The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

SUN,--ITONDON. WEDNESDAY MORNIN-G, OCTOBER 22, 1845.

THE

N E W IN 0 V E L S.
r :,;(1y at :tll the LitrarieF.

THE AMA: -TI V E NAN. ity Mrs. TROLLOPE, Authoress
or " The Vicar of WI exhill," Et.c. 3 vols.

11.
LOVE. A TA. of Venic...'. By tIORACE S3ft.rn, Esq., Author of
" Brarnbletye, House," &c. S v.I

THE STORY OF AROYALAVOU RI fE. By 3lrs. GORE
3 vols.

IV.
THE NFAST e. r_\ s I N, a)] t omen Tales. 13y T. C. GRATTAN,
I%sq., Author of " The Heiress of Bufgcs," &c. 3 vols.

V.
THE WHITE SLAVE, AND THE HITS lAN PRINCE. Ey
Elie Author (.1* " Revelations of Russia," &c. 3 vols.
Hen y Colttrn, Fuolislier, 13, Great Al arlborough -street.

Now reedy, in one vol. post Bvo.,
4
1300 K FOR. A RAINY DAY;
Or, RECOLLECTIONS of the EVENTS of the LAST

SIXTY-six YEARS,

By JoHN THOMAS SMITH,
Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in :he British Museum; Author of

• Nollekens and his Times," &c.

"Itepl t• with inr•l*est, a.tl cunt: fining a great variety of In-
formation. AneNtotes of tekbrated personages, and infinitely
annum,; sketches of characters, abound without number."—Sunday

Iti-Inr,l Bentley, New Buriington-street,
*.* T. be had also of all Booksell rs.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
r! ;IN EV,:NiNt;
Will performed THE ENCHANTRESA.

—„...
Thunir, Mr. ilornti'li Nuguez: r. 11. Horticastle; Duke d'Aqu'lst,
Mr. Weiss; Ixni Sylvio, Mr. W. 11,,rrison ; Doctor Matlianasius,
Mr. llatley ; Stella, Mss Romer.
Atter which, will be repeated a New Grand Mallet Fa•.taslique,
eittit,ed TUE MARBLE AIA DEN. Nke Laurent de Atedicis, M.
; t', ince eosin() de Medici, M. Petipa; Massachio, 11, Albert ;
A.,ca io, Sldlle. I.euhe ; Prince,s Beatrice, 3ldlle. Adele; the tatue
i.f ilehe, ~dlle. Inunilatre.

Ali it,
ENIN4,

Will 1 e performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte,
M:. Anderson ; Jt. its. Desehappelles, AL. Janes Blind; Pauline
s,happelles, .311:s Helen Faucit.

Acter whi(ll, MI WIFE'S 310ThER. 'Uncle Foozlo, Mr. W
farren ; Qaleisfidget. Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Budd, Miss J. Bennett
To eon,lude with A 4: A INET QUESTION.

IL Ittil AL, A cfrhLeiLl
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated HE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years
Ago. In w ich Mussr,. O. Smith, Selby, Stok,r ; Mrs. Yates,
and 3lrs. Fitzwilhain wOl pa, form.
To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma-
zom kaph,•bia. • In which _Messrs. Paul BeAbrd and Wright, Miss
Woolga , Madame Celeste, &c, will penorm.
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM
THIS EVENING

Will he repeat d TUE LAST OF TII•7, BRAVOES. Principal
liaracters by Messrs. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bender Yee-
told, and 3iiss Ai den.
Alter which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR.
To be followed by a tiew and Original Comediutta, entitled PETER
fI,,NKINS; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
)awson.
To csnelude wigs ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP.

PRINCE&S'S THEATRE, OXFORD-SThEET.
TItIB EVENING
Will be performed 111.111,Fr, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet, _Air,
Idaeready ; Gertrude, Mrs. 'rental'.

After which, A COURT CALL IN 1740.
To condo& witk A MAN WITHOUT A HEAD.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

Open tv,ry EVENING.—NOVELTY and EXTRA ATTRACTION.
M. PIIILLIPPE will cont nue to repeat all his most p,pular and
peculiar MAGICAL DELUSIONS, which are nightly received with
thti most eminuastic approbation. The ()MARINI FAMIX are
enla,,ed, and will appear on the 'light Rope, and dance their eels-
broted Pas de Coeur. Mae. Kopbel (on la idle des ileurs) will per-
t'Ala her most popular PAS de Ca,actere. To conclude with the as-
tonnitug and i:,explx,•ble Chinese Experiments, entitled the
MAGIC BASINS and GRANDE MENAGERIE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE,
THIS EVENING

