The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-01 00:00:00

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NAME OF RAILWAY.

Arbroath and Forfar ..•
Bristol and Birmingham
Chester and Birkenhead
I Dublin and Drogheda— • • • • • • • • • .
Dublin and Kingstown .. •
Dundee and Arbroath .•• • • • ••• •• ••
Durham and Sunderland
Edinburgh and Giasgow . •• • ••
Eastern Counties and North Eastern. .
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • .....
Glasgow and Greenock— .......
Grand Junction • • • • .......
Gravesend and R0che5ter............
Great North of England
Great Western .. • • • • .• • .....
Hull and Selby •
Liverpool and Manchester • • • •
London and Birmingham .
London and Blackwall• • • • • • ••
London and ......
London and Croydon. • • • • • ...
London and Greenwich
London and South Western. .....
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Bamingham—
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington
Newcastle and Carlisle •
Newcastle and North Shields
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Preston and Wyre.. • ...............
Sheffield and Manchester.. •
South Ea5tern......... ..... ........
Taff Vale ... •
Ulster .
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland

Last
week.

770
1,006
1,124

467
3,098
5,189
2,470
1,630

18,806

18,169
21,024
1,392
6,463
1,720

8,522

980
5,463
7,777
17,944
2,855
1,816

516
2,017
6,646
7,210
1,212
1,641
8,823
1,200

1,330
6,558

639
755
1,173

711
2,666

4,503
2,013
1,487
9,698

2,506
18,171
1,747
6,218
19,099
1,457
6,061

6,652

$92
3,331

BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER

RAILWAY.

A general Half-yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of
this Company was held yesterday at one o'clock, at the
London- bridge station. Mr. Hotham, the Chairman of
the Board of Directors, presided on the occasion.
The SECRETARY, having read the advertisement con-
vening the meeting, and the seal of the Company being
affixed to the register of Proprietors in the usual way,
the report, of which the following is an abstract, was
read :

It set forth that the Worthing branch would be com-
pleted by the Ist of October ensuing, and the line com-
pleted to Chichester by about February, 1846. The
Directors expected also to carry out, ere long, the ex-
tension of the line to Portsmouth, It was considered
the arrangement come to at the meeting of the sth of
August, to transfer the line to the London and Brighton
Company, would be completed by the 12th of September
at the outside, when the purchase-money would be ready.
The CUAIRISIA.N said, after the report which had
been submitted it would not be necessary to make many
observations, He might inform them that at the pre-
sent time there was only 150/. due upon calls. On the
30th of June there was an unpaid balance on
calls of 7,320/. ; but since then it had been re•
duced to the small sum he had stated. The arrange-
ment come to with the Brighton Company, he had
little doubt, would prove satisfactory to the Proprietors.
He was glad to say that the terms named for the trans-
f:•r of the line at the previous meeting had been met by
the Brighton Company in the most satisfactory manner,
and he had no doubt they would be able to complete
the purchase by the 12th September. He could not
name the exact day then, but considered it would be
on the day he had named. Circulars however, would
be issued apprising the proprietors of the fact. The
Honourable Chairman concluded by moving the
adoption of the report, which being seconded, was put
and agreed to.
Atter a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Board of
Directors, the meeting adjourned.

THAMES HAI7.Eoi DOCK AND
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Proprietors of this Company were advertised to
have met yesterday, but, as there were not so many pre-
_
sent as the Act of Parliament required, the meeting at
once adjourned.

SOUTH WARK ELECTION.
(From the Birmingham Pilot of Saturday. )
[We know not upon what ground the Pilot makes the fol-
lowing announc.•ment, but as the Pilot is a recognised organ
of the Complete Suffrage and Anti-State Church party, we

consider it as made not without authority.—En. Sun.]
" WITHDRAWAL OF THE LIBERAL CANDIDATES IN CA-
vouß OF MR. 1). W. HARVEY.—We are gratified to learn
that Sir Wm. Molesworth and Mr. Edward Miall are both to
withdraw from the contest for the representation of the borough
of Southwark, on the assumption that Mr. D. W. Harvey, who
has consented to stand, unites in himself the great principles of
civil and religious freedom, around which the real Liberal and
independent feeling of the borough will rally. Mr. Harvey,
in thus coming forward, gives a first place to the question of
the Suffrage ; and thus realises the anticipations we indulged
in last week, when we said, ' If the electors of the borough of
Southwark are true to themselves, and have the interests of
the constituency sincerely at heart, they will make the question
of the Suffrage the single ground on which the contest for the
representation will succeed. On this ground only can a tri-
umphant victory be gained—or a defeat profitably sustained.' "

