The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

The Triufe Ga:efte states that it has received f u rther particulars relative to the flight of Peter retroviteli from Montenegro. The reigning Prince, on the evidence of a servant, asserted that his life w as in danger, and it is said to have been his inten tion to take ott the head of the above-mentioned Peter, who was President of the Senate, of the Vice president George Petrovitch, who was also the brother of his lather, and of sundry birders and senator. Some have reached Cattaro in safety, and the others, supported by their partisans, manage to keep Daniel at bay. The .laybhurg Ga :.tfe contains some suggestions relative to the probable intentions of the Russians : ►sannenbera's corps at and around Kr.jova has, it is said. received considerable reinforcements, which would not be necessary if the Russians simply intend to get possession of ►isfs:. General Loden is else moving on Mimosa, and s pontoon train has been sent to (harm°. The pre gumption therefore is, that the Ito% inns are too much ex alted to postpone hostilities on the Danube until the spring. The movements to surds Ilireova and Wing's) are merely Monti to distract the attention of the Turks; for the only dance of a successful pascage of the river, as things now ✓ a nd, is from Lesser Wallachia. My opinion (says the writer) is that he will throw forward a corps toward Kula fat, in order to occupy the Turks at Widdin, and then direct his principal tone on Radujovatz, where, to the best of my belief, the Snvian hank of the Danube is neither oc cupied nor for:ified. The Servians will neither be able, nor perhaps aish, to prevent the Rus►ians crossing the river. As a good road leads from Radujevivz to Nile& and S phia, the Ulm my thus be tamed. FRANCE. ~- PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Orders have lately been given to the French war steamers surveying the fisheries in the Channel to lend their assistance in towing merchant ships laden with grain when detained by contrary winds. Simi lar orders were some time since sent to the French ships at :he Tagus station, and in the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. The Moniteur contains a decree directing that in' future supernumerary attaches to the department of foreign altars and unpaid aleache's to the foreign em• busies and legations will be required to have ob tained the degree of licentiate in law. Aspirants for diplomatic honours must therefore begin by showing at least a moderate aptitude for work. Since the decree of Sept. 14, reducing the duties upon foreign cattle, a new and extensive commerce had grown up between France and Spain. Very many . flocks of sheep have been brought across the Spanish frontier and sold in the various market towns on the road from Bayonne to Paris. Not a few have been brought as far as Sceaux for the sup ply of Paris itself. In flocks of five hun dred each, the cost of transport from the Spanish frontier to Statue is but 3t 75c. per head. Numerous contracts had been made upon this footing, and considerable supplies of Spanish mutton were on their way, when soddenly the whole trade was put a stop to by an extraordinary decision of the Custom house authorities. Up to Nov. 10th, the import duty charged upon . Spanish sheep was 23c. per head, in accordance with the provisions of the decree above mentioned. The Custom-house people then bethought them that, although the decree was intended to favour free trade in live and dead meat, it said nothing about wool upon the sheep's back, and upon this they actually levied a separate duty. The Spanish gra ziers now find that, until they can train their droves to travel in a still more naked con dition than poor little 80-peep's flock—leav log not only their tails, but their skins behind them—they must give up exporting to France. All the existing contracts have been rescinded, and the source of a valuable and increasing supply of food is thus for the present stopped. I cannot but think the Emperor will remedy this evasion Ida decree in- I tended to alleviate the pressure of the present dear- 1 mess of provisions. The Emperor has given 25,000 francs from his pri vate purse to establish tour new markets in Paris for the retail sale of meat by auction. The auction at the Central Halle, although to a certain extent a blow to the butchers' monopoly, has contributed but in a very limited degree to the relief of private fami lies from excessive prises. Restaurants and establish ments consuming large quantities of meat have no I doubt found a considerable benefit, but the distance and lose of time have prevented the ge . meal public from any extensive participation in the advantages of the innovation. The new ;action markets are to be in the populous quarters of the Plies Beauvais (Faubourg St. Antoine), the Carr+ St. Martin, the Cane des Cannes (Place hlaubert), and the Rue de Sevres. Great as the Emperor's boou is, it will still be enjoyed only by the compare- 1 tively rich. The piing may be had somewhat cheaper, but the pound of meat, which not the poor • alone, but the large proportion of the middle class are most anxious about, will be as dear as ever. The entire abolition of the butchers' monopoly— already effected in one or two French towns—would be the only effectual relief to the masses. This abolition I have reason to believe will be effected before long. The Duke de Casigliano, whose unexpected deathl mentioned yesterday, was carried off by typhus fever. His grandfather, the Prince of Corium, now 85 years of age, had, in contemplation of the young Duke's approaching marriage with Queen Christina's daughter, agreed to settle upon him the whole of his enormous fortune, amounting to nearly half a mil lion sterling. At Lyons, on Thursday last, a man named Bien veau Roux, recently arrived from Africa, was sen tenced to three months imprisoment for having said in a tobacconist's shop—interrupting a conversation on the subject of the Empress's fete on November 15: —" That fete will not be kept next veer, because within two months from this time the - Emperor will be assassinated." GERMANY. The Trieste Gazelle has a letter from Vienna, in which it is said that the union of the four powers, which has onIT extended to the signature of a proto col fur the maintenance of peace, must not be mis taken for an alliance; and that the project of an alliance between France and England has failed. In harmony with this, private letters from Vienna state that Austria consented to join the two western Powers, avowedly and with the knowledge of our cabinet, to prevent that close alliance with France which Lord Westmoreland intimated must otherwise take place. On the same subject, the Frankfort Gazette says: "In England and France the opinion appears to prevail that the Turkish question can only be arranged when the four Powers have agreed to lay down the law for both the belligerent states, and in case of need to wage war against that Power which should refuse to listen to their counsels. The unity of the Powers is not so great as all this, although there is reason to hope that an acommodation may be effected by means of simple diplomatic negotia tions." SPAIN. The Herald() announces that the government will celebrate the happy delivery of the Queen with an amnesty, which wall comprise all those who are in prison or in exile for political causes. GIBRALTAR. Advice. from Gibraltar to the Bth inst. state that when the Governor, from some unexplained cause, suddenly removed his land :ordon on the 27th November, the Spaniards established theirs on a liberal footing, traffic in supplies proceeded satis factorily until the following Saturday, the 3rd inst. but on that day an order arrived from the Real Comejo de Ministro (supposed to be in consequence of Sir Robert Gardioer's measures, the rescinding of which was not known in Madrid) order ing an immediate closing of all communications by land, excepti , g the post; and a rigid enforcement of ten days quarantine by sea. Notice to that effect was promulgated at once to be put in force from 4 p.m. the same day. At the time of the cordon a most painful spectacle was seen. Many hundred persons on each side the ropes were assembled, and muen weeping and wailing going on. Great efforts were made to get in as many supplies as possible, but these were wholly inadequate to the demaod. Straw and charcoal rose to prodigious prices. Straw was sold at eight and nine dollars per horse load, - being a rise of 300 to 400 per cent.; charcoal in the proportion of 200 to 300 per cent. Butcher's meat has risen 50 per cent. The stock of cattle in private bands wu only three or four days' consumption. The government contractor had 300 or 400 head of cattle, but had little or no straw for them. It was re ported that the government contractor was to be indemnified by a grant of the public money fur the losses incurred, through the Governor's mischievous measures. