The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

EfER, Nov

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STOCK E WITANGE.—The sales are—North Devon, 3/4 p.
—Taw Vale Extension, % p.—Bridgewater and Minehead,
14 p.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, A' p.—Exeter, Top-
sham, 4tid Exmot4ol (Paw's line), 14 p.—Ditto (ilead's),
1 p.—South Wales, 8.
LEEDS, Nov. 3. _ _ _

STOCK EXCHAINGE.—The. sales are—East Lancashire,
No. 2 (late !Accrington), 144—Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, 18—Ditto, Quarter Shares, -I%—Leods and Bradford,
46—Ditto, Extensions, 41—Leeds and Dewsbury, 2434
Leeds and Thirsk, 17—Newcastle and Berwick,. 17—South
Wales, 51/2—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 51—Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth, 6—London and York, s%—Shef-
field and Lincoln, s%s—Cambridge and Lincoln, 514—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 614—London and York
(Bawtry), 4—Chelmsford and Bury, par—Clitheroe Junc-
tion, 4%—East Lincolnshire, 4—Essex end Suffolk, par—
Grand Union, 6 p.—Great Eastern and Western, 15s. p.—
Leeds, and Liverpool Direct, 15s. p.—Leeds and Yolk, 14s. p.
—Leicester and Bedford, 32a p.—Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle Junction, 514—Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 51/3 p.—Manchester And Birmingham
Continuation and Welsh Junction, 214—Manchester, Mid-
land, and Great Grimsby, 376—Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion, 12s. 6d, .p.—North Staffordshire, 614—North Western,
4%—Nottingham and Boston, 525. p.—Wakefield and Brad.
ford, 25s p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 50s. p.—Welsh Mid-
lands, 3%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 20s. p.
•rit.TI.L, Nov. 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-ahe sales are—Aberdeen, 814—North
British, (Carlisle), 4—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 2
Axholme, 43/4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 514—Coventry,
Nuneaton, &c., 2%—Derby and Gainsboruugh, 2%—Dudley,
Madelev, and Iron Bridge, 31/2—East Lincolnshire, 37/6
Grand *Union, 234—Great Eastern and Western, 31/2—Great
North and South Wales and Worcester, I—Hull and Barnsley
Junction, 39s.—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 2%—Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle Junction, 514—Liverpool and Leeds,
3!4—London and York, 534—London and Norwich Direct,
7s. 6d—Nottingham and Boston, 3% --North Staffordshire,
6 %—R ugby and Huntingdon, 2 W—Soutli Midland, 61. eis.—
Yorkshire and Glasgow JUnion,
..3/1. •

YORK, .Na-. 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North British (Car-
;isles), 4—York and North Midland (Half Shares), 54--
Ditto, Scarboro' Branch, 53—Ditto, .Extension, 26:Y4—Cale-
donian (Extec sion), 4%—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham,
and Leicester, 2:Y4—Grand Union, 2§—Leicester and Bed-
ford, 27—Liverpool, Manchester, and NewcaStle Junction,
51, London and York, s%—Newcastle and Berwick,
17!ii—Vielsli Midlands, 3w—York and Carlisle, 4.
EDINBURGH, Ocr. 31.
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STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 5/. 12s. 6d.
- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 2/. 10s.-Airdrie and Bath-
gate, 4/. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto. Half Shares,
151.-Armagh and Portrush, 3/. ls.-Ayr and Dumfries, 25s
p.-Banffshire, 2/. Bs.-Belfast and County Down, 31. 55.-
British and Irish Union, 41. 145.-Caledonian, 12/. 12s. 6d.
-Caledonian Extension, 4/. 155.-Caledonian' and Dumbar-
ton, 5/.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 51. 7s. 6d.-Carnwarth and
West Linton;6s. 6d. p.-Chelmsford and Bury, 11. 17s. 6d.-
Clydesdale Junction, 20/.-Cornwall and Devon, 2/. 12s. 6d.
-Deeside Railway, 6/. 2s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 21. 145.-
Dudley and Broseley, 10s. p.-Dundee and Arbroath,
36/. 155.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Perth, 10/.-East
of Fife, 31.-East Lothian Central, 4/. 12s. 6d.-Edinburgh
and Bathgate, 51.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex news, 72/.-
Ditto, Ha!f Shares, 181.-Ditto, Quarters, 18!.-Ditto, Ditto,
New, 14/.-Edinburgb, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. 65.-
Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 2/. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgb,
Leith, :and Granton, 24/. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edin-
burgh and Northern, 5/. 135.-Ditto, Newport, 1/. 17s. 6d.-
Ditto, Lochgelly, 21. 35.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 3/. 10s.-
Edinburgh and Perth, 51.-Forth and Clyde Junction, Si.
165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 72/. IN.-Ditto, New Stock,
23L-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3/. 10s.-Glasgow, Dum-
fries, and Carlisle, Si. 55.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction,
3/. Gs.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45/.-Glasgow and Greenock,
22/. IN.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/.158.-Ditto, Preference,
21. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 4/. 65.-
-Great County Down, 3/.-Great North of Scotland, 4/. ss.
-Great North and South 'Wales, 11.-Inverness and Elgin,
2/. 2s. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 6/. 145.-Lanark and
Lothians, 4/. 9s. 6d.-Larne and Ballymena, 2/. 75.-London
and Hounslow, 2/.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 3/.
155.-London and Windsor, 1/. 55.-London and York, Si.
-Midland andlEastern Counties, 21475. 6d.-►Monkland and
Kirkintilloch,33/.-Morayshire, 11.10 s. 6d.-Newry and,Lon-
donderry, 2/. 10s.-North British, ex news, 22/ 155.-Ditto,
Halves, ex news, 51. 10s.-Ditto, Fifths, 71-Ditto; Carlisles,
4/. 95.-North Jamaica, 11.55.-North Wales Mineral, New,
W. 12s. 6d.-Perth and Crieff, 3/. Os. Gd.-Perth and In-
verness, 2/. 10s.-Scottish Central, 171.-Scottish Central
and Caledonian Junction, 17s. 6d. p.-Scottiah Midland, 4/.
10s.-Scottish North Western, 31.-Scottish South Midland,
3. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Western, 2/. 125.-Shrewsbury and
Hereford, 11. 12s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,
61. 155.-South Midland, Cl. IN.-Stirling and Dunfermline,
3/. 65.-Strathern Junction, 3/. 10s.-Surrey Grand Junction,
1/. 7s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 2/. 10s.-Tyne Valley,
3i. 10s.-Wishaw and Coltness, 57/.

