The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-23 00:00:00

1510 Court. BALMORAL, SUP?. 21. A heavy fall of snow, followed by rain, which , e a c tioued all day, prevented her Mejesty from leaving the ' Castle yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert walked towards Castletown. The Duchess of Kent, the Princes' lieheolohe Lanes bourg, and the Prince', Adelaide of liultenlohe Langan- Ware, dined with her Majesty yesterday. . The Earl of Derby mimed at Knowsley Perk, Lea ewkire, yesterday. from Pertb. s.r John l'Alskogton left kis seat, Westwood Ptak, on Month's'. for Italtuotal. The . LITI Shaftesbury bad an interview with Mr. E vt rdyr) yesterday at the llorae-offiee.. I.i.ut.-General Lord llardingo has been appointed the ucw commander-in-Chief. The next l;a:etle otEcially announce the noble lord's promotion as Ge;u rut. alter which his lordship will succeed to the vounnand of the ortny.—Steadlaril. TILE NEW APPOINTMENTS. The question—" Whole t be Com man der-in-Chief?" ba,—it is now declared—been settled ; and at the same time we are made aware of the way in which the ot h er imp ,rtant acaucies created by the death of the I hike of Wellington arc to be filled. Here is the list of Nrintinents which became known last night : Conimasder-in-Chief Lord Hardinge. Illaster-General of Ordnance j Lord Fitzeoy (with a peerage) Miiitary Secretary Lord Warden of the Cinque 'r i,arl Derby. Ports . constable of the Tower toloneley of the Grenadier prince Albert. fillards Visionary of the Fusilier Guards The Duke of 'Northumberland and the 'Marquis of Leedundi.rr, to b.: Knights of the Garter. So runs the list of new arrangements, and they all look reasonable enough. Lord Fitzroy Somerset bring is Mar in military standing to Lord Hardingo could nut serve under him ns military secretary and he then fore gees to the Ordnance—but his removal from the Heise Curds will give rise to many regrets in military circles. Indeed, there is little doubt but the omeappointment of Lord Fitzroy Somerset to the dignitied poet now conferred on LoTril Harding° will cause WIIIC dissatistuction amongst those best able in a professional aerie to balance the claims of the two veterans. But we have, by the present arrange.' Dent, a practical soldier at the head of the army, and that at least satisfies one of the most important re quirements of the ease. The good sense of Prince Albert has evidently been allowed proper play, and be wir,ly contents himself with the Colonelcy of the Gnaa.inrs instead of the control of the entire army. Ili.. change in the position'of Lord Hardinge sug- Fes:4olle very important quest ion, w hich is t his —Whe n are we to have the Horse Guards and tile Ordnance unit( d ' In thee' idence given before the parliamentary eetnntif tie, appointed to inquire into our military evsti In, an merwhelniing weight of testimony will be found in favour of assimilating these two branches of the Service. Such a junction would be a vast improvement upon the present anomalous state of thiegs. and would also be a great and wise economy. Einee we arc to hare ex-Master General as General Commanding-in-Chief there surely could be no better opportunity for making the required amalgamation. EAST LNDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a quarterly general court of proprietors too: at the East India-horse, Leadenhall-street. Sir Jose, W LIR Hoot:, Dart., took the chair. The minutes of the last court were read. Captain GORDON complained that not rufficient publi city was given to the minutes of that court. Except the directors and the canaidatc. now attending, with a few proprieties only, the proprietors at large were quite in the dark on the subject. 'lto CHAIRNIAN said the report of the select care nettc:. as well as certain papers given to parliament since the Lest quarterly court, would be laid before the pro prietors ; also an peanut of the annuities paid to the com pany's servants in Encl Ind, and certain papers in relation to the East India Company's colleges. Captain M.t.CGREGOII gave notice of a motion that the pnceiple in operation at the military college of Woolwich, of a g•uduated seal* of payment for the cadets, should be adopted at the East India Company's colleges in respect to the sons of Indian officers, if the same could be done with out increased charge to the East India Company. Colonel DICKENSON 'eked some questions in respect to the papers connected with the case of Ali Marood. The CHAIRMAN assured the hon. proprietor that every paper laid before parliament in respect to that inquiry, should be seen by the proprietors. In answer to another question of the hon. proprietor, The CILI.IRM.IN said there was a trigonometrical sur vey now in progress in India under the surveyor-general, which was only published in sections. This map was on a large scale, and gave the principal roads. These sections in relation to Bombay would soon be completed. There was also a map being published by Mr. Walker, which would give all the principal reeds in India. This, together with the general road book prepared in India, and of which the court would order copies to be sent to this country, would, he hoped, afford all the information required by the hen. proprietors. Colonel DICKENSON complained that the present maps were defective, and that it was the duty of the court to make the public acquainted with all the improventents mode in the roads of India. Captain GORDON gave notice of a motion for the esta blishment of a permanent chairman of the East India an C Mr. LEompy. WIN pee notice of a motion that the privilege of voting for the election of directors of the East India Company ehould be extended to parties holding stock from the toot rnmcnt of lodia ; also that an opportunity should he e.ven to the natives of India of being heard by their repietentatives in the discussion about to take place in rasp, at to the renewal of the East India Company's charter. Captain MACGREGOR having alluded to the great sa ber—l not sustained by the country in respect to the death of tie late Duke of Wellington, hoped that, at the funeral 111,4: to take place of his grace, every opportunity would be afforded to the representation f the Indian regiments to show, by their attendance on that occasion, their respect for that ,Iluttriousman and his great military skill displayed in ear Indian territory. The CHAIRMAN said that, as matters relating to the fennel of the Duke of Wellington would premed from a superior authority, they had better not proceed to any dis cussion on that subject. He quite appreciated the view taken by the hoa. proprietor, and had no doubt that every opportuaity would be Riven by the proper authorities for the display of that token of respect alluded to on the part of the Indian regiments. (Hear, bear.) Captain MACORECOIt alluded to the necessity of the Mart of proprietors recording their sense of the lon au tamed by the country. The CHAIRMAN observed that the subject was already under the consideration of the court of directors. It would be premature to p tutu that mater at present; out if it was Coosa necessary by the court of directors a special COWL of proprietors would be summoned to deliberate ea the subject. (Applause.) The court then adjourned. Lamas rot 8' ihrrr.,lBi2,--The Britian essaist aoil rbeksis beta 41.1exandlia and Beyreut, having Wen withdrawn, Won fee Syria will in future be forwaged by the French min packets, coi Marseilles, and will be char4eable as follows : Weighing under ounce British, 51. ; Foreign 10 1 . ; total, Is. 3d. %%lulling I ounce and not exceeding ;ounce • British, 5d.: Foreign, le. Sd. • total, 3a. Id. Exceeding ranee sal under I ounce . British, 101. ; Foreign, 2e. 6d.; total, 3e. 4d. Weighing nunea and not exceeding I ounce: British, 101. ; Foreign, . Se. Id. ; total, Is. 2d. Exceeding Jounce and wider 11 asset British, lc &I.; Foreign, Is. 21.; total, 51. 10d. Inc WEsiThitN MAILS.—OOI,OII4I Chattcrton, K.H., ehairinan if the Cork and lathith leihrey, has reeelved reply from the PostmWer-Ciesseld W an application tur the ensployesent of the railway in the sonveyanco of the simile, in which hie imedship expressee his regret that the amount of the correspondence is insufficient to Justify the large ex pense which the proposed measure would entail upon the 1 DEI•ARTI IIE OT THE UNITED ST %TEA MAIL Pm snail to ATLANTl ,. .