The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-19 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1845.

pool was 27s.—so that unless there be a rise on the other
side, there is no margin for shipments from this.
As, however, the least alarm about a short or inferior crop
gives always a more than proportionate impulse to mices, it
may very well be that flour on the spot may, in the course of
the next few weeks, be advantneously placed. •
Cotton is dull and unsettled, so as to render it difficla to
give accurate quotations.
_ Our money market continues very easy. The revenue of

this State from its canals will this year; contrary to exPeo---
tation in the earlier part of the season, transcend that of last
year, which itself was larger than that of any preceding year.
The remarkably fine weather that has prevailed, and is still
prevailing here, has afforded every opportunity to forwarders
to hurry produce and goods to market, and all the grain and
flour that can reach tide water will find ready purchasers.
Exchanges on Europe are still drooping. Sales'on London
are made at 9, and the extreme range is 9%. On France
5.25 to 5.26%.
Cotton—The sales to-day reach 890 bales, The stock for
sale being unusually light, holders are enabled to maintain
their position. Prices range within % of a cent of what
they were before the arrival of the Great 'Western, in fact,
several parcels have been disposed of at former prices. We
quote Uplands, very ordinary to middling, 63/4 to 7% cents
per pound; fair to good fair and good, 814 to 83/4 and 9%
cents ' • Tennessees and Alabamas, 63/4 to 73/4 cents ; Mo-
biles, Louisianas, &c., ordinary to middling, 7 t0173/4 cents;
fair to good fair, 9 to 10 cents ; good and fine, 11 ;to 12 and
12% cents. The sales since the 14th are estimated at 9,400
bales.
The exports, &c., of cotton since the Ist of September, ,
are as follows :—Total exports, 84,000 bales ; last year,
114,000 bales ; and year before, 19,000 bales. To Great
Britain, 56,000 bales; last year, 52,000 bales; and year
before, 7,000 bales. Receipts, 149,000 bales ; 'last year,
142,000 bales ; and year before, 115,000 balesi- Stocks,
114,000 bales ; last year, 124,000 hales; and year before,
133,000 bales.
The reports from the cotton-growing districts continue to
be favourable, and it is expected that the crop will be equal
in quantity to that of last year.
Flour—All descriptions are dull. 5.75 doll. was asked for
Genessee this morning, withoutpinding buyers—a few lots
were taken at 4.684 dolls., and subsequently at 5.624 dolls. ;
1,000 barrels Michigan (in poor order) sold at 5.561 dolls.
Southern Flour is held at 5.25 dolls. to 5.371 dollse for Balti-
more, Alexandria, Petersburgh, &c. ; Georgetown 5.50 dolls.,
Brandywine 5.621 dolls. to 5.75 dolls.
6,0610-bushels prime GenesseeWheat were taken for export,
at 1.23 dolls., and about- 5,500 bushels Southern in lots for
milling at 1 doll. to 1.16 doll. ; 8,000 bushels Southern Corn
sold at 65 to 66 cents weight, and a small parcel of Northern
yellow at 67 cents.
5,000 bushels of Barley brought 57 cents.
There has been a good deal of inquiry for Clover Seed,
and several parcels of Ohio have been purchasedo-say
B,ooolbs. at 8 to 81,4 cents., and 26,0001b5. at about 9 cents.
—now held a.t 91% cents.
Nothing of importance was done in provisions.
Ashes are steady. Pots, 3.87 dolls. 1-2 ; Pearls, 4.12 dolls.
—demand moderate.
The rates of freight are—To Liverpool, Ald. per lb. for
cotton in square bales, and 7-16 d. in round; turpentine and
flour, 25..6d. per barrel. To London, Naval stores and flour,
3s. to 3s. 6d. per barrel. To Havre, Cotton, %to % cents.
per lb. ; Ashes, 8 dolls. to 10 dolls. per ton. Rice, 10 dolls.
per ton.
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 22.—There was a slightly improved
feeling in the cotton market yesterday, but the business
continues rather limited, as neither buyers nor sellers are
willing to operate largely until the GI eat Britain's advices
Come to hand. The sales yesterday amounted to 8,500
bales, and this morning about 1,000 bales have changed
bands, at prices ranging from 7% to 73%c. for low middling to
good middling; Bc. for mid fair, and 8* to Bic. for fair to
fully fair. Corn, in consequence of an export demand, went
up yesterday to 40c. to 41c. per bushel, at which about 500
bushels were taken. Nothing was done either in flour or
provisions. Exchange is very steady at 81/I to 83/4 per cent.
prem. for sterling ; francs, sf. 20c. to sf. 25c. New York
Bonds, 13/4 to 2 per cent. discount ; checks, % to 3/4 per cent.
dis. Freights have given way, a vessel having been taken
yesterday for Liverpool at %d.

