The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-16 00:00:00

THE SUPPOSED MLIIDER AT

ERADING

READING, FRIDAY EVENING. —The Deu'y-C4 ronn-
jury re-assembled this afternoon at two o'clei k and proaeded
to examine the tollow:ng witnesses:—
fie:nu Iloulton, re-examitird—Nl hen I had returned t.
picer's house, and after the body had been F xxma,4 d. I told
Si icer that I suspected his wife, had come ri her doa- by-son:.-

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eLfair weans, and that I should feel it my duty to take hitt
into custody on the charge otthewiltu. murder of hi= wile
. _

He said, "-I know nothing of it." On Wednesday morning
last I went to Airs. Cook's, where Spicer had worked, and saw
the witness William Walden, and he showed me a cupboard
that was used by Spicer to keep his tools in. I opened it, and
took out a handkerchief, which Walden stated he had found
there the day before. I produce the handkerchief. Yesterday
I went again to Airs. Cook's, and in the cellar where the work
is carried on found an apron. I asked Walden whose apron it
was before I examined it. He said it was Spicer's. I took it,
and examined it, and found drops of blood upon it. The apron
I here produce. I found another apron, on the other side of
the workshop, with blood upon it, and Walden stated that he
could swear that both the aprons belonged to Spicer.
William Walden, re-examined, after heir g cautioned by tl e
depu!y-col oner that he was upon his oath, and should therefore
hhold nothing from the jury, said, to the best of my belief,
these aprons belonged to Spicer. I never wore aprons, and no
other workman besides Spicer and myself were employed in
the shop whilst we were there. Spicer always wore an apron
when he went to dinner. The cupboard was set apart for
Spicer's use.
David John Cook, living with his mother, basket-maker,
High-street—William Spicer and last witness, William Walden,
are the only two persons employed in the room under the shop.
Spicer always wore an apron, but not Walden. Saw Spicer on
Friday afternoon ; his head was between his hands. I thought
something was the matter with him. I asked him if it was so,
he replied, " No."

NAMES OF RAILWAYS. Loneon. Liver-
pool.

Man- I lijistol. j York.
cLester.

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lAug.ls.

PAug.ls.

lAug.ls.

iAug.ls.

lAug.ls.

Aberdeen
Arbroath and Forfar
Ditto Half Shares .
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
Belfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Dirknhd, Lan. & Ches, Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. New ( iss. at 71/2 dis.)
Ditto Half Shares
Birminghm & Oxfrd. June
Blekburn, Chrly, & N. lin
Blackburn, Darwn, & 3oltn
lh Wigan, & Liverpl.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hast
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian .
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Birkenhead
Ditto New Shares
Ditto Half Shares .....

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George Essington' of 97, Broad-street, tailor—l knew Mr.
and Mrs. Spicer. Saw her, to the best of my belief, on
Thursday evening, at the bar door of the Royal Oak, talking
to Mrs. Sharp, the landlady. 1 never beard she was subject
to fits. Saw Spicer on Friday, the Bth inst., at the Royal
Oak, about four o'clock in the afternoon. He came in to drink.
I told him I had seen his wife, and she was looking better, the
night before. Be had told me his wife was not very well. I
should state that he said, " I am going to have a malt tea."
I said, "I do not know but what it is quite as well." He thcn
said, "I have been home to tea, but could not find my mistress,
and I suppose she is gone out, and so I thought I would come
down here and have a pint of beer."
Martha Gordon, No. 30, Middle-row—l know William
Spicer. Aly husband keeps the Odiharsi beer-house. Spicer
was not at our house on Friday, the Bth inst. I was at home
all day.

Chester and Holyhead .
Cheltenham and Oxford.
Chichester and Brighton ,
Churnet Valley
Clydesdale Junction .
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal
Coventry and Leicester
Cornw all .
Diss,l3eccles, and Yarmoth
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast Junct
Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine
Dublin and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath
Ditto New...
Dundee and Perth.
Eastern Counties
Do. New.
Do. Peril., 5 pr Cnt., No. I
Do. ditto No. 2
East Dereham & Norwich
Eastern Union.
Ditto Extension
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam.
Edinburgh and Glasgow...

William Walden was here recalled—Spicer came from din-
ner on Friday before me. I will swear that I have not burnt
any letter, saying I did not wish to get Spicer into a scrape.
fh-nry Tomkins, a former witness, then came forward and
deposed, that on Monday he saw Walden, who said to him,
" I have just been home and burnt a letter which Spicer had
sent me."

John Heather, sergeant of the Rt ading police, said—Walden,
on Monday, asked me to read a paper. I could not. It ap-
peared to me a mere direction and part of a letter. A young
man, named Briant, read it.

Walden here said, on being questioned, that he put it into his
pocket. He found it in the workshop. Afterwards, on being
pressed, he said he put it on the fire. He had heard Spicer
had been writing to some "gals" in the country. He was
further questioned, and stated that a man from Sonning, whom
he did not know, brought a letter to Spicer, who was working
at the shop last week. He believed he was a little related to
his wife. Spicer put it into his pocket, and the man said his
wife was corning to the races. The man asked how Spicer's
w;fe was? Spicer said first pretty well ; but afterwards said
she had had a fall a time back and hurt herself. Spicer said his
wife's sister was coming to the races. I am sure the letter was
not brought on Friday.
The DEcuTY- CORONER then summed up.
The room was then cleared, and after the lapse of a few
minutes, the jury had returned as their verdict—" That Elizabeth
Spicer was wilfully murdered by her husband, William Spicer."
The warrant of committal was then made out, and the
prisoner will take his trial at the ensuing Lent assizes.

1)o. Quarter Shares..

