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THE SUN, LONDON, TU.EISIIAY-EVR':NIIS AUGUST )26, 1846.

BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to
UNITE with the MORETWS-IN-MARSH RAILWAY.
Capital 600,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.

Provisionally Registered, pursuant to Act 7th and Bth Va t., c. 110.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,
The Mayor of Birmingham
John Adams, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law, London
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Robert James Atty, Esq., Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., Lonon
Matthew P. W. Boulton, Esq., Great Tew Park, Oxon
Colonel Charles Oldfleld Bowles, Esq., North Aston Park
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury
James Butlin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. H. Corbitt, Esq., Adminton
Walter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bury, near Leamington
John Croethwaite, Esq., Liverpool
Sir George Dashwood, Batt, Eirtlington Park, Oxon
William Dickens, Esq., Chen-ington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
John Branston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southern
Darwin Galton, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
J. liaddon, Esq., Leamington
W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Hitching, Idlicote House, near Shipston
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles Palmer, Lighthorne
J. G. Reeves, Esq , Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq., Benbroughton, near Stourbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-General Smith, Rugby
Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near Stratford-on-Avon
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington
Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Honnington, near Shipston
George Richard Walker, Esq., Heathfleld House, Bletchington, Ozon
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon.
(With power to add to their number.)
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.
J. W. Miles, Esq.
John Moss, Esq.
P. H. Muutz, Esq.
F. Rufford, Fsq.
C. Russell, Esq., M.P.
Chas. Shaw, Esq.

J. T. Alston, Esq
F. P. Barlow, Esq.
J. B. Freer, Esq.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq
J. Haddon, Esq.
Charles Lawrence, Esq.
W. Mathews, Esq.
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, arid Co., Birmingham
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham
Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co.,Bristol
The Leamington Priors and arwickshire Banking Company, and
th, Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington
and Warwick
Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool.
The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on-
Avon.

SOLICITORS.

Messrs Patterson, Haymes, and Haubury, Leamington and WarwiA
W. O. Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., No. 10, Whitehall,

London
Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool.
In congratulating the Shareholders on the issue of the late contest
in Parliament, the Committee of Management beg to announce that
active measures are Ue.ng adopted to forward the surveys and plans,
and prepare for the ensuing session. The success of the Oxford and
Rugby Railway has confirmed the Directors in the view they enter-
tained waen they first brought to the notice of the public the merits
of a line direct from Birmingham to Oxford, and leaves little room
to doubt that Parliament will grant this important continuation, thus
connecting the whole north of the kingdom and Birmingham with
the south-western districts. _ .

It is intended to snake the most convenient stations for the variou.s
towns on the line that circumstances will admit, connecting the line
at Birmingham with that of the Grand Junction Company. By this
means an uninterrupted transit will be effected from Birmingham
through Oxford to every part of the south and to London.
Looking to the very peculiar position of this line, the cheapneFS
of its construction, and the great traffic that must inevitably flow to
it from its connecting and central situation, the Provisional Directors
have every confidence that the undertaking will be one of more than
ordinary profit to the proprietors.
By order of the Board.
449, West Strand, Aug. 13, 1845.

pjLY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWA Y.
A Company is in the course of formation for the construction
of ;t Railway from the city of Ely to the town of Bury St. Edinunde.
The line will eminence by a junction at Ely with the Eastern
Counties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and Huntingdon Railways, and will
terminate at Bury by a junction with the Ipswich and Bury Railway.
Its object is to preserve the mercantile connexion which has for
generations subsisted between the county of Suffolk, the town of Itury,
and the port of Lynn, and to afford Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury,
and all that portion of the kingdom a direct communication with the
manufacturing districts.
The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward
of that town to Peterborough, the point at which so many lines pass-
ing from the south and east to the north and north-west converge,
will by the Ely and Bury line be ten miles shorter than the route to
that city by way of Cambridge.
A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately.
ROOFER, BIRCH, and IN-GRA.m.
68, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
NEW 401. SHARES.

The HOLDERS of SCRIP CERTIFICATES for the NEW 40/.
SHARES in the additional Capital Stock of this Coppany, are re-
quired to transmit such certificate to the Secretary of the Company's
Office at Derby, on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of September
next, with their Names, Professions, and Residences distinctly writ-
ten, in order that the same may be entered in the Share Register of
the Company.
Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will be duly re-
gistered as they now stand in the Books of the Company ; and all
Shares not claimed by the actual Holders of Scrip Certificates on or
before the said 13th day of September, will he registered as the pro-
perty of the persons to whom they were originally allotted.
Receipts for the Scrip will be given, and on the completion of the
Registry they will be exchanged for Certificates under the Seal of
the Company.

GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
JOHN ELIAS', Deputy Chairman.
By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Derby, Aug. 19, 1845.

LONDON, WORCESTER, and SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.
Called on scrip the London and Worcester, and Rugby and Oxford
Railway, with extension to Dudley and Wolverhampton.)

- .
The shareholders in this Company are informed that in conse-
quence of the arrangements made with the intended Buckingham-
shire Railway Company, an option is given to the holders of London,
Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares of exchanging them for
shares in the Buckinghamshire Railway, in the proportion of two
Buckinghamshire Railway shares forevery three London, Worcestet ,
and South Staffordshire shares.

The guarantee to be given by the London and Birmingham Rail-
way Company to the Buckinghamshire Railway Company will be
four per cent. per annum, on the cost of construction, with half the
surplus profits.

