The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-11 00:00:00

FRANCE PARIS, THCRPDAY AFTP.!INOON. A d ee , of the Emperor, dated yesterday, nom!. Ito Die.:e de Bellow to the diguity of rl r from General St. Priest shows the utter' u: tblesie -sof semi-official statements in such jour th, Pays and I'atrie. When it was thought earedient •o give a less serious cromplexien to the swots of ;unday than teas at first intended, theta D pers •cal the story of a plot as an invention of pref.., . nal propagators of " false news," a de etit,„twa a act to comprise all writers in the Mik an:cot t mss. and all foreign correspondents. It upon the testimony of General de St. • ,n the warrant, w h ich he carefully read, , 4 41 accused of " a plot against the safety of the „ a !,- The Pairie moreover pretended that t h e e. ser e r -ley of police having a search warrant, .1 1 • 'it tit to arrest M. de St. l'riest upon his uea.! r ,, i .ability. This statement, which I re- j ee red las .nlay as wholly incredible, is now proved ' to he It is eguslly untrue that General de St. Print tur usely personated his son, although it does ,art appear that, owing to carelessness, which, or scriuus a matter, cannot be too severely • etatiot. the general was arrested by Marake. The lathe. suit the son—and here is a fourth leis stearin, Patrie—did not live in the same k r; .4e. to the present time the government ▪ L a i_ not thought it worth white to publish rya unto .ti the individuals deprived of their liberty pm vague suspicion and undefined charges. The n, however, gives the following list of Isertnn • "respondents of foreign journals still in elitedy nt 1 about to be tried. They are MM. do c oa tlogie, Tanski. Pags-Duport, Nirmaitre, La Farm u,.'ard, Videmessant, Etienne, Hartmann, Curets t 'retard, Vn crgtuaud, Iwenfeltd, and Pel , k yl e. I have already mentioned most of these Ear." to t uu. Those now it, wto The are M. Char ts% a wife r in the rstalette, MM. Gerard, Etienne, sod Vervitoul. gentlemen, employed in editing M. e ,rvespondence. These arrests excite much „ vr i se , is cause the unvarying ministerial colour of the cirri spondence is well known. The charge against 11,111, however, is that they have written in a k aa , a t tone to foreign journals. M. Chatard was fermi t.r known as a republican writer, hut he j a nor . I htlieve, ono of the secretor ies of the South ern HMIs ay. The Patrie's list cannot, however, in els,le all the prisoners 3et in custody. M. Moncelet, s writer in the Coiststntinnxel, was among those oersted or Sunday : and I know that he had not Int nicest d last night. lam told, though I cannot state the tact with certainty, that several others are OP la SUZY. It is ill be observed that the Patric, wily prefesers to give the names of the " foreign cor ffspundeors," and, therefore, it is consistent with the itconen , that persons nut answering that descrip tor: raav gill be in confinement. The house of Baron de Plauhol, a well-known torsional contributor to the Gazette de France, was Embed en Sunday morning. Among his volumi ins pope's only seven or eight manuscripts, of old data attme . ed the attention of the police. The coin enemy thought them unimportant, and therefore did not execute the discretionary warrant fur Baron de Pitcher, arrest, of which ho was the bearer. On Tuesday the police entered a private house in the Itv d s Carrieres, Montmartre, and surprised in itoratit. •Wisto eight men and live women met toge ther for the purpose of talking politica. An allegori cal statute of the republic, some portraits of political elites, 110111 C pamphlets, and some socialist emblems were di.to• cored. The police report adds, that arms and munirolis of war were seized, but this is pro tahiy a pompous description of the contents of a common gun case. The thirteen persons wore ar rested, and searches were afterwards made at their lisusts, where, it is said, further seizures of demago gic writings were made. It is thought, however, that the only substantial charge that can be sup ported against them in a court of law is the unau thorised attendance of periodical meetings. The Milan affair, as you may suppose, is much talked of. The general impression is, that tho inner !wine must inevitably be crushed, and the slight rise in the Three per Cent*. at the Bourse to-day may be attributed in some degree to that belief. A copy of it private letter, said to have been received from Milan, has been handed aboat, from which it would appear that the movement began by bodies of young men, armed with poniards, parading the streets. They placarded proclamations, killed or disarmed some sentries, and, being joined by a mob, attacked a fortified barrack in the ceutre of the city, and killed, disarmed, or drove out 400 Austrian troops. 'lbis letter, which bears the stamp of considerable exaggeration, is dated "Milan, Feb. 7, twelve o'clock." It breaks off suddenly, the courier that was to take it being on the point of darting. Since writing thus far I find some confirmation of the private letter in the Zwick Gazette, which states that about 100 men armed with poniards attacked the troops and gendarmerie on Sunday last, and that there bad been about 300 killed. A similar occur rence, it says, had taken place at Rimini, but no de tails were as yet known. The Bile Gazette states that similar movements had broken out in several towns of Lombardy. The .Issrtablee Nationnk says : We are able to state that news received in Paris to-day amounces that the revolt has been completely quelled. This result was inevitable and easy to foresee. It appears that this foolish demonstration was not so serious as might bo 'opposes' from the despatch publ:shed in the Moniteur. 'lbis favourable statement has probably been fur nidled to the AsBcitibMe by the Austrian embassy, a fact not to be lost sight of when estimating the weight hi which it may be entitled. The Gazette de France says: Tie telegraphic despatch, announcing an insurrection in Milan, is au event of immense importir,ce. Why does the Muzini luaus, which, since the battle of Novara, and espetially since than re•establishment of the Pope by the /reach army, has remained inactive, now attempt to renew the struggle with the Austrian monarcuy ? What change has ectutred in the international relation, of Europe ? t ac hed, who gives Mauini hospitality without conditions, and without surveillance, will had it difficult to evade her share of respens,bility for the new misfortunes with which the Continent is threatened. The Bourse to-day has rallied to some extent from the lassitude of the last few days. The Three per Cent. Renter advanced 35 cents., at the e'ose being quoted 70f. 30e., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. recovered yesterday's fall, closing as on Tuesdav, at 105 f. Bank Stock was again called 2,sooE:and some of the leading railway shares ex perienced a nominal improvement. From Amster dam the quotations today are thus reported:— Two-and allalf per Cents., 6-11, ; Threes, 75 11-16 ; Fours, tes;, At Frankfort the latest rates are as foi;ows:—Five per Cents., t• 5 ; Four-and-a-Half, /6;; Fours, 69; Threes, 5l;; Two-and-a-Half, 43. WEDNUDAT EVENING. General de St. Priest c ha s e replied to the "'atria in the following letter: bloateur,-1 have to correct several statements in your account of my arrest yesterday. My son Charles does not creepy the same apertm mob me: he lives like me in the Rue du Moat Timber, but at No. 9, while I reside at N 0.6. He may here received by post, like many ethers, artizles hem foreign journals, which dove not seem to me to be any tome; but be has no t ma d e hi mse l f an intermediary with respect to them, which is a very different thing. As to Imo If, I hove never hod to declare that I was the person des !min d in the mandate. It was brought to me Wore Ilyoresk. and shows to me by candlelight, after I had been aroused from sleep. Under them circumstances, be lrr ne that the officers ufily came to reaming my try, I scarcely eat! my eyes on the document. srasenly a t s later per .., d of th e d a y, an d w h en I was i n , the thee of the police commissary, that, manning it more 41041 Yi I read, "M. de St. Vilest (Charles) is accused N.compiracy ag a i ns t t h e security of the state." yt 'mowing that this grave urination was mad* emespror articles received from abroad, sad 1 ! 