The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

THE TRUCK SYSTEM IN REFER-
ENCE TO THE. LAND AND TO Tila
CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlA,—The oft repeated cry of heavy burdens on the
land, led to inquiries which proved that the land-
owners in their capacity of legisl itors, had in the
imposition of taxes greatly favoured themselves at the
expense of the rest of the community. In
like manner, the recent attempt of Mr. 'errand
to excite public indignation against the manu-
facturers, by calumnious, statements alike dis-
graceful to himself and to the men who listened
to them with delight, ought to turn the eyes of in-
telligent men towards the Land and the Church,
with which the greater number of the Members
of both Houses of Parliament are intimately con-
nected. It would be easy to show that the truck
system prevails, to as great an extent in agricultural
districts and amongst Ecclesiastical persons as it
is said to do amongst manufacturers. It would be
easy to produce cases of agricultural labourers, low as
their wages are, and made still lower by the deduction
of rainy days, who are kept for months without their
wages, and are ultimately induced to accept in pay-
ment wheat, flour, and potatoes, at such price as the
farmer chooses to fix upon them. You would not have
to travel far in the county of Wilts without discover-
ing that the cottages which stand upon the farm, and
which are said to be -held-by the labourers rent free,
do in fact form part of their 'weekly wages.' Ail( the
farmer how it happens that he gives an able-bodied
labourer only 6s. or 7s. a-week, when the same la-
bourer would obtain elsewhere Bs. or 95., and he will
tell you that the wages are; in reality, the same, but
that the cottage, or cottage and garden, are equiva-
lent to 2s. a week, which, with the 6s. or n. in money,
make the total wages of Bs. or 9F. •
Go amongst the clergy, and you will make a simi-
lar discovery. What clergyman is there of some
years standing in the Church, who has not met with
cases of young men just leaving the University, who,
after the great expenses of an academical education,
are anxious to provide an honest income, but who
are compelled to officiate for the first twelve months
without any stipend whatever, and whose only
remuneration has been a title for orders, with-
out which they could not have been ordained
by the bishop, but which was never intended to be a
source of emolument to the incumbent, or to be sub-
stituted for that pecuniary hire of which the clerical
labourer is worthy.
It would be easy to state cases in which the pro-
prietors of land, being also proprietors of livings, which
are upon their estates have made bargains with the
clergy to whom they are about to present these
livings ; and thus putting into their own pockets large
amounts of ecclesiastical revenue, to which they have
not the least claim, as it is clear that when they pur-
chased their estates, the tithes upon those estates being
public property, were not included in such purchase. In
this case, the patron taking advantage of a clergyman's
necessity, or want of principle, instead of paying from
his estate the full value of the tithes, induces the
presentee to accept such a maintenance as may be
derived from the living thus robbed, and wishes him
to consider the honour of promotion to a rectory and
the security of a fixed income as substitutes for the
remainder of the tithes which would be justly due.
Nothing is more common in the payment of
curates by non-resident incumbents than to con-
sider the parsonage-house as a large portion, and
not unfrequently the entire amount of the
curate's salary. In the Ecclesiastical Gazette for
this month, a publication which enjoys the
patronage of the Bishops and Clergy, appear the fol-
lowing advertisements :
" Wanted for twelve months or more, to take
charge of a small country parish, a Curate, by whom
a good house, well furnished, would be considered
a sufficient remuneration for his services. Address
the Rev. M. A., Mr. Robinson, stationer, 114, Fen-
church-street, London."

" Wanted a Curate for a small parish, beautifully
situated within sixty miles of London. The rectory-
house is furnished, with some land attached to it, and
would be considered a remuneration. A title to orders
if the testimonials are satisfactory, can be given.
Address A. B. Post-office, Truro, Cornwall."
" The use of a well situated Parsonage-house and
garden, in a southern county, not far from the sea,
for a period of from three to six months, to be agreed
on from the beginning of April, is hereby offered to
any incumbent of sound Church principles and expe-
rience, on condition of undertaking for the time the
care of a country parish. Address A. 8., Post-office,
Tunbridge '
The following instance' of the Clerical Truck
System, in a parish less than forty miles from
London, has recently come within my own
knowledge. The value of the living is 4501.
a year, the curate lives in the parsonage-
house, and his salary is as follows :—a furnished
house, fifteen acres of glebe land, and ten pounds in
money. If questioned upon the subject the rector
would state that he gives his curate 1001. a-year, and
would leave the impression that he retains for him-
self, for doing nothing and for perpetual non-resi-
dence, only 3501. a-year, but when we come to ana-
lyze the curate's stipend, it stands thus :
Furnished house £6o
Glebe land 3O
Money