All parties taking shares in the Buckinghamshire Railway Com-
pany must pay the full deposit thereon ; and the holders of London,
Worcester, and South Staffordshire Company's shares will receive
back at an early date, of which notice will be given, the residue of
the deposit on such shares after payment of the Parliamentary
expenses.
Where the number of London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire
shares (being one or two) will not admit of the allotment of Buck-
inghamshire shares in the proportions stated, a single share will be
allotted for two London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares,
and the deposit will be returned, subject to deduction for expenses, as
aforesaid. _

Parties applying for Buckinghamshire shares in respect of shares
In the London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Co.opany, of
which they are not the original holders, will not be entitlod to an
allotment until they shall have furnished such references to their re-
sponsibility as shall be satisfactory to the Provisional Committee of
the Buckinghamshire Railway.
Pursuant to this notice, holders of scrip in the London, Worcester,
and Bout)) Staffordshire Company are requested to send the same
to this °filet) for registration on or before the Bth day of September
nexi, witli Weir names (written at full length) and their address
and professioiiir;

HENRY MORGAN,
Secretary pro tern. Of Hie London, Worcester, and South
s.taffordshire Railway.
28, Waterloo-street, Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
1, the undersigned,
Address .
Profession •• • • ...... ••••.. • • • • •
desire to receive Buckingham Railway Company's shares
in exchange for my London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire
shares (the certificates of which I enclose), in the proportions, and
subject to the provisions of the notice of the Buckinghamshire Pro-
visional Committee of the 25th August.
Note.—Specify the number of shares sent.
Signature . .
Reference....

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TIIE LATE MR. E. B. CLIVE, M.P.—The will of
the late Mr. Edward Bolton Clive, of Whitfield, in the county
of Hereford, has been proved by his son, the Rev. Archer
Clive, clerk, the sole executor. He bequeaths to his son, Mr.
George Clive, 20,0001., in addition to any sum that may be
payable to him out of his estates ; bequeaths to his daughter,
Mrs. Wetherell, an annuity of 6001. a year, to be paid out of
his estates in England; leaves liberal legacies to his servants;
and bequeaths all the residue of his real and personal estates to
his eldest surviving son, the Rev. Archer Clive. He desired
by his will that he might be buried in the family vault at
Wormbridge without parade, and like any private gentleman.
The will is dated the 24th of April, 1845, and his death oc-
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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated the Comedy of CAPTAIN TARRADIDDLE; or,
What will the World Say? Captain Tarradiddle, Mr. W. Farrell ;
I'ye Hilary, Mr. Hudson; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Miss I'. Horton.
In the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will slug his New
Song of " Young England."
To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster ;
Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutter-
buck, Miss Carre.
After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled
MRS. CAUI)LE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Chap-
ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-llall each.
Tickets and - 'laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office,
tr,in Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELLST; .
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The Stranger,
Madame Celeste.

Atter which, will be rep ated a farce. in One Act, called MRS.
CAUDLE ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Wilkinson
Mrs', Caudle, Mr. Wright.
To be followed by a Terpsich,wean Barletta, called POWDEIi
AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr,
Lambert; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby; Jacob Gorki'', Mr. Wright ;
Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs,
Miss Woolgar.

Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
Second Night of Two New Dramas.
BY ROYAL COMMAND.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Comic Drama, in Three Acts, BY ROYAL
COMMAND. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Vining, Mr.
Emery, Mr. Turner, Mr. Bender, and Mr. Meadows ; Miss Fairbro-
ther, Mrs. W..ollidge, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les
Danseuses Anglaises will appear.
To which will be added a New Faroe, entitled ENQUIRE WITHIN.
Principal Characters by Mr. Meadows, Mr. Emery, Miss Arden, Mi,s
Grove. and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE
GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and
Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Ke&ey.
F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, !iss Dawson. and Mrs. Keeley.
o conclude with the •` Pas dc Fleurs" and the " l'as de Meissen-
nettrs," from the celebrated Burlesque of CINDERELLA.

PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LEmgEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX.
The Last Night but Three of the Company's performing this Season.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed DON C.ESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cxsar de
Bazan, Mr. IVallack ; Maritana, Miss Stanley.
To which will b: added A COUR r BALL IN 1740. In which will
be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos-
turne,with the Original Music.
To be followed by THE BRIG \ND. Alessandro Massaroni, Mr.
Wallack ; Rubaldo, Mr. 'tame; Ottavia, Miss Grey; Maria •Grazie,
Mrs. Brougham.
After which, TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mullowny, Mr. Collins.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Last Week of the Summ' r Season—Last Week of the Grand
Military Spectacle.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an entirely New Grand National Spectacle, em-
bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British
Arms in Northern India, called THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or,
The Siege of Hyderabad.
The Scenes in the Circle will be more than usually attractive, con-
sisting of the choicest chef d'oeuvres of the unrivalled French
Equestrians.
To conclude with THE WEAVER or LYONS.
Box-otlic2 open from Eleven till Five.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Re-engagement of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Matthews.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed USED UP. Supported by Messrs. C. Matthews,
Homier, Neville, lieslop, Lewis, Fredericks, Mrs. It. Hornier, and
Miss Martin.

Aftcr which, WHY DON'T SIIE MARRY? or, The Swiss Col-
tagc. Natz neck, \lr. Charles Mathews; Lisette, Madame Vestris.
To be fo lowed by the Comic Drama of FREE AND EASY. Sir
'John Freemay, Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with MRS CAUI,LE'S CURTAIN LECTURE. Mr.
Cand!e, Mr. IL slop ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. S. Cowell.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, At the Box-
o lice, from Eleven to I.'our.

GRAND FETE CHAMFETRE,
In honour of the Birth-day of 11. It. 11. PRINCE ALBERT,
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,
THIS DAY A DAY FETE,

Commencing with the May-pole and Morris Dancers ! Filar Tuck,
-Maid Marian, Pipe and Tabor, &c.
The Magnificent -Modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, un•
equalled Menagerie, the male Giraffe and African Chimpanzee,
(exhibited for the first time.)

The magnifie..nt MODEL of VENICE, will be exhibited in a large
and appropriate building lighted from the roof.
An additional Military Band.

Signor Romanzini will give a classical representation of the Ancient
Staines, on an elevated platform.

Miniature Balloons will be discharged at intervals. One of larger
dimensions will ascend from the Lake emitting Fireworks during its
Ascent.

The PROMENADE CONCERTS! By the unrivalled Band of
[he Establishment.

