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north of the line, which was not only of individual import-
ance to his client, but cf great benefit to the public, as it
would afford a means of access to upwards of eighty acres of
land in the occupation of many individuals who otherwise
would have been shut out from it, in consequence of the
old approaches being cut off by the intended line of railway.
He (the solicitoi) had now only to say that he abandoned
the charge- against the Company on the part of his client,
and he thought it necessary to come forward and state this
publicly, as they had been suing for a penalty as well as
damage.
• Mr. CLIVE said he was glad the matter was satisfactorily
arranged, and remarked that the case was illustrative of the
utility of the clause under which proceedings had been taken.
ANOTHER CHARGE OF TRESPASS AGAINST THE RICHMOND
RAILWAY COMPANY.—Soon after the last case had been dis-
posed of, Mr. Wright, an attorney, with his client, Mr. Beckett,
made application to Mr. Clive for a summons against the
promoters of the Richmond Railway Company, under circum-
stances similar to those in the preceding case.
Mr. Wright stated that his client, Mr. Beckett, who is a
saddler, living in the High-street, Wandsworth, was the
owner of half an acre of land, adjoining that in the occupa-
tion of Mr. Atkins, and on Monday, the 6th inst., the Com-
pany entered upon and took possession of it., without having
come to any terms, or obtained the consent of the owner.
The piece of land they had taken was about 108 yards in
length, and 40 in breadth, and a portion of it formed part of
a ropy-walk. Since the company had had possession forty
willow trees had been felled.

Mr. COVE asked if the owner or his solicitor had applied
to the Company fora settlement? Mr. Wright answered in
the affirmative. They had asked 2051., and the Company
had offered W. as compensation, which his client of course
refused to take.

Mr. CLWE—Have, you applied to them since the cum,
plainant in the last case took his summons out ? Mr,
Wright-No, I have not, Sir.

CI.IVE—I should think it very probable that if you
were to see them now they would come to terms, as in the
previous case. Perhaps you had better see the secretary be-
fore the summons is issued.

Mr. Wright said the terms offeral by the company were
so low, that he despaired of coming to any amicable arrange-
ment, and would, therefore, with the magistrate's permission,
take a summons out.

Mr. CLIVE—Very well, then you may take out a sum.
mons.

The solicitor then assessed his damages at 201., and a sum-
mons was ordered to be issued against the promoters of the
Richmond Railway.

THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON
The following have been forwarded to us as copies of Mr.
Corry's letter to the Surveyor of the Navy, and Sir S. Pym's
report of the performances of the several ships of the expeli-
mental squadron in the last trial cruise :
" Admiralty, Oct. 13, 1845.
" To THE SURVEYOR OF THE NAVY,—
" Sir,—Herewith you will receive a copy of a letter from
Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, dated the 10th inst., report-
ing the return of the experimental squadron of line-of-battle
ships to Plymouth, and the result of their trial.—By com-
mand of their Lordships, " H. CORRY,"
" St. Vincent, in Plymouth-sound, Oct. 10, 1845.
" Sir,—l have the honour to forward to you, for the in-
formation of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the
diagrams of the trials of sailing of her Majesty's squadron
under -my command, and ether documents mentioned in the
enclosed schedule. In addition to which, a good trial was
commenced on the Ist inst. by the Queen, Canopus, Albion,
and Vanguard, in chase of the Daring, under a!1 plain sail,
and part topmast and topgallant studding-sails; but the fig,
which came on three hours after, prevented angles being
taken to ascertain the exact result. The Queen, however,
gained on her.
"' You will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships that we
have had some splendid trials with as heavy a press of sail as
could well be carried. One beginning with close-reefed top-
sails and reefed courses, topgallant masts struck; the next
under treble-reefed topsails, and another under double-reefed
topsails; and all these against a heavy head sea.
"In the latter, on the 7th inst., the day after the heaviest
gale, the Rodney beat the whole fleet.
"'Nothing could be more easy in all the trials than the
Queen and Albion, who never appeared to strain anything;
indeed, all the squadron proved themselves such fine ships as
to b. incapable of being tistressed by press of sail, except the
St. Vincent.