Do. New Quarter Shares
Edinb., Leith, and Granton
Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebleshire
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Huntingdon
Enniskillen and Sligo
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchstr
Garnkirk and Glasgow
Glasgow and Ayr
Do. Quarter Shares
Glasgow and Greenock
Ditto New
Ditto Preference
Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car
Goole and Doncaster
Grand Junction .
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New Quarters
Ditto Eighths....
Grand Union ...
Great Grimsby & Sheffield
Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd)
Ditto Extension .
Great Munster...
Great Northern of Scotlnd
Great Northern of Englnd
Do. New, Shares
Do. New, 301. Shares
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares .
Ditto Firths
Guildfrd,Farehm, & Ports

THE SCOTCH BANKS.
(From the Gazette of last night. )
We, the undersigned, two of her Majesty's Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes, in pursuance of the Act Bth and 9,h Vic-
toria, cap. 38, do hereby certify that we have ascertained that
the average amount of bank notes of the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of Scotland, carrying on the business of ban-
kers at Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and divers
other places, under the name and title of the Bank of Scotland,
rn eircplat ion during a period of one year preceding the Ist day
of May, 1845, according to the returns made by such bankers, in
pursuance of the Act passed in the 4th and sth years of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to make fur-
ther provision relative to the returns to be made by banks of the
amount of their notes in circulation," is 300,485/.—of the Royal
Bank of Scotland, carrying on the business of bankers at Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Leith, and divers other places, un-
der the name or title of the Royal Bank of Scotlaud, is 183,0001.
—of the British Linen Company, carrying on the business of
bankers at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen. Dundee, and
divers other places, under the name or title of the British Linen
Company, is 438,0241.—0 f the Commercial Bank of Scotland,
carrying on the business of bankers at Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Aberdeen, Arbroath, and divers other places, under the name
or title of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, is 374,8801.
of the National Bank of Scotland, carrying on the business of
bankers at Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, and
divers other places, under the name or title of the National
Bank of Scotland, is 297,0241.—0 f the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Bank, carrying on the business of bankers at Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Leith, Stirling, and divers other places,
under the name or title of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank,
Edinburgh and Leith Bank, and Glasgow Joint-Stock Bank-
ing Company, is 136,6571.—0 f the Banking Company in
Aberdeen, carrying on the business of bankers at Aber-
deen, Banff, Elgin, Peterhead, and divers other
-slues, under the name or title of the Banking Com-
pany Ala,JAberdeen, is 880,467/.7 of the Aberdeen Town and
County Bank
:"° carrying on the business of bankers
' at Aberdeen, fitintiy, Peterhead, Wick, and divers other
places, under the name or !itie of the Aberdeen Town and
County Banking Company, is 70,1,13h—0f the North of Scot-
land Banking Company, carrying on the business of bankers at
Aberdeen, Banff, Inverness, Elgin, and divers other places,
under the name or title of the North of pootland Banking
Company, is 154,3191.—0 f the Ayrshire Banking Company,
carrying on the business of bankers at Ayr, Ardrossan, Cum-
flock, Girvan, and divers other places, under the name or title
of the Ayrshire Banking Company, is 53,6561.—0 f the Eastern
Bank of Scotland, carrying on the business of bankers at Dun-
dee, Montrose, Anstruther, Inverkething, and Saint Andrews,
under the name or title of the Eastern Bank of Scotland, is
33,6361.—0 f the Union Bank of Scotland, carrying on the
business of bankers at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Greenock, Paisley,
and divers other places, under the name or title of the Union
Bank of Scotland, is 327,2231,—0f the Clydesdale Banking
Company, carrying on the business of bankers at Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Greenock, Stirling, and divers other places, un-
der the name or title of the Clydesdale Banking Company,
is 104,0281.—0 f the City of Glasgow Bank, carrying on the
business of bankers at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Peebles, Aber-
deen, anti divers other places, under the name or title of
the City of Glasgow Bank, is 72,9211.—0 f the Caledonian
Banking Company, carrying on the business of bankers at
Inverness, Elgin, Forres, Nairn, and divers other places, under
the name or title of the Caledonian Banking Company, is
53,4341.—0 f the Perth Banking Company, carrying on the
business of bankers at Perth, Dunkeld, Crieff, and Coupar-
Angtis; under the name or title of the Perth Banking Com-
pany, is 38,6561.—0 f the Central Bank of Scotland, carrying
on the business of bankers at Perth, Aberfeldy, Dunkeld,
Newburgh, and divers other places, under the name or title of
the Central Bank of Scotland, is 42,933/.
H. L. WICKHAM.
• H. SEYMOUR AIONTAGU.

I I arw
Hudrstid & Alan. It & Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough
Hull and Selbv
Ditto Half Shares.
Ditto Quarter Shares
Inverness and Elgin
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray
Killarney Junctions
Lancaster and Carlisle.....
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Dewsbury
Leeds and Thirsk
Leeds and W. Riding Julie
Leicester and Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis,& Kil. June
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares
Livrpl, Ormskirk, & I'restn
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwall
Lou. & Man.(Remington's
London and Brighton .....
Do. Cnsolidated Eighths
London and Croydon.
Do. Gnarantd. 5 per cent
Ditto New
London and Greenwich

Do. Prefrnc. or Privilege
London & South Western
Do. New Con?. Eighths
Do. New, 501. Shares
Do. New, 401. Shares
London and York
London and Windsor,
Londn, Salisbury, & Yeovil
Londonderry and Coleraine
Londonderry & Enniskillen
Lynn and Ely
~,

nn and Dereham...
ganchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares .
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester & 13irminghm
Ditto Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Manchestr, Bolton, & Bury
Manchstr, Bury, & Rosend
Manchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk
Midland
Ditto Fifths ...
Ditto New
Do. Cons. Birm. & Derby
Midland Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do Extension to Sligo
Nwcastl & Darhngtn Junc
Do. New (Brandling)
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newport and A bergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield
North British .
Ditto New Shares.......
Northern and Eastern .....
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Do. Quarter Shares......
North Kent
North Staffordshire.
North Ea tern
North Union (A)
Ditto (B)
North Wales Mineral
Ditto New Shares .
North Western
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New
Not., Belvoir, and Granthm
Nottingham and Boston ...
N

Erewsh Val. & Man.
of tingham and Mansfield
OxtOrd and Birming. June
Oxford and Worcester
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston alid Wyre .
Ditto Half Shares .
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar.
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div.
Richmnd and W. End June.

