The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

CeITT OF ALDERMEN. - Yesterday a court wag held for the despatch Of 5 p busiest's. - NI.I6*NTID tofu:guru ON LOCO MAYOR'S DAT. Tee Lome M•10h eold he wished the court to be pat in ic e of some correspondence epos the subject of .r"Z e d n polieemea. Lee Tows CLia• then read the following cone „palace • Nov. 29, 1853. o Lewd Palmerston prevents his compliments to the Lord lore and begs leave to enclose him the copy • con t Of mooted p o licemen riding at a naked used', which L .rd Paimer-ton finds on inquiry does not infer to the otheen of the Metropolitan Police Force. ~Tee light Him. the Lord Mayor, &e., etc." ft Nov. 10, 18.53. oi lip Lord,-Vnerilling to trouble a Secretary of State ~ t, a loss letter, way a private individual be permitted to as vest that the spectacle of mounted policemen riding at a wet ly ; Ole crowd (ouch as aslemble at the Lord Mayor's 'how') with waives, is not a sight consonant to the wimp of Eashalunca at the present day.—With great s t ip. ct. Le • " Onenirriut. „Te r Bight HOO. Lord Viseount Palmerston, Secretary of S'...4tC Hume Department." " Haase Dec. 2, 1853. '•11 The Lord .10, presents WI complinaestv to Lord Newtown, and begs to enelase the yin' does. meet I n reply to his Isrdsbip's note of th ie r&of Novem ber Maitre to the mounted pol.ce force ersapiejed in the pre cool...a on Lord Moor's Day ; and the Lord Mayor trusts tpe mi h n eion given wilt bo sate,factogy (ohm lordship. "TIN Ittght lien. Lord Palmerston, Seer!tory of State for the Home Department. "City Police °Mee, Nov. 30, 1833. Su,—ln reference to the anuaynaons letter addressed to Lord l'alenemton, complaining of mounted policemen fl a m e at a merely ;ill.: crowd with naked cabers on Lord m are % Day teat, I beg leave to report that a party of w anted men or t'..a tons were employed on that day to aid in clearing the aey through the streets en the line of woo of the proce.-i.in a position. bath from my own of:nervation, toi well as from the sassusels of many respectable inbebitant , who had an opportnialty of seeing what took place. to c. otradiet the assertion that there was any mho; at s er.0.1 with naked sabres. Ms suet violence ws. exhibited by the men, or at all nemosoary. On the verify, though the atm.' was in ray Passe very deem, ma people fell back at the dirt Stun the polies fa aam ready and good humoured manner. Ihe lor So seats that, when a proton on is in motion, it is sosessisry bore, and is every other f We, that the polite fassiag the escort & d e w* with tbt it truncheons drawn, if cm foot, or swords, amounted. 1 may add that all the mounted men are old pesky soldiers, tele ctoi from our own knowledge of their individual good temper and conduct as constables. I have the honour to he, Sir, your very obedient servant, "CHAS. O. Hof:wooer, Superintendent. " D. W. Harvey, Eaq., Censmisitiener of the City of London Polie,." Alderman WILSON said he spprehended that the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department was ratialed with the answer of the Lord Mayor, and there fore it was not necessary that any farther noti cee should be taken of the anonymous letter signed " Obeerver"—• letter which, from the style in which it was written he could not help considering a hoax. He (Alderman Wilson) on last Lord Mayor's-day walked with the poke from Guildhall to where the chief magistrate and his friends took water, and he net e.nly never saw a larger crowd, but saw so great a man, of human beings so well behaved or ap parently so happy, and enjoying themselves so much. He undertook to say, ft: in his own personal observation, that there was no occasion whitest' for any mounted policemen to ride st the crowd on that day. (Hear, bear.) Alderman EA RIOROTH as said if there had been any real foundation for the charge which had been made, the writer of the letter would have appended his name to it. He though' the court were very much indebted to Lord Pal merston for having rent the communication, although an anonymous one, to the Lord Mays, as the head of the corporation. (Hear, hear.) ACCOUNTS OF TUE COISPORATION. The Loan Maroc—The has just handed up to me the book containing entries of payments to be made for my 'ignitor., two Aldermen having etareined thelsame. These entries consist of 42 items amounting to about L3oftl. I thak these sums abouid not he disposed of in so summary • mower, but that the court should know of what they consist sod to what they relate. I must confess my asto nishment and exert:Jingly great regret at finding an entry of 3481. to Mr. Morlsnd, engineer, for fitting up a treadmill in the New Prison, which was built for a special purpose, and in order to put an end to the barbarous custom of tread wheel punishment. I know nothing of such an item as this having passed the court, end if it has done so I ezesedingly regret it. Ii lam to sign items of this nature, I would rather do so when they have been sanctioned and approved by the court. Alderman Winn—Your lordship is perfectly aware of the practice of the court and of the committee. The bills go before the committee, and when approved are vouched by the signatures of two Aldermen. It is usual in a ease where twe of your bretheren have aliened an account testi fying that it has been vouched to them, that your lordship should officially put your signature to it. The Loam Macon said he was very much obliged to his friend Alderman Wire for giving his a lecture on the duties of the Lord Mayor, but he had made up his mind during the period he held that distinguished office to do nothing as a matter of course. Alderman Wit.sote remarked that the arrangements made b'y the court for a thorough eupervision of ezpen dinare by its committee had been settled after much delibe ration. lie had not the slightest objection to ell the items being read aloud end discussed, but if the court were to audit the bills according to the plan pursued by the ones- =Mee they might sit all day, and then not satisfactorily perform their work. His own sigeature was attached to' the bills now alluded to, the greeter portion of them being for worts which had been certified for by Mr. Banning and other officials of the court ; to point of feet, all the bills relating to what bed been done at the new prison had been audited by the clerk of the works, and certified by his to be motet. (Heer, hear.) The treadmill, as now re-erected, was of great service in pumping water. Aidersaaa Wins having disavowed the intention lecturing the thief 'magistrate, The Loan MAYOR said that be disputed the authority of any committee to spend 35111. without the auction of the mart. Hereupon • discussion ensued, and finally Aldermen Winn moved that the bills, as allowed by tke two aldermen in the bill book, be paid. Sir R. W. CARDIN wooded the meths, which wu pat sad carried uaanintously. CITY COLIC' TORCIL Urea the peemstation of the report of one of the OM mimes reeseensonding as increase is the pay of this tea, (se P. Lev= said ha easaidered the pass knee of the City amply p.M Ow their services, which were set by any seam er se whew a character u those perfeemed by tbe metropolitan trues. He moved that the mat be muted, Whee there appeared only 12 mirmbees present. Thirteen members !Jiang required to essetitote a mart, e buinees of the day was sedileely tenalmeted. The ae m l=minetaieed several subjoins, mbleat Wes remain m —awes them a Widen Aeries ealseeednat lOW a Welter. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS. - Yesteeday a special wart of die asanaissioa was held se ths Cart-hooso, Orook- .hest, Bee.. Mt. RICIIAID Stan presided, cad sbo other criumbolooovo present Wore Mr. 0. Baker. Mr. G. 8. tbsitb, Mr. T. T. Oitoce, Mown, sod Theism Field. Wootaeco reported that tbo balsams is Mad wee 66).5671. Ss Id., 'abject to pimento to Use antoaat of 15,3211. Os. Sd. . - NSW UMW. A het was t►en presented for coefirmation of new works recommended by the 'repeal esommittee, including now wavers, alterations, and deviations of existing sowers and other improvements in various parts of the metropolis, and iavolvine an evonditure of 37.226/. for the western divi sioe of Westminster, 8,409/. 