Total £lOO

The curate, during the time of my visit, having
called my attention to the state of the house, which
is out of repair, and to the furniture, the better part
of which, he informed me, was his own, declared his
opinion to be that the house and furniture were not
more than half the sum at which they were estimated by
the rector. I asked him why he did not call upon the
incumbent to repair the house out of the large income
he received for noing hothing ? His reply was, that it
was perfectly useless to make any application to the
rector, and that if he were again to write to him on
the subject, it would probably lead to a quarrel between
them, and end in his leaving the curacy.
If the adoption of the truck system by the master
manufacturer, who pays the workman for work done
for himself, out of property possessed by himself, be
an evil, how much more enormous is that evil, when
out of public money, received by the rector, as a
trustee, on certain conditions, the work done for the
public is so unworthily paid for.
I have known curates who have had no other sa-
lary than the surplice fees which they received for
marriages, christenings, and burials. I have known
others in places of fashion, whose stipend has con-
sisted in the scarfs, bands, and gloves, which were
presented to them at funerals and weddings, the fee
itself being delivered up, according to engagement,
to the rector. Many clergymen are induced to enter
upon such arrangements for the same reason that
manufacturing operatives accept goods instead of mo-
ney, because the supply of labourers, whether cleri-
cal or manufacturing, being greater than the demand,
the employer has the opportunity of making his
own terms. There is, however, this important differ-
ence between the two cases ; that when the master
manufacturer makes unworthy stipulations with his
men, he is driven to do so by the difficulties of trade,
caused by the Corn and Provision-laws ; whereas the
employer of curates is influenced by no such neces-
sity. With him all is prosperous ; and. whatever be
the misfortunes of other men, his income of 5001., or
1,0001. a year is secured to him for life.
Whatever may be the hard lot of the operative
when out of employ, that of the curate is quite as
bad. Always liable to be dismissed by the rector,
or at the pleasure of the bishop, without any reason
being assigned; .and ultimately compelled to give up
his income of 401. or 601. a-year, when sickness or old
age approaches, he is thrown upon the wide world
without any provision whatever.

Lord Stian-hope, instead of expressing sympathy
with the distressed manufacturers, declared the
other day, in the House of Lords, that they
ought to be compelled to support the operatives,
whom in prosperity of trade they had employed.
Why does not his Lordship include the incumbents
in his contrary declarations ? The sons of the
wealthy have pensions from the State for a few years
of easy service ; soldiers and sailors retire on half-pay,
but the well-paid clergy who denounce the cruelty of
the manufacturers, give little pay to their clerical ser-
vants whilst doing their work, and leave them, when
sick or superannuated, to suffer the extremeties of po-
verty, lam Sir, your obedient servant,

THOMAS SPENCER.
Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charter-
house, near Bath.
Hinton, near Bath, March 22, 1842.

A melancholy event has happened at Romilly-sur-
Seine. A forest-keeper, named Obriot, being with some corn.
panions posted in trees to watch some wild boars which had
been committing devastations, had the imprudence to leave
the tree in which he had plaad himself, and to enter some
brushwood, where the motion and noise which he occasioned
led his companions to think it was a boar, and one of them hav-
ing fired, Obriot fell mortally wounded. He lived only long
enough to pardon the error of. the man who had killed him,
and who was overwhelmed with grief Lt the misfortune.

