The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-22 00:00:00

NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. lissaanasa-antan. rho Right Hon. Lord Sabot's, Colonel John Gordon, Arthur Forbes, Esq., John Frederic Baillie, Esq., Xi leas Wi.lism Mackintosh, Esq , George Rainey, Req., Thomas ruder llonel Hisao, Esq., the Hon. Simon Fraser, Captain Wdlism Fraser Trier, younger, Captain John Grant, uuuuu , Evan Montague Raabe, Eq., younger, Patrick b l unt, Esq., and William Simpson, Req. John Jeans Coney. .g. Oi E ouc asnasuutz. Thomas °ambler Parry, Esq. LITERATUBB. Nisi sod Emeadatuses to Ma Text of Nhastimarla Ploys, it Early Manuscript Corrections, 4r. By J. P. Cot -,,„g, E N . Whataker. The account of the source from which these manu script corrections is derived has so much similarity to the history of the discovery of the manuscript con taining the veracious history of the Knight of La Mancha, and other treasure trove of a like nature, that were it not for the reverence which it is well known Mr. Collier entertains for Shakespeare, we m i g ht have suspected him of having concocted a clever story to introduce certain judicious alterations of his awn of the original text. Mr. Collier buys a copy of the second folio of Shakespeare's plays much cropped, the ewers old and greasy, and imperfect at the beginning and the end. flis reason for purch.:sing this dilapi dated folio was that he might be enabled to complete be its means another poor copy of the same edition which he had by him. On taking it home he dis covered that the two leaves he wanted were unfit for hie purpose, being not only too short, but much damaged and defaced. The copy was, therefore, thrown 'aide, and it was not until subeequent pe rusal had drawn Mr. Collier's attention to the value of the manuscript corrections of the text, that he was induced to subject it to a careful scrutiuy. The result of his investigation showed that the book contained twenty thousand emendations of eve ry kind. Many of these were trifling, but • large number appeared of the utmost value. Mr. Collier is unable to give any clue to the discovery of the annotator in question, but supposes that he may have been a manager, or a member of a company, who for his own theatrical purposes took the trouble to set right from time to time errors in the printed text by the more faithful delivery of their parts by the principal actors. The managers and sharers of theatres did their utmost to prevent the appearance of plays in print, and se on this account most of the plays appeared surreptitiously, the great number of typographical errors the earlier editions contained is explained. About half of the productions of Shakespeare remained in manuscript until about seven years after his death, and of those printed in his life-time not ono can be pointed out to the publication of which he in any way contributed. The manuscript copies from which the first editions wire printed may be, therefore, supposed to be transcripts made from oral dictation, by incompetent scriber, or by inferior actors when kitcning to rehearsals or performances. Of the value of the corrections in Mr. Collier's copy it is impossible to speak too highly. A few will sat ficiently indicate their worth. In Henry VIII. (act iii., scene 2), the King says to Wolsey— Toa have ewer time Te steal from spiritual Wows a brief pea To kern your earthly audit. The scribe here evidently , heard "leisure" for labour," and made the King's speech unintelligible. The corrected copy Thas— en have scarce time To steal from spiritual &boar a brief span. In " Macbeth," Act i., scene 7, Lady Macbeth is reproaching her irresolute husband for not taking advantage of time and opportunity to murder Dun gan, after vaunting his determination to commit the crime, and in the midst of her taunts she asks him, in the words of all the printed copies: What keel meet then, That made you break this enterprise to Ins ? When you dant do it, then you were a mail. The correction of a single letter in Mr. Collier's ow frees Lady Macbeth from the absurdity of asking "what beast" made him communicate the enterprise to her. The gist of her question is to ask why he should brag that he would commit the mur der, and then shrink like a coward from what he had undertaken, and this coma out clearly enough in the correction — What boast was% then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you dent do it, then you were a man. Sometimes the transference of a portion of a speech from one character to another throws a flood of light upon an obscure passage. Thus in " Romeo and Juliet," act iii., scene 5, Juliet expresses her determination to her mother that if she must marry, her husband shall be Romeo, in the following terms, according to the old copies— And - wheat I do, I swear It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris.—These are news indeed l The commentators generally pass over the extra ordinary incongruity of the last sentence with a very wise silence. The change in the corrected copy makes the whole clear. It runs thus : And when I do, I swear It shall be Rome*, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris. Ledo Cori:M.—Them are news Indeed l Here oases your father, Re. Then few examples will be sufficient to show the general value of the emendations. The book itself will be a rich mine of wealth foe all critical readers of Shakespeare. It is worth the whole body of anno tations that are in existence. DRAMA. THE FRENCH PLAYS AT ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. Mitchell, the spirited lessee of this theatre, is about to rein*, his elegatt and fashionable performances of French plays; and has just put forth a promos** of the arrangements for this season. The theatre is to opus oa the gist instant, when M. Revel, the admirable essedias free this theatre of the Pala* Royal, will appear for this Int time nee the year 1841. The following onsinst per have bees engaged to appear duns,' the semen : NMI,. Benin, Mille. Brahma and M. Ropier, of the Theitre Fringe* ; Lambert of the Pallas R oyal ; Mdlle. Luther of the Oymasse, her first appearanee in Ragland ; M. Lafont, Mdlle. Emma Fleury, 11. Adrien Fen, and M. Leonard. Mdlle. Rubel is also engaged for twelve nights, sad will, et the commencement of her engagement, appear in M. Augier's easensfed play of " Diana." During M. Ravers engagement, at the begin ning of the mesons, it is intended to give fear representa tion • week ; os Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and &cur ds evenings ; the Moadaye at Fridays being, as nasal, sights. The esbeariptios will be arranged kr Obey *presentations, em Mondays sod Fridays, until the end el May. it is is be eillad,_thse a eoaditional tin eagarnanat bee she ark Dralli, but, owing tbe prearbres same of Ms beeth as , eh: a romas. of this favourite actor is vest prideely MUSIC. