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MHE GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD,
AND CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.

ORNWALL RAILWAY.
The Scrip Certificates are ready to be exchanged for the Al-
lotment Letter and Bankers' Receipt, upon the execution of the
Deeds.

Office, 53, Charing-cross, Nov. 11, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that the Provisional Directors of this Com-
pany have postponed the period for making payment of the Deposits
until after the 29th instant, when the plans will have been lodged,
and that intimation will then be given of the time within which the
Deposits must finally be paid.
By order, 11. MOREING, Secretary.

The Deeds will Lie for Signature at the Offices of the Company,
449, West • Strand, London, and at the Great Western Railway
Offices, 29, Gresham•street, London, and at the Offices of Messrs.
Smith and Roberts, solicitors, Truro, from the 21st day of October
instant, until the 22d day of -November next.
Arrangements will also be made for sending the Deeds to some of
the principal places in the country, for the accommodation of distant
shareholders, who will be duly informed by circular or advertise-
ments. P. P. SMITH, Sec. pro tem.
Truro, Oct. 18, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM AND - ABERYSTWITH
RAILWAY. _ .

In consequence c f the immense pressure of business, and the in-
creased expense of perfecting the surveys and plans in time for the
ensuing session of Parliament, it has been determined by the Com-
mittee of Management to postpone the com:detion of the surveys
until the spring of next year.
Applieatily s for shares may continue to be made, until the 30th
instant, to the solicitors and brokers, and to the secretary, at the
°dices of the Company, 163, Fenchurch-street.
T. K. TAPLIN, Secretary.

NOTICE.
T" " GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN
RAILWAY," the " GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWITII, and
CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY," and the " HEREFORD and
MERTHYR TYDVIL JUNCTION ,and
The Shareholders in the above Companies are informed that ar-
rangements of a satisfactory nature having been concluded between
th,m, the names of
The Right lion. Lord Southampton,
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, N.l, ,
and Major Lindam,
have been added to the Committee of the
GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN CGMPANY,
and the names of •
H. G. Ward, Esq., SIX.,
John Wheeley Lea, Esq.,
and Arthur Mann, Esq..
three of the Directors of the Great Eastern and Western Company,
to the Committees of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales
Company, and fhe Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Company,
in proof of their good understanding.
By order,
JOHN HUGHES,
'Secretary of the Great Eastern and Western Company.
By order,
T. HAWKER, _ .

Secretary of the.4keacestez.-4.1 erystwith. and Central
Wales RaPway Company, aid of the Hereford and
Merthyr Tydvil Railway Company.
November 14, i 845.

