they had taken it with a very great im-
provement, for whereas there the cessio bonorum
could only operate to the relief of the debtor
after he had suffered imprisonment, the wise
and just humanity of the Legislature had given
the same relief without the accompaniment of imprison-
eit at all. The other two measures of his Noble
rriend were also good measures. He likened them to
the kindly fruits of the earth, which were not only nu-
tritious and wholesome in themselves, but were also the
seeds of future harvests. But, like good seed, they had
teso fallen among thorns—the base weeds of self interest,
local feelings, and local interests had been aroused
against it ; those interests he might well liken to
thistles, for, like the thistle, their motto was—" Touch
ns who dare." The Bankruptcy Bill was well nigh lost
by such influence.—(Hear, hear.) Nothing but the
energy of the Government could possibly have
ensured the passing of this improvement.—(Hear.) His
Noble and Learned Friend's reform had been ex-
posed to the very self same influence which had been used
to thwart the progress of his (Lord Brougham's) Bill
when this bankruptcy system was first introduced, ten
years ago. But he had not heard of the same passage
in the lives of those country bankers which had so well
adorned, and almost closed the life of his most valuable
friend, Mr. J. Smith, of the house of Smith, Payne and
Smith, who expressed his willingness, on the part of
himself and his partners, to give up the five or six
thousand a-year, which they were making by the ne-
gligence of assignees, and which would be the conse-
quence of the Bill. He was in hopes that some such de-
claration would, on the present occasion, have been made
by some country bankers. He regretted to say that his
Noble and Learned Friend's Bill had yielded, like
the former one. to personal interest.—(Hear.) He ac-
quitted his Noble Friends who were connected
with Yorkshire and Lancashire—Lord Derby, Lord
Fitzwillixm, and the Duke of Norfelk—from being
parties to the opposition that was offered to the measure,
and he hoped that the next time the measure was
brought forward those Noble Lords would put their
veto upon any opposition being made to it by their par-
tisans, and he trusted that next session better fortune
would attend the measure. The Noble and Learned
Lord concluded by stating that he withdrew the Debtors
and Creditors Bill.—The Bill was then withdrawn.

Lord BROUGHAM then stated that the Bill for the
Improvement of Law Evidence, which had been intro-
duced by his Noble Friend the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of Queen's Bench, had been lost elsewhere
without any fault being attributable to his Noble Friend.
Their Lordships then adjourned till Twelve o'Clock
to-morrow (this day).

RIOTS AT MANCHESTER.

