The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE

MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.

When Mr. Justice Patteson the other day defined
manslaughter to the grand jury at Nottingham, he
was dealing with more interests than he dreamed of.
He was not only disposing of the cases of the respective
individuals who stood accused of the crime in question,
but he was also, it seems, most thoughtlessly annihi-
latinsz the law of a very great constitutional tribunal.
He forgot that coroners' juries had a character to lose.
Ho forgot that he was making ducks and drakes of
the legal reputation of very high and learned
authorities. He overlooked the fact that " crowner's
'quest law" had been before him. There was not only
a law for him to expound, but a decision to reverse.
The case required nut only learning, but delicacy.
Reputations were at stake—authorities were in peril
—much legal wisdom was exposed to ambiguous mis.
construction. It was an occasion for wary and
tender walking, yet Mr. Justice Patteson went, as
the boys say, "slap at it." He walked straight
through the question, as if there were no such thing
as " crowner s 'quest law" in rerun natura. He was
as provokingly silent about the legal speculations of
the juries who had committed Messrs. Lightfoot and
Raven as if the jurymen had neither the intention nor
jurisdiction to decide legal questions at all ; as if, in
short, they had been actually and physically shorn of
all perception and compreherAon whatever, beyond
that required for the mere ascertainment of facts, and
had had no idea that such a thing 23 law had,evei
existed.

Poor Mr. Justice Patteson ! What has he suffered
in return! Or, rather, poor unfortunate " public "
for the public it is that, as usual, has most particularly
to pay the piper. The unhappy " public,' in common
with Mr. Justice Patteson, has been visited with a
pamphlet-defence of the juror's law, signed by ten of
the jurors who sat on the inquests upon the late Mr.
Dean and the late Mr. Bolestridge, and vindicating,
with as much display of learning and acumen as can
be mustered for the occasion the claim of all
" crowners"quests" in general, and of these two
" crowners"quests" in particular, to the character
and functions of judges learned in the law. All this
weight of learning the public, or we who represent
the public, are now expected to read ; and that for
two reasons—namely, first, in order that we may for
the future know and recognise better the legal weight
and authority of coroners' juries; and, secondly, that
we may have the satisfaction of thinking, as often as
we travel on ill-regulated railways, that if we are
annihilated by a concussion, or smashed by a break-
down, the jury that sits upon us will probably com-
mit the engine for manslaughter, and defend the
legality of the course by a pamphlet. This would, of
course, be truly consoling-.
We have now before us the pamphlet of the ag-
grieved and offended jurors who committed Mr. Light-
foot and Mr. Raven for manslaughter on account of
the late accident on the Midland Counties Railway.
The bare fact of its publication forms a startling epoch
in the annals of coroners' juries. A coroner's jury
bandying law with one of her Majesty's justices of as-
size is itself a splendid novelty. The daring bravery
of the attempt is alone almost enough to attract ad-
miration and sympathy to the men who have ori-
ginated it. Let us, at any rate, give the " crowner's
'quest" men fair play.
But the quarrel between the judge and the jury,
setting apart the question of the wounded majesty—
the " spreta injuria forme"—of the latter is, unhap-
pily, plain and straightforward enough. A collision
occurs on the Midland Counties Railway, from a mis•
understanding between the officers of the company.
Death ensues. Juries sit on the bodies. They exa-
mine the facts for several days together. They have
proof that great deal too much trouble is taken by
Mr. Lightfoot, and none at all by Mr. Raven (he
having, in fact, no autharity to interfere with the busi-
ness), to prevent a collision. But, by reason of a blun-
&ring, and certainly most unpardonable, mistake, of
Ir.Lightfoot's, the collision occurs. The j uries, wishing
to punish, find that the mistake is manslaughter, and
that the excessive trouble taken by Mr. Lightfoot
arose from a " a want of due diligence." Mr. Justice
Patteson comes down and tells the grand jury that
manslaughter means no such thing at all as any error
of judgment—that if a man has honestly done all he
can to prevent accident, and yet is unfortunately mills
taken, this is no crime, and cannot possibly be man-
slaughter. So the bill is ignored. And the judge
adds, that if the misunderstanding could be proved to
have arisen necessarily from a want of the proper
means and machinery for carrying on the railway,
then, of course, " such a fact would be decidedly in
favour of the accused—the blame would rest on a
higher party." " He," Mr. Justice Patteson. " did
not see that such a charge was made out against the
company ; but if it were, it could not be used as an
argument against, but in favour of, the prisoners."
This we take to be the plain, common-sense view
of the matter ; and if the juries, instead of speculating
whether Mr. Lightfoot's over-anxious, but mistaken
care could by any means be brought under the defini-
tion of manslaughter—a definition which describes
the crime as a want of due diligence—had only col-
lected facts to prove that the charge alluded to against
the company, was, in truth, supported, they would have
done more service to railway travellers and railway
proprietors than by the publication of 500 legal (or
illegal) pamphlets.
Their law-learning, indeed, is somewhat funny.
Their object is to prove Mr. Lightfoot guilty of man-
slataghter, in opposition to Mr. Justice Patteson, who
affirms that "no man can be indicted for manslaughter
for a mere mistake or error in judgment." The pam-
phleteers, therefore, are very learned in the outset in
defining what manslaughter is. They tell us it is "a
want of due caution," a " want of due diligence," and
the like. This, however, is not at first sight very
much at variance with the judge's law; and as all
they can prove against the accused really only amounts
to " error" in judgment, they are obliged to quarrel
a little with the law which defines error to be no
crime. They, therefore, proceed. Their reference to
" the books" are as facetious as they are overwhelm-
ing. " When a man tileing a house lets fall a tile
knowingly, and without giving warning, and so kills
a man, it is manslaughter." Therefore, say the pam-
phleteers, Mr. Justice Patteson is wrong ; for there
is a palpable similarity between dropping a tile know-
ingly from a high station to kill a man, and dropping
down a railroad oneself from a high station, as Mr.
Lightfoot did, to prevent people coming up it to their
destruction. " So, if a man have a dangerous ox,"
continue the pamphleteers, " and he does not use all
due diligence to keep hium up, and the ox gets loose
and kills a man, it is manslaughter." And by parity
of reasoning, we presume, they would conclude that
if the ox is, for greater caution, tied up, e.g., by the
heels instead of the head, and it turns out that the ox
in question is a knowing animal, and, unlike other
oxen, is able to untie his own heels, whereas he could
not have untied his own head, and so gets loose, it is
manslaughter (not in the ox, but) in the man that
tied him up, to use this mistaken diligence in doing so.
Mr. Lightfoot, they go on to say, was in error.
He " mainly erred" going down to Baotou ; but