10s. for the eastern division. 1,2'01 for the 109,15 t-street district, 65,1821. 9s. 9d. for the llolhora division, 1,6931. for the Finsbury division, 99/. for the Spitalfields, &c., level. 7.1311. ss. for the Surrey and Keat district, and 1201. for the Richmond district. . • ..... The CIIAIRNAN, in movie; that the recommesdatiou to the general committee be confirmed, stated that the list which had been read included a great sof the works to be paid for oat of the rates inalL7 ti a ll r to be made, daring the current year, that was frees July last until July seat year. Oa a recent Ocerinion he had Manned the wart that considerable works had besa con stricted as were is hand, and by naives hens the mi ens Mane of the eammagiosers it would appear that during the last six mouths more works in the way of now sews!' had been executed or put in hand by the promat enema lies than by any previous commission in a tentless/nth— in feet, sufficient had been done during the half-year t 3 sewer a city of 150,000 inhabitants. That wee V the way of new worki, besides which a vast number of unimases, &metalling to some hundreds every mut day, had bees suiltmeeed. The commission would still go on daring the current year raising rates and making new works in the &strata comprised in the present list, and their ofloers were engaged M preparing lists for further works, to be mode out of the rate* which had been already raised and which remained to bar collected. The principle on which the commission had acted, and upon which they would continue to act, was this—They decided upon the particular works in the list, and upon other works which would appear in other lists—sad as he had taken occasion to observe before, the rates were levied, and the winks were executed, not by parishes, but by sewage districts. They lad, at the same time, always recognised the propriety of considering the just wants and claims of every parish, and had endeavoured, it the best of their judgment, o to pay • proportionate degree of attention to es el in tke dia•rict. They had eonsidered what rates had been made in each pariah, what works had been dew, and what ware required; and, although they could not attend to them with mathematical nicety, they had given a (sir consideration to the wants of each parish in every district. Unfortunately the comailwionen bed not the mesas of westing at once all the works required for all the districts. Some matt wait for another year. But they had dens • great deal, and those legalities which might think themselves negiected, if they could sit in that court, and see the numerous claims that were made, sad bear the discnuions upon them, would not, be was eon, consider that any injustice was dons to them. The claims of every district and of every parish hod bees fairly comidered, and M these eases where the assmissiosers had abstained from 'making sew eswm, notwithstanding the demands of the iahabitants, it was bows more urgent shims had bees pat forward by other districts, which they felt bo un d t o attend to in the first inatanee. This was the principle apes which they had hitherto acted, and they would continue to act upon the same principle hereafter, and would do their beet to attired M the waste and just ims of every district, and distribute the funds at their disposal as equitably as was in their power. It was for the smut to say whether the coon would confirm the works now proposed. He should may that the length of new sewers comprised is the list sow submitted was between 17 and 18 miles, sod would involes as expen diture of 74,1171. 14.. The list was confirmed, and the works ordered. TIC OAS ITOZZII 1117111ANCI. The BvaTneoa reported that the nuisastee complained of is the ease of the Western Gas Works at Kentall-green had bean abated, but not entirely reentived. The report suggested that a system of filtration would effectually obviate any nuisance that now remained. The report was ordered to be forwarded to the gas com pany, whose attentks was to be draws to the surveyor's 'mettles. In the are of the Great Central Gas Compass, it was reported that the attemary ineallOreg had bees taken to prevent the discharge of gat water complained of. 11011.111 AND [NAT DAMNAG& Mr. WOOLIIITCII read a report from the engi neer (Mr. Baselgette) In answer to certain objections whic h had been advanced by the parishes ef Deptford and Greenwich against the proposed new system of drainage for the south of London. Mr. Basalgetto stated that the complaint erase from a miaapprebutos of the olen. It wu not proposed to discharge the sewage into - Deptford-creek, but to con vey it from the high-level sewer by gravitation, and from the low-level sewer by pumping, through iron pipes, into the ',airs and bottom of the main stream of the Thames, retaining the outlets into the creek for the flood waters. These waters would have the effect of scouring away the mad and filth now collected is the meek, sad of deepening and insprovies its tunnel. The sewage discharged by the sewers along the banks 'Atha river above Deptford-auk and now carried by repeated flood and ebb tides past Oteeswich, would by this plan be discharged at • much lower point into the sutra and bottom of the river, sad would, there fore be so mach the sooner conveyed away to sea. The proposed pumping status near the Gas and Vitriol Works would not came the tightest smell or nuisance. There would be so reservoirs et any kind attached to it, and no espaliers of the sewage, as the latter will be buried under ground. Ordinary stram-iingthes at work would be the only Wag perceptible to any of the susses. It was ordered that copies of this report be forwardel to the object's"! parishes. T remaining business consisted of making district rates, hearing summonses, receiving presentments, and ether formal matters. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1853 PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. Yesterday the annual meeting of the shareholders of the above company was hold at the company's offices, 122, Lsadenhall•street. them to make more bricks although they could get no straw. They called ea the company to fall l their contract or to pay the 36,00 W., and arbitrarily declined to enter iato the inquiry. They did not always treat the com pany co cavalierly, but when they got fat, a serape they ware very glad to call for their assistance. When the company assisted them at Rangoon and the Cape with their vessels, they received a letter of thanks, bat there was an old saying, that "fair words buttoned no parsnips." Really, the line the government had taken was inexcusable, and, in his opinion, the matter should not be allowed to remain where it was. Speaking his own individual opinion, ha wished that the directors had taken the Admiralty at their word, and at twee surren dered their contract, and then it could be 'sea whether two or three gentlemen, sitting at their ease in Whitehall, could organise so vest and complicated *service. It was said that the company depended oa these contracts for its prosperity. He should be sorry to think that it depended for its exist ence os a 'government whole endeavour was to !WOW them down to the lowest farthing. (Hear, hear.) With thee@ few words he begged to move the adoption of the report. Mr. Monate, H.E.1.5., seconded the resolution. Mr. HINAPATIL joined in the censure of the Admiralty, but seeing a balance of 800,0001. in favour of the company from two items, he wished to know whether, after paying a dividend of 8 per cent. for so many years, they had realised that ear, and whether it was is their hands. The CNAIIIIAN said they had realised it, and it was use fully employed. It would be perceived that the company had laid out 300,0001. or 