The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

TILE RE6 ISTIR ATIO S. 1113=FMI DSIIIRL T /111 WiTIO3IAL LAND *OMIT• 'Mc llArristsr lot this district (S. C. C. Fish, E.g.) W this troth Lela Klement at Ilia !ter! Lisa Inn, to res . ..* t h e lieu of listeri.', B-rnet. Mr. 11.iningltsin appeared for the weaservalives, find was osier I I.y the professimisi asset of the preteetionies in N.sth WArsick-has. Tre claims of the liberals were sap pet ted by Mr. Fenltensr, of llempstead. Ihe Doily natter of ihtor..: Mil' , ll from the estate of tits Nati.sti Freehold L,nd S , t udjeisiog the t.tvi..n of the tireit Northern IL ct Barnet, in revect of •WA:!: !lc; ems were m,le. l'..nr r.f the c: tim.v.!4 .sere o bjected to by the overseirs, and all the others by Mr• HaPirybanz. . . . . . Tye tit.t ca.e wu that of Frederic Bathhouse, clai,ing for land iu Leiceeer.ro This el.tint we , &retried by Mr. Rowell, the nl.citor to the " m i s ty, who called Mr. Jerey• (the seciety's chief ne riiuntants„ to prove that the land was bought and paid for in December last—amount 12..1. A e l l of the eneveysne. !. Mr. Biekbouse WAS thin put in. and Mr. Cameron, Mr. Jennings, and Mr. liowring, were called to prove the valor of the land. )tr. C said he wa rim wait &rent at II irnet and is London. and that the hand in question via. w .rtb trou de. Cl.i to 3.. a lint frorrise • on a budding lease. Mr. JeaalK. sa.d he we. a bold. r at H mut. ant he u.ssidered this lan I was woe hat least di. GI. a foot. Mr. Dowling deposed that in opinion the other 111 I undervalued the land. 11.. had let •iveral f his lots rear the station at IN. a font, and was asking the rune price for others, and had no doubt he should get rt. la cr.:as-examination Mr. Uttering said—The situation of the estate and its beautiful (rattans, would always command the higheA priers for baildiv, pur:ners. It was eight milts trots London, ani ii c time occupied by *Le tr du. was tiro( n minutes. The Va!LIA was is the middle of the rotate, and the town of Deruct (with all its conveniences) almost joined it. It was quite tree that some portions the estate remained unsold ; bat he was sere Vat 09 ;sit of it ass worth less than 2s. O. a too?, aati that the value of roust of it was considerably lii,zher. Cueservative Advocate contended that the claim ant's same ought to be esponned, !weans* the laud was not yet built upon, cr let fur building, and Its ...slue for other porpoises was net stela:iron to colder the franchise- It tenth: utow in value; but at present it did not yield the claimaut ley. a year to speed, winch the statute re (paired. and therefore it could nut cooler the right to vote at grew ot. Mr. Craerter was called to zit. his opinion of the valve of the land fur building pulp WO, ace', he said it war. not worth mom than I. per foist. It was low and wet, and cut at all eligible for building. Croweiamined by Mr. Leuesell—lle said,jl have not seen the rewire. Don't know the depth ur the size of them. Hese cot heard they are hatevu feet below the surfer', or tisat they are large enough to walk in. If they are, the actuation can't be eery low, but it lads/sp. I know th a t i t es eecestary top deep for eater, anal therefne coon not esy how it lathe place is damp comet that the sod in an•ne port. ie clay. Don't know hoe far Bernet is from L•sedr n. U,t.•t know any ether place where good building loud is to L • r•.t at Is. a loot camp% Thant.* D.tton. I have (con vicar tke witnesses) aunt to let there at that price. 1:n ne any pliers where it is much higher. I live at Cheehunt. toed t►ere Is low, and the water very near the surface; still people build there freely, and give more than Is.• (out. theehunt is further from Lennon than Barnet. Lte Court—l taw Kiouston New Town, but I don't know th.• prim of hod thus. That is 12 mib s from Lon 'ion. I know Aner:ey on the Croydon lies, but 1 den't know the T.ilus of land Mire. shops that is infloenctd by tha CrystAl l'alaeo. I still think the clam:mu:a land is not worth mar* than Is. a foot. Mr. Kamen replied upon the evidence, which he eons India was all un one aide, tar it was evident that Mr. Craver was not acquainted with the tuts of OP" case. The roads and *ewers had been muds in the best manner ee rardiese of expense, and buiiiiings of a superior class wire fest sprinting up, and, in c insequence, the value of the lead WAI rapidly increasing. Ile was aware thee the met knew Vic situation of the estate, and would therefore coos tent himself with telling Mr. Crawler that this very low rind was at least WO feet higher than London-bridge. The listener said be had nn doubt in this case, because even the estimate of Mr. Cr. 4 ter was sufficient to support the claimant's vote—his front it:c being be feet; but he bad allowed the use to go on in the hope !hat the evidence, if taken generally am applied to the *hole estate, would enable him to dispose of all the claims at once—at least as to the question of value. With that view, having paid great rt. teeticu to the written's, he must say that he had no doubt that all the land on this estate was worth at lent ts. 6.1. per foot, and some of it (as had been proved by Mr. Bowring) considerably more. It had been stated by Mr. Russell that a value of Is. a foot was more than sufficient to support every claim; and therefore he should assume that un the question of value all the thews had been proved. Any one residing in the neighbourhood of London mast be aware of the great advantage of being near to a railway statiun; and that feature, with others that had been proved to exist in this case, coupled with the fact that the roads and sewers hail 10 - sin well made, was quite enough to account fur the great increase in the value of , he laud. The whole of the chinas were then allowed ; excepting seven, which Mr. Russell withdrew, because the parties had not paid for their land ; the claims bad been made in error, and the names ought to be expunged. It was rumoured in court that several of the claimants were unquestionable tenet; but it is stated to be the practice of the National Society to support all claimants, is respect of their estates, without reference to politics; sad indeed it could not very well be otherwise, for the number of members—(already exceeding 16,000)—must reader it impossible for the managers to distinguish them, if they Lail any object in doing so. The following is the grass result of the revisioe, inCaling the Land Society claims at Barnet, and the chartist Cakes on the O'Connor Ville estate, at Bich munworth :—Liberal claims allowed 240, tories struck off 151—liberal gain 392; tory claims allowed 151, liberals struck off 136—tory gain 287; showing a majority for liberals of 185. EAST SURREY. Summary of Cho late revasion—The number of electors an the register in force 6,901, objections sustained by overseers 461, reformers 171, tortes 56—the rest of electors on register 6,210; re-claims allowed 179, new claims allowed 538—the number of electors for 1853-4, 6,927. NORTH CMBERLAND. The Revising Banister for Northumberland held his court for going over the registrations at Btamfordham on 3lunday, and at Newcastle on Wednesday. The follow ing is a statement of the result : NISIVOANTLI DISTECT.—Liberal claim+ sustained, 161; tories struck off by the liberals, k 9; twigs struck off by overseers, 2'2; liberal gain, 282 Tory claim s sus t a i ne d, 80; liberals struck off by the twits. 34 ; liberals struck off by overseers. 45; tory gain, 159. Total liberal gain, 123. In addition to the above 22 persons, whose politics cannot be ascertained, wen also struck off at the instance of the overseers. BTA:•►OEIMAX DISTILICT.