The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-29 00:00:00

APPALLING SHIPWRECKS AND
LOSS OF LIFE.

The fearful gales from the N.W. and N.E. that
hat,e prevailed for the last week, have occasioned the
most distressing casualties off all parts of the coast.
Already intelligence has been received of the loss of
upwards of 30 coasting vessels, and many homeward-
bound foreign ones, with wealthy cargoes.
The gales commenced on the morning of Thursday
week, and continued up to Wednesday. In the
Channel their effects were truly frightful. At Bide-
. ford, on Monday night, two vessels were totally lost
within sight of the shore, and both crews, with the
exception of one man, perished. One was a schooner,
or what is called a brigantine, named the Albion,
belonging to Brixham, laden with iron. Her loss
took place on the sramstone Sands, and when
discovered she lay on her beam-ends, with her
mats gone, and the sea sweeping over her deck.
In a few hourse she broke up, and totally
disappeared. Another vessel, a large barque, also
was driven ashore, and but for the prompt arrival of
the life-beat, which took the crew off the rigging and
landed them, they would have met with a watery
grave. In the vicinity of the coast of St. Mumble's
Head, and Cardigan Bay, the casualties were of a
most fearful character, upwards olforty lives having,
it is supposed, perished on board one vessel. All the
information that has been received, which was Irons
the Coast Guard, who state that large fragments of a
large vessel, about 600 tons, were, at daybreak, on
Friday morning, discovered by them washed upon
the beach a short distance from St. Mumble's Head,
and they had every reason to believe it to have been
the same vessel which they saw in the offing on the
previous evening attempting to run in for shelter.
There were between thirty and forty persons seen on
her deck at the time, and should she prove to be the
same, no doubt every soul has been lost.
Another wreck is known to have occurred near the
harbour during the same night. The general belief
is, that she foundered with all hands, and she is ex-
pected to be the Dora.
Further along the coast, the north of Cardigan, a
• shocking sight was witnessed. At one o'clock on
Sunday afternoon, the wind blowing terrifically, the
Victory, fro it Penmaudre, struck on the bar in thirty
feet water. The crew ran up the rigging and lashed
themselves to the topmast, which was out of water,
where the poor fellows remained, with the sea beating
over them, for sixteen hours before the life-boat could
venture out to rescue them. When brought ashore
they were in a miserable state of suffering.
About five miles eastward of Cardigan harbour, a
fourth wreck occurred, viz., that of the Margaret and
Mary, of Aberystwith. It was discovered by one of
the Coast Guard on Monday morning, who perceiving
a roast-head protruding from a cave under a high
cliff, immediately proceeded to the spot and found it
to be a wreck. The master, Mr. Jones, was found
on the rocks dead and also a seaman dreadfully
bruised; the rest of the crew were drowned. She
was from Drogheda, laden with limestone.
A disastrous and total wreak took place on the
rocks in Ccmaes Bay, on the north coast of Anglesey,
witnessed by more than two thousand persons, who
hid been attracted by the heavy firing of the signal
guns of the unfortunate vessel. She was barque-
rigged, about 400 tons burden, and called the
Frankland, Captain E. C. Friend, master, laden with
hides, sugar, cotton, and other merchandise, and was
lost within a few hours' sail of her destination—
Liverpool—after a favourable passage from Bahia.
The particulars of the melancholy event will be found
in the subjoined statement of the commander. He
states—" The barque under my command arrived
from Bahia, off the above coast at two o'clock in the
morning of the 18th instant, with the wind S.W., or
off the shore, and a moderate tweeze, the ship standing
along shore under all sail for the pilot station, when
the wind suddenly shifted, with a violent blast,
into the N.E. quarter, and the ship in con-
sequence became close on a lee shore, and, a
tremendous gale coming on instantly, the only
resource we had was to let go the anchors under the
lee of the Middle Mouse and cut away all the masts.
This was immediately done, and by the time the ship
held, her stern was only 50 yards from the rocks, with
a most dreadful sea breaking on them, and there
seemed not the slightest chance of any of our lives
being saved. The ship fortunately held on till day-
light, by which time our guns and other signals of
distress attracted many persons to the cliff, some of
whom promptly came down on the rocks, at a great
risk, to aid us. After many ineffectual attempts to
get a line on shore, I was enabled to throw a hand
lead, attached to the log line, on to the shelf of a rock,
where Robert Griffith and Richard Owen, having
lashed a rope to themselves, succeeded in reaching it
with a boot-hook and line. I must here mention the
gallant conduct of a youth named Owen Highland,
who, seeing the line foul of a projecting rock, watched
the receding of the sea, and rushed out, at the risk of
his life, to clear it, when a tremendous sea broke many
feet over him, hut, on its passing off, we and the
ieople on the cliff were hippy to see he had clung to