Will be revived the favourite Drama of GWYNNE rH VAUGHAN.
Supported by 3lessrs. Waldron, C. Boyne, Brookes, G.
Kate Howard, &c.
After which, SKETCHES IN INDIA.
To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AM ATItE OF ARTS.
i-RoPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BArri.
Continued career of success ! Spectacle extraordinary ! Magni-
ficent effects, peculiar scenic &splays, pict rial groupings, and
unique appointments, combined with interesting incidents, por-
traying the pe-Miar sagacity and high training of the Double S:un
of coloured Barbs in the truly imi.osing Ittpotiramatic production,
entitled, THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and ihe Lily of MemAhis
And The Horse 01 the Pyramids, hi which the whole Company
will appear.

To which will be adthd, an entire change of the Arena novelties,
embracing the united talents of the French and Eitglish Equestrians.
The whole to conclude, each wish the Equestrian Melo-
drama, taken from the French, entitled LE COUPE hORGE.

IDUk..'S ROYAL SURREY TH LATHE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE ROVER'S SECRET; or, The Bridge of
St. Martin's. M. Martial, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Wiliam, Mr. H. Hughes;
larisse, Mrs. Henry Vining.
After which, Mons. PLEGE and FAMILY'S extraordinary per-
formance on fir, Tight Rope.
To conclude with OLIVER TWIST, supported by the whole
Company.

Ti E EATII.EIL—Suis OFFICE. OCT. 21.
rtIERMOMETER, Lo "vest, 38; Ilighegt, 55; Noon, 49.

BAROMETER, 30.36.
WIND N.W.; fine sunshiny weather.

HIGH WATER AT LO/41),-)N-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
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, favour extended to them. Hitherto, at whatever expense
1 they have been formed, the aggregate of millions in 7
vested in bond fide lines now in full operation,
has yielded a very handsome return of interest The
amount of accommodation for the simple objects of travelling
from one part of the kingdom to the other—the facilities for,
I and consequent enlargement of, the domestic and, to a great
extent, the foreign trade of the empire—the removal of pre-
judice4—the diffusion of that knowledge and those en-
lightened views which are the results of personal observation
only, and, therefore, identified in a peculiar manner with the
establishment of railroads—the enormous and economical
machinery they supply to Government fir the transmission
f troops, stores, intelligence with almost intellectual
rapidity; these are properties that would alone entitle
them to that respect and patronage which they
FO largely receive from a liberal public Now, if
the prodigious sums expended on the promotion of
the lines that are partially or entirely completed and work-
ing. have turned out to be so well invested, the fair presump-
tion is in favour of a sitnilar result. attending the outlay of
that capital which will be called for by the numerous pro-
jects lit will, next year, be commenced our of the multitu-
dinous number of those announced to the public, that will be
either abandoned, or speedily relinquished, after a few steps
of preliminary progress shall have been made in them. It is
found that the receipts on working lines have already so
wonderfully exceeded all that was anticipated from them;
that the mere surplus of the returns over the market rate of
interest, represents a new and realised capital of very many
millions sterling. When we reflect to how large an amount
of engineering talent, and mechanical industry and labour, and
landed and chattel property that had previously, lain dor-
mant, and but for these great works must, in all probability,
have continued to do so, these railway undertakings have
given development, retnunerating wages, and unremitting
employment, we must acknowledge that domestic capital has
never been more wisely or beneficially employed among us,
irrespectively of the consideration of the superior profits it
has earned in these applications of its productive powers.
We may be thought bad political economists for doing so,
though we should find little difficulty, we think, in esta-
blishing the validity of the grounds on which our appre-
hensions are founded—when we confess to the painful im-
pressions under which we regard the immense and yet
growing application of British capital to foreign railways.
No temporary advantages which our countrymen may derive
from investing their money in them can compensate for the
impolitic improvidence with which we are assisting other
nations to rival, with an implement supplied by ourselves, our
own success in extending and consolidating, by means of
railwaye, the foundations of our domestic prosperity and
national grandeur. But to devote all the energies of that
implement to these beneficial ends in our own country, and
at the same time to impart the full benefit of their exercise in
the shape of an immense outlay of remunerating wages on
our own domestic labour, does seem to us to be among the
most salutary, and wise, and permanent efforts upon which
British enterprise can employ its all but boundless resources
and sagacity, as well as its capital.

