The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, there being attached a scarifier, a sad-boa, aid a roller, and the whole weigh* from two boa to two teas and a half. jig .VECHTS BALANCE-SHEET. E trEgillENTB AT TIPTRER-HALL FARM. .he rehear" weekly meeting of the Society of At 0- , , sy Moine, Mr. 11. CDOSTRIL is the chair„l iNeL , " t" ' m ri e rare, aracmget othen, were elected as the 14 ""' " lewder, `SirWalmoley, ht ? Ow LouLi of 3.• se 11. 6 ' " • aad limn C. I. Hambro. Xs. 1 1 ; Mr it read third report on the feu:: ff h i s At 'ripens-Loll Farm. Alter game rural 11 1. 7 . • I 1s tvry „ st abs. he said - However unpalatable and jA. sztoP`h - • a may be to uncover sad expos. agricultural fix , ort•irtrominr, time convisces me that it is at vela eel the happiest ultimate retain ; aad I tan MOOD ▪ w feel angry at former censures when I i.e that miav a sturdy old pollard has bowed to my influence, and teat masf • c rooked kelp mad way have bum made Mr ,ybt by my example. By the bye, is it sot my lie. Nor n u t whilst oar railway fences are efficient, trim, m a t hriving, A being possible to dig beside them ennui. any , tee :opal minute has mm troutors that diverge from them at right angles ? I sow l '"'"d to produce my balance sheet, and I am sure mat o f fox will rejoice with me that it shows a most joesra ig, sad encouraging melt, the benefit I derive for lures being is rent, profit, and letterset nearly GOO/. I Amy asking of • further sum I ought to claim for ire • ra dials cat soil, owing to my having purchased for isesa mptioe by my live stock 700/ worth of cons, oil cake, • I 41•11 have the benefit of ibis in east year's crop. Da.-Ts valudioe, Oet. 31, 1812-Hones, 861. ; pogo, irl.fis.6l.: sheep, ttel/. Gy.; cads and cows, 3471.; im pont.. 3.10/. ; tillages, hay, &c., 526 i. 101. ; rent of dial*en I l 431. • tithe., rates, 681 • labour , including ' bailiff. 1e.,, Uhl.; guano, bones, and so porphos 9:41. ; seed corn and seeds, 45! ; live stuck egka 1,240/. ; torn and cake hougnt for feeding purposes. w o wkeep, &e., 64m/. ; coals for engine, tradessinea's bills, ; my improved rent, 3Gs per acre, 2401. ; profit, 3651.16 e. 3d. total, 1,9;51. 6s. 91. Cs.-By valuation, Oct. 31, 1853: Horses, 71/. ; pies, dc., sheep, 4181. ; cattle and tows, 2391.10 1 - , ; i ts . ibt ,..31.001.12.1.; tillage', hay, &c., 185.9 d. ; wsest, iiiimun per acre-3U acres, 6301. ; barley, 5 quarters p e r acre-11 acres. 1141. ; beans, 5 quarters per ten-13 acres, 14i1. ; oats, 101. ; produce of cows and poultry, 601.; lay Kid, 351. ; burrs work, labour, hay, maser., &c., for tan establishment, 601.; live stock and wool sold, three stocks of old straw, : total, 4,9151. Gs. 91. Live Stock Account -Cr. To valuation, 1852, 7334 8. 64. ; cent, cake, sail feeding stuffs bought, 6:81. ; live stock Wright, 1,250/. ; profit, or rather price paid for pro gram of farm, 33;1.7s 1.-3,018/. 16s. Dr.: By valuation, 1553, 1,0161. 16a.; lids stick sad wool sold, 2,00'd!.- 2,01'N.16.. New, sir. this balanee-sheet opens up a vast question for , delectios, both in town and country. Why la it so ado. j wit f rom my former one ? Principally because I have the power of irrigation. It is tine that priest are higher now than then, but crops are Ws productive, and expenses are higher. Nearly the whale difference between this balances sheet end the former one arises in the live stock account. By irrigation I VD enabled to doubly, if not triple, my green and rout crops, and thus render them profitable in deed of unprofitable. It is quite clear that if I can double lay stock, I also double the quantity of my manure, and thus affect importantly the cereal crops. If I doebte my green and root crop, 1 diminish their cost onc•half. This w actually the fact, and therein is my present and most agreeable potion. Every practical farmer knows that the loose par. of his fans is the root crop (I mean in the Midland, Southern, and E 'stern 'aunties, where we have bet moaners end little rain). That root crop costs him MOM than the animals repay, and leaves a heavy charge ea the ensuing grain crops. Irrigation changes all this, and waits each crop to be responsible for its own 1111111111 charge, thus rendering them all remunerative. I am ha ably and irequently reminded of the truth of this Maw meat by a live-sere pasture opposite my residence. Vainly did I try, by solid manures, to render this vile plastic clay sate a useful pasture. It was like birdlime is winter and cast iron in summer-poor, indigenous, and drab-coloured grapes choked sod eradicated the finer kinds I had sown' -and the animals wandered about, hollow and dissatisfied. la the space of 18 months irrigation has changed all this new, ho. and fattening grasses have clothed the field with perpetual verdure-it keeps three times as many animals, lad the close and shaven pasture indicates their affection for it-buttor, milk, and cream alike tes tify by their richness to the fertility of irrigation, whilst the animals are improved in their condition. Professor Way, in his recent valuable analysis of grasses, in the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, has revealed the astounding auth, that irrigated grasses contain 25 pee cent. more swit-raakiag matter than those not irrigated. We all know that grasses are voracious drinkers-they mud steal drowning on undrained land in stagnant water, from which their roots soon extract all the oxygen ; but see how prim and green they look beside any trickling rivulet. luster*, therefore, to predict, that the people of this many will soon mined ample water-supply, desalinate, sad health, with the idea of ample aad cheap physical sups plies-(hear, hear)-they will identify the well-washed mutest, of their closets with rounds of beet, saddles of mutton, big loaves, and rich milk. (Great laughter.) The ladies, whom I am too happy to me hero to-night, Mowing their great and proper indigence, will recognise is every slop that leaves the boost, a rich, cheaper, sad more abandeat supply of that Mount. - (lughter)-which is to develop I. their offspring by brie. aid inuchnibeauty and power, mental and physical. • • • It is of no us• to send a 'Mara of sewerage to a farmer who allows his own mune* to rue down the ditches, and muds to Peru to bring it beck wide is the shape of bird's dug at 101. per ton. No, leadlorda and tenants too must be taught, or brought to believe, that food tad liquefied maser. are one and the same thing, merely altered in Arm. Than yea may make a small well by the aide of each punt sewer, and with your steam force pump take all that mimes down that name, and distributs it through stabler- mesa arterial pipes oaths whole country ; riot a drop need Till pest your pimp to taint your streams. There is no more dilculty in it, than is the water supply, but you mut week a change in the minds of the agriculturist, or they will hardly take it as a gift, muckier pay you for in • • • The effects of liquefied manure are so striking is improv ise set crops, that the caw l worth trades. We know that there is nothing of which a lamer is en mach afraid sa the subsoil six or seen inches below the surface ; if he bring, this at oeme to the surface, he will grow aethiag for soma time. This inovee clearly that that detailed Mooed has never received, or bare improved by the solid maitre ploughed in to the surface soil • but by 747: solid manure is a liquefied form, it sinks y tato the aulmil,iiaturating every greeds, sad by a affectionate afilnitios improves its chemical Meditise, rendering its panicles available and agreeable lathe Mem of plasm ; change of air, and iimems of water msso eresmary to roots of plants ea ts dikes Weida; ail this is effected by drainage and irrigation. It is no et mama thing lee es to estimate the sell is the der i t: s f five feet ia w very strongest clay, makkag the rut with the precious fluid. th•dabbm of amens be strength and value. The specific gravity and Isamene tare of liquefied mum are much light time them of Ordinary water, thereby warming the add eel inaelneate eatwoll-we know the elect of boUsin beet in our guises. 