error ig proved by the ox and tile cases to be the same
thing. s " knnwing. and wilful negligence ;" ergo, the-
crime of manslaughter was committed. Again, Mr.
Lightfoot was -" in error" in thinking that the ob-
struction on the up-line would be removed in time;
ergo, he was guilty of manslaughter, for manslaughter
is, not error, but want of diligence. Such is the logic
of the railway juries.
We recommend these jurymen, who place so strong
a reliance on their own versions of the precedents of
the broken tile and the vicious ox, to stick to their
lasts. They will take nothing but hard knocks by a
collision" with Mr. Justice Patteson. If, indeed,
they hal traced the cause of the "misunderstanding"
in question to its real source, and not attributed it to
a mere " want of diligence" in this or that individual,
and that especially in a case where the real fault was
an anxious excess of diligence—an excess and an
anxiety probably caused by the want of sufficient force
for a due and regular organisation—they might have
done service; as it is, they ars only making them-
selves ridiculous.—Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Sarah Phillips and John Lewis were brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted
to rob a gentleman on London-bridge.
The woman, it appeared, from a City policeman's
statement, left the male prisoner to follow the gen-
tleman, who evidently wished to be released from her
importunities. After having met with a decided re-
pulse, she returned to the gentleman and tried to get
at his pocket, and the policeman went up and asked
him whether he had lost anything. He replied,
upon searching his pocket, that he had not been
robbed, but he said that he might have been robbed
of a pocket-book containing 501. The policeman
having known the woman to be a thief, and having seen
her for three hours about the neighbourhood in inti-
mate conversation with the male prisoner and another
man, took her. and the former into custody.
Sarah Phillips declared that she had come to town
very lately from Bristol, in the expectation of being
engaged by the celebrated Mr. Moses, in the tailoring
line, but she was unfortunately disappointed, and she
then determined to get into work as well as she could.
The LORD MAYOR—How did you happen to look
for business in the tailoring line on London-
bridge ?—Sarah Phillips replied that she had acci-
dentally met a gentleman, who entered into conver-
sation with her, and appointed to meet her on Lon-
don-bridge, and when she was speaking to him the
policeman interfered and improperly accused her of
an intention to commit a robbery—a thing which
never entered into her contemplation.
John Lewis said he was passing at the time the
policeman took the woman into custody, and he just
stopped to see what was the matter, when he was
charged as an accomplice in a robbery.
The policeman stated that Lewis attempted to
escape when he perceived that the woman was ap-
prehended.
The LORD MAYOR said he clearly saw how the
thing was planned between the two prisoners and
their friend, who had escaped, but the evidence was
not strong enough against John Lewis to justify the
committal of that prisoner. His Lordship, however,
thought it necessary to mention that he expected to
see Lewis again at the bar. As for Sarah Phillips,
his Lordship was sure there was quite enough to
authorise her committal to Bridewell.