Rugby, Worcester, & Tring
Scottish Central .......
Scottish Midland
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto ditto (No. 2)
Ditto ditto (No. 3)
Sheffield and Lincoln
Shrewsb., Wor., and Crewe
Shrews.,lVolv.,Dudly,&lhir
Shrewsbry & Trnt Val. Un.
Shrewsb, Herefd,&N.Wals
Slamannan .
South Devon .
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover
Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I
Do. (iss. 331.65.8 d.) „ 2
Do (iss. 301.) „ 3
Staines and Richmond
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline
South \Vales
Trent Valley
Do. and Holyhead June
West London, Old Shares
West End & Southrir Coun
Wexford and Carlow
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,Wexfd,Wick&Dub
Waktlil,Pontefrct, & Gode
Wakefield anc,. ilairogate
Warwick and London
West Lancashire
Worcester and Tring
\Vhitehaven and Furness

Do, New Half Shares
Welsh Midkind.
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire .
Wilts, Somrst. & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich
Ditto New......
York and Carlisle
Yolc. and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares... .... •
Do. Scarborough Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto gxteusion. , ~.

TRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAI E_Y-TINING4_ AUGUST_ l6, 1845,

COURT CI-RCULAIt

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an
airing on the btuch, on Thursday morning. In the
afternoon the Prince of Wales, Prince Aifred. the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice rode on ponies in
the pleasure grounds or Osb-rne Howe, Isle of Wight.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed walks
and rides on Wednesday.
Sir Howard Douglas had an interview with Lord
Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Simonds
bad also an interview with his Lordship yesterday.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the
Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence, in
Downirg.strect.

The Earl of Dalhousie, President of the Board of
Trade, left town on Thursday night for Scotland.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.
The Earl of Lincoln, Chief Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, left town yesterday to join his fa-
mily at Dover.