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1853, MR. IV. WILLIAMS, M.l'., AND lIIS CONSTITUENTS. In accordance with his annual custom, since his return for the borough of L,mbeth, Mr. William Williams last evening met his constituents at the Route T Kennington, to render an account of his conduct during the last session of parliament, and to seek a renewal of their confidence. Mr. HON! presided, and having briefly explained the purpose for which the meeting had been convened, and spoken of the advantages resulting from the periodical meeting of members with their constituents, as a means of, obtaining good government for the people, called upon Mr. WlLLtases, who said he had invited the presence of his constituents, to state the course be had felt it his duty to puree in the last session, and War such explanations as might be required. Every vote he bad given in that session bad been in strict accordance with the prin ciples upon which he had been returned. From the commencement of the session, which was the longest he ever remembered till near its dose he had never been absent one day from his post. (Cheers.) Towards the close, however, illness occasioned by his previous labours in the house and on committees, added to the bate hour* to which parliament sat had prevented him from continuing that regular attendance he could have wished. 'so one had denounced more than he had over and over again the system of transacting the business of the country at late and un seasonable hours. Knowing as he did that it was at those hours that all the jobbing and bungling legislation was transacted, and the first vote he lied given in the last ses sion was to put an end to the system, though the motion met with little success. His first important vote in the past session was against Mr. Disraeli's budget, and especially against that right honourable gentleman's proposition for increasing the born tax, and extending its basis to 101. houses. Had that budget passed it would have operated most injuriously to Lambeth, and brought under the operation of the tax 20,000 houses which were now exempt. Ile proposed, too, an amendment to the proposition, viz., that the tax should be abolished alto gether, and a substi•ute for it found in the extension of the probate and legacy duty to real property of every descrip tion. Mr. Disraeli, in his reply, a d m i t t e d thejustice of that amendment, though at the general request of the house it was not passed. The opinion of the house was rather upon the budget as a whole. When the new govern. ment came in he (Mr. Williams) again brought forward his proposition, and Mr. Gladstone agreed to embody it in his budget, and, as they were aware, real property was now subject to the tax as well as perainalty, though not to the same extent, for as yet it was the legacy duty only that ap plied to real property, and not the probate duty. Mr. Gladstone hail exhibited more moral courage than any of hie predecessors when he consented to make the legacy tax applicable to real property. The produce of that tax would be two millions a year, and the probate duty, which Mr. Gladstone had promised next session to deal with, and to extend to real property as well as to tithes, would p.oduce other two millions. The two millions thus obtained the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made the basis of a great financial measure. He bad taken off the soap tax, reduced the tea duty, abolished the tux on advertisements, the tax on newspaper supplements, and there was every hope that neat year the paper duty would follow. The customs' duties on 180 articles had been also taken off, and upon 360 it hen been reduced. He re gretted that the income tax had been, for the present, not only continued as it was, but extended to 1001. in comes. Every attempt to lessen the burden upon the trader and professional men, by correcting the mode of assessment, had been met by the most strenuous opposition on the part of the landed aristocracy, and, of course, had failed. It was, however, some consolation to know that the tax would be reduced from time to time, until it ceased. Besides the exertions he had made for extending the probate and legacy duty to real property, he had been many year, engaged in the attempt to put an and to the system by which six millions of the public taxes were intercepted by the collectors, on its way to the Treasury. In that, too, he had been successful in the last session, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad taken measures whereby in future, from the next year, the whole amount collected would be paid inter the Treasury and expended, as it ought to be, under parliamentary re 'Tangibility. As showing the probable gain to the public from the change of s)stem in this re spect, he might mention that the proceeds of the crown revenues had been, on the avenge, from 120,0001. to 150,0001, whereas the Chancellor of the Each' quer estimated that when the whole amount was paid into the Treasury the uet produce would be 390,0001. a year. (Cheers) He then proceeded to enume rate the principal votes he bad given during the session. He had voted against all grants from the public funds for religious or ecclesiastical purposes, without regard to sect. (Hear, hear.) For the abolition of church rates, the admis sion of the Jews to parliament; for the County Rates Bill, by . which it had been proposed to give the ratepayers a voice in the expenditure and administration of the rates; foe the abolition of the paper duty and the newspaper stamp; for the Laadlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, which, after having been considered and agreed to by the House of Commons, had been thrown out by the Irish landlords in the House of Lords ; for the Bill for the Improvement of the Administration of the Customs; for the Charitable Trusts Bill; and many other measures which be believed to be for the benefit of the country. (Hear, hear.) In reference to local matters he had on all occasions given his best attention t t the interests of the borough. On the subject of Battersea Park, be had, after' many interviews with the authorities at the Woods and Forests to preserve the 300 acres which, at an expense of 170,0001., had been purchased for the formation of that park, succeeded in preventing the acceptance of a great building speculator to take that land and fain it into streets and squares. He bad also been Instrumental in bringing about a settlement of the Chancery suit in which was involved between 2,0001. and 3,0001. a year, applicable to charitable purposes in the parish of Lambeth. In regard to the future, they had been told they were to have a new reform bill. Nobody knew what that bill would be. He scarcely expected it would be suck a measure as would altogether satisfy him; but if it was a real measure of reform, though it might not be all they could with, they would do wisely to take :as much as they could get. If, however, it was such a measure as that brought forward by Lord John Ru.aell two ye