0 t kaowing, indeed, what tho words might mean, ." held my p eace At the prima of Nan es, and not rote there , I was t mice asked my age ant pro -o.'snt, wh,rh I immediately declared, wi6out the least t !ftealmen', as the nGtes of the clerk will prove. At four ecl;iek I was set at liberty, and, instead of "speaking " you say, "of the polite n e s s s h own t o me , ' I _ myself to than for any forbearanc e with wich h 4 '"' been treated. k This is the plain troth of h tbe Il ettn.—aeteive, ac., GENERAL 1/E Sr. PYILIIT., RUSSIA. Marching orders have been sent to the copra Bessarabia rind the Crimea. The .Vothern at St. hterNburg, published on the 2 .;!!. an article on the pos,ibiiitv and malts of a listiie landing in England. Prince Adam Czarto p•Li is crtitred to pre...nit himself within six weeks vlite the tribunal at Lubin, on pain of forfeiting his Watt HUNGARY. Letters from Ilunfrary show, especially when con sidered with the Italian news, that Austria is in no condition to menace Turkey or any other state with war. A correspondent, writing from the Hungarian frontier at the close of January, states that while the government has deceived and alienated its most con stant supporters in that kingdom, the masses are as well disposed to insurrection as they were in 1848. The numerous petty yet oppressive measures to which the Austrians have lately had recourse have greatly excited the general disaffection. In tho district of Pesth a proclamation was lately issued, offering rewards for the conviction of certain classes of offenders, and engaging to take secret evidence; that is to say, to convict prisoners without disclosing the names of their accusers. It need not be said that the Caikos, that extraordinary class of men who made so romantic a figure and did so much service in the last war are not conciliated by the recently reported orders, intended (specially to reduce them to powerlessness and contempt. The general impression (continues this correspondent) is, "that ee shall have no war until the upheaving crust upon which we stand shall rend, and how soon that may be the government, I fear, little suspects." VW Court. WINDSOR, Pis. 10. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday:—The Duchess of Kent, the Prince's* Augustus of Saae-Cobourg, Princess Adelaido of liohen latie, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to the PrincessAugusiul of Saae.Cohourg, the Baronets do Speth, Viscount liardinge. Lor.l George 1 . 1 ' 11110 2. Colonel the H m. C. B. Phipps, and the Rev. Dr. Pulling (Vice-Ch ance ll or o f Cambridge ). The baud if the Grenadier Guards played several seloct pieces of music on the East Terrace. at 7 o'clock this morn ing, being the anniversary of her Majetey•• marriage. Vito )(tut Hardinge and the. Rev. Dr. l'ulling (Vice- Chancellor of Cambridge) have left the Castle to-day. The Ilan. Charles Gore has been invited, and is expected this afternoon. The Countess of Charlemont has succeeded the Due Less of Norfolk u Lady in Waiting to the ueen. A deputation, consisting of Dr. Gourley, Mr. J. 13. Greeninigh. E.R.S., and Mr. Charles Fnetli, had an inter view with Viscount P ilmerston yesterday on the subject of the St. John's Wood Burial-graund. The Bishop of Antigua had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial- office. A deputation, consisting of hlsairs. Pease, Reade, Thomas, and Ilutchiason, had an interview with the Hon. Charles Gore yesterday, at the office of h'r Msj-nty's Com missioners of Woods and ,rests, in Whitehall.pluee, on the subject of the Hutton Moor Ironstone Agree:neut. A deputati , in from Brighton had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their office, White. hell, in relation to the apdlication of the Public Health Act to that town. The deputation consisted of Mr. W. Bred ham, the High Cuastabie of Brighton, and of Mr. Richard Edwards. The llon. Charles Dare 1: ft t awn yesterday afternoon for Windtor Castle, on a visit t o th e Q o e cu . Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party on Wed nesday at their residence in Cheshatn-plae: , . The cam; any consisted of Lard and Lady Wodehouse, Lord R. Clinton, the Right Hon. Edward and Mrs. Cardwell, the Itiglit lion. E. and Mrs. Strutt, Sir David Dundee, Admiral Stewart, Mr. linstingi Russell, and Mr. Vernon. The Speaker's first parliamentary dinner is on Saturday, the 19th instant. COURT OF COIUSION COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held. It WAS attended by an unusual number of members, a report haring been widely circulated that there was some itrention of °pinking the re-election of the Ci•y Solicitor on account of !US exer tions in forwarding the objects of certain large companies. It was known that the re-appointment of the corporation offi cers would come on at as curly hour. A great numb( r of ar plications were made to the court for the freedom of the city, in consequence of the recommence ment of the pr, secutionis against retail dealers. They were of course all granted. A?tkrman Humphery and Mr. James Low were unani mously re-elected gout our and deputy governor of the Irish Society. THE CITT OIOLICITORSIIII% Mr. Deputy COANET wished, before the re-election of the City Solicitor was put to the vote, to call the atten tion of the court to the duties of that officer, and the manner in which they have been performed. It occurred to him, that according to the Limas of the resolution of the court. upon the recommendation of the committee, the whcle of the talents of the gentleman to be elected City Solicitor were covenanted to be given at the time of his election. (lieu, hear.) lie therefore deprecated, as an individual. the withdrawal of a certain amount of physics! and mental strength from the duties of the office of solicitor, by that gentleman embarking his heart and soul in schemes not im mediately connected with his office. (Hear, hear.) That he had done so from a disposition perhap., in his own mind, to be useful in his generation to the public and the citizens, he (the speaker) would admit—(hear, bear) ;—and he might have been induced, toe certain extent, to pursue that course from the fact of this court's s•nctiming proceedings or at least not withdrawing their confidence from them The speaker then proceeded to notice Mr. Pearson's con nexion with the City Terminus scheme, and wished to be informed of that gentleman's intentions with res2ect to public affairs not connected wi•h his ffifice. Mr. PRAM"): having explained at largo that he fir the future eschewed public undertagings, and proiffistd to con