EXPERIMENTS WITH MR. HALE'S

ROCKETS.

The experiments intended to have taken place with Mr.
Hale's rockets in the marshes at Woolwich having been dis-
continued on the firing of the sixth rocket, in consequence
of their having .diverged so much from the right line that
danger was to be apprehended, Mr. Hale applied to the
Master-General to appoint any of the members of the select
committee to witness the firing of the rockets in a situation
where no danger could be apprehended. Mr. Hale, having
,btained the permission of Mr. F. Nasson to carry on the ex-
periments on the extensive sea bea.-th near St. Osyth, on the
Aouth- west side of the second Martello Tower, about a mile
and a half from Brightlingsea, ten miles from Colchester,
Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Firemaster in the Labora-
tory Department of the Royal Arsenal, and Lieutenant-Col.
Chalmer, Director-General of Artillery, arrived at the place
appointed yesterday to witness and report the result of the
experiments. The first rocket was fired from the ground,
and diverged a little to the right and fell in the sea. The
second from the ground diverged about five degrees
to the left, and struck the ground about seventy
yards from the spot where it was discharged. The
third from the ground struck the ground at about
twenty yards distant. The fourth went nearly 1,000 yards ;
and the fifth, after striking the ground at about
•100,yards distant, rebounded, and went a considerable way.
The next three rockets were fired from a trough made of
wood, about from four to five feet long, the forepart being
elevated five degrees, and the rear resting on the ground.
The first struck the ground at 300 yards distant, after which
it altered its course considerably, and appeared to burst at a
distance of about 300 yards. The second struck the ground
at 94 paces, and the third at 20 paces, which altered their
courses, and they proceeded onward with a waving motion.
The troueli was then elevated on a wooden horse about four
feet high in the rear, and 12 degrees in front. From that
elevation five rockets were fired, and they all went a con-
siderable distance in a straight line, the first four from 1.500
to 1,800 yards, and the fifth about 800 cards, when it burst
in the air, and fell to the ground. The trough was then
elevated to about 20 degrees, and five rockets were fired iron.
it at that height, and they all wei:t an immense distance,
apparently from 1,500 to 2,000 yards, several of them falling
into the sea. One of these rockets fell within a few yards of
some men who had proceeded in the direction in order to
ascertain as near as possible where they fell. The trough
was then lowered to 8 degrees, and two rockets fired from
it at that height ; the first struck the ground at about
200 yards distance, and the second at a short distance
from the place where it was discharged. The apparent re-
sult of the experiments yesterday was that Mr. Hale's rockets
when fired at twelve degrees or higher were carried a con
sidereble distance, but not with the same apparent velocity
as the common rockets with pieces of wood attached to them,
Mr. Hale's having no appendages whatever. The less de-
gree of velocity may be accounted for by Mr. Hale's having
no meal powder priming which the common rockets have,
which gives a great projectile power from, the commence-
ment of their flight. The want of a piece of wood attached
to Mr. Hale's rockets is evidently the cause of the difficulty
of their being satisfactorily fired from low elevations, as
firing them from the trough placed on the ground, and on a
wooden horse when the degrees of elevation were nearly the
same, was alike in both. A number of gentlemen were pre-
sent to witness the experiments, and at the conclusion Lite-
tenant-Colonel Dansey and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer re-
turned to Brightiugsea in the coast guard galley, accom-
panied by the collector and comptroller of her 14jesty's