'tie s sigalfimat fact that the liquid ,insist of animals fa dry weather destroys vegetatioa-dilate it well, ells our semen, then it stimulates and fertilizes. • • • gx purism has taught oar fanners, that the ammoubseal pie ties of ow: mammas is the most costly, aad yet the most difficult to retake; owing to its extreme volatility, sada tun frith water is Ike only profitable wilt* provost its fate the atmospleme, therefore the wash's( away atlas= made tom isle easpious tank for irrigation, le every way a gems emeeleag tied advantage. • • • As this is • geared dieeourse, I will not overlay it with tedious statistics of soot, but will state generally that to irrigate a farm of 200 acres you would require :-Four horm steam power, worked at sixty to seventy pounds per itch. Fifteen yards per acres of three-inch nos pipe. A circular tank, about thirty feet in diameter, and twenty feet deep. Two !misdeed yards of two heakeinda "mks hose, with corrugated joints to reader it flexibas. Uinta perdue jet. A pair of forts pumps, capable of discharging 100 gallons per minute. (Miss are of five-inch diameter, and twenty-inch stroke, making thirty strokes per minute ; but I would recommend larger bands, and a slower action, to prevent wear and tear.) At present prices all this can be accomplished for about fa. per acre, so that the tenant Paying nine shillings per acre to his landlord fur such an improvement, would be a great gainer. • • • While touching on irrigation, it may be useful to consider &name ' with which it has a close coanezioa. Of course, without drainage natural or artificial irrigation would be iajarloya A smart discussion has recently been carried on, whether drains should cross the slope an or follow the natural fall in equi-distant lines. There can be no doubt as to the necessity for tapping sand or peat pots, or other natural and free receivers of water, when sura.unded by tenacious clays. Up and down drains will generally do this, but where they do not lateral brandies may be added. Although close and shallow drains may make the land ape pear somewhat more dry during winter, the trope on the deeply drained lead show a superiority in the summer. As so dense a fluid u liquefied manure will filter deeply (five feet) through the heaviest clays, and flow from the pipes in streams, I hops we shall n gain hear the too common assertion that " water won't go through our soils." I place before you the model of a steam cultivator, which I think is about to introduce a new economy in British agriculture. I have become, as it were, a parent to it against my inclination. Mr. Romaine, the intelligent inventor, was consigned to me by the agricultural depart ment of the Canadian goternmenc, who had a high opinion of it. After trying in vain to interest some of our imple ment makers in this invention I found that it would be lost to agriculture unless I advanced the necessary fund, for its manufacture and for the securing of the various patent,. On public grounds I did this, and happy I am tosay that its success promises all that the inventor anticipated. lf, with the assistance of a pair of horses and ss. worth of coke, we can effectually comminute and cultivate ten ores per day, we may bid farewell to the whole tribe of tormentors. aces Mere, grubber, harrows, broadsbares, and clod-crushers, that consume, through our horses, so much of the food of this country. (Cheers.) If it does not supersede the plough it will limit it,, operations. When once the steam eultiva'or is shown to answer no doubt many others will appear, and I venture to predict that, within seven years, veam will become the grand motive cultivating power. (Hear, hear ) Mr. Miens here referred ton drawing of Mr. Romaine's mach.ne, which appeared to consist of a steam-engine of 20- horse power fined on a cart, drawn by one or two hArses ; "If such machines answer" (continued Mr. Mechi), „ I gee as reason why they should not he male sufficiently powerful to do thirty or forty acres, or even 100 acres per day. 1 have ae doubt that we shall se* on our land what we now see on the wide ocean, monstrous moving volcanoes, rendered by admit* useful and subservient to mar., each representing the powers of coins thousands of horses, which we shall feed with coals jointed of corn. ,141.12, then, to small fields and emote lanes. I wash! maw Mr. Romaine's engiae, when not cul tivation, will be avaiiithle driving the thrashing maehine, irrigating pumps, et:r d to:;,• 1 eutten, cake-breakers, de., requisite oe most iMproved farm. It is also intended to work a reaper at harvest. As it is highly important to concentrate great power with little weight, I have adopted Mr. Buran's Patent Cupped Boiler, which pretesting • much larger area of fire-box surface to the water, economises fuel, by a much more rapid emanative of sawn. I have no doubt we shall soon find it applied to locomotives; the one I have is the first i that has been issued—l have proved it to 2701ba. per inch, and shell work it at from 1001bs to 1401 In. To appreciate the great advantage of steam over horse power, we must reflect that an express engine weighing 38 tons, represents the power of 1,000 real horses, which would weigh 730 tens. It ie gratifying to me to be able to state that my engine. driver is ore of my farce labourers, who works the engise, irrigation pumps, and other machinery, perfectly to my satiofaction. Vie fact is, all the men on the farm soon get used to the steam, cud you may easily select one or more with a particular pride in its management. A forge haw mer, anvil, vice, tongs, flat and round Mee, ift!.. ate • nee comity elate situation —so you make a blacksmith, as well as an engiae-driver. After reminding the meeting that all great inventions had had to struggle into public favour against an amazing amount of custom and prejudice, and observing that fifty years bad not sufficed to impress on the agricultural mind the great economic tact, that steam was more profitable and available than horse power, Mr. M. chi concluded with some remarks on the neeetsity of a thorough reform in the pre sent mode of transferring land. Ile said—. I purchased the other day three acres of land that intersected my fields, and was highly amused at the production of as many parchments and documents, as, when spread out, would cover the great charity dinner table at the London Tavern. (Laughter.) After traveling back seventy-five years to trace the enclosure or kidnapping of this piece from • heath, it traced the death of the parties, their wills, their successors' wills, three or four mortgagee several times transferred, and • mass of writing out of which any clever lawyer could, I should think, extract fifty objections. Apply the sumo principle to our funded, and every other description of property, and we should come to a dead fix, like the Irish encumbered estates. (Hear, hear.) Like those, the very absurdity of the evil, will, I fancy, some day work its cure. It certainly keeps down the price of lead, by greatly diminishing the competition for it." (Cheers.) It,. U. F. DATUI said he knew a farm in the West of Scotland in which the produce of 30 acres had, with the assistance of two pounds of cake per day for each beast, and a quarter of a pound for each sheep, fattened 60 head of stock, and 110 sheep ; and after charging 10 per cert. for cost of machinery, and making • full allowance for real and every other item of expense, the result was, when the stock was all sold off, • positive profit to the landlord of 41. 17e. per acre, or about 1601. (lieu, hear.) Agriculturists appeared to have no idea of the hidden trea sures which were running to waste. The CUSHMAN mentioned • case within hisown know ledge, in which an omnibus driver by cultivating ten pole., or about the sixteenth part of an acre, in his spare time, with the aid of liquid manure, hod produced sufficient vegetable toad for himself, his wife, and eight children for nearly the who's year. (Hear, hear.) At this rate, he observed, one acre of land would produce cn?ugh vegetable food for 100 persons. Mr. COLS made some remarks on the desirableness of applying the principle of limited liability to companies formed to aid agriculturists In making improvements. Dr. LYON PLATPAIS Bid it had frequently been made an objrction to the irrigation of manures that it washed valuable matter into the drains ; but this was not the case, as soils were endowed with the power of extracting from the solution all its most fertiliaing properties. When llb. of manure contained the constituents of llb. of wheat, surely the greatest ears should ha taken to preserve it ; acid those who aided to do so conferred a great benefit on their country. (Cheers.) As regarded the use of steam, the simple question was, whether it were better to consume flesh, or to consume c oal; and, as • pound of cost was clearly cheaper than • pound of flesh, it was evideatly the best to use. By the adoption of new instruments, by the , extrusive use admire, and by the creation of intelligence . and skill in agriculture as a manufacturer, a bloodless vie tory would virtually extend the dominions of the sovereign, anu ample food be provided for an increasing population. (Cheers.) A vote of thanks was given by acclamation to Mr. Mechi 1 for his paper. PIEIENTATION ter PLATE.