'LANCASTER AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. pe: Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square, London
Sir John Key, Bart., alderman of London
Sir Wm. Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, London
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London
The Rev. Thomas Airey, M.A. Holme-park, Kendal
William Wilson Archibald, Esq. Liverpool, director
‘e the London
and Holyhead Direct Railway
William Anderson, Jun., Esq., Byker-house, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
provisional director of the Hall, Melton, and North Union
Railway
William Ranks, Esq. Knighton, Radnorshire
John Boustead, Esq., Settlebeck, Sedbergh
Thomas Browne, Esq. Warkworth, Northumberland, provisional
director of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
Michael Brown, Esq., merchant, Sunderland
Alfred Brodie, Esq. Upper Montague-street, London, director of the
Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Brunton, Esq., Town-clerk, Sunderland
George Watson Buck, Esq. C.E., Greenheys, near Manchester, di-
rector of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
John Burgess, Esq. boroughreeve of Manchester, director of the
Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
Thomas Byrom. Esq. Wigan, director of the Liverpool, Preston, and
North Union Railway
William Byrom, Esq. Oldham
Wm. Campbell, Esq. Tillichewan Castle, Dumbartonshire, provi-
sional director of the London and Edinburgh Direct Railway
Captain Alan Chambre, Burnley, Lancashire
Thomas Collins, Esq. Liverpool
John Dewhurst. Esq. Preston, director of the Preston and Wyre
Railway
Jes. Donnell, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
John Alcock Dixon, Esq. Habergham Eaves, Burnley, managing
director of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle and Carlisle Railway
John Elam, Esq. Gildersome, near Leeds, and Deeside, Dent
Francis Ewart, Esq. barrister-at-law, Temple, London, provisional
director of the Great Leeds and London Railway
Henry Farrington, Esq. York-place, Manchester, director of the
Manchester and Wigan Railway
The Rev. John Hutton Fisher, M.A., 1.0.5., Vicarage, Kirkby
Lonsdale
Abram Gartside, Esq. Liverpool
Henry Glynn, Esq. 4, Garden-court, Temple
Giles Hall, Esq. Elm-court, Temple, director of the Rugby, Swinton,
and Weymouth Railway
John William Harden, Esq. J.P., Hope House, New Ferry, Cheshire,
a provisional director of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction Railway
William Hardy, Esq. Lancaster-place
Samuel Harris, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq. Upper Montague-street, London, di-
rector of the Grand Trunk Railway
Wm. Henderson, Esq. Liverpool
John herd, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
James Hitching, Esq. Manor-house, Washingborongh
G. E. Hodkinson, Esq. 7, York-terrace, Regent's-park, London
John Holford, Esq. Rusholme-hall, Manchester, director of the Liver-
pool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Douglas Hopkins, Esq. Bedford-square, London, director of the
London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Richard Hoyle, Esq. Denton-hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
William Hughes Hughes, Esq. F.S.A. F.L. S. alderman of London,
chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of
Llangollen Railway Company, &c. &c.
James Inman, Esq. Sedbergh
James Irvine, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Liverpool and Bolton
Direct Railway
Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq. Edge-hill, near Liverpool, director of the
• Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct
Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Regent's-park, London, director of the
Dendre Valley Railway
W. Lawrence, Esq. Brixton, Surrey
George Lawrie, Esq. Talavera-place, Broughton, near Manchester,
provisional director of the Eastern Counties Junction Railway
James Catteral Leach, Esq. director of the Bolton and Liverpool
Direct Railway
William Melville Lomas, Esq. merchant of Liverpool, deputy chair-
man of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Junction
Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish-hall, near Wigan, director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway
John Manwaring, Esq. Eagle-hall, Pateley-bridge, Yorkshire, deputy
chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
John Mee Mathew, Esq. 4, Gray's Inn-square, London, director of
the Staffordshire Potteries, mad Liverpool cad Manchester Direct
Railway
William M‘Michael, Esq. Bridgnorth, Salop, provisional director of
the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
J. M. Macdonald, Esq. Liverpool, director of the London and Holy-
head Direct Railway
Wm. Wright Manifold, Esq. Rodney-street, Liverpool
Edward Norris, Esq. Clairville, Manchester, provisional director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 81, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
director of the South Midland Railway
Capt. Charles Frederick Parkinion, the Polygon, Ardwick, Man-
chester, managing director of the West Lancashire Railway
Samuel Perrott, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union Junction Railway
Chas. Rayne, Esq. Carville-hall, Northumberland, director of the
Hull, Mallon, and North Union Railway
Wm. Rudgard, Esq. J.P. Lincoln
The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, Trinity College, Cambridge, Woodwar-
dian Professor of Geology
Rev. John Sedgwick, M.A. Vicarage, Dent, near Sedbergh, Yorkshire
James Sewart, Esq. Moss-house, Sedbergh
James Shaw, Esq. Pendleton, Manchester, director of the Manchester
and Rugby, and of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire
Junction Railways
Robert Surtees, Esq. Redwerth, Durham, director of the Cheltenham,
Oxford. and London Junction Railway
R. Lambton Surtees, Esq. Durham
Joseph Swainson, Esq. Kendal, Westmoreland
George Tate, Esq. Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, director of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan, director of the Liverpool, Preston, and
North Union Railway
John Taylor, Esq. Airton, Craven
Thomas Tebbutt, Esq. Manchester, provisional director of the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Thompson, Esq. Great St. Helen's, director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Frederick Swan Todd, Esq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
James Upton, Esq., Akay-lodge, Sedbergh, provisional director of
the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, director of the
-Bradford, Wakefield, and Midlands' Railway
Robert Moon Watson, Esq. Bishop Wearmouth
Thomas Wearing, Esq. Sedbergh, provisional director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway
James Dent Weatherly, Esq. banker, Newcastle npon-Tyne
Matthew Weston, Esq. Rochdale
Richard White, Esq. J.P. Thorney-close, Sunderland
Andrew White, Esq. J.P. Tunstall-lodge, near Sunderland, director
of the Durham and Sunderland Railway
William White, Esq. South Shields
George Whiteley. Esq. Temple, London, provisional director of the
Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
William Wilson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. llamards, Dimsdales, and Co.
Manchester—Messrs. William Jones, Loyds, and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Arthur Heywood, Sons, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Settle, Skipton, Keighley, Burnley, and Clitheroe—The Craven
Banking Company
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham—The Northumberland and Dur-
ham Banking Company
Lancaster—The Lancaster Banking Company
Kendal—Messrs. Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co.
The Rev. George Croft, J.P. Richmond, director of the London and
Liverpool Railway
John Manwaring, Esq. Eagle Hall, Patchy Bridge, Yorkshire, de-
puty chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Regent's-park, London, director of the Eastern
and Northern Counties Junction Railway
C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq. Upper Montagne-street, London, &res-
ter of the Grand Trunk Railway
John Thompson, Esq. Great St. Helen's. director of the Grand Trunk
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq. Upper Montague-street, London, director of the
Eastern and Northern Counties Junction Railway
ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
SURVEYORS—Messrs. Nevins and Lawton, Manchester
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Cowburn and Norris, Sedbergh
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Wilkinson, Esq. Sedbergh.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Thomas Eastham, Esq. solicitor, Kirkby Lonsdale
John Theodore Hoyle, Esq. solicitor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Thomas Johnson, Esq., solicitor, Lancaster.
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs.' Crag and Jeyea, 22, Bedford-row.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dorrington and Co. London.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COll.l-
PANY.—EXTENSION STOCK, No. 2.
Notice is hereby given, that the Third Instalment of 2/. per Share
will become due on Ti:Esnar, the 18th instant, and can be paid at any
of the Company's Bankers, on presentation of the Scrip. ••
The Call cannot be paid upon Bankers' Receipts, all of which now
outstanding must first be exchanged for Scrip Certificates, at the
Company's Oki's, as formerly. advertised.
Interest, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, will be charged on
all payments made after the above date.
By order of the Board, A. BULKELEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch Station, Nov. 11, 1845.