ars ago they would be better without it. After the instances of bribery and corruption which had been proved to have taken place at the last election, it . the propos. d Reform Bill was such a measure as bad train hinted at they would be better without it, and without the =Water who proposed it. (Cheers.) If the mass of corruption which disgraced so many of the constituencies were to be permitted to continue, they had better put up the seats to the highest bidder and let the pro ceeds go into the public y in mitig Won of the taxes. (Hear, hear.) The only efficient remedy for that corrup tion he believed to be the ballot. (Loud cheers.) The hon. gentleman concluded by expressing his readiness to answer any questions which might be put. A Mr. &MAIMS inquired whether the hon. member had ever received any applications from any of his constituents for government places ? Mr. WILt.zLYe , like every other member, had often re ceived such applications, but he never asked for or accepted any place for himself or any other person, for he knew well that the member who accepted such (title, either for him self or any of his constituents was expected to pay for them in votes. In reply to other questions, he said in reference to the coal duties, he had denounced them as much as any man. The 4d. duty that went to the City, he looked upon as a great fraud on the consumer, and he believed it would be got rid of, but if the Bd. duty were abolished, some sub stitute must be found for it. The money obtained from that duty was devoted to public improvements, and though Lambeth had not bad its fair share of the benefit, if he con -1 tinned to he its member, he would take cate that it should I have fur the future. With regard to the corporation ques tion, he was in favour of a separate corporation for each of the metropolitan boroughs, and that a central body should be appointed to deal with such matters u were common to them all. Be thought that there should be upon the sewers commission, or the body whatever it might be that had the management of the sewage of the metro. polio, members elected by the ratepayers of each of the metropolitan boroughs. He had had many interviews with the Home Secretary upon this subject, and at length he had obtained a promise from Lord Palmerston that his object in this latter respect should be carried out. He had voted for 1 the Combination of Workmen's Bill, and always would. Mr. Lvowe moved a resolution thanking the hon. member for his attention to the interests of the borough, congratu lating him upon his consistent and persevering advocacy of liberal principles, and expressing the confidence of the coa -1 stitueney in him. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Wznihtt, supported by Mr. RHODES, and carried unanimously. The hon. member having appropriately but briefly ac knowledged the vote, and thanks having been awarded to the chairman, the meeting separated. THE FIRE ANNIHILATOR.—On Saturday, at about twelve o'clock at noon, a fire occurred upon the premises of Mr. Thomas Gould, coach builder, Princeaq-street, 0 - end, which might have been attended with •ery serious consequences, and undoubtedly it would have been so, had it not been for the presence in the town of a small set of fire annihilators. It was about ten minutes before twelve o'clock when alarm was given , and Mr. White, ;I;;; superintendent of police, who has charge of the annihilators, together with Mr. Aitkin, the serjeant-at-mace, immediately proceeded there with the annihilators, leaving the engines to be brought after them: On their arrival they found that the fire was raging in an upstairs bedroom, which appeared to be full of flames, and come of Mr. Gould's workmen were engaged throwing buckets of water in at the window at random. When Mr. White entered the house and proceeded up stairs he found that the fire had just burnt through the wainscot of the room, and the flames were just spreading across the landing to the rooms on the opposite side of the staircase ; it was utterly imuos- 1 Bible to get into the room, and so he, with Mr. Aitkin, dis charged one of the No. 5 twenty-two pound annihilators through a hole in the wainscot. Almost immediately that the annihilating atmosphere entered the room, the flames, as if by magic, dropped, and in ab iut three minutes Mr.' White and Mr. Aitken were enabled to enter the room, and with two buckets of water to extinguish the embers by means of a Mall hand engine. When the fire was got under it was discovered that in addition to the room having been on fire all round, the flame had burnt through the ceiling and communi cited the fire to the roof of the building.—Kentieh indepes. dent, Dec.l7. CUBA AND THE SLAVE TRADE. HAY ANNAU, Nov. 30. Since my last advice we have an accession to our coloured population of seven hundred and fifty ; three hundred at the Ensenado de Cochitios, near Cienfuego. The vigilant officials of that vicinity gave due notice to the Captain-General of Cuba, who conveyed the same for the first time directly to the British Consul-General at the Havannah ; but, although ao express was despatched, the negroes were not captured. Twelve old negroes, however, were seized under suspicion that they belonged to the shipment, but they were soon proved to be inouceot of recent iutrusluction, and as customary, in transit from one estate to another, belonging to the same proprietor. It is most singular that the officers who gave the notice, should not have made the capture when they kne w how important it was for the establishment of a clean reputation to go home upon on the part of their chief, or was it not his deeper game to make the proof of integrity while sacking " twenty " pieces more of the blood-money, which his cupidity could not resist. The other introduction took place east of Lague, on the north side • the vessel was afterwards de. strayed by fire. Th ese negroes were taken charge of by Antonio Santos, and divided among the parties interested in the speculation. Our community was thrown into a state of great excitement on the morning of the 23rd inst. by the announcement that the celebrated actress Matilda Dominguez had been brutally murdered by her hus band, Jose Francisco Valdez, under pretence of being wronged by her in violation of nuptial obligations. It is said that the lady supped with General Canedo the previous evening at his country residence, for which Cause on her return io the early morning to her own house, she was killed, her husband having requested her to returu home on conclusion of her evening duties at the theatre. But these allegations are unjust, as it is a matter of notoriety that the hus band was the vendor of the wife's shame, and lived upon the infamous proceeds, he having originally compelled her to this course of immoral life for his own selfish and vicious necessities. The lady was much admired both upon and off the stage, for her elegance, classic grace, and artistic talents. Valdez attempted his own life, but was too much a coward for the consummation. The mother of "La Dominguez," the familiar title by which she was here known, was murdered by her husband some 11 years since, and the father immediately followed the victim in the use of the same weapon with which he killed her. Thousands followed thousands to look upon the model of their dramatic taste as she lay in her shroud at her late residence, and from thence, on the 24th, on foot, which is not customary here, they waited on her remains to the vault where they will rest. We are in expectation of the arrival of General Piguela, who is now due here by ono of the Spanish mail steamers. That he comes with vice-regal powers adds very much to public curiosity, with something of dread mingling therewith—not to say fear—from the absorption of all administrative power by one person. The orders have been published, uniting the powers formerly distributed—military and civil go vernment, treasury, naval, and judiciary, within the discretion of the Captain-General