Committed accordingly. ----
A man named Thomas Evans was charged under
the following circumstances :
A respectable stationer stated that the prisoner,
who had been employed by the persons engaged to
print for him, called and gave up a duplicate for the
amount of money received for a quantity of paper
delivered to the firm in whose service the prisoner
was to he printed. The paper had been delivered
but a short time before it was sent to the pawn-
broker's shop and pledged for twelve shillings, and
the prisoner had left the ticket for the purpose of
giving the owner an opportunity of redeeming it
from its discreditable situation.

The prisoner stated that the printers by whom he
was employed were in the habit of sending him out
with paper just received from the stationers to pawn-
broker's shops for the supply of their immediate
'necessities. On the present occasion he had re-
ceived the prosecutor's paper to put in pledge in con-
sequence of his employers' inability to pay him his
wages, and he thought it was most proper for him to
deliver the duplicate to the owners of the property.
The LORD MAYOR—Have your employers always
taken the paper so pledged out of pawn ? Prisoner
—Always. They furnished me with money to take
it out.
The LORD MAYOR—Have you frequently done
business in this way ? The prisoner—l have been
three or four different times a day to the same pawn-
broker, Mr. Grant, of London-wall, with paper for
my employers, and I took this paper in yesterday.
The assistant to the pawnbroker said that he knew
perfectly well the person of the prisoner as an
habitual customer, and that on one day the prisoner
might have pawned, at three several tunes, reams or
paper at the shop.
The complainant—Does not your Lordship con-
sider that the pawnbroker is very culpable for taking
such an article as paper from such a man as the pri-
soner, who, he must have known, could not be the
proprietor
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly ; Ido think him
most culpable.
His LORDSHIP then directed an officer to desire the
presence of one of the firm to whom the prisoner
alluded as having employed him.
One of the partners in the printing firm attended,
and stated, in answer to questions from the Lord
Mayor, it was true that upon some occasions they
had, to answer an immediate emergency, sent reams
of paper which they had received from persons who
employed them to the pawnbrokers, but in a few
hours they invariably redeemed the property. With
respect to the present paper the prisoner had uttered
a falsehood, for he had been sent for the paper in the
morning, and he had never returned from the com-
plainant's.
The LORD MAYOR—You owe him wages, do you
not ? Witness—About five shillings.
The prisoner declared that the sum due to him was
considerably more.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall bind over the prisoner
in his own recognisances to appear here if the pro-
perty be not released ; and I shall expect his employers
to appear also. Probably many persons who pawn
goods which are not their own do not know the se-
rious extent to which they are liable. Now I can
tell such persons that, by the Bth section of the 39th
and 40th George 111., cap. 99, it is enacted that, if
any person pawn any goods or chattels the property
of another, without being employed to do so by the
owner, it shall be in the power of any justice of the
peace to inflict upon the person convicted of so pawn-
ing a penalty not exceeding M. and the full value of
the goods, and. in case of the non-payment of such
penalty, to commit the offender to hard labour for
three calendar months, and if, within three days be-
fore the expiration of that period, the forfeiture be not
paid, the justice may order the convicted person to be
publicly whipped.
This piece of information made a sensible impres-
sion upon several persons in court.
His LORDSHIP said, in conclusion, that he hoped
the Act from which he had quoted would not he for-
gotten by those who might, for a temporary accom-
modation, be tempted to violate it, and therefore be
subject to all the consequences.