We wish to direct the attention of our readers to a corre•
spendence between Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, the City Solicitor,
and Mr. W. H. ASHURST, Chairman attic Committee of City
Lands, and Solicitor of the Direct London and Manchester
Railway Company, which appears in another column.
on the subject of providing a Central City Ter-
minus for all the great northern lines. The sub-
ject is one not of mere local, but of vast national im-
portance. As has been justly observed by Mr. ASHURST in
his letter to the members of the Corporation, transmitting Mr.
PEARSON'S communication to himself, " the economy of
time is to a man of business as important as the saving
of expense in the transit of the goods in which he deals,"
and at present it is a matter of universal observation, that
from the distance of the stations in the outskirts of London,
and the time consumed by stoppages in the streets and other
accidental causes, this comparatively insignificant journey
takes wore time and causes more trouble than travelling on
the railroad for thirty or forty miles. But not only
will the construction of this great Central Terminus be
an economy of time—it will be an economy of money also'
" The cost of cartage to the rail at Manchester and from- the
terminus in the outskirts to the City amounts to more
than one-sixth of the charge for the whole one hundred
and ninety-seven miles. Upon goods from manufacturing
towns nearer to London, the proportionate expense of cart-
age of course tells with still greater effect." In every point
of view, therefore, as regards railways themselves, and all
connected with them, whether as shareholders, passengers, or
transmitters of golds, a Central City Terminus is a thing
greatly to be desired. We all remember the furious
opposition which, some years since, the Corporation of
London, backed by the citizens, made to every pro-
position for bringing railways into the heart of
the City. Their vehemence on the subject forced the rail-
way companies then struggling into existence to form
termini in the outskirts of the City, and the citizens congra-
tulated themselves that they had, by their public spirit, saved
themselves from the noise and smoke and dirt of railways,
and preserved their city pure and uncorrupted. But
now " a change has come o'er the spirit of their
dream." They begin to perceive, that " where the honey
is, there the bees are found"—that the termini of the rail-
ways in the outskirts are, in fact, the centres of so many
improving towns—and that the localities in which these im-
provements take place will (if the City do not provide it-
self with similar accommodation) speedily draw around
them business establishments of every description, and
will ultimately drain from the City a large portion of

the trade, which, if it be allowed a fair start in
the race of improvement, its central ;situation aid
existing commercial pre-eminence will infallibly secure.
-4o that for their own sakes the citizens of London
will no longer oppose a proposition which is fraught not
only with benefit to the community at large, but
which must be also of incalculable advantage to
zhemselves ; besides, the success of the atmospheric principle
has removed all objections on the score of noise, smoke,
and danger of fire—the only reasonable objections
that could be made to the bringing a railroad
into the City. With regard to the line which Mr. PEARSON
proposes to take, we consider that its formation will
confer a great benefit, both morally and physically,
on the inhabitants of the City of London. It will
be surely no small benefit to the health of
the community to do away with the present un-
wholesome, ill-drained, and worse ventilated neigh.
oourhood of Field-lane and Saffron-hill, and substitute for
it a covered railway, well lighted and ventilated, with a
public thoroughfare running along its roof, flanked by wel!-
built houses, in which, in the open light of day, a legi-
timate and honest commerce will be carried on, instead of
the present dishonest traffic for which Field-lane is so noto-
rious. A moral and a physical pestilence will have been
removed, and this alone ought to secure to the proposition the
-upport cf every philanthropist. The raising of the level of
llolboin-bridge, and thus diminishing the declivity of Snow
and Holborn-hills, will also be a great public benefit,
•tnd prevent those accidents by which at pre-
sent many a valuable horse has been rendered
utterly useless, and not unfrequently life itself has
'seen destroyed. For these reasons we trust that the City
Lands Committee will at once accede to the petition of the
Direct Manchester Company for the purchase of Farringdon-
inarket as a railway terminus, and to that of the Binning-
'tam and London Company for the purchase of the site of the
Fleet Prison fsr a similar purpose. If these companies
obtain termini in the City the other railways must do the
same thing, and we may shortly expect to hear of the Great
Western extending their line from Paddington to London.
i'he sooner they do so the better. -

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received. The ac-
•ounts from the provinces relative to the collection of the
;ew income-tax are very favourable—the contribution:
oming in with wonderful punctuality. At several places,
among others Barcelona and Falset, earthquakes had been
felt, and at the latter place the inhabitants became so
Tightened that they repaired to the church in crowds and
'tiered up prayers for the preservation of the place. No
Atblic transactions took place on the Bourse,