Le Petit Hercule Vol•tnt, the Infant Prodigy, will perform the dar-
ing teat of ascending and descending from the top of Edinburgh
Castle across the Lake, to the Royal Institution.
The Aquatic Tableau and Fireworks will be on an unprecedented
scale of magnificence, Including a representation of the Flight of the
Comet.

Admission, One Shilling.—Doors open at One,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 49 minutes after 7 J Evening .. 26 minutes after 8.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, Auc. 26.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 69 ; Noon, 65,

BAROMETER, 29.96.
WIND W., fresh breeze, and fine clear weather.

always have presented itself to the consideration of
every in•elligent observer as being rec'rtnmended by
many essential qualities that do not attach to any works
moved by steam power. The economy of fuel, of ma-
chinery, of labour, of wear and tear, of all the main
elements, therefore, that ultimately occasion the largest
sacrifices of capital in these undertakings—is the most
obvious and the most signal of these recommendations in
favour of railways on the atmospheric principle. Of the
few perfected attempts which have been made at its
practical adoption, we believe we are correct in stating
that the most important is one of the Irish lines, leading
directly from the sea coast to the capital—and on this it
has succeeded to an extent greater than had been anti-
cipated for it by some of its warmest supporters. Still,
there were found, in its practical details, some of those
elementary difficulties and disadvantage's, on the stt ength
of which (far too readily assumed) sneirreers of distin-
guished reputation have concurred in pronouncing it to
be hopeless to anticipate its general adoption. Among
these the smost formidable have always been regarded
(we understand) the construction of the valves and
pistons of adequate tenacity and strength, in conjunction
with adequate facility of action and perfectness of joint-
ing ;—and, the propulsion of carriages and trucks, laden,
up inclined planes. This last exertion, it has been
stoutly contended, could not be accomplished by any
conceivable application of atmospheric pressure. The
results which have been arrived at, iu the series of ex-
periments to which we alluded in our paper of Saturday
last, as having been commenced for. some days on the
London and Croydon atmospheric line of railway, should
operate to deter all men from pronouncing, too con-
filently, on the impracticability of novel projects of me
chanical application, however startling by their boldness
or their simplicity... In the late experiments, the success
of which we have already had the pleasure of announcing,
the two main difficulties that we have instanced may be
considered to have been finally disposed of ; and this,
too, with an ease and readiness that reflect the highest
credit on those who originated and devised the particular
modes by which the possibility of vanquishing them
might be tested. As to the first of those difficulties the
exhaustion of five miles length of tube, at a barome-
trical pressure of 27 degrees and four lines, and the un-
impeded ti aversing of that whole extent by the piston,
we take to" he'an experiment on a giant scale, the con.
clusien of which can leave no sort of reasonable doubt a,
to its prolongation throughout any extent of space that
railroad purposes can require. As to the second diffi-
cu'ty, it was eXtinguished and utterly removed by the
propulsion of a carriage train, dead weight, without mo-
mentum or impetus of any kind, up an incline of 1 in 50.
On the various accounts we have mentioned, and
z specially because of the saving of human life which we
think we may safely anticipate from its more extensive
application to railway lines—we regard these experi-
ments on the atm- spheric principle with much gratilica
mien. •We heartily wish the individuals under whose
direction and auspices it is being thus admirably ap-
plied every further success in their spirited endeavours,
not at all doubting that they will soon be enabled tt
bring their results into almost universal adoption in the
practical construction and management of railways.

The last advises from Madrid bring intelligence that
a species of insurrection had broken out in that capital
on the 19th instant, in consequence of the discontent
excited among the middle and lower classes of th►
people by the refusal of the Queen's Ministers—th►
Finance Minist.er more especially—to make certain
mothficat:ons in his new tributary system. Angr3
groups of people assembled in the squares and places.
and the authorities having been compelled to call out tin
troops, several charges of cavalry were made on the
people, against whom several discharges of musketry
we( c also levelled. The garrison was under arms
Considerable reinforcements had arrived from Gua
dalajara and Cuenca ; and the Captain-General
had been vested with extraordinary powers, and autho-
thorisel to thclare Madrid in a state of siege, should
circumstances occur to render such a proceeding neces-
sary. Great consternation existed among all classes.
although the city was tranquil at the departure of the
mail.