LITEIrAT URE.
HONOUR AND SHAME. A Novel. 3 vols.

This is a very interesting work, and will prove a great
favourite with the general readers of novels. It is not
indebted to any historical reminiscences or political in-
cidents—it is simply a domestic tale, and depends only
on its own attractions. It is written in a quiet, unaf-
fected style, and is in many places full of real feeling.
Its chief interest consists in the natural pictures of pri-
vate life, and the correct delineation of human passions.
The story may be divided into two distinct parts, of
vary different characters: the first is full of action, the
second of feeling ; the first unveils the petty intrigues,
rivalries, and jealousies, which make and mar domestic
life, while the second displays the contest of opposing
passions, and shows the energy and feeling that may
dwell in the most gentle. In the commencement the
character of Isabella Lorraine, the heroine, is conspicu•
ous for sincerity and earnestness, and forms a bright
contrast to the cunning and intriguing dispositions of her
friends or rivals. It is in the latter part that the full
beauty of her character is displayed. She is full of love
and self-devotion—two qualities most calculated to ex-
cite interest and sympathy ; she not only suffers, but
feels; her passions are ardent and her sorrows bitter;
yet she is resolved to endure, and she does endure, the
bitterest trials—she is forsaken by her friends, suspected
by him she loves, and called upon to sacrifice all her
hopes and joys. The struggle is hard, but she obeys, and
sacrifices even love itself for duty—

46 And leaves a lover's for a father's arms."
The tender and devoted character of Isabella will render
her a general favourite ; all must sympathise with her
sufferings, and admire her fortitude. Those who love
romance, and sorrow, and pathos, and who like to see

" The course of true love ne'er run smooth,"
will be delighted with the latter portions of these volumes;
while those who read only to be amused—pour passer le.
temps—will find entertainment in the light conversa-
tions and variety of trifling incidents in which the whole
work abounds. Some of the more serious conversations
may be of advantage to many; one in particular, on the
power of pleasing, and the best means of gaining the af-
fection of friends and companions, will be found useful
to all whom it interests—and who does it not? On the
whole, this novel is one which can scarcely do any harm
to whosoever reads it ; one which may touch the heart
or improve the temper, but which must afford both in-
terest and amusement.

JACK .HORNET; or the March of Intellect. By the
Author of "The Adventures of an Irish Gentleman."