MEDICAL AND LEGAL COMMIS-

SIONE RS.
TO THI7, EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir.,—When the Lunacy Bill was in progress through
Parliament, it was distinctly stated by the Government
that the Medical and Legal Commissioners would not be
allowed any other avocation ; consequently the Times
journal recently adverted to the vacant appointment of
medical examiner to the East India Company, occa-
sioned by Dr. Hume's nomination to a commissionership
in lunacy. It is understood that he has made no signifi-
cation to the Court of Directors, and that he has refused
the Government appointment. In the absence of all
specific information, and no new appointment having
been made_ by the Lord Chancellor or the East India

Company, I beg the favour of your informing the public
to th. state o: the case, it being; el-ar that Dr. llume
cann ,t hold both conA,t.-ntl v with tlie declarations of the
Ministers.—Your obc dig nt servant, M.
[We have, it not in our power to afford our cor•
respondent the itif,rmation he requires, but possibly the
publication of his letter may elicit some declaration on
the subject from the parties concerned.—En. Sun.]

ROMAN REMAINS IN LINCOLN.--In High-street
several Roman remains have been disinterred; and amongst
the rest. some bases of pillars, and two beautiful cqins of the
Emperor Antoninus Pius and Domitian. On Wednesday
afternoon the workmen discovered souse huge worked stones
at about four yards from the present surface ; those have
evidently been plinths to pillars supporting a Roman build-
ing ; on one is an inscription, which, as well as it could be
traced, consists of the following letters : vic. HaVYO
MERCVRES tvasi. :Yost probably this is incomplete, as in all
likelihood it was continued along the fellow-plinth. All the
earth above the level at which the stones were discovered is
made ground.— Stanford Mercury.
ACCIDENT FROM WINDOW CLEANING.—On Thurs.
day morning, about nine o'clock, as Mary Howard, servant to
Mrs. M'Eviley, residing in the Waterloo-road, was cleaning
the first-floor windows, she missed her hold of the sash and
fell into the area below, from a height of nearly thirty feet.
flee right leg and her arm were fractured, and bet spine was
everely injured, She is considered in very great danger.

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MAGAZINE bAlr.
8L.4 CK W 0 OD'S MAGAZINE.

The decline and fall of party rancour are the most re-
, F.rkable symptoms of the present time, and in no puh-
iicatioris grit 01,5:44 griapfern, ifititti eittrYlrtsit than in the
monthly periodicals, devoted originally to literettire anti
amusing tales, but up to the accession of the Peel Minis
try, generally ending with a violent dissertation on the
polities of one party or another in the State. Since
Peel's reign commenced, the writers have found it a most
difficult task to put the political engine in motion. They
could fidt get tip the stettrn for want of fuel, and latterly,
so scanty has been the supply, one party article in the
course of three months has been reckoned ti fair
average for the market. Even that amount, North, with
all his strung Tory principles, could not furnish. Others
have been more productive, but perhaps to less purpose,
for what with a wish to blame, or to praise, the conduct
of the Afinist-r, and a want of power to discern the eh.
jeets of his policy, they have not unfrequently been com-
pelled to tiesay in one article the arguments which they
had put forth with much gravity and assurance in
another. These are the natural results of the present
state of parties. Peel has confounded Whigs and Tories.
His old friends occasionally write against him, but they
write without hope. They have no other idol to substi-
tute in his plate, a sort of interregnum exists, and they
trust to the chapter of accidents for a new leader, and a
better state of things. The Whigs, the Liberals, and the
moderate Conservatives, and all the other sections, if
we except the thorough-going Radical, have no reason
to find fault. The two first, in fact, can only complain
that they are not allowed to work, for they cannot say
that their work is not done. They have been shoved
from their plaa a by their skilful adversaries who have
taken up their trade, and now carry on the firm, as
Jonathan would say, under a new name, but with more
enterprise, and a great deal more capital. These rea-
sons sufficiently explain the absence of those angry dis-
cussions which were formerly appended to the literary
dissertations in the Magazines. Blackwood has, how-
ever, contrived to infuse a little Tory policy into the
present number by reverting to events now neatly half
a century old. He has gone back to the time of Pitt
and the French Consulate, and the partition of Poland.
" Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman," has for
months been rather a heavy and prosy production, but
it has been imbued with fresh vigour by the astonishing
events which it de: tribes, and we are glad to find owes
that vigour, not so much to the violence of Tory prepos-
sessions, or to selfish attacks on the policy of the Whigs
during the long reign of Church anti State principles,
as to a generous and .:catholic spirit in the cause of
freedom, and a sincere regret that the man of the age
sacrificed Poland, and threw away countless blessings
which he ;night have conferred on mankind, to gratify
his boundless and wicked ambition. The following
extract will bear out our remarks :
" The partition of Poland was the most comprehensive and
audacious crime of the modern world. It was a deliberate in-
sult, at once to the laws of nations and to the majesty of the
great Disposer of nations. And never fell vengeance more
immediate, more distinct, or more characteristic. The capital
of Austria twice entered over the bodies of its gallant sol-
diery ; Russia ravaged and Moscow burnt ; the Prussian army
extinguished by the massacre of Jena, and Prussia in a day
fettered for years—were the summary and solemn retribution
of Heaven. But, when the penalty was paid, the fate of the
executioner instantly followed. Guilt had punished guilt, and
justice was to be alike done upon all. Napoleon and his em-
pire vanished, as the powder vanishes that explodes the mine.
The ground was broken up; the structures of royalty on its
surface were deeply fractured; the havoc was complete; but
the fiery deposit which had effected the havoc was itself scat-
tered into air.