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. " Elijah" is now so frequently performed that its repetition call for no remark save when novelty is produced by ems chine in the performers. This oratorio, though its composition is of so recent a Ilan, is already looked upon is the light of an old acquaintance, net nab' in the met"' piths but throughout the whole kingdom. Our performen, oven in the province, have learned to execute it, and the public to understand it. "Elijah,' In short, is better known and more popular in Englsad than any oratorio whatever, neepting only "The Messiah"; and Idle orchestra and shores of the Sacred Harmo n ic So ciety aro sow nearly as much at home in it as in the Messiah itself. Last night the arduous part of the Prophet was sustained by Mr. Weir, who gained golden opinions by the manner In whets be acquitted himself. He excelled, we have no kesiUtion in myna/, every performer who hes appeared in the pert due fltaudigl, by whom it was Ant performed. Ms. Weir's voice, at once powerful, flexible, and ex tern,* in its compass, enabled him to execute the nose without the slightest effort ; he had thus no physical ss seelsanical iospedita. tit to the freedom and boldness of his delivery : and he supported, by his energy the gran deur tithe part from the beginning . to 'Wend. Of the piece. The principal soprano part al as &unused by Madame Flom. lin who was still suffering from the hoarseness under which she hail laboured the evening before, and which pre tested her from exocuting some of the most difficult pas sages with the ease and clearnese of which she would other wise have been capable. Her performance, theless. r essedmirabie in style and expression, especially in the beautiful seen of the widow and her son, which she gave With exquisite sweeneks and feeling. In the great air, " Hear ye, Israel," the state of her voice prevented her from doing full jollies to her conceptions. Several por noes of the eontraito part were assigned to Miss Huddiet. a highly promising young singer, who acquitted herself very erediumy ; but it was a mistake to lay upon her the weight of the grand scene in which Jezebel denounces the Prophet—the most arduous pars., probably, in the whole oratorio, which taxes the highest tragic powers of • Tiardot. TM ball, as usual, was crowded in every part. PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. In the rooms of the Society of Arta, John-street, Adelphi, in which for the last month there has been an ex ' hibition open to the public: of a very extensive and varied e Ilection of photographic pictures—for a first collection, a very wonderful exhibition Indeed—there was held on Thursday a meeting of artists and men of science, for the purpose of inaugurating an addition to the many philosophic and artistic societies of the metropolis, to be called the Pho tographic Society, and to have fer its object, with a view both to artistic and scientific results, the development of an art as yet only in its infancy. Our readers will find, in the report of what took place, a history of the origin of this project, and &sufficient reference to the unwise opposition which has been offered to its accomplishment. Sir C. BAITLAILIII. President of the Royal Aced may, was the chair. • large number of the members of the council of the Society of Arta was present. Among the artists who filled the room were many ladies. After some prefatory remarks by the CIIALTIMAS, who paid a high compliment to Mr. Fox Talbot for the high consideration he had shown foe art and science is foregoing his intent, Mr. Rooms FINTON (who has taken the leading part in the organisation of the new society, and whose lecture on the occasion of the opening of the Photographic Exhibition we reported) read a " report," drawn up by the "commit tee " who had fisted in this matter, and descriptive of the proceedings which had led to the meeting. It attributed:the " movement " in connexion with photography to the im pulse given to the art in this country by the collection and competition of specimens at the Great Exhibition; and in proof of the expediency of founding • society specially de- ! voted to the cultivation of the art, it referred to the recent founding of mush &society in Paris. Shortly after the close of the Crystal Palace an attempt was made in London to or ganise • society, but it was Sound that the existence of Mr. Talbot's patent was incompatible with the completion of each a purpose. But the reeving for having such an or ganisation daily grew stronger; the attempt was re newed; and on Sir C. Eastlake and Lord Rome, as the offi cial repreuntative• of art and science in this country, waiting upon Mr. Talbot to represent the state of the case to him, that gentleman most honourably undertook to waive his right to the patent, so far as was possible for him consistent with the engagements into which he had already entered. Accordingly, arrangements were entered into among the best knowayshotograpben, and the meeting that day was tie result. The report concluded with toe ex pression of a belief that the Photographic Society would be enabled to maintain • long, useful, and independent existence. Sir W. Nawroe moved • resolution, to the brief effect, " That • society be now formed, and be called the Photo graphic Society." (Cheers.) Mr. Rona= Hume (keeper of the Mining Records), seconded the resolution, in a speech which was heartily responded to, and in which he dwelt, as an argument in favour of such a society, that various classes of persons would have to combine to bring the art of photography to perfection, or to practise it at all with suecess, vie., the artist, the chemist, and the opticiln, the maker of lenses; and obviously, said Mr. Hunt, the combination would be all the more effective, if it was also co-operative. (Cheers.) Mr. 0. L. N. Forma here intervened, and said that he Ind buss deputed, with Dr. Playfair and Dr. Booth, by the ewsmill K the Society of Arts, to bring the following reso lutions, ea suggestions, before the meeting :—lst. " Feeling strongly convinced that the various branches of science and art are. to a very great extent, dependent upon, and inti. assail manected with each other, and that the multipli cation efencieties (or special objects, in any branch of the applied sciences, is not generally desirable, inasmuch as it tends to separate, rather than unite, fot the advancement of a special object, the !about.' of individuals; and finding that steps are being taken by several of the leading photographers for the formation of a Photographic Society; the council of the Society of Arts are of opinio that the objects contemplated by that proposed society are intimately con nected with those which for many years past have received the especial attention of the Society of Arts; and that, therefore, it is desirable to suggest to the gentlemen en gaged in this direction, whether the progress of photography may not be as effectually advanced by means of the existing machinery of the Society of Arts. 2nd. That iu the event of this suggestion being adopted, the council will be cor dially prepared to devote funds, rooms, officer,, and publi cations, with such other facilities as may be necessary for the full development of photographic art; and a special department being organised, and under the direction of a photographic committee." A Onsrunthu asked Mr. Foster what was the subscrip tion constituting • member of the Society of Arts ; and on ' being informed that it was two guineas he said that was one guinea'more than the proposed subscription to the Photo graphic Society ; and the fact would, of worse, be an in ducement not to agree. with the council of the Society of Arts. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ALrUID Suns considered that the meeting was pre mature, seeing that there was this opposition to the esta blishment of the new society; ant under the circumstances he thought he would be forwarding the g I object by moving that the meeting be adjourned until the gentlemen who had called them together had conferred further with the council of the Society of Arts. This amendment was not seconded, and consequently fell to the ground. Sir Wu. NSWTON could not understand the grounds on which ttis opposition was offered. The Society of Arts was really a scientific body. The object of the Photogra phje Society was artistic; and the purpose of the pronfoines of the society was rendered plain in asking the preekMnt of the Royal Academy to till the chair at that nsfeetkil. (Hear, hear.) Me. VIOPIOLLES thought they could not have too many special societies, fur specialties progressed only by spend devotion to them. (Hear, bear.) The CBAISMAN said that it was entirely a matter et 'opinion whether they ought to accept the proffer of the Society of Arts; but there could be but one feeling of gra titude to the council for the kindly aid they had hitherto given to photographers. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put and carried almost unani mously, four hands only being held up against it. Mr. Fnueon then read the rules of the new society. The council is to consist of 21 members, including • president, three vice-president", • treasurer ' and an hon secretary. Ladles are to be eligible as members—a very proper novelty. A Photographic Gallery is to be organi-ed ; the pictures to be on sale, and the artists to pay • commission of 10 per cent. to the society on the sales. The meetings of the society will he held in the rooms of the Society of Arts. These rules were adopted: and the submitted names of the wan ed and officers were approved; Sir C. Eastlake consenting to be the first president, and Mr. Fenton acting as hon. seetretary. Dr. Boors said he hoped the meeting would not go away with any wrong impression about the Society of Arm. The mama had only thrown out suggestions with the best motives, and with the siegle object of doing the utmost to advises photography ; and with the new moiety the council would be very . glad _always to co-operate. (Cheers) The reeedusge closed with a vote of thanks to the chair men. t may, however, be iateresting to state, in this place, that the exhibitio n el photographs (greatly extended and improved since we first noticed it) is to be removed en moue sad free of expense to the artists to Newcastle, whither it is invited by the Philosophical Society of that lowa. THE MILITIA. (mom liasT . sioxY• oAzsrrs.) The folloiring comntheies• have been signed : Arthur Deane, gent., to be liewlesaat, is the Boyd mks Militia. John Douglas, gest., to be lieutenant, in ditto. Thomas Feller Maitland, gent., to be lieutenant, ditto. Cornet William John Phelps, to be lieutenant, vies Button, who retires, in the Royal Gloneestenhire Regi ment of Moamar Yeomanry. Cornet the Hon. Frederick Gough Calthorpe, to be lieutenant, vies Baldwyn. who Mires, in ditto. Henry Morgan, gent., to be cornet, vice Phelps, pro mated, in ditto. William Davenport Davenport, gent., to be major, in the Royal Cheshire Militia. Williams Hoskins Harper, gent., to be major, in ditto. Archibald Edmund Bromwich, to be in ditto. 4 eaitain, Tablet Musts Taylor. got. Os be captain, in ditto. John Burketone Lech.. gest., to be captain, in ditto. llainsel Woodhouse, gent., Ise captain, in ditto. Chutes Poppletea, Wed., ie be lielitenatit, is ditto. /Fm" (3ol ! t f a a".* /PI!" to he liist."l?S, is ditto. Thomas Alderssy, ggeennt., to be lieutenant, iiditto. Edward Charlie H he, gent., to be ensign, in ditto. Thomas Edward Manland, gent., to be endgn, in ditto. John Mankind Lingard, to be ensign, in ditto. Edward Harrison Martin, to be ensign, in ditto. Thomas Brittain gent., to b assiStant-surgeon, in ditto. George Troyte Bullock, gent., to be ensign, vice Arthur Allen, resigned, in the lst Somerset Regiment of Militia. George Diodes Worry, gent., to be ensign, via Henry Allen, resigned, in ditto. Alfred Seymour, ggeant., to be cornet, vies Oeorge, pro moted, in the West Bomwmtehirs Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieutenant Thomas Edward Clarke, to be septets, vise Sanford, resigned, in ditto. Winchester Henry Jones, lately a lieutenant in the 60th Riles, to be lieutenant, vice Bweton-Orant, deceased, in the Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia. Lieutenant William Caeavelt Kortright, to be adjutant, with the rank of captain, in the West Ewa Yeomanry Cavalry. George Alan Lowndes, gent., to be cornet, vice Round, resigned, in ditto. James Stuart Dobson, gent., to be surgeon, in ditto. FREIGHTED TROOP-OHIPI AND CONVICT-SHIPS.— The Lords Commissioner of the Board of Admiralty issued the following important notice yesterday respeehug the manning of ships freighted by government for the convey ance of troops to our different foreign possessions and col-- and also for the conveyance of convicts:—" That in l eosestmenco of freight ship, for the conveyance of troops and esneicts being now taken up by the register ton new memo, instead of the old measure, as formerly, the num , bee at men in freighted ships conveying troops shall not be less than at the rate of four men for every 100 tons, and in properties to the fractional parts of 100 tons, and two boys to every ship; that the number of men in convict ships 'shall sot be less than at the rate of nine men for every 200 I toms , and in proportion for the fractional parts of 200 tons, and two boys for each ship ; that the crews in all cases, es elusive of the hop, shall consi.t of not less than one half of able seamen beton: the mast, and the remainder of ofikerel and ordinary seamen who have been at sea ; that ships shattered for the conveyance of stores shall be manned as L in tie merchant mdse." rHF EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1853. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY. dividends, although involving the necessity of • center pending augmentation of capital. Yesterday the twenty-ninth annual general court " The operation of the proposed sale of the Peel River of this company took place at the London Tavern; J. Estate will be, that the original capital of this company STUDHOLM• BROWXYIOO, Req., the governor of the coin- will virtually be paid back to the proprietors with an addi piny, presiding. lion of 161. per share, while it retains two valuable estates The advertisement convening the meeting having been of more than 700,000 acres, the north bank of the harbour read, of Pun Stephens, considered the finest port on that coast neat to Sydney ; its extensive property at Newcastle, with The Cuatawast, in opening the business of the day, ob the plant and machinery, and a coal field of 2,000 acres, of sieved, that though it bad not been usual at previous meetings for him to occupy the attention of the proprietors which a very inco ns id era bl e p or ti on on ly has y e t b een ea at any hausted, together with a contiguous property of 6,000 acres, length, inasmuch as the report always contained • in full tail of the proeeedingsof the company; yet, as it was p ur c h a s ed several years ago, in the belief that it contained probable that he was addressing many who were now pre- coal abundance, and which has never yet b e en worked sent for the first time, and who had not given very much bythe company. attention or acquired information as to the origin of the For some considerable period before those important company, It might not be unacceptable to them it he were events had occurred, to which we have briefly alluded, we to give some explanation on that point, and upon the course had under consid era ti on th e ex p e di enc y o f r ed uc i ng th e of their proceedings since the passing of the act of parka. nominal capital of the company as fixed by act meet of 1824. Under that act they were supposed to have of parliament, in order to do away, in a great degree, with the large amou n t of pr o spect iv e calls to which the received a free grant from the government of • mallet of acres in New South Wale*, but that grant was hampered shares are at present li a ble, an d f o r which we do not am by may conditions, in themselves very onerous, and which template any possible demand. We therefore took am had tended materially to inconvenience, .incommode, end sures through the solicitors of the company, in the mouth of October last, for introducing a bill into parliament, which fetter their operations. In consequence of those conditions has for its object the reduction of the nominal capital from the whole system under which the company embarked failed. They found it impossible to carry on their opera- 1,000,0001. to 600,0001., to increase the number of share s tions in consequence of government not furnishing them from 10,000 to 20,000, to ge th e r w ith th e usua l arrange ed with the stipulated amount of convict labour, or to dispose meats consequent thereon. The effect of this measure, of the land, in consequence of the conditions with which it when carri out, will be, that the shares will become 261. shares, instead of 1001. as st present, with 171. 