The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-05 00:00:00

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LONDON :
SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 5, 1842.

No inconsiderable complaints are made by
the large class of wholesale and retail dealers,
of the injury they have sustained by the sudden
and unexpected impulse which has been given
to the consumption of tartans, in consequence of
her MAJESTY'S visit to Scotland. Orders had
been given for fancy goods, or stocks laid in for
the 'winter trade, which have been entirely su-
perseded by the use of tartans, and the value of
their stocks has fallen 50 or 60 per cent. The
manufacturers of tartans are, no doubt, profit-
ing by the change, and can scarcely supply the
numerous orders they receive. In some cases,
perhaps, the double business may be united in
the same hands, and
what they lose on their
fancy goods they may gain on their tartans; but
where it is not, and the stocks are heavy, the
loss must be severe. Such persons may find
consolation in the reflection, that the trade they
are engaged in is subject at all times to these
vicissitudes of fashion, that it approximates to a
game of chance, and that, if they lose now, they
will gain at other times. They may remember,
• too, that from the vicissitudes of fashion to which
they are rsady panders, they at all times reap
their great profits with great ease, and they will
scarcely feel themselves entitled to murmur at
one little frown from a goddess who showers on
them so many favours.
But though the individuals may have little
right to complain, we are not disposed to regard
as very favourable to society a trade which de-
pends so much on caprice, and partakes so much
of the nature of gambling. Sudden and unex-
pected gains, or sudden and unexpected losses
have no good effects. The former makes men
arrogant and extravagant, and the latter are apt
to sink them to despair. It is a mistake to sup-
pose in such cases that the losses of one are com-
pensated by the gains of another. In both the
evil predominates, and such a trade is scarcely to
be called wholesome. It is at variance with

those great trades which depend on gratifying
the animal wants of the masses, in which the
supply and the demand are equal and regular,
and of which the extension is gradual but con-
tinual.

To explain or excuse these vicissitudes a good
deal is said about the caprice of fashion in an
opulent community, but it is unworthy of us to
content ourselves with such a phrase. Ours no
longer deserves the name of an opulent commu-
nity. A few persons have got plenty, and
live at their ease ; but the masses are steeped in
poverty ; their wages, and the value of their
work has been for a few years continually de-
clining. A great number of the people are given
up to frightful beggary. Amongst the opulent,
indeed, who are exclusively the customers of the
tradesmen in question, there is much caprice, but
it springs less from their opulence than theiritni-
tation of those above them, and their blind admi-
ration of some higher degree of opulence. In
truth it is not the opulence of the community
but the spirit of an idle aristocracy, to gratify which
meets us here as in every other part of society,
and is found much more redolent of mischief
than advantage. _ _ _

Much to the discredit of the industrious middle
classes we must say, considering the HERT-
FORDS, FRANKFORTS, and bread-taxing land-
lords, of whom the aristocracy is composed,
they blindly follow the idle aristocracy, and be-
come, without their motives and enjoyments, the
victims of their whims. Instead of studying what
is graceful, useful, and convenient, they only
study what the aristocracy do; and the industrious
classes thus wilfully continue the slaves of the
idle and rapacious classes, after time arid circum-
stmice have emancipated them. Of course,
they are much laughed at for their silliness.
The titled aristocracy, who have a large annual
income from the land, increased by the bread-
tax, are delighted to see the hard earnings of
the professional man, the manufacturer, the
merchant, or the wholesale tradesman, squan-
dered in imitation of their worthless pursuits.
By that they are longer maintained in ascendancy,
and they are kept in countenance, and the toil-
ing classes doomed to a whole life of irksome
drudgery.

This is not the worst of the matter. The
middle classes, by their imitation of the aristo-
cracy, are compelled to be the hard task-mas-
ters of those beneath them. We remind them,
not reproachfully, but sorrowfully, that out of
this has grown that contest between them and
the lower classes which at this moment makes
the whole society feel insecure. Changes in
fashion, therefore, are not due to opulence,
which seems attended with no startling and
ruinous caprice in the United States, but to
the aristocratic nature of our society. Be-
cause one great Lady chooses to wear tar-
tans for a few weeks, out of compliment
to the gallant people amongst whom SHE has had
much pleasure, and by whom she has been much
honoured and feasted, all other ladies, who have
been neither feasted nor honoured, must do the
same. They cause, by their taste in following
the fashion, no little confusion, it appears, in the
course of trade, and if they give an impulse to it
in some quarters, withdraw it from others where
it seems quite as much wanted.