According to the official French journal, the public
anxiety respecting the movements of ABD-EL-K &DER had
Inch abated. No new attack of importance had been made
Ind General LAMORICIERE had, by great exertion and di,-
,)atch, sent troops to those quarters where any hostile ope-
.ations might be expected. That journal contains the follo%.
lig extract from a letter on the subject, dated Algiers, Oct.
t i :—" The accounts from Oran are more favourable. The
rebellion seems to be for the present confined to rather a
Darrow circle, or between the four sides of the square formed
,y the sea, the Tafna, the parallel to the sea running through
flemcen and Lalla Maghroia, and the frontier of Morocct.
this great movement, the commencement of which had been
narked but by disasters, had struck everybody, and demo-
•alised the bulk of the people of this city ; the Marshal's
tbsence from Algeria, and that of General DE LAMORICIERE
'rom the province of Oran, were real and serious Ctuses•o'
anxiety. Confidence lms now revived. ABD-EL-KADEV,
after being bold and skilful, has stopped and hesitated, either

pontaneously, or owing to the nature of the army he con:-
'lands, and has not gone on with decision. Time has beell
or us, and now the evil will not increase. On arriving at
)ran, General DE LAMORICIERE has assemble.' about him soinc

.olated c,rps; the towns or posts are sheltered against ah,
drions attacks, and the General in person was, on the sts
istant, in front of ABD-EL-KADER, ready to combat hill.
vherever he might move. We await with impatience th‘
arrival of the Marshal, and of troops from France."
The domestic news in the Paris papers is generally without

utere,st. According to accounts from St. Petersburg, the
.ustom-houses between Russia and Russian Poland were

to be removed at the commencement of the new year, so thai
for the future there will be a free commercial intercourse be-
tween the two countries. The Journal des Debuts publishes
it length the address of the Municipality of Berlin to tin
KING, relative to the German Catholic Church, with hi:
MAJESTY'S reply. We have already published an outline o'
these documents, and find little new in the KING'S answe•,
except his manifest disapprobation of the step taken by th 4
magistrates, and a bitter reproof for th ukewarmness
hitherto in the cause of Protestantism. " I must deny," said
Le, " that the civic authorities have any right to mix indi-
rectly or directly in the affairs of the Evangelical National
Church ; but I willingly concede to them a moral competency
if they had fulfilled in an eminent degree their duti,
as patrons of the churche,, it th had
under other circumstances, the same interest fbr church mat
ten, and. bad, above all, religiously maintained the bond of

Protestant brotherhood. But, gentlemen, with my hand on
my heart, it is not possible for me to recognise these moral
attributes in the Court of Aldermen. Cast a glance at the
spiritual condition of our city. In no city, great or small, of
our country, is the care of souls so ill provided for. One
almost incredible but true circumstance must be particularly
placed under view. It is, that under FREDERICK WILLIAM 1.,
when the city reckoned between 50,000 and 70,000 inhabit-
ants, the number .of pastors not proportionally but strictly
numerically was more considerable than it is to-day, with
400,000 inhabitants, in Berlin."
No business of consequence was done in the French Funds
at TORTONI'S oa Sunday. The Three per Cents. were quoted
at 83f. 15c.

The following are the prices of shares in some of the new
lines, as quoted 'at Marseilles and Lyons:—
MARSEILLES, Our. I(.—Marseilles and Avignon. 1,045 f.;
Thallogne, 632 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 755 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux,
6921: 50c.

LYONS, Oar. 16.—Paris and Orleans. 1,235 f.; Paris and
Rouen, 1,053 f.; Orleans and Vierzon, 756 f.; Northern, SHE
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Oar. 20.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. Namur and Liege
Bordeaux &Mcditerran North Jamaica .....
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon
& Cette (Espeleta) 2% Orleans and Bordeaux 12%
Do. ( Mackenzie's) Over Yssel
Central of Spain ..... Paris & Lyons (Laffitte)
Demerara ...
Dendre Valley ...... 2% Ditto (Calon's)....
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Paris and Rouen 40%
Dijon and Mulhouse Paris and Strasburg
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte deL'Est) 2%
(Laffitte's)
Ditto ( Rosamel's) 3% Rouen and Havre
Do (Le Boeuf) Royal North of Spain —
Do. Pepin lo Halleur.. Sambre and Meuse
Great Paris and Lyons. Strasbourg and Basle
Great Western Bengal Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jamaica Junction....... dent, and Hasselt —
Do. Nort h Midland... fours and Nantes
Do. Extension
Jersey ...
Louvain and Jemeppe.. Verona and Ancona —
Lyons and Avignon.... 'West Flanders 6