Customs. The gallant officers were invited to dine with a
party at Arlsford-hall, the residence of Mr. William
flawkim, but their engagements at home prevented their
acceptance of the invitation. The weather was remarka-
bly tine, .and in every way highly favourable for the ex..
periments.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—" It is impossible," as Sir Robert Peel
has long ego taught the world, both by word and ddrd, "to
say what constitutes an impossibility;'' but surely we
must be safe in assuming it to be impossible, that a Minister
who has charged himself with the task of regulating the
supply of food to the British people should, under the pre-
sent circumstances 'of the country, remain quiescent until.
next February. Either by prerogative or by legislation—
by order in Qounoil, or by an early and special summons of
Parliament—we must belive that some effort will be made
so avert or mitigate a calamity, any near prospect of
which were enough to daunt the boldest and most reckless
of rulers—a remote probability of which, to a Minister
so sensitive as Sir Robert Peel on the paint of re-
must be sufficiently painful. That Sir
etobert Peel has made up bis mind to the martyr-
dom of waitirsg to see his own corn-law take its
course during the next three months, is too extrava-
gant a supposition to be lightly entertained. With scarcity
officially proclaimed over the half of Europe; with our own
cops harvest seriously deficient, both in quality and quantity;
with famine impending over Ireland, in consequence of the
failure of somewhere between one-third and one-half of the
crops which there supply the staple article of popular diet;
—it seems inconceivable that any Minister, in the present
state of public knowledge and feeling, should venture to await
the action of a law which, though expressly made to let in
foreign corn when wanted, exhibits, at this moment, the
monstrous coincidence of a prohibitory duty with (for good
wheat) a famine price. We should not, on any less decisive
evidence than his own acts, suspect our bitterest political
opponent of the cold-blooded infatuation of intending to sit
still and look on while the scale slides, shilling by
shilling, and week by week, The Premier must mean
to give the scale a push, to make it keep better
time with the growth of those national necessities the
relief of which he designed that it should facilitate. As
matters stand, our corn-law is more than a mere obstacle to
the supplies which we need so sorely. Its operation is not
merely obstructive. Under the present circumstances of
Europe, it actually causes the re-exportation even of such
scanty supplies as the merchant venturers of the most perilous
of trades have dared, in defiance of pivots and rests, to land
on our shores. With the ports of Holland, Belgium, North
Germany, and Russia open to free imported° 1, our sixteen-
shilling duty is virtually a sixteen-shilling bounty on expor •
tation. At this moment the corn merchants of Liverpool
are, it seems, sending their bonded wheat to Russia--Russia,
meanwhile, putting a premium on its importation, by exempt-
ing corn ships from port dues. Is it possible that any Minister
should let this go on? We need not say that we do not
recommend a resort to the worse than equivocal
policy of forbidding exportation. To cure the
effects of one prohibition by another would be but the old
wife's recipe—"a hair of the dog that bit you." But to hold •
out special inducements to the exportation of what little we
happen to have—when we want, and shall want, all and
more than all, that we can possibly get—is downright
fatuity. We must start fair with our rivals in this race. In
the great European competition for the means of life we can-
not afford to give advantages. Those peculiarities in the
case of Ireland which especially call for prompt action, we
have noticed on a former occasion. At this season of the
year, before the frost blockades those northern ports to
which, so far as Europe is concerned, we must look for our
chief supplies of the coarser species of grain, every
week is precious. We must also entreat attention to
the singularly insidious character of that mysterious cala-
mity which now threatens that wretched country with
the worst horrors of famine. 'We already know enough
to justify the most distressing apprehensions; but we
likewiee know that we do not, and at present cannot, know
all. The potato plague, or murrain, or whatever else it may
be called, which is now devastating Ireland, is described by
the Government commissioners as "an enemy whose history
and habits are yet tut imperfectly known." Nothing is per-
fectly known or this enemy, but that its ravages are of im-
mense and unascertainable extent—that it attacks, on the
shortest ,notice, both growing and housed crops which were
previously considered safe—that the:most promising signs of
vegetable health may turn out to be utterly deceptive—and
that the enemy is beyond measure difficult to dislodge from a
soil of which it has once taken possession. Is this an enemy
to trifle and temporise with? 'We are almost ashamed to al-
lude to considerations which, in the view both of statesman-
ship and of humanity, should now be held undeserving even
of a passing thought. Yet we cannot forbear adding,
that the class interests to which protection professedly mi-
nisters can, at all events, have nothing to apprehend now from
the boldest and most sweeping of measures. All objections,
or pretences of objection, to " sudden" change, are nullified
by the circumstances of the present season. The change now
would not be sudden. The utmost that any change could
affect would be to maintain something like the status quo.
Though au order in Council slid down the scale to zero to-day,
and an Act of Parliament fixed it there to-morrow, farmers
are secure of their remunerating prices." The landlords
may make themselves quite easy on the score of a possible
superabundance. Tamboff itself is effectually put hors de
combat. The men who dread a corn invasion now are of
that genus of alarmists who would have cried " fire" at the
general deluge. Even the poor agricultural labourer, whom
they dread " throwing out of employment" is provided for
too. The railways will take care of him if only Government
will take care of the railways, and of that which keeps rail-
ways going.
TIMES.—The minds of all who feel, not only an interest
in the condition of Ireland. but a sympathy for the priva-
tions of their fellows, are now fully aroused to the state of
the sister country. All men of all parties are unanimous in
pronouncing the necessity of prompt and energetic action to
arrest the progress of the fellest calamity that can devastate
a nation. It is one of those striking emergencies which sus-
pend the operation of party tactics and the violence
of party passions. The Orangemman and the Pa-
pist, Tory and Repealer, Peer and tradesman, now
meet together on one common ground, and for one
common purpose, not, as heretofore, to mingle their
complaints or concoct their censures of an indif-
ferent and contemptuous Government, but to unite their ex-
ertions and combine their influence for saving the masses of