of Cuba. Over the courts he will have the power of suspen sion, unless they are subservient to his personal wishes and policy by their findings ; and the cheeks which existed under the distributive powers for the safety of the people, as well as the advancement of the public interests, are demolished. A royal order for the immediate withdrawal from the estates of all the " Emancipados" that may be entitled to their freedom from expiration of service (7 yearaj has not been published by General Canedo, laying over for the action of his successor, fur the apprehension that political excitement, dangerous to the present peace and prosperity of the island, might be the consequence; and, at the same time, the order is so vague in its specifications, that it may be construed to mean to embrace the whole class, with or without completion of the term of years. EXTRAORDINARY NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA. The following extraordinary intelligence, says the Bristol J 01114144 is contained in• letter received by Joseph Abraham, Esq., of Bristol, from a relative in Hobart-town, and kiodly.handed to us by the latter gentleman : " Hobart-town, Sept. 8, 1853. " Knowing how deeply interesting any news respecting Australia must be to you, I write to Inform you of a great discovery that has again been made oa the Geelong side, about 56 miles from the town. They have bees digging very deep, sod have come on a table of gold shout 100 feet from the surface, apparently inexhaustible. All I can tell you respect ing it is that the people's minds are partly turned, from the immense discovery. Every tub-full of earth they raise from these boles contains pounds weight of gold. The more they dig, the more inexhaustible it appears. At Geelong, a tumult has broken out among the diggers. The govern ment has sent up all the military to quell the disturbances, and the marines of her Majesty's ship Electra are =ousting guard at the Treasury, and the sailors of the above steamer of war mount sentry at the banks. The military from Van Diemen's Land are about to be despatched to Melbourne to ' aid the military already there. Goodness only knows how all this will end.—(Hobart Town, Sept. 5.) By the steamer from Geelong this day, I find that a gold quarry has been discovered near Geelong, 100 to 130 feet from the surface of the earth, putting all other diggings in the shade. 18,000 ounces have been taken out is three days by a few person., and one person has got a lump whing 190 lb. in one solid piece. This is no exaggeration, and the greatest excitement prevails." SIXTY Henrr GUNS are to be mounted at the battery now erecting at Sconce Point, on the Isle of Wight, to guard the entrance of the Solent sea. • Thirty guns are mounted at Hurst Castle battery, opposite the Isle of Wight, on the Hampshire lout. There is also to be another battery erected about a mile and a half distant from Sconce Point, at a place called Cliff-end. This battery will be directly opposite that of Hurst Castle. Them fortifications, when completed, will render the passage of the Solent by a hos tile Beet impossible. ROBBERY OF £l,OOO WORTH OF JEWELLERY IN Tun STRAND.—Yesterday evening, between .5 and 6 o'clock, a glazed leather bag. containing a thousand pounds worth of jewellery, was stolen from a cab standing at the door of a tradesman in the Strand. Not the slightest clue to the detection of the thief has been yet discovered. SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—The Hobart Town Advertiser, of Sept. 21, says— " We have received the following from a correspondent : At ten minutes before sir last evening we had a shock of en earthquake; the house, which is built of stone, shook severely. The tea•thinip WM on the table at the time ; the furniture, cups, &c., all danced ; Mrs. Hobbs was sitting tLe side of the fi replace, my son William eme leg Z s te=seig on the mantlepiece his heal resting on Ms baud. The dunk wra so severe to them both, they felt it long after. One of my daughters was stooping at the time, and fell on her head. I can only compare it to the rolling of heavy waggons under an arch way. All passed away to the north-oast." COMMITTAL OF FIFTY-THREE PERSONS FOR TRIAL. —lt appears that a dispute has been long continued as to the right of the Menai fishermen to take oysters out of cer tain beds in the Straits. A legal opinion having been obtained in favour of the fishermen, they went last week to dredge as usual in the river. Warrants were therefore procured against the whole body, 63 in number, at the in stance of lir. Jonathan Rowell, to wh , ,m the Bishop of Bangor had I , nsed the fishery, and on Tuesday they were all committed for trial at the anises for larceny under the act of the 6th and 7th Geo. IV., c. 29. They were, however, liberated on their own recognisances.—Corearvon Herald. THE HUMBOLDT steamer, which, u our casualty list shows, is ashore near Halifax, in British North Ame rica, left Cowes for New York on the 23rd ult. with a beery English mail. She was one of the finest of the American mail steamers which run between the United States and the British Channel. She used to touch at Cowes and Havre. Some time since the Russian government was anxious to purchase her. It was the Humboldt which con veyed Kossuth from England to America. The Humboldt took out all letters that reached London the 19th and 23rd ult. SOL:TII WALES EXTENSION RAILWAY.—The open ing of the South Wides liatension from Carmarthen to Haverfordwest has been tined for the first week io January. The extension will, for the present, until the traffic is more developed, be worked upon a single line of rails. The per manent line has been thoroughly laid, the distance being 33 miles. The stations are five in number, being situated at Haverfordwest, Cross Inn, Narberth, Whitland and St. Clears. The posts and fittings for the electric telegraph have been carried on as far u Whitland, and will soon be &ken on to Haverfordwest. EASTERN UNION RAIL WA} Yesterday a special general meeting of the share holden was he'd at Itadleys Hotel,Bridgeutreet,Blaektriars, to carry into effect an arrangement with the EasternConaties Compacy, Sr the permanent working by that company of the Eastern U n i on R a il way i n con j unct i on with the Nor folk Railway Company and to autnorise the company to tabu 200,0001., under t he powers contained in the set 10 and 11 Vie.. e. 137, to borrow on mortgage or bond the sum of 66,6661. 13i. ad. ; and to issue new shares in lien of those forfeited. The chair was taken by Mr. CODIOLD, M.P. The ClintUlein said the comparative steeliness of the attendance might be regarded as a proof that there were not many dissentients from the proposed smogs meat. In fact, for a long period, the question of union had been only one of time and of ' terms ; all the parties concerned having felt that it was de sirable that the traffic should be fairly divided between the three companies. It now became his duty to show the meeting that the proposed gement Was as favourable a one for that company as under the circumstances could reasonably be expected. The traffic of the three com panies in the year ending the 30th June, 1853, was es fol lows ;—Eutern Counties, 3,1371 per mile per year, or 601. per mile per week ; Norfolk, 1,4891. per mile per you, er 281. per mile per week; Eastern Union, 1,3171. per mile per year, or *la per mile per week; the Eastern Union standing lowest under the gement which had existed between the Eastern Counties and the Norfolk Companies, which had operated to the disadventage of the Eastern Union Company. He did not at all admit that the rola ' live traffic of the three lines per mile represented their re spective values. (Hear, hear.) Tee probable receipts and net earnings of the three companies for the year sed ins 30th June, 1854, were thus estimated :—Eastern Counties., 736,444/. ; Norfolk, 137,8171. ; Eastern Union, 125,1171. The charges on the traffic during the year endiug June 30,1853, were