3 vols.
This is a novel of the humorous class, yet it presents
a strange compound of exaggeration and good sense. It
is certainly a clever work, and the author is evidently
one shrewd enough to penetrate beneath the outward
mask of society, and read the secret motives which in-
spire many, apparently, great and good actions. The
hero,- Jack Hornet, is a Welsh Radical—a regular re-
former—who arrives in London with the intention of
regenerating the country on the most approved Chartist
and agrarian principles. From the exaggerated descrip-
tion of this character, we should imagine that the author
wished to turn all reformers into ridicule, did not many
of his own observations prove that he himself belongs to
that numerous and daily increasing class. As it is, his
intention is evidently not to ridicule reform itself, but to
check the career of those who, styling themselves
"friends of the people, regenerators, and reformers,"
are ever ready to blame the rich, yet the last to assist
the poor—who long for equality, not for the sake of
raising their inferiors, but in order to abase those above
them to their own level. This intention. is laudable
enough; there -is too much talkative philanthropy abroad;
there are many who love to speak of the " wrongs of the
poor," the " rights of the people," &c., but we shall
find, on inquiry, that most of these, some perhaps uncon-
sciously, are acting according to the very 'rules which
they are the loudest in blaming. Full many a " village
Hampden" would, had he the opportunity, prove an-
other Charles, and this was the case with our hero,
" Jack Hornet." We are told that
"He hated the wealthy, not because he was poor, for he
took pride 'in his poverty ; but he felt convinced that their
wealth must have been acquired by nefarious means. His
heart was excellent, yet he suspected every one who ap-
proached him of obduracy and want of feeling. He hated
mankind, yet he liked society ; and while he shunned the
world, solitude was irksome; while the whole universe made
him wretched, his greatest pride and boast was his utter
carelessness of its opinion. In every respect Jack Hornet
was an anomaly. He sighed for the happy days of the'
golden age, when men ate acorns—yet, to a certain extent
he was an epicure. He affected great simplicity in his dress
—yet he was most difficult to please in the cut of his coat,
and abominated tailors, whord he' called 4 living testimonies
of the original sin.' He pretended to scorn the assistance of
domestics, who were the type of slavery—yet he expected
the most assiduous attendance. Like many persons upon
whom fortune has not smiled, he attributed his present posi-
tion to the injustice and ingratitude of society, and blind to
his follies and absurdities, he did not consider that he him-
self had been the greatest enemy he ever could have had."
This strange individual eomes to London, intending to
reform the country, his chief object being to improve
the relative positions of the " two nations" of rich- and
poor.: His constant quarrels and complaints, his strange
ideas, and 'his still stranger actions, occasion numerous
extraordinary adventures. At one time he disguises
himself as a beggar, and accosts a nobleman in the
street; he is given in charge to a policeman, and he
being a beggar and his opponent a lord, he is of course
"locked up." Then he declares that he is himself an
earl disguised for a freak; his assertion is believed, and
the tables are turned. At•another time, being wounded
in the leg in one of his skirmishes, he is attended by a
doctor, who charges a guinea a day, and who declares,
that if he moves, he will lose the limb. But nothing
can deter his love of inquiry; he is resolved to know the
difference between medicine for the rich and the poor.
He resumes his beggar's dress, and calls on his phy-
sician, who happens to be doctor for the dispensary of
the poor. He shows the wounded leg, which cost a
guinea a day, and which was to be destroyed, if he
moved, and all the medicine he gets is the following:—
"Get about your.business, you lazy vagabond; 'nothing
ails you • a walk of ten miles, or a hornpipe on the
tread-mill for a day or two, would soon set you to
rights." All this is (we hope) exaggerated, but it is
amusing, and if it makes people think besides making
them laugh, it will not be read in vain. At length our
reformer gets an opportunity for trying his powers of
improvement. He is given the management of a little
country estate, and there he essays his agricultural
science. lie lectures the peasants under pretence of
teaching them; he tyrannises over them in order to
make them " free and happy." The result is, as might
be expected, a total failure; and our ultra-Liberal,
in his anger and disappointment, becomes a "red-hot
Tory." Such is the history of " Jack Hornet;" at
least, such is a brief outline of his interesting and ex-
traordinary adventures. He is accompanied by a Welsh
friend, a Sir Thomas Green, who has just succeeded to
a baronetcy and a fortune. He is a specimen of country
simplicity and vanity; he is taken in charge by some
clever knaves, who kindly instruct him in the tortuous
paths of London life, till he finds himself minus his
' fortune, and then, of course, he can dispense with
their aid.,