the rock, and, watching his opportunity, he reached
the shore, and climbed up the cliff before another
sea overtook him, and, although he rendered us no
service, his intrepid conduct cannot be too much
p-aised. The line was afterwards blown clear, and
by it another one and a hawser were sent on shore, and
carried up to the cliffs, by which means the crew were,
one by one, hauled up in safety, one of the cables
having previously parted, and the vessel being within
a few feet of the rocks, in peril of being instantly
dashed to pieces whenever the one should part, which
event took place about two hours after, and in less
than five minutes the ship was shivered to atoms
against the cliffs, killing a large Newfoundland dog and
other animals I had on board." It will be seen that the
vessel is a perfect loss, and the unfortunate crew lost
everything they possessed, with the exception of the
clothes they had on. It is reported that tha amount
of the loss of the ship and cargo will exceed 20,0001.
Along the same coast, off Pwllheli, Aberystwith,
and Portwllaen, a number of other casualties hap-
pened.
At the latter port, a boat, marked " Three
Brothers," of Liverpool, was washed up on the
beach, as also several timbers and a piece of a
vessel's figure head. It is feared that they be-
longed to vessels lost 'luring the storm. The ship
laels the Ranter, from Glasgow, put in for shelter on
Sunday, having been struck by a tremenoous sea the
day before, which swept the decks of their boats,
b ilwarks, &c., and carried overboard two seamen,
named Neil and M'Eachern, belonging to Islay, and
Christopher Growley, a native of Belfast, both of
whom were drowned. The collier lost on Friday
last, near Bowcastle, is supposed to have been from
I3.deford. Her unhappy crew acted bravely to save
le r, but the situation they brought her up in (cer-
tainly the only chance they had of preserving her),
and in such a gale and sea, it was utterly impossible
to rescue her from destruction, and at ten o'clock at
night her cables snapped, and she was carried among
the rocks, where she soon became a wreck. The
coast guard, under tne direction of Mr. Annis, the
chief officer at the station at Bowcastle, rendered
every assistance, which, unfortunately, was much
litn!ted, in consequence of the dreadful serf. All be-
longing to her, excepting one man, met with a
watery grave. The poor fellow remains in such a
state as to be unable to furnish any.facts concerning
the loss.
The effect of the gale on the north coast, from the
mouth of the Thames to Scotland, appears to have
been as disastrous as in the Channel. About sixteen
miles to the north-east, of the Ninth Foreland, on a
dangerous sand, called the Kentish Knock, and India-
man, called the Woodman, Capt. Good, from Bombay,
was driven on it in the height of the storm on Satur-
day morning, her crew and passengers escaping in a
very teiraculous manner. Had the weather abated,
there would have been some probability of getting
her off, but the continuance of the gale caused her to
be a total wreck. Between forty and fifty bales of
cotton belonging to her cargo floated out, which have
been picked up and landed at Ramsga'e and Deal.
ller logs is said to amount to near 30,0001. Off Har-
wich, Lowes.:offe, Yarmouth, Bridlington, and other
ports along the coast, the traders and colliers sus-
tained extensive damage. At Bridlington, the bay
presented a most animated scene, by the number of
vessels running in for shelter. There were upwards
or too hundred at one period, the chief, portion
of which had lost anchors, cables, boats, bulwarks,
and round houses, by their decks being
swept by the surf. Near the Hasborough
light a brig called the Idea, bound to Limerick from
the north, with a cargo of coals, drove on to the
s•ind3, when she immediately capsized, the crew
barely having time to cut away the boat and leap
in 'o it be.ore the succeeding wave took her off into
deep water, and then she immediately foundered. The
crew were subsequently picked up and landed at Yar-
mouth in the most destitute condition, having lost all
they possessed.
At Redcar for three days it blew with terrific
violence, and on Sunday evening, a vessel, supposed to
be the brig Commerce, of Stockholm, Mr. Lister,
master, foundered to the southward of the harbour,
and every soul of her perished. A vessel seeing her
g, down bore down to her it the hope of picking up
some of the uefsrtunate creatures; but none were to
b-. seen. She had sai!ed from the Tees on the pre-
vious IVeineslay from Dundee, laden with coals, and
the inference is that the captains, finding the gale con-
firming, endeavoured to return, and in doing so suet
wit 1 her unfortunate loss. One of the crew was
washed on shore on the following day, and was re-
cognised as being a native of that place. No other
..,...,„_buitiee have been picked up.
PlIA' rf . ' ',lere'arlivhere the ill-fated Margaret, Hull steamer,
.r. ".
7,AK awl all belonging to her, was lost—on the Dutch coast,
near Norden, where the gale was fearful—another
wreck, of nearly as appalling,a character, occurred—
viz., the total loss of an English vessel, supposed to be
1i5b.,...
the Bellona, from Jersey. The vessel was discovered
‘,,,, early on the morning of Thursday, lying bottom up-
"- ware pistllF sands of Nordenay ; and, from subse-
, •
~. el. en inquiries, it has been ascertained that all