(From a Second Edition of the Manchester Guardian of
Wednesday Afternoon.)
We resume and continue such an account as time and
the state of the town permit us to make, of the proceed-
ings in Manchester during this day (Wednesday.)
At six this morning about 2,000 people assembled in
Granby-row Fields. Mr. Crossley in the chair. When
our reporter arrived, Mr, Doyle, a Chartist, was address-
ing the meeting. He advised those who haul turned out
to go to the workhouse for subsistence, rather than re-
turn to the mills, until the wages were raised. I advise
you, said he, when you leave this meeting, to walk in pre-
cession, and go peaceably through the town. Take
especial care not to countenance any man who tells you
to break the peace. Consider him your enemy. Recollect,
the spies of 1816. I know the Tory Government so well
that I am sure there are some spies here now. I will
endeavour, as far as I am concerned, though I detest the
laws of this country, and abominate the law-makers, to
obey the law, until I have the power, in conjunction with
the working classes, to destroy bad laws and enact good
ones in their stead. I say to you, the power-loom weavers,
consider what you are to do now that you have turned
out. As Mr. Leech said, last night, out of a little
thing may come a great deal. What has oceurred
convinces me that your numbers are not small, and if you
only behave as you have done you will achieve the
object you have in view.—(Cheers.) Mr. M‘Carty,
an operative from Liverpool, next addressed the meeting.
He said the reduction of wages arose, not from the pres-
sure of the times, but from the grinding and grasping
avarice of the millowners. Having advised them not to
return to their work until their wages were advanced,
he moved that the meeting should form into a proces-
sion and go peaceably through the towns of Manchester
and Salford, for the purpose of getting together their
fellow-operatives, in order that a general meeting might
be held at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of forming a
decided opinion as to their future proceedings. Mr.
Dixon seconded the resolution, and it was carried by ac-
clamation.
The meeting broke up about seven o'clock, the whole
of the crowd amounting, by that time, to upwards of
5,000 persons. Notice having arrived before they left
the ground that a large mob had assembled near the fac-
tory of Messrs. Kennedy and Co., without being able
to prevail on them to stop, it was resolved to move off in
that direction. Having formed in procession, they pro-
ceeded along Granby-row. In passing near the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway, they forced the labourers,
whe were at work on the line, to throw down their tools
and go along with them. "No one," they said, " should
work till they had got their rights." On their way to
Ancoats-street, they sent a deputation to the factory of
Messrs. Waterhouse and Thompson, Temple-street, de-
manding that the hands should be turned out, which
was done, and the greater number of them joined the
crowd. On making the same demand at the factory of
Messrs. Barnes, Jackson-street, a refusal was given at
first ; but, on their commencing to break a few windows,
the engine was stopped amid the cheers of the mob.
The next resting-place of the crowd, which had now
swelled to nearly 10,000 persons, was in Ancoats-street,
in the neighbourhood of Messrs. Kennedy's mill, which
was protected by Superintendent Cochrane and the C
division of police. Having placed fifty of tile police
across the street, in such a manner as to prevent the pass-
ing and repassing of any one, this led to a collision be-
tween them and the mob ; stones were thrown, and the
police, who, however, kept their ground manfully, suc-
ceeded in keeping back the crowd till a party of cavalry
arrived.
Shortly after eight a considerable number of the mob
dispersed in various directions to stop the mills and other
public works in the different parts of the town. One of
these divisions passed over Victoria-bridge at half-past
eight, and proceeded along Greengate, Salford, ordering
all the mills to turn out ; some of the masters complied
with the request, and others kept them at work till a
later hour in the day.
By nine o'clock nearly all the factories and public
works in the neighbourhoods of Oxford-road, London-
road, and Ancoats, had turned out their hands In some
cases a deputation waited on the manager of the mill or
factory, and told him that unless the engine was imme-
diately, stopped and the hands turned out, there might be
some disturbance. The manager of the Oxford-road
Twist Company, among others, adopted the quiet
method, and gave over about nine o'clock. At the mill
of Mr. Jones, Chester-street, a refusal having been given,
a crowd began to collect in front of the building, which
had the effect of making them give way like their neigh-
bours. Several attempts were made during the morning
to stop Messrs. Birley's mill, Oxford-road, but without
effect. A party of police kept guard in the yard, and
prevented the entrance of any one from the crowd.
The mill of Messrs. Stirling and Beckton, Lower
Mosley-street, which suffered so severely on the previous
evening, was visited by several parties during the morn-
ing, who called on the hands to come out and join in the
procession. Finding that there was no disposition to
comply with this request. the mob began to throw stones
at the windows of the mill, and also at the doors and
window-shutters of Mr. Beckton, the latter of which soon
became a total wreck.
The cavalry having arrived, they endeavoured to dis-
perse the rioters, who now became audacious, and there-
fore seemed disposed to resist for a while ; but, on the
soldiers drawing their swords and dashing into the midst
of them they fled in all directions. The Dragoons gal-
loped along Bridgewater-street and Albion-street after
the fugitives, and called upon all well-disposed persons
to go home, which few persons seemed inclined to do.
Between ten and eleven o'clock a party appeared