400,0001. u p on new s hip s , w i t h out calling upon the shareholders for any additional capital. The report was then unanimously adopted. Colonel BAONOLD moved, and Mr. MACRINZIE seconded, the re•eltetion of Sir James Mathews and Mr. Hartley, as directors, which was carried unanimously. Mr. BAILTLiIr returned thanks. The auditors were also re-elected without discussion. Major Humor, in moving the adoption of a three per cent. dividend for the half year, expressed his regret that the directors, in requiring this sacrifice from the share holders, bad not made a little more sacrifice themselves. Captain MaxwaLn mended the adoption of the dividend. Mr. Wim.cox, M.P., begged to are the gallant pro prietor (Major Hislop) that the managing directory bad not waitea for his hint to take the matter into their considera tion. Arrangements had some time since been made which would effect a considerable reduction in their emoluments, and before the next annual meeting a communication would be made on that head, which he trusted would be satisfactory to every proprietor. The motion was then agreed to, and the proceedings ter. miaated with a vote of thanks to the directors, which was carried with acclamation. la the absence of Sir James Matheson, thinness of the company, the chair was tithes by Captain Tuoithrus, R.N., who opened the proceedings by calling oa the secretary to reed the report. ' Mr. Rowan, the secretary, having first read the circular altenshag the meeting, proeseded to read the report, of Nib& Ihe Yawing are the most important portions the shilleues of the year's operations exhibit the fel la*. tegeleat—Balance of net profita he the year ending BM hmensfen, 1863, after provides out of the earnings the mid wanes for wear and tear at 7* per cent., insur , anal eselsge eft risk at 4 per cent., add depreciation at 6 per cent, 62,4281. 1.. Bd.; and the balance of undivided profits frogs the previous year, as per balance sheet, 16,1691.25. 3d.' leaving disposable for dividend, eta, _for the year, 78,6971. 9s. 11d. Deduct dividend for the hell year ending 31st March, 1853, 36,6851. 16s. ; there 41,9111.75. 11d. From which has to be deducted Ml= year's dividend of 3 pet cent., now about to be egieesir mended, and estimated to amount to 37,6001. A bake= then remains, to meet contingencies, to be carried to the next year's account, of 4,4111. 7s. IW. Tun GUARAXTII INSUsANCZ FOND.—.At the be annual general muting of the company this fund ansessiel to 201,6241. 14s. W. ; appropriation to ibis fund hem the proprietors underwriting unentat, for the year ending 80th Sept., 1853, 12,0001.; now amounts to 213,6241. 14s. ed. DSPHICIATION FOND.-. 4% the last annual insainstiele fund amounted to 260,054 1 10s. 3d. ; add the usual pee out. for depreciation on the floating propane he the twelve mosths ending 30th September, 184 40,000 i., making 300,0641. 10a 3d.; deduct amount expended during last year, fur extraordinary repairs and improvements to several of the company's vessels, 37,0001. ; now amounts to 263.0541. 10.3 d. Paoraiseoms' UNDIUMRITINO Acconser.—The ba lance to the credit of this account, as exhibited by the accounts iodine 30th September, 1852, amounted to 29,0421. 1.. sd; deduct paid to proprietors as anderwritere, in January, • 1863, 22,464 e 16e. ; leaving • balance oe 6,5471. oe. 6d. To which is to be sided the annual premium on the estimated value of the floating property of the com pany, for the ordinary eve-risks for the year ending 30th September, 1863, 32,0001. ; there remains, 38,501. 6. 6d. Deduct amount curled to the inmost* fund to meet ex traordinary casualties, dtc., 12,0001. ;le balance remains, at 30th September, 1853; of 26.15471. 6.. 6d. No casualties of importance having happened to the company's fleet during the period embraced in this report, the directors consider that a payment out of the premises charged, of IL per old share, and 10s. per new share, may be made to the proprietors early in the ensuing year, all oa former occasions. Having alluded at some length to the corres po with the government, in consequence of the ty of procuring coals for carrying on the postal service, and which is explained in the devotion, the report states oa this point that having failed in inducing the government to relax the terms of the contract, the directors had deter mined on making the most strenuous exertions to carry it out in its original form. In doing this they had been aided by two circumstances: The first of these was the obtain ing, through means of the government of Batavia, a large supply of coals, though at a very heavy cost, for the Singa pore and China stations, at a time when tonnage from Esg. land fer those quarters could not be procured at an price. The second was the unusually large exportation of specie to India and China which hes taken place during the last six months, in consequence of the extraordinary state of the exchanges with thew countries. STAYS or THE COMPANY'S FLZST.—The Eat prefixed to the report exhibits the number, tonnage, poser of ma chinery, and ships employed, as well as those fitting out, and in progress of construction, of the company's fleet. It therefore appears to be only necessary for the directors to state, that whether with regard to the improvement of the older ships, or the arrangements of the new ones, no efforts have been spared to combine in them every requisite for superior speed, the comfortable accommodation of passen gers, capacity fur the carriage of goods, and economy in their uavigation, and is three respects they venture to as sert, your fleet is not surpassed by any other ocean-going vessels. In providing the large number of ship. comprised in the list reietred to, the directors have not only had in view the efficient execution of the egiviem in which the company is already engaged, but to make timely arrauge. meats for meeting the growing requirements of pats!, pas senger, and commercial intercourse in the East. This policy, by placing the company in a position promptly to undertake new and extended services, with more efficiency and economy to the 'public than could be otherwise obtained, hasenabled it hitherto to contend successfully agaioet all the attempts Which have ham made to rival it. After an allusion to the re-election of directors and audi tors, the report concludes with recommending that a dividend of three per cent., clear of Income tax, for the half-year ending 30th September last, be declared, and be payable on and also the 23rd inst. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the difficult circumstances in which the company had found themselves dories the past year had been met and overcome principally through the action of those parti cular circumstances. In the first place, they had received an unexpected amity of coals from Batavis, which has been alluded to in the report; secondly, they had been assisted by the transmission of an unusual quantity of specie ; and thirdly, they were indebted, under Providence, for their uninterrupted success, to the courage, zeal, and ' intelligence exhibited by the commanders of their several vessels. (Cheers.) Being of the naval profession himself, he might, perhaps, be excused in has paying • tribute to 60 Emits of their captains who had conducted their ships am& tho navigation of the year without the occurrence els Ogle essualty. (Loud cheers.) Still the directors had led anise anxious duty to perform as would be seen by their osampeolonee with the Admiralty, which had been pisced in he bode of the shareholders. The Admiralty by requiring • bi-monthly trunk line, bad caused the necessity M having 111,000 extra tons of coal in the depots in the Mem seas, and that at a time when the price of coal was Olissmosaly enhanced, through the advance of freightage lt on the abstraction of vessels for the newly de taseeelise leads. (Hear, hear.) So great bad iIINIA illeenteehr vessels he that trade, that recently at maws OOP Of Om Dinah