their countrymen from famine and its satellite—pestilence.
It would be too much to expect that in an Irish assembly of
any kind—especially in one collected under circumstances of
national excitement, and composed of materials the most va-
rious and the most antagonistic—political allusions should be
wholly forborne, and political acrimony completely subdued;
consequently, the little fracas between Admiral Oliver and
Mr. O'Connell, at the recent meeting in Dublin, may pass for
nothing more than a slight and natural tribute to the public
spirit of their countrymen. But the firmness of the chairman
in checking this desultory altercation, as well as the
express determination of those assembled to fix their atten-
tion on one subject, proves the imminence and the magni-
tude of the apprehended danger. And while it must ever
be a matter of deep regret to Ireland, that those who are the
most able to do her service by their position, popularity, or
talents, generally seek opportunities rather of division than
of co-operation, feelings the reverse of pleasurable are sug-
gested by a consideration of the cause which has now anni-
hilated differences and amalgamated factions. It looks as if
Irishmen required some great and terrible calamity to remind
them of their common duties and to restore them to common
sense. At the same time, it might be rash to expect that the
unanimity and goodwill which the fear of a great danger has
consolidated will last beyond the evil day; or that the Irish
gentry will exhibit the same disposition to sustain the future
prosperity of their country, as they do to mitigate its present
snore unusual distress. In such a crisis as that which we are
deploring we might reasonably expect to hear of numerous
and conflicting remedies. And this is the case. Various
methods have been proposed for curing the diseased pota-
toes, and preventing the progress of infection. The peasant
has in turn been advised to use acids, alkaline liquors, and
chlorine. But these modes of treatment, however appre-
ciable they may be by a chemist, and however valuable on
chemical principles, are wholly beyond the cotter's reach. If
he waits until his circumstances or those of bis neighbours
enable him to make use of such scientific preparations,
he will wait till all his produce is consumed, and
all hope abandoned. The Irish peasant, even when
in the best position and the most complaisant humour,
has but little love for the experiments of science and
the tests of the laboratory. But when his existence
is at stake—when the delay of a few days may entail a dearth
of months—it is hard to impose on him a succession of trials
which may each in its turn fail, and which must each in turn
cost him both time and money. In the suddenness of new
embarrassments, and the perplexity of confli ;ting recommen-
dations, he may lose not only the opportunity, but also the
hope of deliverance ; whilst a timely resort to those more ob-
vious and simple means with which the nature of the soil and
the character of the country, and his own arm, have furnished
him, may enable him to secure a certain portion of his food
from infection. And this he should attempt. No thoughts of
comparative failure should deter him. Those who are really
and honestly his friends should impress on his mind that
it is his duty to save from the virulence of disease as much
as he can; if he cannot recsue provision for six months, then
let him try that for five; if for five appears hopeless, let him
try for four, and so on. Only let him be made aware that
on his efforts--simple and laborious efforts, like those re-
commended by the Government Commission, depends
not only the question of more or less food at the beginning
of the next year, but of seed for that which is to follow
—in a word, the hope of future crops. But it is impossible
that any reflections suggested by the state of the Irish'
people at this time should bound th emselv'es by a mere
consideration of the potatoe failure. The potato is
pronounced by all practical chemists to contain the
least possible quantity of nourishment in propor-
tion to its bulk. Yet this is the staple food of four
millions of our fellow-subjects ; and weak, inefficient
as it is, when most plentiful, it is now to be reduced one-
half, and perhaps two-thirds, in its supply l Such are the
conditions of life to the Irish peasantry I Alas whenever
one begins to investigate the sufferings of Ireland, the mind
becomes entangled in a labyrinth of distresses, such as no
other nation is subject to. One misery opens on another,
and one privation on another, greater than that which pre-
ceded it ; and the remembrance of its ordinary almost dis-
heartens us from attempting to alleviate its extraordinary
sufferings. But, the huge necessity of the case looms
through the mists of doubt and fear which gather round the
gaunt image of famine, and suggestions conic forth
plentifully,— vague notions, sometimes more in har-
mony wills the obscurity around them than with
the capability of execution. But, when did a crisis not
teem with impossible theories? Mr. O'Connell complains
that Ireland is exporting corn to England at this moment,
at the risk of starving her own people. Surely he cannot be
seeking to raise an agrarian clamour against the exportation
of wheat to this country. A more foolish cry could not be
raised. At no time has much native wheat been consumed
in Ireland; nor do we believe that, if all growing there were
kept back for home consumption, its supply would materially
affect the aggregate quantity of food six months hence;
whilst the people would lack and starve from lacking that
greater abundance of coarse food, purchaseable by moneyob-
tained in the English markets. We hope that, at all events,
the Irish, for their own sakes, will be cautious not to inter-
rupt that commerce with England, which is of such inesti-
mable value to themselves just now. England might buy
corn from America; but where would Ireland find the means
of buying grain for herself, after a self-exclusion from the
English markets? Among other recommendations, that of
opening the ports is one which has probably presented itself
to the minds of all ere this—one of which the aspect of affairs
'both in England and Ireland'warns us, but which bides its
time for execution, whilst that which seeks to give employ-
ment to the people embodies an idea not indeed new to those in
whoof
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bbElunitegswlaoonfrdtlhryishmen, and representing a sentiment common to
all parties in the state. The means of achieving this great
end will remain a subject for after-thought, when this
dearth shall have passed away. This is a topic which no
prosperity can make us slight, and no calamity make us
forget. It grows upon the mind with every day. It in-
volves the most profound considerations of social and poli-
tical happiness. It involves questions of race, of rank, of reli-
gion, of population—of everything which a philosopher regards
with attention and a citizen with solicitude. And, whatever
may be the means eventually adopted for conferring on the
Irish peasantry that greatest boon, the boon of general and