10s. paid on was encumbered. At length, when their patience was ex hausted, they opened • communication with the Colonial- each, and liable only to possible future calls of 71. 10s. per share, instead of 651., and that each proprietor will have office, and after negotiatiug with three successive secre taries of state, they succeeded about five years ago in ob two shares, instead of the one he now holds. We do not taming a grant which secured to the company all their land doubt that this me a s u r e w ill b e sati s f ac t or y to th e shirt in fee simple, and without restrictions or conditions. From holders generally, by many cf whom it has been fr e quently that time, in 1847, they had been able to do what they Pressed upon us for adoption." liked with their awn.' The first selection of a tract of land The director}then go on to compliment Mr. Blanc, the near Port Stephen, bordering on the sea, was found un- deputy governor, and Mr. P. G. King. suitelt for agricultural and postural purposes, and they ob- The -sport was adopted, end • resolution authorising tained permission to exchange it, and obtained for it the the payment of a dividend of 41 per cent. passed. Peel River property and the Liverpool plains. In order to Sir W. Minto Farquhar was elected to fill a vacancy in turn this property to the best advantage the directors then the board occasioned by the disqualification of Mr. John turned their attention to colonisation. with the view of en- Loch. wintering small settlers, farmers of small capital who might Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks was appointed an auditor in the be willing to purchase small lots of land in the Port SA,- place of Sir W. Farquhar, and Messrs. Smith and Tooke phen's district, and thereby form the nucleus of a settled wire re-appointed auditors ; end after a vote of thanks to population, which was the principal thing necessary to give the governor and directors, the meeting separated. value to the property. He was bound to admit that that attempt to 'elope had failed, the English public not being at the time prepared for it ; and he rejoiced now that it had failed, for, had it not, they would not have been able to act as they since had done so much to the advantage of the proprietors. (Herr, hoer.) This brought their operations dawn to the present time the proceeding* in reference to which the report, which the secretary would now read, would best explain. The report, of which the following is the principal pots ti n, was then read:— " It seems important on the present occasion, when themel I are so many shareholders who have recently joined the! company, and are now probably present at our annual meeting for the first time, to commence our report by re marking that the following tabular returns and statements which are periodically laid before the proprietors, and with which we have generally commenced our annual report, embrace only the ordinary operations of the company in the colony to the end of the year 1851—not, indeed, anterior to the discovery of gold in Australia generally, but before the effects of the discovery had been felt on the company's pro perty, or any knowledge obtained of the existence of gold within its halite. Returns, showing the state and num bers of the company's flocks and herds for the three years ending the 31st December, 18.51, were then given. The number at that date being :—5heep,.122,673 ; honied cattle, 9,196; horses and ponies, 1,069; asses and mules, N. The sales in the three years being in money:-1849, 4311.158.6114 1850,2.6721. 16s. Id. • 1851, 2,6951. 15s. 74. "Oa the 31st of December, 1861, the total number of peons en the company's colonial establishment, minds, er lowa and children, was—agricultural setablhimseat, 8121 artillery ditto, 91 ; total, 403 ; showing, as ommered left the previous year's return, a decrease of 62 penes. in the service. " In last year's report we mentioned our apprehension that the desertion of the shepherds and others for the gold ffigglage might have an injurious effect on the company's laaaces, by causing a diminution in the produce of out two staple articles, wool and tallow ; such desertions were not however of an extent to influence tho operations of the year so materially as was then apprehended, but we regret to state that the loss in this particular, not only amongst the shepherds and the miners at the company's coal works at Newcastle, but amongst all classes of the company's ser vants h , by the last advice', become much more general, and has taxed the anxiety and vigilance of the deputy governor and the principal officers under him to a very embarrassing extent. Owing to the sagacious forethought of the deputy governor, the evil of so many persons leaving the service has been partially mitigated by the employment of Chinese labourers. Anticipating the difficulties which might arise in this respect, Mr. Blanc made arrangements, towards the close of the year 1851, for the introduction into th e coloayof about eighty Chinese; their safe and op portune arrival took place in April last, and they are re ported to be • fine set of young nble-bodied men, of willing and tractable dispositions, and had already been found ex tremely useful in the various occupations that had been assigned to them, and it is not anreasonably hoped that the extensive emigration for some time in progress may, in • moderate period, remove this canoe of anxiety; some ol the earlier vessels that sailed from this country with emigrants have arrived, and the deputy governor has been able, though is a small degree, to increase thereby the force at the collieries. " The comparative statement of coals sold at the pit's mouth during the years 1850 and 1851 shows the following result:—The quantity sold in 1851, was 45,642 tons ; in 1850 was 46,084 tons ; increased sale in 1851, 658 tone. " The clip of the company's flocks, in 1861, comprises 720 bales of wool ; of these 640 have been 'old by public auction, at an average price of le. !ltd. per lb., being an advance of 4d. per lb. as compared with the previous year, and produced • net amount of 18,6101. 18e. lid. Eighty bales of wool and sixty-seven casks of tallow have arrived but have not yet been sold. " The financial statement exhibits a summary of the result of*, company's operations for the last three lean. Revenue realised in New South Wales, from the sale of coals, galas of live stock, rents, &e., in 1849, 12,4361. 9s. ; in 18.50,18,4171. 174.9 d. ; in 1661, 21,9671. 7s. 9d. Re venue realised in England from the sales of wool, Be., in 1849, 16,1821. 17s. 9d. ; in 1850, 18,9441. 18s. ; in 18 51, 18,6001.75. 4d. Wool and tallow unsold in 1851, estimated at, 3,0001. Total in 1849, 28,8191 6s. 9d. ; in 1860, 37,3621. 15s. 94.; in 1851, 43,6671. 15e. ld.—Frum this deduct ex penses of management in New South Wales, in 1861, 26,9551. 16e. 9d. ; ditto in England in 1851, 1,8611. 2s. ld. Showing a surplus revenue for the revers! years of 4,2301. Ids. lid . in 1849 ; 11,4951. 14s. in 1850; 16,150/ 16s. 3d. in 1851. The surplus thus exhibited for the year 1861, enables us to recommend that a dividend of 11. 11.. 