—Yesterday a party of about seventy geatlessen connected with the parish of Bt. Luke's dined at the Prince of Wales, Banner-street, on the occasion of presenting a testimonial to Mr. John Kees; late churchwarden, " for the zealous and efflcieat discharge of hie duties as churchwarden, and as a proof of the esteem la whisk he is held by his fellow parishioners." The festival dmiwod additional interest from the fa't, that although the gnat& had, as at present constituted, lasted 120 years, the Fewest cue was the first in which a licensed victualler had Mod the Aloe of churchwarden. The chair was taken by Me. Hooper, the present churchwarden, and at the same liable were the Master sad Warden of Dulwich College, and several of the most respectable and influential inhabitants aft Luke's pad& The plate consisted of • handsome I nt sap, saalfhall s and coffee service, the whole designed ili_aMesseedlasly gem taste, and weighing nearly 250 os. Tba Miner vas ameallsat and abundant, and the wines wen of esislisse cemlity. After the usual loyal slid eon Windiest toasts, the health of Mr. Keset was given from the chair, with a handsome allusion to the services which bad iadsood his follow parishioners to prevent him with se splendid a testimonial. During his year of gam he bad castributed to • complete Mao ratios of she Mission of the pries church, bad et►awies distiagnialied himself the importa'at and moneys odes of ehmokwardes. The plat* havine bees preaosted, Mr. Heist returned thanks. He was sot nolmmed ef ►ia ►umble origin, but attributed his advisee. mint to his elan always to associate with those who were higher I. moiety then himself. He had always end... veered to reserve the goodwill of his hllow parishioners, and the present testimonial was a proof that his efforts bad sot been wholly neemosesful. The several other memo were this disposed of, and the company separated at eleven o'clock. WORKING MEN'S READING AND REFRESHMENT Room, Pendruanir, WEITEINSTII.—Tbis 'agitation, which is divided is ass of the peered and moat densely populated distillate of Westminster, h now opened. It is a sett sod Giamatti linlidits e geneletki of a lecture hall, impale et 4 haldl SOW 4111 Of lei poems; a readieg seem ongpMed the &say end weekly periodicals, theleadini Ike.; • es&s soma, large enough to Nat 116;ro oms, shims teems, club rooms, etc. Woe** g their own refreshments will have MN= Oltelted M a reasonable charge. Free admission is Mehl ta pogebNers; and mu halfpenny a visit, or 2d. a woe s charged he these who us the reading rooms, dc., without calling he retreshmeats. All the lectures will be on popular and aimed& subjects. The Rev. 0. Milos., of St. Michaele...Sas ins on the syllabus. MEXICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN CONPANT.— Irsealriaythe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was lad at the Laths Tends, Mr. J. D. Fowles in the chair. The chairman said that at the last meeting the there holders had resolved to hold a half-yearly meeting be the purpose of laying a statement of affair before the proprietors ; and it was in consequence of that resolution that the present meeting was called. The concerns is Chili had gone on, on the whole, in a satisfactory manner sines the last mee ting. The quantity of ore smelted in the nine months from January last was 6,772 tons, and the quantity of ore extracted was 1,091 teas. There were 1,157 tons of copper received MUM the is England, and the ore on hand en the Ist of flglaaler, in Chili, was 2,151 tone, containing about St 7 Isms of sapper. There was also a quantity of ore ea bead in two other places, which would be forwarded as ass es ships could be got to bring it. The average prise stopple glace they last met was sash as is afford a Ids pats all they brought to market. The chairman thus mad noses from the letters of Use agents of the compasey ahead, and aaaosacsd that the halt-yearly dividend of 7e. 6d. per share woald be paid on the 20th of neat month. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE AIISOCIATION. Lest evening a special general meeting of the members of the Benefit or Mutual Life Assurance De partment of this Aseeciationw as held at the London T , for the purpose of electing two members as auditors in con sequence of the vacancies occasioned by the election of Messrs. Coleman and Wood as managers. The chair was occupied by R. H. Jones, Esq. Messrs. Bathurst, Parnell, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting, after which the balloting was proceeded with, and on its close it was found that the successful candidates were Messrs. Toole and Lloyd. MENDING A FACE.—II has been stated, says Oatignani, that a person named Ponsoles, the proprietor of a travelling menagerie, was, three weeks ago, at Toulouse, attacked by a tiger, on entering its rage, and had his nose bitten off, so that it only hung by the skin of the upper lip, and that he had received besides several severe wounds on the head and elsewhere. When rescued from the animal, he was placed in the hands of medical men. They began by washing the wounds ; then they replaced the skin of the skull ; readjusted the ear; refitted the nose, after removing the bones, and the cartilages, which could not have become eicatricised ; and they deemed the other wounds. To pre vent inflammation, they kept bladders filled with ice round the head of the patient for five days. Their mode of treat. meet was so succeeds' that Pensolee it now going on well. The nose adheres entirely ; the skin of the skull has also adhered ; but the ear is still not quite solid. Ltvzitrool., WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday forenoon the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific, Captain Ezra Nye sailed from this port for New York, with the usual United States and Canadian mails, 101 passengers, sad a , large and valuable cargo of specie on freight. A HINT TO FAMILIES.—A correspondent says : Whilst currants are so dear in price, now Is. per lb., Turkey black raisins are being much used in families, mixed with currants. They are wholesome, end call ' blush( at fourpence to fivepence per lb. They shoul.d be stoned. Buy each separately, two-thirds raisins end one third currants, mad it will be a saving." THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE 8110 W. -- • - SMUDGES'S, WEDNESDAY. The annual dinner in connexion with this show took place lest night, at the Royal Hotel, under the mei dency of Earl Rows, who was supported by Len' Col thot pe ; James Baldwin, E.q , the Mayor; Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. Spooner, DI P.; and amongst the pairing of 150 were Mr. Chandos Wren Iloskyna. of Wrosail Abbey ; Mr. Alderman Lucy, Mr. Alderman Hodgson, Mr. Alder man Phillips; Mr. William Mathews, of Corbyns 11.11, &c. Amongst the toasts given wasof course, " The Agricul twat interest," proposed by Alr. NATIIP.WS, who ob. served that if, a few months ago, he had been called on to propose that toast, it *Gold have been in mournieg, and with sackcloth and ashes ; to bewail the fate of what was once the embodiment of all prosperity; to lament over it as having seen the best of its days. But these short months had passed by ; and instead of bewailing agriculture as in the last stages of senility and decrepitude, we find it full of lusty life, the ridgy sides of the fat stock they saw that day being but • feeble type of its strong and healthy condition. He con gratulated those around him on this happy combination of circumstances. The pursuit of agriculture found always a warm sympathy from every man whose heart was in the right place. (Cheers.) There was no pursuit, however pleasing or profitable, they were not desirous of giving up to enjoy the pleasure involved in agricul•urol life. He felt that his old friend, the Mayor, engaged as he was in manu facturing, had more p 1 in surveying his stock of fat pigs than in his civic honours. (Cheers and laughter.) There could not be a doubt of it; he turned like Ciocin natus to his Lim again. There were things which could not be debated in assemblies such as that; but W. he might be allowed to sq, that he delighted in this condition of things, not only on its own account, but that then was a total abandonment of all the fallacious and monstrous doctrines which were formerly eosin ciente!, namely, that the Agricultural interest could only exist by the sacrifice of the manufacturing interest, end that manufactures could only flourish amidst the ruins of agri. culture. Al these delusions were vanishing, to the delight of every thinking man ; and now Ephraim no more shall envy Judah. and Judah shall not yea Ephraim. (Cheers ) Their only rivalry now should be in doing the best they could under their different cireumstauces. Now, although there he did not desire to enter on topics on which differ epees of opinion might prevail, yet he might be allowed to say that corn and currency had • larger signitieati , n than the world generally supposed. (Hear, hear.) Tne walls of that room he had heard more than once re-echo with the subject; and he might venture to make one slight allasioa to the new poeitiou in which the agricultural in terest was