MINING IN 1844.
(From the Mining Journal.)
The transactions in mining shares during the Jast
twelve months have so far exceeded the average busi-
ness of many years, that a general review of the
mines at the present time may be interesting to the
mining speculator. The increase of business in this
description of property may, perhaps, in a great
measure, be accounted for by the abundance of un-
employed capital in the money market, and the little
interest paid by Government securities ; but we
flatter ourselves it has been also owing to the in•
creased confidence of the public in mining property,
when conducted on fair and legitimate principles.
The dividends paid in the last twelve months on
twelve of the principal mines have been as follows :
East Wheal Rose Lead Mine, 46,4001., or 3621. 10s.
per share—original outlay 50/. per share ; Botallack,
10,000/., or 100/. per share ; Fowey Consols, about
10,000/. ; Par Consols, about 10,000/. ; South Cara-
don, 9,600/., or 751. per share, upon an original outlay
of Si.; West Caradon, 5,000/. ; South Wheal Basset,
7,3601.; Tresavean, 4,5601.; Trethellan, 4,2001.;
Brewer, 3,600/. ; Tamar Consols, 4,500/. ; Tincroft,
3,oool.—making a total of dividends paid in twelve
mines, of 121,220/. ; an average of 13 per cent. on
the market value of the mines, and of more than 100
per cent. on the original outlay. Besides the above, di-
vidends have been paid on Wheal Providence, 1,2801.;
IL:Ambush, 1,0001. (the regular dividends on this mine
amount to 6,0001. a year; they have been less this
year, owing to the erection of a large steam-engine,
which will soon be completed, and dividends resumed;
there are large bodies of ore in reserve in this mine,
and it is to be hoped more of it will be raised in
future, than is sufficient to pay the agents' salaries);
Cern Brea, 3,0001.; East Wheal Crofty, 1,600/.;
East Pool, 512/. ; and in other mines of- minor im-
portance. The dividends in Tresavean were tempo-
rarily suspended in September last, the mine having
up to that period paid, without intermission, 445,000/.
profit to the shareholders. Trethellan dividends were
also suspended at the same time, after having, without
any original outlay by the adventurers, paid 38,400/.
profit since 1837. The dividends in both mines, we
understand, will be resumed in January next.
Of mines, some of good promise, and others coming
into a profitable state of working, after having large
sums of money expended upon them—there are, of
the latter, West Wheal Jewel, leaving a small profit ,

ill

there has been 50,000/. laid out in opening levels,
driving cross-cuts, &c., to facilitate future operations
in this mine, and as there is said to be a large reserve
,of ore standing, we hope, after eight years' patience,
the shareholders will soon reap the benefit of it. Stray
Park and Camborne Veen, leaving a profit, outlay
43,000/.; two months since a course of ore, worth
701. per fathom, was discovered at the 100 fathom
level at Camborne Wean, the one being in whole
ground, from surface downwards. Treleigh Consols,
outlay 30,0001., now leaving a profit of 4001.
a month. Wheal Seaton, outlay 2,4001., leaving a
profit, but not yet paid a dividend. Callington
(formerly Redmoor), outlay 15,000/., now returning
sixty tons of lead per month, and paying cost; a
copper lode has been discovered in this mine, from
which great things are expected. North Wheal
Rose, outlay 1,600/, three of the East Rose lodes
hare been cut in this mine, hut not yet deep enough ;
from one lode, however, twelve fathoms only from the
surface, thirty-two tons of lead have been raised.
Penhallow Moor, outlay about 4,0001.; this is a very
large sett, and will require a large outlay to bring it
into a profitable state of working ; twenty tons
of lead have been raised. New Quay, out-
lay, about 4,0001., now paying cost. Bedford
United, outlay 9,0001., leaving a profit of 5001. a
month, and will pay a dividend of 5 per share in
February next. Trelawney Silver-Lead Mine, near
Liskeard, outlay about 1,500/., nearly paying cost,
with a prospect of soon paying a dividend. Caradon
Consols, near West Caradon, outlay about 4,000/.
Tokenburv,y outlay, 12,000/. ; and Trenen Consols
(formerly Wheal Neptune), the ores of this mine are
very rich. Of young mines of great promise, so far
as they are developed, are the Caradon Mines, Go-
namena, Wheal St. (leer, Cradick Moor, the Caradon
United Mines, St. Austle Consols, &c., in the eastern
district; and Wheal Acland, Wheal Catherine,
Pcncorse, Wheal Hope, and Rose Consols lead mines.
The greatest advances in prices of shares have been
in East Rose, 1,000/. to 1,500/. ; North Rose, 20/. to
70/.; Tamar Consols, 6/. to 9/. (when at 6/. there
were only 6,000 shares, now there are upwards of
9,000); West Caradon, 250/. to 800/. ; Bedford
United, Si. to 10/. ; Trelawney, 20/. to 1201. ; Caradon
Mines, 1/. to 80/. ; Gonamena, 1/. to 1201. ; Callington,
12/. to 25/. ; Cradick Moor, 1/. to 70/.; East Wheal
Crofty, 300/. to .5001.—a dividend of 25/. per share is
shortly expected here.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
MEDICAL ADVICE.