6d. per share be declared, being at tho rate of 41 per ant. on the paid op capital of the company, and that the same be made pay able en and after Friday, the 28th instant,. " It was stated at the last 1 meeting that a propo sition had been made to the Deputy-Governor, Mr. Blanc, to continue for a few years longer at the head of the Com pany's colonial affairs : the answer to that proposition satisfied us that Mr. Blane's family arrangements ree dited an acquiescence in our proposal impossible, and it became imperative on us to provide for his early return. No time eonsequently was lost in selecting an eligible per- ' me to succeed to the office of general superintendent of the company's colonial affairs, and our choice fell on Capt. M. F. Brownrigg, R.N., the testimonials in whose favour were of the highest character, and who was found to powers qualifications of practical experience as a man of business, se well as the habits of controlling and conciliating large bodies of men, seldom united in the same person. "Captain Brownrigg left England in the steam-ship Sydney, that sailed from Plymouth on the 4th August last, and will. sa the deputy-governor's departure from the colony, be pissed in charge of the company's affairs. " Having disposed of those details which exhibit in the mad moan the state of the company's affairs up to the end of the year 1851, it now becomes our duty to advert to the im p ortant fact of the discovery of gold on the com pany's Peel River estate—premising that, however mush its ordinary operations may have been thrown into the shade by more recent and exciting events, yet, that they have hitherto constituted the main goatees of the sons cif' ad s income, and that it is to them we have still to look ahem vantages whichthe rapidly - Increas i ng popula tion of the Australian colonies cannot fail to proclaim. " A memorandum prepared with much ears, and which was sent to every proprietor on the 22nd ult., has entitle pated much that it would otherwise have been neoseseay to embody in this report ; we thought it better to adept that course, whereby every proprietor would be ma bled to consider deliberately the subject therein put before hint, and to determine on his own course of action, instead M calling • 'pedal meeting se near the time prescribed for presentieg use ammial report. "It is a ewes of much gratification to us to find that the ease's as has met with the general appem balsa el the end that the suggestion for the Monies of • mantle esmperay, in the manner set forth la the memeeastfim above mentioned has been approved end is supported by aeon every proprietor whose answer OM has admitted of our receiving, so that the formation ogre Peel hirer Land and Mineral Compsny ' may be Moldered as in course of rapid completion. It will be to call you together again as soon as the mini :ltesellpTeliminarier are completed, for the purpose of re *Riving your approval of the details required for giving o live operation to that company, our coaddease is the ewe. ens of which we have proved by taking the hill Wend therein to which we are entitled nailer the enlarge- Nasals proposed in the memorandum to whisk we have alentidy adverted. Those details will be matured at the elliisst practicable moment, and we trust la a manner to s,e general satisfaction. " Whatever value the public, in its estimation of the future prospects of this company, may give to its sham% INN who as your directors aro responsible for the conduit dile affairs, and for the development in the most profitable of the resources of your property, believe that in adopting our suggestions, you have followed the tonne IMO illiniacive in all respects to your own interests, Ia eineidaties of which the following short statement will not, we Istast, be thought irrelevant:— " Tbe mew sateen paid by each proprietor in this company on the various calls made from time to time, amounts to 301. per share, 51. per share was added to the capital from profits, making 351., or a total capital of 350,0001. ; and it is important to remark that for many years past, everything has been paid out of income, although I urge sums have been expended on what is technically termed ' point,' and which, had it suited the feelings and wishes of the proprietors at the time, would legitimately have been included in capital account, thereby increasing your LAW OF AND REMOVAL At a vestry meeting of the parish of St. Clement Danes, held last evening, th.i. Rev. W. WEBB Ennis, the rector, in the chair, the operation of the laws of parish set tlement and compulsory removal of paupers, was brought before the meeting by— Mr. W. B. Wear, who said that the question was one of a very momentous character, and was wholly separate from political considerations. There was scarcely an individual whom it did not affect in one way or another. The elat ing liw of settlement necessitated removals, and its opera tion was the snores of much moral and physical misery and abasement. A case had occurred in that parish, last year, where a woman who had lived 32 years in Herefordshire, was pulled back to St. Clement's, because she happened to have lived a vear in service in that parish. Other cases of greaser hardship had occurred. At present, there were no fewer that 1,900 women receiving parochial relief, whose husbands were in gaol ; there were 60,000 children in work houses, and one million under 16 years of age. There were 300,000 male adults in the receipt of parochial relief, and 3,000,000 receiving relief more or less. From the statement of Sir James Graham it appeared that 45,000 families were removed in a year, at a cost of 391,6001. (Hear, hear.) In some parishes the owners of property had cleared off all the cottages, so that no labourer could obtain a settlement there. In the Driffield union, comprising upwards of 100,000 acres, there were no cottages. In one county It. farmers actually provided donkeys for their labourers to ride to and from work, in order that they might not reside in the union. (Laughter.) Tho consequence of this system was overcrowding and illness in those parishes where cottages were to be had. Mr. West oiled a number of instances, occurring in different parts of the country, of the hardship resulting from the opera tion of the law of settlement, and then stated the remedy which be had to suggest for these evils. He proposes " that a return shall be obtained of all the expenses incurred I. the maintenance of paupers in every parish or union for three, five, seven, or ten years, or any given period which may supply reliable data for striking a eorrcct average of the general liabilities in the matter of poor rates to which seak parish or union is subject. These charges so ascer- Waad on his plan, to be consolidated in each union or parish, and to form the basis upon which all subsequent proceedings shall be established after the abolition of the law of settlement. From the sum total Mr. West proposes to deduct the amount of legal charges which have been incurred in disputing settlement, and also the amount expanded on the removal of paupers from one parish or union to another. The ratings thus established constitute the fixed estimate according to which parishes and unions shall contribute to the consolidated fund, without regard to the increase or decrease of pauperism within their respec tive limits, provision being made, by periodical census, for correcting any inequalities which local changes may, in cycles of time, produce. All funds in excess of immediate de mands, in any parishes or unions, are to be paid into the Bank of England to tae creditor the Poor Law Commission, and by draughts on these, the silditional amount required fur dis tricts where the numbers of the poor have multiplied is to be obtained. With these provision, Mr. West proposes ' That all laws relating to