—LiberaI claims sustained, 8; tortes struck off by the liberals, 16 ; tories struck (.11 by *Termer ,6: liberal pin, 30. Tory claims sustained, 29; liberCs struck off by the write, 3; liberals struck off by ovimetri, 6 ; tory gain, 38. Total tory gain, B.—Aew eastk elwcniek. UNION FREEHOLD LAND EsOCIETT.—The first annual riveting of this society was held on Thursday even it m, at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street; Mr. C. Jones in the chair. From thereport read to the meeting, it app-- peared that the society has nut with great success. 617 *Wes /led luso taken up, the subscriptions on which amounted to 1,061. 16e., and $921. Its. had been received, with al. Gs. 7d. towards the working expenses. An estate has been purchased at Harrow, which possesses superior advantages as regards locality, contiguity to the railway station, and fitness for allotment, and on which a profit boons had been offered. The owners or tenants of houses of the value of 601. a year on these allotments will be allowed by the railway company, free pus from London for eleven yiars. The report was received and adopted. AltItAS PASHA AND Hid Doo.—Abbas Pasha lately ohtamed from England, by great exertion, a gigantic ats.ud, of the celebrated Lyme bused , and the monster was the talk of the whole city of Cairo. As the Pasha's private Secretary proceeded through the narrow attests, accompa nied by hi. very docile but very formidable-looking acqui• anon, the Turks did not By, nor did they seek shelter, nor put tt.-mselves in attitude of resistance. They stood still and trembled. Some matter e d on ly " Wonderful ! wonder ful!" others adopted literally the Ilaydon phrase, "Our trust is in Ood." One old mon we heard to excla'sn, " of the creations of 0.,d are terrible !" and another gravely ....11.d the dignified dog, "Art thou sent to vit- Santa as atk Ay?" The general impression, however, sou, "God can protect us even fr m thee, oh terrible one !" New Omar ter y Review for October. SAIVILL AND SlErss /tAlt.wAT.—Traffic receipts for the week ending S.pt.2.S, 1853.-6391. 18s. ; correspond ing week last year, 3211. 1.51.6 d. THE CHOLERA. -- ••- - (Frois the herd of MAIL) NEWCASTLE. DRAIII4 —SEPT. 'it Cholera Tharthot It appeats from returns just made by the Registrar of the district, that the deaths from cholera on Sept. 28, at Newcastle, were 27, and not 29, as was stated in the telegraphic messages from that place ou the 29th. The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhm in Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1042. In the same period (viz., the first 29 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there iu the number of deaths was 212. CUTESHEAD.—Surr. 28. Cholera Diarrloka Szvr. J. Cholera . The total number of deaths from cholera and diaracca in Gateshead to the present date has bet n 367. Luring the like period (viz., the 62.'123 (1.13 e) in 1631-2, the deaths amounted to 136. TYNEMUUTIi (WALLSEND Diszatcr).—Szez. 28. Cholera 1:Y E.-SEPT. 29. Cholera COLLINGIIAM•IiI AVTON (I.lzuwicidutßz). Sir r. Cholera DLNSE, N.B.—Srer. 23. Cholera BOWDON PANS.—Si.rr. 22 Cholera The latest reports from Newcastle state that Mr. Lee, Superintending Inspector of the General Board of Health, and Dr. Lewis, had just returned from a very satisfactory visit to Hexham. There have been 884 cases wider treatment during the last fortnight at that place. In the return of casts given yesterday, it was stated that five Wel cases had occurred in St. Sa viour's, Southwark. It should have been two, not five. CHRISTIA'SIA, &rt. 23. Cholera is now, thank Heaven, on the decline ; only 50 cues today. This is a great improvement on 9) odd. The total number of deaths already amounts to about 1,400 — pretty well out of 15,000. It hos not spared age, rank, or locality, selecting its prey indiscriminately. In must cases it has defied medical aid, hurrying off its •ectima into the other world after a few brief hours' notice—occasionally without those striking premonitory indications characteris- tic of Asiatic cholera—whilst the apparently strong and healthy hare had no greater immunity than the weak and peal. COLLISION ON THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILIV.4I'. . - MEXAMOL Olt, FRIDAY. A collision occurred on this line of railway yes terday afternoon, which, although, fortunately, not of a fatal character, has been attended with a certain amount of injury to the passengers. One of the Midland passenger trains running between Slicffifid and lloacester left the latter town ou the afternoon above stated at 1.1.3, its usual time, and as it appreeched the Mezbrouasla juiction, ,vhich connects the South Yorkshire Railway with the main line of the North Midland, the signals were lowered as usual, and not the slightest danger was apprehended. As the train neared the station, however, a Barnsley passenger train was observed upon the same line. The driver whistled, but it was then too late to avert a collision, as almost immediately alter the danger was apparent the Midland train ran into the South Yorkshire one with great vitdence. All the passengers were much shaken, and many of them more or leas bruised, but we have not heard of any injuries likely to have a fatal result. Two commercial gentlemen from Sheffield,who were seated in a second clans carriage, were thrown against the sides of the carriage with great violence, and one of them was in• jured on the knee, and the other suffered a contusion on the side of the head. Mr. Blythe, of Conisbro, inspector on the South Yorkshire Railway, was in the train, and he was ihjured on the shoulder. The fireman escaped injury, but the engine man woe hurt on the shoulder, but not seriously. At the point where the accident took place, the South Yorkshire Company have since their disagreement with the Great Northern worked the Barnsley traffic, and the accident is reporttd to have (se cured as follows :—The driver of the South Yorkshire train had been engaged in shunting some goods waggons, which were about to he attached to the Bernslay paescager train, Into the Meahrough siding, and he failed to clear the line before the Midland train wu due. Ti. buffer plauks of the engine were smashed, and the rode bent by the force of the collision. We undentead that an inquiry into the cause of the accident will take place today. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER I, 103. FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE. Yesterday a circumstance occurred about half-s -mile from Dorchester, which was near being attended with a lamentable loss of life. At the spot referred to a railway bridge has been recently constructed across the turnpike road, over the Willa, Somerset, and Weymouth railway. and has only within the last few days been open for traffic. On Wednesday morning last the workmen were engaged in completing the excavations beneath the bridge, when the crown of the arch was observed to sink considerably, end the process of underpinning was immediately adopted. The situation of the bridge evidently demanded the utmost caution, and the parapet wall was taken down to relieve the structure of its superincumbent weight. In this state of things the navvies were still engaged in excavating beneath t►e defective arch, the traffic over it being again turned into the temporary road formed during the construction of the bridge, and the trucks laden with chalk from the cutting continuing to run beneath it as before, when, at a few minutes before eight o'clock yesterday morning, one of the navvies, fancying he ►eard a cracking noise, carried his eye attentively along the east side of the bridge, sad observing it in the act of giving way, had just lime to warn the workmen above and below the bridge of the im pending danger, when it fell in with a tremendous crash- Most fortunately they all got out of the way In time, and no one was injured. But for the timely warning, at least twenty men must inevitabiy have lost their line. This is the second time the bridge may be said to h►ve been built up ; for, about six months ago, it had almost arrived at completion, when it was, declared by a competent authority that it would " never stand." It was therefore taken to pieces and the foundations laid afresh—with what result is now men. CHARGE OF WILFULLY PROPAGATING SMALLPON. -..