—Yellterd3)% at 2 o'clock, p.m., the I . cited Stec. mail et, am.hip Atlantic, Captain West, sailed from the Mersey, with the usual mails, fur the United Stare., Canada, Newfornilland, Nova Sedis, &a. The Atuntic takes out 122 kusengers, and a good general cargo or freight. FIELD Nl.M.ilt.tt.S.—A correspondent of tho Eren -1.1 Moil say.:—..'rho only two Irishmen wl.o appear to hese attained the rank of field marshal in the Ltritsah army were natives of the two !deaths—George Wade, of West meath, interred at W. stmiuster Abbey ; and the Doke of Wellington, of East :.feath. Both were colonels of the Name neriment (31rd). • Wade led it into the breech at the I attack upon Fort St. Philip, in the island of Minorca, 1788, at the Lc ad of the grenadiers and marines of the army, in the presence of an army vastly superior in number, and effected a lodgment within, by which the garrison of French and Spaniards was compelled to capitulate.' Ile was an* sit formats in all the bath.; he fought as tommander-ln- Cldvf of the allied armies in the Netherland., in 1774; and Wellesley led it (Llrd) into the breach at Seringapatant, in 1741. Both families are from the same county (Somerset shire) in England—the Wades from near Citaatonbury, end the Wellealeys from Wellington." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1852. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT STIRLING. Lord J. Russell, baying, u we stated yesterday, beset preeental with the freedom of this town and returned theahetwithelstanstisselliA_Pule die following Menage ws the death et the Deka et Weilleatea : Now gentlemen Labe 'spared here ter* Is this awsetbis. I own I feel: 'ilium& it is not an esarine immediately for introdmiag It—bat as it is an omission in width I hays to speak be public, I imam* refrain from notioiog that event whisk occupies all can's minds, and to which the attention of di is now directed—l mean the lava which the country has sustained by the death of the Doke of Wellington. I must mg that, while I am one of those who most admired that plan" I am nut ono of those who think that we ahlht lobo se deadest by the lame of his reeled' that we illedi s trit eadeneer to gather objects of imitation ems MS di ..116trt of a moo so great and his Tote= 0101112:1111e . maa w i i :f h tee preserved aetions of are is un h attai w nable bSONY* lemons which we navy read in the lids sad conies eir that illustrious man. It may given go. M iss milliset of th e British crown to perform servings* ma he has performed—it may sever MI tits. OD amis to hold the sword which secured this indeprelikdin aisspe—tor England having saved herself by bar imilmq, are.il Europe by her example—it any never bli to Smother man, after baviog obtained such elfMnee by an inwmannled aeries of vino ries, to show Opal , moderation in peace as ha has shown graders in war, and to devote the ter ni Muhl. of his life to the cause of internal and external , peace for that country which he has to served, it may new bo given to another man to have equal authority with the sovereigns whom he has sewed, and to the senate of which he was to the end a venerated member—it may never be given to another man, after such a career, to preserve even to the cad the lull possession of those great faculties with which he was endowed, and to carry on the service of one of the most important departm-nts of the state by unex ampled vigilance and success to the latest day of his lite. theme are the eircomstaoece, these are the qualities, which may never again be performed in the history of the world; but there are other qualities which were displayed in the life of the Duke of Wellington which we may attain in humble imitation—that sincere and unceasing de votion Si his country—that honest and proud determination to act for the bent fit of his country on all uccasions—that devoted loyalty which, while it made him eve: anxious to serve the crown, never induced him to conceal from the sove reign that which he believed to be the truth—that vigi lance in the constant performance of his duty the ap pearance of life which enabled him at all times to give his 'rebid and his faculties to the sera ices which he was called upon to perform—that unostentatious piety by which be was distinguished at all times of his life—these are quali ties which are attainable by others, and these are qualities which should not be lost to us as an example. Let us h therefore, that while we render every due honour to the memory of the Duke of Wellington, that while anything which can he done by the Sovereign and the country to slow bow they estimate their irreparable lose—let US not think that while we have performed these services and ren dered these honours, that our duty is then over. Let us all reflect that he was a man of whom his country was greatly proud, and that among other qualities he preserved these which it is within the power of all to imitate, and which we may all endeavour to attain. (Cheers.) I hare ven tured upon this subject, but I could not refrain from doing it, and I trust you will excuse me (Lear, hear)—for it has occupied my mind. Perhaps lem the more justified in saying it, because there were few men—perhaps there were none except the late Lord Melbourne and myself— who could bear this testimony, that, however much he might differ in political sentiments with the t ersons who held the chief offices in the political services of the state, he was as willing, as ready, as forward, in giving every assist ance to them which he thought was for the benefit of the country. (Cheers.) And now, then, let me again thonk lou for the very high honour you have done me in con• eering upon me the freedom of the burgh of Stirling. I can only ray that, as far as my humble sorriest go, I shall endeavour to perform, during what of life may be left to me, my duty to my country ; and that it will always be a satisfactory and invigorating recollection to me that my services have not been thought unworthy such a distinction, by such a respectable pectins of my countrymen. (The noble lord, who in some parts of his speech was scarcely audible, resumed his mat amidst lend cheers.) PERILS OF TILE SEA. From the Boston Times The steam ship Pacific, Captain Nve, left Liver pool on tho 28th of July last, bound for New York, with about one hundred passengers, besides engineers, sailors, and servants-120 more. On the outward pes.ate to Liver pool, Captain Nye discovered a difference its his compasses, the one in the binnacle differing. from the one on deck. Oa leaving Liverpool an allowance was made for this differ ence, and which proved senses, as the ship passel the Tuskar light and Cape Clear at about the distance in. tended. The first 21 hours' run was very favourable, being 327 miles—the second equally so, being 300 miles. On Friday, the third day out, being then entirely clear of Ireland, and on the bread Atlantic, a thick fog set in, which looted until Monday, when we were enabled to get a good observation, and found the ship nine folks north of the great circle or latitude intended. The ship's course w.a then altered so U to place her on that circle line, and which would carry her 6 or 10 miles south of Cape !tare. On Wednesday morning, at 6 o'clock, it was supposed we were about abreast of the Cape, and the officers and men forward were told to keep a good look-out for lead. At half-past eight the same morning, the sea being smooth, the tog thick, a sudden call was made of " A boat alongside." The engines were ordered to be stopped, but before this could be done, the boat, in which were two men, was swept under the paddle-wheels, and the two men instantly killed, fragments of the boat only being seen floating on the sur face. By this time the engine was stopped, and the ship's headway deadened; when, about the length of the ship ahead, a rock rose up, as it were, out of the ocean, the top which could not be seen. The helm was ordered to the starboard, the ship rounded to, almost es it were on a pivot, out paddle-boxes coming within about twenty feet of an immense rock, supposed