The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-21 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEIVIIPBER, 21, 1845.

PROJECTED :ItAILWAYS.

LITERAT ETRE.

Notices that application is int ended to be made to Parlia-
ment, in the ensuing session, 'on behalf of the undermen-
tioned schemes, appeared in the .Gazetteof Thursday night :
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Dyne,. and Manchester ( Wore-
borough, Chapeltown, Ducke nfielld, and Gossop branches).
Leicester and. Birmingham, siesith branch to Coventry, and
other branches.
York and Carlisle.
Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour and Dock Company.
Newmarket and Chesterford.
Gaineborough, Epworth, an& Leeds, Wakefield and Pon-
tefract Junction.
East and West Yorkshire Juni ltion.
Oxford, Southampton, Gosportt, and Portsmouth.
Manchester, Ebden-bridge, Raighley and Leeds, and Car-
lisle Junction.
West Cornwall.
Morecombe Bay Harbour an. Railway.
South and Midlands Junctio n.
Glamorgan Central Mineral.
Leeds, Wakefield, Pontefract,. and Grimsby Junction.
Lanark, Stirling, and Clackm 'Annan Counties Junction.
Glasgow (southern terminal), flouth Midland, and South-
ampton Junction.
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neils ton Direct.
Direct Lincoln, East Retford, d Sheffield Junction.
Oldham District Railways.
Essex and Suffolk.
Leeds, Huddersfield, and South Staffordshire Direct.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction.
North Union Grand Junction, said Manchester and Leeds.
Leeds and Bradford Direct.
Norfolk, Wells branches.
Manchester, Southampton, and i'oole.
Hull and olyhead Direct.
Brit'gewater and Minehead Rail- way and Pier,
Grand Junction.
Lincolnshire and Eastern Countijeo Junction.
Tunbridge and Rye Harbour Dire et.
Birkenhead and Holyhead Jund don, and Mold Extension,
with its branches.
Dover and Deal Railway, and Clinque Ports, Thanet, and
Coast Junction.
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Extension and branches.
Grand Trunk, or Stafford and Peterborough Union.
Shropshire Union Railway an d Canal (Worcester and
Shrewsbury).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Brad-
ford Branch).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme, rd Manchester (Whalley
and Hayfield Branches).
Huddersfield and Liverpool Dire ct.
Liverpool. Manchester, and Newc at tle•upon-Tyne Junction.
South Wales.
Ulverstone, Furness, and Lanciurber and Carlisle Midland
Union, Burton-on-Trent, Ashby-d e- la-Zouch, and Leicester,
with a diverging line to the Trent Valley Railway at Ather-
stone.
Erewash Valley Railway Branch es..
Direct Birmingham and Leicester.
Lowestoft and Beccles Railway said Drainage.
Chester and Manchester Direct.
Newcastle and Darlington Junct ion Railway branches and
dock.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole: Railway.
Branch Railway from the Newca stie and Carlisle Railway
to Allenhead, Manchester, and Lewis Railway extensions.
Leicester, Tean, and Dove Valley, and Stafford Junction.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension, No. 3.
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction.
Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York.
Eastern Counties, March and Lincoln Extension.
Worcester and South Wales Junction.
North Devon.
Exeter and Exmouth.
Shrewsbury and Hereford.
Midland, Nottingham, and Mansfield Branch.
West-end and Southern Counties, and terminus London
and Birmingham (Banbury line).
Peterborough and Nottingham Junction.
Eastern Counties Epping Extension.
Glasgow, Strathavon, and Lesmahagon Direct, White-
haven and Furness Junction.
Worcester and Leominster.
York and North Midland, Whitby and Pickering Ex-
tension.
Preston and Wyre Extension and Darwin Junction.
Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield
and Gainsborough Canal Company.
Great Western and Uxbridge._
Huddersfield and East and West Coast Direct.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Great Grimsby and hef-
field Junction Railway, Grimsby Docks, Huddersfield, and
Manchester Railway and Canal Amalgamation.