THE POTATO DISEASE ; its Origin, Nature,
and Prevention. By G. Phillips, of the Excise, and
Member of the London Chemical Sociely.
This little pamphlet is the best treatise on the potato
disease which has yet appeared. The author, in order
to ascertain the nature of the disease, begins by making
a quantitative analysis of a sound and of a diseased
tuber. The results of these analyses are given, and the
effect produced on the potato by the acting of various
re-agents are described. The great differences between
the healthy and diseased tuber seems to be that the
latter contains more water and more gum, but less al-
bumen, less potateine, than the healthy tuber, which
also contains sugar, of which none fis found in the dis-
eased tuber. The author then gives a minute descrip-
tion of the appearances presented by the various parts
of a potato plant when subjected to microscopical ex-
amination. With regard to the indications of the ex-
istence of the disease, Mr. Phillips tells us
" The outward appearance of a tuber is no indication of its
soundness, for the disease invariably commences in the cuticle
of the string or pendulum at the part where it joins the tuber.
If a potato be diseased at all (unless by some external in-
jury), it may be known by cutting a transverse section at
and perpendicular to the pendulum. The cutting should be
made immediately below the bark or outward skin, and if
the tuber be diseased, a brown spot will be seen, more or less
extended, according to the severity of the disease, and the
length of its duration."
Although the starch in diseased tubers is at present
still existing, yet Mr. Phillips thinks it probable that
after a lengthened attack of the disease, that, too, might
disappear, and therefore he recommends that it should
be secured as soon as possible after the disease has made
its appearance. He ascribes the origin of the disease
entirely to the wetness of the season, which gorged the
plant with water and prostrated its powers ; and he
considers that the disease might have been prevented
by trenching the ground to the depth of twelve or four-
teen inches, so as to have drained off from the plant its
superfluous moisture. The following directions for
storing the tubers for winter use are well worthy of
attention
"In storing tubers for winter use, certain conditions should
be observed, or the tubers may decay before the disease is
outwardly perceptible.
" These conditions are—
" First. Absence of moisture.
"Secondly. Plenty of air—a current passing between the
tubers is the most efficacious, as it dries their surfaces.
" It is of no moment in what way these conditions are
complied, with, so long as they are observed and_ maintained
in some form. I would recommend that the tubers be laid in
layers, placing between each layer straw and wood, or any
other substance by which a current of air may be passed
through the layers and between the tubers. I would have
extended heaps rather than thick ones, and avoid a close
atmosphere. The tubers ought not to be placed in pits, and
covered with earth, or shut out from the atmosphere. Pota-
toes of this season are not to be trusted to pits, or to any of
the old modes of storing, for the outward appearance is de-
ceptive and no criterion of soundness.
" Sand, lime, and other substances have been recom-
mended to be used as a medium in which to store tubers, but
I would say, avoid them and trust to the atmosphere. A
current of air will always carry off moisture from a damp or
wet substance, but sand and lime will not do so; on the
contrary they will, although dried before use, soon absorb
and retain a portion of moisture natural to them when ex-
posed to the atmosphere at certain temperatures. But the
evil rests not there; they prevent the escape of water from
the tubers, and maintain a temperature around them favour-
able to the spread of the evil they were intended to prevent.
" Stored potatoes should be frequently examined, because
although the putrefactive fermentation may be checked by
the means suggested, yet decay silently proceeds in another
form if the tuber be diseased."
With regard to seed potatoes, he says :
"In selecting tubers for seed, great care should be ob-
served, all the bruised and brown skinned ones should be re-
jected, and those only taken that are clean and healthy in
appearance. If cuttings be used, all that have brown spots
in them are to be refused, and if a suspicious or doubtful one
presents itself, cut It open and examine it. The examina-
tion Iva' occupy time, but it will afford malty and impart

knowledge that will be useful and important to the possessor
of it.

" In selecting cuttings take none that have the slightest
brown speck in them, or that are stained beneath• the skin
of a brown colour, and if cuttings must be taken from a
diseased or suspicious tuber through necessity, cut the brown
part away with at least half an inch, if possible, of the white
and sound part of the tuber with it. The sooner the seed is
selected the better, and where cuttings are made, dip the cut
parts immediately the cutting is made into dry plaster of
paris, which will unite with the water that issues from the
cells, and form a dry coating over the surface of the, potato,
that will tend much to preserve it from decay."
Mr. Phillips does not consider the present as at all a
new disease, and does not believe that it has been pro-
duced by either fungi or insects. The work con-
cludes with minute directions for laying out potato-
fields so as to avoid a recurrence of the disease. The
work is illustrated by plates, showing the structure of
the potato plant, and the appearances produced in it by
the disease.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