to be from three to flee hundred feet high, and about as long. Another boat, in which were five men, was soon seen around the projecting reek, which soon camo down to us and told Capt. Nye our position—which was, Cape Broyle, on the western end of Newfoundland, and 20 miles mirth of Cape Rate. Oar ship', head was then put to the south. ward, and after running on that course about 30 miles, it was changed to the westward. The imminent danger t hat we thus so providentially escaped, mused many a heart to best with gratitude to the great Dispereer of events ; so many lives, together with that noble ship, having been saved by the sacrifice offered by the two men so suddenly called to eternity. It was the opinion of the paseengen that they heard, through the fog, the noise of our paddle wheel,, and put off from the iand to warn us of our danger. The object of the writer in making this statement is with the hope of eliciting from experienced nautical men their opinion as to the propriety of the Atlantic steamers follow ing, in all eases, whether the atmuephers is clear or fogey, what is celled tailing on the great circle." It is, without doubt, desirable to make Cape Race, bat the question is often asked, is it of as much importance that great hazard should be taken to accomplish it ? Almost all our Atlantic steamers have been in great danger at that plate. Last year the Humboldt, it was said, came within twenty feetof Cape Ram Rock. In April last the Niagara came very near being lost there. In fact, it is rare fur any steamer to pan that point in thick weather, that they do not run gent hazard. The difference, in taking this course, in preference to taking a direct line, is but about seventy miles—and this cows., it is said, is always taken by Captain West, of the Atlantic. CHARGE OF DROWNING AN INFANT. On Monday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Rutter, county coroner, at Newton-heath, near Man chester, on the body of a child, ainteea months old, which was drowned in the canal, near Ten Acre-bridge, on the previous evening. The child belonged to a woman named Eau Walker, end a man named John Chandler had ac knowledged himself to be its father. He, however, resisted en attempt made by the mother to affiliate it upon him about twelve months ego, and the summons was dismissed for want of the necessary legal proof. On Sunday after noon Chandler called upon Walker at her lodgings, in Manchester, and induced her to leave the house and take a walk with him. She carried the child with her. The man wu then observed to be intoxicated. Some men wbo met them shortly afterwards heard them diepteing, apparently about the child. The woman was speaking very crossly. Subsequently they were seen by some boys in the fields near the canal bank. One of the boys, named Daniel Cameron, said he first saw Chandler leaning over the palings. He looked angry at witness, and the boys watched him, when he returned into the field beside the woman. She was seated on the ground at the hedge side, and the child was io I.er arms, her back being to the canal. Chandler no- ticed the boys watching him, went towards them a little way, and then turned back again. He then took the child, as witness thought, in a passion from the woman. Ile carried it walking hawkweeds towards the canal, and rolled down the bank, letting the child go as he approached the water. Witness thought it had not fallen by accident, bat that the man had done it purpcsely. Tim woman *creamed on seeing the child in the water. The men was verry neer the edge, and the chili gradually floated into the undille,hut ho might easily have recovered it at first. The man wanted to go away when he got out, but both the man and woman were apprehended. Several persons were infected to the spot by the screams of the woman, but the child was allowed to sink, and the body was not recovered till half an hour afterwards, when it was quite dead. When spoken to about drowning the child, at the police station, the male prisoner said, " drowne d wish I had dwned myself, too." The coroner stated his conviction that the evidence went no further than to show that the death of the child had arisen from accident, the result of the brutal state of in toxication in which Chandler was. The jury returned a verdict to the came alert. GUN ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening se'nnight, two yound men, living at Saltto.d, were walking by the side of the river looking out for rats. One of them had gun which ht carried with the murals pointed behind him. Turning soddenly round, the trigger Caine in contact with some pan elide sineek-froek, the gun instantly went aff, and d igs bismonion near the The whole of the in the neck, dividing the carotid artery end==lostantaneous result.—Dant and Chelten ham Gasolb. BALLOONING. "IN THE CLOUDS:" OR SOME ACCOUNT OF A BALLOON TRIP WITH MR. ORRIS. BY HINIIIT KILTRZW. (From the ',Mango, hoodoo News of liaturday lost) I am naturally a coward—constitutionally and habitually timid—l do not hesitate to confess it. The lite nry temperament and sedentary pursuits are, I believe, seldom associated with physical courage. Fear, or the idea l Presence of prospective injury, is necessarily an act of the imagination ; and the sense of dagger, therefore, closely connected with a sense of the beautiful and the se.theue faculties la general. Your human bull dogs are mostly de ficient in mental refinement, and perhaps if there be a elms of characters more faneyless than the rest of the world, they are them who are said to belong to the " fancy." Jily 'weed is that all imaginative men are cowards ; and that I am one I have at least moral courage and honesty enough to acknowledge Then why go up in a balloon? Yes, why ? These are times when men'. principles of action are sure to be canvassed; so, to prevent the impute- Lion of any (also motives, I will make a clean tartan Of it, and confess that it was merely "idle curiosity," as the world calls it, that took me into the sir. I had seen the great metropolis under almost every as pact. I had divert into holes and cortices hidden trout the I honest and well-to do-portima of the cockney community. I had visited Jacob's Island (the plague spot) in the height of the cholera ' when to Whale the very air of the place was almost to breathe the breath of death. I had sought out the haunts of beggars and thieves, and passed hours communing with them as to their histories habits, natures, end impulses. I had seen the world of London below the surface, es it were, and I had a crating to contemplate it far above it—to behold the immense MISS of vice and ava rice and cunning, of noble aspirations and humble heroism, blent into one black spot; to t:.ke, as it were., an angel's view of that huge city where, perhaps', there is more virtue and more iniquity, snore wealth and more want huddled ' together in one vast heap than in any other part of the earth ; to look down upon the strange incongruous clump of palaces sod workhouses, of factory chiuineys and church steeples, of banks and prisons, of docks and hasp:fah, of parka and squares, of courts and alleys—to look down upon thee* as the birds of tl:e air look down upon them, and see the whole dwindle into a heap of rubbish on the green-award, a human ant-hitt, as it were ; to hear the hubbub of the restless sea of life below, and hear it like the ocean in a shell, whispering to you of the incessant struggling, and chafing., of tho distant tide—to swims in the air far above all the petty jealousies and heart-burnings, and small ambitions stud vain parader, and ' feel for once tranquil as a babe in a cut—that you were hardly of the earth earthy; and to find, as you drank in the pure thin air above you, the blood dancing and tingling I joyously through your veins and your whole spirit becom tog etherealised as, Jacob like, you mounted the aerial ladder, and beheld the would beneath you fade and fade from your sight like a mirage in the desert; to fuel your self really, as you had ideally in your dreams, fleeting through the endless realms of space, aailir.g among the stars free as "the lark at heaven's gate ;" and to enjoy fur a brief half-hour at least a foretaste of that elysiau destiny