placed by the question of the currency. From the year 1340 to the year 15641 the average price of the quarter of wheat was oily ISt. A little previous to 1650 in 1648—the discovery was made of the mints of Mexico and Peru, that brought an entire change over agriculture and all other in t . In twenty years the prices of corn and other commodities were nearly tripled, and wheat bore! the proportion of nearly 50i. a quarter far the next two huhdred years. Then came acts of parliament, corn laws, followed by disputes, strikes, and differences of opinion, hapolitical and social. Now, it seemed as if Providence, ving pity on our defects, brought in its own bill of California and Australia—(hear, hear)—a bill to which he loosed with most unpile, expettatione—which, if they dl4 not interfere who any crotehetty plans of their own, would put every interest in its proper posi tion. (Hear, hear.) They had disputes, strikes, differences between the employer and the employed, with faults on the part of the men, and perhaps too high • tone on the part of the masters; but he had such • strong faith ir. the Anglo-Saxon good sense of the country, that he hoped soon to see them get beyond all aberrations of this kind ; that they would find all interests united—their only rivalry the emulation of well doing. (Cheers.) Speaking as a large employer of labour, and as expressing the sentiments of those in a similar position, be could say that they looked to see the day when every man should be able sometimes to sit under his own vine and fig tree, in the enjoyment of the pleasures of a country life. All hail, then, to agriculture. He had to ask them to drink success to it, and he did so with the very best wishes of his heart. (Laud cheers.) The health of Mr. T. B. WIsIOUT, the founder of the Exhibition having been given, that geatlemsa responded. With reg ard to the progress which the society had made, be said teat be thought there was every reaso• for con gratulation, and for the opinion which he fur one enter tained that their future prospects were most encouraing. Their meeting this year, as he had said, was in all revers satisfactory, and everything tended to show that their society had attained a permanent character. It was the conviction that this was the case that induced the co el to determine upon a great extension of their operations, by the announcement of a first exhibition of store stock and agricultural imslements, to be held in June next. (Cheers.) The prize list for stock to be shown at this meeting had been for some time in the hands of the princi pal breeders, and he was glad to know that it had been highly approved, and that many gentlemen had already promised to become competitors. He looked upon the store show as a most important extension of the society's operations; end he slid not disguise it from himself, as he would not from that meeting, that the work now undertaken would s until a vast amount of re spoosibility upon the council, and require (or its accom plishment a very complete organisation, and an efficient staff. In fact, every one interested in the success of what bad been so well begun, should be prepared to afford the most activo assi4ance ; while those to whom the actual management was entrusted should each take fur his Fria. anon the well known proverb, that " nothing moves without being moved." (Cheers.) It was undoubtedly a most de sirable thing that a great agricultural meeting should be held in the ceatre of England, in a town affording and willing to supply the most eseellent accommoda tion in all respects, and in the centre of a district in which had been found many of the most intelligent and success fel agriculturists of the present time, both landlords and tenants. The marvel was, not Mist their progress had been so rapid, but that in the midland counties, with all the ma terials at our hands, we had been se late in the field with a movement of this kind. (Hear, hear.) Their show had increased with each rapidity, that every [year brought the same work with regard to the fittings and the reception and disponil of the stock ; sad this year, owing to the »tenor dinary character of their Poultry Show, the labour had been vastly increased. Arduous as it was, however, it had been cheerfully undertaken by a few members of their council; and the entire approval of all that had been done, both by exhibitors and visitors, would, he was sure, be most grati fying to those gentlemen. (Cheers.) CKANDOS Wang Hossixe, Esq., observed that their thanks were peculiarly due to the manufacturers of imple ments, because every implement they produced was an in cises's( power to the human hand, and thereby an exten sion of the power of the hulas twain, to which the hand was the miniskr. Its Anal saes were physical, but they halm that physical power lay at the bottom of moral and intellectual nature, and was the foundation of the highest aims and the highest theampUehmeats of the human rate. It was with mash , therefore, that he gave " The Manufacture» a Implements." (Cheers.) Mr. Joint LOWS, as the only »presentative of the agri cultural implement maws plant, acknowledged the toast. The CaiithwaW them gave the lot toast on the list, " The Ladies," which wee eekriewledged with the usual benears ; al ley whisk the noble chairman left the chair, and the y sepelatsd. This • the were admitted to the show ; the Hall boa beim yerewded th roug hout the day.—Yea terday shamus the Desires et rretand and a large party from Trentham visited the Itzhibitioa. HIGHLAND SOCIETY'S WINTER SHOW. The first winter exhibition of fat stock in con fession with the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, took place on Monday in the Edinburgh Cattle Market. Similar in principle, and with much the same objects as the Christmas shows of the Smithfield Club, the exhibition—the first ever held north of the Tweed—re fleeted the highest credit on the breeders and agriculturists of Scotland, and more thou Justified the anticipations formed of it. Considerable Miami was manifested in eke success of the experiment, and numerous parties were pre sent from almost every quarter of the country. The exhibition was chiefly congaed to fat stock, as distin guished frets breeding saunas, the number of entries being, for • .ttle,9l ; sheep, 63 • and pigs, 14 The stock gene rally was of a high cha racter, so excellent, indeed, that to decide the comparative merits of some of the animals in the different glasses must have been extremely diMeult. The polled cattle from Angus and Forfar were generally _ad mired for flesh, look, and condition. The show of West Highland stock was also good, and attracted much atten tion. The prize animal I. seediest 13, a eras between a shorthorn and an Aberdeenshire cow, combined the best quslities of both breeds. In this class the ox, No. 44, also • cross, was regarded as one of the finest on the ground, poisoning great size and weight, though displaying 'none of that useless and dis gusting obesity which used to be esteemed as the perfection of good feeding. The first premium for the shorthorus—always a prominent feature in exhibitions of this kind—was awarded to Mr. Robert Scot Skirving, of Camptoun, East Lothian. The price animal was a very choice specimen, showing high breed, with pure feeding. The heifers in the same class entered by Mr. James Douglas, Atbelstaneford, were beautiful animals, in fine condition, and excited high encomiums. It is impossible, however, to enumerate the many choice animals that were exposed ; these might be distinguished by the groups of interested visitors that surrounded them, testing by the eye, by touch, and by other modes of criticism, the quality and points of the different breeds. The show of sheep was allowed to be very superior. The Soutbdowns and Cheviots, in particular, were excellent, but did not excite more attention or admiration than the crosses. The number of pigs in the show was not large, but they comprised some in very superior condition. The show, as a whole, has proved entirely successful. The attenoincs of visitors, among whom were several ladies, during the day was numerous. In the early pro spect of Christmas, with its associations of good cheer, the exhibition has many features of interest to the community, I which may be gratified to-day by a visit to the showyard.: But, to the breeder and the agriculturist, in displeyit 4 such examples of the best styles of 'taring and feedie- u ss exhibition is of great practice, importance; while, in affording to Scottish dealers th e same facilities which our English neighbours have r.) long enjoyed, it is another proof of the deep interest which the Highland Society manifests in every delnrtment of our national agriculture. Peti'Urs were the Duke of Sutherland, the of Il e cc ueoreue.i the Duke of Roxburgh'', Lord Kin itaDiuke Amongrd. th the Ent'. of Rosalyn, acc.