There cannot be a grosser delusion than this. It
is only because Doctors, in order to make a trade of
medicine, use poisons and anti-medicinal preparations
as medicines for the cure of diseases, that "advice," as
it is called, becomes necessary ; but if you do away
with poisons or anti-medicinal preparations, and only
take that which is proper and good, and which acts in
accordance with the laws of Nature, then all advice
becomes unnecessary. This is the reason that all true
Hygeists are their own Doctors, and laugh at what
Doctors term "advice." Whenever they feel pain of
any kind they have recourse to the Vegetable Univer-
sal Medicine, which they can regulate without fear,
so as to produce proper evacuations ; hence the fact of
staunch Hygeists in some cases taking twenty, thirty,
and even forty pills at a dose, thereby proving the
Universality of the Medicine, as in the case of Lady
Sophia Grey, for disease of the spine, Sir Richard
Sutton's son, for consumption, living monuments to
attest the fact, and thousands of others. But with the
poisons of the Doctors, such tis prussic acid, opium,
arsenic, deadly nightshade, &c., &c., if you take even
half a grain too much, death is the consequence ; and
therefore, to those persons who are, from a state of
ignorance, obliged by Doctors' t eatrnent to make
use of such poisons, " advice," of course, becomes
necessary. It is by giving advice that Doctors make
a trade of medicine ; and hence their violent and
unjust opposition to Mr. Morison's system, because
it does away with all mystery, and enables every man
to become his own Doctor. This should never be for-
gotten by the public.
Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British Col-
lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf
of the body of Hygeists, who contend, that, since all
diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of
the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Uni-
versal Medicine, which being composed of innocuous
ingredients, may be taken by any person without the
aid of a Doctor.

THE ARMY.
(From the Limerick Chronicle, Dec. 28.)
The late Colonel Battersby, who died at his resi-
dence, Listoke, county Louth, last week, served with
the Bth Regiment in the campaign of Egypt, after-
wards in the West Indies, till the expulsion of the
French from Martinique. On the breaking out of
the last American war, he was appointed to the com-
mand of the Glengarry (Canadian) Fencibles, and
distinguished himself in the force under Sir John
Prevost ; and on the conclusion of peace he was pre-
sented by the Legislature and House of Representa-
tives of Upper Canada with their marked thanks, and
with a sword of great valtip, cnr hi. eArulnet and ser-
vices during the war. Upon his return to England,
the late Duke of York placed him in command of the
64th Regiment, then at Gibraltar, but from which
ill-health obliged him to retire.

The 14th depot re-embarked at Kingstown on the
20th instant on board her Alajesty's steam-vessel Dee,
Lieut. Driver, R.N., which sailed for Liverpool same
day. Strength-16 sergeants, 1 acting sergeant-
major, 6 drummers, 12 corporals, 212 privates, 96
soldiers' wives, and 48 children—nine invalids left in
Dublin.

11th Hussars.—Head- quarters, Dundalk. Strength
—5 sergeant-majors, 16 sergeants, 211 troop horses,
6 trumpeters, 5 farriers, 241 rank and file, 47 officers'
chargers, and 5 troops. Belfast-1 troop, consisting
of Captain Douglas, Lieuts. Tynte and buncombe,
1 troop sergeant, 2 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, 1 farrier,
46 rank and file, 47 troop horses, and 7 officers'
chargers.
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Caher.—A de-
tachment of 1 sergeant, and 10 rank and file, arrived
in Killaloe, from this garrison, and occupy billets , a
detachment of 1 sergeant and 10 rank and file ar-
rived at Nenagh, from this garrison, and occupy
billets.