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From Time 5,,,,n of Last Night.)
The sales of cotton at LivNrl3ool, yesterday, were about
5,000 bag., of which speculators took 2,000. There was no
change in prices, 250 Surat went at 3d. to 3%c1.; 50 Pernam
at 7d.; 50 Maranham at 6d. to 6yi. ; and 4,650 American
at aid. to sd. per lb. Shares were flat, and prices lower.
The panic anticipated, and worked into expectant form by
the Times has yet to be demonstrated. Thing; this morning
look brighter, and confidence is more appareot. For any one
to have imagined that a moiety of the new schemes started
lately would be brought before Parliament in the next session
were a pure absurdity, but still our contemporary appesrs to
think that such will be the case, when so large an amount
as 50,000,000/. is stated to be required for the necessary Par-
liamentary deposits. If the sum to be deposited be so large,
so much the better, as it shows, at least, that the people of
this country have an amount of capital at command, that
cannot be equalled by the population of any other kingdom
in the world. As to bubble schemes, the sooner they are
rooted out of the market the better; and a panic among this
class of projects would prove a benefit, not an injury.
We are pleased to observe a decidedly better feeling in the
Stock markets today, and a reaction upwards, which, we
trust, will become strengthened as the public make them-
selves better acquainted with the views of the panic-mongers,
viz., to take advantage of a rush by sellers in order to c me
in cheap, and profit by the subsequent restoration of confi-
dence. Consols have been 965, to 974 for present transfer,
and 97% to 914 for Account. The premium on Exche-
quer-bills has /13een advanced to 445. and 455. We
call the Stock-market full 1,,i per cent. better than yesterday
morning. Bank Stock is steady at 206 to 207, and India
Stock is heavy at 264. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 98 to M ; and the Three per Cents. 96 to % ; South
Sea Old Annuities are 951/ to 96.
The Foreign market is rather flat as regards Dutch Bonds,
but steady for most of the other investments. Mexican have
been fir-313a for the Actives; Portuguese Four per Cents.
are 57 to 581/2 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are quoted
58% to 59 ; Brazil Stock is worth 85.
Business in Railway Shares is conducted upon a much
more reasonable scale, and although prices flag, the jobbers
are more- inclined to operate than they were yesterday.
osis, CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent: Reduced ...... 961/A% 96 96
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96i 9. 1,4 97
NTew 34 per Cents ... 9814 98 98%
Long Annuities toexnireJan.lB6o 10 11-16 13-16 10 13-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 101%2 % 10%
Ditto 30 'rears, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 10 15-16 10 15-16
India Stock 264 264
India Bonds, 1,0001-
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account .. ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, I%d 43 41 44 45 pm. 45
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — 21%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Account 3134 32
Portuguese 5 per Cents. -
Ditto, 4 per Cent 571/_ 58%
Ditto, Account —581 c,
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account ••• 253/
Belgian 4% per Cent. — 98 tst
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto. Account ... ....- ..... 583% 58%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% 93% 931/4
Equador -4%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 125

Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s
Bristol and Exeter
Cale.lonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 6% 5% ... 5 4
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1,6 l% ... lg
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cork and Waterford ... 11% —
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1%....,. ')% 31g 31%
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford 2%...... 3
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 51%...... 61414 6
Direct Northern
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 22141,4 23...... 23
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
Easi Lincolnshire
Kdinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
East & West of England 1% 1 13/4
Edinburgh and Perth... 11,,, 4 4
Essex and Suffolk ..... 1% 1,4 134
Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorset 23/4...... 3
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and
Central of Wales 1 %...... 2% 3... 3
Grand Union l% . 2% 21%
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..100
Ureat Western SO
Ditto 1,4 Shares '',o ' B 7
Ditto, Fifths 2O 35% 351,
Elul] and Selby SO
Do. Half Shares 2 ...... 221,
Llneaster and Carlisle... 25
Leicester & Birmingham 225. ll p % p
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
Leicester and Tamworth 495.
Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 5141,4 5 %
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New
castle Junction
London and Birminghmloo 217 219 219
Do. Thirds
Do. Quarters 2
Ditto Extension
London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d. 10
Do. New
ondon and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d 2434
Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d — „,
Do. New
Condon and York .2% 514 4% 5%
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster ... 2% 314 3
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... - ...... ..... 2 1,4 ..... . 334 ... .......
Londonderry &Coleraine 21b...... 54
...
Manchester and Leeds... 76 146
Manchester and Birmm. 40 — ••• ••••• ......
Do. Quarters 4 ...... 15
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Midland 100 l7O 171 l7l
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby... 100
N;ewcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 63
Do. New Brandling... 15
Newcastle and Berwick 5
Newport& Abergavenny 21 —
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ... ..
North British
Do., New ... ..... ....• 1
Northern and Eastern... 45
.
Do. Scrip
Do. Quarter Shares... 1214 —
Do. New ...
NT. Kent & Direct Dover 21%- .. 42 % ...... ...... 3%
North Staffordshire 425....... SV/4 p ...... ... Oi P
Norwich and Brandon
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1% 4%
Oxford, Gosport, Ports .
mouth, & Southamptn 425.
Oxford and Worcester... 214 93/, M 10
Perth and Inverness ... 21/i
Preston and Wyre
Do. % Shares
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
-cottish Central
Scottish Midland l% 41,4_
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
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Valley Union
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53/4
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Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
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Tours and Nantes (Mac-
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Frankfort on Maine 1221
Petersburgh, 3 Us..
Berlin
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Madrid 36i
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COURT OF ALDERMEN.
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Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of bugness.7i ----=-__2s,
DEBTORS AND PRISONERS CHARGED WITH OFFENCE,Ii: `-=•-•
Alderman 'WILSON brought up the report of the Gao , • ia Di
mittee on the subject of an application to the Sectstk
State relative to the Debtors' Prison in Whitecross-street, and 31.
i_stcs
the Giltspur-street Compter.
The report, which recommends a very important change, is
as follows :—" In obedience to an order of this court. of the
7th day of October, whereby we were directed to consider the
present overcrowded state of the House of Correction in
Giltspur-street, the want of classification and proper separa-
tion of prisoners, with a view of applying an early remedy,
and to report our opinion thereon; we, your special Com-
mittee, do certify that we have proceeded in the ccarsidera-
tion of the said reference and have referred to the several
proceedings which have taken place with reference to the
enlargement or removal of the Giltspur•street Compter and
House of Correction, and it appearing that the Governors of
Christ's Hospital have abandoned their idea of purchas-
ing the said Compter, we turned our attention to -
the best course tc be adopted, and inasmuch as, by the altera-
tion in the law relative to debt, the number of priseners con-
fined in the Debtors' Prison is considerably reduced, and the
said prison is built upon a larger area than is required fir its
present parp,,ses. we are of opinion that, instead of enlarging
the present Giltspur-street Compter, or building a Compter
at the back of, or adjoining Newuate, the most expedient course
to obviate the existing- difficulties at Giltspur-street Cometer
will be by appropriating the site ef the Debtors' Prison with ~
some adjoining property for the erection of a suitable House
of Correction, and converting the present Compter into a
Debtor's Prison; and we therefore recommend the Court to
direct that an application be made to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department for his sanction to this arrange-
ment." •
Alderman Witsos, in moving that the Committee should
agree with the report, said it should be immediately
carried into execution, and the Committee had inquired most
particularly into the circumstances and diffieotti. s w hich
necessarily presented themselves in the consideration of such
a subject, and as it was the opinion ef all the Committee,
with the exception of one (Alderman Sidney, we believe),
that they should not build a prison out of the City while
they had' room for one within It, they had decided in favour
of the proposition to make the alteration mentioned in the
report. Whitecross-street Prison was comparatively empty
by the operation of the late Acts relative to debtors, and
it appeared quite obvious, that if the appropriation of the site
of that prison to the building of a House of Correction were
sanctioned by the Secretary of State, there would be no diffi-
culty to contend against-in meeting the views of those who
required that the extent of the place of confinement should
be spacious, and adapted to the existing demands
of prison economy. The complaint so frequently
made against the Giltspnr street Compter was, that •
it was not sufficiently large for the classification, •
and the other important arrangements relating to prison dis-
cipline. Now it was decidedly the fact that five acres
could be had in the adjoining portions of ground for the
money which one acre would coat near the site of Giltspur-
street Compter. Sir James Graham might- dissent from the
recommendation of the Committee after all, but it appeared
to the Committee that the most advisable course was that
which they had thus recommended.
Alderman SIDNEY said, that although he most cordially
worked with the Committee in their object to effect an im-
proved system of prison discipline, he still adhered to the
opinions he had before expressed, that there was every-
thing to recommend the choice of a site of a prison at
a distance from the City. As, however, he observed that
the other City magistrates were of quite a contrary opi-
nion, and be despaired of being able to alter that
impression, he agreed in the recommendation of the change
suggested as an improvement upon the existing plan. It
seemed to be supposed by some that the present area of
Whitecross-street Prison would be sufficiently extensive for
the purposes of a prison for persons charged with offences.
He certainly thought otherwise.
Sir C. MARSHALL said, that although a considerable re •
-duction had taken place in the number of persons confined
in Whitecross-street Prison compared with the number with
which that prison used to be crowded, still the Court should
look to the consequences which might result from the very
recent alterations in the Act of Parliament relating to
debtors.