which is the hope of all To see, to think, and to feel thus was surely worth some little risk, and this it was that led me to peril my bones in the car of a balloon. It is true that the aeriel bulls and ponies of late had taken nearly all poetry from the skies, reducing the ancient myths to the mere mega trickeries of an ethereal Aoki's—true that the depraved rage for excitement—that species of men tal dram-drinking which ever demands some brutal stimu lant—had given a most vulgar, prosaic character to a voyage which, when stripped of its peril, is perhaps one of the purest and most dignified delights that the mind is capable of enjoying; still, quickened with a love of my own art, and heedless of any silly imputations of rivalry with quadrupeds and mountebanks, I gladly availed myself of a stet in the car which Mr. Green had u-tt aside for me. At about a quarter to teven six of us and the "veteran aeronaut" took our places in the large deep wicker buck basket of a car attached to the lloyal Nassau Balloon, while two gentlemen were seated immediately above our beads, with their backs resting against the netting and their legs stretched across the hoop to which the curd. of the net-work aro hitt ned, sod from which depends the car. There were altogether nine of us—a complete art of human pins for the air to play at skittles with—and the majority, myself above the number, no sylphs iii weight. Above us reeled the great gas bag like a monster peg-top, and all around the can were groups of men holding to the aides of the basket, while the huge iron weights were handed out and replaced by large squabby bags of sand. In the course of about ten minutes all the arrangements for starting were complete; the grapnel, looking like a bundle of large iron fish-hooks welded together, was hang ing over the side of the car. The guide-rope, longer than St. Paul's u high, and done up in a causes bag, with only the end hanging out, was dangling beside the grapnel, and we were raised some do feet in the air to try the ascen sive pow, rof the machine that was to bear us through the clouds. Then, having been duly dragged down, the sigma was at length given to fire the cannons, anti Mr. Green loosen ing the only rope that bound us to the gardens, we shm into the air—or rather the earth seemed to sick suddenly down, as if the spot of ground, with all the spectators on it, and on which we ourselves bad been lately standing, bed been constructed on the same principle as the Adelphi stage, and admitted of being lowered at a moment's notice. The last thing that I remember to have seen distinctly was the dash of tho guns, and instantaneouslysehere appeared a multi tude of upturned faces in the gardens below, the greater part with their mouths wide open, and a Mew= de fruc of hands eetended above them all signalling farewell to us. Then, u we swept rapidly above the trees, 1 could see the roadway immediately outside the garden., stuck all over with rows of tiny people, looking like so many black pins on a cushion , and the hubbub of the voices below was like the mound of a distant school let loose. ___ And hero began that peculiar panoramic effect which is the distinguishing feature of a view from • balloon, and which arises from the utter ebonies of all sense of motion in the machine itself. The earth appeared literally to con sist of a long series of scenes, which were being continually drawn along under you, as if it were • diorama beheld flat upon the ground, and gam ono almost the notion that the world was an endless landscape stretched upon rollers, , which some invisible sprites were revolving for yuur especial enjoyment. Then, as we struck towards the fields of Surrey, and I looked over the edge of the car in which I was standing, holding on tight to the thick rope descending from the hoop above, and with the rim of the wicker-work reash ing up to my breast, the Wed was the mat exquisite de light I ever ezperienced. The houses below looked like the tiny wooden things out of • child's box of toys, and the streets like ruts. To peer straight down gave yea an awful sense of the height to which the balloon had al ready risen, and yet there was no idea of danger, for the mind was t oo much occupied with the grandeur and no velty of the scene all around to feel the least alarm. As the balloon kept on amending, the lines of buildings grew smaller and smaller, till in a few minutes the pro intim seemed very much like the prominences on the little coloured plaster models of countries. Then we could see the gas lights along the different lines of road start into light one after another all over the earth, and presently the ground seemed to he covered with little miniature illumination lamps such as may beaten resting on the grate at the edge of the gravel-walks in suburban gardens of amusement. The river we mold see winding tar away, undulating, as it stratuasd ales& like a man-oi war's penitent, sad glittering hem sad Uwe in the dusk like grey steel. All round the barium ware thick slate coloured clone, edged with the amigo e( the departed sun ; and with Astor of rheas we seemed to be on a level. So deep was the disk is the dieing*, that it was difilcult to tell where the earth ended sad the sky began ; and in trying to make oat the /Weeds afar 43, it seemed to be as if you were looking through as musk crape. The roads below were now like surety light-brown ribbons, and the bridges serum the Thum almost like planks ; while the tiny black barges, as they floated up the river, appeased no bigger than insects. The large green fields had dwindled down to about the size of kettle holders, and the hedges were like strips of chenille. When we were about a mile above the ground some of Its threw pieced of paper into the grey air, and these, as we rose and left them below, fluttered about like butterflies as they fell. Then some of the more noisy of the crew struck up a song, while I heard • dyepeptie gentleman imme diately behind me, as I was kneeling down (for there Wee but one seat), andstretching my head over the side of the ear contemplating the world of wonder below, confess to fooling a little norvom,eaying that he was a man of natural morel satrap, but his body overcame it, as he was subject to fits of iodisation, and as a preventive to extreme ner vousness had taken nothing but vegetables for dinner that day. And I mast confess myself that, poised up high in the air as we were, with but a few slender cords to support us, I could not help thinking of the awful havoc there would be if the twigs of the wicker car were to break, and the bottom to give way. On what sharp church steeple, thought I, should I be spitted, and as necked down, the beauty of the scene one* more took all sense of fear from my mind, for the earth now appeared eOl2OllO with the height, and seemed like a huge bid,* bowl—as if it were the sky of the nether regions. The lights of the villages muttered ever the scene were like clusters of glow-worms, from the midst of which you could ' here and there distinguish the minima speck of soma rail way lamp. • There, I've thrown over a letter directed to my house," said one et the passengers," telling 'em we're al l safe up here "—and as I stretched over the car, I saw the little white fluttering thing go zigzagging down the air, while we still mounted the sky. Then some of the passengers, who had supplied them selves with an extraordinary stock of courage previous to starting, by means of sundry bottles of " sparkling cham pagne," which had the effect of tasking them more noisy than agreeable in such a situation, mast seeds begin quar relling with a rosewater captain in the hoop as to whether they belonged to the t. anoboeraey" or the " noboeracy," and at one time their words were literally so high that could the pair have got to elm quarters the dispute would certainly have imagined a more serious eharaeter, for, jammed tight together as we were in the car, the least at tempt at violence would certainly have ended in discharg ing the whole human cargo into the railway station below. But as it was, it certainly did appear most ludicrous that two rational beings must choose that place of all others for engaging in some , paltry squabble as