Birmingham and Worcester Direct, with a branch to Red-
ditch.
Liverpool and Preston, and Manchester and Southport
Railways.
Eastern Counties Junction and Southend.
Chelmsford and Bury.
Midland Railway—,Syston and Peterborough, deviating and
branches.
Direct Lincoln and Hull and Hull and York Railway.

THE CITY; or Physiology of London Business with
Sketches on 'Change and at Coffee-houses.
The author of this book has scarcely done justice to
himself in his title—his are not mere sketches, they are
daguerrotypes of the city and its inhabitants. It is one
of the most readable books we have lately met with ;
and at the present moment, when every one is interested
in the proceedings of the Stock Exchange and the share•
market ; when the novel reader leaves his novel for the
romance of the railways ; when the youth no longer
talks of love but of lines ; and when even the clergy
themselves are deeper in the study of scrip than of
scripture, such a book as this cannot but be most useful
as well as amusing. Do you wish to be introduced to
the Bank directors, and to the .principal London ban-
kers and bill discounters, our author will introduce
you to their intimate personal acquaintance. He will
act as your cicerone in the awful bank parlour, and
accompany you to the clearing-house; he will initiate
you into all the mysteries of the Stock Exchange,
teach you to know a broker from a jobber, to distinguish
between a bull and a bear, and after that hunt you
a stag, and explain to you his physiology. The follow-
ing account of the changes induced in the Stock Ex-
change by the death of Rothschild, and by the intro-
duction about the same time of pigeon expresses, will
be found interesting, and will at the same time enable
the reader to judge of the style of the book.
" When the late Mr. Rothschild was alive, and business
ever became flat and unprofitable in the Stock Exchange,
the brokers and jobbers generally complained and threw the
blame upon this leviathan of the money market. Whatever
was wrong was always alleged to be the effect of Mr. Roths-
child's operations, and, according to the views of these
parties, he was either bolstering up, or unnecessarily depress-
ing, prices for his own object. An anecdote is related of
this great speculator, that, hearing on one occasion that a
broker bad given very strong expression to his feelings in the
open market on this subject, dealing out the most deadly
anathemas against the Jews, and consigning them to the
most horrible torments, he sent the broker, through the
medium of another party, an order to sell 600,000/. Consols,
saying—' As he always so abuses me, they will never suspect
he is Bearing the market on my account. Mr. Rothschild
employed several brokers to do his buisness, and hence there
was no ascertaining what in reality was the tendency of his
operations. While perchance one broker was buying a certain
quantity of stock on the order of his principal in the market,
another would, at the same moment be .instructed to sell ;
so that it was only in the breast of the principal to know the
probable result. It is said that Mrs. Rothschild tried her
hand in speculating, and endeavoured by all her influence to
get at the secret of her husband's dealings. She, however,
failed, and was therefore not very successful in her ventures.
Long before Mr. Rothschild's death it was prophesied by
many of the brokers, that, when the event occurred, the.
public would be less alarmed at the influence of the firm, and
come forward more freely to engage in stock business.
They have, notwithstanding, been very much mistaken ; for
although several years have elapsed since his demise, the in-
tervening period, till the present railway speculation, has
been one of most unexampled dulness. Now he is dead,
many, no doubt, wish he were alive again, to impart activity
to business, as well as increase their own resources by the
handsome commissions he was in the habit of paying.
"Mr. Rothschild is said to have generally speculated as a
Bull, and a great portion of his large property was obtained
by such operations. At a party which he one gave at his
mansion on Stamford-hill, one of the guests, in order to pay
a compliment to his host, introduced upon the supper-table
the figures of a Bull and Bear in violent conflict with each
other. The Bear, howevei, appeared to be nearly subdued
by his horned antagonist ; and the device, which was
thoroughly understood, was honoured with the approbation
of the company.