Alderman SIDNEY knew of no Act of Parliament which
was likely to increase the number in the Debtors' Prison.
He looked upon every Act which had of late years passed as
calculated to diminish the inmates.

Alderman CHALLIS believed that if any such difficulty
should arise as that alluded to by Sir Chapman Marshall, it
could be easily removed by a skilful alteration in the Giltspur-
street Compter.
Alderman FAREBROTHER approved of the report, but sug-
gested that it would be more prudent in the Court to seek a
conference with Sir James Graham on the subject than to go
to him with a plan cut and dry for his adoption. There was
a great difference between these two modes of addressing a
Minister, who would naturally look will more favour to that
in which his own ruggestioris appeared to be an object with
those who were to apply for his sanction.
Alderman Wirsos at once adopted the suggestion of
Alderman Farebrother, and the report was altered accord-
ingly, and unanimously adopted. A special Committee was
appointed to seek the conference.

THE POTATO DISEASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR' farmer in this neighbourhood who had a bury of
about fifty sacks of potatoes, discovered that they had been
a!tacked with the prevailing epidemic. To such an extent
had the ravages of the dis..ase prevailed, that only six bags
out of the lot were thought worth saving, and these (being
more or less affected), he sold :o a tradesman of this City for
pigs. This latter gentleman had them emptied into an out-
house, which was dry, and to which there was a free access
of air, and in a very short time he found that the diseased
parts- were completely dried up, and the remainder fit for
culinary purposes.
This suggests the propriety of keeping the potato out of
the damp, and in places where there is Este ventilation ; and
I trust this communication will be attended to by potato
growers, who have the accommodation of barns, out-houses,
&c., to enable them to try the experiment.—Tours, &c.
Worcester, Oct. 20, 1845. p. if.

THE LITTLE FoUNDLING.—Some few weeks ago a
tine little girl was left in a band.box at a gentleman's house in
Skircoat. from whence it was removed to the union workhouse.
During the past week two 5/. notes were inclosed to C. Barstow.
Esq., clerk to the Halifax union, accompanied by a neatly written
note, evidently by a female hand, as follows:—" For the main-
tenance of the foundling—a little girl—left between the Sowerby.
bridge station and Halifax, in the beginning of September. First
Year." It would seem, therefore, that the subscription will be
an annual one. It is intended to christen the little foundling
in a few days; perhaps the lady who forwarded the above note
would intimate what name she would wish it to be baptised ?
Halifax Guardian.

THE ISLE OF JERSEY RAILWAY.—The prelimi-
naries connected with the " Isle of Jersey Railway emit Pier
Company," are now being rapidly proceeded with. We have now
before us an accurate plan of the whole scheme. It would be dif
cult to conceive a line of railroad, even of much more limited
dimensions than that which now engages the attention of our
islanders, capable of being constructed at a cost so comparatively
trifling. We understand that since the recent meeting at Loxey's
hotel, many of the previously most bitter enemies of the scheme
have become converted to an idea of its utiVt7. Not a few inquiries
have been made of ourselves, in relation to the probability of a rise
in the rate of premium—inquiries evincing the sleep interest
entertained with respect to the affair.
We are happy to record the generous offer of Mr-
Wallis, Second Master on board %he Excellent, win very kindly
volunteered his services to the Muter-Attendant of Portsmouth
Dockyard, to .conduct the ill-fated Eclair, from the Mothetbank
to Stangate creek, should any difficulty occur in obtaining a pilot.
United Service Gazette.

Sir R. Peel has appointed Mr. W. T. Thornton to
be Receiver General at the Board of Excise.

POTATOES AND SCRlP.—There was a sort of slight
panic on the Stock ExchAnte here, on Wednesday, caused, it
was said, by the partial failure of the potato crop—and the joke
was kept up by a drummer or two goivg through and warning the
citizens not to eat what were of them, because they were bad.
"Phis small depreriion did not last, of course, and it was laughed
over next day under the designation of the " potato panic."—
Glasiow Constituti.nal.

