1 NOVEMBER 1845, Page 10

In reference to the agitated subject of Railway deposits, the

Morning Chronicle combats the assertion of the Times that Government have no power to receive Stock in lieu of money: the Standing Order of the Com- mons, says the Chronicle, does not specify in what shape the deposit is to be made, whether in money or public securities. The Times insists that the deposits have not been paid, and that there is little chance of their being so. In negative proof, it says that "only one of the six hundred new rail way companies has volunteered any statement of the amount of deposits paid up"!