her crew perished, and no portion of her
e trgo has been saved. Amongst the fragments '
that were washed on shore were found some
papers and two bills of exchange—one drawn in
Palermo, on the 4th of October, 1845, for 751., by G.
Dickinson, on Lewis Reis, payable on Power and Co.,
London; the other is dated Messina, dated Oct. 21,
1845, for, 801., by G. Hopkins, on Iris and Co. The
number supposed to have perished is 14 or 16.
Further up the same coast, four other vessels were
lost, the exact particulars attending which have not
as yet been received.
A steamer belonging to the port of London is re- ,
ported to be missing, and strong fears are entertained
that she was lost during the gale, with all hands,
while on her passage from the river to Bremen. She
is called the Tom Bowline, and it appears that she
left on the 11th inst., and nothing has since been
heard of her.

The above, it is feared, forms but a small number
of the disasters consequent upon the gales.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LAUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON.
On Tuesday a meeting of this company was held at the
White Hart Inn, Launceston, for the purpose of consi-
dering the propriety of altering the line from the old
route, by way of Milton Abbott, to Lydford, there to
join with the North Devon line, and thus unite the Corn-
wall and the North Devon lines together. Mr. Thomas
John Phillips, of Landue, the chairman of the commit-
tee, presided, and there were present Mr. Thomas Gill,
M.P. (chairman of the South Der.m), Messrs T. Wool-
cambe (director of the South Devon), H. Pethick, M.D.,
Thomas Pearse, S. R. Pattison, John Rundle, of Tavis-
tock, T. S. Fyre, S. F. Smith, W. R. Dewy, W. Pearse,
John Huxham, R. F. Frost (mayor of Launceston), C.
C. Whiteford, of Plymouth, C. Gurney, John Ching, R.
Dingley,Edmoad Pearse, of Tavistock, and other gentle.
men.