English settlement be abolished, and a general enactment be established, by which the inca pable, its lame, the blind, and the halt—including every other class of doetitute persons—may be enabled to obtain relief whenever and wherever they may need it? The pe cuniary saving in local taxation I' be effected by this plan L estimated by Mr. West at P 30,0001." Ho did not peeps* to make any alteration of the law with regard to Irish pee pers in the first hastens.. The question had made mmoh progress of late years. Mr. Baines, in 1851, had promised* introduce a measure on the subject in the following *selle r but he was not then in office. In May last, Sir J. Trollops had intimated his intention to propose an alteration of the law of settlement on the meeting of the new parliament; and at the election for Hampshire the Speaker hail declared his conviction that parliament must deal with that law in the course of the session. Mr. Wise had since given notiee to move fur a select committee on the sub- Jan, if the government did not take the question up. A general or national rate was objectionable on the ground of its centralising effect. What was called "union settle meat" had been recommended by Sir James Graham; bat this would only change the operation of the present system from mere parishes to unions. After Mr. West had addressed the meeting at wow length, the sensideration of the question was adjourned till another meeting, and it was resolved that the thanks of the vestry were due to Mr. West fur his communication, and that his attendance should be desired at a special meet ing to be held for the purpose. MEDITERRANEAN AND HEAVY PORTION OF INDIA MAIL.—The Oriental Company's steam-packet Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant W. P. Newenham, R.N. Her data are:—Alexandria, Jan. 7: Malta, Jan. 11; Gibraltar, Jan. 16; Southampton, Jan. 21. Her cargo consists of 4 packages of specie, 1 box of gold dust, 209 bales of raw silk, 29 cases of silk goods, 20 casks of elephants' tasks, fie. Alexandria harbour was lull of shipping of all nations. The steam-frigate Paid geed, sent out by the company for the Pasha, was lying there, after a fine run from Malta of 68 hours. She fre quently averaged 13 knots, with only two boilers. There was a grand ceremony performed on her being handed over to the Egyptian officers. The admiral's ship fired a salute of 21 guns for the English flag, and when It was hauled down, and the Egyptian Rag hoisted in its place, another salvo of 21 guns was fired—the brass band of the Ripon performing " God save the Queen" on board of the splen did ship. The officers who took her out had each a hand some Damascus sabre presented to him of the value of 25 guineas. The crew got each a month's pay in addition, and the Ripon's band were presented with 151. Alexandria was healthy; but the rain poured in such torrents, that the wretchedly filthy streets were almost impassable. The guaranties period between it and Malta had been reduced from three days to little more than sine day. An excavated city, like gpmpeii, neer Cairo, named Saccarah, was the object of much curiosity. There have been found In it 38 sarcophagi, each weighing 68 tons. They formerly held the ashes of the sacred bulls, and are all of granite. Loss OF THE SCHOONER RAMBLER:DIEN:MACE FUL Co/niece OP THII Cs lIW.—On the 15th instant, the French brig Charles Lepreter. of Rouen, arrived in the Tyne, with William Combs, Henry Little John, Thomas Croft, and Thomas Hodder, anti a cabin boy, the survivors of the crew of the schooner Rambler, of Lyme Regis, which vessel bad encountered the hurricane of the 27th December, and had had her muter, William Heady, and her mate wubed overboard and drowned. The vessel, after the master and mate were drowned, had become com pletely disabled, and was deserted on the 28th ult., by the crew who got on board the French brig. After the vessel arrived in the Tyne, the river police received strange information of the conduct of the crew of the Rambler. After the muter of the Charles Lepreter had left his vessel to proceed to New castle to see his broker, the four men went below into his cabin, and broke open a box containing a log, and wages book belonging to the Rambler. They destroyed the log book, and tore out all the entries in the wages book, which they burnt with some other • fitted documents. After committing this act they demanded 121. from the mate of the French brig, belonging to the Rambler, which be gave them. They then left the ship, taking with them a quan tity of clothes belonging to the master and crew of the French brig. They have also, the master of the French brig gays, tho watches belonging to the master and lusts of the Rambler. Information of this act of disgraceful rob bery has been seat to the superintendent of police at Lyme Regis by the river police of the Tyne. The master of the French veiled, who had these atrocious villains on beard 18 days, is justly indignant. DETENTION OF THE MAILS POE THE": CAPE OF Goon Hoes, rtc.—Notice has been issued at the General Post Office, Bt. Martin's-le-Grand, that in consequence of the mail steam packet belonging to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company,_which ought to have conveyed the mails of the evening of the 14th inst. for the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Verd, Ascension, the Mauritius, Ceylon, ' and 'lndia, from Plymouth on the 15th inst., not being ready, letters and newspapers for the above colonies will be in time on the evening of the 24th inst., which u ill be for warded to Calcutta by the llydsspes steamer, of 1,800 tons (and not by the Queen of the South, as previously arranged) I appointed to sail from Plymouth on the 25th inst. with the ' MARL MYSTERIOUS DEATH BY DROWNING. The body of a female has been found at Ruaholme, near Manchester, under extraordinary and mysterious cir cumstances, partly immersed in a pond of water. The de ceased was a resretable woman, named Sarah Grindrod, aged 64, who had resided some years an Oxford-road, which leads out of Manches:er in the direction of Rushohne, and was missed from her home en the night of Saturday, the Bth instant. She left home to go shopping, and was traced to a butcher's shop, afterwa.da to a fishmonger's, and then to a spirit vault, where she had gone to purchase a pint of gin, but did not return home ; and • few days afterwards placards were issued by Mr. Beawick, chief superintendent of detective police at Man chester, describing her appearance. She was not found until Wednesday morning, when some boys going to school in Itusholme observed her body by the aide of a pool of water, or "pit," as it is there called, upon a hawthorn bush, about 20 yards from Mellor's lane. How long sue had been there, or bow she came there, are questions in volved in mystery, as it can hardly bo supposed she bad been oolong near a public road as from the Bth to the 19th instant without being discovered ; yet no trace ha. been discovered of her after the night of the Bth, when she left home. The pool where she was found is nearly two miles from her residence. An inquest was held on the body at the Birch Villa Hotel, Rusholme, on Thariday evening. before Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner, when there being no conclusive evidence, the jury determined to find a ver dict which should not be prejudicial to any further inquiry, and ssoordingly returned one of "Found drowned." CLERICAL Rev. Samuel Andrew, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford, to Halwell Rectory, Devon ; value 2101. with residence. Rev. Francis Henry Brett, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, to Carrington Curacy, Derbyshire. Rev. Edward William Fenwick, 8.A.. Christ's College, Cambridge, to Egginton Curacy, Derbyshire. Rev. Cuthbert Edgecumbe Roam, 8.A., Exeter Col lege, Oxford, to Luxulian Vicarage, Cornwall; value 1771. ' with residence. Rev. H. Jellett, H.A., to Aghinegh Rectory and Vica rage, diocese Cloyne. Rev. C. Katon, to Bellymanagh Curacy, Kildare. Rev. W. H. Jones, collated to Moment is Longdondaie Vicarage, Chester,void by the remigoation of the Rev. David Seddon, by the Lurd Bishop of Chester, in right of his sce ; value 220 i., with a house. ♦ACANCIE. Rscroay.