vessels, and he believed ON Ilporldh shipp, had beim chartered for Melbourne. Under WINO diemelows, the directors hail thought it W i tk i te eilla i re lli tr a thi s tate wit t h be wh e rr ad odt. Wear, hear.) Oa 41111111abook be would make 1 16 12. no tuber OP NE illi ale directors had not shrank hen Ihe Mega et Ile shoodea, and the result THE LOSS OF THE 11144..._ of their imam was the repel whisk had just been read --•---- to tho uneehts. The goiellebsee perhaps forgot that W earepon, fei hese yam ha faresieg establishment. In the absence of other informatioe respecting the and depole et mat points la the Tostood which he first fats of the unfortunate Hull and Hamburg screw steamer estsblisibort had eat 100,0011..., end dais& the banal Marshall, and of the 160 persons en hoard, the following eposixpense was upwards of 70,0081. S ii Sea she ow, the dopooitiou of Captain G orgon ,. sho mew of the bonne tion of the oseapsay war all the wealth of the great Chy llai ral lh ea lli net, under Woodhouse , with which the Marshall is salsreeed to have several years, set up a della, weehlhaset, or undertake had a collision, will be of interest. Captain Odious says: to keep up the ummusigalisa between Ingleed and her " I sailed fob Stockholm oa the 4th of November last " kaki in am calms ewe. ( 11 " 4118110 He said %M e t for Hull, with • cargo of iron, boson and deals. Moa b; seder that the ehodmiders might vet be " !righted from heir inwitristr hi the idea of fresh speculations, to drive day the 28th, about 10 o'clock at night, when off the New dew hem ereeff Wish shop had se hap sad so honour. and floating light at the month of the Humber, we were ably filled ien he isenbeip s he hoped they owed hen be run into by a steamer, name unknown. We were all ✓ldisd IP= to noldad shirrs.. of 481111.61.11661. by mil spas deck at the time, having a light at our bowsprit, at Ades and . Miss sash due came, the gem- end showisg two flash lights over W starboard side, berrould b e ta he spike prepared, to argue the essart and assermelallea of throe who travelled with The moment we sew the steamer stPliemehiel we halisti them, sad Is realise that pukka tar whisk, he treated, her, and said she would be into us, but we received no *risme* uhildatel7 ddliesi — Ont of being the great answer. We continued oar course with the exception of w•dwwl 4 allommisals• between 1 .• PO her em- varying half a point to the eastward, believing the steamer's pies in the see s whethee la left or Msesalask. (Loud head to be north, and that by that means she would have cheers.) Of osene, it was est te lie asses& bet that new seasaakatisee wad be seal with our eras colonies, Bone clear of our vessel. We had no time to heave the ship bat still he abbe they wield be She male line of comma- about, as the steamer would have run into our ports ideation with the ails and thus jellify the EMU they had amidships ; and if we had squared the mainyard to wear, adalmett from the chivalry of the sister ClValitli.-." Quin she would have run into our starboard midships. Not separabit." (Eber t _hear.) withstanding the precautions we took, and the indeli ble. W. Goons, 11. P., is sievieg the satin of the re port, congratulated the isersey on ens osagene of their POSTS of Ryser and crew to make thole is charge of Oben and the abase et aommehisa daring she past year ; the steamer hear, the steamer ported her helm, and ram bat the point of mint hipertomeh sod that le which he into us on the starboard side, striking between the wished to allude, was she orewpsedeaeo Wish bad re- breast hooks, thereby starting the ship's stern, breaking coney tabs plain between** direstore sod ties govern owa, H. woo ggnre olog,. s h oorhas wwwpo .d waos had been ovoid planks ;is the bow and the forecastle floor, besides prieted'and dres ma the as when he starting the bows on both side., and otherwise shaking her had first seen it is the Henn a ossamall SLd inspired very much. Her jibboom, jibs, forstopgallantniast, and him with feelings of miklwedem Ulmer hoe) He he - all the rigging belonging thereto, WS al ended away, Raved that in W ~ex the trametioas to wnica it re- 1 and the vessel was quite unmanagea bl e . Immediately a fter' ferred the goverment lid sweeetsgped their true limits a .. in placing themselves in en attitude of hostility to the COst • the cement, I hailed the steamer, and begged of them ft pany. He had always understood that the true position of stay by us, as I was apprehensive the ship would go down, a government is such a matter was, to be trustees between as she was heavily laden. I received • reply from the the public and the contractors, to see that neither was steamer assenting they would do so. The steamer, on get- viethatewl by the other. (Hear, hear.) 'n ate ewe° t he y this clear from our wreck, got round into our starboard had aot done so, but had endeavoured to victimise the con tractors. T hey had acted no woos „, in the case quarter, sad is a very short period again sew into collision the West India and Caused Company, but in this case, with us by none' into the starboard side of our stern, when the directors made a fair and moderate request ter carrying away the rudder, starting the stern post, breaking inquiry as to whether there was • possibility of obtaining the wheel standard, and otherwise cutting the ship nearly cods te fulfil the contract, the govermseut met them with down to the water's edge. Before this *Obi collision I a fiat refusal, adopted the motto of "No surrender," and hailed the persons on beard the steamer to reverse her es had thus, in his opinion, permed a line of conduct which gines, but I received no answer: It was almost imme- , was wholly unworthy of a government. (Hear, hear.) He diately afterwards that the accident Mowed. I again ' was not going at length through that correspondence, but begged they would not leave its, as I expected nothing bat be might remark of it that, oa the part of the directors, it that our camel must go down. I received, however, en wee characterised by moderation and fairness while en the answer, and the instant the steamer got dear, she bore away other side was too macho( that sic volo, sic flaw style which in a southerly direction. Oae of my apprentices, named RobL was unfortunately too cognises with poems in authority. Burns, fell through the aperture male by the steamer The government had given Dorman for thiirconduct except is oar stern, and was unfortunately drowned, al such as were selected from the special report, and although though every attempt was made to save him. The night he had great personal respect for the gentlemen who had was extremely dark and hazy, and the wind increasing prepared that report, he mangey that • more illogical, in- from south-west to south to a gale. The steamer remained conclusive set of regions he had never read than those upon in sight but a very few minutes—l was unable to get a which it was founded. (Hear, hear.) The object of sight of her afterwards On both occasions when she ran inquiry was to ascertain whether it was possible for the into us, I inquired al times for her name, bet received I directors to fulfil the contract, thou gentlemen declaring no answer. She was a screw -steamer, with painted ports, I that it could not ec done for want of tonnage. In oily to and a bust-head figure thead."