PARIS AND LYONS. RAILWAY.
- • (GANNERON'S COMPANY.)

With reference to the advertisements issued under date of the
ftlt instant, requiring. the. Shareholders in this Company to deposit
their Bankers' Receipts on or before the 18th Inst., and subsequently
to sign for the do'ddments to be issued in exchange ; further notice
is hereby given, that the aforesaid receipts must be lodged, and the
rectprocat-engagements executed at' :iatest. on the 25th instant, it
being absolutely indispensable that the Register of the Shares shall
be lodged. In Paris by the sth srcximo; in . preparation for the ad-
judication of the line, which has been definitively fixed for the 20th
of December.

, By order of the Committee,
WILLIAM VILLESBOINET,i Secretaries,
EDWARD FILDER,
7, Tokenhonse-yard, London, 17th November.

JXETER, TAVISTOCK, AND BODMIN
RAILWAY, WITH 'A BRANCH TO ASHBURTON.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 140,0001., in 56,600 Shares of 251. each.

W..• lYs. 43d. periThirre.
_ • FRE LEVIINART NOTICE.
. . _ _

Amongst the rinincrous projects recently brought forward for con-
necting important towns and districts in England by means of rail-
ways, no direct line of communication from Exeter to Tavistock, and
thence to Bodmin, has attracted the attention of the public. The
South Devon Railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Devonport, and
the Cornwall Railway, proceeding from those ports, but not approach-
ing Bodmin within several miles, afford a very sinuous, inconvenient,
and imperfect route between the two terminal points of the proposed
line, the latter of which is still unsupplied with any Immediate rail-
way facility. The Bideford and Tavistock Railway—now in projec-
tion—assisted by the Exeter and Crediton Railway, will supply in
like manner a Very circuitous course of communication between
Exeter and Tavistock; but all these lines leave the midland districts
and several importaht towns and villages totally void of railway
conveniences. _ _

The proposed Exeter, Tavistock, and Bodmin Railway, however,
commencing at the City of Exeter, proceeding by or near to More-
ton-Hampstead, and . throwing out a brand' to Ashburton in its
conrse across the Forest of Dartmoor, will pursue a direct line to the
Parliamentary borough of Tavistock ; and, passing by or near Cal-
'lington and Liskeard, will terminate at Bodmin, thus providing a
direct channel of intercourse in a line not exceeding fifty-six miles
in length between the two terminal places, and furnishing the inter-
vening towns and villages with the means of immediate transit to
Exeter in the east and Bodmin in the west, and extending from those
places to all parts of England. The existing railway from Bodmin
to Wadebridge will complete the line to the coast of Cornwall, in the
Bristol Channel.

Thus the direct line from Exeter to Tiodmin, with the proposed
branch to Ashburton, will unite the whole of the midland districts
of Devonshire and Cornwall, comprising a tract of country occu-
pied by a large population, and unrivalled for agricultural produce
and mineral wealth.

A prospectus and a map of the line are in course of preparation,
and, with the names of a powerful Provisional Committee, will
shortly be published. In the interval, further information may be
obtained from Messrs. Phillips and Son, No. 28, Lawrence Pountney-
lane, solicitors to the undertaking ; and at the offices of the Com-
pany, No 37, Gresham-street, where application for shares may
be made.

UNICORN INN, ST. IVES, HUNTS.—The
Crown Inn, St. Ives, being closed, FRANCIS EARL begs
to inform Commercial Gentlemen, his Friends, and the Public in
general, that he has fitted up the above old established Inn, with
good beds and excellent stabling, for their accommodation, and hopes
by liberally providing, and strict attention in every department of the
business, to merit their patronage and support.
St. Ives, Sth November, 1845.

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ticular distinction, Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer,
William .Skirving, Maurice Margerot, and Joseph Gerald,
who in the years 1792.4 were the victims of a Tory Govern -
ment persecution in Scotland, under the form of justice; that
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and will commemorate their deeds and sufferings by public
monuments in the capitals of Scotland and England.
" That, in furtherance of these objects, a subscription be
immediately entered into; and the co-operation of reformers
generally in the British empire is requested."
Our distinguished countryman, Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P.,
had the honour to preside at the public meeting where these
resolutions were carried, which was held at the Crown and
Anchor, London, on the 20th of February, 1837. Lord
Holland became a subscriber only a few days afterwards, and
we take great pleasure in transcribing the celebrated letter of
that nobleman, addressed to Mr. Hume, inclosing his sub-
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reference to the animadversions of Sir James Gibson Craig,
let Lord Holland be heard in his own words .

