The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

'.ISTE OF ILER (Fres tbs Da(!y Newt.) OUNPOWDF.R. Th e practical duties of a newspaper correspondent a re of a very prosaic, unimaginative character. We cannot imagine the severest service of intelligeace that eyer dried up the news in "our ordinary sources o f information: breathing the soul of poetry into him, and inspiring him to recur to fancy for his t ot ,. We consider, tlerefore, that tho seminary of the news imported in the Sentinel last week is per fecily authentic; and yet an extraordinary para. I ro'th it contained called for the exercise of all our fa• It appears that on the 15th the British fleet under Admiral Pandas was lying at Gibraltar. It Con sisted of the Britannia (flag), Albion, Trafalgar, Ven geance, Itelleiophou, Indefatigable, and the steamers T er rible, Fury, Spiteful, and Antelope. Our corre spondent Laving given this and further information, proecei6 to say—" The 15th lust. being the anniver sary of the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte, all the Itr;tisla men of war in the Bay of Gibraltar hoisted the Freuch ensign at the main, and tired a royal salute. Thu French war steamer Sesestris was also dressed with tags on the °evasion." There is apparently no reason to doubt these facts. c.,, any naval officer, even so tough an official as Admiral Dundee, the smallest excuse for tiring off gunisolder and making a noise, and he a ill be at it, wr ong or right. The Queen's standard is a glorious pretext for a broadside. We have beside a number of link civic saints whose birthdays are celebrated by the cannon's mouth ; and there are almost as lune feasts of St. Saltpetre" commemorating battles or nativities of great commanders past (and to come, if the males of the royal family grow up, as to our satisfaction there is every prospect of their as there are in Roman catholic countries to be celebrated by idleatia. polkas, and mass-going. But the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte!" Heard sot one ever the like of a British fleet hoisting the Fnreh ensign at the main and firing a royal salute in honour thereof? Far should we be from refusing to a worthy enemy 4:: the marks of respect becoming a magnanimous nation. Still less would we revive the odious, but natural, animosity which animated the bulk of the peop:e of England towards the Corsican in the midst of that glorious career, every step of which was in tended to carry him nearer to their destruction. It must not be forgotten, however, that the great Emperor was ever the bitter foe of England, even alien seeking refuge in the Meet of the moat generous and consisteut of his enemies, and that for nearly a quarter of a century the wealth, the resources, the blood, and treasure of this kingdom were taxed to their utmost to humble the power which he raised to wish colossal proportions, and to destroy the princi ples of which he was the child and prototype. All oar policy as a state, all oar energies as a nation, all car forces by sea and by land, were directed to this sole end: and as dogmatically as the " Corsican usur per" had been wont to declare the annihilation of a kingdom or a dynasty, so did we consistently deny his imperial rank till, in the very streets of Paris, we proclaimed it had ceased for ever, and blotted out his rale and his race from the history of Europe. What ever claims the l'resident, his nephew, may possess to the allegiance of the French people, wo never can recognise any of them arising out of the defunct imperial r.:ginor. Without inquiring into the motives which led the people to accept, or the means by which be gained, his prominence, we regard the circum stance as an isolated fact as little connected with the victories of Napoleon the Great as with the con quests of Alexander. Under no possible circum stances, therefore, can we pay any honour to the deceased Emperor's memcry (General Bonaparte, as our diplomatists called him some thirty years ago) as a mark of respect to the living President. It was, therefore, we humbly submit. an indiscretion- nay, more, a folly of great magnitude—in Admiral Hondas to tire a royal salute on the anniversary of the birth-day of one who has left no pleasant memories among this people. Why, even the French man-uf-war only "dressed in flags." She did not return the English admiral's noisy, un called for, and graceless compliment, belched forth from the broad-ides of five line-of-battle ships and four steam frigates. If the Frenchman remembered, he might well have been astonished at the unlooked for honour paid within reach of the echoes of Tra falgar. The very names of some of the British vessels must have recalled unpleasant occurrences— one bearing the name of the II& whisk ersehed Bonaparte's efforts to establish a VIM sl the r that of his flight and exile. The salute, we flair,alasdod in his ears rather as the hectoring of a aussomeid bully, than as a tribute to the memory of the departed great. The next news we may expect to hear is, that Admiral Dundee has given a gunpowder glorification of the birthdays of Turenne or Louis the Great, and that the French, not to be behindhand in courtesy, have rendered similar honours to Marl borough and Nelson. It is high time for the Admi ralty to issue regulations to confine within proper limits this ridiculous penchant of naval officers to waste her Majesty's munitions of war. ECONOMY IN ROYAL SALUTES. w Scientific Punch,—Cireat objecti in is made to the waste of gunpowder which is made in tiring palates. To save this ompense, sad at the lame time preserve for illustrious pereenara the honour of being stunned, let me recommend to the notice of the Lords of the Admiralty the substance called Quad rochloride of Nitrogen, which is one of the most explosive compounds known. You make it by simply netting a jar of chlorine to stand inverted is • solution of sal-usnaosiac Material' cheap enough. A drop of it no bigger then a pea gore off with • lend bang, sad awry smell quanta of wou:d make • greater asses than • fetV-presifet ; which, it bas the advantage at being gemesady sad much more likely thee respowner te Weir =7, moreover, of smelling perhaps worn. Of the truth of these statement' I am ready to *sue— my—DAYX.—The Laboratory, August, 1842."—ParotelL POISON Or TOE TOAD AND SAUMANDZIL-8011111 very curious experiments have lately been performed by JIM Gratiolet and S. Cloex, to demismaralle the imtresre *Mesa of the west% of the Lemma teed. and that species of lizard to which the appellation ee fasksmanarg" W beim given. Traditional repute hoar long attribuSel pleeneree aunties to the toad, but no well-marked MN a o = Ming arises from comet with the animal, readsne became opposed to the traditics. The point, however, Me bees set at rest by MM. Cireddet end IL Clem, who have tot only succeeded in killimymeall Min* OM birds by the pustular contents of the skis of leads mai minanden, but have obtained the active principle of the pine of the toad, and demonstrated it to be alkalise le to tonere. Oat of the tint experiments of MM. Grandee and a. area on this 'snivel was as follows —A little MMUS ilareehe war .nonslated with toad poison on the tight Mei Mt, sad le evil . rossequesem app sired at fl eet to gaper's**. At the experatins, however, of some days weaksem of the ino culated limb was perceptible; symptoms of peeelyMe fol lowed, sad did sot altogether dimseaar at OM expiration of eight months—thus 'bowing tea pilaledilly of local Polmenri. With the view of determining whether the poison maintained its efficacy foe a MI 1106014 the 'transits:ltalian procured by diseectiem elan IP grains( the pawn on the 2.5 th of April, Mil, sod WNW pissed it stele they ism-elated with • small qualliii, 111 1.0.6.a. t1e sago Vietin Hatch, HU, • goldfinch, whisk erelt died Thus the penal was demolishment 1117 - 1 the effect. of long keeping without Waal itspessmy. an some of the effete. produced by the penenee la *Lich rendition it is mingled with • Wee anlstlrt met matter. By proper chemical treellesee Ihe active • waseiple ha. bees extracted sad enpeekneste have le , ' suds with it demonstrative of the salmis dedence. Irmezpvrimitetrn are still asatieuing ilisi= ! sad they tiptoe a belief that comillueuble be throes ea the nature of the riga of Iggraffeamaa ',lva,. w