—A desc ription which exactly this, the Admiralty admitted the rise in freights, and the answers to that of the Marshall. Captain Oatgens with difficulty in procuring tonnage; but they did not gee in much difficulty, and by the aid of a Mauer succeeded in these facts any reason for altering the coloreds which bad reaching Hull. been so lately entered into. Now, if these reasons were not Hopes woe entertained that some of the passengers of I sufficient, what would be so ? They added that the no the Marshall might have been picked up by the coasters 1 might possibly have been greater than had bon antic', which almost hourly pass the spot where the steamer went ' paled, but that it was of the mum of contracts that eon- down, hut the time that has intervened since her loss with. tractors should incur risks of that description. What! out any each gratifying intelligence being received, leaves was it of the emcee of a contract that the contractors little doubt, but that the whole must have perished, Os should do impossibilities ? (Hew, bear.) Why, a court reference to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, we find that that Lf2sity would in a moment decide spine sna a hypo- steamer was an iron vessel of 260 tons, and was built at The Admiralty treated the owspas they the Shields in 1846, and had recently undergone some repairs Of 'apt had of old trotted the Iltyptleas, ailed on at that port. CITY COMMISSION OF SEIVERS. - a---- Yesterday a court was held ; Deputy PEACOCK in the chair. LONDON OAS IXPEWININTS. Mr. DAW (the Chief Clerk to the Commission) read a letter from Doctor Letheby, upon the subject of the last report he made relative to the gas used in the City of Lon- I don. Dr. Listheby, after referring to the' controversy which bad taken place, said—l made choice of the even ings of the 4th, the Bth, and the 12th of November, end I devoted considerable time to the elimination of the illu minating power of the gas supplied by the following com panies—namely, the City, the Chartered, and the Great Central. In each case the gas was taken from the mains between the hours of 6 and 9 p.m., and consequently it was a fair sample of the material actually furniahed to the con sumer. The gas was burnt according to the act of parlia ment directions, and it was tested with the same photometer and the same candle. _ — Therfoil.7).ringt;ile shows the molts, u estimated on sperm candles of 120 grain. per hour : Nov. 4. Nov. 8. Nov. 12. Average. City Chartered ' Great Central 13.7 .... 15.0 .... 14.0 14.2 From this it will be seen that the illuminating power of the City gas rose considerably on the very day after the publication of the letter of Mr. Gray of that company ; and that it roes still higher in the course of the following days. It will al►o be manifest that the quality of the gas was much below that of the Chartered and Great Central. In my report of the 11th inst , I stated that the average illuminating powers of the Chartered and Great Central gases were 13 and 13 34 respectively. These numbers refer not to the quality of the gas during the week of controversy when each of them was above its normal value, but to the quality of the gas awing a period of three months. I be• lieu that I have now furnished you with all the particulars which you require, and I have only I. add that as I am most anxious not to be drawn from the path of duty, or in voiced in any private correspondence or even public con troversy wit► the rival gas companies of this metropolis ; but merely wish to furnish your hooourable court with what I behave to be correct information on this important point, I beg that if this letter is not required by your Hon ourable Commissioners to be read at their next meeting, it shall not be communicated to the City or to any other gu company whatever. • The =anthem expressed their high approbation of the letter of Dr. 4etheby, and declared that it would be ex ceedingly inconvenient and unwarrantable to subject that gentleman to applications of the nature to which he al luded. Mr. CHRISTIE thought the application a reasonable one under the circumstances. . The I was then ordered to be entered ea the journals of the Court. CIIIIIITERY !OIL Tlili CITY. The report of the committee upon the Cemetery for the City of London wu laid before the Court. It mom mended that 200 acres of ground be purokued for the con streetioe of the mentery, at an agreed price of 26,0001., the Medical Offlosz of Health and Hr. Haywood, the en gineer and sumer of the commission, having approved of the wail and capabilities of draining, Ike., of the ground. The report was agrvcd to, and it was erdered that the ground should be forthwith conveyed to the coannaissionen. THO WITIIDIUWAL OF 'CATON. IT TAB NSW ALIVIR COMPANY. A letter was reed freselG.Tiaglis, the clerk of the New River Compsay, roil:wetted the withdrawal of the supply from 20 bonus. in Three Crewureoust, Redezoss. street, is which it had been stated sickness wee prevailieg. Mr. laglis explained that the Madrid hasten mon than are broken kis premise to pay the rent dr at Midsummer lest, tbq bad eat elf the water ; bat they bad given dm arise at tba flowas'-ordes ; sad hasten teamed thet sew ml pares were W of scrim reser in am et Ibis beam tbe Marrs el the tompeay had festered the supply mid die bean Medd meet. HEALTH OF LONDON. Aooording to the weekly report of the Registrar- Geseral, the rate of mortality is the Metropolis matinees to &dream, sad is the week that spaded es Saturday the number of deaths roes to 1,414. Is dm weeks that have elapsed slam 29th October the amebas have been 1,112, 1,192, 1,162, 1,839, sad 1,414. Cosearnat with these 'weekly samben there bee been as almost constant fall is. t►e seas temperature, which lies bees as follows:-48 . 9 deg., 45-7 deg., 38 5 deg., 361 deg., sad 40'0 deg. la the me weeks corresponding to lest week of the years 1843.62 the average number of deaths was 1,200, which, if raised i• preportioe to Masses of populatise, becomes 1,330. The exam is the present return above the calculated amount is mar 100. _ Lest week 620 children died under 15 years of age, 481 men and worsen between 15 and 60 years, and 306 at 60 years aid upwards. From plithiais (or consumption) there died 176 persons, from bronchitis 178, from pueumonia (in flammation of the leap) 143. Fatal cases of these diseases have bemuse Matt nunseroue, and the two former exhibit mortality considerably above the average. Old persons, and three particularly who are subject te pulmonary com plaints, suffer from the coldness of the weather; and the high prise of fuel at this time readers the poor less able to contend with it, besides abridging their means of ebtainiag bread, which is eke dear, as well as the ether necessaries of life. The cholera is very mush diminished, sad will probably, as in the previous epidemic, nearly dimppear for a time. Only twenty-eight deaths from cholera were registered last week, 'seen of which occurred in the west district., four in the north, five in the east, and twelve in the south district,. The total number of deaths is the Bret fifteen weeks of the epidemic has been 772. In the corresponding period in 1848.9 it was 623. Last week the births of 840 boys and 837 girl., in all 1,677 children, were registered in Loudon. The average num; bar in eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 was 1,426. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.954 in. The mean temperature was 40 0 deg., which is 11 deg. below the average of the same ;week in thirty-eight years. The mean daily temperature was below the average of the same day en every day of the week except Wednesday, when it rem 61 deg above it. The mean dew-point temperature was 38 7 deg. The highest temperature of the air wee 51 . 9 deg. on Wednesday, and the lowest 29 . 4 deg. on Saturday. A WOMAN Bt ENT TO DEATH AT A DEICE KILN.—An isquest was held ow Mraday, at the Manchester Royal larismary, before Mr. Mefferd, the coroner for that ' city, an the body of a woman named Mary Raley, about 33 years of age. Demand bad no home, and had been in the habit of sleeping on brick-kilna. One morning, about a fortnight ago, the daughter of a labourer who works at a I brick-croft in Caernarvon-street heard a scream, and her Lather found that deceased had thrown herself into a trench ' of water near one of the kilos. Most of her elotbes were off and burning on the ground. She was very severely burnt, and was taken to the workhouse, where she died on Saturday. She did sot appear to have been in want of food, but gave no account of herself, except that she was a married woman and had not slept in a bed for months. The „ e a ry returned a verdict to the effect that demand was . tally burnt aear a brick•kila. GENERAL MINING COMPANY OF IRELAND. The half yearly meeting of this company was held at their office in Dublin, on Monday; Sir Janes Murray in the chair. In the course of the conversation which ensued on the reading of the report, Mr. EVANS said that there was a rumour afloat to the great disparagement of the company. In 1835 there was • surplus of 3,0091. 