remunerated employment.Lwhatever may be the happy
means deTisen for rescuing a peasantry from their territorial
thraldom, and teaching them to combine the dignity of in-
dependence with the fruits of labour—every thinking man
will ferel it to be a cause for gratitude that a season of peril
came on the land, which made one class of men care for
another, and, amid the whisperings of selfish fear, elicited
the genial accents of benevolence. The evil will have been
but for a season ; the good that shall follow—God grant that
it may be for aye!

THE BASIN GSTOKE CANAL
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
RAILWAYS N;KR.SUS CANALS.—Yesterday, at two o'clock,
a general meeting of the Proprietors of the Basingstoke
Canal Navigation Company was held at the Gray's inn Cof-
fee-house, Holborn, to receive the report of the affairs of
the. Company for the past half year, ending the 30th ;:ep-
tember ult. Mr. R. Davy, a Director of the Company,
presided.

- The SECRETARY read the report, from which it appeared
that the gross receipt amounted to 12,0431. 9s. 2id., includ-
ing 2,500. Exchequer. bills, and that after paying all neces-
sary expenses there remained a balance in favour of the Com-
pany- of 881. 4s. ?id. Among the receipts were 2,2591. for
tonnage, in which item there was a large reduction, in conse-
quence of the competition of the Great Western Railway,
compared with the previous year, in the amount of charge
per ton, though there was still an increase in:the year of 781. 4s.
A:dividend of 2/. per cent. on the bonded debt, applicable to
the year 1841, was recommended.
The report having been received and approved of,
Mr. Muss, the proposer of the resolution, inquired if there
was a probability of any railway company being likely to en-
ter into terms to purchase their canal.
The CHAIRMAN observed that he should be very happy to
find a company who would buy their property, which they
would be very glad to part with, seeing the state they were in.
These were the sentiments of the whole body.
Mr. MILLS said he was in great hopes that he should have
heard of some proposition having been made. The Kent:et
and Avon Canal had been sold to some advantage. Their
line would be a profitable speculation for any company.
A PROPRIETOR observed that it was a favourable line; a
perfect line, and 21 miles in length.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that he understood there was a
branch from the South-Western, the Company connected
with which he thought would have availed themselves of
their canal, but they were going to join the Great Western
Railway from Farnborough.
A dividend of 2/. per cent. was then agreed to ; after
which, thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting
broke up.

THE BENGAL ARMY.
(From the Delhi Gazette.)
The long and anxiously looked-for relief has at last ap-
peared, and we give it here a prominent place. The arrange-
ments are in accordance with the reports generally bruited
abroad for some days past, and such as might be expected,
though we strongly suspect that some of the corps will not
see the stations to which they are appointed this season.
How many alterations quietly crept into last year's relief,
subsequent to its publication, and how many more into that
of the year before? The only increase on the north-west
frontier arranged by the following, is that of one regiment
at Ferozepore, one only being ordered away for the two sent
thither. It may afford matter for speculation that the greater
part of the frontier regiments are to be relieved before
quitting their present posts, so that in case of their being re-
quired; the relieving and relieved regiments, as also those
proceeding to Sinde, will be available for any work that may
be carved out for them :

" Head• quarters, Simla, Sept. 15.
"With the sanction of the Right. lion. the Governor-
General in Council, the following movements of corps and
detachments are directed to take place, on the datea and in
the order specified:—

" HORSE ARTILLERY.

"4th troop Ist brigade, from Sinde to Meerut, when re-
lieved by the 4th troop 2d brigade.
" 4th troop 2d brigade, from Meerut to Sinde, November 1.
" FOO2 ARTILLERY.