a k e ., of contagious diONSIO, and 111.1•111,111111•11 rsora:ly. Hitherto the mall aseensh of Mil rims sot- I. veil bss hawed the number mid esimplemeses sneered- MM (irstiolet and S. Clem stemmed, however, ▪ 11... ..n Iva wring larger quentities, will, as was a' make known their resilln. It is well deter w• howo vie, that the active principle is newly insoluble an veer, slightly so in ether, snd very soluble in sleohol. EV I. !veiny t wog HoUTIIIRPTON TO PORTLAND BIT --1 be members of the Southampton c PolLeechnie In naos', and their friends, about 600 in ns ' a I. ' went " ew sin - union trip to Poetised Be. ) on Monday last, is the ▪ r Jul der, kindly lent to them by Mr. Willcox, the numbe r 1.4 the town, and managing threaten of the Perlin -141" (2 "eoPenv. The Mayor, Sir Alexander Cockburn, H P. foe Soithasepton, sad several gentlemen and ladies the party. A portion landed at Portland, sad t.r uv. Cal hour. inspected the ingenious and munificent 0.,* is proem,' for the Portland breakwater. The :noted and enjoyed themselves at Weymouth. Any. Go Lilies to see mechanical skill operating on • great ':e. should so and see the progress of Portland break nivel'. About • thmisml74 tons of stone is daily thrown into the wen to b.rm it. The winost courtesy is shown to visitor', 001,very afhirded to enable them to see the works. sa Alexander Curkhura intended to proceed to London by lar 11,4 1 Weymouth to attend to his professional busineu, le'on some accident his portmanteau was returned from 15 et mouth to the steamer, end he was ander the necessity °I e , turning to :Southampton by the J..piter. The company iri.d at SMl th ampto.. Water from their excenion ,yeeter d in'eoila. The Channel Wig as smooth as a mill-pond, d° "thing could he m ore el:mining than the voyage. The gut , from Southampton to Purtlead is about sixty eitio RAILWAY MEETINGS. LONDON AND BLACIEWALL RAILWAY. The half yearly meeting et Os shareholders was held yesterday at sow, at the LowileaTinges. street, Mr. J. N. Dan the ehsharsh The report (a summary of whisk Ins in war Colman) was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, is sniving he end the In ▪ position if the estaproy was yew rne se shas in which it steed et the Sini he hid hit bed the photon of addressing them. They had bees wooing on in the old , and, he night add, steadily ant well. = i t e l ase had an incre of Mlle end a &ninnies of ea Every earl had been :oboe to nainein end edgers, the best Interests of the memsemy ; and they led always honked forward with that view to than maseiesse which had from tin to tine bees sanetiosed by the proprietors. They had hoped that the Hayden -squre Junction, which would transmit goods to Ind from the North Western, would have been Gabbed is Jana last, but owns to cireurasoanees entirely beyond their control, it had not yet been completed. They were assured, how ever, that at would be done by the beginning of October nett. The works were, notwtthstanding, going on, and he had little doubt that by the end, if not the beginning of that month they would be completed. Of course it would be highly desirable that smelt should be the ease, bemuse their traffic began to full off at that particular lin • sod if they could thus obtain anything like a winter traMeit would be extremely serviceable in keeping up their dividends. The present was their bad half.year, but the dividend they were about to declare wee the largest which had yet been paid from the actual working of the line. It was true that • larger dividend had been paid last half year, tilt that was attributable to a sum of 3,0001., the profit which had accrued from the sale of shares. Resides this there had been a few items—though they certainly did ant amount to any large sum that had been deducted from this half-year's earning, although they properly be loosed to the las t, the arrangements not having been completed at the time their hat accounts were made up. lie need only say, with referent., to another junction, that with the Eastern Counties, that the works were progressing in • very favourable manner ; and that so won as the tenuous was fit to receive the traffic there could be no doubt that they would obtain a very consider able addition to their business. These were both very im. portant undertakings, and ho hoped that before they met again they would be completed. A third was the railway to Tilbury and Gravesend. In their arrangements with respect to this scheme, they were guarded against any posaihility of loss ; and they had every reason to hope that the increase of heroines, it would bring them would be very great. Other parties who were even more interested in it than themselves thought very admirably of it, and they anticipated that though the period allowed was 18 months, the whole would be finished within a year ; while that part of the line to Oravesend would probably be opened by the beginning or cod of May neat. The position of the Lon dau and Blaekwalleeropany would then be • very good one. The directors had never attempted to concea l from them their firm belief that as a line of four miles their railway rover could be • paving con cern. All the amusements whleh they had made with the sanction and support of the shareholders, ard the alteration they bad made in their Knee', had been tending to the object they bed in view. It was said that " hope deferred made the beset sick " (and certainly that had been the ease with them long enough); but the attainment of their wishes was at last brought so near, that they could nowseareely call it "deferred." (Hear.) The directors had been most zealous to promote the interests of the company, and he *trusted that their conduct had given them satisfaction. (Hear, hear.) That it had not given satisfaction to all, however, no sae meld doubt who had read the Times of that morning, or the Reiheay Times of last week. There was in that day's Times a letter, signed "A l'oor Debtor," impugning the conduct of t he board in having wasted large sums in making the Haydoa.square branch, and in erecting extensive premiss at their I.'en chureh-street station, while they were only paying a divi dend of 2.. per share ; and the ' Poor Debtor" insinuated that the directors were people who were trying to " work" their proprietors. New really the writer of that letter ought to have endeavoured to undenend a little about the matter he was Whinge( before he had thus held up the cam pony to public odium. Whether the " Debtor " was peer in money he amid not say ; but he seemed poor helligence, and he was certainl very poor In the first pine, he said that t h an Haydcm num been* would cost half a million, wbeieas its real ex-' pm would be only 78,0 0 01., and it wo uld not oast the can posy a bribing, while it must be the means of putting a peat dello( money into their pockets. (Hear.) Then as re garded the new terminus, it moat be evident to everybody that their station was scarcely large enough, but the altera tions were not going to be made with their money at all; but with that of another company: and it was obvious that ' that other etnepaay meet Awl it to their interest to under take works of that extent. (Hear, hear.) Really, then, when people wrote letters to the public newspapers, they ought to take the trouble first to make a little inquiry. (Cheers.) Their traffic hid increased very moth more, un merieelly speaking, than the inneseed profits would at first sight have led them to believe. This arose from the fact that last year the receipts from the Deck Company , had been charged in the gross, and that the expenses re quired to be deducted from the sum put down. Now the item was a nett not, and they were thus really 3,0.'01. better this last half-year. With regard to the Dock Com pany, it would appear that they had a deficit of some 3001. or 4001., but they must bear sw and that what they lost one way they had seised is Mistbac, end the rash bed shown that they had nosed nine may on the whole. This was certainly an wipeeliteble lbws. bet they bad new rase to a beam swisteeeemiliss u lrith the Desk oteepesy, who bad made a eassideedie Statism Is Irk alliargli• With these orkastisse he thought they sight te be satis fied, ahlaigh they nen gooty not se meek es they had gieed ' ce de (Neer, Mei) now lewd te sone the abseils et the isperL Atter sew