as follows : Eastern Counties, 292,4031., or not quite 40 per cent. ; Norfolk 66,2001., or not more than 48 per cent ; Eastern Union 71,2001., he. 56 per cent. While, therefore, the receipts of the Eastern Union Cent ' pony were less per mile than those of the two other com panies, the expenses were proportionately higher. He had also made an estimate of the probable receipts for the year ending June next. Taking the last yeses receipts of the H went Union Company at 1'25,1171, from the Ist of July to the 20th November, there was an increase of receipts amounting to 8,1111., being for the 20 weeks an average of 4061. per week. As the worst half-year was approach ing he estimated that if there were no union, the increase in the remaining 32 weeks would be 2001. pi r week instead of 4061. ; making 6,4006 fur that period ; while the total receipts of the year would be 139,6281. Supposing they could work their line at 46 per cent., the terms offered by the Eastern Counties Company, there would be 61,2281. to he deducted from the receipts, and there would then remain a balance of 61,2281. to be received by the shareholders according to th e i r respective rights. Under the agreement with the Eastern Counties Company, supposing the Eastern Coontin and the Norfolk receipts were taken in the same proportion as the actual results up to the present time, they would receive, even supposing there were no increase through the union of in terests, 81,9571. instead of 75,4 1 101. To this would have to be added the inti rest which the Eastern Union Company would save through their working stock being taken at a valuation, which he would assume to amount to from 120,0001. to 110,0001. In like manner, taking the Eutern Counties past receipts and the expectant receipts for the remainder of the current year, the following was the esti mate : last yeses receipts from all sources, 736,5441. ; in crease of receipts from lst July to 20th November, twenty weeks, at 1,6351. per week, 32,7021. ; the remaining 32 weeks of the year at 1,200/. per week, 38,4001. ; making a total of 807,6161. The following was the estimate for the Norfolk Company :—Last year's receipts from all sources, 137,8171. ; iscrease from Ist July to 20th November, at 469 i. per week, 9,3966 ; the remaining 32 weeks of the year at an it cream of 2001 per week, 6,4001.: making a total of 153,6161. Deducting from this 46 per cent. fur working expenses, making 70,6621., the balance was 82,9531. according to the existing state of things; whereas, under the new arrangement, the amount would, as in the case of the Eastern Union, be 81,9576 Inasmneb, however, as the Norfolk company bad no working stock to dispose of, the Eastern Union company was in a better position, and would effect a saving of interest to that extent. The gross amount receivable by that company would be 84,9571. ; but 81,9571. was set down because it was assumed that one-seventh of the loss incurred by the three lines, in respect of other liner, would amount to 3,0001. This was on the supposition that the loss incurred hitherto would continue. There was, however, every reason to believe, that as soon as the line between Newmarket and Bury St. Edmunds was complete, instead of causing a loss, it would be a source of profit; and he trusted that the loss on the Shepreth and Hitchlin line would soon be obliterated, The deficiency under the three existing working arrangements adopted hitherto, including that with the East. Anglian Companies, was from 24,0001. to 2.5,0001. a year ; he hoped that it would soon be sensiderably reduced. There were certain lines in course of construction by the Eastern Counties Company. Among these was one from near Stratford to Lowton. As suming that line to cost 200,0001., and the gross trail: to be 20,0001., the Eastern Counties Com pany which found the money, was to receive 4 per cent. on the cost of construction, and the United Coin panics were to have the benefit of any increase. The pro ceeds of all the traffic, after the payment of the several charges, were to form one common fund, to be divided into seven part., of which the Eastern Counties Company was to take five parts, the Eastern Union Company one, and the Norfolk Company one. It might be objected by some gentlemen present that 46 per cent. was too much for that company to pay fbr working expenses. He had no doubt that the whole system would be worked for less than 46 per cent., and the Eastern Counties Company would of course be so far gainers. Mr. T. Stenos inquired whether the 46 per cent. included the upholding and maintaining of the line? The. CitAlltll•l4 said it included the upholding and main taining, and all contingent expenses. Mr. STUROE asked whether it also included the trucks which were being made by the Eastern Union Commune ? The CatelliMAN said they were to be paid for at a valuation. Mr. &roads, a preference shareholder, read a protest against any arrangement, by which the rights of that class of shareholders might he prejudiced. In reply to questions from Mr. Wane, The CHAIRMAN said that all new plant would have to be found by the Buten Counties Company out of their own funds; they were bnund to keep the plant in an efficient condition ; and if anything should occur hereafter, which he did lot at all anticipate, to terminate the agreement, they must also leave it in efficient condition. With regard to additions to capital, the agreement provided that no new ' works or coonskins should be undertaken accept those sche duled in the agreement without the separate consent of the three companies. Assuming the preference stock to be re deemed and converted into a 4 per cent. stock, the find charges would then amount to 72,0001. a year. Nothing would have induced his colleagues and himself to undertake the redemption of the preference stock, if a movement fur that purpose had not been originated by the preference oharebolders themselves; but, under the circumstances, they felt it their duty to endeavour to place the whole com pany in • better position. He would add, that the direr- ton were prepared to take their proportion of the 100,0001. required to make up the deficiency in the redemption a MM. As regarded the forfeiture of certain shares, it was thought best that it should be postponed till the holding of another meeting. The hon. gentleman then moved a re soletion sanctioning the arrangement which he had described. This resolution having been seconded, Mr. Wass said that, f a fair and equitable agreement were made, that company, instead of 80,0001. a year, would obtain 100,0001. One•sixth would be its proper proportion out of the common fund. All that the old shareholders would obtain, under this arrangement, was 16,0001. on a capital of 1,200,0001. The Cmenuffroe assured the meeting that the directors had done their best to obtain more favourable terms. He was not at all prepared to admit that 16,0001. was all that would be received by the ordinary shareholders. One of the largest sharehol4en in the company, a gentleman who resided in Yorkshire, estimated that the union of the three lines would within a short period lead to an increase of 10 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Hitherto they had been imposed upon, and, though they did not intend to impose on the public, they would of course expect to be paid fairly for their accommodation. The reenlation was then put and carried unanimously. Some others of s formal character wore also agreed to. A vote of thanks was given to the chairman and the board, NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY: The arrangement which had been 'claimed in by the Eastern Union and the Eastern Counties boards, and their own, was that the gross receipts of the lines ohnuld be di vided into sevenths, of which five sevenths were to go to the Eastern Counties, one-seventh to the Eastern Union, i and one-seventh to the Norfolk. He should like them to show them how that seventh boreal their actual receipts, as they would