" Among the various plans adopted of late years for
securing early intelligence for Stock Exchange purposes,
none have proved more successful than that of pigeon
expresses.' Till within the last seven or eight years the
ordinary courier brought the news from the Continent; and
it was only the Rothschilds, and one or two other important
firms, that ran' intelligence in anticipation of the regular
French mail. However, about ten years ago the Reject was
conceived of establishing a communication between Paris
and London by means of pigeons, and in the course of two
years it was in complete operation. The training of the
birds took considerable time before they could be relied on ;
and the relays and organisation required to perfect the
scheme not only involved a vast expenditure of time, but
also of money. In the first place, to make the communica-
tion of use on both sides of the Channel, it was necessary to
get two distinct establishments for the flight of the pigeons
—one in England and another in France. It was then
necessary that persons, in whom reliance could be placed,
should be stationed in the two capitals, to be in readiness to
receive er dispatch the birds that might bring or carry the
intelligence, and make it available for the parties interested.
Hence it became almost evident that one speculator, without
he was a very wealthy man, could not hope to support a
pigeon' express. The consequence was, that the project
being mooted, two or three of the speculators, including
brokers of the house, themselves joined and worked it for
their own benefit.. Through this medium several of the
dealers have made large sums of money ; but the trade is
scarcely so profitable as it was, because the success of the
first operators has induced others to follow the example of
establishing this species of communication. The cost of
keening a pigeon' express has been estimated at 6001. or
7001. a-year ; bat whether this amount is magnified with
the view of deterring others from venturing into the specu-
lation, is a question which never seems to have been properly
explained. It is stated that the daily papers avail themselves
of the news brought by these expresses ;' but, in considera-
tion of allowing the speculators to read the dispatches first,
the proprietors, it is understood, bear but a minimum propor-
tion of the expense. The birds generally used are of the
Antwerp breed, strong in the wing and fully feathered. The
months in which they are chiefly worked are the latter end
of May, June, July, August, and the beginning of September ;
and though the news may not be always of importance, a
communication is generally kept up daily between London
and Paris in this manner.
"In 1837-38-39, and 1840, a great deal of money was made
by the pigeon-men,' as the speculators supposed to have
possession of such intelligence are familiarly termed; and
their appearance in the market was always indicative of a
rise or fall, according to the tendency of their operations.
Having the first chance of buying or selling, they, of course,
had the market for a while in their own hands; but
as time progressed, and it was found that the papers, by
their second editions,' would communicate the' news, the
general brokers refused to do business till the papers reached
the City. The pigeons bringing the news occasionally got shot
on their passage ; but as a flock of some eight or a dozen are
started at a time, miscarriage is not of frequent occurrence.
At the time of the death I,f Mr. Rothschild one was caught
at Brighton, having been disabled by a gun-shot wound ;
and beneath the shoulder-feathers of the left wing was dis-
covered a small note, with the words " Il est mort," followed
by a number of hieroglyphics. Each pigeon establishment
has a method of communication entirely their own; and the
conductors, if they fancy the key to it is in another person's
power, immediately vary it. A case of this description oc-
curred not long ago. The parties interested in the scheme
fancied that, however soon they received the intelligence,
there were others in the market who were quite equal with
them. In order to arrive at the real position of affairs, the
chief proprietor consented, at the advice of a friend, to pay
10/. for the early perusal of a supposed rival's pigeon ex-
press.' The express' came to band—he read it, and was
not a little surprised to find that he was in reality paying for
the perusal of his own news! The truth soon came out—
somebody had bribed the keeper of his pigeons, and were thus
not only making a profit by the sale of his intelligence, but
also on the speculations they in consequence conducted. The
defect was soon remedied by changing the style of characters
employed, and all went right as before."
We would earnestly advise all who may be inclined
to dabble in accommodation bills, to read the chapter on
" Petty Bill Discounters, and the manner of doing a Bill."
It is an admirable exposure of an infamous system of ex-
tortion. He gives us a very lively description of a meeting
of railway proprietors, and an admirable portrait of Mr.