in front of Messrs. Sharp and Roberts's machine shop,
Faulkner-street, and made the men turn out. They
then went along Peter-street, stopping a factory in
South-street as they passed. In Deansgate they made
two or three men turn out who were at work in the
shop of Messrs. Howard and Atkinson, plumbers and
glaziers.
On reaching Blackfriars-street, the crowd, which had
greatly increased in numbers by this time, turned down
towards Salford; but on their way, they drew up in
front of Messrs. Jenkinson and Bow's machine shop, the
hands of which had refused to obey the dictation of a
small party which had passed over the bridge about an
hour previously, although the other mills in that street
had then been stopped. Having knocked at the door of the
machine shop without obtaining admission, they began
to throw stones at the windows, and, after breaking
nearly a hundred panes of glass, the men were turned
out amid the cheers of the crowd. They next visited
the works of Messrs. Salmon and Marshalls, toolmakers,
Greengate; Mr. Makin's silk-winding shop, next door
to the Red Lion Inn; Mr. Harding's thread-mill, Cra-
nage-street, Greengate; Mr. Butler's dye-works, Green-
gate; and Messrs. Eveleigh and Neave's hat-manufac-
tory, Greengate; and in every instance succeeded in
turning out the hands. In passing along Broughton-
road one or two boys went into the shop of James
Faulkner, provision-dealer, and asked for bread. He
gave them a 41b. loaf, which was instantly torn to pieces
in the crowd. There seemed at first an inclination
among some of the younger portion of the crowd to enter
the shop, and see if they could not get some more bread,
but the main body of the rioters forced them away, ex-
claiming that it would ruin their cause should they
begin to plunder. Having proceeded as far as Brough-
ton-bridge, they halted in front of Mr. Williams's
I silk mill, having heard that there were some hands
at work; but, on being assured that such was not
the case, they passed along Silk-street, Hope-field,
Adelphi-street, across Broken-bank, into Oldfield-road,
from which they announced their intention of making
their way to Granby-row, to attend the meeting
which was to take place there, as stated in the morning.
About a quarter-past twelve a body of between 300
and 400 people, including many boys and young men,
came suddenly into Princes-street, and a number of
them, in passing, entered the shop of Mr. John Howarth,
fruiterer and provision dealer, and demanded some bread.
Mr. Howarth thought it prudent to comply with their
demand, and gave them five 41b. loaves, with which they
appeared to be satisfied. Meanwhile some one had
hastened to the Police-office with the information, and
Inspector Irwin arrived there with a body of the police
before the men had quitted the premises, and succeeded
in capturing seven of them, who were promptly con-
veyed to the New Bailey, and safely lodged there. On
this, as on former occasions, threats were heard on the
part of the mobs in more than one street, that at night
(Wednesday night) they would have the prisoners out
of the New Bailey. We may add here, that the num-
ber of prisoners conveyed there previous to nine o'clock
this morning was twenty-seven ; there were fifteen con-
veyed there in the forenoon from Messrs. Stirling and
Beckton's, Lower Mosley-street, and probably a dozen
or more from other quarters ;_ so that there are between
fifty and sixty persons lodged there at the time we are
writing this (two o'clock.)
Information having reached the Police-office that it
was intended to demolish the Lock-up at Newtown, a
strong body of police was promptly dispatched thither ;
bat before they could reach the place, a distance of con-
siderably more than a mile from the Police-office, the
work of destruction had been completed. From what
we can learn, the rioters commenced about a quarter
past twelve o'clock, by throwing stones at the Lock-up,
which is a small building, formerly a dwelling, but al-
tered so as to form a police station, where several men
are generally on duty. They soon forced a way into
the premises, and very speedily demolished the furni-
ture. They then tore down doors, window-frames, the
beams of the roof, and we are assured by an eye-witness
that in ten minutes the place was almost literary levelled
with the ground.
Shortly afterwards a report reached the Police-office
that the same body of men intended to attack the Man-
chester Gas-works, at Newtown ; and about half-past
twelve a strong body of the police was dispatched thither.
We understand that the gas-works had become an object
of attack from the circumstance that some of the rioters,
who had been captured by the police, had been conveyed
there for safety ; and the mob expressed a determina-
tion to rescue the prisoners. Since writing the above,
we learn that the attack was made ; the mob speedily
forced open the doors of the gas-works, broke tis o or
three windows, and did some other damage, but not
to any cdnsiderable extent. They found the two
prisoners, of whom they were in search, in the
custody of three policemen. They beat the policemen
severely, and rescued the prisoners. From an eye-wit-
ness, who was on the spot shortly afterwards, we learn
that about half-past one o'clock there could not be fewer
than 8,000 or 10,000 people in the neighbourhood. The
Dragoons were galloping about with drawn sabres, driv-
ing the people back. Strong bodies of the police and the
60th Rifles were keeping the ends of the streets in vari-
ous directions, so as to prevent the mob passing ; and
this was the state of things in the streets for about half I
a mile round the gas-works in all directions.
Another report, brought to the Police-office about the
same time, was that the rioters intended to visit the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (and probably
others), with the object of tearing up the rails, and
thus, as they hoped, preventing any reinforcements of
military reaching the town. At the time we are writing