" 2d company 7th battalion, with No. 6 light field battery,
from Delhi to Ferozepore, October 15.
"3d company 7th battalion, with No. 5 light field battery,
from Sinde to Delhi, when relieved by the sth company 7th
battalion.

"sth company 7th battalion, with No. 13 light field bat-
tery, from Ferozepore to Sinde, November 1, to march with
the 15th Regiment Native Infantry.

"SAPPERS AND MINERS.

"A company, to be selected by the commanding-officer of
the corps, from Meerut to Ferozepore, October 10.
"6th company, from Ferozepore to Meerut, February 15.

" LIMIT CAVALRY.

"sth Regiment, from Muttra to Loodianah, to join the
Governor-General's camp on the 20th of October at Agra,
and to escort it from thence.
" 6th Regiment, from Loodianah to Sinde, October 25.
"7th Regiment, from Slade to Muttra, when relieved by
the 6th Regiment.

" IRREGULAR CAVALRY.

" 2d Regiment, from Saugor to Umballah, when relieved
by the 6th from Umballah.
" 6th Regiment, from Umballah to Saugor, October 15.
" EUROPEAN' INFANTRY.
" Her Majesty's 9th Foot, from Kussowlie to Meerut,
when relieved by her Majesty's 29th Foot.
" Her Majesty's 29th Foot, from Meerut to Kussowlie,
10th of October.

" NATIVE INFANTRY.

" 2d Regiment, from Agra to Meerut, to escort the Go-
vernor-General's camp.
"3d Regiment, from Hussingabad to Banda, when re-
lieved by the 74th Regiment.
" 4th Regiment, from Sinde to Agra, when relieved by
the 15th'Regiment.
" 13th Regiment, from Barrackpore to Cawnpore, when
relieved by the 40th Regiment.
" 15th Regiment, from Ferozepore to Sinde, Ist of No-
vember.

" 20th Regiment, from Cawnpore to Barrackpore, Ist of
October, by water.
" 21st Regiment, from Barrackpore to Benares, 15th of
November.

" 22d Regiinent, from Barrackpore to Futtyghur, when
relieved by the 64th Regiment.
" 26th Regiment, from Loodianah to Bareilly, when re-
lieved by the 42d Regiment.
" 27th Regiment, from Moradabad to • Umballah, when
relieved by the 38th Regiment.
" 28th Regiment, from Sylhet to Lucknow, Ist November,
by water to Benares.
" 29th Regiment, from Berhampore to Agra, when relieved
by the 39th Regiment.
" 30th Regiment, from Lucknow to Delhi, 15th October..
-" 38d Regiment, from Bareilly to Ferozepore, 15th October.
" 36th Reginent, from Delhi to Ferozepore, 10th October.
" 38th Regiment, from Meerut to Moradabad, when le
lieved by the 43d Regiment.
"89th Regiment, from Nowgong to Berhampore, 15th of
October.

"40th Regiment, from Saugor to Barrackpore, 15th of
October.

" 42d Regiment, from Monpoorie to Loodianah, 15th of Oc-
tober, when relieved by the left wing of the 16th Regiment.
" 43d Regiment, from Futtyghur to Meerut, 13th of Octo-
ber, when relieved by the left wing of the 6th Regiment.
" 53d Regiment, from Meerut to Nowgong, 15th of Oc-
tober.

" 60th Regiment, from Benares to Barrackpore, when re-
lieved by the 21st Regiment.
" 63d Regiment, from Umballah to Sinde, 15th of Oc-
tober.

" 64th Regiment, from Cawnpore to Barrackpore, sth of
October, by water.
"65th Regiment, from Allahabad to Nowgong, 15th of
October.

" 67th Regiment, from Banda to Allahabad, when relieved
by the 3d Regiment.
" 69th Regiment, from Sinde to Cawnpore,_ when re-
lieved by the 63d Regiment.
" 7lat Regiment, from Barrackpore to Mynpoorie, when
relieved *by the 20th Regiment.
" 74th Regiment, from Nowgong to Hussingabad, when
relieved by the 53d Regiment.
" Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment, from Agra to Saugor, on the
15th of October.

Strict attention to be paid to the standing regulation; of
the service relative to the information required to be given
by commanding officers to the civil authorities in the dis-
tricts through which the routs of their corps or detachments
may lie, to the transmission of progress and other reports to
head quarters, and during the absence of his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief from the Presidency, of duplicates of
all such reports to the officers in charge of the Adjutant •
Gene-ral's and Quartermaster-General's offices at Calcutta.
" Routes will be furnished from the office of the Quarter-
master•• General of the Army."