Mr. C. GURNEY, one of the solicitors of the line, stated
that in the first place it was their intention to change
the line from this place to Tavistock, to go by way of
Bren Tor instead of Milton Abbott. In consequence of
the North Devon and Cornwall parties having deter-
mined to unite in the formation of a central line, and to
carry that central line towards Bridestowe and Oko-
hampton, and for another line to be carried towards
Tavistock from Exeter and the north of Devon, it was
obvious that that would be a competing line with any
line by way of Milton Abbott ; and they should not
have any of the central traffic, for the Milton line would
take none of the central traffic, and a portion of the
traffic from Launceston to Plymouth would be as likely
to go via Bren Tor as by Milton. This line being
between the Cornwall at Launceston, and the North
Devon at Bren Tor, they should take over that
line all the traffic that passed from Exeter to the
north of Devon one way, and all that passed from the
Cornwall to Exeter the other way. It must be obvious
that such a line as this would be a very valuable paying
one. The other question referred to the mode in which
the money was to be raised. The estimated cost of the
line, by Mr. Brunel, was 300,0001. That was a very
different sum to that required fur the old line. It must
be obvious that a line, with very considerably increased
traffic, would require a very different construction to that
ofa line of such small traffic, or for the local traffic between
Launceston and Plymouth. It therefore became
necessary to have an estimate made of the expense of
this line, and see what capital would be required. Mr.
Brunel had furnished that, and considered that 300,0001.
would be sufficient. Of this sum, 200,0001 would be
contributed by the North Devon Company and by the
shareholders, and 100,0001. by the South Devon Com-
pany. the reason for allowing the North Devon so
large an interest in it was, because of the large quantity
of their traffic that would pass over it. The old line
was to have cost 65,000/. If the shareholders in that
line thought proper, each of them could take
another share of 251. at par. But if they did not
choose to take it, the money which they had paid on
their deposits should be returned to them, after de-
ducting the shareholders' quota of the expenses already
incurred in the prosecution of the old Bill. The North
Devon and the South Devon Companies would each pay
10/. per cent. on all the shares allotted to them on this
line, so that there would be 30,000/. paid up in the com-
mon fund, out of which, if the old shareholders con-
tinued to hold, the whole of the expenses incurred in the
prosecution of the old and new Bills would be defrayed.
Those who withdrew would not have the benefit of con-
tribution from the companies, but would have to pay
their proportion of the old expenses. Mr. Gurney said
he had no doubt that ultimately the Bill would be passed,
though the sections, owing to one of the parties in Lon-
don being unable to complete his contract, had not been
lodged in time. This, however, was a matter which
Lord Fortescue said had been looked over in the last
session of Parliament in the case of the Monmouth and
Hereford line, where there was competition, and he ex-
pected that it would be looked over also in this, espe-
cially as it was a matter in which no person would be in
the slightest degree injured.
Mr. GILL thought it was the more probable that Par-
liament would pass over this omission from the circum-
stance that this line would form the c ,nnecting line in
one great scheme of railway communication between one
county and another. He also thought that the Corn-
wall line, which had been merely sent back by the House
of Lords for emendation, would, be sure to pass both
Houses, and that that would facilitate the passing of the
Launceston and Tavistock Bill.

Mr. WOOLCOMBE said there was another point for
consideration. The North Devon Cempany had deter-
mined to carry on this project, so that if the Launceston
Company dropped it, it would be taken up by the North
Devon. If the scheme were dropped now, the whole of
the money expended in the prosecutio❑ of the old Bill
would be entirely lost to the shareholders. They would
thus go to Parliament with the new Bill not only for the
purpose of strengthening themselves, but also of pro-
tecting theinsvlves from the loss of money already em-
barked in the undertaking.
Mr. WHITEFORD added, that the Directors would not
deem it prudent to abandon the old Bill till they saw the
position in which the new Bill would be circumstanced
in Parliament ; and, until the old Bill was so abandoned,
the shareholders' obligations of expenses would not
cease.

Observations were made by some shareholders as
to the time that should be allowed fur declaring
whether they would withdraw or go on. The corn-
mittee, in reply, said that they would give the longest
notice that the forms of the House would admit of.

The CHAIRMAN then put the resolutions to the meet-
ing, set iatim. They were carried unanimously, and were
to the following effect :

" That the proposed deviation be adopted. That toe
capital of 300,000/. required for the line now proposed
be raised in 12,000 shares of 251. each, in the following
manner. The sum of 200,000/. to be contributed by the
North Devon and the general shareholders, the latter
not to exceed 100,0001. ; and the remaining 100,0001.
to he contributed by the North Devon, if they shall
think fit to do so, otherwise that amount to be added to
the contribution of the South Devon. That the por-
tion of the capital to be contributed by the
general shareholders be raised by allowing each
holder of a 501. share to take one share of 25/. at
pa*. That to make up the deposit of 104 per cent. re-
quired by the standing orders of Parliament, a call of 5
per cent. be made on the old capital, on which 5 per
cent. has been already paid, and a deposit of 10 per cent.
taken on the additional subscriptions. That the accounts
be prepared of the expenditure of the company in respect
of the Bill up to the time of abandoning the same. Any
shareholder not willing to retain an interest in the
pndertaking may receive back the amount of his depo&it
subject to a rateable deduction for the expense incurred.';

NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, AND MIDLAND
JUNCTION.
On Tuesday last, a meeting was held at the George
IV. Inn, Nottingham, for the purpose of appointing one
or more persons to receive notices, and to act in all
matters on behalf of the freemen, inhabitants, and the
occupiers of Old Toftsteads, in the town of Nottingham,
with reference to an application to Parliament for an
Act to empower the formation of a railway from the
Midland Railway through the towns. of Nottingham,
Ba.sford, Lenton, and other places, to Mansfield and
Sutton in Ashfield.