TILE NAIL TRADE.—The Bromsgrove nailors re-
ceived on Saturday last, 2.05. in the pound for t7..eir labour.
During the depression of the trade the nailors were subject to a
discount of 20 per cent , and a short time ago they struck for a
reduction of the per centage, aiAl were &lowed 18s. for the
pound. They now reeeive their money in full. At the quar-
terly meeting of the nail ironmongers, held at the Hotel. Dud-
lay, on Tuesday last, the following resolution was adopted :
" That the masters now present are favourable to an advance in
the wages of the workmen."—Worcester Guardian.
Preparations are now mbking for comrrenc•ing the
stupendous work of the High Level Bridge across the Tyne. As
a preliminary step the engineers have been this week boring in the
bed of the river for the foundations of the piers. In view of these
and other extheanyseiveplerrrategiounesn,
tHvri.sHitsutdosotnhishtlo.Pw.n, aoufdlaltler.—. Robertls.
castle Journal.

Yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of the last of
Nelson's great battles—the battle of Trafalgar. It says little
for the gratitude of the inhabitants of London that, while in
so many provincial towns monuments have been for twenty
or thirty years erected, forty years after his death the monu-
ment in Trafalgar-square is still unfinished.
DRINKING FOR A WAGER.—On Tuesday a per-
son called Thomas Lister, a shoemaker, living at Barnesley, un.
dertook, for a trifling wager, to drink two quarts of ale and a pint
of rum in ten minutes, which he accomplished, but was so ill after,
that a surgeon was obliged to be sent fir, and narrowly saved his
life by the application ef the stomach-pump.—Leeds Intelligencer.
SHAKING A WO5l AN IN A SACK.-- At the Blacl-
- Petty Sessions on Wednesday, Sylvester Whalley, Thomas
Taylor, William Whitehead, and George Heap were charged by
Mary Pollard with having shaken her in a sack. All the parties
were employed at the print-works of Mr. Hargreaves, at Broad
Oak, Accrington. The complainant stated that on Monday week
a person who had previously courted her had got married, when
the defendants, who worked in the same room in the mill as her.
self, came up to her, and said, as she had " lost her chap," they
would shake her in a bag if she would not pay them some money
' for drink. She refused to comply with their request, when Heap
got hold of her, and Taylor found a sack, and they all forced her
into it, and shook her. Her person was very indecently exposed
while she was being forced into the sack. The defendants ad-
mitted having committed the offence, and said in extenuation, that
the complainant had laid hold of one of them by the nick and
tried to kick him. The magistrates expressed their surprise at
the cowardly nature of the assault, and the pitiful excuse offered,
and fined each of the defendants in the penalty of '206. and cogs.
The defendants expressed themselves very dissatisfied at this de.
cision, as "shaking in the bag" was a custom on such occasions as
that referred to by the complainant, whereupon the magistrates re.
called them, and increased the fine to 50s. and costs, and ordered
them to find two sureties to keep the peace for twelve months.
Subsequently, however, at the intercession of Mr. Hargreaves, who
pleaded the ignorance of the defendants and the custom spoken of,
and on the defendants declaring their contrition for the offence
ctohlet._li
they had
ai committed,
.r
Guardian. the penalty was mitigated to '2os. each and
A RAILWAY CASE DECIDED WITH RAILWAY SPEED.
—Yesterday morning a youth, named John Silvester, was charged
before the mayor with having stolen a carpet bag, containing a
variety of articles of wearing apparel, the property of the RC,.
Matthew Henry Farrer, of Shirley, Croydon, Surrey. The
rev. complainant said that, upon the evening of the 7th inst., be
arrived by a train at the London railway station in this town, on
his way to Lancaster. On alighting from the carriage he placed
his carpet bag upon the platform while he went to look for his
portmanteau, and on his return he found it was gone, and bad seen
nothing of it till that morning, when it was pointed out to him in
the possession of Mr. Inspector Edmonds. Inspector Edmonds
stated that on the evening of the Stb inst., from information be
had received, he apprehended the prisoner in New Summer-street,
and found upon him part of the property that bad been stolen.
The carpet bag and the remainder of the articles claimed by Mn;
Farrer Jere found at the prisoner's lodgings. After hearing the
above erdence, and the property having been identified, the mi.-
sonar wits committed to the sessions, then being held, and in d
hthaanvintirtaoheoaduedrs he was btrUthgebtbe
charge,fore twheasLes;a:nritEdi;d:ecmotorjotuwrn,,,,,lialei:do:
menthe! imprisonment with hitrdlabour.—B,
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