have been without such apportionment. He found their last receipts from all sources up to June 1, 18.53, to be 137,8171. He found the increase of receipts from the let July up to the present period, and from thence up to the Ist of June, 1854, calculating the rate of increase at that of the similar period this year, to be 15,7981., being' a total of 153,6151. This, deducting 46 per cent. for work ing expenses, left 82,9531. Now, taking the receipts of the three companies collectively to be 1,100,0001., then de ducting 46 per cent. working expenses, and one-seventh of the loss arising from the Hut Anglian, Northern, and Newmarket arrangement, he found the residue ap plicable to Norfolk dividend would be 81,9571., being within a trifle of the amount they bad received under the old arrangement. (Hear, hear.) In an agreement of this kind he need hardly say that it was very important that all parties should see that their interests were mutually served, so that when once ratified it might be carried out with mutual good faith and good feeling. (Hear, hear.) His belief was that a more equitable agreement than that now submitted by himself and colleagues had never been entered into by any company. Because, in the first place, they got results equal to their whole present receipts, and under what he did not hesitate to say were the most advantageous cir cumstances for working. Besides this, he felt that he should net have been acting faithfully in his capacity of chairman of their company had he permitted any separate agreement to have been made with the Eutern Union while they (the Norfolk) had another agreement with the Eastern Counties, es in that cue there would have been a risk of having them worked one against the other. They bad therefore entered into the present negotiation, and in securing a dividend at least equal to wrdst the share holders enjoyed at preseat, he felt that they tot no more than they had 4 right to expect, and that less would not have been worthy their acceptance. To correct some oda appreheusion which, as he gathered from letters he had re ceived, were abroud, he woula next, with the permission of the meeting, go into a few details. It was with regard to the loss sustained by the agreements with the Great Northern, and this could be easily explained as it was simply • matter of account. The proportion of that loss which fell on the Norfolk Company was about 401. a week. Now he did not hesitate to tell them that in consequence of the agreement entered into by Mr. Waddingt di with the Great Northern, there would be an increase of five times the receipts on the whole line. (Hear hear.) It was not proper to go into de tails at present, but any proprietor calling at the office should have full information. Another point to which he must allude was their dividend. Last year it had been 21 per cent. He teak it at that, and working out the result as given by the gross receipts and deducting the Hitchin lose, woul d leave them • return for dividend of 27,1781., or 21 on their capitil. He did not think that that total would represent their earnings when they came to work conjointly, as he did not hesitate to say that the recent increase in their traffic had arisen solely from the good understanding with the Eastern Counties Company. A :similar understanding with the Eastern Union would, he had no doubt, produce similar results. (Hear.) if they made any concession to the Eastern Union Company in this agreement it was more than counterbalanced by the effects which would arise from the good understanding between the three companies. (Hear, hear.) He felt it to have been most unfor tunate that the legislature should have permitted the Norfolk to be an independent line, or have allowed lines 1 that were merely tail earls to other lines to be independent undertakings, competing with each other for dividend. They were, therefore, at present doing the best thing they could to correct the error of the legislature, by making the present arrangement. The resolutton was then put ratify ing the agreement, upon which a few questions were asked, and on being answered to the smisfaction of the meeting, the resolution was carried unanimously. The proceed ings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, i which was most heartily responded to. EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY.—Yesterday al meeting of the proprietary of this company was held in the London 'Tavern, at one o'clock. Mr. Waddington, M.P., in the chair. The object of the meeting was to submit to the proprietors an agreement entered into between the company and the Norfolk and Eastern Union Companies, the basis of which has already 'opened in the Daily News. After some discussion, the agreement was confirmed, and the nesting broke up. At meetings of the Norfolk and Eastern Union Companies respectively, the agreement was submitted to the proprietors and agreed to. GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAILWAY.— Yesterday a meeting of the holders of the 6t. per cent. guaranteed shares in this company was held at the London Tavern, " to con sider the best measures to be adopted for the protection of their im with reference to the proposed scheme of the directors for the destruction of the privileges of these shares." Mr. G. F. Taunton, of Liverpool, was called on to preside, end he moved • resoluticn di , app roving of the scheme of the directors to convert the 6 per cent shares. Mr. Heade seesnded the motion, and, after observations from Mr. Foster, Mr. Alger, and other gentlemen, the re solution was carried. A committee was then appiinted to carry out the object specified, and • fund was commenced for the purpose of opposing the reduction of these shares to the ordinary stock. THE NEW METROPOLITAN MARKET AT COPENHAGEN FIELDS. Yesterday the Lord Mayor received from the Rev. D. Wilson, the vicar of Islington, a memorial in favour of holding the first cattle market of the week on Tuesday in stead of Monday, as at present. The following is an extract from the document: " The memorialista have long suffered grievances and annoyance from droves of cattle coming into and passing through the parish on the Sunday, to be in readiness for the Monday's market, and causing obstruction and sometimes danger to the attendants of public worship, while other persons belonging to their own and other parishes, are through occupations in connexion with the market, altoge ther shut out from any due observance of the Sabbath—a grievance which would be greatly increased when Islington would become the converging circle for all the various hoes of access to the new market. That this monstrous evil would be altogether obviated by a transfer of the market from Monday to Tuesday. That this very change of market day was expressly recommended by the select committee of the House of Commons in 1832, in their report on the observ ance of the Ssbhath-day. It will appear,' they reported, front the evidence,' that by transferring Smithfield and other markets from Monday to Tuesday, a great part of the evil of Sunday travelling might be abated within a circle of 180 miles around London. In the wish to promote so desirable an object, the chief coach proprietors, together with sales men of great respectability, and others connected with Smithfield market, concur. It is in 'Yid• nce that this market is crowded on Monday morning very inconveniently to buyers and sellers, and not hiss injuriously to the cattle, and that the Friday's market is so much less abundantly supplied, that if the other market was held on Tuesday, instead of Monday, the proportions of the supply would be better adjusted; nor does it appear that any evil would result to any class of society from the change of the day, certainly none that can for a moment be placed in compe tition with the unquestioned mischiefs which the Sunday preparations for the Monday market, more especially the harbouring and driving of large masses of cattle in the neighbourhood of London