Levy, the great pacificator at all these meetings, and a
" great man in the City." He next introduces us to the
Royal Exchange and to its "Lions," the Rothschilds,
Barings, and Salomons •, and then, ascending the staircase,
he conducts us to Lloyd's, and introduces us to the
underwriters, merchants, and captains. From thence we
go in company with some of these merchants to the
North and South American Coffee-house, where we
find the City correspondents of the various newspapers
busily engaged in preparing the "City article.' On
leaving the North and South American Coffee-house
we go to the Jerusalem, the resort of those engaged
in East India or Australian commerce. One person fre-
quenting this place deserves especial notice,
" And that is the indefatigable gentleman, Lieutenant
Waghorn, by whose exertions and plans the overland route
was first adopted. He has now started an agency for the
conveyance of parcels overland, and is, in some small degree,
benefiting by the undertaking, since he is well supported by
the majority of the merchants, who, knowing they can rely
on his punctuality, patronise him in preference to numerous
other firms who are following the same description of business.
"Lieutenant Waghorn is rather an eccentric man, and,
though excitable, is undoubtedly an honest British seaman.
A story is current in the City that " Tom Waghorn," as he
is familiarly called, can do nothing without the Pacha of
Egypt, and the Pacha of Egypt nothing without him. This
statement, it is commonly understood, originates from the
strong friendship existing between these two great men.
Waghorn is said to be Mehemet Ah's fides Achates, and
every reason exists for believing that the influence the one
possesses over the other has done much to ensure the safety,
and facilitate the passage of the mail across the desert.
"It will be recollected that, at the time of the war in
Egypt, Mr. Waghorn took up the cudgels in one of the even-
ing papers in favour of the Pacha, and was replied to (as Mr.
Waghorn will always have it) by Lord Palmerston, in the
Globe. Mr. Waghorn vigorously defended the Pacha against
(as ho imagines) the assaults of the ex-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and to this day he takes no little credit to himself
for so thoroughly vanquishing (as he thinks) his mighty op-
ponent. The project of a railway across the desert, and a
variety of the local improvements in Egypt, are by many of
Mr. Waghorn's friends attributed to his influence with the
Pacha; and such a distinction, if only earned by a tithe of
Ni hat he is supposed to have done, must afford such an
ambitious man, as Mr. Waghorn really is, some reason for
self-congratulation.
"The rapidity of Mr. Waghorn's movements is a great
feature in his bustling character. You meet him one day at
the Jerusalem ; and the next, or the day after, you see him
announced as arrived in Paris, on his way to Marseilles—of
course en route for Egypt. You are perhaps, in a day or two
afterwards, surprised to find, rushing up Cornhill or down
Birchin-lane, the individual who, you would have thought,
could scarcely have reached Alexandria; and when you
say, Ah ! what ! back again—why you've never seen the
Paella? " Yes,
I have though—when we travel we don't
do things by halves.'
" It was not many months ago that Mr. Waghorn was off
on one of these flying visits, and he then reached as far as
Bombay. On his return, he was asked how he liked the ap-
reipnlioedth,'rNpoatilzaotf
tahlle—wnoorlidm--
proveme
pearancenotsf agffoainirgs
othnert
them.' This eccentric individual is about fifty years of age ;
the Parsecs, the Jews of the place, are eating up all before
eherellaes
he is, we should say, five feet six, with a robust constitution
r.nd intelligent countenance, the latter much tanned by his
frequent voyages to, and excursions in, Asiatic countries. Ile
is a regular attendant at the Jerusalem when he is in town,
the t; Mr W horn is under-
City. The only.remunera ion . ag
Government for the interest
aid has large connexions with many of the first merchants
" ' ever to have received from
,stoou • ,a in promoting and directing the route of the
he exhibib. was the concession of the title of Lieutenant
,overland mail, . -aught several years before it was allowed.
R.N.,' for which he D. -ear 1839-40, however, very hand-
The merchants in the , hle sum, and presented it to
somely subscribed a considers....