2d Dragoon Guards, Longford.—Half a troop is
ordered to march for Mohill ; a lieutenant and half
a troop is ordered to proceed to Ballinamore, to be
stationed.

Royal Artillery, Portobello Barracks, Dublin.—
Major Rawnsly's company, 9th battalion, stationed in
detachments at Shannon-bridge, Bannagher, Kee-
logue, Meelick, and forts on the Shannon, is under
orders to march for Dublin. Captain Tylden's corn.
parry 9th battalion will relieve it from the forts at
Lough Swilly and Foyle. Major Harrison's com-
pany, Bth battalion, will embark by steam-vessel at
Dublin, for Cork, there to relieve Captain Stokes's
company, 6th battalion, ordered to join head-quarters
at Woolwich.

16th Regiment, Cork.—Two companies under
Major Brand embarked at Kingstown on board her
Majesty's steam-vessel Rhadamanthus, and joined
head-quarters at Cork. Strength, 10 sergeants,
1 drummer, 9 corporals, 172 privates, 34 women,
23 children.

A company of the 34th Regiment arrived at
Carrick-on-Shannon from Athlone, on Christmas-
day, to be stationed in aid of the civil authorities.
33d depot, Cork.—Effective strength-14 sergeants,
1 sergeant-major, 4 drummers, and 280 rank and file.
Recruiting-2 sergeants, and 16 ditto.
Two companies of the 54th Regiment, from Mullin-
gar, have marched to Ballinamore and Mohill, county
Leitrim, in support of the civil power.
The 32d, at Dublin ; 54th, at Mullingar ; 60th, at
Fermoy ; and 61st, at Buttevant, send recruiting
parties-32d to Kells, 54th to Dunbar, 60th to Fat-
hard, and 81st to Macroom.
The 35th depOt at Nenagh, 38th depot at Boyle,
77th depot at Waterford, 82d depot at Tralee, and
90th depOt at Clonmel, will send recruiting parties
respectively-35th to Tulla, county Clare ; 38th to
Mohill and Strokestown, 77th to New Ross, 82d to
Abbeyfeale and Killarney, and 90th to Caher and
Clogheen.
The depots Ist and 2d battalions of the Royal, at
Clare Castle and Enniskillen, will send out recruiting
parties to Enniskillen and Manorhamilton.
Lieutenant C. B. Crause, Cape Mounted Riflemen,
who was sentenced to be cashiered by court-martial
held at Graham's Town, has been pardoned by the
Queen, in consequence of the recommendation of the
Court. Ensign Frazer, Cape Rifles, who was tried by
Court-martial the same time, is dismissed the service.
Of the Royal Marines four rank and file are em-
barked at Cove on board her Majesty's steam-vessel
Stromboli, for Carrick Island, River Shannon, there
to be stationed, relieving a similar detachinent of the
same corps, ordered to return to Spike Island, to
join head-quarters.
The 72d Highlanders, which lately embarked for
Gibraltar, never before served in that garrison, or
any other Mediterranean station ; neither has the re-
giment been employed in the West Indies or Ame-
rica ; notwithstanding the regiment has been in ex-
istence for the last 66 years. The services of the
72d have been up to the present confined to eastern
stations. It was in India for 16 years, from April
1782, to January 1798, including a short service in
Ceylon. For nearly the last forty years, with the
exception of a few years at the Mauritius, the regi-
ment has had no other foreign station but the Cape.
The third and last division of the 67th, under
Major Orange, has landed in Dublinfrom Woolwich.
Captain Stokes's company, 6th battalion Royal
Artillery, has embarked at Cork for Bristol en route
to Woolwich.
Major Harrison's company, Bth battalion Royal
Artillery, has embarked at Kingstown for Cork, and
arrived yesterday, per Dee steamer.
The troops ordered to O'Brien's Bridge, Silver-
mines, Castle Connell, Cappaghmore' Cloghjordan,
Borrisoleigh, are countermanded for the present.

The detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards or-
dered to march for Killaloe and Nenagh if., counter-
manded for the present.
Lieut. Grogan, 7th, Lieut.-Colonel Cs:a.khnln, Goth,
and Lieut. Shirley, 87th, sold out of the service last
week.