—Edinburgh Currant. LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE RA ILWAY.—Teaffin for week ending Dec.:lo, 1853 :—PaPsengtrs, 136. I Id. goods, 94/. 13s ; 3d. Total, 1934 71. 4d. CHURCH BUILDING IN PADDINGTON. A scandalous " job " is in contemplation in this parish. In August 1 ist, hearing that the Select Vestry of Paddington meditated building a number of new churches, we sent a reporter to the meeting, at which the question was to be discussed, in order that the public might be male acquainted with its proceedings; but ou► reporter was in formed, in no yery courteous terms, that this Om bosly did not allow reporters front the public press to be present at their meetings. We were, however, enabled to furnish a report of what took place, which excited great interest in the parish, and we hoped the idea of taxing it to the tune of 20,0,k1. to 30,000/., without its knowledge or consent, was abandoned. We regret to 6nd, however, by the following notice that the scheme to: building churches is revived. " Paddington, Vestry Hall, Harrow-road, 13th December, 1833. " SIL—An adjourned meeting of the ♦estry will ¢e held at the Vestry-hall, Harrow-road, on Tuesday morning nest, the 20th instant, at tan oclock precisely, to take, into con. sideration a report from the Church Committee, of which the following is a copy : " ' Paddington, 2nd December, 1853. " "fhe Church Committee beg to report, that in cons phones with the resolution of the vestry of the 2nd August last, they hue received and considered plans for building two additional churches in this parish, one at Crai en-hill, prnpoeed to be erected by the Rev. Richard Wood, nod the other in Westbourne-park- toed, proposed to be erected by Messrs. Phiilipe end Rey ; and the committee recommend that sums of two thousand pounds be applied oy the vestry from the clutch rate in aid of the coat of .building each of these churches, upon condition that not fewer than .500 free sittings be appropriated in each charch for the use of the poor for ever, in positions to lie approved.by the vestry. •• •A. M. CAMPBELL, Chairman.' " I am, sir, your meet obedient servant, " F. AVELINO, Vestry Clerk." We believe about 40,0001. has been already spent by the select vestry of Paddington Of which body the Bishop of London is a member), and it appears from the last state ment of their accounts, for the year ending April, 1853, that of this sum there remains a balance of debt amounting to 27,1041., fur which the parish is taxed every year to pro- vide for the interest and a sinking fund in discharge of the principal. It appear. that the select vestry, in addition to this large outlay, contemplated the expendi•nre of a much larger sum in building new churches, for we see, by a re port of a committee appointed by the vestry in January, 1842, signed by the Rev. A. W. Campbell, chairman, that " the church seeminoilatioa throughout the parish was little more than one-fifth the amount of the population," and as a cootmencemext to supply this spiritual destitution, the committee resommended " a sum not exceeding 10,0001. to be expended in building a new church in St. Mary's district." This ,scheme, we believe, was not carried out, and the one new proposed is to subscribe 4,0001. to two projected by t ome buildin: speculeturs. itisgtaiterta that this eine corpor a ti on Nneoww it churches, is should take advantage of the parish at • moment like the present, when church-rates are about to be abolished, to saddle it with taxes for building churches without their knowledge or consent. It is clear, however, that the whole scheme is a gross job to favour certain building speculators, under the falee pretence of providing free sittings for the poor (for church building is u much a speculation with these jobben as hones building.) Where is it proposed to build these two churches ? In the densely populated part of the parish, where the poor have need of education and religious instructi^n ? No such thing. They are to be built at Craven-bill, and West bourne Para-roid, parts of the parish where large building speculators are erecting rows of houses, and villas fitted for every class but the poor. There are no poor to fill the seats proposed to be appropriated to the poor, but we know how they will be occupied—by the servants of the rich who frequent the churches. This project then is intended to spars the pockets of the rich, at the expense of the parish. Paddington presents one of th ose anomalies, which the . inhabitants should forthwith apply to parliament to remedy. These are not times when a secret inquisition should have the power to tam a parish as it pleases, and to shut out the inhabitants and the public press from its proceedings. The church property in the parish of Paddington has within a few years become enormously productive. We understand it produces about twenty to thirty thousand pounds per annum, and is yearly increasing. If it were • ' ' . justly appropriated there would be no nand to tax the parish for building or repairing churches, but instead of these purposes it goes to swell the bloated iacoms of the Bishop of London—one of the members of the select vestry of Paddington. THE GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR. DEPUTATION TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. Yesterday a deputation, consisting of the mer chants and inhabitants of Gibraltar, and a number of gen tlemen connected with the Manchester trade, waited upon the Duke of Newcastle at the Colonial odic., in order to present to his gram several memorials respecting certain resent acts of the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Robert Gar diner. The deputies from Gibraltar, Mr. William Carver and lir. John Peacock, were introduced by Mr. Bright, M.P., and accompanied by Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. G. B. Can, Mr. J. Aspinal Turner, president of the Com mercial Association, Manchester ; Mr. Henry Ashworth, vim-president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr. John director of the Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Mosley, plasm, Jackets!), Mr. David E. Power, Mr. John Ingram Travers, and Mr. Charles Bloke. The subjects of the memorials have already been noticed in the Doily News. The grievances complained of mainly resolved themselves into four articles. First, that the governor unsuthorisedly, unconstitutionally, and in direct violation of the express words of the orders in council has ordered duties to be levied upon wines in the port of Gib raltar, without warrant in law ; and that be has imposed arbitrary restrictions upon the removal of wines, and spirits afloat, incompatible with the perfect freedom of the port. Beeendly, that he has Imposed arbitrary restrictions upon the egress from Gibraltar of vessels lawfully engaged in trade ; and in the pursuit of an impracticable policy which he describes as " licit trade, free as air," (which, however, la reality, is fettered by the Spanish laws with wholly pre hibitory duties as regards British goods) the governor has issued orders which interpose unnecessary and vexatious impediments in the way of transacting the legiti mate emanuirce of the port. Thirdly, that the gevernee. as President of the Board of Health, in friemdl eemeurrenies with the Spanish authorities, decided upon a quarantine of eight days observation, upon all vessels arriving at Gibraltar from England, after the 24th October. Eight days afterwards he precipitately, and without any notice, removed all quarantine, and provoked the Spanish authorities, in pure self defence, to place yes eels from Gibraltar under a quarantine of eight days obser vation, instead of allowing them free communication as theretofore. The order of the Board of Health at Algeciras having been at one* carried into effect, to the great preju dice of the trade, and the comfort of the inhabitants of the port of Gibraltar, the governor, without any motive which eau be fathomed, crowned these proceedings by ratting oft the land communication with Spain, thereby preventing the introduction of provisions, and supplies into the garri son and city, through that channel, and reducing the poorer daises of Gibraltar to the deepest distress. Fearthly. He has interfered with the inalienable right of British subjects, to assemble peaceably to discuss their wants and grievances, having prohibited tbo inhabitants from meeting even in their politic Exchange-rooms, to memorialise her Majesty's Secretary of State. The memorialists therefore prayed for the removal of all the recent restrictions on the transit trade of the port, equal leemmercial freedom with that enjoyed by the people of Zegleitd, protection against the governor's vexatious and harassing interference with the trade he is bound to pro tect; that the operation of the Orders in Council, relating to revenue