—Magherali;;,liocesc ----- Dromore : Rae. B. W. Dciliair, deceased: Viciiinon.—Blezey. Cornwall. diocese Exeter: value 4001. ; patron, Colonel Carlyon : Rev. C. E. Hosken, Y. promoted. .—Dromore : Be,. B. W. Dolling, MmitnasnlP.—Truro Grammar School, Cornwall; head mastership: Rev. Samuel Andrew, promoted. NAVAL ADMIIALTY,JAN.2I.—APPOINTIirers.—Master 0. IL Morrison, to Bulldog; Second Master J. P. Grant, to Rhod-unontltue ; Assistant-Engineer T. W. Bower, to Blenheems; Acting-Gunner J. Lamb, to Exeellent ; Gunner W. Stephens, to Tartarus.. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—The Swift 8, Commander Aldham, having landed her freight, was towed out Of har• boor to sail for Plymouth, to be pai I off. The freight was conveyed up to the Bank of England, per mail, this morn ing. The Prometheus, 6, steam sloop, Commander Foote, sailed this morning for Woolwich, to be paid off. MOVEMENTS OF lIER MAJESTI'S SIIIPS.—Jan. 11. At Malta : Her Majesty's ship Triton, guard ship ; Spite ful, screw steam surveying sloop ; Banshee, screw steam packet, to Marseilles. Jan. 16.—At Gibraltar : Britannia, 120, Vice-Admiral Dundee ; Trafalgar, 120 ; Albion, 90 ; Bellerophon, 78 ; Arethusa ; Sampson, steam-frigate, 6 ; Rettibulion, steam-frigate, 28 ; Niger, steam-frigate, 14 ; Antelope, screw steamer, 3. MILITARY. THE FOLLOWING NOTICE has been posted up at the Horse Guards, under the head of "Encouragement to soldiers." It states that by her Majesty's warrant it is provided that commissions are to be given to deserving non comtnispioned officers recommended by their colonels. In appointments to the cavalry a sum of 1507. will be granted as an outfit, and in the appointments to tke in fantry a sum of 1001. as an outfit. All sergeants, corporals, and privates are also to be allowed a gratuity for length of service or good conduct; a sergeant to have 151., • corporal 101., and a private 51. They will also be allowed a progres sive pay per day over and above the usual pay. It was stated in a note that several regiments of cavalry at present offer an opportunity for recruits joining from the age of 16 to 2S. Since the alteration of the standard of height many young men join the line. RAILWAY TRAFFIC DURINa THE PAST WEEK. (From Her apath's R.tionoy Journal.) brae ot Its!tiny. 1,251 657 Barium. A Be be lf rd ast een and — Ballymena Belfast and County Down Birkenhead, Lane., & Cheshire 26 85 189 94 6 1 20 189 20 Blackburn Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork, BlF . kroe . k, and Ptaeagel Cork and Bandoit Dublin and Belfast Junction 171} 241} 188 264 1711 284 188 8193 26 103 90 260 Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee alit Arbroath Dundee,Perth,AberdeenJuac Dundalk and Enniskillen ~„ Kist Anglian East Lancashire Eastern Counties and Norfolk Eastern Union Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth, & Dundee Exeter and Crediton Furness Glasgow and South Western Great Northern& E.Linoolnsh. Crest i3;lo,Tera & Western (Ir) Great Western Irish South Suter Kendal and Windermere I! — Aneseiber and Carlide. ;;ilTorkihirip ... Leeds Northern Liverpool,Crosby, dt Southpor London and North Western London and Blackwall London, Brighton, and S. Coss London and South Western . 261 1001 77 288* 131 aiii 279 1 6 a Fl es Londonderry and Enniskillen Man., Buxton, & Matlock, &c. Manchester, Shed, & Lincoln Maneheeterand Sonthiunctioa Maryport and Carlisle Midland Midland Great Western (Ire )I ltionklands Newcastle and Carlisle 694 4,126 13,638 1:807 2,974 2,084 North British North Staffordshire North Western Oxf.,Wore.,& Wolverhampton I gcoiiiih Ceiltral Scottish Midland Shrewsbury and Birmingham -hrewsbary and Chaster Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales SouthYork.,Donesaterff Qoole Stockton and Hartlepool Taff Vale Ulster 3,143 9,746 3,967 13,907 Waterford and Limerick I West Cornwall Whitehaven Junction . . '16,316 iiT 139,204 1041 cipl 19,911 1,236 1,699 io7kTiiiwcastle ' and Berwick York and North Midland .... Foaatox. Dutch Rhenish Lyons and Mediterranean 12,711 18°9 1 Maria Antonia Montereau and Troyes Namur and Liege Northern of France Orleans and Central* Pens and Lyons Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasburgis 69 69 Rouen and HMS 68 99 Western of France • The noeipts include the %ruche in do Ciehm sad Olittral. Oe.• leans and uoetteaus.onn Tours sod Mato NM 443 i 677 240 697 17,441 18,861 8,184 6,058 8,671 2,51: 8,09 THE RECENT CASES OF MURDER IN THE WEST OP ScoTLAWD.—Tbe Glasgow Herald states that • reprieve has been received in favour of the criminal James Scott, who was consisted at the Glasgow Circuit Court of Jus ticiary of murdering his sister-in-law, aged three months, in a house in Greenock, and who was to have been executed on the 25th inst. In the case of the other conviction—that of the woman Marriret Bell, for the murder of her child in Paisley—considerable influence is being employed in Paisley to obtain a respite in favour of the unfortunate criminal. A petition to her Majesty on behalf of the unhappy woman has been sent off to the care of Mr. Archibald Ilutie, M.P., ' for Paisley, signed by 2,000 females ; and another memorial I to the same quarter, signed by 3,000 men, has likewise been despatched to the Queen. In addition to the above, a memorial to the Home-office has been transmitted, headed by the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, and signed by forty other justices of the peace for the county of Ren frew. And, farther, the Provost and maghtrat to es of P Lord ley have likewise transmitted an earnest appeal Palmerston, as expressing the general 'elute of the Co u munity in favour of this wretched woman. In Hip cows' of a few days the result of these various applications will doubtless become known. SPORTING. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. FRIDAY. The betting here has Unproved 'Mee our last quota tions, especially on the Chester Cup—the latter being the usual oespequence of the appearance of the weights. Lady Evelyn has been very much inquired after. For the Metro politan and Derby there has been no change worth noticing. CLOSING PRICES: GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. 12 to 1 agst Miss Muabray (taken) 12 to 1 Oscar (taken) 100 to 6 Sir Peter Laurie (taken) 25 to 1 Knight of Gwenne (taken) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 eget Redmond O'llanlon (taken) 20 to 1 Galvanism 30 to 1 Pug Orrock (taken) 30 to 1 Peggy (taken) 33 t s 1 Cleveland (taken) 35 to 1 Madeline (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 4 to 1 agst West Australians (token) 2 to 1 agst West Australian mid Sittingbousne eo.ipled (Mkea) CHESTER CUP. 22 to 1 ages Lady Evelyn (t to 600 26 to 1 Scarecrow 40 to 1 Merry Bird (t) 40 to 1 Black Doctor (t) 45 to 1 Mountain Deer (9 60 to 1 Trifle (t) 50 to 1 Friday (t) 66 to 1 Pelion (t) 66 to 1 Little Jack (t) 2000 to 20 Peggy (t) 2000 to 20 Augur (t) DERBY. 12 to 1 aget West Australian (t to 601.) 15 to 1 Umbriel (t) 40 to 1 North Pole (t) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. fiTLO HOUNDS._ Her Majesty's, Tuesday, Burnham Beech('; Friday, ths Golden Ball, Bracknell—at half-past 11. Bath, Tuesday, Melksham ; Friday, Westbury—at hal put 11. Baron Rothschild's, Monday, Eythorpe ; Thursday, A , ton Abhotts—at 11. Hon. F. Petra's, Tuesday, White Boding — at half-past TOI 1101:141)9. 