We take the present opportunity
of presenting to
our readers the following brief abstract of the new
Corn Importation Bill, just introduced by Sir Robert
Peel
Title—" A Bill to Amend the Laws for the Im-
portation of Corn." •
Clause 1. Enacts the repeal of the Act 9 George
W., .cap. 60 (the existing Corn Bill, passed in July,
1828), with a proviso that all Acts, &c., which by
virtue of the said recited Act were repealed, shall still
be deemed and taken to be, and remain, repealed.
2. Enacts the new scale of duties.*
3. Provides for the importation of foreign corn int
the ISle of Man, &c.
4. Enacts that all actions, &c., for breach of pro
vision of the existing Act, or for duties payabl-
under them, may be proceeded with as effectually a
ifthis Act had not been made. •
S. Enacts the regulations to be observed on ship-
ping corn from any British possession out of Europe.
6. Enacts that it shall not be lawful to import any
malt, or any corn grOund, except wheat meal, wheat
flour, and oatmeal; and that if any such article as
aforesaid shall be imported contrary to this provision,
tle same shall be forfeited, &c.
7. Enacts that the Commissioners of Customs shall
publish in the London Gazette, once in every month,
an account of the corn imported, corn upon which the
duty is paid, and the corn, &c., in warehouses, &c.
8. Enacts that if any foreign State shall subject
British vessels, goods, &c., to any higher charges or
duties than are levied on the vessels, &c., of other
countries, her Majesty may, by an order in Council,
prohibit he importation of corn, &c., from such State.
9. Enacts that weekly returns of the purchases
and sales of British corn shall be made, collected, and
'transmitted, in the manlier hereinafter directed, in
and from the cities and towns named in the schedule
annexed to this Act. •

•
10. Empowers her Majesty to appoint a con=
troller of corn returns, and to grant to such con-
troller such salary and allowances as to her Majesty
shall seem meet.

11. Enacts that the said controller shall not act
by deputy, except in certain special cases, her Ma.
jesty being then empowered to appoint a deputy-
controller.

12. Empowers the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of London to nominate and appoint an In-
spector of Corn Returns for the said City of London.
13. Enacts that the said Inspector shall not execute
his office by deputy, except in certain cases.
14. Enacts that no person engaged in trade or busi-
ness as a miller, maltster, or corn-factor, shall be eli-
gible to be appointed to the office of Inspector, or De:
puty-Inspector, of corn returns for the city of Lon-
don, &c. •
15. Enacts that the appointment of the said City
Inspector shall be enrolled at the next Sessions of the
Peace, &c.

16. Enacts that all dealers in corn carrying on bu-
siness in London, or within five miles from the Royal
Exchange, and all persons selling British corn within
the Corn Exchange in the said city, or within five
miles from the Royal Exchange, shall, before they
shall carry on such business, or sell any corn, make
and deliver in a declaration to the Lord Mayor, &c.
17. Enacts that dealers in corn shall make weekly
returns to the corn inspectors of the quantities of cofn
sold by them during the week, &c.
18. Enacts that the present Controller, Deputy-
Controller, and Inspector ot Returns for the city of
London, shall continue in office ; but that the appoint-
ments of the other Inspectors of Corn returns shall,
on the 24th day of June next after the passing of this
Act, cease and determine.

19. That in other cities than London, the Super-
visors of Excise shall act as Corn Inspectors, &c.
20. Fnacts that the Commissioners of Excise shall
make known the place to be appointed for the delivery
of the returros of corn purchased, by advertisements
and placards, &c.
21. Enacts that the Inspectors of Corn Returns may
continue to hold their offices by warrant of the Com-
missioners of the Treasury, &c.
22. Enacts that dealers in corn in the provincial
cities and towns shall make a declaration which shall
be delivered to the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of the
city in question, who shall give a certificate thereof
to the supervisor acting as corn inspector.
23. Empowers the supervisor to require such de-
claration from corn dealers, &c.
24. Enacts that all corn dealers who are required
to make such declaration as aforesaid shall be required
to make weekly returns in writing to the supervisors
of Excise, of the corn bought by them, with the
price thereof, &c.

25. Enacts that the inspectors and supervisors shall
enter the returns made to them in the book, and
transmit to the controller weekly an account of the
quantities and prices of corn sold, &c.
26. Enacts that the said inspectors and supervisors
shall not include any returns until they have ascer-
tained that the persons making them have taken the
declaration required.