Seven cadets of the Royal Military College were
appointed to ensigncies last week, without lurch e.
The senior lieutenant of the 7th Fusiliers, and pay-
master of its depot, has sold out of the service.
Captain Norman's company, 54th, has arrived at
Ballinamore, county Leitrim, from MulUngar, head-
quarters.

Good service money is awarded to Lieut.-General
Henry Monckton, and Major-GeneraLs Alexander
Thompson and William A. Gordon, the first to re-
ceive 177/. per annum, and the others 1004 each
Major-Generals R. G. Hare Clarges and W. F. P.
Napier are to have the increased daily pay of 255.
Major Bennett, of the Royals, has put to press his
" Thoughts on Army Education," with reference to
the instruction of the soldier.

LONDON and CROYDON RAILWAY
COMPANY.
A special general meeting of the Shareholders was
held at the London-bridge station yesterday, for the
purpose of considering the expediency of applications
being made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for
powers tai enable the London and Crovdoa Railway
Company to effect the following objects :—The
widening or enlargement of the London and Croydon,
the London end Greenwich, and the Bricklayers'
Arms Branch Railways, with a view to an additional
line, or additional lines, of railway, upon the atmo-
spheric principle of traction ; the formation of a rail-
way from the Croydon Railway to Chatham, with a
branch to Gravesend ; an extension of the Chatham
line, to join the Canterbury, Margate, and Ramsgate
Railway, at or near Chatham, with branches to Sheer-
ness and Faversham Creek: the formation of a railway
from the Croydon Railway to Maidstone, with a
branch to Tunbridge; an extension of the
'Maidstone line to join the South-Eastern (Dover)
Railway at or near Ashford; an extension of the
Epsom Railway to Dorking, unless provided for by
the direct London and Portsmouth Railway; a branch
from the Croydon Railway to Orpington, unless pro-
vided for by the Chatham line; and also to adopt
such measures with reference to the said several
matters, or either of their, and to the capital necessary
to be provided for them, or any of them, as to such
meeting shall seem expedient.
At one o'clock the chair was taken by Mr.
kinson, the Chairman of the Company.
The notice having been read,
The CHAIRMAM, after seine preliminary observa-
tions, proceeded to refer to the schemes of the Direc-
tors, as stated above. Some of those schemes, he
said, were merely duplicate schemes, to be carried out
as the success or failure of the other plans might
render desirable. Contemplating, for instance,.
the possibility of the Portsmouth Company.
failing to get their Bill, the enlargement of the
Croydon Company was a scheme for which it was
neccessary to provide, and a similar remark would
apply to one or two other projects. But with re-
spect to the main plans of the Directors, after giving
their best consideration to the subject, and taking the
best advice that could be obtained, the Directors were
of opinion, and after calling together and obtaining
the concurrence of a meeting of gentlemen holding
100 shares the Directors felt the greatest confidence,
in asking the supeort of the Proprietors in carrying-
out their views. The main purpose for which they
had convened the meeting, was to propose the making
of a line from Sydenham to Ashford, Maidstone, and
Tunbridge.—(Hear, bean) The necessity for this.
project had arisen from tie- declaration of the views of
the South-Eastern Company, made at their general
meeting by Mr. APteregor in December last., intl.-
mating most clearly that it was the intention of that Co-
mpany to make a direet line to Tunbridge which should
avoid the Croydon line. Relieving, as they did, that there
was no necessity for a measure which should include
the avoidance of the Croydon line, the Directors
thought themselves entitled to propose that this Com-
pany should carry out the scheme instead of the
South-Eastern Company.—(Hear, hear.) The latter
Company had proclaimed to all the world, for the
last nine months, that it was about to supply all
Kent with railways. At present, however, it did
nothing whatever towards fulfilling its promise. It
now proposed to accommodate the public by avoiding
the Croydon Railway. l'Vere that the sole object,
their only course would be to acquiesce • for unques-
tionably the public benefit was the grand thing to be
considered. But the question was, whether the public
benefit could not be equally well provided for without
the avoidance of the Croydon Railway? The Directors.
of the Croydon Company believed that it could, and
as they formed part of the public, they had
a right to expect that their interests should
not be forgotten. The Dover Company pro-
posed to make a line from the Greenwich Railway.
He then proceeded to explain, by the aid of a chart,
the course of the lines proposed by the two Com-
panies. and dwelt on the superior advantages which
would be afforded to the public by the direct line to
Maidstone. They proposed to continue the line as far
as Ashford ; and not only so, but, by making an at-