BEI?, MAJESTY.
INAUGURATION OF BEETHOVEN.
COLOGNE, Auc. P.
Cologne, through which the Royal cortege passed, for the
length of a good English league, last evening, en route from
he termination of the Anvers Railway to that of the Bonn line,
was one vast boner of flowers and garlands, to say nothing of
the national and other flags with wich the streets were fur-
nished, as though they had been hung with tapestry. Her
Majesty of Prussia pi eceded the Queen to the castle of Bruhl,
a noble chateau, about some fifteen miles beyond ColoF ne, ehere,
a little before eight, the royal, party had again united. Here
the British Sovereign was received with most characteristic
honours. An orches.ra, consisting of thirty bands, of twenty
performers cacti, crashed out the National Anthem of our
raanitry, following it with " Rule Britannia," and the tatco,
swelling from a wilderness of drums, from piano, till it thun-
dered in forte in magnificent effect. The court of the palace
was brilliant with Chinese lamys, and gay with companies of
dancers, who polkaed their good-will offerings as the Eastern
damsels of old gave grace and homage.
Tuesday dawned with the promise of fine weather, which the
noon duly realised. Notwithstandkig the multitudes that
thronged Bruhl on the evening preceding, long before mid-day
Bonn was one crowd of elegantly and singularly arrayed dames
and cavaliers. Here was the recherch6 toilette of Paris, there
the coquettish costumes of the surrounding peasantry, and,
above all, the picturesque dresses of the students of the Uni-
versity, strictly fashioned after the mode of the olden time.
The town, the most beautiful I have yet seen in Prussia, was
literally wanton in holiday decorations. All the streets were
lined with fresh-hewn boughs, of lavish foliage, and streamers
of all hues, while the principal square, in which is situated the
chief hots is and shops of rare merchandise, was a rich draw ing-
room alfresco. Soon after twelve the ceremony of the inau-
guration commenced in the monstre place, a square adjoining
the cathedral—a vast, august building. One end of it is occu-
pied by the chateau of the Count Von Fiirstenberg, and here
the Queen, the:King of Prussia, and their respective suites, re.
paired about the same time from the Palace of Broil). The cele-
bration consisted of orations, pronounced to the honour of the
great musician, who conferred by his birth harmonious immor-
tality on the place, and the performance of some of his most
favourite compositions. Presently the statue, placed in the
centre of the square—a fine piece of bronze, representing a
figure that might serve for the genius of intellect—was unco-
vered amid the cheers of the assembled enthusiasts, and the
roaring of artillery. This over, the royal visitors came for-
ward in the balcony, from which they had witnessed the cere-
mony, and received the grateful welcome of the assembly.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert came in for a large share
of the popular applause. After the ceremonial, the record of
the inauguration was signed by the royal witnesses of it, and
deposited in Beethoven's tomb, a solemn and most feeling
tribute to genius.
After the inauguration the Queen attended a concert, in
which many of the most distinguished German artists took
part, and subsequently returned to the palace of Bruhl, not,
however, before honouring the University with a visit.
THE LIGHTING OF COLOGNE AND THE SHORES
OF THE RHINE.
It was long known that the city of Cologne had provided,
from its private resources, the munificent sum of six thousand
crowns, for the purpose of lighting up their splendid temple
and the noble lines of their picturesque city aux fiords du
Rhin, to do honour to the visit of our fair Queen. As soon
as the intention of Queen Victoria was formally announced,
the preparations were commenced on the most gorgeous scale,
and the night of the 12th of August fixed on for the celebra-
tion of the most wonderful pyrotechnic festival certainly ever
produced in this country.
Soon after nightfall partial explosions of fireworks from the
shipping and the shore began, and continued for upwards of an
hour, as the tuning of the instruments precedes the regular
performance. At this time also the rain descended thickly and
heavily, but in spite of the weather, every coin of 'vantage,
whence the mighty show could be commanded was occupied by
persons whose appearance gave good assurance of their condi-
tion. The moon hid her face, as conscious of the rival she had
to contend against, and the inky obscurity spread as if to give
deep relief to the effulgence about to come. At nine o'clock
the passage across the Rhine was put an end to, in consequence
of the bridge of boats being opened to allow the steamers to
navigate in front of the city board. There were two of the
Company's vessels used in the navigation of the river, the Prin-
cess of Prussia being appropriated to the service of the sove-
reigns of England and Prussia.
The hour of ten told harmoniously from the city churches
when the river on both its banks sent forth the roar of artillery
anti the blaze of ten thousand coloured fires. It was now that
the two Courts were gently falling down the stream abreast of
the town. Incessantly rolled the deep diapason of the heavy
guns of the batteries, and gleamed the glad fire of countless
feux de joie. Anon, in front of the grand landing-place, off
which the Queen of England's tender yacht, the Fairy, was
moored, vast note of preparation was remarked. By gentle
but sure degrees from her ports burnt a dazzling lice of lights
—the heavens sparkled with a flood of rockets—the towers on
the banks of the river blazed up like giant beacons, and the
yards of the various craft were manned by the seamen in their
holiday attire. The Queen of the Isles comes in the pomp
and circumstance of her estate. Hark ! a bell—a quick,
sharp, treble startles the ear. Lo !in tracery of rays, such
as mines of diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, might have fur-
nished, that marvel of the olden triumphs of taste
and magnificence, the Cologne Cathedral tower bursts
upon the wonder-stricken multitudes. The rays of sap-
phire, and of onyx, and of flowing gold, it strikes dim their vi-
sion and dumb their wonder. So stricken by a necromancer's
wand, on the instant it flames forth in lusty light—a fire of ho-
nour and of homage such as never yet monarch lighted to the
welcome of a brother or a sister sovereign. . . . Haply
I may seem to speak of this scene in phrase too highly wrought
for sober ears. To those who judge this writing soberly, I can-
not appeal—to such as had the fortune to witness the event to
which it relates, I have but to say, " Alas ! that the vocabulary
of language affords no words to record the glories of this night !
The illumination of the cathedral was the catastrophe of this
stupendous scene ; and while yet the spirit of its wondrous in-
cantations waved its rod of fire around them, Victoria passed
in triumph, and with many a loving wish and benediction from
'the lighting of Cologne and the shores of the Rhine.'"
THE CEREMONIAL AT COLOGNE.
COLOGNE, AUG. 14, 6 A.M.
About three o'clock processions of the townspeople, mer-
chants, craftsmen, and others, began to centre on the Ca-
thedral, and bands of flower-girls in picturesque attire,
streamed along the streets garland-laden and crowned with
wreaths. Also, as of course, music poured forth strains on all
sides, and you had assurance of afdte, if it were only in the
radiant faces of the multitudes. At four o'clock the bell of the
cathedral sounded. About ten minutes after four the royal
cavalcade reached the south tower of the cathedral, and then
making a round of the whole building, finished and unfinished
as its parts are, the Queen entered it, attended by the King
of Prussia, and the royal and noble personages already named
as composing her suite. All the authorities of the city, civil
and ecclesiastical, were in attendance to receive the august party,
which was ushered through the cathedral by its functionaries,
who pointed out all most worthy of notice, either for its beauty
or historical interest. After spending some time beneath its
venerable roof, and expressing unqualified approbation at the
magnificence of the scene, her Majesty thence proceeded to
view the Museum Trankgrasse, a collection of pictures chiefly
presented by Professor Wolkoff, and remarkable as monuments
of a school which had its origin from nature direct, without
being fettered through the conventialisms of art. The Queen
and her illuatrious host proceeded to the Castle of Stolzenfels.
Her Majesty remains but one night at Stolzenfels, but making
forced journeys thence, is expected to reach Coburg on Satur-
day, by way of Maycnce and Wiirtzberg.—Advertis-r.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.
(From the Sunderland Herald of yesterday.)
Yesterday, the polling took place in various public
buildings appointed by the Mayor. It commenced at
eight o'clock, and the Tories took care to have a number
of their friends in waiting, and secured an almost entire
monopoly of the voting for some time. At half-past eight,
they issued a hand bill announcing the state of the poll,
and these they contiLued at intervals, some of the state-
ments being (as usual) gross exaggerations. Owing to
the skilful mar.ceuvre above alluded to, Colonel Thomp-
son was at the outset lowest on the poll ; and we regret
that his friends were not able to gain him a better
position during the day. Shortly after twelve o'clock
it became certain that the popular candidate would be
defeated by a majority of votes, though the most active
exertions were still persevered in to promote the
Colonel's return, or, if this were not possible, to lessen
the majirity of the Tory and monopolist candidate. No
statements were issued by Colonel Thompson's
Committee, and this occasioned much disappoint.
ment. The town was during the afternoon and
evening in a very excited state, but no breach of
the peace had occurred. At the period of our
writing immense crowds are collected in the front street,
who vociferously cheer the Colonel's leading supporters,
and hiss and groan at (they have gone so far as to pelt
with sticks and stones) Mr. Hudson's active friends and
even the coachmen who drive the " flys" engaged for the
purpose of bringing up voters. So far as we can ascer-
tain (and we have taken great pains to do so correctly)
the state of the poll at it§ close was as follows :
Hudson
Thompson
Majority