ACROS addresed to MR. GRIMSTONE,
ON HIS INCOMPARABLE EYE SNUFF.
G ifted of men, who by thy wondrous art,
enowned in every clime, through every part,
I n Europe's wide and civilised domain;
31 idst Asia's contless millions, and again.
S tretching from Jiffies broad and scorching shores
T o whc re the mighty Niagara roars :
0 h ! here accept this tributary lay,
N or tleem that I Can ever well repay,
E xUpt hi gratitude sincere, profound,
'S uch wondrous benefits I so long have found.
E 'en from the moment I was led to try
Y our marv'llous SNUFF, the SAVIOUR OF THE EYE!
E ase, health, and comfort, now attend my day.
S afe from the lamp's bewild'ring dazzling blaze,
N or dreading e'en the Sun's Too burning rays.
hilt, in former days, for much employ,
F eeling, not seeing : now, indeed, my joy,
F ree and unbounded, thrives without alloy 1
Sept., 1845. J. M. S.
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"South-street, March 7, 1837.
" Dear Sir,—l send you my subscription to the monuments
intended to be erected to the .memory .of five persons who
were the victims of an iniquitous sentence in Scotland, in
1793 and 1794. I do so because it seems to me an unex-
ceptionable method and a fit opportunity of recording the
disgust and abhorrence which I have always felt at there
proceedings, and at " the expediency of transporting men
among common felons for political offences," which, as Mr.
Fox justly observed, was then for the first time invented.
" If such perversion of law, or such harsh and vindictive
exercise of its powers must remain—and I fear they must—a
stain upon our annals, it is.surely right that the feelings of
indignation they excited in well-regulated minds, and which
have been confirmed by deliberate reflection, should also be
perpetuated, Such I conceive to be the object—such I hope
will be the effect—of the monument you propose, and I there-
fore feel a pleasure in offering my contribution to the plan.
" The moment seems fortunately chosen ; the Legislature
is actually employed on this very day in repealing the bar-
barous punishment for leasing making, which was so harshly
inflicted on these unfortunate men, and the country is every
day enjoying, in the labours of Parliament and the improve-
ment of its laws, the benefit of that reform which they were
persecuted for recommending and promoting.—l am, Sir,
with great regard, your obedient and obliged,
(Signed) " VASSAL HOLLAND."

THE CORN TRADE.
(From Messrs. Body's Circular.)
The number of grain-laden vessels which passed the Sound
for England from the 29th of October to the 4th of Novem-
ber were-22 wheat, 1 barley, 8 oats, 2 peas, 3 tares, 10 lin-
seed, and 2 rapeseed. The letters received from Dantzic
mention the probability of an ukase being issued by the
Polish Government prohibiting the export of rye and other
grain, except wheat. The potato disease was very prevalent
in Silesia and East Prussia, Poland, and Livonia, and some
measures of restriction on export may be expected from the
Prussian Government, but we believe confidently that wheat
will be an excepted article, and will be allowed to take its
course, both by the Russian, Russian-Polish, and Prussian
Governments. The exportation of wheat from Dantzic dur-
ing the month of October amounts to 4,333 lasts, or 45,496
quarters, of which one-fourth part went to Holland, and
the rest to England ; Belgium has taken no wheat from
Dantzic during the whole month of October. The rate of
freight at Dantzic was 6s. per quarter to London, ss. to
Newcastle, 7s. to Liverpool, all paid on the 4th of No-
vember. The price of wheat is quite as dear in Warsaw as
at Dantzic, and the price of rye 30 to 31Ih florins per kor-
zec, equal to 450 to 472 florins per last, equal to 425. to 435.
per quarter English measure and money. Some few ship-
ments are still making at Dantzic for account of proprietors
who are not satisfied with advanced prices, and 15,000 to
20,000 quarters are about to be shipped on consignment
before the winter closes the navigation for the sea-
son. The lower Baltic ntarkets present no change
of importance ; the principal collectors seem to have
fixed- 50s. as the price, which they are willing to pay
for wheat to hold over till the spring. The Mediter-
ranean markets continue in a state of excitement and
confusion ; we are informed that some cargoes of wheat at
Leghorn, loaded for England, have been re-landed—the
price of 535. there is the price which is paying here for the
same wheat in bond. The Odessa market was again rather
dearer, and 50,000 chetwerts changed hands principally to
Italian houses at one and a half rouble per chetwert ad-
vance, or 2s. per quarter; still the quoted price of 23 roubles
is too low a rate to be maintained when the Italian news
arrives, and the orders from England are received, of which
the Russian proprietors were ignorant on the 20th ult., but
of which the Italians and others in the Mediterranean
were duly informed on the 31st ult. We expect, in the
course of 14 days, to hear of an important rise of prices at
Odessa. In the Danube the rates still continue moderate,
but ships are almost wholly wanting, and money is exceed-
ingly scarce. As far as the present season is concerned it is
much too late to look to the Danube for a supply, as no ships
can reach there till the spring. We estimate that the few
vessels near the river, and those ordered from Constanti-
nople, may get away 50,000 to 60,000 quarters of all grain
before the year closes, the greater part of which is Indian
corn for Italian account, and about 20,000 quarters of wheat
for Great Britain, which has a chance of getting away.