The Railway Telegraph, speaking of the debitt' of
Mr. Hudson, the Railway King, in the metropolis, at the
Eastern Counties meeting or. Thursday last, says :—" Never
on any previous occasion do we remember (even not except-
ing the great League gatherings at Covent-garden) seeing
congregated on one occasion so many gentlemen of
the Press' as were asrembled to chronicle the opi-
nions of The Railway King' on Thursday. Will our
readers credit the fact, that we ourselves counted
the enormous number of sixty-two reporters ! which,
as far as our knowledge extends, were the representatives of
the following journals :—The Times, two reporters; The
Morning Herald, four; The Morning Chronicle, three; The
Morning Post, three ; The Morning Advertiser, two ; The
Evening Sun, five; The Globe, one; The Standard, one; The
Iron Times,three; The Railway Telegraph, three; The Rail-
way Times, three ; The Railway Standard, two ; The Railway
World, two ; The Steam Times, one; The Railway King, two;
and The Railway Director, five. The remainder were repre-
senting the outside railway papers of the metropolis, the
Cambridge and Colchester papers, and other provincial
journals."
BELFAST Rgvisiox COURT.—The decision has
been given in this court—" That the tender of parish rates on
Saturday night, at half-past ten o'clock, to the church-
warden, at his private residence, cannot be considered a pay-
ment according to the provisions or the meaning and inten-
tion' of the Act."—Dublin Evening Post.
A VERY NOVEL LINE.—We are informed by the
Cambrian that a prospectus has been published of a Company
which undertakes to form a line from the port of Swansea,
through the centre of the country, direct to the port of Hell.
Not having ourselves seen, the prospectus, we are unpre-
pared to give our opinion as to the feasibility cf the scheme;
but we should apprehend that the earthworks of such a
line must be formidable, and the tunnelling long and diffi-
cult. The directors, however, assure the public that ' • the
passenger traffic from Swansea to that locality is so exten-
sive, that no doubt can be entertained that the line will
prove most remunerative." The Cambrian seems to think its
native town is scandalised by the selection as the upper ter-
minus of this undertaking, and suggests the possibility of a
mistske in the announcement, supposing the port of Hull to
be signified; but the prospectus is printed, and we all know
that what is in print must be true.—Steam Times.
MINISTER'S MONEY NOT A TAX.—Ac the Cork
Revision Court on Wednesday, the assessors delivered their
judgment on the question as to whether the payment of
minister's nioney_was necessery on the part of a claimant for
the franchise. Mr. Assessor Hamblin gave it as his opinion
that it was necessary to have the impost paid, while Mr.
Assessor O'Brien and the Mayor decided that minister's.
money was not a public rate or tax, and its non-payment
ought not to deprive a man, otherwise qualified, (f the fran-
chise; thus fully corroborating the opinion previously given
by Mr. O'Ccnnell.—Dublin Evening Post.
The Very Rev. Dr. Montague died at Maynooth,
of which he was Presidect, on Wednesday last. His
whole life nearly was spent within its walls. Few of his
contemporaries survive him, but there are among the
Irish priestbootl many who went through the Col:ege
under his superintendence, and all speak of him ss a man
of great simplicity of character, exalted piety, and of
the most amiable disposition. He was born in 1773 in
the county of Armagh, was solicited to remain at Maynooth
when his course for the priesthood was completed, and re-
ceived the appointment of Professor of Logic, to which the
office of Bursar was soon after added. In that po-ition
intercourse with the students was extensive, frequent, and
familiar, and to that circumstance, perhaps, it is due that
among the parochial clergy, few are by them so affectionately
or tmrvereally remembered as Dr. Montague.—Cork Southern

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.
Morning caps are principally decorated with a pretty
English lace, put on in the form of a colimacon, each row
being separated by means of small toques of link ribbor.
Another pretty style of cap is one composed of tulle, trimmed
upon the front with two rows of broad lace, which entirely
concsals the foundation, and is ornamented upon the centre
of the head with a demi-wreath of petits choux of red velvet,
and terminated upon each side over the ears with a bunch
or chou, rather larger than the rest, having long ends depend-
ing from it.
DalissEs.—Those composed of poult de sole are most in
vogue; they are principally decorated round the lower part
of the skirt with six rows of narrow lilac fringe, the bodies
formed half-high, and frilled into the waist, having a demi-
pelerine fastening at the back, and edged top and bottom
with a similar fringe; plain sleeve:, decorated with six
rows of fringe, put on at equal distances up the whole
length of the sleeve; guimpe of plaited muslin, edged
with an embroidered inlet all sound the neck; mantelet
of black lace. Another very elegant style of dress is
made in blue Italian silk, trimmed with a broad flounce dentele,
and surmounted by a second one, very narrow, similarly
dentele, and forming a beading to the broad one; plain
body, made hign upon the shoulders, and forming two
deep points upon the front, which are also decorated with
facings dentelles; plain sleeves and round jockeys, likewi:.e
dentelles.