The dissatisfaction of the agriculturists, and of
a considerable portion of the trading community,
with Sir ROBERT PEEL, is an edifying comment
on that blind confidence which John Bull is so
apt to bestow at times on a public man, merely
because he maintains a cold, reserved, but plau-
sible, demeanour, vents clap-trap common-
places at every suitable opportunity, and is as-
siduous in his cultivation of all the conventional
respectabili ties oflife. Raised to power on the broad
shoulders of the agricultural party, who found
excellent allies:in the trading middle classes, and
the genteel, orderly Toryism of the professions,
the Right Hon. Baronet has contrived to asto-
nish, disappoint, andJairly mystify them all.
The landowners and farmers thought, as a matter
of course, that as they were mainly instrumental
in elevating him to his present post, he would
make a point, in *framing his remedial measures,
so to contrive, as that their particular interests
should remain, nearly, if not quite, uninjured.
The traders were influenced by the same agree •
able hopes, as far as they were concerned; and
those members of the professions who were still
struggling hard to obtain a decent competence,
never imagined for an instant that the Premier's
measures would affect their especial interests; so
—like their brethren in affliction the agricultu-
rists and the traders—thought it the wisest plan
they could adopt to support a Minister who was
not only a paragon of respectability, but pro-
fessed a genteel and orthodox abhorrence of all
such vulgar, revolutionary changes as were pro-
jected by his predecessors. And what is the
result of all this purblind confidence ? Why,
just this, that each party has been outwitted, and
now finds to its cost that its selfish cunning has
overshot the mark. In recompense for their
disinterested services, the Tamworth Doctor has
administered to the agriculturists a strong emetic,
in the shape of a Tariff, that has made them all
as sick as dogs ; and the trading and professional
classes he has all but thrown into convulsions by
such a free use of his Income-tax lancet as in a
short time will scarcely leave them a drop of
blood in their veins. Each party now looks at
the other, with a penitent, woe-begone expres-
sion of countenance, that seems to say, " What a
set of fools we have all been !" The agricultu-
rists cry out that the iniquitous Tariff will be the
death of them, and in the few melancholy din-
ners that they get up for the purpose of record-
ing their sense of the awful and undeserved cala-
mity that has befallen them, make a point of
diligently forgetting to drink the usual toast of
" her Majesty's Ministers ;" and tradesmen and
struggling:professional men in town and country,
exclaim with equal bitterness, that, since the
first invention of taxes—an invention, we sus-
pect, coeval with the Deluge—there never has
been so rascally—so mischievous—so teazing,
impertinent, and inquisitorial an impost as the
Income-tax. We confess we are not altogether
sorry that these parties have been tricked by Sir
ROBERT PEEL. They were warned before-hand,
not once but a hundred times, that he would
play them off, one against the other, and end
by making dupes of them all; and, consequently,
they were without the shadow of excuse for
their blind confidence.

Sir ROBERT PEEL is fast becoming unpopular
throughout the empire. He has deceived the
hopes of the commercial and manufacturing
classes. The agricultural classes are very gene-
rally offended by the results of his measures.
The worrying Income-tax, almost before any
portion of it has been levied, is rousing against
him the bulk of those who live comparatively at
ease. He has done nothing whatever to soothe
the irritation of the lower classes, who hate him,
and hate his party from old recollections, per-
haps even more than they now hate the Whigs.
His Government: rests no longer on the hopes
or on the satisfaction of any of the great pro-
ducing interests, or on the bulk of the people.
It is neither loved nor respected ; it is borne
with, because at present those who hate and
despise it cannot change it for a better.
The choice lies betwixt him and the Whigs;
and great as may be his present unpopularity,
contemptible and hateful as may be his Govern-
ment to the majority of the people, it is still
less unpopular—less contemptible—and less hate-
ful than that of the Whigs. His failure is
shielded by their still greater failure. Neither
has, for the bulk of the community, any char-
acter of goodness; but his Government is, as
yet, less bad than theirs. It is not his own virtue
but their demerit which keeps him in office.
The country owes him nothing for au increase
of prosperity since his accession to power, but
it cannot forget that its decay and its sufferings
began before he was Prime ,Minister. It has
been deceived by his petty, paltry, meddling
commercial alterations (they do not deserve the
name of reforms), but it 'has no faith in the
changes proposed by the Whigs. It seems to
need other measures, and other men to execute
them ;i tcraEnLn.o t yet find these, and therefore it
en
endures r.