(tiro o'clock) we have not heard of any attack on the
railway sta!ion.

on, ;,'dock, one of the xeohs, rssing, down
D2ansgate, came to the provision. shop of Airs. Aldred,
near the Castle Inn. The shopmen, on the alarm that
the mob was coining, were engaged in putting up the
shutters ; but the mob speedily pulled them down again
and rushed into the shop, where they took, or had given
them on their demand (we have not heard exactly
which), between 30 and 40 leaves. On the site of the
Old Red Lion some new premises were in process of
erection. The mob compelled the bricklayers and
labourers there to desist, and twice turned them off.
The Mayor, Magistrates, together with Colonel
Wemyss, Sir Charles Shaw, and the Town clerk and
Magistrates' clerk, were assembled all the forenoon in

the-Boroughreeve;s room at the Town-hall, adjoining.
the Police-office ; and they determined to summon the
respectable inhabitants generally to enrol themselves
as special constables. ith this view they issued a
summons, signed by the Mayor, of which the following
is a copy :

" TfiC! Magistrates request your immediate attendance
at the Town-hall, to be sworn in as a special constable,
to assist in the protection of property, and the preserva-
tion of the peace of the borough.

WM. NEILD, Mayor."
A number of copies of this having been made, men
were dispatched with them into various districts of the
town; their instructions being to call at every house of
a respectable inhabitant, show him the summons, but
not leave it, and then proceed to the next house, and so on.
Arrangements were made for swearing in the special
constables in the room of the Police Commissioners in
the Town-hall.

We understand that the Magistrates are most anxious
that respectable inhabitants, especially owners of pro-
perty, should themselves come forward to be enrolled as
special constables, as this would give considerable moral
influence and authority to the civil force. Gentlemen
will, therefore, we have no doubt repair forthwith to the
Town-hall, and give their assistance for the protection
of that property in which they are all deeply interested,
and for the preservation of the public peace.
At three o'clock 300 special constables were sworn in,
and gentlemen were thronging to the Town-hall for the
purpose. Each special constable is distinguished by a
white ribbon tied round the arm, above the elbow.
A strong force of the 60th Rifles, together with a
number of the police, have been drawn up the greater
part of the day near the mill of Messrs. Murray, Great
Ancoats-street. The other troops here are the Ist
Dragoons. They are kept constantly in readiness, and
two or three troops of them, as will be seen above, have
already been actively employed in driving back the
riotous assemblages from their work of destruction and
plunder.

- The Riot Act was read opposite Sterling and Beck-
ton's, Lower Mosley-street, by Daniel Maude, Esq., at
an early hour this morning. One of the borough Ma-
gistrates also read the Riot Act in the neighbourhood of
the gas-works, at the attack there.
MEETING IN GRANBY-ROW.
At one o'clock a meeting was held in Granby-row
Fields, at which there were upwards of 800 people. Mr.
Donovan took the chair. The assembly was addressed by
Messrs. Dixon, Lane, Brophy, of Dublin ; Williscroft, a
shopkeeper, &c., &c., and a determination was expressed
by most of the speakers not to return to the mills till
their demands were complied with. One of the speakers
advised them not to go into the bread shops, but at the
same time to take care not to clam (hunger). A reso-
lution was passed that they would not go in again till
they had a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. The
meeting adjourned at a quarter to three o'clock till six
o'clock to-morrow (Thursday) morning. They then
moved in procession to Little Ireland, where it was said
a meeting of mechanics would be held this evening.
There are at this time (twenty minutes past three P.M.)
probably 15,000 persons about the neighbourhood of
Messrs. Birley and Co.'s factory.
MOrfliAM, GLOSSOP, AND TINTWISTLE.
This morning a large body of people. amounting to
about two thousand men, left the neighbourhood of
Ashton-under-Lyne, and proceeded by way of Mottram,
Broadbottom, Dinting, Tintwistle, &c. &c. &c., turning
out the hands at all the factories, print-works, and other
large establishments, but, we believe, without committing
any outrages of a serious character, either upon persons
or property. Another body, we believe, proceeded by
way of Compstall-bridge to Marple, for the same pur-
pose; but we have not heard any particulars of their
proceedings.

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE IN STAF-
FORDSHIRE.
(From the TVolverhampton Chronicle.)
On Tuesday James Morgan and William Morgan were
committed by Henry Hill, Esq., and G. Holyoake, Esq.,
to the House of Correction for one month, and William
Lowe for fourteen days, for being with and assisting the
mob which prevented the men from working at the Park
Field 'Works on Thursday last.
Fifteen more colliers have, we understand, been com-
mitted to-day (Tuesday) from Dudley. They came into
the town under a military escort, and then proceeded by
railway to Stafford.
An expectation prevails that the strike will not last
above a week or two at the utmost, many of the men
having expressed a desire to their masters to resume
their work, intimating that they hare not yet done so,
solely because of the violence to which they expected to
be exposed. _ _