COIFFURES.—An elegant small kind of scarf, in shaded
open-worked silk, ornamented with long tassels, has lately
appeared, destined for the forming of a pretty style of win-
ter head-dress; they are twisted round the head, and have
a very light and graceful effect; they are also rendered more
magnificent by being intermixed with gold and trimmed
with broad fringe, which floats gracefully over each side by
the ears, having somewhat-the appearance of a small turban.
FURS.—Ermine and sable are still considered as by far the
richest and most recherche looking furs ; but there is also
another which classes with these, and which last year was in
great favour with our eleyantes. Broad volants of marlin
serves to ornament those comfortable and elegant-looking
douillettes. We may also mention that les caprices are en-
tirely with grebe or ermine.
Fashionable colours are now mostly of a sombre hue, as
well as those shot silks which produce all the colours of the
rainbow; glace silks are gradually disappearing, and givi:,g
place to plain colours: they are greatly preferred by our
most distinguished elegantes. The only material which allows
of a mixture of colours being the Pekin (lamas, which Egs
a broad black stripe, upon a ground of maroon, blue albt
green; sometimes, indeed, the ground is of •a lighter colour,
such as pink or sky-blue, the stripe being then of white
pekinee.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.
(From the Jersey Times, Oct. 25.)
It is our melancholy duty to-day to record one of the most
distressing occurrences which it has ever been our let to
bring under public observation. Miss Emily Bond, a young
lady of considerable personal attractions, residing in St.
Mark's-terrace, died on Saturday by her own hand, under
circumstances of a peculiarly painful nature. A tale of
mystery seems darkly to enshroud this melancholy affair,
over which, perhaps, it were as well to draw a veil. It were
needless for us on the present occasion to disclose every cir-
cumstance connected with the doleful act which has hap-
pened to fall under our knowledge; it is sufficient fur us
at the present moment to aver that, from some cause or
other, having either a proximate or remote connection
with what in common parlance is designated " love," the
young lady in question hal for some considerable ps-
riod been labouring under a state of tided bordering
upon insanity. The unhappy woman seems to have gi no
through the act with the most cool and deliberate preme-
ditation. On the morning of the day on which she perished.
she spoke to the landlady of the house in which she resided
in her usual manner, not betraying any symptoms of excite-
ment beyond those generally incident in her character. She
was last seen alive about twelve o'clock in the forenoon, at
which period she retired to her bed-room, with the inten-
tion of again speedily coming down stairs for the purpose
of making the usual preparations for dinner. Two hours
passed away and still the unfortunate lady did no'
make her appearance; and the clock had already strut
two, when it was considered necessary to arouse .
trotn the slumber into which it was supposed she t
have fiden. No answer being returned to the repeate
knocks by the servant at the door of her charts
tier, a dread was inspired in the minds not t nly of the
landlady of the house and t.er husband, but also of the young
lady's father, that something unusual must have happened.
To break open the door was now the only alternative left to
put an end to their suspense, and the old gentleman at this
juncture is said to have expressed himself to the effsct that
he was prepared for the worst which might happen, thereby
implying the general uncertainty connected with the state of
mind of his daughter. An entrance having been thus effected,
the tears previously conceived now stood oefore them in dread
reality, for, horrid to relate, the first object which caught the
eye was the lifeless body of the unfortunate woman, suspended
by the neck from the iron rod which stretches between the
lowerposts of the bedstead. Medical assistance being promptly
called, no means which could be resorted to were able to re-
store animation, death having taken place at least two hours
previously.

We have proceeded thus far in our account of this melan-
choly affair, and we can anticipate the observations which we
imagine will be uttered in regard to ourselves. It has been
stated that the tragical occurrence which has just taken place,
was attributable to an article published in this paper on Friday
last; and if the allegation be correct, we beg thus publicly to
express our most sincere sorrow and commiseration. The ob-
servations therein implied were grounded upon information
with respect to the truth of which no doubt could be enter.
tained. Here was a young woman plunged in the most pro-
found depths of that peculiar feeling which is said sometime,'
to attach universally to the human character. She had see:;
an individual for whom she had cherished a warm affection;
letters, according to her own account, were said to have passol
between the parties and the gentleman broadly hinted at in
her statement of the affair was stated to have professed to •
wards her a warmth of love almost equal to her own. She,
said that she had received letters from him, that at tha
hour of night, when no human eye beheld and no human car
heard, the laqy and her sweetheart met together; that cir-
cumstances happened which it were needless that we sl.oidd
here detail, but which if true must ever cause the inemmy ut
the deed to rankle in the breast of him who was its perpetra-
tor. The day on which the last and final interview took 'lace
the mind of the unhappy woman became agitated to an ex-
treme degree. Her former calm and innocent behaviour was
now converted into frequent and incoherent reprehensions of
him whom she alleged was her deceiver. She offered up a,
fervent wish to God that her brother was on the spot, and that
to him she might confide the terrible burden which pressed
upon her heart. The information was conveyed to the in-
dividual who now pens these lines, and the article was
written, not that it should affect the heart or feelings of the
unhappy woman, but that it might either strike to the core
the individual whose future peace of mind was so tertibly
at stake, or cause him to come forward and vindicatelis
nocence. Thus far and no farther will we at present pro-
ceed in this our melancholy duty. If there be a feeling-
which can ever soothe our own mind in our future career, iz
will be the consciousness that we have injured no one wit
fully, or sent a fellow mortal unprepared before her maker. 2
We court the strictest and most searching inquiry, and it will.
be mere mockery of legal investigation, if none should
given. It will only be sufficient for us in addition to state
that the unhappy woman had been previously confine't
in a mad-house as a lunatic, and is said on a former occusioa,
tohave attempted the crime of self-destruction.