If the public complain of the Income-tax, the

answer is, that the wasteful expenditure of the
Whigs has made it necessary; and were they to
return to power, it is doubtful whether they
could or would abolish it. When the farmers.
"dom" and "drat " Sir ROBERT, they are re-
minded that he is their friend, and that the mea-
sures of the Whigs would inflict on them a still
greater injury. If the manufacturers say he has
done very little for them, they are told that the
Whigs were ten years in office, and never at-
tempted to set trade free till they had lost the
power to carry such a resolve into effect. When
the Chartists complain of the prosecutions of
1842, they are reminded of those of 1838 and
1839. The Whig journals are trying hard
to make out a case against Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
because HOLBERRY died in prison; but the Char.
tists—and they are a very numerous body—
reply, that the Whigs put him there. They
k now from Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S repeated ;de-
claration, that they have nothing to hope from
his finality principle ; the Tories are their open
and declared enemies, who never beguiled nor
deceived them. The Tories never said other-
wise than that they were determined to be their
masters. They never toasted " the sovereignty of
the people." If the Chartists hate the Tories
more, they perhaps despise the Whigs more,
and will have none of them. There is no great
interest in the country which looks with con-
fidence to the Whigs, or they might soon oust
their now unpopular opponents ; and therefore
all submit, with grumbling, to the Tories.
If these remarks are a pretty fair representa-
tion of the feelings and opinions of the majority
of the community, it appears that the Whigs
are now severely punished for their short-com-
ing and injudicious proceedings. It is for them
a sad thing to be regarded by the public as worse
than the Tories. Though we do not agree with
the public as to the degree, we coincide with it
in looking at both parties with mistrust. Both
have contributed to bring on the present con-
dition of England. The policy of both has been
erroneous. Neither has ever thought of doing
justice to the people. Both have gone on in a
career of extravagance, disregarding the welfare
of the masses, till great difficuties have come
upon us. The community has ceased to place
unlimited confidence in either party, and has
ceased to he Whig or Tory. The Whigs per-
ceive that they do not gather strength as their
adversaries become weak ; and they begin to rail
against the neutrals, or men of neither party, be-
cause they stand aloof, and will not again place
them in a situation to break all their promises
and deceive all the hopes of the people. We
hail with pleasure the unexampledly rapid in-
crease of a party which is neither Whig nor
Tory, which looks to the interest of the commu.
nity, and which will, we hope, ere long become
the most numerous in the country, and then it
will be the most influential in the Government.

At the same time it is not satisfactory to find
the leading politicians of both parties objects of
general distrust. Both are condemned by facts.
The want of prosperity, which is a reproach to
both, is the source of the want of confidence. It
is too palpable to be concealed or denied that
both have failed. The policy of neither is adapted
to the circumstances of the times, and the wants
of the community. The nation is in a peculiar
condition. It is without leaders whom it loves
and respects, and without a system of policy in
which it has a lively faith. It must, therefore,
work out its safety on some other plan, and
under other guides.