-- A serious case, under the New Vaccination Act, kas just arisen in Devon-hire. A woman, living in the village of Tedburn St, Mary, • few miles from Exeter, wished ber children to have the small pox, and, according to • custom which seems to have prevailed in the rural districts, she determined that they should receive it by contagion. Accordingly she sent her children, in the ears of • nephew named William Peirosaul, to Crediton, that they might get it from the servant of a respectable farmer, who was ill of the disease. The farmer's wife took a handkerchief which had been worn by the servant and tied it round the childreas' necks. They soon after wards caught the disease. The wife of the farmer, and the mother of the children, were brought up before the magis trates of Crockernwell, sitting in petty sessions, and charged with the offence. The forma, was committed to prison for a week, but the latter escaped, it is believed, through the perjury of the nephew, who was thereupon charged with the offence. Oa Monday last he was brought up, but he was so dangerously ill that the charge could not be gone into. The chairman (Baldwin Fulford, Eeq.) told him that the magistrates were unwilling to proceed against him in the present state of his health, but Is wished it to be un derstood, that in all cases where persons were found to en danger the lives of their children, by exposing them to the small pox in the way narrated above, the magistrates would inflict the extreme penalty of the law. If death had ensued to the children, the parties concerned weal,' have been tried fee their lives. StSPICIOTS CASE.—Conaiderablo sensation was gaoled at Hampstead, on Tuesday afternoon, by the dis covery, in a field neer th,t suburb, of the body of Charles Monckton, aged 28, a tailor, residing at 31, Henry-street, Pentonville. The deceased was shut through the heart, and it was at first suspected that he had been murdered, but subsequent inquiry tended to remove all suspicion of that nature. An inquest was held yesterdiy, when • gun smith deposed that he had sold • pistol with some powder and balls to a man answering to the d• ceased; and some powder and balls of a similar description were found upon the body. The pistol, however, had not been discovered. The jury returned an open verdict. THE WAOBS MOVEMENT. PRESTON, FiIIDAT. To show that they are anxioag for on amicable settlement of the u:•pute now pendiii e r b a :wccn the em• kboytra and Ike employed in thin town, the we a rers' com• mittee have addresaed a letter to the gentlemen xmsniered to be at the head of the Masters' A.sociation, proposii., " That a deputation of employers meet a deputation of the workpeople, fur the purpose of discussing and arranging the ditferencss. Or if this be objectionable, that the matter in dispute be referred to ■rbitratioo, each party to appoint an equal tramber of experienced men unconnected with the strike, and that R. T. Parker, Esq., M.P., be the umpire." The letter concludes—" If this does not meat your views, we reepecuully request you to make a proposal, if you desire to come to an honourable arrangement—and, if it be based on c gull, we pledge ourselves to accept it." Last night, at a densely crowded meeting in the Tem perance Hall, It was Announced that no answer had been received to Cie above communication. The chief speaker, Mr. Geo. Cowell, informed the meeting that the erection of a large manufactory in this town by the contributions of factory workers had been resolved upon, and a committee appointed to prepare u prospectus. Thy building fund would be raised by 5L rh ars, and it was proposed to give employment, in the first place, to those who lust their work by tekieg an active part in this movement. To show the success likely to attend this project, it way st.ited that in Padillatu (nese Burnley), the operatives had erected • weaving shed, where they employed 150 workpeople upon aqo looms, and in the first half-year they had made a profit of SOOL over and above wages. STRIKE OF THE 11A1iLE1 MAIN COLLIERS.—The ' men employed at the eztenitve works of tit► Dailey Main Colliery Company, to the ~umber of about 200, have struck work far an advance of wages. They allege that since the commencement of the present year the wholesale price of coals from the pit mouth has advanced is. 3d. per ton, whilst the operative colliers have only received an advance of sue penny for a like quantity. Another grievance is, namely, that since they received this advance, they have been required to all a greater quantity of carves in the cor ners, so much an that they contend that the advance is leas than a fair equivalent for the extra labour thus required. THE FIRE IN CH.4NDOS-STREET, STRAND. The following is Mr. Braidwood's official report of the damage caused by the fire on the premises of Meagre. SaviU and Edwards, Chendos-street, Strand, of which par ticulars were give■ yesterday :—llessro. Sevi:l, printers— machine rooms, printing offices, burnt out; cause and insurance unknown. No. 5, J. Diller, dressing case maker—slightly damaged by fire and water ; contents insured in the Globe Fire-office. Nos. 2 and 3, Bed ford street, C. Coles, tavern keeper —contents insured in the Globe, the building in the Westminster ; hack of the building and ,kylights damaged by fire and water. No. 4, ditto, J. Sandisou, carpenter—contents insured in the County, and building in the Sun; contents damaged by water and removal, back front burnt• No. 3, ditto, Elizabeth Fivey, baker—cmtenta and building Mound in the Sun, slightly damaged by water and removal; back front and window burnt out. No. 4, ditto, C. Davenport, Waxier—contents insured in the Westminster, building in the Sun ; slight damage by re moval and fire. Ditto, second floor, A. Newton, lodger— Contents insured in the Sun, damaged by fire and water• No 5, J. Sanders, private—contents, not insured. Ditto, third floor, Wm. Hall, lodger—contents insured in the Westminster, slightly damaged by waver, tire, and re moval windows burnt out. No. 2, Harvey'.