to the vulgar divi sion of the human family into t. nob." and " mobs." Silence, however, was soon restored by Mr. Omen re minding the disputants that we were descending at a rapid rate, and it was time they began to look out for their safety. The dyspeptic passenger, who during the dispute had evidently bean suffering from another attack of nervous .nees, was St length terrified beyond human enduranee by the gentleman who was rather the worm for champagne indulging la even unmoor language thaa bad yet (inns nest to. For mercy's sake don't swear up here, my Mel man," shivered out the pcor inland." " Wait, till you get down below if you must swear. We are always in the hands of Providence ; but up here, it strikes me that our lives are literally banging by a thread." The eellaprlng of the bottom part of the balloon, to which Mr. Green here drew our attention as an evidence of the rate at which we were descending, soon restored order, and made every one anxious to attend to the directions of the aeronaut. We could now hear the sound of "oh hal-loon " again rising from the ground aid following in our wake, telling us that at the small Tillages on oar way the people were anxiously looking for our dearest. A bag of ballast was entrusted to one of the passengers to let fall at a given signal, while Green himself stood with the grap nel ready to loose immediately he came to a fitting spot. Presently the signal for the descent of the bal last was given, and as it dropped it was curious to watch it fall ; the earth had seemed . almost at our feet es the ear swept over the fields. but so long was the heavy bag in getting to the ground, that as the eye watched it fell and fall, the mind was filled I with amazement at the height the balloon still was in the ' air. Suddenly the sound as of a gun announced that the bag had struck the soil, and then we were told to sit low down in the car, and hold fast. Scarcely had we obeyed the orders given, than the car wee suddenly and fiercely jerked half round, and all within it thrown one top of sneaker; immediately after this, bump went the bottom of the ear on the ground , giTing us so violent a shake that it seemed WI if every l imb in the bogy had been simul taneously dislocated. Now the balloon pitched on to its side, and lay on the ground struggling with the wind, and rolling about, heaving like a huge whale in the agonies of death. "For hear/en's sake! hold fast," shouted Mr. Groftn, as we were da•hcd up and delta in the car, all rolling one on the other, with each fresh lurch of the giant•machine stretched on the ground before us, and from which we could hear the gas roaring from the valve, like the blest to a furnace. " Sit still, all of you, I say," roared our pilot, as he saw some ono endeavouring to leave the car. Again we were pitched right on end, and the bottom of the car shifted into a ditch, the water of which bubbled up through the wicker work of the car, and I, unlucky wight, who was seated In that part to which the concussions were mostly eontined, soon began to feel that I was quietly sitting in a pool of water. To move, however, was evidently to peril not only one's own life, but that of all the other passengers; but still no one came to us, for we had fallen in a swamp, which we efterwarils found out was Pirbright-common, situate scme halt dozen miles from Ouildford. Presently, however, to our great delight, some hundred drabamocked countrymen appeared, almost as if by magic, around the edges of the car ; (or some little time they were afraid to touch, but at last they got a firm hold of it, and we were one after another extricated from our seats. To tell the remainder of the adventure would be tame and dull. Suffice it, after some two hours' labour the aerial machine, car, grapnels, and all,was rolled and packed up in a cart. and thus transported, an hour after midnight, to Guildford—the voyagers Journeying to the same town in a tilted cart, delighted with their trip, and listening to the many curious adventures of the veteran aeronaut who had successfully piloted them and some hundred others through the air; and who—now that the responsibility of their lives rested no longer in his hands—seemed a thoroughly different man. Before ho was taciturn, and almost irrit. able when spoken to; and now he was garrulous, and de lighting all with hit intelligence, his enterprise, his en thusiasm, and his courtesy. Indeed, long shall we all remember the pleasant night we passed with the old ethereal pilot on his 300th ascent with the Royal Nassau Balloon. THE PLEASURES OF BALLOONDTO. The following narrative of a ballooning excursion with M. Poitevin in his monster machine, Le Globe," which ascended from Cremorne Gardens on Monday last, Is by one of the amateur aeronauts : We ascended at 6 p.m., with the wind nearly due west. There were, including M. Poitevin, the manager, meat,- two persons. We quickly reached a height of one mile, and, though there was a strong wind when we started, at that partieuMr elevation it was nearly dead calm, and for some minutes we were stationary. We, however, roe' higher, until we were one mile and a half high, and there we again found the same strong wind. At this time the first mischance occurred. It seems that the valve, by the constant hal , become immovable, and could not be opened. The aeronaut pulled at the rope till he was nearly black in the face, but without effect, and we still ascended. The fact of the valve being out of order was known to but five or six in the car, uM. Poitevin spoke in French to bis assistant; but I, as ons of thou five or six, felt very uncomfortable, and made a mental calculation as to Low long we could exist, going higher and higher, without food, water, or even cigars—for the letter we were not al:owed to console ourselves with for fear of igniting the gas. At last the united egorts of two or three of the pas sengers, at the risk of snapping the ropes, pulled open the valve, and all was right once more. We now, with quieted minds, could look around us, and splendid, indeed, was the view. We were skirting the south of thu Thames, and could see the whole of London, which Ityiked ridiculously small, while the river appeared as a small millstream. At an altitude of about two mike we pasted over the Greenwich ILailway t and proceeded onwards to Blackwell sod the Docks, which we saw like small begins, directly under oar feet. _ _ _ Leaving Middlesex we entered Ewer, and began to de scend, passing over Plaistow Level at an elevation of about half a mile. The numerous herds of horses grazing here were much alarmed, and scampered about in every direc tion. We now left these marshes and came over cultivated ground, and descended rapidly—too rapidly, I thought ; but, alas, all the ballast had been thrown out before this. Clow and closer *lid we come to the ground ; at last the two grappling iroto, which were hung down some 80 feet below the car, touched the earth, and dragged along it. The wind was strong, and we were rushing along about 20 miles an hour. Beyond pulling up the ground they did not check our speed, and I quickly saw that at the rate we were advancing a severe collision would be ieevitable. Knowing that, if free from the ear, I should eszepe its greatest violence, I clambered up two of the ropes towards the balloon, and thus suspended felt but little of the violent concussion sustained by theta below,which threw many down. We remained stationary ( or some ten seconds, and I was congratulating myself on the voyage having terminated with no serious result, when, to my astonishment, up we went again. I turned round and saw M. Poitevin pulling at the valve rope ; but, alas lit was soon evident that it bad be come jammed again. Up we went, sumo 80 or 100 feet, passing through the air at great speed, and then down we came again, with very much greater fore* than the first time ; and I, who was then standing in the car, and holding on by the side !opts, was much braised and hurt. . Before any one had recovered from the effects of this second concussion, we were once more off the ground some 30 or 40 feet high, and rushing along, impelled by the high wind, at as great a speed as ever. Natters now began to look serious, and