The present is probably the most remarkable
acre on record since the Reformation for innova-
tions in religious rites and ceremonies, taking
their rise not from any wish or feeling whatever
in this respect among the people, but planned
and carried out by the priesthood. The
worst feature in the general movement
is the little regard paid to the truths
and doctrines of Christianity, and the vast
importance attached to outward forms and
symbols, hitherto regarded by Protestants as
little better than Catholic mummeries. These
follies are not confined to this country, but
arc exhibited in still greater perfection among
our lively neighbours, so long accustomed
to look upon them with contempt and derision.
LOUIS PIIILLIPPE being anxious to establish the
Catholic religion in Algiers, appointed a Bishop
for that purpose, as well as to minister to the
religious wants of his own people. The prelate,
on arriving at his destination, found the task,
it would appear, rather irksome, as the
land was polluted by Paganism, and there
was no sacred spot for erecting a Cathedral, to
which worshippers might look with veneration
and awe. To remedy these evils he hit upon a
noble device, and resolved to go in quest of the
bones of ST. AUGUSTINE, who was a native of
Africa. The Saint had died in Italy, and no one
could say exactly where he had been buried; but
this difficulty was easily overcome. The Bishop and
his assistants resorted to the most likely spot
for recovering the venerated bones, and,
after digging carefully, at last beheld, to their
great delight, the precious treasure fully
identified by a gold ring on one of the Saint's
fingers. They were collected, placed in
a sarcophagus, and brought in triumph
to Toulon. A grand procession by torch-light
crossed the town, with the Bishop of ALGIERS at
its head, accompanied by the Archbishop of
BORDEAUX, six Bishops, and the entire Clergy
of Toulon and the vicinity. The Government,
too, patronized the scheme, for the sacred relics
are to be conveyed to Bona in a war steamer.
escorted by two ships of the Royal navy. Will
mockeries like these increase the respect of the
French for Mother Church? Will they not, on
the contrary, be viewed in the same ligh as the
schemes of our Puseyites, and treated with
as much ridicule as the lectures of our
Bishops on burning candles at the altar,
on genuflexions and signs of the cross,
and all those other frivolities, which seem to be
regarded with much more veneration than the
beauties of Divine truth? In the Scotch Church,
too, a rage of different kind prevails ; but it is
as little connected with religion, and has,
perhaps, been more injurious to the very
character of that establishment which it is meant
to uphold. Even among the quiet people of
Switzerland new ceremonies and new sects are
springing up. One has just been established at Ge-
neva, which has not yet acquired a name, but from
all accounts it is of a rathersingular kind, as their
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travagance. These are facts which forbode no
good, and inspire the sober-minded Christian
with feelings of sorrow and shame.

The Madrid Gazette of the 26th ult. an-
nounces, that the REGENT, wishing to reward the
officers and soldiers who, in 1823, after having
fought for liberty, desired to remain prisoners of
war rather than join the anti national party,
which, with the assistance of a'foreign army, had
restored a system of absolute power, had issued
the following decree :
" 1. A cross of distinction is- granted to the
officers and soldiers who in 1823 were conveyed
into France as prisoners of war after having
fought for the cause of liberty.
"2. This cross will be made of gold for the
officers, and silver for the privates."

The Herald° states that the REGENT had
granted permission to the Infante Don Flux-
cisco de PAULA to proceed to Andalusia through
Valencia witligut passing through Madrid.
Desertions into France had again commenced
amongst the Spanish troops on the frontier.
The Three per Cents. were donc on the Ma-
drid Bourse on the 26th ult. at 21k 15-16 at 60
days, and the Fives at 261 cash, 26k 13-16 at 60
days, and 21f at 60 days with four coupons.

The Paris papers received yesterday refrain
entirely, a most unusual occurrence, from angry
comments on the policy of England. It would
appear there is now no longer any doubt as to
the result of the negotiations for a treaty with
Belgium, and that the affair is at an end. The
Courriar Francais has a long article on the sub-