fine his exertions to the duties of his office, Mr. Deputy Coat ET proposed Lis re-election; which several members rose to second. _ Mr. ELLIOT moved on amendment that the election he postponed to give time for inquiries into the duties of the office, but subsequently withurew it, sod the original mo tion was carried unanimously. PhOSZCUTIONd OF NON-FREEUAN. The LORD MATOR infarmed the court that he had a communication to make from the Court of Aldermen upon the subject of a resolution of the Court of Common Council with respect to the prosecution of non-freemen. (Cries of "Hear, hear," and murmurs.) Mr T. H. HALL objected to the introduction of the opi nion of the Court of Aldermen in such a manner upon the ground that, the question being one of great importance t 4 the great body of the citizens of London, the Alilermeu ought to have attended and participated in the discussions in the Court of Common Council, whtro it bail been from time to time most fully argued. (Hear, hear.) Great in convenieace would arias from sanctioning the practice of receiving prepositions from the other court, which might interfere with the independence of the representatives of the ward. ibeiiiconnun Paid it had been the universal and un broken custom of the court to hear the communications which the Led Mayor, in the exercise of his privileges, submitted to them. Here there was a general cry of " Let it be read, and deal with it afterwards." The Town CLEW( then read the resolution to which the Court of Aldermen agreed on Tuesday last, to the effect that it was inexpedient to prosecute retail dialers for not taking out their freedom, and reconsidering the introduc tion of a bill fur the total removal of such an impediment. Mr. Nounte moved that the resolution of the Court of Aldermen be referred to the Freedom Committee, whose recent proceedings against the retail dealers, whom the bill which had been last session brought into parliament was meant to 'tree, be most strongly condemned as inconsistent and oppresaive in an extreme degree. (!leer, hear.) Mr. DAMN seconded the motion. Mr. W. Fox moved, as an amendment, that the resolu tion of the Court of Aldermen should lie on the table. He contended that the Subject had been sufficiently discussed, and that if the court did not exercise their power to compel retail dealers to take up their freedom, those who had com plied with the corporate regulations could have no reliance upon the sincerity of their representatives. (Hear.) Mr. BAILYLT seconded the amendment, and said he could not see whet excuse the court could have for raising the question again after having so decisively adopted the course of prosecuting non-freemen as the only alternative after the lots of the bill. Mr. Deputy lizmorocrt said the resolution ought to be re ferred to the Freedom's Committee, in order to have the discussion opened again ; several new members having been elected since the question was agitated. Mr. G. YouNo supported the amendment, and took occa sion to express the greatest disapprJbation of the inter ference of the other court. Mr. ANDIZTON said the present difficulty in which they were placed showed the inconvenience of having two courts, and he hoped to see the day when they would be united in the Court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons. He regretted to find that Alderman Lawrence, the Leviathan who used to advocate the Court of Common Council, bad lately thrown all his power into the defence of the impru dent measures of the Court of Aldermen. (Laughter.) As for Alderman Sidney, that worthy gentleman would, no doubt, endeavour to cover his partner, who had subjected himself to the penalties of refusal. (Laughter.) Now, the Court of Common Council were determined to give fair play to their fellow citizens, and if they could not have the aid of the aldermen, why they must endeavour to do it by themselves. Taking the Court of Aldermen individually he had the highest respect for them, bat taking them col. lectivelv, he must say that his feeling was quite the other way. cLaughter.) Mr. 1 oan thought the subject ought to be discussed again. Mr. T. H. Dot,a said he was induced to advise the alter native of prosecution as the next best measure upon the loss of the bill from which they expected so much benefit to their fellow-citizens. Alter considerable &unction, in which Mr. Parkin', Mr. Dower, Mr. Deputy Harrison, and others joined, the court 'divided, when there appeartd: For the amendment 4l Against it The resolution of the Court of Aldermen was thus re jected bye moiJrity of 3. An attempt was then made to lay the foundation for the reconsideration of the subject on a future day, but it failed. Sir JAwe7 DoKE gave notice of a motion for a bill to parliament (if necessary) far the purpose 4.f abolishing all street tolls within the City after December, Wit. A petition from the inmates of the London Almshouses, for an increase to their agowance, was referred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee. After the transaction of some other business, the court adjourned. THE LONDON AND NOWIII-WbSTERN RAILWAY AND TIM PARISIt or Sr. P ►NCUAe.— Yesterday, at a aae•ial meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry, held in the Vcstry-hall, King's-road, I'ancras•road, Mr. Churchwarden Pierce in the chair, a letter was read from Menrs. Swift awl Wagstaff; solicitors to the NortlpWs,tern Railway Company, intimating their intention to appeal against the rate made on the 25et of March last, and repoding the vestry to come to the same d.eision with regard to this as they'had to the rate of 2.5 th September. At the same meet ing Mr. Cook stated that he had been served with a notice of appeal on the part of the same r-mpany against the rata made nu the ith September, 18)2, amounting to Ile., being a six months' rate, at 1.1.1 111 eke pound upon an assessment of :!1,331/. 3he company contend that tt,e rate is not mode up.m a just estimate of the fair rateable value e.f the prop. rty. It was resolved that the vestry be summoned f,r %Veda..sac rest, t ) c.a.‘ider, and if ip:ccs lieu remand, the re•,:h.t.on of Gth October, native to the appeal aphid tea rate; au I that tho c anpany be sum moned to attend. 01:DNANCA ENGrAvERS.—The Government have vo:olitsrily minced tl a working houn of tic engravers of the enhtauce maps at Satthamptm use Lour Jails. ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND ASSOCIATION: On Ash Wednesday, according to annual custom, a general court of the members of this association, Mai ; tuted tar the purpose of granting permanent pensions to all peraons who practise the art of acting, dancing, or sing ing as a means of subsistence in Great Diinsin and Ireland, was held in the saloon of the Lyceum Theatre; d. B. BUCKSTONE, Esq , in the ceair. Mr. CVLLINFORD, the secretary, in presenting the finan cial statement, premised that the day of holding the annual court having this year fallen within one of the quarters for pay:ncnt, whereby it had become impossible fur him to fur n:sh them with an accurate account, he, in obedience to toe wishes of the directors, who thought it not only ad visable but highly proper that such a course should be pursued, had drawn up the balance-sheet upon an esti mate of income ; and he was prepared to state, that when rcullied it would not differ by 51. either way from that estimate. He then read the account of ex penditure and incense for the year, esplaining several of the items. The sum of 101. 