-buildings, Strand, W. Ekims, bricklayer—contents insured in the Sun; considerably damaged by fire. No. 3, ditto, Chas. Martin, private—contents insured in the Sun; damaged by fire, half roof burnt bff. EXPLORATION OF NORTHE.RX AUSTRALIA. The expedition to explore the northern part of Australia, which we meutioned some time beck with strong interest, is now placed beyond doubt ; the Treasury having granted the sum peeled for the purpose. The grounds on which the grant is made are, the recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the expediency of affording facilities for the develop. Event of the increasing trade in India, China, and Australia. The enterprise has been stroeglybacked bythe representatives of the Australian colonies in London, and by the Geographical Society, to whose president, Sir Roderick Murehison, the success of the representation to government must .se in • great part ascribed. M. Ernest Haug, who has ateeeetteil in obteiniud so extensive and effective a concurrence in his enterprise, is said to be actively engaged is the necessary preparations. He proposes to set out early in November for Singapore, where he will complete the equipment of the expedition, with • view of landing in Australia by the opening of the dry season. The grand object is to render the exploration as complete as possible ; but collateral objects are kept is view, such as the experimental planting of seed in suitable spots, and the introduction of live stock into the north, with the importation, more especially, of one animal long desired in Australia—the camel. Few en terprises have mane such rapid progress in their earlier stages; the success with the Treasury is not likely to diminish the public interest—the public always sympathise so keenly with success ; and hence we may expect that the offers of disinterested assistance, which have already been tender. d to M. Hang, will not cease now that his enter prise has received sych high sanction. A NEIV ANIMAL AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GAR DENS, REGENT'S-PARK. The last addition to the collection of the Zoologi sal Society always appears to be the most remarkable, and the great success which their establishment bas achieved during the present season evinces in the most evident manner how thoroughly the public appreciate every new effort to increase the paean*r attractions of the place. Everyone remembers the/swore which the hippopotamus created, the most historically renowned of pachyderms, whose glory is now vainly mulled by a second Richmond, who has taken the zoological field at Paris, although the pabeesosehes there assert that our hippo is nothing but a delusion and dream, and that the infant who disports himself in the Jerdin des Plante is the only true, original, and real hippopotamus ever seen in Europe sines the Roman Empire. About a million and a quarter of visitors to the Zoological Society's °Arden can deny that Innocent belief of the Parisian gobemossehes, and a very great number of the meet distinguished Parisians are among that million and a quarter. The hippopotamus was, and is, a marvel of the first water; but a far more singular and more striking animal has now been obtained by the society in the Cheat American Ant eater (31yrntecophoga jubota) which was yesterday exhibited in the gardens for the fint time. This excessively interesting and curious creature belongs to that almost extinct order of Ilderaata, or toothless ani mals, which in Palm ,soio times were the dominant and characteristic feature in the zoology of the tropical Ameri ' man (*rests, and of which the sloth and the armadilloare now the most familiar representatives. Differing from these in almost every extents' respect, the ant-eater is of very con sidereal' size, and measures nearly five feet in length. The head is extremely lengthened in form; the mouth is so small as scarcely to be observable ; and, being altogether destitute of teeth, is furnished with an enormously flexible tongue, whieb, in place of any other means of capture, be. comes a most efficient engine for providing a sufficient sup ply of food for the great carcase which is thus so mysteriously sustained. The food of the ant-eater is said to be ants, and his feet are fortified with talons scarcely inferior to the sloth's, with which he scratches' out the inhabitants of the ant-hills. Theis talons fold under the soles of the feet as the animal walks, and thus give a remarkably truncate appearance to the forelegs. When at rest, the whole body and head are concealed by the long pendent hair of the toil, which is then doubled forwards so as to form a covering almost, or perhaps en tirely, impervious to the weather. Nothing in the society's lathe collection is more astonishing than the apparition which ls itself to the spectator when this recumbent shapeless mass is awakened, and first the snipe -like head protrudes itself, then the long tail returns to its natural poeitioa, and at last the grizzled body conspicuously banded with velvet black, is reared upon its firm and pillar-like legs. The ant-eater possesses considerable freedom of metior, and appears to be particularly docile and willing to exhibit We very matked peculiarities of structure and habit. which will render him, in all probability, the most attractive point in the gardens while he remains in them. It is much to be regretted, considering the great difficulty of preserving South American animals in health during the vicissitudes of a European winter, that this really valuable addition had apt arrived at an earlier period of the season. As it is, no ens can estimate how long it may live. FIGHTING BY TEL EGRAPH.—The Vienna Lloyd des cribes three omnibus-looking vehicles in the camp at Olmutz, each or which contains a complete electric telegraph appa ratus, with a contrivance for laying an insulated wire along the ground by the mere locomotion of the vehicle ; the wire being so protected that it remains uninjured under the pressure of the heaviest artillery passing over it. By this means orders are to be instantaneously conveyed Irom the Emperor's station and that of the chief commandeea to troops at almost any distance on the field of the manceuvres. THE GOVE.RNORBIIIE OF CUBA.—This important appointment, the lucrative capabilities of which have been lately so signally demonstrated, has been bestowed on General Juan de la Pelmet' by the Spanish government. General Paria has also been named Captain• General of the Phillippine Islands. SHREWSBURY AND BIeiIINGHA.II RAIL IVA Y. The fifteenth half-yearly geneval meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the L osilon Tim en, Bishopegate, jr-steriLiy. The SECURTAILT read ths report, of which the fallowing is an ether ict:—" The directors t. mgt ttulete the shareholders on Vie result of the recent adjourned .ipecial meeting. The deed for carrying out the arrangement has been prepared by counsel, and sealed by the Great Western and the two Shrewsbury companies. The directors content themselves with remarking as to the late proceedings in Chancery against the directors, that the directors whose names were mentioned in that suit, were, and are anxious to enter into full explanations whenever it may be necessary to do so. The half-yearly accounts chow the following results : Capital—The p syments during the last half-year ending 30th June, 1853, including 8,9:41. mod on account of the Madeley Branch, amount to 28,6581. 16p. 7d., making a total expenditure of 1,223,8481. 14s. 64 exclusive of the sum contributed to the Stour Valley Railway, which is represented by the London and Novh Western guaranteed stock, and of 2 , 1671 . 10s., the deposit upon 1,267 London and North Western eighth shares, being the proportion of the recent issue of new stock by that company, to which, I in virtue of its Stour Valley etude, this company was en titled. The further expenditure of capital will be confined to the completion of the Medeley branch, and the works at the Victoria basin ; to the third share which this company has in the Wolverhampton Level station ; and to the pay ment of legal and parliamentary expenses incurred up to the present time. RevEtette.—The traffic returns as compared with the corresponding period of the year 18.52 are as follow.: Half year cation; June 30, 1853: Paaaengers. 9,7251. 191. ; goods. 10.0301. 135.; total, 19.7561 Os. Increase: Passen gers, 9971. les. 9.1. ; goods, 671. 165. 