disseeden, the report was seeeiagehely re• wind t end a dividesd of k. prim cos desingd. Mr. PALLISTER this lerweed be nodes, which, not • with a ssaeeisr, hit nth* pond. A vote of than was gives to the akeinnes, and the meeting broke up. YORE AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. The hell yearly meelm4 ',this eompaay was held at York yowled. . Z. S. Tuomrsom oseopied the chair. The d dmairaime w" hoe aestesoms. . The report, disk has else* swami la cm 'ukasti bevies bests Ulm se seed, The CHAIZMAJI resoled to offer seem esmesks la detailed expleastisa of dm matters therein Waned to. He Ant Warred to the timbal sssssat, muddy several items of increased espumillaro, mil that them bums refuted to an additional outlay to lan If.asfaimskry hseash. epos which the Board of Teals ki empiesil es ellmellea is the width of a tubular bridge dime emeltraelaL It Ode case the directors had sinnund with the matesubes to divide the cost between the. ; and the outlay i ballillegs wee SAIL, chiefly for an eagissulted, whisk had leas isaimal asesesary la cesseganor et; the stalpeay regeledeg ad& Waal roost. After referring to use or two able atellab wader this head, the chain= nest directed MINIONI the skim against the compsay by Messrs. Crumblier.** essesesters, with respect to whist he seagrattistal shembeldsse that they sew haw the must. Hs elm =lthem *se to sissy reepsets the abeam ie may eat Male Mame at a messesful to Met they bed amessed dean the last half yew= lag three sets of parliemsak wbisit wire of kowtows as repedsd tbe bileemle if thk Oa tbe whole, he esmideral task yeellisa as sae way disemzegiag, lamarmit es lbw. ley were est la pe skim to pay a bap Mewl, sill *ey had mods sem 'ma= they Imd Ism obis to meet A mm er Emma. is be arm lbws whisk vet to be mails hem MO Nellieraess, whisk hs mold la of se much Laymen., to this l anew as a mks it dellealis that the direst's,. obeli salmi to the premetere ef way possible tril „pewee. Us massirmed the hall that the Y Nobel, which was Wog builtjathtly by this sad this T Newcastle, and Berwise Compaq, was to a awed Meta e seri he had as doubt that, ilea egsasd,, i veil lead mateelelly Is Wrest* the trees elf the marave% with regard is the smell seas of the dividerik, be remarked that It was to be attributable to the Ist that a less babas. bad bests brought howard hese dm previous belf.year; and they had abe Is pry a lugs massed el dm East sad West Tusk. shire Osai, Is whisk tbsy r zE d ast ha the tarn waft -year of 1851. bad ales beta Wont le essallesehle smapetitios, whit sailed dm le give edditleael assemitstlatlea ft Om pals, sal 1p a tralm weleast is all Irjaiolis - 01/Mirre - ghTerMTB4l.llTeier/ThifisTe tr; knOer,ffireFttitB emidpts ham tbeillialliare bane were to geed st per seek the 110101011 oath* present half-year bobs rather mime ass 4,d001, whisk was derived primed...Ay from the mato wager traffic. At the same time the gm& *sae the present half-year, they antlelpsied,immhl be wig gl e Ile observed from the traffic. eitllllllll 1114 Week aid wan an increase of 6471. over the 11117•111110.11 period of 1151, the total receipts hying, in MI, HAW; and this you 111411. As reeves& the emmediffin be which this company was at present salieutud. le *eel& b was not oily possible, but law/is* prehalle, that sus llMlDgelsest m ht be made ere loss by width it wield be shipped alto. epther. After making elate dladeee le the Bull and lby purchase Immediate. led map dis MOW Means by which the company might ram Medi be that issegeret, he stated that the directors had head diet they Wen be able to reduce the reserve fund he meiatignies laWassent way to the extent of 4,0001. a pen sad armismisti by moving that the report be meshed sad eillerMd. Mr. T. PRICE wooded the motion. Mr. ROSS, of Manchester, made some remarks in re fireeee to the Hull and Selby parehase shares, sentmeding that money might be borrowed for the plirplea of sedevieg ' the Csmapiny at • less rate of interest than that ili the daimon. lie pointed to the moults whieb n C e lt land Company had set with regard to tie Leeds sod lira& ford share., ureter that the credit of this eseiptey wee quite m good as that of the Midland. The 3COM Com • pang bad paid 1,800,000/. in live months; Sal he saw no ress in why this company should sot pursue the ems policy with regard to the shares in question. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, pointed out that the Mid land Company stood in a position with regard to the Leeds and Bradford shares, altogether different from that which this company occupied in regard to the Hull and Selby shares. Mr. CIIARLTON referred to the law charges, and urged the desirability of a permanent law agent being appointed, instead of the law business of the company being trans acted, as It was at present, by attorneys. Mr. BARSTOW, of Nunthorpe, inquired is what posi- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1852. ties the claim of the seaway waist Mr. Oeorp Hudson was at the prweat time. The CHAIRMAN replied that the Mammy salt we mew set deem he hearing. and would some oa is the No vember Term _ _ . • SHAREHOLDER alluded to the additional cost in curred over the tubular bridge on the Knottingley Branch, contending that it bad been calmed by an engineering blunder on the pan of Mr. Robert Stephenson, and that that gentleman, and not this company, ought to be !able for the mesequeson. Tito CHAIRMAN said, Mr. Stephenson contended he had mode no blunder in the matter ; sad in order to show that there was no danger. as hml been alleged, on account of the reduced width of the tube, le (Mr. Stephenson) had travelled the satire brag* of it with his head out of the carriage window. Mr. RAMESEY proceeded to ask a variety of questions affecting minor matters in manexion with the manage ment, and the report was thee adopted. The CHAIRMAN moved that s dividend after the rate of N. per rent. per annum be now donated to be paid on the let September neat, Masse tan deducted. Carried. A committee Wu appointed to select a gentlemen to AU the office of auditor, in %bergamot the late Mr. Conan, of Magebeetar. The meeting was than made special, for the purpose of considering the pprroopriety of raising such sums of money as should be eweidered neeemary, by the 0000 of additional shares or stock of the company, in exchange for the whole or any part of the money which is now or may be here after owing by th e company, at certain rates et interest. The CHAIRMAN proposed the following resolution, which, after same discussion, was carried, only three bands being held up against it.—" That un der the authority of the York cad North Midland Victoria Dock Railway Aet, 1862, this meeting consents to anthorise the directors to create trout time to time if and when they shell think proper, new stock of the company to be called York and North Midland Debenture Stock,' not exceed ing in each case the respective amounts, and at the several rates of dividend hereinafter mentioned (such rates of divi dend to be in each case denoted on the face of the certifi cates for the different proportions of such stack so to be created, and to be payable half-yearly on the let day of Janusry and the let day of July in each year, irons the respective dates of the issue thereot) that is to say, any sans not exceeding 280,0001. et the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, any sum not exceeding 230,0001. at the rate of 3! per eat. per annum, any sum not exceeding 260,0001. at the rate of 31 per cent per annum, and any sum not ex ceeding 250,0001. at the rate of 4 per ant. per annum ; but the stock to be crested in respect of such last mentioned sum shall only be created and issued subject to the right to call in, cancel, and redeem the same at any time or times, on giving not lea' than six months' notice of the intention so to do ; and that the stock so to be created be issued and disposed of from time to time ae the directors shall think proper, and either to the holders of and in exchange tor existing debentures or bonds, or to such other persons as may be willing to take the meth." A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors oncluded the proceedings. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. The report of the directors, to be submitted at the thirty-sccond half-yearly general meeting, to be held Sept. I, 184, states that the total amount of share and mortgage capital chargeable on revenue fir the half-year ending June 30 last is ea follows, excluding leased lines: Ordinary capital C,712,201 Guaranteed do. a per mat . 774,410 Ito do. 4t per scat ....... 2'9.932 Ilancheater and eaa*part capital Lams and delayed payments Z 11,773,119 The ezpeaditure on eapital account during the half-year has *mounted to 128,9354.18 a. Id., of which the following camitiluts tbe min items: IllawArist sad Lads aria an d . 0 10 Ilanehester and Sabo Boa t 4 ,0 00 03 8 1 Liverpool sad nary our—lnlesbarsotron eateries, he. Wakefield, Posleheet, and Gook line sad liesnaltes Barak) breeds 10,116 11 7 West Kldiao Vales Ines . Hoddertlleal and Sheffield line sod Hid defeated Annus 14,11:11 11 Wattle( stack .................... 12,167 13 9 The large amount on Liverpool nod Bury amount em braces • final payment to the coalmen, ad his retentions; also sundry paynomts Me land pusehesse which have been completed. Dm 101•111 7 =Whea more or less to the Burnley breads, the and Sheffield, and the West Hiding Umbel Inas no AWN baying been spared, as far as possible, to big 111 a does the outstanding claims upon the company's emlfaL bar directors report with tome satisfaction the taselselen K a protracted arbitration on the merits of two Wilma Imitated by Yr. Faviell, sour tractor, for work dew as die Burnley branch contract, and for money owing. The delme of the plaintiff involved a sum of not less than WNW ; but it was maintained on behalf of your company that, so far from such claims haying any foundation, the plaintiff was indebted for excess pay meats made in respect of works lubsaquently proved not to Inn been completed by him. By the award of the learned arbitrator, it has been determined that upon this, the material issue, the sum of 4,776!. 17s. is due and owing to your company by the plaintiff, and that such sum shall be paid on or helm oho let January, 1853, and that excepting the costs et the sward and the cuts of the arbitration, which are to be bum Is moieties, all other costa shall be defrayed is the peeportisa of two-thirds by the plaintiff and one-third by the mammy. Your dinettes have every reason to frongsonlate their fellow peopeloton upon this result, which independently of its UMW& wine, is calculated, in some mesa*. they hem to oessiseast a long-prevailing deter misades to make railway oempanies the object of ceork tent damn& is monks with the settlement of their contract ameosta. The arbitration se the remaining clan of Meson. lissliag aid Cropper, oesteselien for the Ash ton bras*, le MU pentliag, with sem, de** on the pan of year Meadow M mew ea eddy &Wis. With this ex septhra, the whole et the mend aseausti of the company have boos settled. TM shared state and position of the money market have contributed to • further re denim of the general arrean of calk, which sow amouat to about 66,0001., including the arrears of Me more recent calls ea We Fifth Shares, say 19,0301. TM creation of a certain assist at perpetual irredeemable 'amities, to be issued in instielffinthla of all or part of the borrowed eApitel et the emissay, will be proposed at the meeting. The maw asessat for the past half-yrar, in cluding the reeelple M fba Danaley and North Union lines, shows that 41103ar. had hese received, from which 11,569/, received for worldsg the traffic of the Blackburn and Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport lines is deducted, leaving 408,6071. To this le added 12,6011., being two-thirds of the reseima et Pemba sad Wyss Use, making ' 421,1081. The neap& sad disheraeraests en menu so. ' count, 'Wading the Pemba end Wyse, the Blackburn sad Soathpeet Rem. the poses& of whit& de not whol y holesg to the L essened to NUM, sad for the 1361 to 872,9644 chewing is in crease of The diebanements ameested to 172,8161., and be the meesgendigy period of 186 l w 162,6764 &ow ing a deessies Is the expediter' of 20.1411. The belsnoe of manse for the past half-year ap plicable to dividend and interest. samosas to 241,0461. 9s, 7d. Tear dieselliee resememed dist • dividend se the rate el $ pee sent per mow, Is. In cases Tax, be deelared, leas W a enipbe UHL B. 9d. to be carried beward to the awl aseseet. The ispieteat ' alone embetamd Is your esemeare emplialtion to paella met la dr bit seedes wail saselismed by ea ad which loodeed the mil went es the Mb et J. Intair the peevish= et Oh act, the emeagemestetelb the peopistors of Fifth Ohms. and Rebrads& Illemen are sonaresed, and those eandiatieg claims white were die eatileit of so mush litigation mill desmaies ere happily reeeseilel The tees tios K the weds at doing with the amount et HS per than dedseled drew be paid-up capital et the 111111111bres, therefore, needs miluimest, sad after due easelderedes it is resommaadel dist the =mum shall be applied geserally Se the pengines et the 'mild esseme. The abandeemast of these pardon at the Wed Left Union lines caws_ pew Jested between liewitag awl Looda.Valterisebble eel& ad. dendield, and odor awllwß tegother with the Haimerth Branch Balliedes if the and Shailleld hes aloe reselesiagirellee L b w:MINN sod mier seat boa intim dish Imbed a = llBl3 = ( oft el «ow- Csalleflulliil Wee Wis abeadamest the assitsal am ant et the eatensios sham is redwood to W. per share, mid of the West Biding Union shares be W. per sham. The tweed= which your di ' futon deneght it emeedieet to ease is parliament to the bill ef the Leeds, Seedbed, and Halihz Junction Railway C ems set attache with exam the bill having p . = Ma eammittem et both bosses without may mediae& des of be dtestleasbis preehisee w C hisk it embeesed. The ineadmene heed by tho Bea& kr the beandes et the temsbleg Oaste pestles et the ams% of and Dory la shish per ammo le Interested, hav ing Use wide absebbe. and the - Maaienemat Bill pro awls' by the Measkata semi limillipset Oseapeny In the het amiss having been within's, it has beau determined, boomer reluctantly, to esstinenee the preliminary pro ceedings connected with the prober of land in the first intense for the line Moan Wig= and Southport. The order of the VklioCtimoalkies Court, which directed the Great Itiebtes Company to would for all sulk belessing to them which 'night pass over the Uses et year esimparw h still in form The soda ten es MOW in tempest of be agree ment with par oesgsny hes sell_yet bent argued before the court. Is the matter or the Wakefield sad Knotting ley stations an award has bees mob, which has determined the cost of the former to be 811,3668. 16s. 9d., and of the latter to be 11,616!. 12s. Id., or Mgstber 79,8711. Bs. 10d. A moiety of this amount is ch by agreement to the Great Northern Railway Company. =Won for an amalgamation with the Baia Omopany having failed, the attention of the boards of both 0011111111101 is being directed to the propriety of candidly! a traffic agreement, by which several of the many winnows which would have resulted from the first-named measure may be secured at places and in districts whith are served in com mon by both companies. The capital account shows that 11,86.3,7371. had been re ceived and 11,812,2221. expended, leaving a balance of 43,616!. The revenue account for the half year ending the 30th of June shows that 432,6671. had been received, and 191,6n1. expended, including 7,9441. rates and bows, and 6,1311. Government duty, leaving • balance of 211,01 a To this sum is added 19,2791., the halanee from the last account, 696!., cividends on shares in other lints, and 3,0301., interest on balances; making together 261,0561. Out of this lam is deducted 66,4861., interest on loans, de. ; 16,967 L, Prestos sad Writ ; 20,7211., North Union ; 6,6001, ISltelield sad Buseley ; 23,8211., es 6 per cent. stock; 6,11431., Worst go 41 pre coat Pea ; leaving 124,6011. for gasersi divides,' ; sat of which It is proposed to divide 116,8831. at 3 per rest per sasses, sad leave 8,8071. SOUTH WALES. The apital account of this company , shows that = 91. had been received to the 30th of lune last. in -4111 ken. The amount milled up on 68,000 therm no MMUS°, of which 346,76 W. is due en forfeited IMO% mad 22,3601. front proprietors in sneer. The amount IthoWed in shores daring the bellies, is 19,973/., which, aided to 310,1074. raised ea lees, makes