on the Lord's day unavoidably cause.' To this the memorialists add, that such unques tioned mischiefs' have greatly multiplied since 1832, by the increased requirements of the metropolitan market, on account of the augmented population, and would now, unless the day be changed, be all concentrated with accumulated force on Islington. They also submit that the opportunity for changing the day of late years has greatly improved, by the facilities afforded by the railways for bringing the cattle expedi• tiously to market; and is now brought to the most favour able crisis that could be devised by the transfer of the mar ket to the new site." The Lord Mayor sent an answer to the application, in which he says: " I am sensibly aware of the grievance long felt by the inhabitants of Islington and other parts of the metropolis on this subject, and I beg to assure you that your efforts to put down so great an evil and one so pain fully felt by the religious community, have my entire ap proval. Any petition, therefore, embodying your views on this matter would, I am confident, be received by the Com mon Council of the City of London with every respect and attention, and would have that weight attached to it to which it is se justly entitled." SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPII.—OPEN- A meeting of shareholders in the above com pany was held yesterday at Guildhall-buildings for the parr- ING To CHATHAM •ND CANTRNBUN.Y.—A correspondent says:—" The Submarine and European Telegraph Comps. pose of considering, and, if approved of, of ratifying an agree- nice have just opened offices in the centre of the above meat or amalgamation with the Eastern Counties Railway towns. The liberal tariff adopted from London to Graves- Com Thee air was taken by S. M. Psro, Esq., M.P., end has been extended to the new stations, and messages of who, in opening the proceedings, said—Before reading the twenty words may now he transmitted between Chatham and Canterbury and London, Gravesend, Deal, and Dover, resolution which it would be his duty to propose it would be for one shilling, while no porterage is charged for the first necessary that he should make a few remarks upon the mile. Telegraphic intercourse, hitherto a luxury only for business which had c tiled them together ; and he could the rich, is thus rapid iy becoming familiar to the tradesman only beg that, in a matter so important to all present and and the mechanic, to the former of whom it must often to :he interests of the company, no delieacy might prevent.the prove of great advantage. The wires were led from the putting of questions or the demand for explanations on a main line, and laid through the streets in iron tubes." subject which it was necessary should be understood by all. LORD PALmEßsTores SUCCESBOR.—A ministerial (Hear, hear.) The last time he had had the pleasure of . tonal of yesterday morning said :—.. We understand that, meeting them in that room he had not the slightest ides , nor upon Lord y Pelmerston's resignation, Lord Aberdeen offered had he seen any prospect, of again meeting them, at least elHome-office to Lord John Russell, an d we regret to hear on the present subject, on so early a day ; but the fact of that the offer was declined, mainly from the fear that his lion with the Eastern Counties, and the receipt of a cost- acceptance of it might be misconstrued. The of ce has now munication on the subject from Mr. Waddington himself, been offered to Sir George Grey, and awaits his acceptant)* . 'sleds it appear to his (filr.Petols) colleagues and himself that °' ejection. „ ~.,' TILE .s s. RELIGIO US —Whylie . RIOTS AT MONTREAL. it was all-important to the interests of the three com panies that all should he parties to the agreements the soldier of the 26th Regiment who fired upon the mob in about to be entered into. That was the view taken by Mr. the G vv i iota at Montreal, has been discharged from his Waddington also, because all parties foresaw that it was twittery arrest unde r a writ of habeas corpus, and has only by a combination of all the interests in the district that entered into recognisanc e to appear before tn. Colonial the wisest results could be obtained for the public and the Court of Queen's Bench to answer th e the last few days the charge best dividends for the respective shareholders. He had TILE SLIDE NUISANCE . — Wi th in stated to them on the last occasion they had met together many serious accidents have occurred is the metropolis that he ould be a party to the acceptanoe from the through the practice of slide-msking on the footpaths. Eastern Counties Company of a less dividend than had been Notices denouncing the practice have been issued, but the paid up to the present time, and he thought he could now evil is unsubdued. In one locality, and in the course of a put before the meeting is few figures and facts which would few hours, no less than three falls, attended with fractured show them that they could never have a worse dividend limbs, took place from this cause. Mr. Joseph Robertson, than they received at the present moment, besides which, residing at No. 9, Cirencester-place, Fitzroy-square, sus there was the great fact that, by the combination of all the tensed a compound fracture of the arm, from stepping on a interests in the district, the greatest possible amount of de- newly made slide. Mrs. Haney, of Grafton-street, a frac. velepment would be given to the traffic, the greatest pros- tars of the leg ; and a poor girl, the daughter of a laundress poet of augmentation In the receipts, au the best hope of a whilst carrying home a basket of Bass, dislocated her minimum of working expenses being obtained. ( Rear.) ands, and received other severe injuries. SINKING OF A GRAVESEND STEAMER. ERITH, MONDAY. Lag evening the well known Gravesend steamer, andea tobe one n having ving of Meteor, belon g i ng to t h e S tar S team Packet Company, wee run down by the Sylph, D u bli n screw steam ship, her pas seugaathbearfraoswteseset vessels ofge p per ishing y is in h g ing on w t i h th e her.. The Meteor was a very favourite packet, and was considered r e a r crew river. She was of iron construction, built by Miller and Ravenhill of about 200 tons, and proportionate power. She left the Brunswick-pier, at Blackwell, on Sunday evening, about twenty minutes put 5 o'clock, under the charge of Mr. Hollingsworth. the muter, and with between forty and fifty passengers. The night was rather clerk, and a slight haze hung over the river; but it was not so dense as to offer any serious impediment to the navigation. The tide was ebbing, which was in favourof the progress of the Meteor) and the wind was blowing rather fresh from the eastward. At 6 o'clock she bad gained Halt-way Reach, and after rounding the point above the Half-way House she shaped a course towards the Kent, or south shore, when her crew ob d a large sea-going steamer coining up. As soon as pos sible, after she was sighted, Mr. Hollingsworth, the muter, directed the helm to be ported, so es to go closer to the south side, in accordance with the Admiralty regulations. He imagined that the Meteor's lights had been observed by those on board the Sylph, and that she would have gone to the northward, the usual course pursued by steamers in coming up the river. The Meteor was then nearly in mid channel with her hart inclined to the Kent side, and the master perceiving that the Sylph was hearing down upon him, hailed her to "port her helm." Nu answer was re turned, when the hands for'ard shouted out " Port your helm; for God's sake, put your helm a-post." Still she kept on as represented by those belonging to the Meteor, and at full speed. The Meteor's engines, however, had been stopp.al and reversed, but immediately after wards the Sylph struck her with tremendous force just above her larboard paddle-box, completely burying her bows in the forepart of the Meteor. A most distressing scene immediately ensued. Every one expecting that the vessel would