I, who had tried to laugh at even the last descent, felt inclined to do so no more. The valve was evidently permanently closed, and though two or three of the passengers lent their aid to open it, it resisted all their efforts. The gas in the balloon was not sufficient to hold the car off the ground for any time, but quite enough to lift it up and allow the wind to act upon the enormous surface of the balloon. Again we descended, and passing . near a churchyard struck against a bank with awful violence, and the car catching in the hedge and against the trunk of a tree, was once more stationary for possibly 20 seconds. Again did several of the passengers as well es myself entreat the others to remain quiet, but while we were yet speaking one man jumped oat. Who he is no one knew •, hat we may thank him and two others for all we wont through afterwards. The weight being lightened, the balloon again rose. We cleared the hedge and started again. At the nest descent two more men, whom I had seen preparing for the spring, left the car, and though one was thrown flat on has facie—whkh I rejoiced to see—they emaped, I believe, without injury. The ear was now much lighter, and we ascended again mere than eighty feet, and then descended, gaming through one gate and two hedges ere we touched the ground. The violence of this concussion exceeded all the previous ones,' end the ear was for a moment standing on its end. I was standing and holding by the ropes, and also were two others; the remainder were lying down, one at the top of the other, at the bottom of the ear. I ex pected that several of thew would be thrown out, and my arms were nearly jerked out of their sockets by the violence of the shock. Either those two gentlemen or myself could then with rafety have sprung on the ground, but they, I support, as well as myself, felt how wrong such an act would be end to what certain destruction we should be condemning a poor lady who was nearly senseless at the bottom et the tar, as well as any one who remained with her. Quickly did the car right, and quickly did we proceed with our voyage, amid the groans of many who were much hurt. At the next descent one gentleman was thrown from one end of the car to the other, and put out his kneecap. I remember but little more. All my energies were de voted to avoiding the force of the collisions, and to prevent m 7 being thrown onto( the ear. We were dragged on in this way, some say two miles, but I should think one and a half mile. We passed over water, wo knocked down pilings, we caught on an iron gate or rail—in short, we bad some seven or eight more descents, and I saw no end to this unpleuant proceeding. The wind appeared to me to increase, for the shocks were certainly greater each time we touched the ground or struck against a tree or bank. My strength was nearly ex hausted, and there were I believe none who did not feel that our position was one of imminent peril. The rate at which we now tore along was so great, from the increased force of the wind, that to have left the car at all would have been difficult, more especially as we never now remained stationary for an instant. This scene, so likely to have had a tragic termination, wet brought to an end by two large hayricks, against which we were dashed, and which were too substantial for even our huge balloon to break through. We now all sprung out, and at the same moment the silk rent from top to bot tom, and allowed the whole of that huge volume of gas to escape. Thus ended cur adventures by air and land ; and I believe all felt, as I am sure I did, that wo had a wonderful escape. We found ourselves at Eastham, in Essex; and wet to the skin, much bruised and hurt. We were glad to find that the North Woolwich railway station was not above two or three miles off. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, WIDNISDAT. THE VACANT CHANCELLORSHIP. Much d. asatialaotion has been excited among resident M.A.'s by the move in favour of Lord Derby, cad this dis satisfaction has not been diminished by the charaeter of the names appended to the requisition which is to be presented to him. This feeling extends to men of very different parties, and Is irrespective of any personal preference for any other candidate. We understand that a protest against Lord Derby's nomination is being circulated for signature, while steps are being taken to ascertain whether the sense of the electors will permit another candidate to be started with a prospect of success.—Morning Paper. NAVAL ADYIRALTT, SEPT. 22. -i r.— Acting Assistant Surgeon C. A Duelist, to Viaory. PORTs3IOI.7II, Strr. 22.—The Dauntleea, 24, steam-frigate, Captain Halstead, sailed last night for the West Indies. The Ajax, 60, steam guard-ship, Captain Quin, came last night into harbour to be paid down and refit. The Powerful, Si, was taken under the shears to day and received her sheet and bower anchor,. The Fear less, steam surveying vessel, Lieut. Bullock, sailed this morning. The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, hauled off into the stream to day to have her comnawies adjusted. The Echo, steam-tug, took Lord F. Fitsclarenee's heavy lug gage to the Vernon Intliarnan to-day at Spithead for con veyance to Bombay. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—Turspar. 111ANCIIE3TER. CIIISIPAONE STAKES. Even .as Exact. CIIEsTERFIELD 11124 DICAP (11ANC1IEBTER). 4to 1 apt T. ung England (t) 17 to 1 ay: Grit( (t) 3 to 1 'Ladd taco (t) Bto 1 -- Bilberry (t) Ito 1 tvadoe (t) LESAEF.WITeII RUNES. 13 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (t) 21 to 1 opt Kt. or the Shire (I) 20 to 1 Lindrisk (t) 23 to I Atoms (t) 2$ to 1 LeJult tt) SO to 1 Ilre. Ithr.b (t) LEICESTER RACES—WEDNEsatr. DELVOIIS STAIIES of b eon. each, with 20 added; four yrs. 10it 711); live, lilt 71b: six and aged, 12st. Rests, twice round and a dim. (5 sub..) Mr. ‘ylklielruft's Scapulary, 4j fa /dr. Ch,ree's Spring, e ... I 2 2 Cu.iipton't Mrs B.H. it yrs 3 dls. LitutirrEneilins HANDICAP Of 15 SOTS. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declare-I, with 100 added; the second to receive 16 tors. out of the stakes. Twice round and a dis. (15 subs, 9 of whom declared.) Mr. Coptloutre 42.odlewlek, 4 yrs,3st7lb (including 71b rare) I Mr. C.pelsrurs lady Amp% fyr., Ist 21b Mr. It. B. o:lser's Ischia, 4 yrs lit AD Won by a neck, the sinus between second and third. Two-YE.timOto fi•TAK ES of Sion. each, and 30 added; colts, SA 711); fillies, Sst 311); winners slb extra. T.Y.C. (10 subs.) lord tt m. rowlei neantial Mr. elirphrnison's Maid of GO.bonts Mr. bleyhenembi St. Crispin Baron Hotbelidd's Rangoon . Mr. DMiten.'s e by Cranebrook, oat of Miss Knight's dam Mr. Men) '6 Do.deniona Mr. It E. Oliver's f by Irish Birneateher, oatol Greco Darling Sir C. Itusboutbi eh f Nigiuskule Won by half a length. COUNTY Crr STAKES of 10 JOVE. each ; for 3-yr-olds, Est gib; four, Sat 71b; five, Oct 11`s; six and aged, 9st 41b; mares and geldings allowed 3lbs ; winner to be sold fur 5001., &c. Twice round and a distance. (7 subs.) Mr. Nieto nd /Ling of Troy, 3 yn Duke of Ituttsmi nd reline, n yrs 2 b.r. It. C.,in oti A;etate, 3 yes a I.ocd Lowe ud Achyrunther, S yrs . 4 Won by half a length. LADIES' PLATE of 30 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 3 moss. each; 3.yr-olds, let 10lb; four, 9st; five, 9st lab; six and aged, 9st 1011); mares, Le., llowed 3114. About one mile. (I 5 subs.) Mr. Wasilow's Trine, 3 yrs Mr. G. IneWe'S Othlism. 4 yrs Ten others started. Won cleverly. BEI)FORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. STRATTON-I.MM STANNA of 5 son. each, 3 ft, with 30 guineas added. Once round. (2 subs.) Mr. Anderson'. Chase 3y s, tat 7lb (Rook, 1 Mr. 4)chrtley's Derby, 3 yrs, fat 9lb ( trelter) 3 Cl to 2 and 3tol on Derby. Won in a canter. SCUNRY HANDICAP of 10 son. each, 6 ft, and 100 son. added. Half a mile over the T. Y. C. (11 subs.) Mr. Y. Kur t 's Nudism*, 3 yrs, TM 615 fluke of Iledford's Hesperus, 5 yr~ 34 Mr. Ito,tetr's Loyteurne, 4 yrs, 7st Clb (3.11 am) 3 Mr. Iterre'r Abcl.4leb, Syr., 7a4 41e (Mauled) 0 Mr. I'. ern.th's Wee Wee. k yre, 6.1 (T. Sterwaxl) 0 Mr. Itarnent's Newport, 6 yr.. est Sib (Weariful') 0 Daring: oto 4 agst Hesperus, 2to 1 agst Leybourne, 3to 2 against Newport. and sto 1 apt Narcissus. Nar cissus made all the running, and won by a length; the same between second and third. QUEEN', l'h•ra of 100 guinns ; 3.yr-olds, 7st 71b; four, 9st ; fire, 9st 7lb ; six and aged, fist9lb. Three miles. Duke at Mdfor.l ed Hesse (belabor& 4 )n, 94 (Pettit) I ; Mr. Steph ersna's Wave/ley, 3 yrs, 74 715 ( 1 ,1, 1 t : I Mr. Itpork's Presto, 4 yrs, 34 ' Mr. Ituarrs's Molar .1 vs, !it (J. MAIM 4 Sir. ?fuse:'. balopiist, 3 yre. 7rt 71b Mr. Y. K.og's Narcissus, 3 yr*, 94 7lb (Bartholomew 0 Mr. 14,1,4'81)4re tattle. 