The reports from the disturbed districts in the north
of Staffordshire are more favourable than they have pre-
viously been. The return of the colliers to their work
is becoming more general, and consequently the principal
manufactories dependent on them for their supplies have
been re-opened. On the morning of Monday week the
working of one of the pits near Longton, belonging to
Mr. Sparrow, was commenced at the reduced rates, and
the men have continued at their employ without inter-
ruption during the week. From fifteen to twenty men
have returned to work at this colliery, and probably
tkere will be a more general resumption of labour next
week. The working at some of the Shelton collieries,
(Earl Granville's), also commenced on the same morn-
ing at the reduced rates, and four pits are now in
full operation. It is said to be the intention of
the Noble Proprietor not at present to recommence
working the other Shelton collieries, which have
supplied the ironworks with coal, in consequence of the
depressed state of the iron trade. No interruption has
as yet been given by the unemployed, although threats
have been made of another turn-out of the hands at,
work. The Colliers' Committee have had several meet-
ings, but the result of their deliberations has not been
Made public. Groups of from 40 to 50 of the more dis-
affected have perambulated the district, but not a single
breach of the peace by them has occurred duri,pg the
week. The County Magistrates, who had been sitting
daily at the Castle Hotel, Newcastle, believing that the
tranquillity of the district was in a great measure restored,
discontinued their sittings on Monday se'nnight. The
military force at present at Newcastle consists of two
companies of the 60th Rifles, under the command of Ma-
jor Wilford. 'The remaining company of the 12th In-
fantry left the town on the afternoon of Saturday week,
and the troop of the 3d Dragoons on Wednesday morn-
ing, both for Wolverhampton.

1 EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH.— On
Wednesday morning an inquisition was taken before Mr.
Wakley, M.P., at the University College Hospital, on
the body of Susan Leonard, aged 32, of No. 19, Bruns-
wick-street., New-road, who supported herself by needle-
work. It appeared that the deceased was brought into
the hospital on the 27th of July last, labour-
ing under an affection of the chest and ner-
vousness. She appeared to improve up to Mon-
day last, when, as Mr. H. B. Norman, the house-
surgeon, was quitting the ward which the deceased was
in, after examining the patients, the nurse called out
to him to return. He did so, and found blood issuing
from her mouth, and she almost instantly died. Dr.
Quin, physician to the hospital, stated that he had made a
post mortem examination of the body, and discovered a
small aneurism of the aorta pressing on the left branch
of the windpipe, with which it communicated by an
opening of about an eighth of au inch in diameter. The
Coroner said that it was the most extraordinary case he
had ever known, and in this opinion Dr. Quin concurred.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death."
THE ✓HAGUE, AUGUST 7.—A Spanish schooner
had taken on board at Gaboon forty negroes, which it
intended to sell at Bahia, being pursued by an English
man-of-war, the Commander resolved to conceal the
slaves from the English, and put them on board a boat
with part of the crew. The boat, however, was stranded
in February last at Axim, a league and a-half to the
west of Fort St. Anthony, where the ,shipwrecked per-
sons were provided with necessaries by the Dutch autho-
rities, and afterwards given up to the Commander of the
British squadron. The slaves are to be set at liberty at
Sierre-Leone.

On Tuesday last a young man in the employ of
J, Ellwan, Esq., of Glynde, near Lewes, alighted from
a spring cart in which he had been sent by his master, in
consequence of long indisposition, to Brighton, for me-
dical advice, and he walked into the first inn in the town,
the Hanover Arms, in the grounds of which the grand
match of cricket was being played between Marylebone
and Sussex. He had just entered the bar, and the land-
lady was getting a sofa ready for him, when a large
blood-vessel suddenly burst, the blood rushed from his
mouth, and he was dead almost instantaneously. Being
at the time under medical attention, an inquest was not
held.

EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—The Eastern
Counties' Railway works, in the neighbourhood of
Chelmsford, are now assuming a gratifying and ani-
mated appearance. The viaduct across Duke-street is
progressing rapidly towards completion, and a series of
arches, extending from thence towards the gigantic
bridge over the river Cann, are daily increasing in
number. Across the Cann the bridge, which will consist
of several arches about 40 feet high, is in acorresponding
state of forwardness. At Widl'ord considet able progress
has been made in the deep cutting which %yin be conti-
nued through the hill, which in some parts has been
already excavated to the depth of seventy feet. On
the embankment leading from the Chelmer -to the town
field, workmen arc busily employed in repairing the sub-
sidence which it had undergone during the late winter ;
and in a few days, we believe, the tipping of earth will
be recommenced at the extremity in the town field.
Both here and at Widfcrd the earth-waggons are con-
veyed along the line by powerful ballast-engines, which
run both night and day, and we understand that an ad-
ditional number of workmen are about to be employed,
so that there is every reason to believe that the works
(under Messrs. Sherwood, the contractors) will be pro-
secuted with the utmost vigour, and that an early com-
pletion of this great undertaking may be looked forward
to.—Essex Mercury.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, M.P., and family, Sir R.
Inglis, and Lord 'William Hervey, embarked at the
Brunswick wharf, on board the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Captain
T. Fife, for Antwerp, yesterday afternoon.