momentarily go down, a desperate rush was nude to the bows of the Sylph, and in consequence of her height, the darkness of the evening, I and the confusion that prevailed, Ruby must have fallen overboard but for the self-possession of the crew. Most of them teeth on the forecastle, and seeing the terrified state of the passengers, they leaped over on to the Meteor's deck, and by assisting them up as well as they could, saved many who otherwise would have perished. By far the most marvellous escape, however, was that of 20 or 30 men and women who were in the lorecabin at the moment of the ship coming in contact, and were not conscious of the approaching danger until the Sylph's bow actually bore in upon them, carrying away the steward's pantry, the companion ladder, and reaching more than half way across the beam of the vessel, thus shutting out all escape for them by the cabin door. The water was pouring through the small side port windows so fast that several of the passengers were up to their waists in water. Their cries attracted the atten tion of Mr. Hollingsworth, who at once, with the assistance of his own men and those of the Sylph, tore away the frame work of the cabin skylights, and by that means succeeded in preserving their lives. Several of them were in a most pitiable condition from the effects of fear and immersion, and it was with considerable difficulty that they could be got on board the Sylph. Had the Meteor separated from the bows of the Sylph, no human power could have saved them, and they must have been drowned in the cabin ; for, as soon as the vessels separated, she went down head first. The ebb tide providentially had the effect of keeping her hanging, as it were, to . the i bow of the Sylph for full ten minutes, and to that circumstance may be attributed the saving of every soul on board. In order to prevent her sinking in mid channel, and thereby in the way of the navigation of the river, the engines of the Sylph were put in motion, and the wrecked steamer, still hanging on, was driven in towards shallow water, when the Sylph backed out and the Meteor went down, and, as she settled, the light in her funnel was just observable Athena water. Shortly before she sunk the Mars steamer, belonging to the same company, came up from Gravesend, and the captain hearing the fate of the Meteor, went alongside the Sylph and took from her the crew and passengers of the unfortunate vessel, and after wards proceeded with them to Blackwell. The account I furnished by the officers of the Sylph is somewhat different to that given by the crew of the Meteor in respect to the course she was pursuing. The 1 Sylph was under the charge of the usual river Trinity j house pilot, who with the captain, Mr. Smith, were on the bridge at the time, having on the forecastle on the look out, the carpenter and the quarter-master. They saw a white light ahead, which they concluded to be a vessel riding at anchor, and great was their surprise when close upon it to and, as they saw the cabin windows, that the was a steamer attempting to cross their bows. Their engines were stopped and reversed, but the distance between the two was so limited, that it was impossible to stop the way of the vessel and they came together as before narrated. It is quite clear that the Sylph had the lights requital by the Admiralty regulations, viz , a bright white light at the fore-mast head, a green light on the starboard side, and a red one on the port side, but it would seem that this rule is not applicable to what are known 'sneer steamets, those plying from Sheerness, Gravesend, &c , as they only have a white light on the bow, aid another similar light up the funnel. Vessels lying at anchor are required by the Admiralty no tice to exhibit a white light at their mast-head, so that, should the white bow light of a river steamer become ob scared, it is quite possible that the vessel might be mistaken for one riding at anchor. Were coloured lights shown, however, like those of sea-going steamers, the probability of such an errercould not occur with ordinary care. The wreck of the Meteor lies midway between the Half way House and the powder magazine on the Kent shore. At low water her stern wheel is just visible. Arrangements were made yesterday for raising the vessel, the Admiralty having granted the use of the dockyard chain-lighters for the purpose of making the attempt. It is feared, how ever, that she is so much damaged that she will break in two from the weight of the engines, &c. She is insured, but, we understand, not to the extent that will cover her loss. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 19.—APPOINTMENTS.—Captain R. L. Yarrow, to the Cressy, 80, screw steam-ship, at Chatham. Paymaster G. Grant (18.50), to the Juno, 26, at Sheerness, Mate J. T. Pringle (1852), to the Boni:wen, 70, guard ship of ordinary, at Chatham. Assistant Surgeon G. Hill (1816), to the Saracen brig, at Devonport. Assistant !Engineers J. Foster, A. Young, W. T. Fry and C. Freeborn, to the Cyclops, 6, paddle-wheel steam frigate of 320-horse power, at Sheerness. Midshipman G. R. Harvey, to the Sl. George, 120, guard ship of ordinary, at Devonport. Naval Cadet G. N. Sma.lpage, to the Princess Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. PROMOTION.—Chief Engineer R. Cooke (1847), promoted to first elms. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S—MoNnkr. The room wu pretty well attended, but business was still very limited. Livuutoou STIMPLECHASE.—Despite the strong field that will in all probability be found arrayed against Miss Mowbray when the nominations are published, she was again in high force—as little as 7 to 1 being taken. CHIMES Cl:F.—Offers to lay 1,000 to 30 ages Virago, and to take 2,000 to 50 ; 2,500 to 50 taken twice about Tom (late Mountain Hawk). (By the way, as it is likely there will be two Toms entered for this event, especial care should be taken in booking beta respecting them.) 2,000 to 30 agst Newminater, and 1,000 to 10 each aget Red Lion, Joe Miller, Talfourd, Muscovite, and Heapy, wu laid. DERBY.—King Tom again received strong supports 9to 1 was taken to 2001. • Autocrat was untouched ; 1,6.50 th 50 taken about Buiarcio; 1,000 to 30 and 500 to 15 An dover ; 1,000 to 25 Meteors ; 450 to 50 betted against John Scott winning Derby and Oaks. Notice—The room will not be opened on Monday nest, the 26th instant. [AdVetilllHlo3llt.] FIFTY THOUSAND GURU lerretowr MIDKINS by Du Beaar's IiRTALUITA AIIADICA Cure 110.832 Fifty yearn' Indeocribable agony from timeline, servomincee, anima, cough, comitimitien, flatulence, "panne, eica. den at the sumach, and vomiting', have been remove, { by Du Berry's eleellent fasd."—Harta Jolly, WOlll2lll, Ling. near Din, Norfolk. Cure No. 71 of dyspepsia : from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart de Decies:—" I have derived considerable bereft t nom your Food and authorise the publicatan of these linee."--Stuert de Deena. Sold in rarasters, 1 lb., at 2e. 9d.; 21b., at 4x. 6d 3 lb., at 111. ; It lb., at 231. Super-rented quality, lb its et 33e. ; 5 lb., at 22a.; the and 12 lb. ea:Leiters Imo of carnage, by Beaty are MAIM and.;(s.„ 77, Resteatagnet. Lenetel. „ [Advertiseillenti--110LLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS WONLIERYTILY EVOCACIOVIS lv Qaivo SC 10 ,O'LA, OLD WOrt4 lA, AND BAL. Lace.—)tr. L. Fordyce, shoemaker, Forgve, Aberdeenshire, suffered for a long time from a large wound in his thigh, from which diseased portions of the hone came out. He was at the Aberdeen Infirmary for several weeks, but la &Orme of the treatment there adopted, he became AO much worse that the surgeon advised him to have the limb amputated. On his objectingto this, he wu discharged as Incurable, when he commenced using Iloilo. wars Ointment and Pills, which have to effeetually mired biro that he is elite tonal= hie work, sad now enjoys most excellent heath. —Sold by drilegists, sad at Professor Holloway's Establishment. 144,11Issad.lhadca.