DISCOVERY OF A NEW DIAMOND

MINE IN BRAZIL.
(From the Journal des Debats.)
We heve received from Rio de Janeiro a letter, which
gives some curious details relative to the working of a new
diamond mine recently discovered in Brazil. For some
months past the communications and commercial inter-
course witb the province of Bahia have been extraordinarily
brisk. A large number of inhabitants, speculatArs, adven-
turers, and even sugar planters, are emigrating with their
slaves to the province of Bahia, where is situate an immense
diamond mine, the produce of which is incredible. It was
discovered in October, 1844, by a slave, who in 20 days had
gathered 700 carats of diamonds, and carried them a consi-
derable distance for sale. Arrested and imprisoned, the
slave obstinately refused to disclose the locus in quo. They
therefore let him loose, and put a number of intelligent In-
dians upon his " trail. ' The latter pursued him for several
days, and found him working for the extraction of the dia-
monds not far from Caxoeira, the second city of Bahia.
Investigations were then made on a large scale along a chain
of mountains called Sincura, which have given the name to
this mine, and on the banks of the river Paraguassu, which
falls into the bay of Bahia.
The first persons who established themselves at the mine
of Sincura were chiefly convicts and murderers. They
made known their presence by fires and assassinations. The
difficulty of subsisting in the country, and the danger to
which those were exposed who proceeded thither to ex-
change diamonds for the paper-money of Brazil ,prevented
honourable merchants from entering into the trade. By
degrees, however, when the population had become more
numerous, a system of police was established by the new
colonists, and the mine was then worked upon a much
larger and more extensive scale. The population, which
only amounted in August, 1844, to 8,000 souls, distributed
over three villages, was, at the end of July, upwards of
30,000, and on the increase. The villages at present inha-
bited and cultivated are seven in number, and are named—
Paraguassu, Combucas, Chiquechique, Causu-Boa, Andrahy,
Nage, and Lancoe. The .last- named village, which is 20
leagues distant from Paraguassu, contains alone 3,000 fami-
lies and 20,000 inhabitants. The central point of the diamond
trade is Paraguassu, which, although sufficiently peopled, has
only at present twelve small houses of brick. Almost all the
miners go thither on Saturdays and Sundays to sell the
stones they have picked up during the week. They receive
in exchange different articles of consumption, arms, and ap-
parel, which are brought thither at a great expense from
Bahia. The diamonds extracted from Paraguassu are, gene-
rally speaking, of a brown colour, and of a very irregular
formation. White and light green, almost transparent on
their first extraction from the mine, distinguish those of
Lancoe. They are of an octahedal form, and are the most
in request. It is often requisite to dig three or four metres
in order to reach the cascaille or layer of the diamonds.
Diamonds are also discovered in the rocky ravines at the
bottom of the Paraguessau itself, and the streams which fall
into it.
The price of these diamonds varies, at Bahia, from 250
to 500 milreis per octave (670 f. to 1,340 f.), according to their
fineness and size. The octave is 17i carats; but the Brazi-
lian carat is 7i per cent. less than the French, which makes
the Brazilian carat about 67f. to 134 f.

MARTYRS
THE SCOTTISH POLITICALOF 1792-3-4.