the total raised devise th• same _paled =XL The espesditure amerated to 11,221,1 did, of was impended in subseriptions to e th er liners, and= fur the Swan sea Yale Railway. The ease shine ea capital theorist daring the half-year WM 3q f, The revenue account for the half-year ors the of Sews bat shows that 42.6891. had been cwol in the Semi Wain line, and 111=. en). adad t or SLID pr feat. of tie fteelptedeerios a ce of 16,35 v. The resolve es the Nam of Dean Wog for the b Wpm saessalsd W %O W, and the imam le 11141., Marin • balms of 2,1081. This sum, added le the balsam et 3.8111. hem the last account, and to the above basses of 16,3571., ashes, with 341. registra tion fees. • meal ef 22,3421. Out of this 11,6951. is deducted for interest es debentures, leaving a disposable balance of 10,8171. LEEDS (NORTHERN). The directors have just issued their report and statement of accounts to be submitted to the shareholders on Saturday next. From the statement of receipts and expenditure it ap pears that the expenditure on capital account during the bolt year, ending June 30th, last, was 181,7.501. With respect to the receipts under the same head of "capital ac count," the directors say : The requisito means for defray ing the above expenditure have been provided principally by the exercise of the company's borrowing powers under the act of 1861, sums amounting to 54,7801. having been raised by loans on debenture during the last half-year. Down to a comparatively recent period these loins could not be obtained en lower terms than at 6 per cent. per annum interest. But, as no difficulty is now experienced by the com pany in °beaming money . on debenture at greatly reduced rates, an important saving will be effected in the annual charge for interest, as loans from time to time fall ia, to be paid off or renewed. Having thus been enabled to raise so !ergo a sum on such favourable terms, sod to provide the means of the half-yearly expenditure on capital account, the directors have postponed making any further calls on the oompany's preference shame, the capital represented by which is still available to a large extent. The extension line to Stockton, joining there the line to Hartlepool, was opened throughout on the 2nd of Juno lest. The connexion is therefore completed between Leeds and these ports, and the company is in possession of 70 miles of railway. The revenue account chows that during the lest half-year the gram traffic receipts were 28,2041., and the working ex penses 14,4481.; government duty on passengers ' 4811.; leaving 13,2761. as the net profit for the half year. The ba lance left idlest half-year wee 4421., making the tail dispo• sable surplus 13,717 r. Of this available balance the sum of 9,3381. is required to pay the interest on loans ' • and the di news recommend that the further sum of 2,7131. be appro- priated to the payment of the half•year's dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. on the preference quarter shares, leaving a balance of 1,6071 . to he carried forward to the ne xt half-year. The gross receipts for the half-year, ending 30th of June. exhibit an increase of 3,5471. over the corresponding period of 1851. The report eoacludoe by stating that the completion of the northern extension of the line is a fact of much importance. The first effect of the opening of the extension has, however, been to produce a very severe cow petition for the traffic of the new district. Oa the opening of the line to Stockton, the rates to end from nearly all points at which this railway comes late competition with other companies were reduced to an aboard extent by those companies. The effect of the extremely law charges which Ode company bee been compelled in sclf-defence to adept, has consequently been to prevent its hitherto deriving those benefits which were anticipated, and which are still confidently expected to be realised, from the formation of the extension line. The directors continue to entertain the same confident ex pectations as heretofore of the value of the undertaking. The capacious new dock at West Hartlepool was opened on the Ist of June last, and extensive powers were obtained in the last session of parliament, for the improvement of the navigation and dock accommodation of the River Tees, and ultimately a large traffic cannot fail to be derived from those sources. Much attention continues to be devoted to the cultivation of the local traffic, which exhibits a satis factory increase ; and the directors entertain the hopes of being able shortly to effect a connexion with the beds of ironstone in the Cleveland hills, from which a further source of profitable revenue is to be anticipated. NORFOLK. The receipts on capital account during the half-year ending the 30th of June amounted to 3,287!., and the ex , penes to 4,6131., leaches • Oakum of 674/. The total receipts on capita asessat anteassed to 2.145,2021., and the expenses to 2,066,1631, keeludlng MAK expended on Hie Lowestoft Railway awl flarbear. leaving a Wears of 29,0391. The &Rennes @timbres ea opts neeleante is 5121. It is pro posed to NAIR late trail. nts with the Hales worth, Bembri, and Haddime Railway Company on cer tain tense, tits Norfolk Company baying the option at any time of purekming the Halesworth branch for 150,0001., or a rental of 6,11001. per annum. GREAT LUXEMBOURG COMPANY. The directors have issued an address to the sharo holden stating that two °outrages have been entered into, embracing together the entire works for the whole of the line from Brussels to Namur. Both contractors are bound to complete their works at latest by the 3lst Decem ber, 1863. The line may therefore be opened throughout for traffic as early in the spring of 1864 as circumstances may reader desirable. One of the largest proprietors of land through which the lino to Namur passes having claimed en exorbitant price, the baud was compelled to have recourse to the tribunals, who awarded him the sum offered by the company, and condemned him is oasts; Mace which the acquisition of the land has made rapid progress at fair and equitable prices. The' , • of Mr. Asher.% has bean accepted by the board. By: • Lead. Quartier Leopold. The works on thisportion of the property will be completed by the soma of November next, so that the surplus land limy be offered for sale under the most favour able efromentanws, whenever it is deemed desiiable to do so. firm is the increasing value of property In this favourite locality that we have season to expect the profit on its sale will be enilleient to pay the interest on all the shares until the ope.Mg of the line without trenching upon capital. CanaL—The diet and most costly and important section has bass lot es Moms. Beeson and Company, who are actively sewed ion ties imeention of the work. The board are ear hied to enneenes that after payment of the next call of ten shilltep per dime, on 31st Deo., is this year, so farther iastahmsell nig be required on the canal shares until the whet* diaries from Liege to the River Ambles/14 about twenty miles, le opened for traffic. Having swami the ametrastion of the main line from Broods to Namur, we have been actively engaged aper fecting SO surveys of the extension to Arlon, by means of w se pus me aware, oar line is to be put in connexion with Rion as the one bead, end with Prussia end Am nia on the ether, and thus bemoan the greet trunk line of unbridles elmeiniablation from Antwerp and Ostend, to Masseffies end Trieste. The whole capital foe this exten sion Is guenineeed the enjoyment of interest by the Belgian 4gerend the annual sumas guaranteed w fixed at 011 4 por emu, being equivalent to 4 per sent. on an agreed estimate of 900,0001. Owing to the Feat im provements in railway science, such important savings may be allbelled as, together with the employment of the cau tion messy available for that portion of the line, and other labeling's, will render the government guarantee equiva lent 4,19 more than 6 per cent. epee the new capital. They peoples the following plan for providing the capital : —Firstly, to appropriate 60,0001. cantles money' se condly, to issue 60,000 shares at 101. mob, bearing 6 per cent. interest oat of the governmeat guarantee. When the diet emotion is opened for traffic, they consider that the pai -1 ties sad credit of the company will be as far improved as that at Imat one-lialf or two-thirds of the remaining capital may be raised at a moth lower rate of interest. livery bolder of one original 141. share, or an equivalent in half &edgewise dame, to be entitled to subscribe for one of the guaranteed shares, the board being at liberty to dispose of say which may remain unclaimed for the benefit of the company. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. The directors' report to be submitted to the pro prietor. et the half-yearly meeting of the company on the ' 31st inst. is u follows : " The directors have again the eatiafaction of reporting that the steady incresse of traffic on your line for the past half year, anticipated by your directors, has been main tained. On reference to the balance-sheet it will appear that 3871. 12e. 6d. more has been received for carriage of passengers and goods than in the half-year ending June, 18:31. A diminution of the working expenses has also takes place, leaving such a sum applicable to dividends as enables your directors to recommend 7s. a share to be paid on each paid-up share of theicompany, which will still allow of lON. 190. 9d. being carried to the reserve fund. The working of the line for the half-year has been satisfactorily carried on without accident, and the rolling stock and perma nent way maintained in a state of efficiency. Much improve meat has been effected at the stations, and a new locomo tive, on an improved principle, purchased, the cost of which is provided for out of the renewal fund. Your directors have the further pleasure of announcisg that the bill for the extension of the line to Enniskillen (alluded to in a tomer report) has been passed into a law. It contains provisions which w H enable them to nine funds on the security of one of the counties through which the line will pass ; and your directors have not lost any time in entering upon negotiations tor a loan with the government. For this purpose they have likewise selected resident and assis tant engineer., and taken such other steps, including a new arrangement with their solicitor, as will enable them Ito make a speedy commencement of the works, which no exertion on their part shall be wanting to carry on with vigour, economy, and despatch. Whilst on this subject, your directors cannot forbear an allusion to the zealous esertions of your chairman, to whom it is mainly owing that the preparations for the extension of the line are in such a forward and satisfactory t ; and also I your directors would beg gratefully to ael •.viledge the kind co-operation and seetstanee, in the carriage of the bill, received from the Dublin and Drogheda and Ltelfast Junc tion Companies. The claim preferred by the Ulster Rail way Company for a change of gays on that company's line, your directors, after *mole esosidcration, and being well advised, have resisted. T • sanest :.waded, as shown in the account has besti r l ged porliag the final issue of this matter, which it Is may terminate favourably fur the company. There w be submitted to you for approval certain special resolutions for the forfeiture of shun, and uther matters, as detailed in the advertisement calling the meeting, hereunto annexed ; explanations on which subject, or on any other in connexion with the company's a ff airs, it will give your directors much satisfaction to afford." DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.- SUICIDE OF THE POINTSMAN. - We regret to state that • shocking accident oc curred oa the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, on Mon day night, near Bolton, by which about fi fteen persons were injured, though up to last evening none of the elan had proved fatal. Ono of the panengere, • boy, however, was considered to be In danger, and is not likely to recover. The accident was one of the most extraordinare and dis graceful that has yet occurred on the rail, arising partly out of the dangerous accumulation of trains at the Bolton station, and partly out of the neglect and misconception of duty by a pointsman. The train to which the accident occurred was the one leaving Liverpool, via Bolton, to Manchester, at 8.57 in the evening, and due at Bolton at 8.45 p.m. This train, however, had lost time so considerably as to be nearly an hour late. When it arrived within a mile of Bolton, the station and all the intermediate distance were blocked up with trains which had arrived before it. The fret of these, or at lent the principal one, and the one loading to the de tention of the others, was the 5.30 train from Liverpool, which was due at Bolton at 7.20 p.m. This train was a very heavy passenger train, consisting of 36 carriages, and did not arrive at Bolton until 9.20. The passengers were partly travelling towards Manchester, but a great portion of them were for Yorkshire; and this is the station where the train had to be separated into two parts, one of which would have to leave the Manchester idle a mile further south to go via Bury, Heywood, and Rochdale, to York shire. Unfortunately, however, the carriages bad been indiscriminately pecked with passengers going in both directions, and fall twenty minutes were lost in disentan klieg the mw and getting the right passengers into the right train. Only those persons who have seen the Bolton and Preston stations and have observed how short they are of servants (and not only deficient in number but in men of the right stsmp)—can form an idea of the diagram.- fail confusion which such a scene presents. No description which his ever yet appeared in a newspaper of railway management, would give the faintest notion of it. Whilst this train was still at the station a second, a third, a fourth, • fifth, and ultimately the sixth (the one smashed) Came up. The second train was an exeunion train of 36 carriages from Liverpool ; the third train was a luggage train from Liverpool to Manchester; the fourth was an cecursion train of 25 carriage* from Fleetwood (behind its time) to Man chester; the fifth war • luggage train—principally laden with timber—from Liverpool to Bradford, Yorkshire. These five trains probably numbered altogether upwards of 150 carriages, and stretched over neatly a mile of the line, to a place called Bullfield, where a pointsman is placed, having charge of two signals upon a high post in the form of discs. The pointamen's cabin is close to his points, but the signals are 2.50 yards beyond (or further from Bolton), and are worked by means of a lever and • wire about six yards from the cabin. Beyond this cabin the line of trains stretched about 125 yards, or half way to the signal. Thu signal would have been seen for upwards of • mile in the Liverpool and Preston direction, had it been lighted, bat it appears that the day's duty of the pointsman ordinarily ends at half-past eight in the evening, and he had left his post at a quarter to nine on this occasion, putting out the light at the signal on this as on other occasions, although it .is al leged that he had received instructions that there would be extra or excursion trains on this occasion, and that he must remain until they had all passed. The line from Bolton to Bullfield consists of a curve—not of a very severe character —extending under • series of eight or ten short tunnels and bridges, and the five trains, jammed up in this dark and gloomy space, were thus u tterly without protection. The night was exceedingly . dark, and when the sixth train (which is not an excursion or special train, but the regular late passenger train from Liverpool to Manchester) came up, the driver would not come in sight of the preceding one, owing to the curve, until he reached the place where the signal post is placed, a distance of about 12.3 yards. Whether the driver was not on the look-out, or whether it was impossible for him to atop in such a short space with a train of sixteen carriages going at a high speed, we could not learn, but the result was, that be ran into the luggage train with great force, and the collision was so fearful that the three first carriages (third classes), were smashed very badly, the second one being turned up on it, fore-end be tween the other two, with the ten passengers in it feet up wards, and almost on their heads. The terror of the pas sengers was beyond description. It is said their screams wen heard at the distance of more than a mile from the spot. The confusion which followed was of course very great, and but few persons being present on this part of the hue, it war some time before the pea engem were rescued. Those who were unhurt, however, so soon as they had neovered from their alarm, gave thew assistance to those less fortu nate, and fortunately there was surgical aid on the spot, Mr. Crook (of Messrs. Harrison and Crook, surgeons to the company over this district), being a passenger by the train. Two other surgeons, also, were procured as goon as possible, and a reinforcement of the cosurany's servants arriving from Bolton as soon as possible alter the intelligence had reached the station, the utmost assistance was rendered to all the injured which was possible. The only wonder is that the list was not of • much larger and more serious character. The following is es full and correct • list of the injured passengers as we have been able to obtain :- 1. Edward Greenbalgh, engine -tenter, at Bolton, cut and bruised. 