EXETER AND WEYMOUTH.
[The following is a continuation of the report of the meet-
ing held at the Guildhall, Weymouth, on Monday afternoon,
which was not concluded when the post left] :
EDWARD STRICK, Esq., on the part of the proposed Exeter,
Weymouth, and Dorchester Coast Junction line, said, while
I admire the tact of the Hon. Gentleman who last spoke, yet
could not but regard his statements as clap-trap to catch the
people of Weymouth—l allude to his putting the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Coast line in opposition to the
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway. We approve of
the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, and quite
agree in all the arguments employed in support of that line :
they are so many arguments in our favour. The question is,
will not a coast communication westward be of advantage to
Weymouth. Our line furnishes facilities for persons coming
from North Devon, and other places in that direction, which
no other line will so well supply: Your best policy will be to
support such a line. The engineer of the Great Western Com-
pany has stated that it will be to their interest to complete
the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line; and why? Be-
cause it would feed their own trunk line. But he has not
said a word about their line from Bridport to Exeter. This
new scheme of theirs would be of advantage to Bridport and
Dorchester, but it would be death to Weymouth, and I would
ask your calm and deliberate opinion whether a line that
connects you with the west coast would be detrimental to
your interests. The gentlemen representing the Great
Western attempt to convince you that their proposed line
from Bridport to Exeter provides accommodation equal to
that we offer you, but advert to the map. By their route
you are to go to Bridport vid Maiden Newton, just ten
miles longer than the way we propose to take you. Here
then is a saving both in time and expense, and is this no
advantage? I would again repeat that it is to the interests
of the people of Dorchester and Bridport to support their
scheme, but it is to your interests to support us. Give us
then your free and frank opinion as to which of these two
lines will be most beneficial to yonr interests. .
BARLOW, Esq., Director of the Great Western Com-
pany, on the behalf of that company pledged himself
for the fulfilment of whatever promises they made
to the people of Weymouth. Does not the
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway give you
a safe and excellent line ? Which Company was
earlist in the field? Did not the Great "Western come for-
ward and assist you when no other Company would? and
common gratitude should lead you to give your support to
any line which that Company may carry out. lam quite
sure that the Directors of the Great Western will direct their
attention to the improvement of the town, and encourage
the formation of any Company having that object in view.
—(Hear, hear.) I therefore hope that you will be prepared
to support the scheme of the Great Western, and rest assured
that what they propose will be carried out to its full extent.
EDWARD STRICK, Esq., rose to complain of the conduct
of the Great Western in coming forward several months after
they had possession of the country. When their plans
were announced and matured, the Great Western, borrowing
the idea, and in the eleventh hour, comes farward with a
competing scheme. He very much questioned whether the
Great 'Western intended to carry out this as well as many
other of their schemes, and in confirmation of his opinion
he would read a letter which he received from a Mr. Chap-
man, at Warminster. (The letter was to the effect that the
Great Western Company were ever actuated by a selfish spirit,
and never consulted the interests of the community. They
projected no new lines until other companies came forward
to supply the wants of a district. That in regard to the
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway scheme, they had
already broken faith, and it was the belief of the Wiltshire
people that the Great 'Western Company was not sincere in
their proposal of constructing a line to Weymouth.)
Some interruption followed the reading of this letter, which,
when subsided, the meeting was addressed by
C. SANDERS, Esq., Secretary of the Great Western Com-
pany, after a few preliminary observations, proceeded to direct
the attention of the meeting to the relative merits of the va-
rious schemes introduced to their notice. He said I wish the
matter submitted to your reason, and would ask whether it
is best for you to be connected with the Great Western,
with all its ramifications, or with the Exeter, Weymouth,
and Dorchester line? When I had the honour of appearing
here a twelvemonth since, I was told that a coast railway
was not what you desired, but a communication with Bath,
Bristol, the midland counties, and to the north of England.
Your language was, Give to us a connexion with the interior of
the country that will best subserve the interests of Weymouth.
We have given you such a line, and is it now to your interest
to neglect us for the purpose of adopting a more direct line
to Bridport? The promoters of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
'Weymouth line admit that the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth line will benefit Weymouth, and they wish it success,
and yet advocate a line which, if constructed, will intercept
the traffic of that line. You are this day called on to make
choice what line is best fur 'Weymouth, and not what is best
for the Great Western. I maintain that the Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth, with its continuation to Hungerford and
Westbury, and to Exeter in the other direction, will best
supply your wants. If by your vote you adopt the Exeter,
Dorchester, and Weymouth Coast line, you may perhaps lose
both lines. (In referring to the letter which was read, charg-
ing the Great Western with breach of faith and neglecting
the public interests, he said it was a most unjustifiable attack,
and that it did not contain one word of truth.) Do you think
that the Great Western Company, after incurring the expenses
of procuring the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Bill,
would abandon it? yet such is the insinuation of that letter,
and I cannot refrain from saying that it is a most libellous
and infamous letter, and that it ought not to have been in-
troduced. In again referring to the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth line, I admit that it is a shorter line to
Bridport, but that is not the question for you to decide. Will
you identify yourselves with that line, and which would de-
prive you of another line giving you so much greater ad-
vantages ?—(No, no.) Look then well to your interests, and
not take up with a Company who is looking for an alliance
with the line to Southampton. Such a connexion cannot
benefit you.—(No, no.) 'Would the London and South-
Western Company seek the re-establishment of the mail
packets to the Channel Islands? We (the Great Western)
shall have a clear and undivided interest in doing what we
can for Weymouth. We wish you to be a large importing
port—(Hear, hear)—and as I believe the day is not far
distant when the Government intention of establishing an
harbour of refuge at Portland will be carried out, the
formation of docks and other improvements will necessarily
follow. I look to you to place confidence in us, to support
us, and rely upon it you will come to a right conclusion.
Mr. HorKixs, in reply, begged again to repeat that they
were not opposed to the Great Western. We were first in
the field; our surveys were made, our capital subscribed
for, and then the Great Western Company, as was usual
with them, comes forward, and says we will adopt a line
which shall swamp this Company. I will ask why; did
the Great Western now come forward to construct a direct
line to Exeter, of which the Bridport line forms a branch,
—was it with a view of serving the district?—(Bear.) Our
Company comes to Weymouth, and says to you, you have a
railway to the east, a railway to the north, and we will sup-
ply you with one to the west. lam told that such devia-
tions are contemplated in the Wilts, Somerset and 'Weymouth
Railway ; that the line cannot be completed without a new
Act:of Parliament. Mr. Hopkins then directed attention to the
desirableness of a coast communication westward, as offered
by the Exeter, Dorchester and Weymouth Company, and as
regarded the gauge they intended to adopt, they had not yet
decided. They were waiting the report of the Government
Commission, who were investigating the relative merits of the