now in force, may he confined, as heretofore, to the city, garrison, and territory, and not extended nip authorisedly to the port of Gibraltar ; and that the entire freedom of the port may be maintained iuviolste. They also prayed his Grace to appoint a commission, with ample powers to inquire into and revise completely the existing laws of Gibraltar ; to inquire into the state of the public receipts and expenditure of the colony. with a view to the immediate and permanent reduction of the unnecessary ex penses of the local government ; and to report to his Greets upon the necessity of the appointment of a consultative council, to assist in preparing sinews and matters connected with the public revenue and the trade of Gibraltar. might was A mgl , _ was far advanced towards completion, the sheds were is which he says that he imagines that the deceased con covered in, and the rolling stock was in course of delivery. tributed more than 401. a year to the chapel. When the The arrangements in regard to the rolling stock had been books were turned to it did not appear that one made on consultation with the Strasbourg Company, the single farthing was contributed by Owennap to that alliance with which he regarded as of permanent value to object ; on the contrary, it would be found that both companies, and in conclusion be begged to move the at his death the very tams suns (271 . ) was paid adoption of the report. for interes on the chapel debt, which was paid ten years The motion was seconded by Mr. ANDIRTON. before, indicating clearly that, during that period, the debt Some conversation ensued as to the terms upon which it had undergone no deduction. His Honour nest proceeded was proposed to convert the several classes Of shares, and to the third fact in connexion with this matter, and he con- The CHAIRMAN expressed his own opinion that a more sidered that, whatever doubt might be thrown around those equitable arrangement could not have been devised ; and, to which he had already adverted, however they might be Is answer to a question whether the meeting was now explained away, that which he was about to state seemed called upon to pledge itself to find the capital and proceed all but conclusive to show that the design of the parties to with the new lines, he added that it was proposed to ask the deed was that it should not come into operation until for powers at the present meeting to carry out all the re- the grantor's decease. This fact was the careful conceal commendations of the report. The extension would con- ment of the existence of the deed and of its purposes from nett them with other lines, which would bring them in the members of the congregation of the chapel and from the direct communication with Paris ; and hit wee satisfied deacons, the helps, the treasurers, and committees of the that the profit upon that extension line would not be less charities proposed to be benefited thereby, until the month than ten per cent. The Paris and Strasbourg Company of June, 1860, and even then it was only dircloeed for the had se strong an opinion of the advantage they would derive purpose of effecting • scheme to which reference would here hem the completion of the through communication that after be made. This studied concealment could only be ac they were about to lay out 800,0001. to unite with the lines counted for on the supposition that the deed was not In a the Luxembourg Company. (Cheers.) tended to be enforced, and could be explained upon no M. Bosexceox, the secretary of the Paris and Stras- other ground. But this strong presumption received further !ClCompany, urged the importance of uniting corroboration from the information which Dr. Burns said her ines of the two companies as being essential did communicate upon the subject of Mr. Gwennapte in to the interests of both. It was well known tended benefactions to the chapel. He said in his deposi t's the Continent, that the trate° always increased in pro- tious that he communicated previously to the meeting portion to the extent of the line. The receipts on the of 1860 the fact of the execution of the deed by Mr. Gwen- Great Northern of France had increased 20 per cent. per nap ; all that he ever did was to state generally the fiat mile suttee the line bad been extended from 330 to 444 miles, that the charities would be benefited by Mr. (iwennap in sad on the Paris tad Strasbourg. when the line was ex- the course of a few years .so that not only did Dr. Burns tended so as to connect it with the foreign railways, with during 11 or 12 years carefully suppress the fact that there which it now communicated, the passenger traffic became existed a deed by virtue of which, if esforced, the charities doubled almost in • single day, and the goods traffic in- would be entitled to immediate benefit, but what hocom creased 60 pet cent. His company now paid 11 per cent. to municated was in such a shape as to lead. inferentially. to their shareholders, and he expected they would soon pay the belief that the benefits were not of a present tut.of • 13; and he could see no reason why the Luxembourg future character. All this is further burns out by the should not be equally successful, when they extended their transaction of 1847. At that time it appears to have oc line so as to bring it in conaezina with the great continen- caned to Mr. Owennap, or to have been suggeated •ai him, tal railways. (Hear, bear.) When this was done the that be might be called upon to pay up the arrears of the Luxembourg would be no longer a Belgian but • European annuity, which then amounted to upwards of 7001.. line, for it would become a portion of the direct line be- To relieve Mr. Gwennap's mind from this- apple-. tween Ostend and Marseilles. (Hear, hear.) He believed bunion, it was arranged between hint and this • trustees. these alliances between the railways of different countr'es, that they should give hiss • release from all liability for. by which the peoples were brought into direct cornmunica- arrears then due, and accordingly the trustees, Burns and Lion with each other, afforded quite as strong a guarantee East, executed • memorandum by which they. discharged for the preservation of peace as the treaties negotiated by Owennap from all claims up to that time, and.engage 1. to diplomatists and signed be kings. (Loud cheers.) renew such release every half-year. When tt.ie meninan- Mr. TAUNTON, as a holder of 6 per cent. guaranteed dues came to be examined closely, it would. be losind to. stock, and as representing a number of other Liverpool support the plaintiff's MO. The trustees therein descri be holders of the same stock, complained of the unfairness of themselves as 'agog, amsointed trustees of MUM e,enuitioll being called upon to give a guaranteed 6 per cent. for what left by T. Oteennsp, to Ikon Chapel and it:. charities con:. might turn out to be no dividend at all. The old shares elected therewith, awl that such annuities were .eft by deed had been es low as from 40 to 60 per ce nt. discount, and to meet the heal difficulties arising from the statute of might be so again, and he objected to exchange a stock alortinahn• • tiaeS' therefore declare that they could net t s which must always command its value is the market, for j us tice de ny', the annuities until it shou ld please Pro‘ it one that was liable to he depreciated to such an er.tent. den" to ou'aove Mr. Owe n nap by de at h , and t hat they fur that, gentle- Mr. MABTIRMAN (a director) defended the irrrangeraent °"""t that oran propoeed as one that was fair to all parties, end after some man'. 'satisfaction. The impressiros. wh ich mind was that SINGULAR POACHING AFFRAY.—An extraordinary further conversation , in the course of which two other due., wa s calculated to . leave upetninthethe deed the in case of poaching has lately occurred in the parish of Wit- shareholders expressed their concurrence with Mr. Taunton, 'lsm parties would have plai nly should an no O t u be reci ived until Mr. Islington, Dartford. On Wednesday evening, the 30th The Cu AIRMAN promised that any bolder of the Six per tennon that the annuity attach 4 " . .- oir names to that d ult., at 7 o'clock, Colegate, the gamekeeper of Mrs. Minot. Cent. ',Lock who was dissatisfied and objected to cone.' had it not be e n kf la o fo r r un t a h i e n. dif A tie n u o l t t h y e t r h t z raus. own of Baldwyns, heard a gun fired of( in Hark wo o d; he igiss up".n the terms Itroposed should, wile* he next applie - 4 i c , i T t (3,:the'entraPw.elydebayththe statute _ took mediately proceeded towards th e , spot, and ea he was am. his intern t, have hit stock Taken off his hands at P 6" ~. actual, limn a few e rontha before ;sing he heard a seconi gun t i z is 'tie same direction. The, motion for adopting the report srie ** ..ien put end I already slightly adverted to, p m la . ce I . , few years Presently he heard some *:en opiate:chins, and on seizing , 64 ' rued , siz hands only bung told up 'wt.' one them he found tkat it was one of hp own brothers, and Mr. ANDS ). tux secooded, a rests oi it, in • more Squire Colegate.'limn usually crowdeeMeeting. ' Whilst - these two men were strugglinv Mr. Rows mired, together, 6401 tier brother, William Colegate , struck e. o e lotion , ratifying the provisional r• • 'teener csTri the head and back with the barrel of a . •gus. into by the directors with the P"ai s . and r eat' Strasburg c Coin eea p t an e re y d , ,I_ l ___°„kr-per then let Squire Colegate get up, and the o th er which was carried, as were , other resolutions to authorise the board to assume the canoeist.