" perfectly satisfied with the result of the trials,
that the Queen is the best ship, the Albion and Rodney next,
Canopus and Vanguard much alike, Trafalgar weatherly,
but slow; St. Vincent leewardly and crank ; and •as the
weather appeared to set in fine, and not deeming that any
further trial would htnefit the service, I therefore bore up on
the 9th inst. for this anchorage, which I reached with the
squadron under my command this day, at 7 15 1,3 r.
" ' I beg to remark, for their Lordship's information, that
all the captains deserve the greatest credit for the seaman-
like manner in which they made sad, blowing in the way it
did, on the above mentioned occasion ..—I have, &c.,
PYlki, Rear-Admiral.
" To the Right Hon. Henry T. L. Corry, M.P"

THE STAIIIP-OF-FICF: AND THE

NEWSPAPER PRESS.

J`'A sy-stent of mean, petty, and vexatious extortion has
just been commenced by the Stamp-office authorities against
the newspaper press in Scotland. We had heard rumours
of this privately from some of our contemporaries, but
we were certainly not aware of the extent to which
it was about to be carried. The conductors of the
financial department of the Citizen have just informed
us that we have been charged for the month of August
no fewer than twenty " duties" more than the actual number
of advertisements which bare appeared in our columns
during the time specified. On calling at the Stamp-office
here for an explanation, our manager was informed that
the exactions of which he complained originated with
certain functionaries in Edinburgh, and that a system of in-
creased rigour had been commenced in the perusal of adver-
tisements and paragraphs with a view to the detection of
what are called " separate interests." In this way, adver-
tisements which formerly only paid a single duty. are
mulcted in two or three duties. For example, a teacher
announces at the foot of his advertisement that he has ac-
commodation for two or three boarders, this is charged an
additional duty ;—a steam-boat announcement contains,
perhaps, an allusion to an " excellent hotel," or to " an om-
nibus for conveying passengers," and in both the hotel and
the omnibus the lynx-eyed officials profess to descry "se-
parate interests," and lay claim to an additional eighteen-
pence for each But more than this, they have the impu-
dence to interfere with our duty as public chroniclers, and to
levy an unwarranted tax on paragraphs of ordinary news,
provided only it contain any intimation whereby they allege
private interests may be benefited. Critiques on pictures
exhibited at a publisher's gallery, announcements of
early fruit at any particular shop. and many other
matters which, in common with cur contemporaries, we have
been accustomed to insert, merely as pieces of news, and as
likely to interest the reader, have been -suddenly discovered
to be advertisements, and charged by the Stamp-office
officials accordingly I Now, where is this interference to
stop? Notices of new books, of new music, of rapid loco-
motion by some particular conveyance, of surgical skill or
acts of humanity ha cases of accident, of interesting and
useful inventions, of high and honourable conduct on the
part of individuals—all may be set down on the same principle
as advertisements. Are we to write with the fear of the Stamp-
office continually before our eves ? In many cases contracts
have been formed to insert advertisements for a lengthened
period at a fixed charge, and in which it is gross injustice to
mulct them suddenly and without warning in several duties.
We trust that the newspaper proprietors throughout the
country will unite together in remonstrating strongly and
firmly against the grievance in question, and in endeavouring
to check, at the outset, a system which, if persisted in, must
prove a source of continual annoyance, as well as of frequent
injustice, to the newspaper press.—Citizen.
[We can add our testimony to the account given by our
contemporary of the meanness of the Edinburgh Stamp-office
—a meanness which we believe to be illegal. We know for
certain that the London Stamp- office makes no such de-
mands upon the metropolitan journals; and the first time
that we are again exposed to the annoyance and grievance
complained of, we shall lay a case for the decision of the
Government.]—En. Glasgow Argus.