From many circumstances we are strongly disposed
to think this ebullition of popular feeling is by no means
the termination of the hostile movement that the Spanish
Minister's plan may expect to encounter. Still less is it
any adequate indication of the intensity of the disgust, or
the force of the passive resistance, which the tradespeoph
of Madrid Or pose to the excessive and unjust assessments
he has subjected them to, or the apportionment
of his forced contributions. We fully agree with the
Madrid correspondent of a morning Contemporary, that
perhaps the most formidable resolution at which any
large sec:ion of the Spanish people can arrive, is to
oppose passive resistance to the collection of the reve-
nues of the Crown. The Spaniard, beyond every other
European deniz in, can bear and endure. His " passive
resistance" does not evaporate in party excitement,
or factious speeches ; nor can he be wheedled out of
his settled purpose by the cajolery and clap-trap speeches
of the most favourite empecinado. His resolution
once taken, he seems to make it a point of honour
and self-resp.ct inflexibly to adhere to it, until either
the object it proposes be accomplished, or the chances o:
its attainment leas been risked and lost upon actual ann
determined contests for its attainment. We have formed
this opinion on some personal knowledge and experience
of the Spanish character, especially as it develops itself
among the remarkable population of the metropolis of
Spain. But when lee find that the Finance Minister him-
self, Senor Moe, is so alarmed by the voluntary closing
of shops and cessation of trading, that he makes
tours of personal inspection through the city, in
order to ascertain by personal inspection to
what extent and in what quarters this emphatic
though silent token of resistance and defiance prevails ;
—when we read that many hundreds of workmen have
been already discharged by their employers, on account
' of the anticipated pressure of the new fiscal arrange-
ments, we tremble for the consequences. To crown all
the other disastrous aspects of affairs, NARVAEZ, to
eh() -e unprincipled ambition and unsparing cruelty
Spain is already indebted for so large an aggregate of
political oppressions and civil misery, has been clothed
pith renewed and enlarged capacities to degrade, en-
slave, and exasperate the unhappy country whose liber-
ies he has betrayed. The mournful present wil!
he followed, we suspect, by a terrible future, and
that not a distant one. Senor More is, it seems, inflexi
ble. The Ma !rid men are resolute. The Minister is
a man of his word. The citizens are men of their
purpose. The passive resistance to arbitrary and ex -
cessive taxation which is announced by closed shops,
disbanded establishments, and discharged workmen, has
been displayed by the same people, in precisely the
same indications, where the immediate excitement has
been caused by the forced military occupation of their
capital by an invading army of foreigners. Those of
our readers who may remember as well as we do, under
what circumstances the French forces took armed pos-
session of Madrid in March, 1808, will not forget the
terrible retribution inflicted on those forces, in Madrid,
just two months afterwards (on May 2). It is earnestly
to be hoped that after the bitter experience which
the Spanish people have had during the last twelve years
of the unproductive results of the most sanguinary tu-
mults and revolts to the cause of civil liberty and con-
stitutional results, so long as they have no leaders of tried
fidelity to those ennobling and salutary principles, they
will not pass from this condition just now to one of more
direct colision with their military oppressors, which
would only result just now in the closer rivetting of
she fetters which have been imposed upon them, and the
still more prodigal shedding of that blood which has
been already so lavishly and vainly shed in the cause of
a country still noble in its decay, still prtcious to them
under all the sufferings they are compelled to endure
from the successful traitors to its liberties and its laws.
In this last intelligence from Madrid we see fresh occa-
sion to express the apprehensions we have long enter-
tained, that there is no Court of Europe at which the
influence of this country, or the authority of its example,
sr the tendencies of its public opinion, are less felt or re-
sponded to than that of Madrid. Since the successful con-
spiracy against, and rapid downfal of, ESPARTERO, we
appear to have lost even the privilege of addressing
Spain in the warning language of an old friend and a
.riesl protector. To what is this owing,—this loss of
consideration on the part of the most powerful with one
of the weakest, tho Ugh most arbitrary, Governments in
existence ? We are compelled to believe that the cha-
racter and dignity of this great country cannot be ade-
quately upheld by our diplomatic representative there :
and, indeed, we , have, of late, seen by far too
much of drawiog•room and banquetting flirtation
between the British Minister and the adventurer
NARVAEZ, mid the poor tools and creatures of
his who infest tile throne of the young Queen
sof SPAIN, rendering it inaccessible to the just
complaints and remonstrances of an outraged and in-
'tilted nation. We would rather hear our Minister to
Spain blamed' for a too distant deportment, than feel
thus compelled to- censure his too great forwardness
towards a Court and Government which have earned
S'or themselves so um nviable a reputation for perfidious-
:seas and cruelty.

News frlYrn Poland to the 12th instant has arrived.
re had been as emeute in Lithuania. Several minis-
,ers of the Greek Church had bern dispatched to a vil-
lage in that duchy, for the purpose. of converting the
,nhabitants. The Russian Government; in order to
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bender their preachings more efficacious, and to quicken
the perceptive faculties of the peasants as to the supc-
riority of the Grcek Church over the Roman Catholic, had
placed at the orders of those reverend mi:,eionarics a de-
tachment of troops, consisting of an officer and forty
men. The peasantry, however, enticed the Greek priests
into a forest and murdered them ; and then setting fire
to a barn in which the soldiers were quartered, had sur-
rounded it, and driven back into the flames all who
attempted to escape. There had occurred in the town of
Luck, in Lithuania, no less than six destructive Ares
between the 6th and 26th of May.

No intelligence has been received from Madrid of a
later date than that we gave yesterday.

We have receivel the Paris Papers of Saturday.
The Monitear announces officially the elevation to
the Peerage of the following Members of the Chamber
of Deputies :—Generals Viscount BONNEMAINS, Baron
DURRIEU, and Baron DOGUEREAU, Count DE MONTo
ZON, Baron TUPINIER, and Messrs. FULCHIRON, GIROT
DE L'ANGLADE, HARTMANN, and RAGUET LEPINE.
The Messver des Clatinbres publishes an official con-
tradiction of the statement which appeared in La
Passe, announcing that the French troops in Algiers
had received a check in the neighbourhood of Orleans-
vine.

Marshal BIIGEAIID is to leave Algiers for France on
the sth of Sept,naber.
ABD-EL-KADER is encamped on the frontiers of
Morocco, at the head of 6,000 men.
The National says that a caravan of black slaves,
brought from the interior of Africa were publicly put up
to auction in the market of Medeah, and asks how it is
that Marshal BUGEAUD tolerates such monstrous con-
duct in a French colony ?
It appears that the journeymen sawyers of Paris have
struck for wages. Several of them were arrested on
Thurs'lay and Friday. The trial of the carpenters out
ou strike, before the Police Correctionelle, on a charge
of conspiracy, commenced on Friday. It was expected
to last over two days.
On the evening of the 22d a destructive fire took place
at Bordeaux, in the warehouses of M. TASTET, which
!ontained large quantities of brandy and spirits of wine.
The fire promptly communicated to the neighbouring
houses, and would have been fur more extensive had not
the authorities succeeded in saving several warehouses,
!ontaining three thousand pieces of brandy and other
spirits. The loss is estimated at 120,0001. in the tele-
4raphic dispatch which conveyed the news of the
lisaster to the Government on Saturday. On the
morning of the 231, a wall of one of the burnt
houses fell, and killed the commandant, adjutant, a
ieutenant, and three privates of the Poinpier corps.
The report of the adjudication of the Granl Northern
Railroad having been postponed, is officially contra-
licted.