The unfortunate result of Mr. Adams' motion in the Com-
mons made a deep impression. on the public mind, and par-
ticularly in Scotland. The following circumstance, however,
connected with the interesting subject, has only recently
been made known to the public, and we are persuaded that
the perusal of it will surprise many reformers of the present
day.
At a public entertainment given in Edinburgh in honour
of laying the foundation-stone of the Political Martyrs'
Monument, 21st Aug., 1844, Sir James Gibson Craig occu-
pied the chair. After dinner the chairman stated that—
" The sentence pronounced against Muir so astonished
the jury that' they met together immediately after leaving
the Court, and unanimously resolved to state to the judges
Their opinion that it was greatly beyond the crime of which
they had found him guilty; but some hot-headed zealot
having sent a letter to Nlr..Gilbert Innes, the foreman of the
jury, threatening him with assassination for having concur-
red in the verdict, it was considered imprudent by the jury
to proceed further." The veteran Baronet stated that he got
his information from one of the jury, a relative of his own,
and a man of undoubted honour and integrity.
It has since been ascertained, we believe, that Mr. Balfour
of Pilrig, who was clerk to the jury, actually drew out the
appeal to the judges, when fourteen out of the fifteen signed
it—all with the exception of Mr. Gilbert Innes. Strange,
indeed, that this important matter should have been kept a
secret in the breast of Sir James Gibson Craig for more than
half a century—and the more so when it is considered that
' he was appointed law-agent by the. Court of Justiciary for
Gerald, one of the political martyrs ; for had the circum-
stances in qaestion been furnished to Mr. Adam of Blair
Adam, when he brought the martyrs' case before the House
of Commons in March 1794, it appears pretty evident that
Pitt, the Minister of the .day. might have been compelled,
cruel as he was, to yield to an appeal to the Crown, and thus
have saved the melancholy fate of these distinguished and
patriotic men.
We regret exceedingly. to state that the venerable Sir
James Gibson Craig, who for more than half a century has
appeared in the minds of his fellow-countrymen as the " beau
ide.:l' of a Scottish reformer, should have thought it neces-
sary, ort the occasion to which we have alluded, to throw dis-
credit on the mighty cause for which the lives and fortunes of
' Muir and his' associates were consecrated. He ought to have
known better and acted otherwise, and not attempted to
state that great pains had been taken to represent
the subscribers to the martyrs' monument as the
friends of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suf-
frage, and to add, in these remarkable words, " Now, I
think it due to the memory of Lord Holland, the Duke of
Norfolk, and the Duke of Bedford, and many other sub-
scribers, to say that we never entertained them; we have
always disclaimed them." Such a statement was altogether
erroneous and uncalled for, and nothing could have been
more calculated to. create disunion, or to throw over them
the "wet blanket." The monument in honour of the martyrs
—now fortunately completed—in the Calton hill Burying
Ground, was subscribed for by reformers generally, without
regard to any particular creed or class, who gave their money
for the express purpose of . erecting monuments both in
London and Edinburgh, on the 'principles embodied in the
following nobly-expressed resolutions:—
"That while as Reformers we hail with satisfaction the
progress of the great principles of good government, and
confidently anticipate their.complete and not distant triumph,
Il we look back with admiration and gratitude to the heroic
conduct of those intrepid patriots, who, in days less happy
than our own, were advocates of the rights, and martyrs in
the cause, of the people.
"That among such patriots we recognise as worthy of par-

The present course of exchange at Bahia is 365 refs for
franc. _ - _

The two English steamers of May and June brought
about 5,500,000 francs' worth of diamonds from this mine.
During the months of June and July the mine yielded
nearly 1,450 carats per day. It is estimated to have pro-
duced, during the six months of its working, nearly 400,000
Portuguese carats (about 18,300,000 f.), of which three-fifths
were sent to England, another fifth to France and Ham-
burgh, whilst the last fifth awaits buyers at Rio de Janeiro
and Bahia.

Not all the lapidaries in Europe would be sufficient to po-
lish only one-half of the produc'e of the Sincura mine ; thus
a depreciation of that value is expected, which gives rise to
the most hazardous speculations.
Brazil, which has the privilege of supplying the trade with
diamonds, did not produce annually, before the discovery of
the Sincura mine, more than six or seven kilogrammes,
which cost more than a million for the expenses of working;
thus the price, even in the rough state, has always been very
high. Hitherto, no very large diamonds have been found
at Sincura. There are very few in the world weighing more
than 20 grammes. The largest diamond is that of Agra,
weighing 133 grammes ; that of the Raja of Matan, in Bor-
neo, weighs 78 grammes; that of the Great Mogul, 63
grammes ; and that of France, called the " Regent," 28
grammes 89 centigrammes; but it is of a very pretty shape
and perfect in every respect. Before being polished it weighed
67 grammes, and cost two years' labour.
The mine of Sincura presents the spectacle of an indepen-
dent colony in the bosom of the mother country. Hitherto
the Government has taken no steps to possess itself of the
direction of this trade, which promises to be so abundant a
source of wealth to Bahia, and it will be perhaps induced to
sanction the regulations formed by the inhabitants them-
selves for the working of the mine, which already covers a
superfices of more than 30 leagues.

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long. The chain is not in the slightest degree tarnished, but
when found it was coiled up about half way. The bullock
was bred by William Woods, Esq., of Staplegrove, near
Taunton, and grazed by the lateV. Stuckey, Esq., of Langport.
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AN OLD OFFENDER.