3 yr*. ist 7lb 2 to 1 each apt Hesse Homburg, Dame Tattle, and Waverley. Won by a length. Presto a bad third. SELLING STARES of 3 soya. each, and 30 added, for 2 and 3-yr-olds. Half • mile over the T.Y.C. (2 subs.) Duke f Bedford's Lorraine, 2 yrs (101 ), Oat 710 (7.Bberwood) 1 Mr. Prlee's br eby Spanish Jock out of tasticad, 2 yrs (414.) 14 Ile (Arthur) 2 6t02 on Spanish Jaek colt. Won by ahead, after a very fine race. HllNTllitig' STAMM of 5 son. each, and 25 added. Heats 1 mile. (2 subs) Coloart Inson's Actress, owed (100, lOst 2lb (Mr. Perllk) I I Air. Bolton', aglow, 4 yre (2(01), 9ot 131 b .... (Mr. Bohan dl.. 2 to 1 on Minus, who won the first heat by two lengths, but, having carried 2lbs overweight without declaring it, was distanced, and Actress walked over. , EGLINTON PARK RACES—WEE TRIAL Stales. Ralf a mile. Lord EdMimes eaverha Mr. ft-bunk , . Bbowdrop Mr. Merry'. Sally Won by a length. SWEEPSTAXIII of 20 eon. eaeh, with 300 soya. added by ord Glasgow. One mile and a half. Ili: Raima's aulton Mr. Osteras's Imabtaa, Won easy. %%BITOLA' PLATE. T.Y.C. Mr. (Marra% Lambtaa 1 Mr. Sheybeni'A f by Birdcatober out at Meommto ....... I Mr. Med:era's Goodall Won easy. DaviNE Cur. Ones round and a distanee. Capt. Lite. no Mr notsrt. Mr. Gilmour as Harrier Lord aglinton's &Mite DOONO.B.OOM &Tann. Lord Waterford's The lessunts Mr. kaiser to Culstadals INTELLICi ED YORKSHIRE UNION / JUVENIL/1 HANDICAP, of olds. ME EXTRA. iILINT MEETING, 1552. 5 love. each, &c., for 2-yr at lb The Judge b a by St. Lawrence, out of Seater to Me teor br eby British Yeoman • out ofObolab Siaglea dam Audubon Pride 7 10 b e by logo out of Daughter of Totem 7 10 The Buccaneer 7 10 b f by Melbourne out of Gaiety 7 8 YOWL AND AINIVIT HAND sad 6 only adulated en or Age at lb Sit Charles 6 8 5 Lough Bawn .... 4 8 4 I Meld of Team _ _ it lb — Wale; --- -6 8 41 Unity Oerforth... The Proctor.— 4 7 8 Common 3 7 6 Charity 7 "l Auchialeek Zeta 7 6 Polly 7 6 St. Andrew 7 8 Malice Mir Agars...... b f by Venison, dam by The Saddler 6 8 eh o by Velocipede out of Luxury 6 6 Tiektoa 6 6 Sweetness 6 6 Hatt!neap 6 0 MAP, of 16 core. each, 10 ft, before Monday next. Ate et lb The Alp 7 4 Lerrywheut Little Davie 3 7 4 View Halloo 6 7 0 St. Michael 3 7 0 Cleveland Recommendation 3 6 0 Florence 3 6 12 ACCIDENT AT THE OLD CRYSTAL PALACE.—On Tuesday morning, a mart named John Brown, a labourer employed by Messrs. Fel, Ilenderion, and Co., in the re• moral of the remains of the Exhibition building in Hyde park, mot with &serious accident by the canted slipping of one of the large cast-iron girders. ,He was assisting at the hoisting shears to remove the girder, which was about 20 feet long, and nearly three tuns weight, from the floor of one of the galleries, upon a lumber carriage, for conveyance to the new erectien at Norwood, and dunng the process of lowering by some means it slipped a short distance down the chain, whin oniend of it caught his leg and jammed it against some wood work ; his screams speedily indicated the hurt be had suffered, and moans were taken to get him up, when he was at once removed to St. Georgie Hospital, where it was found that he bad sustained a compound fracture of the left leg, of a very serious character. MORTALITY IN PARIB.--The following returns of the deaths in Paris in the lest month, with their causes, have been made by the Prefect of Police. The number of deaths was 2,301— TM., 1,222 males and 1,079 females, being 92 less than in July. Of these deaths, 366 were under 3 months old ; from 1 yestr to 6 years, 313; 6to 8 years, 28 ; Bto 15, 60; 16 to 20, 121 ; 20 to 30, 257 ; 30 to 40, 223 ; 40 to 60. 193 ; to 60, 197 ;60 to 70, 142 ;70 to 80, 128 ; SO to 100, 47 ; 621 of the deaths were from pneumonia, pul stormy plithisis, and other affections of the lungs, 312 from enteritis, and 81 Irma cerebral fever; the remainder from em ,11-pmt, croup, typhus Meer, ; 28 of the deaths were from ruicide—riit., 2 tern 15 to 20 years; 13 from 20 to 10; It from 40 to 60; and 1 from 60 to 70 . . ._ _ IT 18 EXPECTED that the East India mail rift South ampton, will be despatched, according to the new contract, on the let and lith of the month, and that the !arrange ments will comment: on the lath of January neat. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. Yesterday tho half-yearly general meetin g o f th e rs in shareholde the above company was held at the London Them, Bishopsgate-stmt ; J. Duncan, Esq., in the chair. The notice convening the meeting was read, and the registry s.al affixed to UM het of ohs' chat& rs. The CHAIRMAN uid there are shares upon which certain cells have not been met, and u resolution is moved that they be forfeited. The numbers of the shares were then read, and the motion being seconded, was unanimously passed. The report (which was received as read) appeared in the Express of Sept. 11. The Citatanig said it now became his duty to move that the report be received end approved. Ile begged to ley that it was a matter of great satisfaction to the directors that during the last six months the number of accidents on the line had been few, and it was reei satisfactory to find that the report, as cempareel with those of previous half years, aliened that the sum tor compensation to persons and goods was very small. This circumemuce best tes tified the efficieuey of the service of the company in the management of the line. They would °bet rye that • ba lance remained after the payment of preferable claims, and leave • sum which would pay the ordinary shareholders 3 per cent. This was small, but favourable, , under the present septet of the company's affairs. They most all be aware that the traffic was sinsdier at this stalein of the year. In the next place, that the iuterest upon which so much in the shape of reduction had been in pro gre-s would haven very email effect open the revenue of the hall-year, yet they would have a dividend net unequal to that of the preceding half-year, but a shade better. If any one looked upon the present dividend to judge of the condition of the company, they would form a most erro neous and imperfect opinion of it. Certain operations had been carried out, but their reauhe were not let taugible, and others were now in program The conversion of the floating into the debenture debt had occasioned much labour, but • seeing would accrue from it. They had ob tained money et diminished rates of inusreet, which showed the improved credit of the cumpauy. Originally they ob tained it et ti per cent., but illw et 3 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Besides this conversion, they had made changes in their staff, producing • yearly saving of nearly enotg. With ftlttnet to the lineation of Captain Coddiegten, they were aware that that gentleman's high &ulstr had been subject of discussion at previous meetings. The directors had found difficulty in dealing with it, but the engage ment having been made, they could not break off so legal an agreement. Thu capabilities of tied gentleman had been questioned in some quarters, but the board had always • just rennet fur his talents, and he bad now retired. Last ball-year sonic wuuts had beeu supplied that would nut bo observed with next half-year. The change in the value of their awes was valued at ;$0,0004.; but they had realised double that sum, and, being of no use to the company, they extinguished debts with it. They had another im portant operatieu—the reduction of the expenditure of permanent way in regard to the contracts. The share holders wmld see, theretire, they were in n transition state, which would be more apparent next half/ear. Be sides these, they had made very important