64. ; total, 1,06.51. lls. 3d. Ibis must inadequate return for the very large traffic con veyed is the unavoi 'able result of the continued competition of tile London and North Western Company, which the di rectors had hoped the interests of all parties would have put an end to before this time, by the adoption of equal and remunerative rates and fares between all points to which the companies carry ; but the endeavours of the di rectors to effect this object have been hitherto unsuccessful. The result shows a deficiency in the revenue account, which, with the interest on the debentures, will consider ably reduce the balance carried over from the previous half year; and the directors, under the circumstances, recom mend the postponement of the second payment of 21 per cent on account of the arrears due to the holders of London and North Western guaranteed stock, which was authurised by the last half yearly general meeting. They also regret that the preference shares are not enti'led to any dividend fur the past halt-year. Your directors consider that the future ex penditure of the company should be, as far as practicable, with the concurrence of the Great Western Company. The appeal in the suit in equity against the London and North Weetern and Shropshire Union Companies was heard and determined, during the last half-year, by the Lords Jus tices, who dismissed the appeal of the company, but with out costs, upon an objection raised by the London and North Western Company, that the agreement could not he enforced in corsequence of that company having, in entering Into it, exceeded ice powers. The obstructions to the traffic of this company over the Stour Valley line still c mtinue , but the traffic of the com pany will not be much longer inconvenienced by these ob structions, us the works on the Birmingham, Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley Railway are rapidly proceeding to comple tion, and also upon the branch to connect the railway with the low level station at Wolverhamptun, by which means another direct through communication to Birmingham and London, from Shropshire and Wales, independent of the London and North Western, will be opened. The working of the contract with Mews. Johnson and Kinder having continued, as mentioned in the last report, irregular and unsatisfactory, it was found necessary to put an end to it, and the possession of the stork was resumed on the Btli day of April I tat, and placed under the charge of the honour able Mr. Petre, by whom it has since been conducted, and whose report is appended hereto. Proceedings in equity by the contractors to prevent the contract being put an end to were unsuccessfully taken against this company. They have since commenced an action at law for damages, which has been referred to arbitration, as well as an action com menced by this company sgaicst the contractors for nonful fitment of the covenants to repair the rolling stock and work the line." The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report be received, and thet it and the statement of accounts annexed be adopted, said it would be the last time that this duty would devolve upon him. In retiring from his present position, he had gratification in reeling that there was now a pro spect of harmony and of good feeling amongst them. They had long been in a state of litigation; but he trusted that that would cease, and that they would have peace firmly established among them. In consequence of what occurred at the last half-yearly meeting a correspondence was en tered into with the London and North Western Company in reference to equal rates. That correspondence had been published, and therefore he would not go into the details. lie would not conceal the disappointment he felt at the re suit of that correspondence. It was a total failure. The directors could not do otherwise than obtain the concur rence of the Great Western Company. The London and North Western declined to treat with them conjointly, and this company could not t sep ars t e ly. I n a letter which he received after the correspondence hod been published, ' there was a panne to the effect that the relations between the Great Weetern and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham were maintained in defiance of the shareholders, and on that ground the London and North Western did not feel justified in catering Into arrangements with them. That objection was now removed. His had alluded to the evil of competition. It was • sad thing that a company carrying 216,355 passengers, and goods to the amount of 1t9,614 tons in half • year, should not take sufficient money to pay its expenses. From a paper he held in his hand relative to the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway, he found that that company had to call upon the Loudon and North Western for 17,9591. Os. 7d. for the hair year. He lamented that the immeuse traffic which that great company must necessarily have was so unremunerative. He would make one remark in reference to their operations in parliament respecting the Coalbrook Dale line. That Hee had been neglected by the Shropshire Union, and this company took it up, as it was within their district. It was a most important line to them. Happily this company had got it, and it would be a most useful line to them. The agreement with the Great Western had been examined by most eminent counsel, and he was happy to say that the seals of the three companies had been placed to it, and that it would be placed before this meeting for its approbation. He would now allude to another subject which had given him great pain —the Chan cery suit which had been commenced against him and the other directors. H. was willing and ready, and he belie,, d his brother directors Were so also, to answer any charges that might be brought against them ' • but as that was aban doned, he would not allude to the subject further. He com plained, however, of the charges being distributed through the whole country, without their waiting • few days for the answer, which was not an English mode of proceeding. They had, no doubt, read Mr. Cardwell's report. For him self, he considered • railway a public highway, and that everybody had a right to use it under proper re gulations, and he hoped to use that report carried out. In reference to their directjoe, he had passed many hours of harassing labour. It was impossible not to feel the attack that had been made upon him, but be had endeavoured to bear them patiently, and be now called upon them to do jostle' to him if they thought him de serving of it. They had established a policy which it had been his anxiety to bring about ever since parliament thought fit to introduce the broad gauge from London to Birmingham. He had conceived it to be fur the good of I the country that there should be two lines of oommunica a with London and Manchester, and the other great towns of the north. There was no negotiation pending to cause him to regret resigning his present position. He hoped that they would now put aside all differences, and whether in parliament or out, he should ever do what he could to promote their interests. Mr. Malan seconded the motion, which wee tarried unanimously. Messrs. Dimmoek, 8. H. Blackwell, of Dudley; James Culverwell, of Bristol ; Alderman Kelly, of Paternoster- I row ; and John George, of SoutliFate,Middlesex, were then elected directors in place of the director, who retired. Mr. Ggoaon said they had elected him a director to carryout the agreement with the Great Western, and he thought it was due to Mr. Clive that he should be re gamed to retain Isis present position. He moved that the board be requested to elect Mr. Clive to the direction on the occurrence of • vacancy, and said he had no doubt some one of the directors would make room for him by re signing. Mr. SiLvcsurrosn seconded, and Mr. Monau sup ported the motion, which was unanimously passed. Mr. JOSIAH WILEY. of Wolverhampton, was appointed an auditor in the room of Mr. Fellowes, who retired. The meeting then resolved itself into a special meeting, to consider the agreement entered into with the Great Western Company. Mr. W. G. Box read the agreement, the particulars of which have been before stated, the agreement being to the effect that the two companies amalgamate, the Great Western guaranteeing 31 per cent. on the capital of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and half of any profits that may be made beyond. The CHAIRMAN moved that the agreement be approved, and that the directors be empowered to carry it into effect, and, after a short discussion, the resolution was agreed to unanimously. A vote of thanks was then passed to .the chairman, and the meeting separated. EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF A WHALE 11.1 1 WWI? zuszh.