27. (The average clause.) Enacts that the average
prices shall be made up and computed on the Thurs-
day in every week (the aggregate average price which
regulates the duty being taken as at present for six
weeks), and that a certificate of the averages shall be
transmitted every week to the chief officer of customs,
at each of the several ports of the United Kingdom, &c.
28. Enacts that the qualities of corn shall be com-
puted by certain recited acts now in force.
29. Enacts that until a sufficient number of weekly
returns shall have been received under this act, the
controller of corn returns shall make use of the pre-
sent averages, &c.
30. Enacts that all corn or grain, the produce of
the United • Kingdom, shall be deemed British corn
for the purposes of this Act.
31. Enacts that if any return is believed by the
controller of corn returns to be fraudulent, the same
may be omitted in the computation, &c.
32. Enacts that all corn dealere having made the
declaration previous to this Act, shall be required to
transmit the returns, and comply with the rules
hereby enacted, &c.
33. Authorises the controller to issue directions
respecting the inspection of nny person or per-
sons of the books to be kept by the inspector of corn
returns of the City of London. (The said inspector
is not to permit any person to inspect such books
without such directions, &c.)
34. Enacts that a copy of the last' return shall be
put up in the market-place, by every supervisor of
excise, acting as an inspector of corn returns, on each
market-day, &c. •
35. Empowers the Commissioners of the Treasury
to fix the salaries of the controllers and inspectors (the
salary of the inspector for the city of London is not
to exceed 3001. per annum ; and the salaries of the
provincial inspectors are not to exceed 501. per ann.)
36. Regulates the payment of salaries, &c.
37. (Compensation clause.) Empowers the Lords
of the Treasury to grant compensation to those in-
spectors of corn returns whose offices will cease in
consequence of the passing of this Act.
38. Inflicts a penalty on corn-dealers neglecting to
make the declarations and returns required by this Act.
39. Provides for the recovery and application of
such penalties.
40. Empowers the Lords of the Privy Council to
stay proceedings on information, and also empowers
justices of the peace to mitigate penalties, &c.
41. Inflicts a penalty on witnesses who shall not at-
tend when required.
42. Enacts that any person making false returns
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.
43. Enacts that nothing in this Act contained shall
affect the practice of measuring, or other privileges of
the city of London.
44. Provides for the limitation of actions, &c.
45. Enacts that this Act may be amended or re-
pealed by any Act to be passed in this present session
of Parliament.
The new table of duties, and the schedule of cities
and towns to which the Act refers, follow the above
enactments.

• The new scale is given.in the schedule annexed to the Bill.

The Municipal Council of Calais have voted a sil-
ver cup, worth 300 f., to Mr. J. Slater, mate of the Widgeon
pathet, for his conduct in saving the crew. Of the Minerva on
the night of the 10th. The Humane Society of the same town
have also decided on applying to the General Shipwreck So-
ciety for a gold medal for Mr. Slater, and, silver ones for the
English sailors who assisted him ON that occasion ; also gold
medals for the pilots, and silver ones for the French sailors who
attempted, though in vain 'to save their countrymen.
We regret to announce the death of Mr. T. 3ltilli-
gen, Editor of the Bath' Herald for nsore Usan 16 years. He had
been missing for some days, and on Sunday last the body was found
in the Avon, between Norfolk-crescent mud Dredge's-bridge.
Much as we approve of Sir Robert Peel's plan,
which only fearlessly follows out., and even goes beyond- that
proposed by the late Ministry, through Mr. Baring and Mr.
Labouchere, yet we cannot say we approve of on Income-tax.
A Property tax would have been just and unobjectionable; but
the inquisitorial nature of an Income-tax is revolting to all.'
We can only say for our neighbours, that scarcely a tradesman
in the High-street of Pert mouth, can tell what his last year's
profits (which constitute his income) were; each would rather
pay double tax for the house by occupies than have his books
examined, or be subject to an inquiry into his circumstances.
We vote for a property and not an income-tax.--Hants
Chronicle.

The Gazette of Upper Germany states from Han-
over that the King has issued a rescript, refusing to comply
with the application of the States for a prorogation, and addr
ing, that he
.perceived with displeasure that the States b4d
abused their rigkt of appointing committees.
It appears, by the Brussels papers of Thursday',
that the storm of Wednesday night raged violently in that city,
but nn serious accident took place, although many chimneys
were blown down, and tiles from the roofs were lying in all
directions.
A carpenter of Elampes, named 'Mainville, was, a
few days since, tried at the Court of Assizes for the Seine-et-
Oise, for beating and otherwise ill-treating his own father.
Whilst the counsel for the accused was addressing the jury
the whole court was affected at seeing the unhappy father
throw .himself, bathed in tears, on his knees, and in the most
The court condemned
earnest manner beg mercy for his son.
The
latter appeared
the only person unmoved by this act.
him to five years' hard labour at the hulks.
he