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be seen, in reference to the advertisement in another column,
that a singularly interesting work is about to be published, by
subscription. It is a republication of the old Glasgow Courant,
from the 14th of October, 1745, to the 13th of October, 1746,
which gives a comphite de,ail of the movements and romantic
adventures of the Pretender. The work has been undertaken
by William Meikleham, L.L.8., solicitor, in Glasgow, and
secretary to the University. He is the son of Professor
Meikleham, and is in possession, we believe, of the only copy
extant. As a record of news, notices and advertisements of
the inhabitants of Glasgow 100 years ago, the work will be a
great curiosity, and, there cannot be the least doubt, th.at it
will be greatly prized by all lovers of ancient relics, and others,
desirous of perusing the records of their forefathers.—Ex-
tracted from the Liverpool Mercury of August 8.
WIREWORM.—The following circumstance con-
nected with this pest may be possibly turned to a good ac-
count. In February last I planted three gallons of early
Cornish kidney potatoes in good soil, under a wall having a
southern aspect ; to my surprise, only one or two had made
their appearance up to the middle of May, and by the 2.c1 of
June three or four more, without the smallest indication of
any further vegetation over the whole border. On examining
the rows, to my surprise, the remainder of the sets were nearly
filled with live wireworms, the potatoes having the appearance
of being drilled all through with an augur of the size of a
quill. Now, does not this tend to show, that by leaving a few
refuse turnips, potatoes, carrots, &c., in the fields in autumn,
covered with soil, that these destructive insects may be de-
stroyed in great numbers in the spring by stocking out the
roots, and carrying them to a heap of quick lime ?—Lincoln-
silsino Citroniel4.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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NORTH KENT RAILWAY.
(FRO3I A. CJHR ESPONDE/CT. )
DOVER, A LTG 1:3.-_A very numerous and respectable rucet-
ing of the t. wn was held this day in the Town-hall forth pur-
pose of dieussing the merits and deciding on the propriety of
supporting the Bill propsssed to be brought into Parliament
mat session by the North Kent Railway Company. The
Mayor presided with his u.ual good tact and judgmi ro, and
deputations from both the North Kent and the South-,Eastern
directions attended, the one to promote the Bill, the other to
avert so strong an attack on their vested interests. Four reso-
lutions were passed unanimously in favour of supporting the
proposed North Kent line, direct from London to Dover.
A vote of thanks to the Mayor was then proposed by Sir
John Kirkland, and seconded by Mr. Rice, which hit
Worship acknowledged in appropriate terms to the meeting.
The feeling in favour of a direct independent line from
London to Dover, and that the inti rests of the town had beers grossly neglected by the South-Eastern Directors, was very
strongly manifested. '1 he d.putation from that body slid all
they could to allay the feeling that prevailed, Lot their efforts
were ineffectual.

DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
TO THE enizoit OF THE MANCHESTER MIES.
SlR,—Although the gentlemen del uted to itinerate in sup-
port of " Remington's Line" favoured me in their speeches
wnh a large porno of their attention, I should nut have asked
leave to appear in your teitilens it you heti not iieerred iron'
the Railway Express a long paragraph palpably written to
influence the price of the stares, and wound up with the inju-
rious imputation upon me w hich I shall presently quote.
To the gentSernen who spoke, my thanks are due for the
manner in which they were pleased to speak of my perselial
character, irrespective of my supposed dealing with what is
called Remington's Line.
I am the more indebted to them, because nearly all who re-
ferred to me were professionally interested in sue potting the
scheme they advocated. They doubtless spoke as to Mr. Re-
mington's Line what they believed, but they were in error.
'1 he paragraph you have published from the Railway Ex-
press, and of which I complain, is as follows .
" Here we would gladly pause, after having thus glanced at
what are the m„st striking features of this railway, but a sense
of justice compels us to notice what cannot be considered ether
than sharp practice' on the part of fur. Ashurst, the promoter
of a competing line. In 1836 Mr. George Remington planned
the Direct London and Manchester Railway which bears his
name. In 1840-1 he carefully surveyed the greater part of
the country through which it will flays. Lung after this Mr.
Ashurst announced his competing scheme, the avowed inten-
tion of which was to connect existing and projected lines be-
tween London and Manchester. Ire found that Remington's
Line'was the favourite, as it deserves to Le ; and he does nut
hesitate to ' appropriate,' not the leading features of that line,
but the actual line itself. This is stealing the tesom ready-
made.
" It is pretty clear that this manner of doing business will
not answer. We believe that public feeling is against the, ruse.
But the very fact that the promoter of a competing line throws
his own plate overboard, and coolly appropriates the rival one,
is the very best, Lecause the most unsuspicious and involuntary
compliment which could possibly be paid to Remington's Lon-
dsn and Manchester Direct hallway."
The facts, as to me, are these :
In 1840, an advertisement appeared announcing a Company
for the formation of a railway from Manchester to London.
After some time, the movers, who were unknown to the
Manchester trade, found it necessary to apply to some of the
gentlemen connected with that trade in London to support
them.
They were referred to me by some of the leading houses in
the trade, here, and I was requested to report my opinion, not
of any line, but of the propriety of their uniting with the
applicants. Before I was able to report upon the prudence of
men with capital and influence, uniting with men not known
to possess either, I was sent for to a meeting of " the Board"
in Cornhill, and was told that the landlord was urgent for his
rent ; and I was asked to pay that rent and take the Solicitor-
ship of the Company. I declined the office, but made the
advance, that 1 might have time to report. The result was,
that a union was not thought desirable, and the matter died.
Mr. Remington's name was used on that occasion.
About this time, in the year 1844, Mr. Alulock advertised
that he had taken up Mr. Remington, and intended to form a
Company.
Mr. Alulock also found it necessary to obtain the support of
the trade ; he sought it, and was referred to me. He came to
me, accorreaanied by Mr. Wedlake, of the firm of Clowes,
Orme, andtWedlake, the well-known and respectable solicitors,
in London.
In consequence of this, I again had an interview with the
principal houses in the trade in London; and they gave me in-
troductions to many of the leading firms in Manchester, whom
I saw on the subject.
On my return, 1 made my report to those who deputed me;
and they.resolved that it was not desirable then to form a com-
pany.
Mr. Alulock and Mr. Remington thought differently, and
they advertised a Company, with the names of gentlemen as a
Provisional Committee, who afterwards resolved that the Com-
pany should not proceed.
During all this time the only question was the propriety of
forming a Company, not the merits of Mr. Remington's choice
of a line.
The gentlemen who instructed me knew, without the aid of
either of tie, that a straight line is the shortest, and that the
straightest practicable, would be the best, and this of itself
fixed the route.
The document which was then prepared by me, and signed
by many of the leading houses in the trade, and is in my pos-
sess:on, simply stated—
" That a more rapid communication between London and
Manchester by railway is of the highest necessity.
"'That it is of paramount importance to the trade and mar u-
factures of the kingdom that such communication between the
metropolis and the northern parts of the country should not be
dependent upon one line of railway only."
These statements the subscribers understood and could
make. It would have been absurd and bootless to have asked
mercantile men to express an opinion upon the engineering
merits of a line of railway not in being.
Mr. Remington informed me that he had not surveyed
the line he suggested, but said that he had gone over the coun-
try so as to enable him to say with confidence that his line
was the only line that could be formed, and I believed it. He
was naturally anxious to obtain the appointment of engineer,
but he was unknown to the parties by whom I was requested to
act, and they were desirous, if the matter proceeded, to have
the line to be chosen approved by an engineer more generally
known. He was unwilling to have this reference made, except
to one gentleman, and the matter ended.
It is fortunate for me, now that the absurd imputation is
made against me of " filching" his line, that I have found
the map of the line which he issued in 1840, and on comparing
it with the map he now issues, 1 find that the two are essen-
tially different.
In 1840 his line ran to Leicester, taking the Midland Coun-
ties Railway the whole distance from Leicester to Derby ; re-
suming at Derby it proceeded to Leek and Macclesfield, neither
touching Cheadle or Uttoxeter.
His present line does not touch the Midland Counties, and
does not go to Derby, and whoever knows anything of the
country, or has Mr. Remington's present map, can see the
important and extensive change which this necessarily makes
between the two. Ile has, then, so far as making red lines on
a map gives title, entitled himself by a cheap and easy proness
to two lines, and his friends accuse me of filching one, but do
not condescend to say which. They at the same time proceed
to show a motiveless plunder for a valueless abstraction, by ac-
cusing me in a second count of not publishing any line.
As to his first line, Mr. Remington said it was impossible to
make a better, and I have his printed plan before me, asking
in 18-10 four millions to make it.
To make his second line so essentially different, I have his
plan and prospectus before me, asking for three millions to
make it.
I have also before me another of his prospectuses, asking for
a capital of five millions to make it.
If, as he says, he has carefully gone over these various and
differing lines, his judgment must be sadly at fault.
Had the trade determined to avail themselves of his services,
it would hve been necessary to have drawn
.his attention to
these serious variances, but that necessity did not arise.
Mr. Remington's friends have, in their speeches, con-
founded the formation of a Company with the drawing of a
line on a map, and have assumed the childish absurdity that to
ride a line on a map, gives a title to the line of road and to the
office of engineer.
So far from taking either of Mr. Remington's abstractions,
I have not even been guilty of the sin of originating " The
Direct London and Manchester Railway Company," which is
really the offending point.
In this year Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, as they assure
me, without knowing anything of Mr. Remington or ever hav-
ing heard of his lines, registered and advertised, without my
knowledge or privity, a Direct Line from London to Man-
chester. They also applied to sonic of the principal houses in
the trade, and were referred to me; and then, and not till then,
did I hear of it.
I might then, as Mr. Remington did, have registered another
Company by adding another word to vary the title, but I was
not guilty of the folly of endeavouring to establish two Com-
panies for one purpose, and of wasting the fonds of both; but
as the trade here was of opinion that a direct line must, and
ought to be formed, with the consent of Messrs. Sudlow and
Co., my name was added to theirs, and I was requested to
submit the views of the trade here to their friends in Man-
chester, which 1 did—received their authority in writing again,
as the house here thought that signatures given a year before
ought not to be used when circumstances had altered, and opi-
nions or interests might have changed.
so far from adopting either of Mr. Remington's lines, the
Managing Committee of this Company determined to have a
line surveyed for themselves, and they gave authority to Mr.
Rastrick to personally survey the country, and give them his
opinion of the best direct practicable route for a line.
If ruling a line on the map between given termini constitutes
ownership, I admit Mr. Remington's title to as many lines as
he rules, and I have not interfered with his efforts to realize
them.
His friends confound the formation of a Company with the
making, or rather the marking, of a line, and scold me be-
cause the trade have themselves formed a Company.
That is the cause of a thing without which it would not be.
If Mr. Remington had been appointed engineer to the Corn-
pany they would not have heard of this preposterous claim to
exclude the engineering world from an important tract of coon.
try. But, because a young man has published a map with a
line ruled upon it and has asked the public to grant him, first
four millions, then three, and afterwards five millions to realize
his crotchet, he argues that the country for railway purposes is
tabooed to all other engineers.
Now suppose that previously to the formation of our great
railways some aspiring tyro had published a map with an im-
possible or a singularly difficult line, had then contended that
the London and Birmingham, and Great Western Companies,
were bound to take him as an engineer, and that the great
minds of the engineering world ought to be: shut out from the
country he had marked upon his map, would the railway
world have listened to such insane drivelling? And could
those who contended for so wild a theory have hoped to sus-
tain their characters for sanity whilst upholding it?
Verily those who hold such twaddle in the Tewn-hall of
Manchester, sink in intellect below Johanna Southcott, for
she addressed herself to the ignorant, but they go to the
Athens and the Areopagitas of railway science to publish their
fatuity.
Mr. Remington cannot be ignorant that in 1840 many ob-
jections were mooted against his line, and that, amongst other
serious objections, it was stated that it required at one place
an embankment eighty-one feet high, and three miles long, and
would have taken eighteen years to form it.
Being accused of stealing his brains, I am bound to repel
the accusation ; but I confine myself to the widely different sums
required upon the face of his own advertisements to show that
their product was not worth stealing, and that as those for whom
I acted have capital and character to lose, it was my interest
to avoid committing them to a gentleman whose reputation as
an engineer has yet to be won, and to steer clear of a line pre-
sented by its parent in so unformed a state that he did not
know, when he offered it for three millions, that it would re-
quire five to mature it.
Mr. Remington, or the friend who wrote the article in the
Railway Express, says I stole the " besom ready made." I
assure them 1 have not stolen the embankment spoken of.
I do not affect engineering knowledge, but, irrespective of
the embankment alluded to, a very moderate quantity of caution
would induce any one to pause, ere he advised a Company to
adopntaampeld hdanaforbweahn asked by its
ichsumssowpaidreenat.s those Mr. Remington
has
I have not, until thus assailed, said a word depreciatory of this
gentleman's plans, for railroadsyc:ia
willna
dr feeln
so
tt
e amtlhianadgt
bb, rfi snl• eghr baaaedle
lusesqfetudat bhoe-f
phit.iatetticaem,,,s,u,rfieaaint
imputations unnoticed, might, and should probably, have
been taken to have admitted because I had not denied, charges
made in language so gross and injurious.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,