9,., entered upon the debtor side :al arrears, he stated to b e a port i on of 171 . 7 s. repre sented and,r hat bead in the last report as due to the asso ciation, which had been since paid in. A portion of the amount paid for printing, as catered upon ills: credit side, was an account for three years. The mei chartzr of incor por.stim just received had already cost 30/ , but Ise was net at pria.ent in a position to state how much more it might cost. Upon the whole the income had been 9761. 35. 251., inelading 4431. members subscriptions, and 1801. this profits of the v.nniversary festival ; the expenditure had bi on 689/. 9s. 11d., of which sum 1391. 105. 81. had beep roil in an nuities, leaving in hand a balance of 31.51. 13e. 3d., which, added to the capital stock of the association, gave it an available fund of 6,829/. 3s. 7d. During the yea. the num ber of old members had been diminishes' by five, of whom one had died, ono had withdrawn, and three had been placed upon the list of annuitants, at Gin. each. Six new members had been added to the roll, whiei now musters 118 members. statemett and report were adopted by acclamation. Mr. SAVILLE then moved, and Mt. LYONS seconded, the re-election of Messrs. Williams, Atwood, Bryce, Iluward, and Lambert, retiring by rotati.a, as directors for the en suingyrar, which was unanimoudy agreed to. Mr. amnion Conies moved, and Mr. Wonattr. se conded, the nomination of Mr. Addison, at director, in the room of Mr. 11. Ilughes, who retires ; this was also agreed to. The other officers of the association were then re-olec'ed. Mr. Ct:LLEs; vont) here statcd to the meeting that he had fjust received a letter, from which i t a pp eare d t h at as M r. Ilynilmarsh, the barrister, had generously declined to re ceive his fees, the east of the royal charter would not cacccd 3.591. (Cheers.) Mr. ATwooD then moved the best thanks of the associa tion to Mr. Hyndinarah, for the highly liberal manner in which he had treated them. Mr. CowLE seconded the motion, which wee unani mously agreed to. Mr. IVORRELL moved, and Mr. Lnwts recandel, a rote of thanks to Mr. Arnold, the lessee, for his kinds• as in supplying them with an office gratis; to Mr. Chaiha Mathews, for his generosity in allowing them the ue of the saloon; to Dr. Hastings, the honorary physician; and to Mr. T. J, Jerwood, honorary solicitor. The seer; t iry, the reportan attending, and the chairman, .140 r. eel, ttio thanks of the meeting, when the proceed. lugs terminated. MONTENEGRO. The Dalmatian journals bring particulars of Omer Pacha's proclamation to the Montenegrins. The Turkish general promises, as the price of their sub mission, the fullest enjoyment of religious liberty and worship; also the right of self-gove .nmcat so far as concerns the election of prefects and sous-pre fects (serdares and baserdares) for each naltia, re quiring these only to obey the orders of the Pacha of Scutari in important affairs, and exemption from taxation, with the exception of paying the salaries of the prefects whom they elect. On these offers each district is to decide separately and for itself. The Ist inst. was looked forward to as the probable date of a fierce struggle between the Montenegrins and Turks. Omer I'acha had sent .5,000 Arnauts to the aid of the I'acha of Scutari, receiving himself 3,000 men from the corps crar»We of Itoumelia. A letter from "the Narenta," published in the Vienna Lkositl, gives details of two fights in which the mountaineers were unsuccessful. The Montene grins, it Is said, are required to display a terrible energy to cope with the numerically superior foe. Among the feats of valour recorded by this corres pondent is that of a peasant who was burned out of his house at the engagement near Limugani. It is said that he cut down a Turkish soldier, and having attired himself in his enemy's dress went among the Turks and returned safe to his brethren with three heads. The Montenegrins have entcs-nched them selves strongly at Bir, not far from the head of the Lake of Scutari, and thence command the plain across which the road passes to the interior of Mon tenegro. This point they seem determined to hold at any price, and Omer Pasha proposed to make with the Pacha of Scutari a combined attack on this place. The Turks have military possession of the is.es of Vranina and Lesendra at the top of the lake, and have mounted guns thereon. 'rho last number of the Triest Zeitung says It is reported that the Montenegrins made a nocturnal descent into the camp of Derwisch Paella (near Ora hove), in order to liberate the captive Wujatich. Although they massacred several Turks, whose heads they carried off, they did not effect their principal object. It appears that there was a regular battle between Omer Pacha's corps and the Montenegrins on the Ist, but it is not known how it ended. In his proclamation to the mountaineers, Omer Pacha pro- mised that if they would submit to the Porte they Should enjoy an autonomic government." A brief notice of the configuration of Montenegro will be of interest in its connexion with the progress of the war. The country consists at present of eight nahias, or districts, and is divided by the small river Zeta into two sections. The river flows from north to south, and discharges its waters into tho lake of Scutari. On its left bank lies the nahia Momcsa to the north, that of Piperi in the south-west, that of Kntsha in the south-east, and that of Bielopavitch, between Moracksa and Piperi. These militia have been subjected by Omer Paeha, who is no stranger among them, having more than once induced them by negotiation to withdraw themselves from the rule of the Vladika ; thus they have not constantly been comprised in Montenegro. We may now discern Omer Pasha's plan of operations. Since the Sems kier has introduced Turkish troops from Nikisch in the north, as well as from Podgorizza in the south, into the valley of the Zeta, and himself cccupies at Spuss a position in the same valey, it is clear that he has resolved to secure himself in its occupa tion so as to cut off the subject from the rebel nahias, iu order to reduce the latter in their isolation. Ou the right bank of the Zeta lie the nahias of Katunska, Czernitska, Njetschke, and Leschanaka, which, surrounded on all sides by steep and scarcely accessible mountains, constitute the pri mitive Montenegro. The five points of Omer Pasha's operations are—north-west, Grahowo; north, Nikitsch; south east, Podgorizza and Zabljak; and south, Antivari. The Triest Zeilung of the 4th contains a letter from Vienna, which says that George Petrovich, the Vice-President of the Montenegrin Senate, who left Vienna about a week since, was persuaded that it was not advisable that his countrymen should push their resistance to the utmost ; on the contrary, Prince Daniel was advised to seize the first opportunity of effecting a decent compromise. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (IT BLICTRIC TILZORAPR.) (11011 OUR OWN CORR/M . O2IDM) MAkSICILLES, Fse.lo. I have just received, per French boat, the follow ing dates from India :—Caleutta, Jan. 3; Madras, Jan. 10; Bombay, Jan. 13. A proclamation, dated Dec. 20, says that now and for the future the province of Pegu will form a pa r t of the Eastern British territory. Three thousand chests indigo were sold from 45 to 53 rupees higher than last year. The money market is easy. Exchange in Cal cutta, 2s. Id. SVIIIIAIIINI We have since received the following metsage from Trieste : . "The Pyroicaphe (fire-ship) Egypte arrived here from Alexandria, February 10, at one o'clock. She accomplished her passage in one huneed and fortv-six hours. The proclamation for the annexation of Fegu was published on the 20th of December. It con cludes with the intimation that, in case the King should refuse to make peace, or venture to molest our new territory-, the Burmese empire should be subverted, and himself dethroned. The Burmese do not show any signs of acceding to these terms, and an advance upon Ave is inevitable. This will take place probably as soon as we can rroeure the neces sary means of transport. There is no other public news of importance." LEEDS Tows Covicat.—At the meeting of this body, held on Wednesday, it was determined to apply to parliament, during nest session, for a bill to authorise the corporation to make and sell gas. At the same meeting • petition to parliament was agreed to against a bill of the Old Gas Company, now before parliament, for an extension of that company's capital. The MADIAI.—A meeting was held at the AF.- 'stably Rooms, Bath, on Monday evening, to hear from Captain Trot it r, late of the 2nd Life Guard.. and one of the recent deputatiou to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, an ac count of the persecution to which scri,iture reader, are sub jected in that couutrv, and especially of the me of Fran ems and Rosa Mailiei. The meeting was one of the largest that has been held in Bath for !OM. time. The room was crowded before the hour announced lit the chair to he taken, and hundred. were unable to obtain admission. Mr. it. Iluywood presided ; and the plulorsit was filled wit:. cleriry, mint.ters of various denominations, and influential laymen. The Achim. of Captain Trotter was listen. dto with great attention, sod at its close errs loudly applauded. A collection wss also made towarda establishing at Geneva an educational and industrial establishrni tit u a refuge fur those who escape fru religions per..ecution. Tue DEPAI:TURE oy TILE STEAMER HARBINGER, bouad from Suathampton to Australia, la delayed until to- day. • HE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1853 THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN. Yesterday afternoon the first annual general meeting of the governors and subscribers to this very useful charity was held in the Board-room of the institution, (ireat Ormond street, Queen-square, fur the purpose of re ceiving the medical, general, and financial reports, the elec tion of officers for the year ensuing, and on other business. Joust LAIIOI:CIMAY, Esq., the treasurer, presided. The respective repo:to were read by the Rev. Sir If. Dukiofield, Dr. West, and Mr. H. A. Bathurst, Honorary Secretary, which showed that the hospital had originated from a meeting held aS the Hanover-square Rooms, at which the Earl of Shaftesbury bud presided. The wl:ole funds collected having b een found wholly in efficient fur the erection of a new building, the committee took the house in Ormond•street, now used as the hospital, in which the roasts were spacious an 1 lofty, with a garden in the rear about an acre in extent. The committee had greet reason to Le thankful for the support received, and had much pleasure in announcing that her Majesty had graciously become patroness of the institution, and cacti i bated the liberal donation of 1001. The hospital had given great general relief to the children of the pour, and pro moted many recoveries. The in-patients admitted were 143, •M., 76 males and 67 females, of whom 13 had died. Tha out-patients had been 1,250. The whole number of beds had now increased to 30, but fur the nume rous applicants th se were wholly inadequate. The whole amount rectived for donations and subseriptions was ' 4,8211 124. 2id., hut only 3931. in annual subscriptions. Of this 2.655/. 2s. Hid. had been expended, and there re• mained a Wane; fund-il and at the bankers' of 2,169/. 9s. 3d. Parents now felt every confidence in the hospital, and mothers now often sought for admioion for their chil dren, whom want of room or want of feuds compelled the medical Akers to refuse. The fever wards of tha hospital had proved themselves of the greatest importance. On the motion of Mr. HAYWOOD PENNY, seconded by Mr. H. C. ROTIIIIREY, the reports were unanimously adopted. The ChIAIRMAN observed that the annual subscriptions were under IDOL, while the annual expenditure was about 1,i.001, and it was therefore incumbent on the public to increase the annual subscriptions. The Rey. Sir H. DUILINFIELD suggested that parties who had tied children i 1, and recovered,lthou:d he urged to con trib.de to this hospital in the shape of thank-efferings. (Hear.) This course be should be must happy to adopt under such circumstances. (Hear.) Tho remaining business having been disposed of, thanks were arcirded to the chairman and other officers, and the proceedings terminated. GENERAL BROTHERTON AND MR. COBDEN. Lieut.-General Brotherton has published the fol lowiug "last word" between himself and Mr. Cobden: Travellers' Club, Feb. 9. Sir,—/as you have not taken any notice of my letter of the 3rd inst., I think I may fairly conclude either that you have not received it, or that you do not accept or approve of the conditions it contained. Should the latter be the case, may I beg to suggest what I have no doubt will be moat consonant to your feelings, and afford you "the greatest satisfaction and pride "—vie., to transfer your bond (410,0001. to the Manchester Infirmary—an institu tion in which you would seem to take a great interest ? This will afford you an opportunity of benefiting that establish ment, and removieg from the puhlie mind any doubt of your sincerity, should such doubt still exist. Moreover, it will give you the satisfaction of eclipsing my humble con tribution. This course will settle matters in a way which, if I may judge from your speeches, I doubt not you will highly approve. I am, sir, your obedient servant, 11. Cobden, Esq., M.P. T. W. BBOTHISRTON. P.S.—My donation of 51., and my weekly subscription el Is., have been remitted to the treasurer of the Infirmary; the latter I have paid one year in advance. T. W. B. DEATH or A MIBEIL—A kw days ago Mr. Win. Jameson, of Newby, Westmoreland, deputed this life in a state of the most abject wretchedness. Deceased during tho whole of his life had been exceedingly penurious is his habits. He was born at Newby, where he died. His tether had two children, himself and a sister, and a small estate. On the decease of his father, the estate, which was worth • few hundred pounds, was inherited by deceased; with tkia, in connexion with a small legacy left by an aunt, he com menced the world. For several years he worked as a ploughman, anxious to add • little to the little he had. In 'aurae of time, when still a young man, he purchased an old thatched cottage at Newby, where he took up his domicile. Too greedy to bay coals, he daily, in the winter season, resorted to the smithy to warns himself on the smith's hearth. Time passed on, and the miser, ever awake to speculation, was continually _muslin'? acces sions to his treasures. His gold and bona Jule eecuntiew ac cumuleed with astonishing rapidity, and with this in creasing wealth his acquisitiveness and misanthropy grew in proportion. His dress consisted of a greasy old fustian coat, with trousers and waistcoat of the same material, a pair of clogs, a wool hat, &c. His coat had been patched and sleeved by his own hand, for he would not afford to employ a tailor. His linen also was washed by himself. Ile lived principally upon hasty.pudding, and in order to save fire he would boil as much at a time as would serve him for three or four days. He sat in his lonely cottage on the dark winter nights without fire or candle. His health for the last few years gradually declined, and he died a few days since. His property has been variously estimated at from 211,0001. to 30,0001.