% of the Belgian Grand June quire?.."°"„tier William ran away a short distance. Ho thee, threw but tion line, and to carry out the proposed arrangements in .s Colegate down again and called out for h'elp, , William, who had run away, tame back and Vaud, hi nt regard to capital, at' .1 the other recommendation contained . again with the barrel of the gun, and Squire said, ii ot ee to the report ; and after a vote of thanks to the chairma it to him." The keeper then seised hold of the 'or:eel, but and a similar oompliment to M. Rosser:go and the stcrets.rj, his brother lir:embed it ikw;sy, struck at him tip , f ain and the the meeting separated, two brothers then ; e a away through ". ..at edge. The keeper was m isi.,!e'.l hurt, and his head ' Wed. Squire Cole- ......-,------ gate an d ve :Atm Colegate hare been subsequently ar rested and ce mmitted for trial. It is said that the keeper had serve d, a notice on hi s t wo brothers to keep off Mr.. Ninet's sand, and that th 7 enter sines! some spite towards him tit consequence.— South Eastern Gazette. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPIL—The submarine cable across the Firth of Forth and Tay is being laid down, so as , I to complete the chain of telegraphic communication between the far north of Scotland and the south. atter r .wennep's death, it appeared to have suggested itself to Dr. Burns that he and his trustee might end themsels.sa in a difficult position when the deed was disclosed, becausoy„hey Ar a l not only omitted to receive the annuity mentioned the.eiss, but bad also given an undertaking not to call for it &tiring Mr. Gwennap's life, and therefore they apprehend,d that they might be held personally acco un t a bl e for tb ' arrears. To get imr this difficulty Gwennap drew a cb e q ue f or 1,04,54, the amount of the arrears, and handed it Dr. Burns. Dr. Burns exhibited this cheque at a chinel meeting on the same day, explained from whom and for what he had received it, and prvisnied that, on amount of his other acts of beneficent*, it should 'in: returned to Mr, Owennap. In this proposal the meeting concurred, and the cheque was returned to the donor, who thorcuponsane a receipt for it. N ow , ta ki ng into consideration -the whole of the circumstances surrounding that matter, and the fact that ucither at that time, nor at any time dui ing the pre ceding ten years, had Mr. Gwennap had sufficient money at his bankers to meet a cheque of that 4 111()%111!, h's was satisfied that the whole affair was a mere CJlltTiValne to relieve the trustees from responsibility. Of COMP, if the payment had been a bona file one, then the annuity ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL: It LS announced that the Bishop of London, 'misted by Dr. Luithington and Sir Jaws Patteson, Fitting as assessors, will commence en inquiry into certain alleged abuses connected with the above Cathedral on the 9th of Jemmy. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.— Amount of traffic for the week ending D'c. 10, 1853:—Pas. *engem, 8,1.9/. 14s. 31.; goods, 3,137/. 17s. 109. Total, 11,2571. 12s. I id. GREAT LUXE,VBOURO .RAILWAY. Yesterday the usual meeting in Londe.: nrepars- I EQUITY COURTS.—YESTERDAY. tory to the ordinary general meeting of this coin, „id serum VIC...CMANCELII L 0 UNIULAY. Brussels, which will t a ke ,' lace on t h e 17 t h i nst. , w.:* . tewENNAI. r BORNS—WAY O. EA.ll* —STA rent or moue. at the London Tavern . Sir Wx. Maosee, the president, is the chair. ,oty at I The directors, in their report, stated that they had re cently concluded en important treaty with the Peril and Strasbourg Itsilway, by which their own line was to be ex tended 7 miles from Arlon to Aubaege, on the French frontier, end which would lm accompanied by a prolongation of the Strasbourg Railway from Thioaville to Aubance. Their line would thus become an integral part of the great European railway from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The directors had also determined the basis of mutual arrangements for the tariff and service of both the lines. The Societe Generale du Credit Mobilier having also con sented to become the Paris Bankers of the company, would open the French market freely to their shares. Negutiatious entered into with the concessionaires of two Belgian lines, called the Grand Junction, warranted the expectation that the company would obtain from them the transfer of a con cession they had obtained from the &Iglu ;puma:tat of two lines from Matinee to Leaden, and from Groenen deel to Nivelles, passing by Waterloo. These two lines, the length of which, together, wou:d be about 50 miles, would become branches of their own line, and would secure to it considerable traffic. The coustruction of these two lines would be cutupleted in the space of two years, at an outlay of 640,0001. (16,000,000frs.), whilst the return expected would exceed 1,880,. (12,00010 the kilometre, and would give an ample revenue upon the capital employed. The directors pro posed to reduce their four dames of shares to une uniform type. They proposed that 4,000,000 fr. (160,000 e) should he raised by obligations or bonds of 1001 r. (41.) each, bearing en interest of 5 per cent., to be reimbursed in the course of 75 years, at 125 fr. each, by yearly drawings. This would enable them to present an equitable compensation to the holders of the privileged shares; and a further but limited issue of obligations would enable them to meet all the ex penses of their undertaking chain; the year 1854. The principal conditions they proposed to attach to the conver sion of the trireme stocks were, that the 60,000 paid up 101. ha:f shares should be ,:changed for 60,000 201. shares, 101. paid, with a remote liability to further calls to the extent lof 101. That the 0,000 six per cent. guaranteed half-shares, upon which 51. have been paid, should ho converted into half that number of ordinary shares of 201. each, liable to further calls to the extent of 101. Each one of the new shares to be entitled to a beau in the shape of a 4/. paid up obligation, bearing interest at 5 per cent., and reimbursable at 51. The quarter preference shares on the Brussels and N31121.1T section to receive one new share, subject to a le/. call for five quarters, anti one obligation for six quarters, and the canal quarter shares to be converted into 2.01. eharea, at the rate of three such share. (also liable to the 101. each) for ten of the old quarter shares. Finally, the directors stated that they had received proposals for the purchase of their surplus lands at Brussels from a projected company, consisting of parties interested in their undertaking, and whose principal aim was to facilitate the carrying into effect the tombinetions devised by the direction. 'These Pr"..",,osals secured to the Luxembourg Com pany . contiderable ?tell: • and stipulations had been giv;ng to the sharel:olc;e rs the right to take art in the forteatiou of the new company :: Cip . ital. to be employed upon this lane ' , and upon certain di 5t ,.... - ts in the neighbourhood of our line abounding in valuable qe.mTies. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting that the directors had been at length enabled to surmount the diffi culties which had beset theta at the commencement of their operations, and had succeeded in completing ;temente which must tend largely to the benefit of the company, and, as he believed, ensure the permanent value of the property. The financial scheme Imposed might seem intricate, but a very slight consideration would show that it was founded upon equitable principles, and with a due regard to the rights of all classes of the shareholders. What the privi leged shareholders were called upsn to surrender was a matter of smelt importance as compared with what they would receive in exchange; for be was quite sure he was speaking within compass when he said that by consentiag to the proposed arrangement they would be exchanging a security of six per cent. for one that would yield them eight, ten, or even more per cent. (Hear, hear.) He could not, perhaps, better satisfy the meeting upon this point than by informing them of the increased importance which the province of Luxembourg had ac toiled. Sine* the Great Luxembourg Company had become a fact, and the railway was in progress, capital had found its way to that province to an unprecedented extent. Com panies had been formed and were in operation for the purchase of large tracts of forest and other lands. The opening of quarries and the working of limestone, end other speculations, were likewise in progress, which must ensure a traffic from this mice aloue sufficient to pay at least 5 per cent. upon the whole of the capital. He had in hit hand the prospectus of one of these new companies, showing that that one alone would bring to the line traffic sufficient to pay S per cent. on 600,0001. of capital ; that was, they would bring to the line 380,000 tons to be carried upwards of 40 miles, which would produce 30,0001. a-year ; and be knew also of another company—an English com pany—that had recently signed an arrangement for a pur chase of forest in Luxembourg to the extent of b twee& 600,0001. and 800,0001. The quantity of limestone which would be worked, now that it was certain means would be afforded for transporting the lime, and the extent of land which would be brought under cultivation in conse quence of the facilities which the railway would give, were almost incalculable. When the company was first started it was thought by Mr. Meaterman that merely as a bridge connecting Brussels with Germany, it would pay, but beyond the through traffic they would have a most valuable and remunerative local traffic, and there could be no doubt, therefore, that their returns would be sufficient to emus to the proprietors a very large dividend. (Cheers.) The obligations or bonds which it was proposed to issue, he was confident would speedily become a favourite stook with the public. Already the contractors had applied to the boars, stating their wish to take those obligations to • very large extent in payment of the amounts due to them. lie was happy to say that the works on the line were pro- ceeding with all possible despatch. There were now 8,000 men employed upon them, which number, as soon as the weather would permit, would be increased to 10,000 or 12,000, and by next spring he had no doubt they would be enabled to open the line to Namur. Already the station . _ . - adv. - Ratv intelligence. --~-- suit deed washy wh i4t is ins h ti t m t e u A t i e N d - to . 3u r d ' il ° otemrliiiruteeatphe nowva lidity of deceased,a give asp an.,, which deed wasannuitycharitableforimpeached arcs a onnnithxie ground nwith goon wa,. .hin the scope of the statute of mortsnain. e sases sufficiently appear from his Honour's wee.' the counsel for the T ar ks ib fac be ts in gof the judgment. Mr. g treas o n , a C.; il k:. sCir..; Buxton, Mr. ca.c.; ; are, W. D. Lewis, Mr. Ilislop B d ,i li gs r ha N w v ,. various parties in the cause. The Vice-Chancellor, in delivering julhaent, said, that this was a bill to set aside a deed by which .5 certain an nuity, charged upon real property, was granted to trustees for charitable uses, and the ground for relief was that the deed was in violation of this-statute of mortmain—the 9 Geo. 11. c. 3G. The deed in question was dared the 26th January, 11339, and was made between Thomas Gwennap, since deceased, of the first part, the &readout, Jabez Burns, and • Mr. Makins of the second part, and J. King and It. Eccles of the third part; the parties of the second part being trustees. By the dead Gwennap granted to Burns and his co-trustee an annuity of 951. per annum, charge able on certain leasehold messuages belonging to Gwennap, to endure for a period of 99 years, professedly to commence at the time of the execution of the deed. Gwennap also, by the same instrument, demised to the trustees the lease hold premises in question, upon trust to secure the pay ment of the annuity. The trusts upon which Burns and his co•trustee were to hold the annuity were these : as to 101. upon trust to apply that rum in ease tho salary of the minister of Boon Chapel fell below 1302., to the increase of such salary; but if such salary exceeded that amount, then in trust to apply the 4111. to the diminution of the debt upon the chapel ; as to 301., further part of the said annuity, in trust to pay that sum to th • ti %Wear, for the time being, of the society for relieving the poor of the eon grigatim of Beton Chapel, provided the society . raised 301. from other sources; as to 51, further part, in tried. for Enos Chapel Sunday School ; as to life, further part, in trust for the General Wrist. Hume Mission; and as to 101., remainder of such annuity, in trust to pay it at Christmas time to such of the deserving poor of the congregation of Enon Chapel, as the trustee, might think fit. Afterwards, about 1843, tslakins ceased to be a trustee, and East was appointed in his place. Now, on the face of this deed of 1839, there ap peared no °Nettie'. All the requisitions of the Statute of Mortmain were apparently complied with. The gift was made by a " deed indented ;" it was " sealed and deli vered in the presence of two credible witn,vea," more than 12 months—in fact, about 11 years—before the death of the donor, and It was duly enrolled " within six calendar months" after its execution. In addition to the, the terms the instrument were made to take effect " immediately upon tub execution thereof," and there was no power of re eocation " fur the benefit of the donor" or " ally person clams tine under Dim ," there w u as on this the deed that the payment of the annuity was not parties td c v er amongst, Mate that a r e b e ; e w e red upon during the life of Owermap, and that, en i t .h o e r Pl u al u n ile iff rs%si h reriu gr omd, the deed ought to be set aside. Now, he in declaring 1 „ .. opinian that, if .CUC,I 114 meat or design canted among the, kWh.' when f .ote Vice -Chantellor) had .. no hesitation the deed was executed :nd that design was acquieieed in and understood by them, it was not ncce-s,ry that it should be apparent on the thee of the dyed, to bring it within the 9 Geo. 11., c. 36 ; but that, in such a care, a semi of equity would regard the transaction as fraudulent, and make void the deed. But the onus of proving such an. maderstandieg or design rested of course upon the plain tiffs, who alleged that it existed. They relied in support of their allegation, upon various facts which would be con sidered in their order. It ought to be mentioned, how ever, that Gwennap lived until the year 1830, and that the hill was brought by parties claiming under his will. The first fact brought forward by the plaintiffs in support of their contention was, that when the formality of enrolment had been duly completed by the conveyancer who prepared the deed, instead of that deed being given up to Burns and his co -trustee, it was ds livered to the custody of Gwennap, the grantor himself, and so remaiucd in his custody for many years. Now, if that fart stood by itself alone, it might beef much weight. but when the position of Gwennap in regard to the chapel is considetad, and the close connection in which he stood to it and its ins:itutions, the fact of the retention of the deeds did Hot carry with it that weight to which, at first, it seemed enti:led ; nevertheless, it was not without its significance, when taken in connexion with other parts of the case. But • far more important cir cumstance was this, although Gwennap, the grantor, lived more than eleven years after the date of the deed, he never paid one farthing of the annuity thereby secured, nor was any attempt ever made to enforce the payment. To contro vert the very strong inference which this fact was likely to create, it was insisted by the defendants that although the annuity itself was not paid, yet Gwennap, who, before the date of the deed, had been a liberal contributor to the chapel and its charities, continued to be so down to the date of his death, and that his vo.untary contributions in each year were at least equal to what he would have been compelled to pay if the agreement had been enforced against him. This was to be found in the deposition of Dr. Barns, the trustee. He (the Vice-Chancellor) had looked very carefully over the depositions in this respect, and it certainly appeared that the statement that the grantor's voluntary gifts amounted to 961. a year rested rather in conjecture than upon the actual knowledge of the deponents. But even admitting the fact, it was clear beyond doubt that the 951. a year was only made up by including in it all Mr. Owennap's private charities, and it was still more clear, that of the various charities mentioned in the deed, scarcely one of them received the amount which they would have received had that instrument been legitimately acted upon. As an butanes of this, the statement of Dr. Burns re' 'at be taken,