The Constitutionnel says that . the Count DE MONT-
FORT (JEROME BONAPARTE'S son), who has spent
some months at Paris, has been ordered to quit France
within the period of eight days.

General LARNE had returned to Faris from Morocco,
where he had been as Envoy.

General RAFAEL UJ&DANETA, Minister Plenipoten-
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic of Ve-
nezuela at the Court of Madrid, died in Paris on the
23d inst.

The Moniteur inserts, by order of the Minister of
Commerce, a letter from Tangiers, dated 24th ult., which
announces that the Director of the Custom-house office
had published a decree of the EMPEROR, reducing by
25 per cent, the duties imposed in May last on foreign
merchandise. That decree had been likewise protnul.
gated at Mogadore, Tetuan, and Rabat. The same letter
mentions that the Government had declared the sale of
eggs and oranges an Imperial monopoly, and granted
the privilege of exporting them, for a sum of 14,000
francs, to the son of one of the administrators of the
Custom-house department.
The weather continued remarkably fine. The Three
per Cents. sold at TORTONI'S for 84f. 17ic.
The following are the quotations of the new lines :
LYONS, AUG. 21.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,100 f., end
of AuguA ; Paris and Orleans, 1,3201., ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,106 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 813 f., ditto;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 725 f., ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aua. 25.
Boulogne and Amiens.. I I Orleans and Bordeaux 1214
Bordeaux &Nlediterran .Over Ys-sel — % p
Bordeaux and Toulouse Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 3%
Do. and Cette 2l • Ditto (Ganneron's).
Central of Spain ..
Dutch Rhenish ... Bl4 Paris and Orleans...".
Dendre Valley
Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
(La(fitte's)
..' 614 Peppin leHalleur —

Ditto (ROsainels) ... 3 Itolien and Havre 303/4
Great Paris and Lyons. V% 'Royal North of Spain 21,/,
Jamaica Junction .Sambre and Mense .... 834
Do. North Midland — Strasbourg and Basle .
..ouvain and Jemeppe 5 Tours and Nantes
:.eons and Avignon — (31‘Kenzie's) —
Luxembourgli.. 2% Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Namur and Liege CA Verona and Ancona....
Orleans and Vierzon

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 to
6,000 bags, including GOO Egyptian. There was no change
in prices, which were firm.—'There was a quiet market for
Shares, at about previous rates.

To such of our readers as are interested in railway matters,
a summary of approaching events, collated from the several
advortisements that have appeared, as well as from Stock Ex-
change sources, will no doubt prove useful. The subjoined
meetings are appointed :—Blackburn, Damen, and Bolton,
Aug. 29 ' • Brighton and Chichester, Aug. 30. ; Bristol and
Exeter, Aug. 28 ; Caledonian, Aug. 27 ; Clydesdale Junc-
tion, Aug. 29 ; Dublin and Drogheda, Aug. 28 ; Dundee
and Perth, Aug. 28 ; Eastern Counties, Aug. 28 ; Great
Grimsby, August 27 ; Great North of England,
August 28 ; London and Croydon, September 9 ;
Londonderry and Coleraine, September 3 ; Lynn and
Dereham, Aug. 29 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Sept. 5 ;
Manchester and Leeds, Sept. 3 ; Newcastle and Berwick,
Aug. 30 ; North British, Sept. 3 ; Scottish Central, Aug.
29 ; South Eastern, Sept. 11 ; aterford and Kilkenny,
Sept. 12; West London, Sept. 3.
Tile transfer books of the following Companies closed :
Brighton and Chichester, from Aug. 23 to 31 ; Bristol
and Exete.., from Aug. 18 to 28 ; Dublin and Drogheda,
from Aug. 18 to 28 ; Eastern Counties, from Aug. 18 to 29 ;
Great North of England, from Aug. 16 to 28 ; Great Southern
and Western Ireland, from Aug. 23 to Sept. 20; Ilull
and Selby, from Aug. 19 to Sept. 2 ; London and Croydon,
from Aug. 26 to Sept. 9 ; Manchester and Birmingham, from
Aug. 23 to Sept. 5 ; Ditto and Leeds, from Aug. 25 to Sept.
3 ; North British, from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3 ; South Eastern,
from Aug. 22 to Sept. 11.

The dividends payable are :—Birrninghain and Gloucester,
Sept.l; Paris and Rouen, 23f. 10c.

Calls have been made upon the Belfast and Ballymena,
V. 103., Oct. 1 ; Dublin and Belfast 21. 10s., Sept. 10 ;
Eastern Counties, New Shares, 21., Oct. 30 ; Great Grimsby
501. Shares, 2'. ss. ; Great Southern and Western Extension,
51., Sept. 30 ; Croydon, IL, Aug. 31; Midland Great Western
of Ireland, 21. 10s., Sept. 25 ; Newcastle and Darlington
Brandling, 51, Sept. 1; Northern and Eastern Registered,
51.,• Sept. 1 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2/., Aug. 30 ;
Richmond, 41., Aug. 30 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 21.,
Sept. 6.
Notice has been given that the deed for the Boston, Stam-
ford, and Birmingham will lie for signature at the Royal
Hotel, on the 29th inst.