mospheric line, they would be enabled to convey the
public cheaper and quicker than the South-Eastern
Company. He saw nothing inconsistent or im-
proper in so small a Company embarking in this un-
dertaking, provided only the public convenience
was consulted. On that point everything must de-
pend, whatever might be the length of railway which
it was proposed to construct. He had heard it said
that the great interests of the Dover Company should
not be hampered by those of so insignificant a Company
as the Croydon. Granted; but the question was, whic6.
was the Dover Company ? He was prepared to contend
that, for all public purposes, that was the Dover Celle-
pany, because it had the power, which the ot)'.er had
not, of making the line which should be rnr':st conve-
nient for the public.—(Hear, hear.) ^The Dover
Company had for the last nine months placarded the
country with announcements of it', intentions with
respect to the county of Kent ; hv'.t these announce-
ments had all ended in nothingkiend theirs was, at that
time, the only body which was in a condition to afford
that accommodation to the public which the Dover
Company had confessed to be necessary for the public
interest.—(Hear, hear.) The Dover Company was
a day or two too late in putting in its plans ; and
though this difficulty might possibly be surmounted,
he thought they (the Croydon Company) should take
care that their own interests were protected. The-
Dover Company proposed to amend their line by a plant
not so convenient as theirs; and, lender all the
circumstances, both morally and politically, the roe
prietors of the Croydon Company would be justified
in the course which they were asked to pursue. He
did not mean to promise them entire success., whether
in carrying out their own plans, or in opr,osing those
of others ; but considering the irnpartial4y and intel-
ligence of the Legislature, their chrasee of success
was certainly such as would justify them in proceed-
ing. Sir Robert Peel had laid down the principle,
that a railway should not be allowed to be made by
the side of an existing one, solely for the purpose of
absorbing the profit—that money should not be taken
out of the pocket of A solely to be. put hits that of
B; " hut," said he, "if the advancement of aciencee,
or the improvement of machinery, enables one company
to accommodate the public much better than another,E,
then the public advantage must be considered first.'
Applying that principle, he thought they had a good
chance of success in the projects which they were
called upon to undertake ; and he felt the greatest
confidence, therefore, in proposing them for accept-
ance. A great deal was said at the present time
about aneetigatnation. He was not prepared to say
that well a result would not be attended with mu-
tual advantages. They had, however,
made a pro-
position to the Brighton Company. They had put
to them this question—" Will you guarantee either
that the whole of the traffic shall come by one rail-
way, or that such traffic as may come shall pay us
the present amount, viz., 20,000/.?" and, in case,
of compliance, they offered to remit half the toll et:
preseot levied. That proposition was declined, and it:.
would be too much to expect that it should be.
repeated after their opponents had been defeated isa
Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) In cases of amalgama-
tion it was generally expected that the party seeking
it would give up some advantages. Thouh they'
were willing to amalgamate, they Would note onsent
to sacrifice their interests to those of their rivals.
lie then west into a calculation, for the purpose of
proving that it was impossible that the Dover Com-
pany could obtain a sufficient profit to make their
scheme successful, taking into account all the ex-
penses and obligations which would be incurred, and
setting against them the probable returns. Sinee the
opening of the Dover Railway the average receilll
had been about 4,500/. ; and, with all the exw
increase of continental traffic, he could not think that
the increase would be sufficient. After some furtb.er
observations, he concluded by proposing a series Of f
resolutions ounded on the several schemes stated_ '!u
the notice.

The resolution was seconded, and, after a. %bort
conversation, was carried unanimously.
In reply to a question from a Proprietor,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the agreer.nent made
with the Chatham Committee was this:--The Croy-
don Company undertook to pay the expenses of the
application to Parliament ; and, in case of failure, the
Chatham Company would either receive hack their
money with five per cent. upon it, or }lave the option
of taking Croydon shares hearing five per cent.
A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman and.
Directors, and the meeting then separated.

CHILD EXPOSED.—The dead body of a runr-bon
male infant was found in a field at Hillhouse:tad, p• a
Friday last. It was eneloted in a smell r!oedeit ►boa,
Edinburgh Advertiser.
The investiture of the Knights of St, paridk is
postponed from Saturday, the 4th, tollfw:my, the ich
oY
January.