1,589 683 Atherstone, Monday, Ratby Burrows ; Wednesday, Hogs Norton ; Friday, Three Pots ; Saturday, Coombe—at quarter to 11. Badsworth, Tueliday, Ackworth Moor Top ; Thursday, Wenthridge ; Saturday, Darton Inn—at half-past 10. Duke of Beaufort's, Monday, Yate Turnpike ; Wednes day, Hare and Hounds—at 12 ; Thursday, Corsham Park ; Saturday, Stanton Park. Brambam Moor, Monday, Beilby Grange ; Wednesday, Ruddin Park; Friday, Sortrthingwell Park; Saturday, Morick Windmill—at half-past 10. Lord Henry Bentinck's, Monday, Stainfield Hall; Tues day, Branaton Wood; Wedntsday, Seopwiek ; Thuradoy, Gate Barton; Saturday, Till House Beck—at 11. Colonel Conyers's, Monday, Blackmore ; Thursday, My leita; Saturday, Hatfield Town—at 11. Cottesmore, Monday, Grinvithorpe Park : Tuesday, Stoke End; Thursday, Clipeham; Saturday, 'Thistlaton— at 11. 165 1,396 - 790 3,886 9,146 2,993 141 927 1,016 610 469 Craven, Monday, Stipa ; Wednesday, Till Barn, East Woodhay—at a quarter to 11 ; Friday, Chilton Lodge—at 12; Saturday, Lilly—at a quarter to 11. Crawley and Horsham Monday, Pound Hill ; Wednes day, Slough Green To llgate; Friday, Charlwood Park —at a quarter to 11. Mr. Braes, Monday, Charlton Horethotne. Durham County, Monday, Sunderland Bridge; Thurs day, eseken Hall—at half-past 10. Lord Elcho's, Monday, Swinton Mill Toll ; Wednesday, Preston by Douse • Friday, Ladykirk ; Saturday, Itirang ton—at half-past 10. South Ewe:, Tuesday, North Ociondon ; Saturday, Crown Inn, Landon Hills—at half - pct 10. East Eas es, Tuesday, Seven Forms ; Thursday, Kelyeden Angel; Saturday, Panfield Green—at 11. Essex Union, Wednesday, Stock Ship ; Saturday, Hock lay Bull—at half.past 10. Essex acd Suffolk, Tuesday, Thorrington Hall ; Friday, Dodnish—at a quarter to 11. Earl Fitzwilliam's, Monday, Ashton Wold ; Wednesday, Farming Woods ; Friday, Walcot Park—at 10. Mr. H. G. Oreaves's. Monday, Walmsgats ; Tuesday, Edlington ; Thursday, Legeby ; Saturday, Itaithby by Spileby—at 11. Ilaydon, Saturday, Spattle Nook Wood—at half-par. 9. Herefordshire, Tuesday, Pauks Bridge; Friday, Tenth Milestone. Ileythrop, Monday, Pomfret Castle ; Wednesday, Brad well Grove; Friday, Eyford; Saturday, Great Barford— . at half past 10. noblesse's, Monday, Routh Toll Bar ; Tuesday, Bainton New lan; Thursday, Burton Agnes; Saturday, Ettoa Kennel—at a quarter to 11. Hurwortb, '1 uesday, Croft Bridge ; Saturday, Kennels— at half-past 10. Mr. M. Ingram's, Monday, Rolleston Hall; Thursday, Drakelow ; Saturday, Bagot's Park—at a quarter to 11. East Kent, Monday, Black Mill ; Thursday, Mock Beg gar—at half-put 10. Mr. Lushington's, Tuesday, Squirrels; Friday, Belmont —at U. Ledbury, Monday, Feathers Inn, Staunton; Friday, Coddington Cross—at half-past 10. Ludlow, Tuesday, Bu knell; Thursday, Moektree Com mon • Saturday, Bringewood 11111—at half-past 10. Lanarkshire and Renfrewehire, Tuesday, Hawkhead; Saturday, Biahopton—at a quarter to 11. Mr. Lumley, Monday, Jockey !louse ; Tuesday, Stain ton Village; Thursday, Park Lane, Friday, Grove—at half-past 10. Mr. Morgan's, Monday, Amey Cross; Thursday, Warm Wood—at half-past 10. Oakley, Monday, Skerrington Toll Bar; Thursday, /Nielson ; Saturday, Nowbury Hall—at a 4uarter to 11. Pytchley, Monday, Church Brampton; Wednesday, Lilbourne ; Friday, Fox Hall ; Saturday, Braunatone —at a quarter toll. Baby, Monday, Wslworth ; Wednesday, Kennels; Fri day, Tudhoe—at half-past 10. Rufford, Monday, Dean Hall; Tuesday, Blidworth Dale ; Thursday, Arington ; Saturday, Pleasley Village—at half past 10. Duke of Rutland's—Monday, Creston Park; Tuesday, Ropsley Kennel; Wednesday, Plunger; Friday, Cay thorpe—at half-past 10. Shropshire—Monday, Acton Burnell ; Thursday Affring ton Village—at half-past 10. Somerset Subscription, Tuesday, Crowoombe Park Gate ; Saturday, Slowly Wood—at hall-past It Lord Southampton's ' Monday, Stowe nine Churches ; Wednesday, Potcote; Friday, Weston Wild; Saturday, Deer Park—at 11. North Staffordshire, Tuesday, Doddington Park ; Fri day, Tunstall, near Market Drayton—at half-put 10 . Suffolk, Tuesday, Rushbrooke Hail ; Thursday, Upper Hare Park ; Saturday, Shimpling Mill—at a quarter to IL Mr. A. Smith's, Monday, Longstock ; Tuesday, Manning ford; Wednesday, Wherwell Wood; Thursday, Netherton; Friday, Porton Firs; Saturday, Clarendon Park—at 11. Sir T. Sykes's, Monday, Setterington House, at half-past 10; Wednesday, Wilberfou Mill, at 11; Friday, Flack ham—at half-past 10. Sir R. Sutton's, Monday, Stanton Wyville ; Tuesday, Old Dslby Wood; Wednesday, Copt Oak; Thursday, Lowesby ; Friday, Bunny—at 11. Tindale, Monday, Fotberley Bridge; Thursday, Hart bora ; Saturday, Wallington—at half-past 10. Tiverton, Monday, Knowstone Hall ; Thursday, Hunt shaw Castle—at half-past 10. Warwickshire, Monday, Hockley House; Tuesday, Mil ford Bridge; Thursday, Duncharch ; Friday, Tuesday , Kends; Saturday, Little Alne—at a quarter to 11. Wheatland, Wednesday, Moraine; Friday, Duavale. Sir W. W. Wynn's, Monday, Bangor; Wednesday, Havrkstons ; Friday, Styche ; Saturday, Sandford—at half past 10. Worcestershire, Monday, Radford Gate; Wednesday, Harableton ; Friday, Bishop's Wood—at half-past 10. Lord Yarborough's Monday, Utterby Green ; Wednes day, Little Limber Lodge ; Saturday, Bradley Cray-roads— at 11. 671 4,617 14,620 2,303 3,247 2,221 96 8,500 9,636 845 6,074 22,191 1,963 814 2,211 3,170 821 1,989 737 1,656 648 1,690 13,761 2,634 1,456 1,768 2,011 1,004 406 214 13,383 7,383 1198 a~~anae. 786 1,291 21,145 23,914 13,094 "6,367 8.V., Tuesday, Dole's ifdi Plantation—at half-past 11. Brighton, Monday, Pateham ; Wednesday, Thunder's Barrow; Saturday, Dyke—at a quarter to 11. Brookside, Monday, Newmarket Hill; Thursday, Tels comb. Tye—at half-past 10. Lord Lonadale's, Friday, Rawsham—at 12. Breconshire, Monday, Lower Chapel ; Wednesday, Lower Trostrey_Gate—Friday, Llandefalle Hill—at 11. Mr. B. Williams's, Tuesday, Beer Alston.; Friday, Amey Tree—at 10. DARING CASE OF INTIMIDATION.—On Thursday morning the town of Ashton.ender-Lyne was the scene of considerable excitement, in consequence of about 500 rough looking fellows having entered it for the avowed purpose trricakionlaofke the of intimidating some workmen employed as hriekmaker s , wThheoyarebanotiontit Ma n chester . nc Manchester and Sheffield Railway on T h u rsda y m orning , r h of es the te r T b ra y d t es he U lO n .3o ion a.m. B and their approach having been made known to the 'litho -11 rides of Ashton, they were met at the Guide Bridge Rail way station by the mayor ( John Metcalfe , Esq.) and the high constable. Ills worship the mayor addressed them at some length, explaining that their object was one of an illegal character if intended to excite fear or to intimid.te o ther workmen, and he advised them not to a alk in proces sion, but quietly disperse, The advice, however, was dis regarded, and having formed two-a-breast they marched to the brickeroft of Mr. W. Conley, at Ashton, where twelve Ines were working who did not belong to the trades' union. Two of these men were so alarmed by their presence, though they committed no violence, that they left their work, and the mob of intimidator then went to the Ashton Theatre, which had been engaged fur a meeting, suit hav ing held what they termed a demonstration they quietly separated. The Mayor again addressed them, awl advi( a them to be peaceable at the theatre. Three companies, of the 4th Regiment of Infantry had been called out ..f barracks and placed in the Tow n.hall, but there was nn fur their further services. Them brieunakere, however, are a bold and daring body of men, and bloodshed h., at than once resulted from the collisions botween sociczy Inca and " knotistisks," as they often carry fire-arms. 2,684 3,509