—the principal part of which will go to a nephew in London—his sister's son. Nl:vr Stara SIGNIL4.—The experiments con-' netted with these signals have terminated. They have been carried on by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty now for a period of three yearn, though in the Western Squadron under Admiral Corry only about seven months. The result of the whole of the trials has been satisfactory. It is clear that vessels can most readily cern- municate at night; that an admiral sr commanding efilet.rs may, will , facility, single out any ship in a elect with pre cision, and fr,:elv signalise with it as by day, at distances varying front 31 miles in fine weather, and to 21 in blowy and stormy weather; or he may at once give the signal to the surrounding squadron. It has been deemed advisable not to remove the old signals, but to retain end unite them with Thomsan's system; thus the naval service will be well furnished with a ready and an extensive in , any of communication for war or for peace. The mode of working these signals is simple; they are hoisted as flags; all numbers are formed by two lamps at a hoist ; the alphabet and vocabulary with three, and general signals with four lamps; and this being established as a law, no mistake can happen, especially as the distin a uishing signal is invariably wed before, to indi cate lava the communication is to premed, when, as under the old system, a lamp blown out would instantly change the import of the signal. The general gliali require no previous distinguishing signal. The new telt grnphic coloured lights, which are in course of making for the Its dit,reastean siiisailmn, will be HOW by llbs. that these ordered by the committee, and nester, simpler, and mere compact titan any yet made. ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN ON THE __— LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. --- Oa Wednesday, the 26th alt., an attempt was made, by placing about 12 meta. of stone blocks upon the Lancaster and Carlisle ltailway, near the Nlilnthorpe station, about midway between Lancaster and Kendal, to overthrow the up and down mail trains. Fortunately though the engines of both trains sustained same damage, neither of them was thrown oft the line. Siuce the cum. mission of the malicioua act, Mr. Bibby, the superintendent of the Lancaster and Carlisle Company's police, and Mr. Lipsett, superintendent of the Westmoreland police, have instituted active inquiries, which have at length resulted in the apprehension of a young man named William Pickles, residing at Coniston, in Westrucrehnd. On the 9th inst. he was brought up at Milethorpe, and, after a lengthened hearing, was fatly committed for trial ut the eusuing Appleby assiaea. FALL OF A HOUSE AT MANCHESTER. During the night of Wednesday, a house in Jewell-piece, Straogevreys, Manchester, isII into the river Irwell, sad its iumates li id a narrow escape of their lives. *The house is one of three fronting the liver Irwell, at the bottom of Irwell-street, the front walls of which rest upon the river wall, and was in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Blackloek, j His mother and three brothers resided in the house, and all were in bed when, about half-past three o'clor'a, it gave way. Mrs. Biacklack slept in the front bed-room, and she say. that the only notics she had of danger was a crashing of the ceiling. bhe got out of bed to ail°, a light, and was svoiding at the dressing.table, be tore the front window, when suddenly the front wall and window fell from before her and disappeared i n th e river below. Sh t s creame d and retreated to the deor,which was opened by her eldest sun, who rescued her from her perilous situation. •f he hark kitchen and bedroom over it remain 'hulling, and the sons who slept in the back part of the house escaped the danger. The house stands a con aiderable elevation .hove the water, and was approached, like the other two houses, by a stage supported over tic river by iron brackets. Tile entire front of the house, in cluding the bedroom, parlour, and cellar underneath, have gone down into the river, and Mr. Macklin:lt has lost and had destroyed about 201. worth of furniture. The whole founda• fion of that and the adjoining houses, and that of the houses for some distance behind, up Irwell-street, appear to have been of a loose and insecure nature. The other two houses are much elwken, and are expected to fall every mometft. Their tenants fled a. soon as they could possibly remora their furniture. Several houses behind them, in Irwell-street, have given way, and exhibit cracks in the flier, and between floors and walls, which are rather alarming. The houses were built about six years ago, and were bought from the builder, and are now the property of Mr. Hilton, landlord of the Highland Laddie public-house. A previous occupant of the house that has fallen says he sa• . that the front wall was bulged outwards whilst he was there, and be had several cracks plaistered up; he left it, however, from a conviction that it was not a safe residene, though he loud no idea it would have come down so soon. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.-TIIIIIISDAT. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Mason 'a Miss Mowbray (t to 1001.) 8 to 1 Mr. Mason's Owar (t 9to 1) 9 to 1 Mr. Darnett's Sir Peter Laur:e (t 10 to I) 14 to 1 Captain Little's Half-and 11 15 to 1 was laid agst 03C3t, in the City, on Wednesday, and yesterday 9 to 1 might bare been obtained without much difficulty. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 14 to I agst Mr. Lundcy's Maria (t and aft off) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 150 to 100 agst West Australian and Sittingboarne (t) CHESTER CUP. 20 to I apt Mr. f.1;17;'; 6;tit;nttnent 25 to 1 Mr. T. Parr's Trifle (t and aft ofF) 40 to 1 Captain Line'. Ninnyhaminer (t) 1000 to 15 Mr. S. Merry ns the lied. Lion (t and aft off) DLRBY. 13 to 1 oast Mr. Powney's Cincas (t and aft off) 16 to 1 Baron ltothschild's Oresus (t to 1000 35 to 1 Mr. T. Parr's Contentment (t) 40 to 1 Mr. Sort,es's tioneywoood (t 4001.) BATH STEEPLE CHASES.-TIIITESDAY. [HY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH:I GUARD OPEN STEEPLE CRUZ. . - Fret Ltd ---- — ---- Ringleader lass limiDica.r. lodine Yowls STAG kilniT STEEPLE CHASE. -.