2. Alice Oreenhalgh, wife of the above, cut end bruised. 3. Richard Oreeabalgh, 12 years of age, son of the above. This la the passenger who sustained the most injury, sad whose recovery is still doubtful. He received a severeblow on the chest and bladder. 4. Robert Wright, ironmonger, /Lacoste-street, Man cheater, severely bruised. 5. William Lee, Beswiek-row, Manchester, seriously shaken. 6. like Lee, wife of the above, also much shaken. 7. Sarah Grahams, aged 28, a servant on her way to take &situation with Mr. Shawn, 78, Loyd•street, °remain's, Manchester. This passenger received a cut on the fate, sad her leg was also injured, but sot fractured. This and the other three paseeugere last mentioned were so severely shaken that they had to be left m the neighbourhood all Indward Hindley, 101, Fairfield-street, Manchester, braised and shaksa. 9. I Bothwell, 36 years of age, ef Brook's-court, 14761Millgate, Manchester, shaken and much tut. . James Howell, Plixton, bruised. U. Mies Yates, Davey Lever, near Bolton. This pas senger was severely shaken, and was sent home in • cab. 12. Mn. Simpson, of No. 6, New Richmond, Pen dleton, mach shaken. This lady went to an hotel, and afterwards, with MIS of the other mummers, proceeded to ' Manchester by a special train which left Bolton at half-pest twelve. 13. Mr. Butler, of 13eedley Lodge, Pendleton, received two contagious on the eyes, and a cut in the face. 14. Mn. Butler, wife of the above, much shaken. 16. Mr. Conan* who accompanied the two last-named mummers, and a fterwards proceeded with them to Man chester, braised and shaken. We learn that among the other passengers in the train was Mr. Monk, the banister, who was returning from the Liverpool maims, with M. Monk. Both were a good . deal shaken and alarmed, bat neither received any vraible injury. The first carriage next to the engine was a third class eanime, a new me, sestaioint two commatneenti with fear waft awes dna aide In dile, without bathe. The cal men es the ear** wee ilseMik w euritodrialima after the eaddeat, quite Pohl' bat lie Idaho titbit ether end of the amine wee gene 110M1pIsisb eat, aft a fragment of it rewrialeg la its plow Ow the semen of that end of the awdepe wee ale partly eawildi away, and the buffer et that mom mos eat, es if there bed ben ea oblique move mat upon it by the next carriage. This latter was also • third class carriage, and contained seats awns, with backs about half a yard high. In SSW respects, this ae was without any division into compartments. At the en d next to the first carriage were two "dead" buffers upon a transverse bar, with • spring behind It in the centre. The buffer which would adjoin the shattered corner of the carriage preceding it, was car ried away; but the other was uninjured. Part of the framework of the transverse bar was destroyed. In other respects, this end of the carriage was uninjured. The other end of the carriage was knocked out in the fame manner as in the first carriage, but in this one both buffers were also carried away. The step on one side of this carriage was twisted, and the foot board was split along half its length. This again seems to indicate an oblique movement front one of the other carriages upon it. The third carriage was also a third class, of the same construction as the one we have jest described. The end farthest from the engine was beaten completely in, and half the flooring of the first compartment was torn up into fragments. None of the other carriages were damaged ; and the wheel., lower framework, and seats of the three shattered carriages, have not sustained the slightest injury. It seems extraordinary that the pointsman, whose name was Lee Bancroft, should have liR his duty under the circumstances. A printed special notice had been sent to him at the Bullfield coal-siding, containing a list of the !Milian trains during the day. At the foot of the notice I I were the following instructions .—" Keep your signals lighted; be prepared for these end all future special trains, ' until they have pawed home. Keep a good look-out for any extra train, engines, &c., of which you may not receive advice." _ _ _ Mr. Crowshaw, the clerk in charge of the station at Bolton, went to the house of the pointsman, Lee Bancaoft, at Bullfield, after the accident, about tea o'clock, but did not see the man till about eleven. Mr. Crowshaw then asked him bow it was he had not the signal lighted. Ban croft replied that he did not know. Ito had put the light out at a quarter before nine o'clock, so usual, and then went home. On being asked if he had received a copy of the notice mentioned above, he replied in the affirmative, and nid he had read it, and the instructions et the foot. He assigned no reason for neglecting them, but said he did not think he was required to remain after a quarter to nine o'clock, which was his usual time for leaving. Mr. Crow shaw, however, told him he was to bluets fur leaving the signals when excursion trains were expected. About haltput twelve o'clock the same night the unfor tunate man was fouLd, by his wife and a friend, suspended by his neckerchief from a large nail which he had driven into the top of his wooden sentry box, at DuMeld. Life was then quite extinct. Wears informed that it was the duty of the guard of the luggage train into which the passenger train ran, to have gone back witb,his lantern when he perceived there was no light to the signal, and have given notice to the passenger train. Whether he neglected his duty, and If as, under what circutuaances, has not yet been ascertained. Our correspondent was informed that the duty was omitted. THE MILITIA. So many questions are daily addressed to us respecting tho militia, volunteering thereinto, &c., that by way of answering one and all of them once for all, we have found it expedient to give a place itt our alumna to the following official intimations and regulations : Duty of sod pay and allowances to be granted to the officers and non r commindoned officers of the militia in England and Wales, when detached from head quarters upoil the service of raising and enrolling volunteers. 1. It will be the duty of the adjutant to superintend the enlistment and enrolment of the volunteers, and to take charge of the payment of the bounties and other expenses to be incurred upon such enrolment. 