An offender is now in the hands of justice, whose his-
tory presents a series of acts of address in wrong-doing
which have been rarely paralleled. This delinquent, by,
name Rioustel, was barn of respectable parents, and received
a good education. He was placed as a clerk in a mer-
chant's house, in the Rue St. Denis, and was conducting
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merit. Disgusted with the hardships and restraint of
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labour in the island of Oleron for seven years. After remain-
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illness with such effect that he was removed to the hospital
of the Val de Grace. On entering this establishment his
first and only thought was how to get away from it. His
malady seamed to increase, until he took to his bed, and pre-
tended that he was assured he should never leave the house
alive. By his mild and apparently resigned manners and
conduct lie gained the favour and confidence of the person in
charge of the infirmary, who used to sit up with
him. On the 22d of Nrovember, 1843, he accomplished
another evasion in the following way :—Having, by
means hitherto undiscovered, procured and concealed
in his bed a bottle of brandy, he seduced his friend the
keeper to drink so much of it that he became dead
drunk. In this state Rioustel took off the man's upper
garments, and clothed himself with them, laying their owner
in hiauwn place in bed. Then assuming the gait and ap-
pearance of the deluded keeper, he walked unmolested out of
the hospital, and was no more heard of until Friday last,
when he was arrested on coming out of a jeweller's shop in
the, Rue de Clery, on a charge of having stolen a bank-note
for I,ooof. from M. Thore, director of the Government
Granary at La Villette. Since he has this last time been
in custody, whether from . conviction that his case had
become hopeless, or from bravado, he has been very com-
municative, and given the details of his whole career.. In
addition to the above, he has avowed himself to be the
person who, in March last, enticed the young actress of the
Theatre des Varietes from her residence in the Cite Trevise,
and having seated her in a coffee-house, left her under a
feigned pretence, hurried back to her lodgings, sent her femme
de chambre to seek her mistress at another place, where she
was sure not to fmd her, and having thus got both out of the
way, robbed the apartments of all the deceived actress's
jewels and other valuables. He it was also who, towards
the, close of the last winter, at a ball, made an acquaintance
with a young man who, after they had supped together, in-
vited Rioustel to his own apartment, to finish the night over
a goblet of the fine old rum sent him as a present from Ja-
maica, of which the unsuspicious host took so much himself
that he fell fast asleep, and his guest took French leave of him,
carrying away a valuable diamond pin, a gold watch and
chain, and 2001. in money. Rioustel, in making this con-
fession, took some credit to himself for forbearance, saying
there were 4001. in the drawer from which he took the 200 f.,
but he had left half, remembering that the quarter.day was
near at hand, and he could not distress the young man so far
as to leave him without the means of paying his rent. He
has narrated other instances of his audacity and address, but
they are so similar in character and circumstances that we
will not weary our readers by repeating them.— Galignani.
A MISTAKEN VOCATION.

Christian Urban, first alto of the Royal Academy of
Music, expired at Paris last week. He was a consummate
musician, and highly esteemed in the musical world. Short,
ill-shaped, invariably wearing a sky-blue coat, and dining
every day at the same table at the Café Anglais, Urban was
well known for his originality. But what, above all, distin-
guished him was his extreme devotion, the minute practices
of which he scrupulously followed. He went to mass every
day of the week, and on Sundays attended every service.
At night he brought with him to the Opera orchestra pious
books, which he read with unction whenever he was per-
mitted to quit his bow for a moment. You will ask why so
devout an artist had engaged at the Opera. He deplored it, but
had been obliged to enter the band. Urban had at first devoted
his talents to sacred music, but it had not yielded him
enough to live upon, and necessity had thrown him into the
dramatic world a theatrical musician. All the resources of
his mind were employed in reconciling his ideas with the
exigencies of his profession. Whilst accompanying with his
violin the song and the dance, he had remained a complete
stranger to the spectacle, and to its pomp and fascinating
attractions. He had made it a rule to keep his head con-
stantly bent on his chest, and his eyes lowered on his music
or prayer•book. On no account would he have infringed the
duty he had imposed on himself, for the slightest infraction
would have been to him an enormous sin. Never did his
eyes venture across the proscenium ; never did he see the
end of the foot,.or the lower part of the leg of a dancer, even
when she executed her liveliest pirouettes or most celestial
entrechats. He had a holy horror of such abominations. We
do not exaggerate; it is literally true that Christian Urban
was many years in the Opera orchestra without ever having
seen the stage. He was unacquainted with the cantatrices
as with the danseuses. One day, in a drawing-room, lie
met a young and pretty woman, who addressed him as a
person whom one often sees, and complimented him on his
talents in flattering terms. " Who is that lady ?" asked
Urban. "What, don't you know her?" replied the master
of the house. " I have never seen her." " Impossible !
look at her well." "In vain do I look at her," reiterated
Urban ; " I assure you that I have never seen her before."
He told the truth, and it was necessary to name Madame
Dorus, whom he actually saw for the first time, although he
had heard her sing for the last ten years. Urban knew no
faces on the Opera stage, and knew as little of the plays as of
the performers; he carefully avoided paying the least atten-
tion to those works of Satan, and the pious meditations
into which he was plunged prevented his hearing the words
of the lyric drama. Several modem works have exhi-
bited on the stage the ceremonies and pomp of the
Church. Urban considered it a profanation, and shud-
dered when he heard the chorus utter Church music.
One evening, whilst a procession moved across the stage,
he was seen to kneel in the orchestra, cross himself, and
pray with joined hands, as if he had been at Notre Dame.
At the moment death struck him, Urban was about
to retire on a pension, and devote himself to monastic life,
which promised him unmingled felicity. He has died, leav-
ing the reputation of a very intelligent man, who, during 25
years never missed a single performance at the Opera, and
never saw Guillaume Tell, Robert le Diable, the Huguenots,
the juice, Sylphide, nor Giselle—of a musician of the Opera
band who was faithfully at his post every night during those
25 years, and who, though provided with excellent eyes,
never saw Mademoiselles Falcon, Nourrit, Taglioni, Madame
Stoltz, Duprez, Carlotta Grisi, or any other of the gods and
goddesses of either song or ballet.—Paris paper.