14s. 2d. The directors then gave a divi dend of 6 per cent., to consequence of which the shares rose. The surplus was reduced by giving that dividend for the half-year to 2,1731. 16a 4d., and though that fund was tiuched the abedute amount of income did not cover that dividend. They gave them when the surplus was so re duced Id per teat., for what purpose he did not know, but it caused a rise of 61 in the value of shares. That preiZeed leg had left them absolutely something in debt. Now if they had not raised a fictitious value on the shares and had not made the dividend, they could have met things fairly (near, hear.) He thought it extraordinary when there was no produce from the mines, that a dividend of 10 per cent. ehould have been made for the half-year, thus throwing a fictitious value on the shares, and enabling some friends to sell out. He would like to see the list of persons who sold out when they were high. A Paorufwroa—The gentleman who has spoken has given expression to my feeling, on the matter. Dr. BRADY, one of the directors, said that at the particu lar time to which allusion had been made the directors recommended that a dividend of 5 per cent. only should be paid, but they were overruled by the proprietary, and it was entirely against their wish that a dividend of 10 per cent. was extracted from the funds of the company. (Heir, hear.) It was very wrong and injudicious to do so; but the board of directors were coerced by the majority of the proprietors at the meeting to yield to their demand. Mr. Bally and Mr. Woods, of Wolverhampton, large English shareholders were amongst those who would only be satis fied with a dividend of 10 per cent. The CHAULMAN observed that they reluctantly agreed tel pay so large • dividend, in consequence of the pressure from without, to avoid division end discord. (Hear, hear.) Captain Francis, who was 'upand to be one of the most eminent mining engineers in England, and Mr. English, reported at the time the dividend was declared, that there was 10,0001. worth of halvins ready to be crushed, if they had the steam engines to crush them. They had, however, not crushed as yet one ounce of them, and consequently they did not turn that material into money, or they might have been able to pay a dividend, not of five or ten per cent., but of forty per cent. (Hear.) They did unfortu nately think last Jane, when declaring the dividend, that that 10,0001. weakl have been comeatatile. (Hear.) The had hopes also of • return from the extensive mines which were beine opened up, and which were not yet sufficiently extended. He was extremely sorry that they were reduced to the necessity of making • all on the share holders; but there were two things which they never contemplated, and no doubt it was injudicious not to be prepared for an unfavourable turn of affair.. With reference to the remark about the disposal of shares when they were a' a high value, he thought it right in justice to Mr. Bally sad Mr. Woods to state that the, had not sold a share since the declaration of the dividend. (Hear, hear.) He had himself 1,600 shares in the com pany, and so far from having parted with any of them, he had not long sines purchased twenty more at 41 12a. &I. Mr. EVANS.—The statement is extremely satisfactory as regards yourself and those two gentlemen. The report and statement of accounts were then unani mously adopted. The CHAIRMAN said that the four directors who were to receive the sum named agreed not to seek it until it could be paid out of the proliu of the concern. It used to be 3,301, and it did not pay the travelling expenses of some parties. He should also remark that they had got stares reduction on the royalty land, so that when the materiel was brought up and sold it would yield them a dividend of 10 per cent. a year. The meeting soon after separated. THE STRIKES IN THE NORTH. MANCHESTER, Dec. 6. At Burnley the operatives who have resumed em ployment on 40 hours per week at the old rates, continue steadily at work. Only one or two of the smaller establish meats have found any difficulty, but with these there was a disposition on the part of the hands to tyrannise. At the larger mills they complied with the requirements of the Masters' Association to present themselves at the counting-houses separately to be meager& but to the smaller mills they wont In a body. One employer, to whom his old heath lteat in a body, refused to receive them on the Monday Ongoing, bet they presented themselves at nom in elm same way, and again at morning and noon of the following days, to receive the same answer. To this master some of the workpeopie uttered a elution, saying that labourers were seam, and if he did not act with discretion, be would find all tee other NMI fully manned, and hie own left to stand ilk for senate( weavers. Urged to exertion by this Naiad the maim eased out new hands in place of hie *M a% and uses se snassestal, that when the old ones again peenetei themeless In a body he was able to tell them there woe only tread for a portion of their number, and that thole who made the earliest application would have the 'sear aim The persistence of the workpeople in conduct like this is attributed to the cowardice of their late leaders in Ithi turn-out, who, fearing to be marked men and er Blade! from work, persuade their fellow-operatives to mike it a condition that all shall be reongaged or none. • Stasufacturer at Burnley, who has visited seas of his workpeople since they resumed desk employment, says he was surprised at the amount of destitution he found amongst them after ea short a strike, considering the long time they had previ. coney been in full work, and their comparatively comfort. able position before this affair. He found, on talking with them, that exoeedingly few had saved so much as a few shil- 1 Hags against the seasons of adversity to which they might be liable themselves, although, with village perversity, they bad been weekly contributors for nearly six months to the strikes at Stockport, Preston, and elsewhere. For this im providence they attempted no excuse; all that can be gathered from them is, that they do not treat their wages as a fund that should be very frugally . dealt with ; they dud there are many comforts or luxuries at the provision shop and the grocer's, which they have nut the self-denial to resist so long as there is money in the purse— like many in a still better position in the world, and if, after accustoming themselves to this systemof enjoy ment a " rainy day" comes, they blame, not their own want of management, but the state of society that does not allow every man to eat and drink to his own satisfaction, with a purse in store besides. Many of the workpeople, without seeing their own want of forethought in risking a strike before they ha 4 saved any funds to carry them through even a brief struggle. complained bitterly of the way they had been served after contributing to support the strikes at Stockport and Preston, in not being permitted to share the contributions of other towns in their own day of need. One of the singular features of these contests is, the little acknowledgment with which workpeople have met such of the masters as have in ordinary times treated them with more kindness and consideration than others. Ark at Burnley, Bury, or Preston, what has been the fate of those emplopers who have been least approachable by their workpeople, treating them with