ject, and.seems to impute great blame to the
Government for entertaining a project which
they might have known would end in smoke
We are not aware that that journal predicted
any such result at the commencement, or even
hinted that it would be injudicious to attempt a
closer commercial connection with their neigh-
bour and protegee, but the truth is, Frenchmen
cannot write without grumbling, and never seem
contented with any arrangement, or with any
Government or country. King LEOPOLD must
see, from the proceedings which have taken
place at Paris within the last ten days, that Bel-
gium can expect little favour from France, ex-
cept the favour of being taken entirely under her
protection and then swallowed up. Here is the
latest attack from the Courrier on M. GITIZOT :
" To excuse the Cabinet it is asserted that we are
in a state of commercial convulsion. But who has
produced this agitation, if not the Ministry them-
selves ? Before they mooted the question of a com-
mercial union between France and Belgium, were
they not aware that those of our manufacturers who
live under the protection of prohibition would raise a
loud outcry, would speak of the despair of their work-
men, and would exclaim that national labour was on
the point of being ruined. Had they not a precedent
for this in the commercial inquiry of 1814, and the
not less significant example of the illustrious Hus-
kisson ? Might they not surmise, from the attempts
at intimidation made by certain deputies, what some
of the electors would do • and, in fine, ought they
to have been ignorant that their position would be
threatened the very day on which they ventured to
add to the power of their political adversaries the op-
position of the manufacturers feudally organised ?
The Ministry were, in fact, fully warned, and before
rushing into so arduous an undertaking, they ought
to have measured the consequences, and have calcu-
lartoeerd on
nowopposition as well as defection. It is not
p us that the Cabinet should have
ptotell
taken steps to make the question subordinate to their
existence, and not their existence to the question. The
country cannot stop at such trifles, and the existence
of the Ministry is not of such great value, at to sacrifice
to it the permanent union of two nations, which the
Congress of Vienna had endeavoured to separate, but
which their revolutions have brought together.
As long as the Ministry left the question in repose
the manufacturers tacitly admitted the possibility,
that one day or other an attempt might be made to
remove the commercial barrier; and now, because a
Government without any fixed resolution has inop-
portunely thrown the matter to the world for discus-
sion, they demanded to lay down as a principle the es-
sentially transitory regime of the protective system.
Decidedly we have retrograded during the last six
months for such demands to be put forward, and the
Ministry, in thus recognising the preponderance of
privileged interests, makes subordinate to them not
only its own existence, but even that of all govern-
ment. We protest against this degradation of autho-
rity in France. There is no longer liberty in a coun-
try where the interests which speak the loudest are
certain of bringing the Government to terms. Before
1830 the Government was the oppressor, but now it
figures in another shape, and we do not find its cha-
racter of oppressed more worthy of it, or more happy
for us. Every one has his place 'marked in society,
and ought to remain there, and the Government
ought no more to be directed by a manufacturing
party than domineered over by a political one."

The Commerce states "that the sons of General
PAJoL, with a generous spirit of self-denial, have
relinquished their patrimonial fortune to present
it to their father, in order that, in his old age,
after having so long enjoyed the comforts of
opulence, he should not suffer the privations at-
tached to the want of employment."
SEDASTOPOL.—In a lettor from Sebastopol, in the
Journal de Frankfort, we read :—" The fleet, which
sailed from this port a month ago, to cruise in the
Black Sea, has returned. It is composed of six ships
of the line, two frigates, and three sloops. We have
also in the roadstead six other ships ready for sea. The
Russian fleet stationed in the Black Sea consists of
eight ships of the line, six frigates, eleven sloops, and
six steamers, which are constantly cruising along the
shores of the Caucasus, to prevent all intercourse be-
tween the Circassians and the ports of Asia Minor,
whence the mountaineers procure their provisions and
ammunition. The fortifications of Sebastopol are
going on very rapidly. Forts Alexander and Con-
stantine, which command the entrance into the bay,
and will be mounted with 320 guns, are quite finished.
Fort Nicholas, which has three ranges of bastions,
one over the other, and are to be armed with 260 guns
(of which 50 are already mounted), to protect the
harbour and docks, is also nearly completed. These
docks, which were commenced twelve years ago, are
of gigantic dimensions, of which no idea can be
formed without being seen. In order to supply them
with water, it has been necessary to cut a canal about
fourteen miles in length, and construct several tun-
nels and aqueducts. All these works have been car-
ried on under the direction of Mr. Hopton, an Eng-
lish engineer, With whom the Emperor is so highly
satisfied, that he has created him a Major in rank, and
conferred uponr him the insignia of one of the Impe-
rial Orders.

BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 118 40... 118 50... 118 40... 118 45
4% per Cents 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... 105 50
Four per Cents 100 50... 100 50 .. 100 50... 100 50
3 per Cents 79 95... 80 ... 79 90... 80
Bank of France 3270 ...3270 ...3270 .. 3270
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5075 ...5075 —.5075 ...5075
Belgian 8ank...... BO2 50... 802 50... 802 50... 802 50
Belgian Fives .
1840 lO4/ 104/ ... 104 ... 104/
Spanish Active. ...... 224 —. 224 —. 224 ... 224
Portuguese Fives 321 32} ... 321 ... 321
Neapolitan... lOB 10... 108 20... 108 10... 108 20
Roman ............... 1054 ... 1054 ... 1051 ... 1054

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, LB 96 25... 96 25... 96 25... 96 25
Rouen
Orleans. 585 ... 585 ... 585 ... 585
Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 205 ... 205

HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 1,
Bills. Money.
110

Austrian 5 per Cents.

Fault Sharei ems
Anglo-Russian Loan MI% 10836
Russian 5 Der Cent., let series, Certificate 103%
Inscription, Ist series lO3 —..
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 9B 97%
Ditto in Certificates 97% 97%
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 25 per Cent. ......... ...... 51 51%
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Pollsh Bonds
_—

New Tickets I iS
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Bl 8114
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
H Spanish,
New 5 wit' Cents. lB
mr, Nor. 1.-13 10, Two months 13 EN
PETERSBURG, OCT. 21—Three months. 37% pCO4E.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 25.—Seventy.6ve days, 12 12.

DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsmumm, Nov. i.
Money. Bi Is.
Ac til a I Debt, roi per Cent •••••••••••••••••••••• 52 %
AineJitto, ditto 5 per cent.
t Syndic, 4% per ...... 03% s
P.tto, ditto, a% INT cent. ..... N.••••••••••••• 77 77
Commercial Company, 434 percent 13534 36
Loan 1837, 5 per cent... 9934 100
Exchange on London, One
Two months 12 14
Hamburgh, One month 35 87%
Twe months 35 8234
BELGIAN FUNDS.-BRUSSELS, Nov. 2.
. Nov. 2.
Actualn Duet:ht. Papers, Nov.
.53%

Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. 10234
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 92A
Three per Cent.... ..... ..
--.- Thirty-seven Minims, ditto
(1840)....•...... ..... 1( II X
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent B6
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77
National Society
Exchange on London (short) 00000000 6411411111••••••••••••• -
-Brussels Papers, Nov 2.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. `,1..
Five per Cents. Metalliques ••••••••••••••••• 000000 meows lO9
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PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Britutt, OCT. 81.
Bills. Money
St- Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.. ..... .... ....... 1034, 106%
Prussian English Bond 4, 16
4 per cent I, 2 A 1 2
Exchange on London - 6 24%
Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 1.

NI3W COMMISSION 01" LUNACY.—The large man-
sion on the south side of Lincoln's Inn-fields, formerly
the residence of Mr. Harrison, Parliamentary Counsel,
lately deceased, has been taken for the establishment
connected with the Lunacy Commission. Mr. En-
field, who has for many years held an important
situation in the lunacy department, under the Lord
Chancellor, has been appointed to the secretaryship of
this Commission, with a salary of 1,0001. per annum.
A new Police Court ,has been erected in Arbour-
square, Stepney,
and has been for some time com-
pleted, the furniture alone been required to render it
lit for occupation and business. There is a large
Pliee-station, with a kind of barracks. for the single
'non belonging to the K division of the police force,
stables, a range of cells, and a covered shed for the
police-van annexed to the Court. The erection of
the new Court and station, and buildings attached, has
cost upwards of 15,0001.
We understand that the London and Brighton
Railway Company have prepared plans and Estimates,
with a view of going to Parliament in the next session
for an Act to authorise the construction of a branch
line from Croydon to Vauxhall, in order to form a
west-end terminus to their railway. The line, we
hear, is easy of formation, and it is evident that, if
carried into effect, it will he a great convenience to
the inhabitants of the western part of London, who
form a considerable portion of our visitors. —Brighton
Gazette.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WHlTECHAPEL.—Yes-
attended with
tarday morning, about ten minutes before two, a fire
great destruction of property, broke
out on the immense range of premises belonging to
Messrs. Colyer, Cooper, and Co., situated in Leman-
street, Whitechapel, nearly opposite the Garrick
Theatre. Damage to a considerable amount was sus-
tained. The origin of the fire could not be aseer•
tamed, nor yet whether the firm Was insured,

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