DINNER TO M. GUIZOT.
(From the Journal des Debats )
An invitation to a public dirint r having he n some time
track transmitted to Al. Gulzet from the electors of Mt zdon
and St. Pierre-sur-fives, which 'daces he represeres in the
Council-General cf Calsados. and Sunday last being fixed by
the 1111nister, he arrived on that day at the Louse of M. Le-
grand, the Mayor of St. Pierre, where he received the visit of
the electors of the two cantons, win were joined by M. Le-
dere. Peer of France ; 11. Pother, Pie feet of Calvados ; the
Sub-Prefects of A rgentan, Falaise, Vire, aed Bayeux ;
Beisard, Secretary-General of the Prefecture of Calvaries ; and
MM. Courtoise and Laintl.-Deshayes, of the Cour Royale of
Caen, electors of tie arrendi,sernent of Lnieux. [i.e hen-
quet was prepared in the corn-mark, t. The large halt was
hung with white linen, on which were airangtd with taste
garlands of flowers and green wreaths. At the end of the hall
Was placed the King's bust, surmounted with tricoloured fisgs.
Covers were laid for 260 persons, and the Mayors of St. Pierre
and Mczidon occupied the chairs of honour. At the right of
Legrand sat Zll. Guizot, and at the It ft the Pre feet of the
department. At the dessert the health of " Thse King" was
drunk with great enthusiasm; after which M. Legrand, in a
comelimentary address, in the course of which he alluded in
strong terms to the illiberal attacks trade tq an Ali Guizot
both in the Chamber and it the loess, pr °peed .• The Health
of M. Guizot." This toast was received with a triple salvo of
acclamations, and when silence was restored M. Guizot rose,
and spoke as follows :
" Gentlemen,—l am deeply affected with the kind .sentiments
which your Honourable Chairman has just expressed owards
me. He was pleased to say that Sou had ardently desired to
see me amongst yon, and 1 can truly affirm that I also was
anxious for the same event. Circumstaeces independent of
my will have alone retarded the period of our meeting, and I
congratulate myself on seeing it at last arrived. I thank yon
for your most affectionate reception, and for the lively interest
which your chairman has expressed to ree in your name, for my
success in the struggles which lam called on to sustain. Let
me, however, be permitted to use a different language from
that cf the Hon. Gentleman. These struggles, so warm, and
sometimes so rude, have never drawn from me a complaint,
and never shall ; it is the condition of public life in a free
country. Alen whom the world venerates, and by whose side
I should hold it the greatest honour to have my name one day
placed, have been attacked, abused, and calumniated in precisely
the same way. They not the less continued to serve their country;
they no: the less are honoured with its regret. We have no right
to pretend to a less difficult task, and the end towards which we
tend is well worth the trials which we sustain on the road,
which it is necessary to pass over in order to attain it. Besides,
gentlemen, if I am attacked I am supported. This
meeting, which I see around me; the feeling which pervades
it ; the sentiments manifested towards me—is riot all this a
great, a strong support? That in the midst of you, gentle-
men, that I could think of uttering any complaint, or ma-
nifesting any appearance of fatigue? And, in the very centre of
political life, in the great assemblies which have the honour of
representing the country, that adhesion which the policy that
uphold has met with, the fidelity, the firmness with which, even
quite recently, and in moments of the utmost difficulty, the
Conservative party has maintained this policy, do not permit a
man of courage to feel the slightest discouragement, or utter the
faintest murmur. Certainly there is in all this the means of
supporting and of overcoming many and many an attack.—
( Loud applause.) Shall I say it, gentlemen ? I consider
that, towards the Opposition, the press, and the jour-
nals, there are manifested at the same time an inclination to
exact too much, and too much timidity, From them are de-
manded an impartiality, a moderation, a justice, which are
scarcely compatible with our reciprocal situations and the
nature of our governmeet. They have their passions, and
we ours. Let us accept and tolerate our mutual liberty,
in place of complaining of it. The more I have mixed in
public life, and practised the constitutional regime, the more
I have become convinced that the liberty of discussion and the
liberty of the press had certain outbreaks in a great meature
inseparable from their very existence. Ido not believe these
to be more excessive amongst us, and in cur day, than they
have been elsewhere, and in other times ; and if it is just, if it
is indispensable, to repress them when they meddle with sacred
matters, which ought to be above the reach of all attack, let
us ourselves endure them without emotion, and with goad grace, in the customary course of our labours and our com-
bats. This is a portion of the movement, ef the activity of
public life, and, all matters considered, the result is pro-
ductive of more benefit than mischief. But, at the same time
that I accept frankly and without complaint the liberty of
the political press, its wild flights, and its acts of injustice
and severity, I most assuretlly regard as a necessity and
a duty to preserve with respect to it the most complete inde-
pendence—not to allow myself to be influenced either by its
advice, or by a desire to have its praise, or by any fear of its
attacks. I endeavour on all occasions to pay attention only
to things themselves—to the true interests of my country,
such as my reason sees and judges them, and I pay no atten-
tion to what the journals may say of me. Three is no digni-
fied and sensible policy but on this condition.—( Applause.)
Permit me, gentlemen, to recornmes.d 3ou to do the same.
Let me beseech you, who approve of my principles and share
my convictions--you, soy political friends, to accept frankly
the liberty of the press, to read the jeurnals without b. ing
surety ed at them, and without complainieg of tle it eteir,ele ss
arid their violence. But guar.! waits respt et to ti em the .•.u.l in-
dependence of your opinions; judge political men not according
to what is said of them, but from your personal knowledge of
their character and their previous conduct. Estimate political
acts, not from the picture drawn of them by the press, but
lifter their results in the country, and for the country. Indulge
in no feeling of anger or ill humour against all the movement,
all the noise, which the press raises constarely about ;
but place confidence only in facts—in your oven jueg-
merit. In that way alose you will be neither the dupes
nor playthings of any one ; and you will succeed, with a
little coolness and patience, in beholding men and things as
they really are. Let us at the present moment make trial
of this method. Let us forget all the polemics of which the
policy that I have the honour of sudporting has been, and still
is, every day the object. Let us considt r that pokey not in the
points of view that may be taken to attack or defend it, but in