The registration of scrip takes places in the following
Companies :—Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, Aug. 30; Cale-
donian, Oct. 1 ; Dublin and Belfast, Aug. 30; Great
Southern and Western, Sept. 1 ; Hull and Selby, 25/.
Shares, Sept. 30; Manchester, Sheffield and Midland,
on or before September 2 ; Midland 40/. Scrip certificate, on
or before September 13 ; North British (Edinburgh and
Hawick Branch), on or before September 9; South Wales,
September 8; Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, September
15; and York and North Midland Extension, August 30.
The Funds have declined to-day upon the settlement of
the Account, and there is an appearance of the Bear party
having rather the best of it. Consols have been 98%8 to
99% fier present trausfer, and 998 for Account. Exchequer
Bilk have been at an improvement to 495. and 51s. premium.
Bank Stock is worth 211 to 212, being well supported. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are marked 102% %,
and the Three per Cents., 99% %.
For Spanish Bonds there is a flat market again, but
prices are almost nominal. The Five per Cents.
have been 27%, and the Passive 634. Columbian have been
steady, at 181/4 e ; and Brazilian, at 89%. The Equador
Stock is worth 4% %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been 6276 to 63; and the Four per Cents. 100% to A.
Railway Shares, generally, are capitally supported.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2ll
_212 2111/2

CLOSIN4i
PRICES,
2111,

._ i.
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 991/5 98% 991 W/8
New 314 per Cents . 1025 A% 102%
Long Annuities to exoireJan.lB6o 11 7-161% 1112
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 11 5-16 11 5-16
India Stock ...271 273
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 11/2d.... 49 50 51 pm. 51
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

99%

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 5O L 2 501 -
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela IBAI/4 18 i/4
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 -
Ditto, Deferred lB3/4 183/4
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account .... 2714
Do., 1843 ... —
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .
Ditto, Account — 381,
Dutch, 21/2 par Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific lOO Vs% 100%
Equador
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
[RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 133
Birmingham and Ox-

271/2
221 A
63/4
153 A

ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1 %...... 3AI/4
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June 2l/2
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3%14 3
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 19% % ... ......
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 par
Cent, No. 1....51. 13s. 4d ll4
Eastern Union 2O .. ..
Ditto Extension . ... 1% 3%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New 1/1 Shares... 5
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of Englancl..100
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares 5O ll6 117% 1171,4:,
Ditto Fifths
Guildibrd, Pare)m, Ports. 21,4... .. 31,4 .. 31/,
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/.......
Leicester and BedrJrd... 225.
London and Birmiuginn kStock) 227 225 225
Do. Thirds
Do. 1/1 Shares
London and Blackwall. 161 13s. 4d los 5/8
Do. New
London and Brighton... 50
London and Manchester

2
_3IA

1914
sip p

89 i;
1414

(Remington's)
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 26 qv, ... ..
Do. New l3s 4d l3/4%
Lond. & S.Western 411 6a 10d —
Do. Consolidated Bths 20
Do. New
London and York 2% , 65406%
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil .....- ........... 2%...... 23/4
Lynn and Ely . 2%
_ _ 7%
%

. , .
Lynn and Dereham l% 45/
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmm. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester, Buxton, and

29
1014
71/4

26
p

38
641
101,i

Matlock 22s.
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland, Binn., Derby...loo 133
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Newcastle and Darling.
ton Junction 25 ...... 53 52 .....
Do. New Brandling
Newcasilu and Berwick Ph 24
Newcastle, Durham, and

Lancashire Junction... 1% ..... —
Newark and Sl.effield .. 1% 3N%
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% l9
North Staffordshire 22s.
Norwich and Brandon... 14

531/2
361/2
241/2
33/4
34
311 A,

19
4%

Do., New ... ..... ..... I
7 5/,
Oxford and Worcester... 21/2 •Ai 1 71/2
Portsmouth Direct ...... 24. 6% 4 6l/4
Preston and Wyre
Richmond .. 1
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 21,4. .... 514%... 64
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
and North Wales 23/4 4%
South Devon
South Midland 22s.
South Eastern &:Dover 3312 s 4d...
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South \Vales 21,4 5114 514
Trent Valley 2 .... .
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,

.. 11/2.... . 13/4 .. 13/4
vvaeniedhD.muibdlliannd
i 3/4 1/2 3l/2
Worcester, Shrewsbury 21/ 3
and Crewe Union ... .. 1/1... .. 35i1/2 3l
York and Carlisle 23% 4 ..... ....... 3%
York and North Midland 50 108
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension

„FOREIGN RAIL Boulogne and Ami N RAIL
ens... 6
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Dendre Valley
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5 4% ...
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourgh
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Over Yssel 4138 4d OXi p
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-

24

4,8
3
2%
12
% p

- - - - -
neron's .., ~..,
Paris tii. Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's) 2 ...... 2%
Do. (Compte tltl.st) 2 ...,.• 254
Peppin le lialleur ....,,, 4 .. ...
Royal North of Spain ... 2 2 ./41/.4 —.•. • • •
f;atubre and Meuse ~... 6 -
B.SI
,s
West Flanders 1
...... 33za

-!I

Aua. 23.—S1d. Barney O'Donnell, Quebec.
HULL, AUG. 25.—Wind W.N. W., light.—Arrd. W'
house, Beonett St. John's, New Brunswick; Ib 1
Nova Scotia; i'riune, Everett, Pogwash ; Vantittart,
ardson, Quebec.

YAnnourn, AUG. 24.—The Jane, Pinder, of Wisb
has been towed into the harbour leaky, and must disci
to repair.

G lIAVE.? END, AUG. 24.—The 13e11:and Anna, Ford. sap_
.4kl
Balikey, '2lst i ust alit, having been in coutaet with the Om
of What; y ; crew saves'.
StnELDs, AUG. 23.—The Felix, Leadbroke, from NC,g°
worth to. London, was abandoned in a sinking state, w,
instr.nt, off Flamborough Head—crew saved. A brig,
about 18 keels, painted with a broad blue streak, wras7
to go down off Demlington, 21st instant—crew suppose'
be drowned.

MARKE I- NE WS -(THIS DAY.)
11T Cs.RECMTS.
SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 5/ ;
ditto., 514 s to 51 8s ; fine Upland ditto., 51 lOs to 5/
Clover Hay, 4/15s to 6/ 6s; Oat Straw, 11 163 to 11 '
'Wheat Straw, 1/ 183 to 21 Is per load. Trade steady,
about last week's quotations.
CumnERLAND.--Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/18s to 4/ 185: n:
fal ditto, 5/ to 5/ lOs; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 12s to 51,1.
Clover flay, 4! lOs to 614 s ; Oat Straw, 1116 s to ISs ;
Straw, 1/ ISs to 2/ 2s per load. A fair average supply, an
steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 16s to 4116!
useful ditto, 4l 188 to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 103.:
5/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 4115 s to 6/ 10s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1115
Wheat Straw, 11 188 to 2/ per load. Supply good, and T.P.
rather dull.