two gauges.
Sir JOHN AUDREY stated that though the Directors of the
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway contemplated a
deviation of a portion of their line, yet that would not pre-
vent them from commencing on those parts of the line where
no alterations are intended.
Mr. J. F. HODGES thought the meeting was not in a con-
dition to come to an unbiassed decision. They had heard gen-
tlemen advocate their several projects, in which each had their
separate interests. I will, as a Weymouth man, give my
honest and fair opinion. I am not identified with either
scheme ; I hold no shares in these or any other railway
companies. In looking at the country through which the
Exeter, Weymouth, and Dorchester Coast line proposed to pass,
I find it is for twenty miles a competing line with the
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway. lam of opinion
that the line in itself would be injurious to the interests of
Weymouth, and if we act in good filth to the Great Western'
we are bound to support their line. The Great Western is
called a great monopoly, and why ? because it forms a com-
bination of talent and enterprise NI hich entitles it to our sup-
port. They promised us the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, and they have obtained. the sanction of Parliament
for that line ; and though there appeared to be some delay in
its commencement, we are assu red that the result of that
daisy will be an improvement in itl; construction. Is this new
line (the Exeter, Dorchester, an.l Weymouth) calculated to
benefit Weymouth ? I say no ; I tad for this reason, internal
lines are always deemed the most valuable to an importing
port.—(Hear.) Look at the lines of country through which
the Wilts, Somerset, and Weym outh Railway panes- It
also connects you with the middle and the north of England,
and it is from these places that the great stream of visitors
come to watering-places.—(Hear.) What advantage will
it be for Weymouth to be connected with other watering-
liinnetecroesntnse.ctsTushe
wEixth-
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Bridport, but what are we to expect from Bridport? and
farther westward, what do we meet with but watering-
places, which are all rivals to Weymouth s? The distance
from Weymouth to Bri,dport, by
the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway, is f;wenty-five miles, by the Exeter, Dor-
chester,and Weymout Coast line it is fifteen ; but the po-
pulation between this and Bridport coastwise is so small,
that there is not evt in a turnpike-road, and the only coach
from Weymouth to 13ridport is obliged to go through Dor-
chester in order to in ak it pay. The saving of a few minutes
between-Weymouth. and Bridport is a matter of small impor-
tance ; besides, is V, rey mouth in a condition to take up so
many schemes ?—(voice—" We are not called on for our
money.") I adtr (it it ; but the construction of a line
rested on the prob ability of its paying. I think we shall not
be acting judicior isly in separating ourselves from the Great
Western, and would urge on you to give them your strenuous
support.— (Ilea r.) We cannot better bring out the resources
of Weymouth. than by connecting ourselves with such a
powerful and. upirited Company.—(Cheers.) He concluded
by moving the following resolution :
" That tb.4 intoreit§ of this Inrougb, and port gill be