—On Tuesday morning last sit labourers, I whilst employed by Hr. Henry Bean, of West Mertes, fermi r, near a creek of the Blackwater, on the west side of the Strood, discovered to their amazement a fish of' huge dimensions, and which from the pictures they had seen they came to the conclusion was "very like a whale." They procured a boat, and armed with scythes, hatchets, and other formidable weapons, commenced the attack. The I Leviathan monster made desperate efforts to escape with I the tide, and managed to move several rods, but one of the amateur whalers succeeded in thrusting the whole lenouß of his scythe into its side, and caused a death wound. Ropes were then attached to its tail, and when the tide arose the men with their boat towed their prizo about a mile to Horses Hard, where they erected an awning, and resped a rich harvest from visitors at 6.1. per head. The fish is the species termed the fin whale, is 27 feetlong, and weighs about five tons. It is calculated that it will yield 100 gallons of oil, worth 4s. per gallon. Hundreds from Colchester and the neighbourhood have Inspected the monster.—Chelnu ford Chmick. PARIS AND STRASBURG' RAILWAY. On Werines;lay, an extraordinary general mePting of the proprietors w•es held iu Peri.. Count us Stuvu in the chair. Tee o t •jue tfor which the meeting had been called was to "del i b tra te on the convention .greed to with the 61inister of Public Work., relative to the concession of the foaming railway lion, all in fa. east of France : —l. From Para to Mulltaneen by Troyes, Clermont, Vesoul, and Seifert, with a branch to Couloturniers. 2. From Saucy to ' Gray, by Epinal and Vesoul. 3. Fr tm Paris to Vincennes gad St. Maur. 4. The anaexation of 'no lipe from Monte• reau to Treyes: and, tufty, the annexation of the line from Bleseies to fit. Dicier to Oray. To deliberate, also, on the powers to he given to the board of directors for the eventual purcham of the riilway from Strasburg to Beale and Wit. sembure, as may be best for the interests of the company ; and to authorise the board to solicit the government to consent to certain modifications of the statutes called for by the convention of the 17th August." The repot' stated that the receipts of the first nine months of the current year warranted the distribution of a divi dend of upwards of 10 per cent. In a low months more the opening of the branch lines from Epernay to Rheini., and from Metz to Theunville, would still more add to the re venue of the company. But in presence of the general in duetrial movement which was now taking place in France, it was inevitable that a certain number of new lines must be required to the south of the Strashum line. Between that railway, which proceeded due east, and the Lvons line, which after arriving at Dijon was sure to strike out to the soutle•east, there lay several department, rich in popula. teen, in manufactures, in agricultural produce, and in mineral :productions of various kinds, which would, be yond any doubt, require railway accommodation. :There were thehaute-Soeae, the Haute Marne, and the Vosges, all rich in minerals, coals, and manufac• tune of various ki n d s . . All these departments would require railways ; and, in addition, I', was certain that the Strasburg line would never be suddient for the gnat commercial movement which existed between 'Havre and Switzerland. New lines consequently were certain to be constructed, and the whole question to be solved was this—ought the Strasburg Company to undertake these lines itself, or allow other companies to step in and execute them ? The report then passed in review the ad vantages likely to accrue from annexation of the lines men tioned above to the Strasburg line, and showed that the directors would have acted most unwisely in allowing any other companies to interfere with the ground which actu ally belonged to the Strasburg line. It enumerated a number of the tenders sent in f r various lines to the south of the Strasburg railway, and stated that the whole number was not less than 22. Ceder such circumstances, the directors of the Strasburg line could rot hut send in a proposal to the Minister of Public Work., and their offer was submitted with the others, in the usual course, to the consultative railway committee. After long and mature consideration, the committee gave an answer, deciding in favour of the offer of the Strasburg Company, and the Minister of Public Works confirmed that de cision. The report then showed that from the fact of the Strasburg Company haying an eztensibe terminus at Paris, a notable economy must of necessity arise from its having all the eastern lines in its 'own hands, as a second terminus would thereby be avoided. With respect to Vin cennes, the Strasburg Company had left it out of its con sideration ; but the minister very naturally thought that so important a fortress ought to be directly connected with the railway, which was confessedly the most importsut, in a strategical point of view, in Froice. A considerable portiere of the report was taken up with en es, tttt ination of the conditions on which the Strasburg Company had agreed to take the Imes mentioned already, with a view to prove that it was its interest to have the whole network in its own hands. "The annexation of the railways in the in terior of France," said the report, " is not the only element of our prosperity ; there it another almost as important, but which we have not token into account in the appreciation of our revenue—namely, the construction of the railways of Europe. From the other bank of the Rhine the movement gains strength, and spread. even to the cuntine. of Turkey. All the railway lines tend to unite together, and all converge towards France. As much formerly a. money and exertions were expended in isolating one country from another, so much in the present day they are employed in sweeping away all frontiers whatever. Already in leaving Paris a traveller can, without even quitting the rail, arrive at the shores of the Baltic, by Lubeck, Rostock, Dantzic, and Konigsberg. Railways connect Paris without any break with Frankfort, Hamburg, tadpole, Dresden, Berlin, Breslau, and Warsaw. A railway line, which pluses by Prague, connects together Dresden and Vienna. From this ,coital of Austria, a direct line, now almost terminated, proceeds to Saarbrack and Forb ach, passing by Munich, Stutgard and Mannheim. Another line, also starting from Vienna, descends to Trieste, with a b ranch to Bruck, can the direct :ine from Vienna to Paris. Before eighteen months have elapsed these last two great lines will be com pletely finished. From Vienne the railway