-Rh his agency, both at
Mr. Waghorn, to enable him to ps._ re capital than he
home and in India, which then required "ugh "'Pe-
could readily command. Sinca that date, a1t,,,.. 'iretty
tition has made a dead set against him, he has gone ois
sawessfully-, and so continues up to the present ti p%
" Itlilll ale WA two months the merchant() lawye Goo- I

SOUTHPORT AND EUXTON RAIL-
WAY COMP ANY.
We understand that the surveys on this line have been all
made, and that the Provisional Col nmittee will be fully pre-
pared to make application to Parliament for their Bill at the
commencement of the approaching session. There is, there-
fore, every probability that the important railway accommoda-
tion proposed by this line will be afforded to the public with-
out delay, inasmuch as the project is supported by the'Grand
Junction Company (who are represeatted in the Southport
Easton board of management by Hardman Earle, Esq. ;
Joseph Hornby, Esq. ; Robertson Gladstone, Esq. ; William
Rotheram, Esq., Directors of the Grand Junction) and also
by the Manchester and Leeds Company:, the representatives
of whom are James Brancker, Esq f, chairman of the Man-
chester, Bolton, and Bury, and Liverpool and Bury; Charles
PascoeGrenfel, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Bury ;
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Bury ;
Henry Houldsworth, Esq., chairman of the Manchester and
Leeds. These gentlemen, together with Reece Bevan, EFq. ;
William Hill, Esq. ; James Lees, Esq. ; Samuel Lees, Esq.,
Directors of the Southport and Euston Railway Company,
constitute the committee of management.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 20.
STocx EXCHANGE.-The sales .are—Caledonian, 1014—
Ditto, Extension, 3%—Chester and Birkenhead, New 20/.
Shares, 7%—Derby and Crewe, 53-4—Eastern Counties, 20—
Edinburgh and Northern, 765. 3d.—Glasgow and Dumfries,
2%—Grand Junction, 234—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 495/4
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32—Ditto, 401. Shares (L. M.),
55—Lancaster and Preston, Three-Quarter Shares, 3534L0
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%
don and Birmingham, 214—Ditto., Fifth Shares, 21—Man-
chester and Birmingham, 741—D itto, Quarter Shares, 14%
—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2%r--Mat-
lock and Midland, 6—Midland, 401. Shares, 21—Mold Junc-
tion, 2%—North Staffordshire, 51,E—Welsh Midland, 3
Limerick and Waterford, 7—Dutch Rhenish, 73—Ja.
maica, 62%.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sacs are-Birkenhead, Lances.
„er, and Cheshire, 71A-Blacklyarn, Chorley, and Liverpool,
21,4-Dudley, Iron Bridge, and 3heffield, 2-East Lancashire,
No. 2, 121,4-East Lincolnshi re, 2%-Goole, Doncaster,
&c., 575.-Huddersfield and Ma nchester Railway and Canal,
9 c. n.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 545. 6d.-Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 44-Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, !4 15- k6-London and York,' 4%
-Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 9-Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Juncton,
Manchester and Southampton., 3 9-16-North Stafford-
shire, 51. 51. 9d.-Slieffield and Manchester, Quarters,
No. 3, 6 -Shropshire Mineral, 3-West Riding Union, 7/. 4s. 6d.
LEEDS, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Croy-
don, 2014-Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10% p.-
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 19-Leeds and Bradford Exten-
sions,37 lA-Leeds and Dewsbury, 20%-Leeds and Thirsk,
134.-Liverpool and Bury, 26 North British, New Car-
lisle Branch, 3%-Oxford,NVortester, and Wolverhampton,
16-Wakefield, Pontefract, and. Goole, 30 c. n.-London and
York, 4%-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 31,12-Direct
Northern, 35.-Liverpool,: Ormskirk, and Preston, 41,4 -
West Riding Union, 7-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 15s.
dis.-East Lincolnshire, 2%-East and West Yorkshire, par
-Grand Union, 7s. 6d. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire,
20s. p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 4%
-North Western, 31%-Nottingham and Boston, 2%-South
Midlands, VA p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 160. p.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Leeds and Thirsk,
12%-London and York, 41--Grand Union, 13/4-Lanca..
shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 2%-North and South
Junction, 3/. 12s. 6d. p.-Nottinghamfand Boston, 2%-
Wexford, Waterford, and Valentin, 1/. 11s.-Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth, 41. 6s.