the facts already accomplished by it, in its general, acquired,
and evident results. What was the wish of all of you, the wish
of France in 1830 ? To repulse an unjust and senseless aggres-
sion on our,laws and our liberties ; to assure the just share of the
country in the government, and its dignity in the world; to
render our constitutional regime at home and our honour abroad
perfectly independent; to make by necessity, and not by ca.
price, an obliged and decisive act of sovereignty at home, and
of national independence abroad, and at the same time not to
return to the path of domestic revolutions and foreign war ;
to maintain order by securing liberty, and to preserve
peace by disposing ourselves by ourselves alone and
completely for our government and for our country. Was
not that, gentlemen, I ask you, in 1830, 1 will not say
the well-considered and closely-reasoned intention, but
the spontaneous desire, the general feeling, the true
instinct of all present at this meeting of our department, of the
whole of France?—(Loud applause.) Well, then, Gentlemen,
fifteen years have passed over since these great days. We are
not mere men of yesterday ; we have a right to speak from ac-
quired experience and from accomplished facts. What has
come to pass? What has been done since 1830? At home,
representative government and the constitutional regime are
displayed, and continue every day to display themselves freely
and extensively. The country takes part regularly and effica-
ciously in its own affairs, with the concurrence of the great
powers instituted by the charter. This. is truly constitutional
government; this is monarchy according to the charter.—
( Applause.) Public liberty is every day practised, proved,
and developed. You attend the sittings of the Chambers ;
do you think that there is anything wanting there as to
the freedom of speech ? You read the journals ; does the
liberty of the press appear to you to be shackled ? You
have frequent elections ; do you perceive that they are
the work of corruption and violence ? Because I have
sometimes assisted you in the repairs of your churches,
in the construction of your parsonages and your schools, in as-
suring a career to your children, have you, therefore, ceased to
vote freely and conscientioudy ? Do you feel that you are cor-
rupted men ? Have you not, on the contrary, the conviction,
the certainty, that you profit by, and enjoy with entire security,
all your liberties and all their fruits? And, abroad, do you
not see clearly and positively that the great end of the Act of
1830 has been attained, that the Government of our country is
not only perfectly independent in Europe, but that Europe,
both the governments and the nations show us great respect,
and, under all circumstances, treat with us seriously and pro-
perly Have not the great questions that have been brought
forward, and:the way in which they have been resolved, fur-
nished a convincing proof of the just influence that we exercise,
and of the just respect that is paid to our interests and our
views ? And those constitutional states which have been formed
around us, which Euroi e has respected like ourselves,
which have established themselves, and are gaining strength
daily under favour of the movement communicated, and
the order maintained by us, which, in founding or modifying
their institutions, study to resemble ours, Belgium, Spain,
Greece, are they not so many' living proofs of the action, the
influence, and, I think I may add with legitimate pride, the
merited ascendancy which France and her Government
exercise abroad, to the profit of a liberal and modest policy.
which can appreciate at once the new wants of mankind, and
the internal conditions of social order? All this has takeni
place, and is taking place every day, without violence and
without war. We have succeeded in consummating a revo.
within and peace without, and to the grant
legitimacy of her
lution, and in founding a new government bteudr
of
fn
suchlavv
results are added the moderation and
Conservative anl i
polies,n their
essentialm eans
featuresS u ch, gentlemen,ar
e
are the facts as they woulet
which we practise. Such
called upon
appear
the first time. I do not hesitate to
to regard them forrh
just and allowable pride, for it is of our
say, and I say it with
of ur entire Government that I speak,
to a new spectator, who should be
country itself and
this policy, Yes!
there is ground
gentlemen, these grand facts, these grand results—splendid and
of proudo
satisfaction in-
honourable in themselves, useful and fruitful for our children as
for ourselves, which have produced for the present time and
for the future so much security, liberty, and prosperity—all
these are the work of the country and of its Government,
firmly united, and moving together on the regular path of our
institutions. It is to the King, gentlemen, it is to his
wisdom, to his enlightened and inexhaustible devotedness,
ionr k theiroe the ensemble
that are due the first homage of public gratitude.—(Cries of
Bravo,' and Vice le Roi.') The wisdom and devotedness
of the King are the more precious from his inculcating them
daily into that noble Royal Family, into the minds of those
Princes who have already sought for and found glory in the
service of France. Let our own devotedness and attachment
gentlemen, be the just reward of the devotedness of the Royal
Family ; let the royal wisdom be aided and facilitated by our
firm support ; let us persevere, in concert with it, in one
policy of peace and Conservatism. The principle of consis-
tency and perseverance is the first necessity of all governments
and the greatest; difficulty of free states. Let the Conserva-
tivemus
most
party n
rs
teatntfhien
reexraems
rp. ee,vaen4
foaumr ml y oisnt simplee dae
ss t
weexl s
taesnouuer.
as well as the statei n its glorious destinies, will reap the same
fruits and the same honour."
This speech was followed by three rounds of applause. M.
Guizot was accompanied bark to the house of the Mayer by the
whole of the electors. He' subsequently visited the church a
St. Pierre-sur-Dives, and returned to Val-Richer at seems
o'clock.

W. 11. ASITURST.
p.S._Since writing the above, I have had put into my
hands the Morning Herald of the 23d of May last only, and
I there find that 111 r. Remington advertised his line, and asks
for Two Millions only, in 40,000 shares of 501 each ; and I
have also had brought to me a prospectus, issued by him in l
for a Direct London, Manchester, and York Railway. For
this he asks Seven Millions.
Have the York Company stolen their line from him?
By asking severally two, three, four, and five millions for his
proposed excursion to Manchester, he proves that, apart from
the morality of the thing, it would be egregiously foolish to
Meal any line from so variable a Genius.

The King of Denmark has just created a new
order, consisting of a medal with the King's effigy on one side,
with the inscription " Christian VIII.," and on the reverse
the words, " For Merit," surrounded with an oaken wreaps.
The muse of the recipient is to be engraved on the edge. •