to the Danube has already gone beyond Pruth, and that from Warsaw to St. Petersburg is in full course of execution. It suffices to glance at the map of Europe to remain convinced that the company in possession of all the eastern network of railway lines is called on more than any other to profit by the move ment created by the foreign lines. The eastern network has its starting point is Patio, Heel opens, like a fan, as far as the French frontiers. Ou one side it touches Belgium by the line from Metz to Theouville ' carried en to Arlons ; on the other side it is connected by Mulhausen and Timm with Switzerland, which is herself constructing railway lines; and it reaches the north of Europe by Prussia and Forbach; it Is, in fact, the real railway to Vienna and to Trieste, through Strasburg." The report then stated the terms of the convention signed by the Minister of Public Works and the directors of the company on August 17 . and pro ceeded to give details of the length of the several lines, and the probable cost of their construction. The whole length of all the new lines was 1,040 kilometres (6.10 English miles); but as the parts already constructed amount to 265 kilometres, the real length at the charge of the S ras burg Company was 775 kilometres (485 English miles). The cost of these lines was estimated at 210 millions, to be raised in the manner set forth in the treaty agreed to with the Minister of Public Works. The report then to [erred to the probable receipts of these new hoes, and showed that,even in dependently of the traffic which they must bring to the main line, they were calculated per se to add to the receipts of the shareholders. "To bring the question now under consiac ration to a close," says the report, "it remains for us to state what are the consequences of the new situation fur any shareholder of the Strasburg line at the present time. The gross receipts of the present line wile amount to 33,003,0001'. The gross receipts of the new lines to 23,300,000 f. Total, 56,300,000 f. From this deduct ex pellees of every kind, at the utmost 35 per cent ,19,705,000 f. Interest and sinking fund of 120millionsof bonds,6,ooo,ooof. Total, 25,705,000 f., leaving a remainder of 30,595,000 f., or for 500,000 shares 611. 19:. per share. In order to procure for the company the means of exe.nting the engagements resulting from the treaty agreed to with the Minister of Public Works, the social capital, originaliy fixed at 125 millions of francs, divided into 2.50,000 shares of 500 francs each, is to be increased to 250 millions, divided into 600,000 shares of 500 francs each. In consequence, 250,000 shsresof 500 francs each would be created, and placed at the disposal of the present shareholders of the Strasburg Company, ac cording to the number lossessed by each, the first payment being 100 f. per share . " The report then referred to some minor point*, such as the mode of paying the interest and dividend, which the board proposed to fix for the future as follows: to pay the interest of 4 per cent. on the let November, and dividend of the preceding year on the let of May. The report also proposed to put aside the sum of 75,000 f. each year towards a pension fund for all persons employed by the company, whose salary did not exceed 3,0001. a year. M. Arnoux having resigned his place as director, M. Emile Pereire, se remarkable for his experience in ra ilway matters, was proposed in his stead. Lastly, the report announced that, in order to ensure to the present shareholders all the advantages of possessing the new shares, which were to be issued, the Strasburg board of directors had passed a treaty by which the Societe Mobiliere, on the deposit of the Strasburg shares, advance during the period of a year the first two-fifths to any persons desirous of taking up the new shares, the said Societe Mobiliere being contest for so doing with the interest of 4 per cent., allowed by the company on the sums paid up. The report was received with loud applause. A short conversation then ensued on some of the points touched on in the report, the principal one being that the expenses of the Mulhausen line would not be more than 250,000 f. per kilometre. The various votes on the order of the day were then put to the vote, and adopted with acclamation. That giving the approbation of the meeting to the treaty pealed with the Minister of Public Werlui was adopted unanimously, with the exception of one voice. A vote of thanks to the board of directors was carried with acclamation. The proceedings then terminated. TOURNAY TO JUREISE, AND LANDEN TO HASSELT RAILWAY COMPANY.—A special general meeting of this company was held at the Brussels office, on Tuesday, the 27th ult., Mr. Robed William Kennard, the president of the company, in the chair. Mr. Kennard opened the pro ceedings by stating that the shareholders had been convoked on that occasion for the discussion and adoption (as he trusted) of the contracts entered into with the Belgian government and the Aix-la-Chapelle Company, touching the extension line from Hesselt to Maestricht. These con tracts, he said, had been made provisionally, bat would be ratified by their simple adoption by the present meeting. He had the gratification of being himself the representative of a large section If the English proprietary, having re ceived proxies from the holders collectively of 13,778 shares ; and but one opinion existed amongst the parties in ques tion respecting the great advantages secured to the com ; patty by the terms that had been made, and of the excel ; lens of the undertaking, from which they were to reap a certain gain without any advance of capital by the share ' holders or the smallest risk or responsibility. He then called upon M. Bruneat, the resident director, to read the report, an abstract of which has already apoeared hi the Express. The report having been unanimously adopted, 1 the meeting proceeded to despatch the business of their ordiaary meeting. The balance-sheet was agreed to, and a I dividend was declared of 7 62f. per share in Belgium, and 6s. per share in England, payable on and after the 10th of October next. A vote of thanks to the chairman was pro posed by Mt. Lewin Morley, of Liverpool ; and a similar vote to M. A. B. Bruneau and the board of directors was proposed by M. Oulif (a shareholder), and passed by imola i mation, after which the meeting separated. and A NavalliMllt I t i t': t Y , I to N T I M , r E a N id T: , — ,g; C igp s t l e a r l 11 ,, P Assistant J. Robertson, to Queen; Boatswains, W . Richards, i to El. George, and J. Turner, to Apollo; Gunner W. J. ' u S ct k irr T.3P°..