Some apprehensions were felt of heavy derange-
ments upon the Hull Stock Exchange in the early part of
the week, but we are happy to ascertain, from well-informed
quarters, that they are likely to prove groundless. Rtimour,
with her hundred tongues, did some mischief; and the terrors
of small speculators had a tendency at one time to create a
local panic. But gradually more temperate councils began
to prevail; and at present there is a prospect of a very
general re-action in favour of the holders of local stock.--
Hull Advertiser.

ENTERTAINMENT AT SUDELEY CASTLE.—On Mon-
day, the whole of the aged poor in the borough of Winch-
comb not receiving parochial relief, were invited by Messrs.
Dent, the lords of the manor, to a substantial entertainment
at the Castle. The fare consisted of a plentiful supply of
roast beef and plum pudding, to which the old people did am-
ple justice, and cheered by the beauty of the scenery of the
old castle, and the hospitality and affability of their kind en.
tertainers, the day was spent with a degree of enjoyment to
which many of them had long been strangers. That their
bounty might be equally dispensed, the Messrs Dent caused
an abundant meal and et ceteras to be sent to the homes of
such as were unable from age and infirmities to walk to the
Castle.— Gloucestershire Chronicle.
WELLS.—MENDIP ACCESSIBLE FOR RAILWAY
PURPOSES.—Mr. Samuda, the celebrated engineer, attended
a public meeting in this town on Friday last, to report on the
practicability_ of traversing the Mendip range with railway
carriages. He stated that having personally inspected the
ground, and examined the sections and levels, he saw nothing
whatever to prevent the construction of a line, without
cutting or tunnelling, on the atmospheric principle, across
the Mendip-hill, at a cost not exceeding the average, that
such line would be perfectly safe and convenient both for pas-
sengers and goods, and a speed of seventy miles an hour
might be attained.— Sherborne Journal.
KINGSWINFORD. COLLIERY EXPLOSION. 9 Last
week some men went into the shaft of one of the pits be-
longing to the Oak Farm Company, for the purpose of re-
pairing the same. In consequence of foul air having ga-
thered in the shaft, the men, as we are informed, found it
necessary to retreat, and immediately after they were safely
' landed the fire damp exploded. The mouth of the shaft was
covered over as soon as possible, to prevent the air descending,
in order to allay the progress of the flames. On Monday
last several men assembled on the pit bank for the purpose of
opening the mouth of the shaft, and having done so, a tre-
mendous explosion took place, which blew the pulley out of
the pit frame, and injured several of the bystanders and those
employed, but not seriously.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
THE Manor or EXETER. The magnanimous
Bishop of Exeter has, it is said, refused to countersign the
testimonials of the Rev. G. C. Davies, the late respected
vicar of Charles, because one of the three beneficed clergy
men by whom they were previously signedisthe "evhas had Johna
llatchard,with whom our Right Reverend Diocesan
personal quarrel ! As the Bishop
to et his testimonials
has onlyg
to- his Lordship than
has nothing to say against
Mr. Davies, that gentleman
signed by some divine less obnoxious
of Bishop Phillpotts has been much canvassed, in
Mr. Hatchard, and he will then be able to pass muster. The
amiability
consequence of this last charitable act.—Plymouth Journal.
THE STANHOPE MEMOIRS.—We are requested to
state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has
this day published a second edition of " Lady Hester Stan-
hope's Memoirs," Related by Herself, in 3 vols., with por-
traits,sm, price 31s. 6d. bound, which can now be had of
booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published :-2.
at Haddon Hall, edited by the Baroness de Cala-
Eall/4l,eiii Evenings
Cala-
brella, and superbly embellished with twenty-four steel en-
gravings by the first artists, from designs by G. Cattermole,
.Esq., 1 vol. Bvo., richly bound, 31s. 6d.-3. Confessions of a
Water Patient, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., 2s. 6d.
—4. The fourth volume of the Nelson Letters and
Dispatches, Bvo., 155.-5. Memoirs of Prince Charles Stuart,
commonly called " The Young Pretender," with Notices of ,
the Rebellion in 1745, by C. L. Klose, Esq., 2 vols. Bvo., 245.
—G. A third edition of the Crescent and the Cross, by Eliot
Warburton, Esq., 2 vols., 21s. hound.-7. Diary and Memoirs
of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George 1., now first published
from the originals, 2 vols. Bvo., with portrait, 28s. bound.
MELTON MOWBRAY.—On Monday, the 10th inst.,
Mr. Charles Frow, a Railway Surveyor, was brought up in
the custody of Superintendent Condon, before the Rev. G. E.
Gillett, and fully committed for trial at the next assizes for
pointing a pistol and threatening to shoot William Biddle,
when h (Biddle) was attempting to prevent Mr. Frow from
surveying a field on the estate of the Earl of Harborough,
in the parish of Saxby, on Saturday, the Bth inst. Mr. Frow
was subsequently liberated on bail, himself in the sum of
1 1001., and two others in 50/. each, for his appearance to
answer the charge at the assizes.—Leicestershire Mercury.