2. For this duty be will be allowed, while absent from head quarters, his full trailing pay of its. Gd. • day, with an addition of 4s. Gd. for performing this extra duty. 3. He will be entitled to an allowance also of 54. • day to cover the expense of living at an inn. 4. He will be allowed 2s. a day for the forage of a horse ; or if forage be not drawn, he may be paid the actual ex pense of travelling by railway; or when not so proceeding, an allowance of 9.1. a mile. G. He will be required to give the security of a guarantee society policy of GOO/. for a regiment of 8 companies and upwards ; e 3061. fur a regiment of lean than 8 companies and of 2901. for a r.giment of less than 4 companies. G. The surgeon of the regiment will seeompany the adju tant for the purpose of examining the volunteers at parti cular places and on particular days, to be appointed by the. commanding officer, and will be then allowed a daily pay of lls. 4d., with an allowance of .51. a day to cover this expense of living at an inn, and 2s. a day for forage for a hone; or, if the forage allowance be not drawn, the actual expense of travelling by railway ; or when not so proceed ing, receive as allowance of 94. a mile. 7. Non-commissioned officers and drummers when absent from head wieners upon this duty will be allowed the full training pay, viz : l'er diem. Serieant-Major Serjeaut Drummer ls Id • • And beer money, each, at Os. Id. 8. Marching money for each son-commissfoned of f icer and drummer, at Is. Id. a day (which includes the allow ance to the innkeeper for the hot meal) will be allowed for each day's tnarcb, and id. a goy while detained in billet more than one day. 9. A scrjeant, selected to assist the adjutant in paying the bounty and keeping the accounts of bounty and expenses incurred, will be allowed the pay of paymaster-serrant, 2s. Old. IV. Beata roan. War-oflice, lith August, 1852. The subjoined regulations for the militia have been madn by the Secretary - a:• War , in pursuance of the act 15 & 1G Vitt., cap. 50: 1. The age of the volunteers, as an ordinary rale, is to be from age 18 to 35. 2. Volunteers above 35 years of age, on being certified by a military or militia medical officer, to be fit fur duty for 5 years. and recommended by the adjutant of the regiment to the Secretary at War, may be enrolltd after his approval. 3. Mtn who hare been discharged from the army alter three years' service with good character may be accepted up to the age of 45. 4. Any discharged soldier above that age can only be ac cepted with the sanction of the Secretary at War. 5. Volunteers of 3 feet 4 inches and upwards may be ac cepted. 6. Should eligible volunteers of 5 feet 3 inches offer, they may be accepted, with the auction of the Secretary at War. /.Volunteers must, at the time of their engagement, be reaideut in the county in the militia of which they en gage to serve. 8. Every volunteer must be examined before being en rolled by a militia, or by a military medical officer ; or, to the event of no such medical officer being available, by two private medical practitioners. If it be impossible to obtain the certificate of two private medical practitioners, that of one may be accepted. 9. The allowance for medical examination of each volun teer, by one or two private medical practitioner., will ho 2s. 6d. for each volunteer. Instructions for this purpose will be furnished to the medical officer by the War-othce. 10. Volunteers must be attested upon the form pre scribed, and will then be enrolled. The attestation will be preserved at the headArtarten of the regiment, and the names and descrintions of the men enrolled must ho sent half-monthly by the adjutant to the clerk of general meetings for the county. 11. Every volunteer is to receive the sum of 10s. as a bounty on being enrolled, and ifs. at the termination of tho first training, if his conduct hu been good; and after that time he is to be paid at the rate of 2s. • month during his term of service, until he shall have received by way of bounty, allowances, and periodical payment the full sum of 61. This payment will be made either monthly, quarterly, or otherwise, u may, according to circumstances, be here after ordered by the Secretary at War. 12. Commanding officers of militia may, if they think tit so to do, advance, after the second training, the amount of the next ensuing six months' instalments to those men who have conducted themselves creditably during the period of their training, on their departure home. 13. Men who are appointed sergeants or enlisted as drummers on the permanent staff will only be allowed a bounty of Iss. on enrolment, and will be required to take the oath prescribed in section 3 of the 51 Our. 111., cap. 118. They need not have been residents in the toasty. Drum mers may be accepted at 16 years of age, and seder 5 feet 3 inches. 14. Volunteers who, after enrolment, deities to change their place of residence, may be permitted to do so upon notifying their wish to the adjutant of the regiment in which they are enrolled ; and on receiving the sanction of the Secretary at War, may, by a certificate from the com manding officer sad adjutant, be transferred for the re mainder of their service to the militia regiment of the county in which they purpose to reside. 15. Representation. having been made to the Secretary at War from various quarters by the colonels or commanding officers of militia, with respect to the method of paying the bounty, this additional regulation is issued to permit the colonel of militia to authorise the adjutant either so pay the bounty or allowance as prescribed above by the 11th and 12th regulations, or, if they prefer it, in the following manner, with the ed conditions in either case, via., 10e. on enrolment ; U. le. during the first period of training; and 11. la. during each successive annual training. The periodical payment and allowances are to be made on condition that the neemsariee furnished te the militia man by government. and whisk he is per mitted to take away with bins, aie at all times ia service able order, his allowances being subject to a deduction for repairing and replacing them. W. BEILIBFORD. War-ofilee, August 18th, 1852. ATTESTATIONS TOR MILITIA TOLUXTIIERO. Questions to be separately asked by the magistrate or deputlieutenant: I.What is your name ? 2. In what perish, and in, or near what town, and in what county were you born ? 3. Where do you now reside ? 4. Where have you resided for the last twelvemonth? 6. What is your age ? d. What is your trade or calling ? 7. Are you en apprentice ? b. In whose employ arc you ? 9. What is the name and resi dence of your former master ? 10. Are you single, married, or a widower? 11. If married, or a widower, how many children have you under fourteen years of age ? 12. Are you ruptured or lame, have you ever been subject to eta, or have you any disability or disorder which impedes thefts* use of your limbs, or unfits yen for ordinary labeed9 13. Are you willing to be attested to serve as a TOIMItMIf for the militia of the county of --- for the term of fin yeses, provided her Majesty should so loeg require your services ? 11. Do you belong to, or have you been enrolled in, or rected by any other corps of militia, or do you belong to her Majesty's army, or to the marines, ordnance, or navy, or to the forces of the East India Com pany ? 15. Have you ever served in, or been rejected by, the army, marines, ordnance, or navy, or the forces of the East India Company ?• • If the volunteer has screed as above, he is to state the particulars of his former service and the cause of his dis charge, and is to produce the certificate of his discharge if he has it with him. " I, do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that I will faitliftilly serve in the militia iu any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, for the defence of the same during the term of five years, for which I am enrolled, unless I shall be sooner discharged. " Witness my hand, Signature of the Noluntecr. Witness present. Sworn befbre me at -- this -- day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty —. Signature of the magistrate, or deputy lieutenant. 42 Ono. 111. can 90. Section 99th —Pt nalty on men not appearing at exerei,v, or absenting them elms, 201. or six months' imprisonment. —" Every militia man (not labouring under any infirmity incapacitating him) who shall not appear at the time and place appointed fnr hi. being exercised according to the directions of this act, notice having been published and given as by this act required, shall be deemed a deserter, and if not taken until after the time of any such exercise, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds; and also, every militia man who having joined the regiment, batta , lion, or corps, to which he belongs, or any company or com panies, or de..:;ehment or division thereof, shall desert ur absent himself during the time of any such exercise, and shall not be taken until after the ti me of such exersise, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, and it such penalty 'hall not be immediately paid, the justice of the peace before whom any militia man shall be convicted of any ouch offence. shall commit such militia man to the Ai. 4.,,) 1