Tun MASTER PASSION.—The Rant ation of Mr.
Colley Grattan, the popular antler of • Highways and By-
ways," and "The Heiress of Bruges," as a writer of hi ;lily
entertaining narratives, cannot, but be greatly extended by
the publication of the last and best collection of his tales,
under the title of " THE MASTER PASSION," a three-volumed
work, which has just issued front the press. To those who
desire what is seasonable, we should recommend the author's
"Recollections of the West Summer." Without wishing- to
be thought satirical, we may add, that such as feel any
interest in the proceedings of rampant Orangemen, or furious
Repealers, may, perhaps, find amusement in his "Sketches
of Irish Tools." For the sentimental, there is " The Love
Draught;" for the admirer of the picturesque, " The Pilgrim
of Mont Blanc," and " The Caves of Groenendel ; " for the
studious, " The Philosopher of the Odenwald; " for the
military enthusiast, "The Hero of Waterloo ; "
and for the
lover of the supernatuatural, "The Curate Confessor." Be-
sides these admirable stories, the work contains several
others, which will amply repay the reader's perusal. Indeed,
that large class who read for amusement cannot find more
agreeable materials than are furnished for them by the lively
pen of Mr. Grattan in "TILE MASTER PASSION.'
[ADVERTISEMENT.]-13100d to the Head.—lmpurit3
of Blood. —Derangement of Health.—An extraordinary Cure by
Holloway's Pills.-111r. Willis, a retired publican, living in Pen-
ton-street, Pent onville, suffered continually from a dangerous de-
terminaaion of blood to the head, with benumbed feelings in his
limbs, health much impaired, the blood in a very bad state, oftet
heavy and drowsy, With swimmings in the head—the stomach
generally out of order, with little appetite. Every means had
faaled to restore him to health, but at last be, like thousands of
others, has been completely invigorated and restored to the
highest state of health by Holloway's Pilb. Sold (also Hol-
loway's Ointment.) at Professor Holloway's establishment
(where advice may be had gratis), and by all medicine vendors.
Merchants and others should be strongly urged to
keep their bankers' cheque-books under their own lock and key.
A case has just Occurred in a railway office, in which one of
the clerks, having obtained the secretary's cheque-book, forged
several cheques upon his banker. It appears the clerk had
been introduced by one of the Directors, and was but little
known to the other parties in the office. He bad been dis-
missed upon another charge before the forgeries were dis-
covered. Had the cheque-book not come in his way, the
Yesterday morning
opportunity for forgery ould not have occurreci.—Times.
f a new-born male child,
SmanoaED CHILD Muntmt.......
Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Fleece Tavern, Queens
on the body
which was found under very singular circumstances. On
Sunday evening last, about seven o'clock, the servant of Mr.
Alford, of No. 10, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, was opening
street, Cheapside,
the street-door, when she discovered, lying on the step, a
parcel,
which she took into the house, and upon opening it
found it containedbody of the dead a male infant. The cir-
cumstance caused a great excitement among the family, who
called in the police, and the body was taken to the station-
house. A reward f 101. has been offered for the apprehen-
sion of the unnatural parents. Mr. May, of Bow-lane, surgeon
said that he ,
had made a post anortem examination of the body,
and he was of opinion that the deceased had been born alive.
There were marks of external violence, arid the deceased had
evidently died from excessive hemorrhage. Toe Coroner oh-
served that the case was enveloped in mystery, and probably
_ evidence might
if the inquiry was adjourned, some additional
be obtained. The inquiry was adjourned accordingly.
PRICE or GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 111 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s
100. per ounce for standard
gold,
gives an
exchange of
short being e 25 44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at
5
London
in 55, it follows that gold is 0.43 per cent. dearer
than in Paris. By advices front Hamburgh, the price of
gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint-priceof
3?. 17s. l 0 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13 Si ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short bring 13 9, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent.
dearer in andon than in Hamburgh.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official real : •:..e in Downing-street.
Lord Jocelyn transacted business at the Foreign-office on
Monday.