- Gipsey Bess 1 Venus LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. ACCEPTANCES PO/ SRI 0/AND NATIONAL STEEPLE at. lb. Sir Peter Laurie 11 8 Vsinhupe ll 4 Knigtt of Owynue ll 2 11:naMn Miss Mowbray lO 12 Lucy Neale Peter Simple Tipperary Boy lO 10 Abd-el-hader Due an Durres lO 10 Montague lO 8 Vietress lO 6 Augustine Carrig half and•lialf lO 5 Leporello The General , * lO 4 at. lb Field Marshal (Near lO 2 Remark lO 2 ltLiurice DAly Betsy Prig &neehet Poll View Halloo Maley Kilquade Ringleader Chatterbox Friendless 9 8 Itingdove 9 6 Crabbs The Dwarf DONCASTER SE ACCEPTANCES FOIL THE GRAN st. lb. Sir Peter Laurie ll 7 Bourt :n Mica Mow bray Lucy Neale Abd-el.liader Peter Simple lO 7 Carrig lO 6 Victims Melton' The General Half-and-Half ( ' The Drag Oscar 'RING MEETING. ND NATIONALL STNSPLYCHABE. st. lb. Leporello Dandy Jem (rest Western Maurice Daley Field Marshal Talisman 9 7 Payette 9 7 Benedict 9 6 Maley 9 6 Boned Tom 9 5 Yorkshireman ltingdove Friendless )ONCASTIIR : the ig 31b, it has been raised ACCEPTA:YCES YOH THE highest weight accepting be to fist 71b, and the others in . at. lb . Prime Minister 8 7 Leopold liungertord Trousseau Lough Bawn 7 4 Isabella Pelopidaa Bardolph Prestige Mayday Worcester (lap Ammonia Burndalo Chilton Breal,o'-day Boy 5 11 Katty Darling et. lb. Ethelbert Annie Tavistock Dula Davie .5 7 Knavery .5 7 Charity c by Don John out of Potentia NloAlle Gip L!anforda Guicow•ar St. Andrew Jacqueline Angelo the rest pay 5 Boys. each. LINCOLN SPR ACCEPTANCES POE TllB ( [NG MEETINO. ;RAND ANNUAL STEEPLI at. lb. at. lb. The General lO 8 I Hope 912 Little Queen Wild Here Forest Lad Quickstep 9 12 Brace Talisman NEFARIOUS CONDUCT OF A PROFESSIONAL MAN.- A correspondent says A short time since, there was men tion made of the elopement of the daughter of a hornet baronet with a gentleman of the medical profeash,n ; and in soia..:4 the papers these parties were erroneously confounded with two individuals who were guilty of a similar eecipade at Stourbridge, in Worcestershire. Tie Dorset elopement case is a peculiar one, fur seldom has such an outrage been committed on society, oar can the annals of rascality afford an instance in which professional privileges were more grossly abused. A physician, a Scotching's, practised in a town of Dometshire ; he was a married man, with a family of autiful children ' • hia wife possessed personal attractions, and an amithlo disposihon ; he was called in profes sionally to attend a family who lived in the neigh bourhood, and the head of a hich was an aged baronet of anchnt lineage, and he seduced the daughter. This could not tic proved, however, and the rascal was enabled, by tho privileges of his profession, to conceal his own improper in tim icy and his victim's infatuation, at least from the fath..v. Aeh lot time sion, the father died, and the doctor brought is a hill to the family of 1,31101. for prof to , ional attendance. 'rhis sum was hundreds of rnutulr mere than he was entitled to, but he was paid, and implored to (AIM the unhappy and disgraceful connexion which he had formed. lie took the !limey, ran away with the ilau,:hter, and of course forsook his virtuous wife and innocent children." STRIKE OF THE SIIII9TRIGTITS AT BRISTOL —The men I mployed in the dlf,rent thinyards of the pert of &Mot struck on Monday for au advance of Gd. per diem nn the scale of wages ptorioualy paid to them by Ceir rc ape etise cu:ployers The strike W[ls in comp:i tuce wile an orrung.m,nt made by the men at their trade cemmittee room, 2111 which was cmtmunirated to the masters by el:- putation and by circular. Ia consequence of the strike the masters heed a meeting, and agreed to the advance, and the men have, mtscquently, returtud to their work. It has been intimated that should the advance. be permanent, no new work can be taken at puerile prices. THE LONDON' AND NORTH WESTERN AND UREAT WESTERN DIFFERENCES. MEETING AT LIVERPOOL. Yesterday, at one el'eltick, a meeting of shore holder: in the above companies took place in the Cotton Sales R tom, Liverpool, to receive the report of the com mittee of shareholders in the London and North %%cern and Great Western Ilsilway Companies, appointed at a public meeting held fu Liverpool, on the Bth of Gitober last, with a view to bring about an adjustment of the differences which have so long ez:stcd between the two companies. Mr. Itathh.ine was called to the chair, 04 taking which he requested Mr. Delloc, the secretary, to read the repast, of which the following is a copy, and also a copy of the pro ceedings and correspondence of the committee of mtge. ciation : " Your committ ref. rto the annexed statement of their proceedings and COpiei of their correspondence with the boards of the two companies. Front a careful perusal of these documents it will be seen that some progress had !wen made in the attainment of your object, when the appoint ment of a select committee of the II mse t f Cu:unions to consider the whole question of railway legislation, induced the Great Westan Company to bleak oft the uegotietion, aril ast -tit the result of that important meaeure. Ymar conni , tee then, as their last resource, deemed it their duty to apply to the Board of Yretle, and urge upuu the go vernment the importance of the of jest for which your committee was formed, pointing out, at the same time the aantages to be derived fr o m an ear l y report of the advantages select committee above related to, which might mitigate or suspend a ruinous end perhaps iudeeisive paril tmentery struggle. It is with much satirfectiou that your committee are enabled to report that the govern ' mmit not only eympathito with the n'elecholdere, but are fully impriewel with the magnitulle of the subject, and pre pared, throtelh the medium of the select committee, to institute proper inquiry and receive every suggestion 11 hick is likely to lead them to a correct c tnclusitm, while they fresh stated that they considered the ti 11.2 inter: stn of the public and the shareholders were identical and could not be separated. On the select committee alone you have there fore at present to rely, and you cannot over-rate the im portance of furnishing that body with such evidence us will lead to a just and decisive settlement of all your dildeulties; the mode of accomplishing this requires your immediate attention, and should be the work of a new and strong com mittee. Your committee cannot help remaking upon the hardship of being driven to parliament to 'eels, en expen s:ve terms, for the derision of a question which ought to have been rest ed by your directors, and they regret to *tato how painfully evident it has b.:come that without au organic change in the system of railway management, there is no escape from the labyrinth in which thra have involved you. From the proceedings and correspondence of the com mittee of negotiation we take the following extracts: "The committee appointed at the public meeting of shorehv'ders in the London and North West. rn and Great Western Railway Companies, held in Liverpool on the Bth o f October, 18:.:12, lost no time in placing teenuelves in com municatiou with the boards of the two cotopanies. "On Vie Blot /Dewitt r, the Committee Lad an inter view with the Beard of the Great Western Railway, and after a very ample discussion of the preheat position of the tea Companies, the Committee left the Beard without having succeeded in obtaining any proposition beyond a general declaration of the chairman that the Great 'Western earnestly desired come agreement with the Landon sari North Western Board, on the basis they had formerly prom) ed, or on any other basis that miallt be just and rev s noble, and flee from all the difficulties and embarrass ments with w:lielt they feel convinced the project of amal gamation was surrounded. _ _ " On the tlnd of November the Co:nmittee had a very tong interview with the Boa r d o f th e L on d on nod Nort h Wooten, Company, which resumed in the lullowing resolu tion being adopted by the Board That in order to effect a complete and permanent settlement