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER

RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE MANCHESTER TIMES.
GENTLEMEN,A letter having appeared in your
last paper signed " John Platford, Secretary," in re-
ference to some remarks made by the Directors of the
Manchester and Leeds Company, in their "Reply" to
the Liverpool Board, I am instructed to submit to the
public the following vindication of their statements.
The paragraph alluded to is as follows :
bre,‘"l'he most important misrepresentation, however,
consists in the statement of relative distances to Shef-
field, Leeds, Bell, York, &c., by the route of the Shef-
field Railway. It is nowhere stated in that plan that this
railway is yet incomplete, and persons ignorant of the
facts would certainly be led to conclude that, if not
open, it was at least in an advanced state, and would
probably open as early as the Junction line could be
Made. Without at all seeking to disparage that under-
taking, the Manchester and Leeds Directors feel it
due to themselves and the public to say that such is
decidedly not the case, as that Company are at present
in Circumstances of almost unparalleled difficulty, so
that it appears extremely doubtful whether their
gigantic works can ever be executed ; their capital
being exhausted, more than half their shares forfeited,
and the remainder at 60 per cent. discount."
Some of these facts are disputed in Mr. Platford's
letter; but it is reported in The Sun newspaper of the
7th inst., that Mr. Wilson Patten presented a petition
relative to the Sheffield Railway to the House of
Commons on that day, in which the petititioners
state, " that in consequence of the depressed state of
the times there was great danger of the undertaking
falling to the ground, and praying that Parliament
would be pleased to devise some remedy to get them
out of their difficulties."
Again, the following is an extract from the state-
ment recently made by the Sheffield Directors, with
the view of obtaining the suspension of the standing
orders of the House of Commons, so that they may he
enabled to apply for new powers in the present Ses-

sion :

The Act authorising the formation of the railway
was passed in 1837, and the capital authorised to be
raised by that Act was 700,0001. ; the length of the
railway is forty miles.
" Since the passing of the Act the Directors have
been involved in a series of financial difficulties in
consequence of the inability of a large portion of
the Shareholders to make good their subscriptions ;
and although calls to 'the extent of 821. I Os. per share
have -been made, they have only produced a sum of
300,0001., Which has been principally expended in
the formation of about eight miles of the line now
opened to the public, and of four miles in extension
which are nearly completed, and will shortly be
opened to the public.
" The:most important works on other parts of the
line are also under contract ; but from the difficulties
experienced in providing the money requisite to meet
the expense of these works, they must inevitably be
stopped, unless some facilities are afforded of obtain-
ing the capital requisite for their completion.
" The commercial distress in the neighbourhood,
and the consequent insolvency which it has entailed
on a large proportion of the Shareholders, will sutli-
ciently account for the difficulties which the Directors
have had to contend with in the undertaking, and the
same causes have led to the forfeiture of a great num-
ber of shares, which shares, owing to the enormous
depreciation of the Company's stock, and the insuffi-
ciency of the provisions of the Company's Acts, the
Directors have been unable to re-issue.

" It had been fully anticipated that the opening of
a portion of the line, which took place in November
last, would have had the effect of improving the value
of the shares, and rendering the forfeited shares mar-
k !table, and nu ald' thus have 'enabled the .Comp Any to
provide fund.; for continuing the works without ap-
pealing to Parliament; but this opening has not had
tne effect anticipated, and the Directors, finding no
other resource left for them than the course they now
seek to adopt by the Bill which they have prayed
cave to bring in, caused notices of the intended appli-
cation for such Bill to be inserted in the Gazette and
county papers three times in the month of January
last.

"No less a sum than 200,0001. is now due from the
Company to contractors, landowners, and others,
which they have no means of paying unless they ob-
tain the facilities which they seek by their Bill, inas-
much as the calls which they have the power of
making, could not be made with sufficient rapidity
to meet their outstanding debts and growing pay-
ments on the work as they fall due; nor would such
calls be sufficient in amount to meet the engage-
ments of the Company, unless some facilities are af-
forded of re-issuing the forfeited shares, and bor-
rowing money in the manner proposed by the Bill.
" The Directors firmly believe that the powers
proposed by the Bill (which has been approved by a
general meeting of the Proprietors) would have the
effect of saving the Company, and the contractors to
whom they are indebted, from ruin, and of ensuring
the completion of the undertaking, which is most im-
portant to the manufacturing districts of Lancashire,
Cheshire, and Yorkshire, and already the anticipation of
the passing of the Bill has had Ythe effect of
terially improving.the value of the stock of the Com-
pany:*