" His re-establishment of Poland would have been an act
of grandeur. It would have established a new character for
the whole Revolution. It would have shown that the new
spirit which had gone forth summoning the world to regenera-
tion, was itself regeneration ; that it was not a tempter, but a
restorer; that all conquest was not selfish, and all protestation
not meant to deceive. If Napoleon had given Poland a
diadem, and placed it on the brow of Kosciusko, he would, in
that act, have placed on his own a diadem which no chance of
the field could have plucked away; an imperishable and
&titling answer to all the calumnies of his age, and all the
doubts of posterity. He might even have built, in the re-
storation of the fallen kingdom, a citadel for his own security
in all the casualties of empire; but, in all events, he would
have fixed in the political heaven a star which, to the last re-
collection of mankind, would have thrown light on his sepul-
chre, anti borne his name."

In the same article is a brief allusion to the death of
Pitt, in which we heartily concur. "It was said," says
the writer, " that Pitt died of a broken heart, in despair
of the prospects of England. The defeat of Austerlitz
was pronounced his death blow. What thoughts may
cluster roand the pillow who shall tell ? But no man
knew England better—none had a bolder faith in her
perseverance and principle—none had more broadly laid
the foundations of victory in national honour. I shall
never be driven into the belief that William Pitt des-
paired of his country." Yes—who can tell what
thoughts may cluster round the sleepless pillow ? Dis-
ease of body produces awful changes in the mind. The
hand of death unnerves the strongest spirit, yet there
are men of the present day, vainly calling themselves
British historians, who attribute the words " 0 my
country" (we believe they were never uttered), to the
convictions of a rational mind, and, with a want of na-
tional spirit, rendered only more disgraceful by repeat-
ing the reveries of the dying, encourage the French in
their vain-glorious boastings, that Bonaparte had not
only killed Pitt, but subdued the spirit of his country-
men. Pitt never despaired of England. North still
continues his " Specimens of the British Critics," and in
the present series has enliivened them a little by a viru-
lent attack on the poet Churchill, the friend of Wilkes.
Had it been less coarse, it would have been more etfec-
five. His character is thus summed up :—" He left his
profession, the Church ; and he exchanged his wife, af-
ter many years' cohabitation, for a mistress ; two para-
mount desecrations unhappily met. And the trumpet-
call to the war-field of patriotism sings but uncheeringly
when the blast is winded by the breath of Wilkes."

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on which the system takes firmest hold, and in which it elects
thwiie cures that convert cxi,tence froM a burden into a b,e,s-
ing. lienco h folldws that many r-mieie-s sad countless com-
plaints proceeding from derange tucot of the stomach, cea..e as
Ithat great machine is restored to order. I have seen disorders
! of the heart which have iren pronounced organic by the
leitned Atitiairiliss of the Pr'lift,:ttien, o,.,qppe;,r ,;--, an incredibly
short tim6caSes of incifient consumption, In rbigh the seat
.is in the nutritious powers; htmorrhars, and Varkts cenb
gest:ow, shortness of breath, habitual fainting fits, many a
what are called, improperly, nervous complifints, but which, in
reality, are radiations from the main ganglionic springs the
disordera produced by the abuse of powerful medicines, ts-
pecially mercury and iodine, the lost of appetite, the dulled
sense, and the shaking hand of intemperance, skin complaints,
and the dire scourge of scrofula—all these seem to ebtsiu from
h3dropathy relignay, absolute and unqualified cure, heyorid
not only the means of the thUst skilful drug doctor, but the
hopes of the most sanguine patient.°
We have o!dy space barely to allude to On, other
articles of the Mapzine, all of which are above the
average. Captain Marryatt, Mr. James, and Mrs.
Trollope, and Dudley Costello, continue their respective
novels. " Peter Priggit s" gives us another of his
amusing illustrations of 11',op. We have an admirable
sketch, entitled " The La,y Miler," end Mr. F. Ains-
worth continues his account of the " Bunks of the
Euphrates." Altogether this is an excellent Number.