—APPO INTMENT * Latham, and Carpenters P. Landon and B. Borchelt, to Apollo. LITEJtA r vie E. Tfu Newennts Memoirs of a nine Retpectable . '",_ l l it i 4 Edited by ARTHUR. EsNorsuis, I.lwar. b y Richard Dayle. Bradbury and Es ,n,. Although we expressed a very cordial admiratimf of Mr. Thackeray a "Esmond P. —thinking that it is in many respects the highest of his works— we arc not sorry to see him back again in the niaeteenth century, in which we live our lives in company with him. The truth is, that all historical fiction demands an effort from the reader wbich the many are not inclined to u n d ergo; i t requires scene of aetion, an d mere jou to raise rourself into the new r eg i on your enj o yi ng t h a t r it a Y m o a f tic or narrative, aims whim' the anthem illusionhtha s a n chosen d owuscni all It t li e lfie m e p t E a t tin , r e y du at producing in you. ‘Vhat reader' in moving through "Esmond.' but thought of Thackeray—and such being the case—was not the queen Anne scenery felt to be somewhat of un incitnibranc e ? At the same time, it may be easily shown how the author gaited by the adoption of this historical vehicle. He took a temporary have of absence from the Pall Mall region—from the hikers, majors, "swells," soldiers, beauties, and fools of our own period. He rose into a mare ideal region than he usually meets us in, and so gave freer and more natural play to the qualities of moral insight and genial tenderness—which, after all, are his heat and rarest characteristics. But for " ?unioud," the every day general reader might have never known what there is in 'f hackeray ; he saw there something of his more serious mood; and generally, we think, a deeper tone of feeling was more continuous and pro longed in that novel than in the author's other performances. However, the first hint of the name "Newcomers,' was sufficient to :how that we were to be brought back into the department of fiction in which Thnekeray first became famous. Here are the yellow covers with their lively glitter again, and before many pages are over we find our selves not far from Covent.gurden, and with the hum of the most modern of modern life in our Lars. The story (which goes on under the auspices of our friend Arthur Pendennis) opens with a general gathering of the beasts of the world of fable—fox, wolf, ass, and so forth—and a satiric hit against those who find fault with the author's way of " speaking of human nature." Mr. Thackeray has had the senti mentalists to contend with all along, hat all the merit of his writing is naturally thrown away on them. The plain fact about him is that he is the most utterly " real" writer of the age—the one who both in conception and in detail is the most natural and life-like painter of the time. Most novels are like a game at chests —between the author's " good" characters and his " bad" ones—in which, after so many mores, black gets into trouble, and is checkmated—or sometimes white dams, if the author be in a gloomy humour. The bad men are bad, and nothing else; the white men good, and nothing else. But the world is not so easily to be resolved into classes. Thackeray, with more truth fulness, paints lite as the various, checkered scene that it is; and, in short, it is the very disagreeable reality about his painting which makes some people complain and feel uneasy. llere, front the number before us, is his own hint of the moral—which, for our parts, we have always recognised as that of his books: This, then, is to be a story, may it please you, in which I jackdaws will wear peacoeks fenthers, awl awaken the just ridicule of the peacocks; in which, while every jus tice is done to the peacocks themselves, the splendour of their plumage, the gorgeousness of their daxxling necks, and the nvgnifici nee of their tails, exception will yet be taken to the absurdity of their ricketty strut, and the foolish discord of their pert squeaking in which there will be tears under orange flowers and jokes in mourning coaches ; in %Lich there will be dinners of herbs with contentment and without, :4nd banquets of stalked oxen where there is care and hared—age, and kind ness and friendship, too, along with the feast. It does not follow that all men are honest because they are poor ; and I have known some who were generous although they had plenty of money. There are some gnat landlords who do not grind down their tenants ; there are actually bisbops who are not hypocrites; there are liberal men even among the whigs, and the radicals themselves are nut all aristocrats at heart. (n. 6.) Oa this basis of common sense and common expe rience the author cheerfully plants himself, and pre pares to give a suitable we come to all comers. Ono likes this fresh, homely way of taking the world as it is, which finds so apt an expression, too, in an easy, unaffected style, which reads like the natural talk of a thoughtful, experienced gentleman of the world. In this first number, we have the scene opened. The Newcomes are a new, wealthy flintily—which we see expand into two branches—the children of the first commercial Mr. Newcome, by his first wife, a coun try girl—and by his second, with Miss Hobson, the daughter of a great City house. The second Mrs. Newsome is a strongly drawn sketch—that of a woman of business, who is also "serious," and of whose comfortable Clapham palace, with its reve rend frequenters, we have a picture. One most striking forte of Thackeray's—one of his best instru inents—is, his acquaintance with details. With " serious " or any other people he takes in hand, he always has the actual accessories ready, and puts in the points of daily life with copiousness and finish. It is not the " idea" of a character, but the solid image of him—outside, as well us inside, true—which figures before us as a reality. The little touches of humour are so many jets of light by which you see real existences. It is this way of having a cluster of homely little facts to bring in, in illustration of the satiric ideas, which gives to Thackeray's writings such a real and homely air. By that he gave his "Lectures" so much personal interest, and made the habits, appetites, dresses, and daily life of our great writers, throw light upon, and enable us better to understand their books. The son of Mr. Newcomc's first marriage goes to India, and returns with a youngster just as the story opens. It is pretty easy to see so far ahead as this— that it is to this branch of the Newcomea we are to look for the heroes we shall sympathise most with, and that to the others (who come in for the whole of Mrs. Newcome'a money) we may look for that fun which we naturally expect from the history of the pro gress of a new fsmily into great society. Altogether the first number of Mr. Thackeray's new book opens with every promise of a success as complete as that of its predecessors. SPORTING. LATEST BETTING AT M, FAIDA.T. There was a fair attendance this morning, and transac tions embraced a good number of horses for the Cesare witch, without leading to any material change in the odds, except in the cases of King Pepin and Nabob; the former was currently offered against at 7 to 1, and the latter freely backed at 16 to 1. For the Cambridgeshire and Derby there has been no change worthy of notice since our last. CESAREWITCII. 7to 1 agst King Pepin (off) 14 to 1 Nancy (t) 15 to 1 Garforth (t) 16 to 1 Nabob (t) 16 to 1 Indian Warrior (t) 16 to 1 Joe Miller (t) 20 to 1 Torment (t) 25 to 1 Weathergage (t) 25 to 1 Teddington (t) 25 to 1 Songstress (t) 30 to 1 Nutpecki r (t) 40 to 1 King of Trumps (t) 40 to I Pancake (t) 50 to 1 Maid of Team Valley (t) 66 to 1 Radcliffe Hero (t) 750 to 50 Lord Exeter's lot (t) CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 600 to 40 agst Orestes (t) 20 to 1 Hatchet (t) 500 to 20 Bit of Blue (t) 500 to 20 Balrownie (t) 4U to 1 Umbriel (t) 40 to 1 Annie (t) 40 to 1 Pastrycook (t) 500 to 7 Maid of Team Valley (t) DERBY. R to 1 apt Autocrat 12 to 1 King Tom (t) 33 to 1 Neville (t) GREAT WARWICK HANDlCAP.—Waterfall's weight is sst 111 b. CLERICAL. - - PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Howard St. George, to the Perpetual Curacy of Billing', in the parish of Wigan, in the county of Lan caster, void by the death of Rev. .7. 13romilow ; Patron, Rector of Wigan ; value 1651, with a house. On Thursday, the Rev. Charles Ward, WA., was licensed to tae Perpetual Curacy of Saint Nicholas, Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, on the nomination of a majority of the inhabitants of that parish. BATHS AND WASIIIIOUSES. —The Derby Town Council on Monday last passed a resolution to erect public baths and washhowss in that town.