The business at this meeting was not of much public
interest, as the appointments were pro fornici, but some
few particulars cause out that it may be necessary the
public should be acquainted with. At the time the
plans, sections, and other documents connected with this
railway should have been lodged with the clerk of the
peace, it was found that several sheets of the section
had been abstracted from the lithographer's office, and
therefore its completion was retarded several hours, and
consequently could not be lodged with the clerks of the
peace at Chesterfield and Newark until two o'clock on
the morning following. Since that period it has been
discovered that the sheets so abstracted had been taken
by a party connected with another line of railway pass-
ing over a portion of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and
Midland Railway, who has actually deposited the same
as part of his line, at the office of the clerk of the
peace at Newark, with the initials B. N. S. substituted
for the initials of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid-
land Junction Railway. The gentleman who has thus
acted has endeavoured to apologise for his conduct. It
seems that, notwithstanding this mishap, the directors
of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction
have prosecuted their course, and have served all the
necessary notices, and only awaited the meeting held on
this occasion, to serve the representative of the freemen
inhabitants and occupiers of Old Tofisteads.
The meeting was attended by the principal members
of the Freemen's Rights Committee and several inter-
ested parties, who unanimously appointed Mr. R. Whit-
church to act on their behalf.

AMBER GATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON, ♦ND
EASTERN JuNcTiox.—A meeting for a similar object -to
the one for which the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Mid-
land Railway Junction had been held, took place the
same day, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham,
when Mr. R. Whitchurch, Chairman of the Nottingham
Freemen's Rights Committee, was appointed on behalf of
the freemen to eact in all matters connected with the
above railway in which the freemen may be concerned.
CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

_
CAMBRIDGE, WEDNESDAY.—A meeting of the Rail-
way Committee took place yesterday at one o'clock, at
the Guildhall, the Mayor in the chair. About thirty
members were present, among whom were several of the
beads of houses, and other members of the university.
The clerk, U. RarrcE,Esq., having read the minutes of
the last meeting, he said that in reply to letters he had
sent to the secretaries of different railway companies
connected with Cambridge, he had received answers:-1.
From the Cambridge and Colcheater Company, who
said that they should require no land within three miles
of Cambridge, and that the present station would serve
that purpose, 2. From the Bedford and London, who

r said that their extension line would join the Cambridge
line near the Hills' Road, and the Eastern Counties sta-
tion would be used by them. 3. From the Direct North-
ern, who said that their line would neither pass through
or by Cambridge. 4. From the Lincoln and East
ern Counties Junction, who intended to use the present
station, and would join the Eastern Counties at Chester-
ton. 5. From the Midland and Eastern Counties, who
replied that they had not yet made their arrangements,
and could not answer the queries proposed to them. 6.
From the Cambridge and Oxford, which would consider
the questions asked at their earliest meeting. 7. From
the Eastern Counties, the secretary of which wrote that
the company was desirous of consulting the interests of
the university and the town, and if any difference of
opinion prevailed on the subject of a central station,
they would be obliged by the earliest information on
the subject, as at present their arrangements for the
enlargement of the present station were suspended. The
ground they would require would be from the corner of
the Hills-road-bridge to about one hundred yards down
the road, and a piece on the east side of the station
about one acre altogether, the present station then
would be large enough for a central station. 8. From
the Newmarket and Chesterford Company, whom a
rather mystical letter said that their line would be the
only one between Bury and Cambridge. They would
use the present station. 9. From the Ipswich and Bury,
which line would also run into the present station.
The question of a central station then came to be dis-
cussed, and an immense quantity of talking took place,
the result of which was the adoption of the following re-
solution, proposed by Mr. E. Foster, and seconded by
Mr. Cooper, " That under existing circumstances there
does not appear any practicable mode of obtaining, a ge-
neral central station, and that the convenience of the
public would be greatly consulted by an enlargement of
the present Eastern Counties station, and by the com-
pany affording public access thereto by way of the east
road, near the town gaol." •
This having been carried, on the motion of Mr. SMITE,
seconded by Mr. LOVETT, the following words were
added to the resolution—" With a passenger station on
the east-road, near the town gaol"
The MAYOR exhibited a plan of his proposed station
on Butt-Areen, and explained the nature of it, but the
committee appeared generally to deem the site very
ineligible, and no motion was made respecting it.
The committee rose at three o'clock.

COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD DIRE

JUNCTION RAIL W AY.

On Tuesday last a public meeting of the shareholders
of the above company, specially called by circular, was
held at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamingt9n, to consider the
posiiioh in which the company was placed by a refusal
on the part of the promoters of the rival undertaking
to carry out certain terms of amalgamation previously
determined upon. The meeting was attended by several
highly respectable individuals, amongst whom were Sir
Fortunatus Dwarris, J. Meredith, Esq., J. H. Thorne,
Esq., J. M. Cottle, Esq., Dr. Homer, J. W. K. Eyton,
Esq., &c. &c.
After a protracted discussion, in the course of which
the Chairman (Sir Fortunatus Dwarris) detailed at
length the position of the undertaking, the following
resolutions were unanimously passed :
The meeting having had laid before them the agree-
ment" for an amalgamation with the Oxford, Coventry,
and Burton-on-Trent Railway Company, and heard a
full statement of the facts contained in the case sub-
mitted to counsel, with his opinion thereon, which fully
justifies the acts and proceedings of the committee, and
having also heard the statement of the chairman and
members of the committee, is of opinion that the
Coventry committee have been guilty of a breach of
faith towards this company, and have assumed to them-
selves an unwarrantable authority in refusing to adiiiit
a portion of this committee into their council, pursuant
to the terms of the agreement of amalgamation.
" Resolved,—That the best thanks of this meeting
are due, and that they are hereby presented to the com-
mittee, for the firm and manly exertions they have made
to uphold the character and protect the property and
privileges of the several shareholders.

" That the unjustifiable conduct of the Coventry com-
mittee having been the means of preventing this com-
pany from going to Parliament for their own separate
Bill, this committee be hereby fully authorised and
directed to employ counsel, and adopt all such legal
measures as they may deem expedient, by petition or
otherwise, to oppose the Coventry Bill through ell its
stages."

FOREIGN LINES.
COLOGNE AND MINDEN.—A letter, dated Cologne
(Prussia), D..c. 17, states that on the morning before
yesterday, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather, the railway from that city to Minden was inau-
gurated. On that occasion the Count de Wittgenstein,
president of the company by which the railway was con-
structed, pronounced a discourse, in which he thanked
the Government for having overcome the obstacles oppos-
ing the establishment of this line, which, branching to
the railway in full construction in the kingdom of flan-
over, will put our province in direct communication with
the Hanseatic towns, with the ports of the North Sea,
and consequently will contribute powerfully to the deve-
lopment of the commerce of all the Rhenish countrif s.
INCREASE OF IRON WORKS IN FRANCE.—The Echo
de Valenciennes states that the same tffeet produced in
Belgium upon the forges is felt on the French frontier.
The furnaces of the arrondissements of Valenciennes
and of Avesnes, which were either languishing or extinct,
are renewed, and, moreover, new ones, are being con-
' structed. To the third furnace in erection at the Demon
establishment, a second, built at the forges of Berbsimont,
taken by the proprietors of Montalaire, is about to be put
in operation, if it is not so already. M. Dumont, of
let riere, also erects another furnace, and the same is being
done at the establishment of la Providence (Charleroi),
while there are thoughts of doubling them in the north.
The railway fever appears to be the cause of this increase.
PARIS AND LYONS.—When the inquiry opened in
conformity with the law upon the projected plan for the
direction to be taken by the Paris and Lyons line at its
entrance into Paris, and the establishment of the station
upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de hi
Bastille, numerous complaints, objections, and protests,
were placed upon the register relative to the suppression
of the Rue Traversike and to several works of art to be
made upon the Rues Moreau, Mazes, &c. In consequence
of these complaints to the Commission of Inquiry, com-
posed of the Prefect of the Seine, Messrs. Perrier, Perret,
Moreau, Galio, the Mayor of the Eighth Arrondisse-
ment, and of Messrs. Jullien and Delarue, the engineers,
it has been decided that the terminus, instead of b. ink;
built upon the Boulevard Contrescarpe, shall be in the
Rue Mazas ; that a square shall be opened in that street,
in face of the station ; that from this place to that of the
Bastille a large and fine street shall be made, if the pro-
prietors will make a gift of the ground ; and that in con-
sequence of these arrangements the Rues Moreau and
Traversilre shall preserve their present state. In conse-
quence of these determinations, and by decree of the
Prefect of the Seine, another and a final inquiry, which
will last until the 26th, has been opened at the Prefec-
ture of the Seine, where the plan and the deliberations
of the commission d'enquae are open km public inspec-
tion.