SHEFFIELD, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Sheffield and Rother-
ham, 343%-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, N 0.3.
6-Baton, Newark, and Sheffield, 3N-Caledonian 10%-
London and York, 4%-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3k.
HULL, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE..--The sales are-Axholme, 2a. 6d.-
Great North and South Wales, and Worcester, 10-Liverpool
and Leeds, 2-London and York, VA-London and Norwich
Direct, ss.
YORK, Nov. 20.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Newcastle and Dar-
Angton, Brandling, 45-York and North Midland, Extension,
2534-Newcastle and Berwick, 12 /s British, 241 -
Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 3-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4-
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester, 1%-Grand
Union, 1%-Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 4s. p.-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.-Welsh Midland, 2%.
BRISTOL, Nov. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter,
New, VA-Caledonian, 10-North Devon, 2-Northaton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham, 2%-Vale of Neath, 3%-Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth44.
GLASGOW, Nov. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bath-
gate, 675. 6d.-Airdrie and Coatbridge, 73/4-British and
Irish Union, 775. 6d.-Caledonian, 10%-Ditto, Extension,
755.-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 505.-Caledonian
and Dumbartonshire Junction, 625. 6d.-Cornwall and Devon
Central, 475. 6d.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, Is. p.-East
Lothian Central, 555.-East Indian Railway, 555.-Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 225.-Edinburgh and
Perth, 614-Edinburgh and Hamilton Direct, 50s. 6d.-
Glasgow and Belfast Union, 535. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr, 67-Ditto, New, 181,(-Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 525. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan,
43/4-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 505.-Lanark and
Lothians, 715.-Lesmahagow, 80s.-London, Bristol, and
South Wales, 425.-Perth and Inverness, 505.-Scottish Cen-
tral, 16-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 425. 6d.
-Strathern Junction, 655.
DUBLIN, Nov. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Belfast and Bally-
mena, 7-Bandon and Bantry, PA-Cork and Waterford,
1%-Cork and Youghal, 24-Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine
Junction, 138-Dublin and Drogheda, 81-Great Southern
and Western, 214-The Midland Great Western and Rail-
way Canal, 4%-Ditto, Extension to Sligo, 2-Irish Great
Western, Dublin to Galway, 3%-Irish North Midland, PA
-Killarney Junctions, 24-Newry, Warrenpoint, and
Rostrevor, 31/-Waterford and Limerick, 74-Waterford,
Wexford, and Dublin, 1%-Waterford and TrAMOre, 2-
Wexford, Waterford ;and Valentia, 1%.

QUESTION OF RESEONSIBILITY.—Dr. Forbes Wins-
low in his " Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases," relates' the
following interesting case :—Bernard Schedmazig suddenly
awoke at midnight ; at the moment he saw a frightful
phantom, or what his imagination had represented as a fear-
ful spectre. He twice called out " Who is that ?" and re-
ceiving no answer, and imagining that the phantom was
advancing upon him, and having altogether lost his self-pos-
session, he raised a hatchet which was beside him, and at-
tacked the spectre. Immediately afterwards it was found
that he had murdered hia wee.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YEsTERDAT.

The " industrious classes„" having quitted for Newport
Pagnell, the room was attended by only three or four mem-
bers, who amused themselves by speculating on the possible
chances of obtaining payment from certain parties who have
not been seen at "the Corner" since the last day of the
Houghton Meeting. Not a bet was laid in the room ; but in
private 350 to 10 was laid agst The Traverser for the Derby,
and 1,900 to 95 agst Cuckoo for the Oaks.
NEWPORT PAGNELL STEEPLE CHASES, &c.