New Meadow Hay 31 to 41 12s 6d, and New Cl°l
4/ to 515 s per load.

COLONIAL. 60
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is lig- .0
alteration, nearly 1,000 casks having found buyers, incleolo
of those sold by auction. The public sales have contoo
chiefly 145 casks Barbadoes, 303 casks 63 barrels St. lA%)
all of which sold at 48s to 53s for good middling gets
to fine yellow Barbadoes, and 45s 6d to 50s for Fo'o,
brown to tine greyish yellow St. Lucia, being for the Barbs?,i,
and the grocery sorts of St. Lucia rather cheaper; but '-
strong refining qualities of the latter brought fully the P,
vious value. The quantity of British Plantation landed If
week at the East and est India Docks was 263 1100,1
tierces 100 barrels. There were taken for home consurePo'
1,823 hhds 134 tierces 370 barrels. The stock in the os
places is 12,058 hhds 1.233 tierces 2,200 barrels.
COFFEE.-893 bags Ceylon and 3,810 bags Porto Rictito
auction, the former was nearly all taken in at 46s to 484
chiefly at 48s for ord quality. The latter partly 80142
went off very irregularly at 4;'s 6d to 62s for fine ord to
colory quality.
R--

.kU3l.—The quantity landed last week at the East'
West India Docks was 204 nuns •23 hhds, and there n
taken for home consumption .246 puns G 2 hhds, and expq
99 puns 387 hhds. The stock in the same place is ICV
puns 1,249 hhds.
01 RICE.—Of 4,201 bags Bengal at auction, only about 5
were disposed of at 12s to 13s Gd for mid white, which isil°,l,
4s below the prices of last week; the remainder was 4"6.0
wards withdrawn, although there seemed more inclination
purchase at the reduction noticed. 314
SPICES.-600 bags Malabar Pepperonly partly sold at
for good heavy shot kind, which is the former value.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 6d to 41s for ord, and 41s bar
cwt for new. Town is 44s per cwt.
TEA.—There is a fair demand for consumption. IA
public sales of Tea are announced for to-morrow.

COAL MARKET.
Prices per ton at the 'close of the market :—Adair'fi -
14s; Buddle's West ll;rtley, 16s 9d; Chester Main' 1
H
asting's Hartley, 16s 6d ; Holywell Main, 16s 6d; 1`16`.„0
-01,
West Hartley, 16s 6d; New Tanfield, 14s ; Ord's .I:trel
heugh, 14s; Ravensworth's West Hartley, 16s 6d; Stew
Hartley, 15s ; Tanfield Moor, 16s; Townley, 155.; ,uO4l
Hartley, 17s 3d ; 15s ; Walls End Bone,' 0;1
Co., lis 6d ; Eden Main, 17s; Walls End Belmontclll.o
Walls End Braddyll's Hetton, 18s 3d; Walls End
18s 3d; Walls End Lambton, 18s; Walls End PeraDloi
16s 9d ; Walls End Russell's Hetton, 17s 9d ; Walls
Stewart's 18s 3d; Walls End Shotton, 17s 9d; Ws"' 94
Kelloe, 17s 9d ; Walls End Adelaide Tees, 18s; Walls
Even wood, 16s 6d ; Walls End South Durham, 17s 6d; tol,
' ot)
End Tees, 18s ; Walls End West Tees, I6s 6d ; Llangetli!
22s ; and Sidney's Hartley, 17s. Ships arrived, 89.