reductions in the working expellees of the company . ; and the report would chew, en eontreeting it 14:•h former report*, this to be highly satisfactory. They bed not yet the benefits of these reductions, but they were in • fair way to obtain them next half-year. Ile Om chairman) dui not wieli to prophesy, but in trying his hand to get ate fair result, he thought that, its addition to in creased traffic, they would be able to give the shareholders two-and-a. half to three per cent. (Hoar, bear.) Some might say he was sanguine, but he expressed those opi 'dons with the greatest confidence. It was ever an exceed ingly agreeable task to prophesy what he had. (Hear, bear) The local traffic had increased, but the lung runs had not been to large. He believed the position of the company was better than could have been expected, and on the financial able of tile question he (the chairman) need say no more. In relation to o'her companies, they would remember they took notice of the Dundee end Perth and the Scottish Central. The question with the latter bad been settled hi t 'veer ci the Caledonian Compaiiy, and with respect to the other, no do doubt it would be de cided iu the same way. With regard to the Edin burgh and Glasgow Company, they were going into parliameut for a bill for the purpose of obtaining a more intimate connexion with that company, and this would be done as soon as perliament opened. Respect ing the Glasgow and South Destern Company, lie (the chairman) considered they hail named a decicratiun of war, but it looked very like a flag of distress. That company thought at one time they could crush the Caledonian Com pany, but failed. They did not succeed in getting a through line, though they obtained a local line. They believed this company was iuterfering with their traffic, but if the Glas gow and South Eastern bad kept to the local line alone, they could have no doubt paid a dividend. Therefore the charge against the Caledonian Company unjust, and the latter was determined to maintain ita own rights. (near, hear.) It vat unnecessary to go into details respecting the diipute with that cometny, as the Caledonian Company hail treated them with iieetelity and justice. In conclusion, he (the chuirman) trusted the report, such as it was, would be agreed to and passed. (Applause) - • - - , In reply to a question, The CUA TIIMAN mid they had paid Captain Coddington 6,teng. to cased the agreement. If they had not done this that path man would be entitled to 10,000 e Besides this, they bad effected a seeing in the engineer's account. Mr. It. A. Gant said the propel, tors had good reason to be satisfied, because they had been extricated from a state of thraldom. Too much praise could not be bestowed upon the directory, but Lis sincere hope was that the motion with respect to not running Sunday trains would out be passed, as such a measure would destroy that gleam of hope now dawning_ upon them. Mr. HERAVATH—With respect to the debenture stock, said ice the case of the York and North Midland, that coin ' pony had the option of calling in and paying it off. If something like this was done it would be a great saving. Another company was receiving money at three per cent. for a short time. With respect to the debentures he would be glad is future reports to see a little table stating when the debentures tell due and the amount of interest. There was no accouut of the mileage expenses in the report. lie had no doubt with peeper administration the company would give an increased dividend. A PHOPHICTOR said the chairman stated that there was something like a declaration of war by the Glasgow and South Eastern company, but he thow..iit his (the chsirmao's) speech was rather warlike ton. It they could make an amicable arrangement, it would be better than in volving the expenses of parliamentary proceedings. The CHAIMMAN said they had had a good deal of war, and that they should if possible turn their apt ars into pruning hooks, but it was advisable to keep a sword in the scabberd. The report, having been seconded, passed unanimously. The ettatiticas said the next resolution was with regard to a dividend to the preference shareholders. They had funds enough for a aividend of 41.45. He thought it was a matter of great satisfaction to the preference holders to find that In tho course of IS months of wrangling their stock was above par. The resolsvion was seconded and carried. The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend of 12s. per cent. on the consolidated ordinary stock be paid, len in come tax.—This was seconded, and passed unanimously. It was then moved that Mr. Duncan and Mr. Douglas Campbell be re-elected as members of the board. They were reelected, being eligible, accordingly. Mr. WILKINSON said, on the subject of electing an auditor, that it ought to be done with great care, and pro posed Mr. John Young to that office. This was seconded and carried after some discussien. The CHAIRMAN mid tho next question was, "that the directors be empowered to apply to parliament for the creation of debenture stock in substitutiou of the existing bond or mortgage debt of the company. Mr. Witxissom wished to know it the company would go to parliament for any other purpose, and for au amalga mation with the Edinburgh and Glasgow. The CHAIRMAN said they would take separate bills, otherwise if oue was rejected both would be thrown out. The motion being seconded was carried. Mr. Mc!hoe's() moved "that tho servants of the 0031. patsy be rested on the Sabbath day, and that no systematic pre•determinrd work be required from them in conducting the Vedic on the Lord's-day." This &lotion was seconded and put to the poll, and dc elated to be lost. A Tote of thanks was passed to the chairman and dircc tors, and the mating separated. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. The directors' report for the half-yearly meeting to be had on the 7th of ectiiber, states that In comparing the revenue account with the corresponding pe riod of 1851, a largo increase in the receipts arists--namely, in passenger receipts, an increase t f 2,3731. Gs. 21d. ; and in goods receipts, of 4,3711. de. 71d. The balance u n band at 31et January lost, after providing for the dividend of 7e. per shore, was 6,9521. Oa. ON. This balance was reserved chiefly hie payment of interest on unsettled laud claims which had been accruing forseveral years. During the past half-year Ouse claims have been nearly all adjusted, and the amount of interest duo ou them is 2,6141. Ins. 11,1., leaving 4,3361. a., lid., to which add the receipts for this half-year-17,6031.25. ld , making 5'2,0041. 51. 2td. 1)e -duct working expenses, interest on debentures, end oa pre• terence share., 33,9781. Ile. 111 d. Balance, 18,02.51.13e.31d. Out of this balance the directors recommend a dividend to be declared at the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, or 7s. 61. per share, on the consolidated stock of the convene, payable on the 21st of October, which w dismount to i 5,3001., leaving on hand 2,725113,.31d. to be carried forward to next half-year ; a sum which the directors consider amply suificient to meet all past duo claims (inesjective of the Depreciation Fund). Looking at the regularity with which the traflie on the linecontintme to be developed. and the large increase that has been going on since the accounts were closed ou the 31st of July last, the direr ors feel confident of being able to keep up nt least this rate of Lividend in future. The dividend on the preference shares, amounting to 2e. 9,1. per share, will also till to be paid at the same time with that 011 thu consoli dated stock. From the capital account the vaymems under the bead of Land and Compensation have been very heavy; but now nearly all the lejadowners bare been settled with. The directors have resolved to recommend the shareholders to apply to pat Lament iu next session for power to doivert the mortFagr delft into ;net, roma stock ; this stark to con stitute a first charge, and to be issued on such terms and conditions as the directors may deem advisable, the rate of interest not exceeding 31 percent. The Harbour Branch is nearly complcwil, nod will shortly be open for traffic."