STRASBURG AND BALE.—In November last the num-
ber of passengers conveyed on the above line was
56,297, and tie receipts from that source amounted to
112.088 f. 15c. For the conveyance I,f luggage 4,046 f.
66c. was received, and for merchandise 54,613 f. 50c. ;
total, 170,748 f. 31c. Adding to this the sum of 5,904 f.
64c., the receipts of the Mulhouse and Therm line, the
total returns of the railway amounted in he above-men-
tioned month to 176,652 f. 95c. In the corresponding
month of 1844 the receipts amounted to 171,885 f. Sc.
An ordinance, of the King of the French opens for the
Minister of Public Works a credit of 2,000,000 francs,
for loans and grants to the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen
and Ilavre•Railway Companies.
TOURS AND HOWFLEUR.—M. Malachy Daly, banker,
of Paris, has written to several of the Paris papers, com-
plaining of the statement contained in an English pro-
spectus, and-thence copied into the Jourpal des Chemins
de Fer,- that he was banker for the Tours and Ilonfleur
Railway Company. In complaining of the liberty taken
with his name, M. Daly says that, not only has no call
for funds been made, but the company has not yet been
even formed.
PARIS AND VERSAILLES. --PROSECTED WESTERN
LINE (07 FRANCE).—The shareholders in the Paris and
Versailles Railway Company (right bank) held a general
meeting recently, for the purpose of receiving .from the
Board of Directors an account of the steps taken, con-
formably with the resolutions of the 27th of March last,
to obtain the concession of a railway to the west. The
assembly was composed of more than the number of
shareholders required by the statutes to render the re-
solutions valid. The number of shares represented being
11,970, the meeting was opened and declared regularly
constituted. The various documents relative to the pro-
ceedings of the directors were then read, and also a re-
port of the steps they had taken, not only with respect
to their agreement with the company of the left bank, but
to the negotiations commenced with the Government,
and the statement submitted to the commission of the
Chamber of Deputiei charged with the examination of
the profit de laconcerning the concession of the Western
Railway. The measures taken by the mixed commis-
sion of the two companies, formed of three members from

the left bank and..
of two from the right batik, were
agreed upon unanimously. This unanimity is a good
proof of the harmony existing between the two com-
panies. As to the. negotiatiens commenced with the
Government, they had proceeded as far as to the sig-
nature of a convention provisoire, which assured to
the two companies united the direct. concession of the
Western Railway. The ratification by the Chambers
was the sole thing wanting to complete this convention,
and there is reason to hope that this ratification will be
given in the commencement of the next session, now
that the meeting has accorded to the directors the ne-
cessary powers to treat definitively for the concession of
this line. It was but a matter of form, and of powers de-
clared to be sufficient by the company and declared in-
sufficient by the Commission of the Chamber, which pre-
vented some months ago the conclusion of arrangements
relative to the Western Railway. The Legislative Cam
mission expressed an opinion that it was nenessary that
the two Versailles companies should be dissolved, and
re-constituted one company, in order that the concession
of the Western Railway might be made to them legally.
The companies, on the contrary, thought that they cou'd
offer for the line without changing their present position
The Chamber did not pronounce upon this point, but as
this question might be raised again in the next session,
the council of the company, in order to guard against
difficulties, required the powers necessary to conclude
definitively, were it even to dissolve the existing com-
pany and form a new one, in the manner explained in
the report of M. Lacrosse. The meeting approved of
the reports made, and gave to the directors the fullest
powers, especially to dissolve the 'society, if they found
occasion to do so.—From the Journal des Chemins de Fer.

KOENIGSBERG. DEC. 1 I.—By a Cabinet order of the
25th of last month, the King decrees the formation of a
commission for the building of the two bridges over the
Vistula and Vogat, for the Dinsburg and Berlin Railway.