PONTOP AND SOUTH SHIELDS
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) efli
The general half-yearly meeting of the proprietors too
Railway Company was held this day at the Company 'e
Guildhall-buildings.
Mr. R. B. Rennie, in the absence of Mr. StephenSeet
the chair.
rhiGled
The report having been read by the Secretary, which e
that the working of the line had been very satisfactory, an tite
owing to several reductions, the Directors were enabled te6c,ei
that the net profit for the half-year was 10,4171. 129;010
which sum, with interest, was chargeable upon the dee',
Company, amounting to 4,7571. 10s., leaving, with e ' pie
,
balance of 4651. 18s. 3d., the sum of 6,1261. 04. 9d. re
cable to a dividend ; and the Directors, therefore,
commended that a dividend of 30s. a share for the
year be agreed to by the meeting. The quanj6toel
coals shipped had been 398,000 tons, being eeo_ii"recesr,;
more than the quantity in the corresponding last b'';' t,
The charge upon the Company had also been reduced le
liquidation of debt to the amount of 18,0004, beariel,A
cent. interest; and the Directors had also been en u:l3/
reduce the interest upon the mortgage debt of the CoMPIII:ee
these means, the annual debt of the Company would be I their
by 1,1001., which would be, in tact, so touch added t°.
income. Since the last meeting of the Company, the rl ler
tion which had existed so long (for upwards of a center/Idg
limiting the monthly quantities shipped by each colliery,,nor
known as the vend,- had ceased, and the immediate censa;oll
of breaking up the regulation had been a con
-on e
reduction in the shipping price of coal. The redneti-001
course, had been severely felt by the owners of colliertee.
the Pontop and South Shields Railway.
The colliery owners, therefore, strongly urged us-
Company the reduction of the tolls upon the line.
colliery he Doteetrosr,s,
btuhterbeafdoren,othaddecihdaedd aunpoinn t ere ie w with
1/
pursued.
The report was then received and adopted b
A desultory discussion then ensued as to the tetfdr
ythteteccmuldse,..,
offered to the coal-owners, but nothing definite was tr,
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
adjourned.
'lO
DISS, BECCL E S, AND YARMOt
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
it'
A general meeting of this Company was held this dot
London Tavern, Mr. C. Beewicke in the chair. fe,
The SECRETARY having read the advertisement Olteete",
the meeting, laid before the Proprietors the report cotna.tretr
on the withdrawal of the Bill from Parliament. The De
having previously agreed to return one pound to the Or,
holeiers in the event of non-success, a meeting in FebruseYtT
released them from that engagement. An investigatil
traffic tables having been made, it has been fours re
able, from the great advantages anticipated ea siteeSeAft*
from the full support of the Yarmouth i°"„„e
to make arrangements for a new Company, ce"ieshri.,
Waveny Valley Company, giving a preference • oe'
e
to the shareholders of this Company, to the saw 0, 0
as their present interest. They will, there/0' et,
entitled to the same number of shares in the 010
as in the old Company. The Directors, therefore,to
enabled to return the sum of 1/. 2s. 6d. per share 03447,
present scrip holders, which far exceeds what the ot tO.
of the original deposit would have allowed, had /3
agreement beets entered into. „ cote d
,„e
The report was then adopted unanimously, and "Joey'
thanks having been accorded to the Chairman, the
separated.
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INCENDIARY FIRE AT FoLKINGIIAM.--- bosh
o'clock on Sunday morning the inhabitants of Folkielt ed.
the county of Lincoln, were suddenly alarmed by "„sseti,
Fire," and great numbers rose from their beds and r" oreco
th extensive stack-yard and premises at the back of di/001A
hound Inn, occupied by Mr. Casswell, where they ow;
targe granary filled with oats enveloped in flames, tbreov
inevitable destruction to the surrounding stacks of ebe„oo7h,
in hay. Water from a neighbouring well supplied in,a, --00 P-of
the excellent engine provided for the town by Sir u: este.,
cute; and to this circumstance, combined with the we; falli7
the stacks, owing to the heavy rain which had bee, tber;
without intermission for two hours, may be attributentoosts:r
servation of property amounting in value to severalwith
pounds. The fire for a considerable period raged
sed,
buds
abated fury, reflecting an immense light for miles are.), ildio
happily it was confined to the building and the waterloo Li
it. How this mischief occurred is not known, bet orent...
circumstance of the building being locked up it is veto?!
„,wr
conjectured to have been the act of an incendiary. ':tt,
tell upon some Irish labourers in the neighbourhood, w' befar„,
teearer
some unpleasantness had taken place a day or two is
there, however, was not proof sufficient to warrant ill
prehension. The alarm was given by Thomas Burrory omcst:e
of the New Inn tap, which is contiguous to the stsrlit'
This is the second fire that has taken place upon nos
same spot within a few months. pi
LORD SEAFoßD.—Probate of the will Or thecoapel
Hon. Charles Rose Baron Seaford, of Seaford, in tbsgret
of Sussex, but late of Woodend, in the same county, wtst Or
on the '2oth instant to the executors, the gig, fertil/ yetof
Frederick William Hervey, commonly called Ear'or
and the Right Hon. Charles Viscount Canning, aP° 04"0
reserved to the Right Hon. Charles Augustus Baren..,_ er?. .
de Walden and Seaford, the son, and an executor* '-ed01:1;
hereafter. He directs that his wife, Anne LP:ina a •;ele,
.Baroness Seaford, be paid in advance from the;/. Until
under the marriage settlement, and bequeaths for heat r;1
diate use a legacy of 500/. ; also leaves her the carrttle4,
household furniture, and that she may continue tn,'Aeotrir,
Woodend ; the plate at her decease he leaves to bis e'"osbsil
He directs that the old Montpelier estate in Jatnaic; ibOoi
released from all claims prior to those of his wife, se ,d;
sums due therefrom to the Crown shall be discbarg'nertl„,
leaves the absolute interest in all his West India Prurird Itvo
his eldest son. All other his estates, real, copyholdr
hold, at Seaford, Woodend, Audley.square, or elseoortleo
gives, devises, and bequeaths to his son, Lord d is°ben
Walden and Seaford. 'I he personal estate in EnglaPpoterisli
under 20,0001. The will is dated the 7th Of -1;t
1843, signed " Seaford." His Lordship died the
last, in his 74th year.
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EXPLOSION AT BISHOPWEARMOUTII IRO/s f•
On Thursday, the 21st instant, an iaquest was held at hodf
land, before Mr. Maynard, Coroner, on view of the
youth named William Irving, who had met with his t
der the following circumstances :----It appeared tuaestojet
Richardson and Co., the proprietors of the above 001503,
works, have lately purchased a quantity of cannon, bud of of
&c., no longer fit for naval service, from the Wari itr to
mime, for the purpose of melting them down to met,,,,soAid
the practice (and strict orders were given by the ffe
the workmen that this should always be done), be`age
these shells into the furnace, to break them with Le eKoW
mers ; but on Wednesday morning, contrary to tbaseso 1,
directions, a large shell had been put into the fur, if it, er
and without being carefully examined. Unfortunglotefr
tamed part of a charge of powder, and almost in'Tete °hi
ploded. The furnace tlown to atoms, nee,roclo'ier:
named youth, who wag only 15 years of age, teet,flor
materials and on the spot. Two of the wori" ate, re'
Joseph I.,aw and Edward Pollard, who were oerftsd
f•r,:•.71 the place, were also seriously injured. 11'1.4 le (sr
moved to Bishopwearmouth Infirmary, and now . tlisA
precarious state. Had any other persons been tea l'he
nace, they must have been killed by the explosler;',, fleet
after hearing the above facts, returned a verdict 01
tal death."
HERRING FISHERY.----WICK, AUG. f2°;erage 101149
ing has been very fr,2`.',,i during last week ; the ar•asc °of,
week was crans. Thursday and F 1,0
were :Artier squally, and a number of the boat!, 0."
a. The average for the season will be about nn_oroinbigi
eight days cured are selling at 168.6 d. YesterdnYrbeageo!',l
were very few herrings.
the average
cbroaantss. haTbirbs Pl 4;
!he boats are just returning when the mail cloten_.„,"
is very regular, and will average from Ave to la G"--
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