between the London and North-W, stern and Great Western Companies, the Directors are wilieg to recommend their proprietors to leave the entire questions in difference to referees of high standing, stipulating only,thet all engegements with third parties effected by the refersece shall be fully and honourably corried out, and that between all points w iere the companies may ha in competition, the principle of the same rates be adopted and rendered bind ing on both parties.' " The above resolution was submit d by the committee to the board of the Great Western 121)4,111 tny, who at the tame time were most strongly urged by the committee to receive it in a conciliatory spirit, cad atter another pro tracted interview the beard of the Great Western Company paned the following resolution : " Toot the Great Western board still adhere to the opi nion that any attempt at amalgamation between the two companies would be injurious and unwise, and meet be un successful ; but thst, in order to effect a complete and per manent settlement by a system of moderate and equal rates of charge between all points where the companies may be in competition, to be settled between them, and equally charged by both companies (subject to arbitration, in ease of difference), affording to the public a fair opportunity of using uninterruptedly citcer system of railway, according to their convenience, the directors of the Great Western Company are willing to leave the entire questions in differ ence between the two companies to referees of high stand ing, stipulating, as a boris, that the agreements of the Great Weateru Company with the two Snrewstrary compa nies, including the engegement with the Birkenhead Cam. pony, and other parties or shall be admitted or passed through parliament unopposed (directly or indirectly) by the London and North Weetern Company, the Great Western Company undertaking not to carry the broad gauge beyond Birkenhead' "This resolution was immediately transmitted to the secretory of the London and North Western Company, and a letter watt received from that gentleman declining to ac cept the basis proposed by the Great Western Company, but at the same time containing an offer to leave the entire ' question aid difference to be investigated And settled, eithec by a public hoard or referee.% of high standing. " On the 30th of November this communication was for warded to the Secretary of the Great Western Company, with the following letter: ' Liverpool, Nov. 0, 1812. ' To the Chairman and Directors of tne Urea: %% r eused Railway, " ' Gentlemen,—The enclosi d letth from Mr. Stewart contains the answer of the London and North Western Board to your proposal of the 2nd inst. We hops you will Ice iu this document the evidence of a concilia tory spirit, and a strong desire to bring all diffe rences to an immediate termination. The greatest question that ever came before a mercantile body is now in your hands. Arbitration is offered in a form which we trust will be acceptable to you, and the only alternative is a de structive parliamentary struggle. We have numerous let ters from all sides insisting upon a cessation of the extrava gant waste of property in this unhappy rivalry, and we conjure you by the magnitude of the interest at stake not to allow this favourable opportunity to escape without earnestly reviewing the whole subject under its new oir caasstane,s, nor to deny yourselves the satisfaction of closing this revolting contest, and restoring these vast eon cern' to their former rank amongst railways. It is by peace alone this can be accomplished, and we eagfrly wait such a decision as will afford us the happiness of n porting that the directors of both companies have, hy their consign ing past feuds to oblivion, merited the confidence, the re spect, and the gratitude of the shareholders.'" And on 017: 10th of Dectiuber, tho follow lag reply was received "' Great Western Railway, London Terminus, Paddington, Dec., 9 lEir2. " Sir,—The directors of this committee desire me to as quaint the Liverpool committee of shareholders that they must refrain from quoting paragraphs from document., or enteriag upon controverted questions as to the effect or means of railway campetition, whether it be compatible with equal charges or not, to which points they are invited by the perusal of Mr. Stewart's letter to you oa the 171 k Mat., as they do not think a correspondence carried on in that spirit can be calculated to promote peace between the two companies, which was the sole avowed object of the in tervention of your committee. The board coeliac% itself, therefor. upon this occasion, to the mere expre as i on o f a strict adherence to their former resolution, communicated to the Liverpool deputation of shareholders ; remarking, in ad dition, that the subsequent appointment of a select com mittee in the House of C =mons to consider the questions of amalgamation and railway legislation must obviously preclude any useful reference to third parties, however dis tinguished in ability or in station, pending that investiga tion, and that many of the apprehended evils from disputes between conflicting interests in railway companies may be much mitigated, if nut removed, by the decisions of that select committee.—l remain, sir, your faithful servant, CHAS. SAX:ND/HO, Secretary.—ll. C. Belee, Esq., • Shelly after the receipt of th's letter the committee determined M seek an interview with the Board of Trade, and accordingly a deputation had the honour of an inter view with the Right lion. E. Cardwell and Lard Stanley of Milerley, on Wednesday, the '26th of January. The de ett tation were assured that the government considered the sunject of railway legislation as of imperial magnitude, the importance of which could not be over rated. They were further given to understand that the labours of the Select Committee of the Roue of Commons, appointed by the late and strengthened by the present government, would be devoted to the earnest consideration of this momentous question, a satisfactory solution of which would be most gratifying to the government and that profiting by the ca pericnio the past, it was thought a course might be ale viaed which would, for tho future, put an end to the ruin ous contests between railway companies, having regard .s ' the interests of the shareholders and the public, which were M fact identical.—Liverpool, Yeti. 7, 18j1." The report having been read, the CHAIRMAN said he hoped the shareholders woul I carefully read the proceed ings, any see that the committee had acted as instructed tvith perfect fairness. lle then gave a sketch of the pro ceedings of the committee, and mused the adoption of the report. Mr. hut. seconded tle motion. In refe:ence to a remark of the chairman that the dime tors had spent 70,0001. iu litigation, Mr. Remote, auditor of the London and North WLstern Company, Ftated that be bad ICI,OU to know t'tat the Mtn wall nut lets 0138100,0 M. Ile ur44.1 the bhareholdert t , t call on the ditectora to state sant th .7 rtaily were *,.:tiding, and to attend the (timing me, ting-,and there inst:t on the directors inserting sash . ears . te es lb, ir half-yearly re&rts. Mr. HALL a-kel Mr. ltowas.tt if he umahltLll the :se, ling whether the London awl North Western Centrally added these expenses to capital. Mr. ROWSON said that although that was not perhaps the , proper place to answer such a question, yet he would not shrink front a reply. no Loudon and North t. i