-As the Sheffield Company have called 821. 10s.
-per share on the 1001. shares, which has yielded
them only
.300,000/., they have as yet, therefore, no
power to borrow on thortgage.
The Directors of •the Manchester and Leeds Com-
pany consider that they have very much understated
rather than overstated the financial embarrassments
of the Sheffield Company ; and they considered it
" due to themselves and the public". to allude to the
present position of the Sheffield Company, on acc&nt
of the exaggerated statements which had been circu-
lated of the advantages in points of distance, of the
Sheffield over .the Leeds line, for traffic passing east-
ward from Manchester. • (See a map which was dis-
tributed at the late, half-yearly general meeting of the
Liverpool Company.)
The number of shares actually declared forfeited by
the Directors may be only 900; hut it was admitted
by one of them (see Railway Times, 18414 page 914)
that of the 7,000 shares " 3,700 might be fully and
titirly- calculated on; of the remainder some might be
good, but they were not competent to say how many."
The plain inference to he drawn from this is—that
the remaining 3,300 are held by persons from whom
no further payments, in respect of calls, could be rea-
sonably expected ; and at the last meeting it was
stated that not more than 1,517 had paid the last call,
so that 5,483 shares are still in arrear, and liable to
forfeiture.

At the time when that " Reply" was written, the
price of the Sheffield shares was quoted at about 321.
per share on 821. 10s. paid up, so that they were at
rather more than 60 per cent. discount. I. am, Gen-
tlemen, your obedient servant,
'JOHN JELLICORSE, Secretary.
ilupt's flank, Manchester, March 18th, 1842.

ADVENTURES OF A 5/. NOTE.—On Sunday
last a collection was made at St. Martin's church,
f;,r the Colonial Bishops' Fund, and a religious
old lady had, in the exuberance of her lov for
bishops, placed on the plate a Si. note. While
the churchwardens were carrying the treasure
from the portico of the church to the vestry,
guarded by the beadles, a strong gust of wind
carried off the five pound note. It re-
mained over the roof or the church for some
time ; the beadles, in their robes of office, looked
at it in wild astonishment' and as it floated
t)wardstlie
croi:ledr, they set off as . fast as
legs
their carry. them, shouting,
i
" Stop it," " Catch L'' The public ran.in all
,
directions, .believing that the cry was -• Stop
• -
thief. " A general pursuit ensued, but no one
could see either the thief or the object of pursuit,
it
till the beadles stopped in i
Northumberland
street, and cried out, "It is caught by the
churchwarden' On
s ebitnney."ascending
note
the
roof Of Mr Cobbect's house they found t
all safe. Mr. Churchwarden has the character,nTarhk
of being a very charitable man, and a remark
made by a bystander excited great laughter,r
note," said he, " has more sense than the giver."
e
SEWELL AND CROSS beg to inform the Nobility
Gentry, and the Public, that their Premises will be
opened on Thinday, 28th iii3t. when the remainder of
their valuable Stock will be submitted, to their Friends
and the Public; at such prices, that must insure even
greatztr satisfaction than . has been expressed by the
manythousands, who have visited their Establishment,
since the commencement of this unprecedented Sale.
gompe al House, Q 1& Compton-street, and. Frigi.tstreet,
Soho-square. Sale commences on Monday, -and follow-'
"lii days, at Tin o'Clock. •

HE LONDON AND BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.

BRIGHTON, FRIDAT.—In consequence of this day
being a holiday, the trains brought down yesterday
the extraordinary number of between 900 and 1,000
passeongers. Sir Robert Peel arrived by the express
train. An immense quantity of luggage arrived in
the course of the day, for the Right Hon. Baronet.
The first train this morning brought down nearly
200 passengers, and nine carriages belonging to
the passengers. The day is remarkably fine,
and the cliffs of Brighton present a most ani-
mated appearance; At the present time the
road to the Railway terminus is through a number
of narrow and inconvenient streets ; but through the.
spirited exertions of Mr. Cooper, a builder, and one
of the Commissioners of Brighton, a very splendid
street is being formed from the terminus, in a direct
line to North-street and the King's-road, and when
finished will considerably shorten the distance to the
principal parts of the town, in addition to being a
very great ornament.
At a meeting of Wigney's crediton, on Thursday,
it was stated that the dividend would not be more
than sixpence in the pound.

THE WEATHER.—Noox, MARCH 25.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE..STREET.
Thermometer... 45 1 Highest 49 I Lowest 34
Barometer 30.26.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 82 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 24 minutes after I. Evening .45 minutes after I.