comparative hauteur and contempt, and listen ing to complaints about wages with impatience, as compared with those who have used their operatives with courtesy and kindness, and the answer its almost invariably that the latter have most to complain of. At a mill in Bury, where the proprietor had spent a large sum voluntarily every year to provide a feast, where he could meet his people at a so cial gathering, this was aflirmed. A muter at Burnley, ' who paid for a railway train in summer, and took hie work people to Liverpool (50 miles), and provided them there for three days with the means of enjoyment, makes the same reply. It is well known that at Preston one of the best of the employers in the town, and who most readily conceded the advance of wages, had the least consideration shown him. The explanation offered by those who profess to know the reason of this is, that the workpeople lack courage to meet the ruder disciplinarians among their employers, and naturally throw themselves in these struggles upon the milder, more courteous, and approachable of them, from an opinion that if they can prevail in these quarters the example of such masters will command respect among their peers and influence them favourably. At Bacup the employers opened their mills on the same terms, yesterday, that had been offered last week with so much success at Burnley, only that instead of four days' work per week they only offer three at Baeup, and at old prices. There was not such a rush as at Burnley, and most of the workpeople kept aloof in the morning. In the after noon, however, it was reported that they offered themselves mole freely, and that some of the mills had been able to Mart the machinery with a prospect of 1111(11t0. At Bury there is less probability of a teenroption of week. Two of the smaller firms, with about 300 looms be tween them, being under engagements to pay for steam power, have resumed at the 10 per cent. advance, from ina bility to pay these working expenses whilst the bands are doing nothing. Their lam from paying higher wages than the work will enable them to give will be less than from remaining wholly idle. Another concern io the same town, of 2 20 looms, hss started, the hands agreeing to forego dr 10 per cent. advance and take old prices. The ether miflownen appear disposed to keep up the contest with al% illaehing. The workmen will make a better fight here tbsa at Burnley, Bacup, and other parts of the Rossendale Valley, because in Bury there is a large proportion of the population engaged in other trades, such as millwrights, engineers, &c. ; and the operatives of these trades having a strong sympathy with the turn-outs, are said to make up a subscription approaching to 3s. per week each for them. In the lodges belonging to the secret orders and societies, the same sympathy is manifesting itself, and these societies are said to have gone so far as to lead money on the pea mimes of the committees of turnouts that the sums shall be repaid when the struggle is at an end. One society is said to have lent two sums of about 601. on such security. There is no prospect of the mills being re-opened at Bary before Christmas. At Blackburn the mills continue to run full time, the demand for the light, low-reeled cloths of that locality, suitable for India, being much better than that for the superior class of shirtings made in Preston. Of the latter class of goods 50,000 pieces, now in China, were offered at Manchester today to be re-shipped to Liverpool or any other port at lid. per piece under the selling price of to day. It does sot follow, therefor*, as some have asserted, that the same advance of wages can be afforded at Preston as at Blackburn. At least such is the opinion of a Black burn manufacturer. THE LEAGUE PRIZE ESSAYS. --..-- It will be recollected that after the Anti-Corn Law League had been reconstructed, a meeting was held at Newsll's-buildings, Manchester, on the 10th of August, 1852, at which it was resolved to offer the sum of 2601. for the best essay, and the sum of 601. for the wood best essay, " Showing the results of the repeal of the corn laws and the Gee trade policy, upon the moral, the social, the commercial, and the political interests of the United Kingdom." The twins were to be sent in, addressed to George Wilson, Bsq , League Rooms, Iffaachester, ca or before the let of De cember, 1862. It was required that a letter should accom pany each essay, giving the name and address of the writer, which should remain unopened till the award was made. The successful essays were to be the property of the Council of the Notional Anti-Corn Law League. The time for sending in these essays was afterwards ex tended to March is the present year. Altogether there were 31 essays sent ia. The committee appointed to award the prises included Messrs. R. Cobden, M.P., John Bright, M.P., Henry Ashworth, Thomas Thomasson, Thomas Batley, George Wilson, William Rawson, Joseph Simpson, Marl Philips, Paulton A. Ireland, Aldermen Watkins, and S. P. Robinson, hon. secretary : These gen tlemen, alter attentively reading and comparing the essays, is the interval which has elapsed since they were sent in, assembled yesterday at Newell's-buildings, for the purpose of adjudging the prizes, when a resolution was passed to the effect that the way No. 27, with the motto, " Be just, and fear not," be adjudged to have gained the Pint prize of 2501., and that the essay No. 25, with the motto, Leber coals vied!, Improbue et darts urgena la rebus egertas, be adjudged to have gained the second prize, of 501. It was found that the essay to which the first prize had been adjudged was the work of the Rev. Henry Danckley, M.A., Baptist Minister, Salford, the same gentleman who won the first prize of 1001. (for which there were 150 com petitors) offered by the Religious Tract Society in 1350, for an essay on the social and moral condition of the working classes ; and which has since Seen published under the title of " the Glory and Shame of Britain." He was educated at the Dissenting Academy, at Accrington, and graduated at Glasgow University, where he obtained his degree of M.A. The gentleman to whom the second prize has been awarded, is Mr. James Grant, of Plowden-buildings, Temple, London. The essays are of • considerable length, showing great research and industry in the compilation, and becoming the property of the League, will probably be published in two handsome volumes. NAWAS OF SimAL—Among the passengsra by the Ripon, which arrived at Southampton on Monday with the India and China mail, were several persons belonging to the suite of the Nawab of Surat. The Nawab et.ine from Bombay to Sues in the East India Company's steamer the Aekbar, and in order to shorten the sea voyage to England as much as possible he proceeded from Alexandria to Trieste in the Austrian packet, accompanied by seem) of hie friends and servants. The rest of his suite came home in the Ripon. Surat was the first place at which the Mogul Emperors allowed the English to establish &factory in India. The principal persons in Surat were fire worshippers. The Nawab's servants were dressed in the picturesque costume of their country ; one of them spoke English fiaently and grammatically. They cooked for themselves on board the Ripon. The only thing they would est which had been touched by Christians was bread. They killed the fowls they ate, and cut the throats of the sheep, which famished flesh for their own table. The Nawab's object in visiting England is to prosecute some claim which he has on the British goverment. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTII STAFFORD- SHIRE. -_.._ WOLVERHAMPTON, MONDAY. An important meeting of the constituency of thin division of the county was held at the Co rn E xc h ange i n this town at noon to-day upon a requisition signed by SOUS six hundred freeholders, the object being to decennia* the best means of insuring the tilling of the vacant seat in the representation in accordance with the principles and in terests of the great majority of the constituency. The weirs have already selected Lord Ingest's, hat the liberal party have refused to be bouni Ly a sort o f tac i t wade standing which appears to have existed amongst the great families that the representation should be divided between the two great political parties. The state of the registration is suck as to afford the fullest assurance that the return of a second liberal may be secured. At the meeting to-day there was a large attendance, in eluding many persons of large commercial inflou nee in the district. Mr. Robert Scott, late M.P. for Walsall, pm sided, and the manufacturing interest and the iron trade were represented by Mr.Wilham blathewsef Corbyn's Hall, Mr. Blackwell of Dudley, and Mr. Archibald Kenrick, of West Bromwich ; the agricultural interest by Mr. R. C. Milner, a county_ magistrate. Mr. WILLIAM MATHEWS moved a resolution, alarming that "any compactor understanding between parties, how ever influential, whereby the representation of the Southern Division of this county is kept in its neutrality, is altogether oppos.d to the theory of the constitution of England, and Is an infringument upon the rights of the electors, because it prevents the majority from being fully represented, and is calculated to deprive the electors of that free choice which is their ancient, constitutional, and undeniable right." Mr. Josses WALKER, late mayor of this town, seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. 8. H. BLACK WELL, ironmnster, of Dudley, then moved that "tor the purpose of affording the constituency an opportunity of regaining their elective rights, and of return ing a member whose political principles may accord with those of the majority .1 their body, it is absolutely neces sary that a candidate in the liberal interest should he nominated to supply the present vacancy, and that this meeting pledges its energetic and utmost exertions to ensure the return of such candidate, and entreats the chews to put an end to the compromise upon linen, a disgraceful neutrality in national affairs." Mr. AALCHIBALD KESUICK, of West Bromwich, a county magistrate, seconded the saaolution. 11r. Oloaon DAWSOS, of Birmingham, expressed a hope that all shades of the liberal party wouli work together in the approaching contest. The gentleman who was opposed to them (Lord Ingestre) and signed himself " Meliora," signified that he wished to see better things—so did they; but be (Mr. Dawson) did not doubt but that the better things which Lord Ingests, wished to see wero those of yes terday. and not such as would be approved of by the liberal constituency of South Staffordshire. Determined himself to vote for the best man politically, no amount of amia bility—no love of soup kitchens—no mere philanthropy of any sort—+h , uld turn him from that resolve, and he hoped that such would be the feelings of the electors throughout the division. (Cheers.) This reselutiou was also carried by acclamation. Mr. R. C. CHAWSER, a county magistrate, as an agricul turist, and one of the oldest' free-traden, cordially con curred in every word that had been said, and moved that in the opinion of this meeting, Lard Paget is a fit and proper man to represent this division of she county of Stafford, and thut he be at once put in nomination as • candidate, and receive the unanimous support of the inde pendent part of the constituency." (Cheers.) Mr. Alderman WALKER, of Wolverhurupton, seconded the motion. In 1816, when a thorough purging and revi sion of the reo,ister took place at the instance of the Anti- Corn Law League, there was a gain to the liberals of nearly a thousand votes, which had since been greatly in creased. At the time the last contest took place there were only 7,781 electors oat toe register, whereas at the present time there were 8,V4 voters in the manufacturing districts alone. (Hear, hear.) After some conversation, the resolution was put and carried amidst hearty cheering. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro , ceedings. In the cour.• of the meeting a telegraphic message was r received from Mr. E. D. Dimenack, the troomasicr, expres sive of his cordial concurrence in the object of the meeting ' and regret at his inability to be present. The general 'pinion appears to be that Lord Paget will be returned by a good majority, but the conservatives are working very hard. REPRESEN CATION OF EAST GLOUCESTER- SIIIRE. STROUD, MONDAY Moue. A very numerous meeting was held at the Stroud Subscription Rooms, this (Monday) evening, for the pm pore of receiving Mr. Holland, the liberal candidate for East Gloucestershire, and bearing an exposition of hie poli tical principles. Nearly 2,000 persons attended the meet ing, which was presided over by S. S. Mant:No, Esq. Mr. HOLLAND addressed the =win at considerable length. He reminded the electors the: he had always been an advocate far advancing the progress of the people, and he came before them as a tried 'fervent of liberal principles, having fought the battle of reform in another county (Wor cestershire.) He appeared there eurrounded with difficulties. ,He had been called to account for having assisted in what had been called the advance of democracy. This same word democracy appeared to be a bugbear in the eye of his opponents, but it was impossible that civilisation or public opinion could advance without democracy. As the people became mighty and inures d in wealth so also it became right that they should have an increasing share in the representation. He was for an advance, and be main tained that the constitution of the country would not be injured by the adsauce of democracy. On the contrary, it world strengthen it. If they ware allowed to give their votes without intimidation, and to come to the pollee Eng lishmen should do, and if there was no bribery, indepeadtnt Englishmen would never injure the constitution. He was most anxious to become acquainted with the details of the new Reform Bill, but be had full faith in the integrity, honesty, and ;.urity of purpose of the present government Other speakers followed, and a resolution, pledging the meeting to support Mr. Holland, was unanimc wily passed. DEATII OF LORD FULLERTOY.—We regret to date that this venerable judge and distinguished lawyer died on Saturday afternoon, at hie residence in this city. It is only about three weeks since hie retirement from the bench, ',which he so long adorned, was announced. On Monday last he was !wised with symptoms of British cholera, which it was hoped would yield to the treat ment; but on Thursday the aspect of matters became I serious, and at a consultation of his medical advisers, we believe little or no hope was entertained that he would rally, though he lingered until Saturday afternoon. Lord Fullerton came to the her so far back as 1728, or five yeast after Sir Walter Scott. He was then in his 23rd year, having been born ou 15th Dec., 1775, and, consequently, had attained his 79th year. After a practice of thirty years at the bar, he was called to the bench in 1828 through the instrumentality of Sir Robert Peel, then Home Secre tary, sold we believe, on the earnest representation of the present Lard Justice-Clerk, then Solicitor-General. Lord Furerton well justified the choice. At the bar, and when he was surrounded by a phalanx of eminent men—Erskine, Clerk, Cranatoun, Thompson, Moucrieff, Jeffrey, Cock burn, and we may add, Keay, Jamieson, and Skene— some betng his seniors and some his juniors, it will be recol lected by many that Lord Fullerton was still deemed ono of the soundest, most learned, and accomplish lawyers on the boards—and in the latter years of his practice, second as as authority in the feudal and higher branches of the law to note.—Caleclonnut Mercury. UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Dr. Each °Mier, of the Polytechnic Institution, has been for the hat week or so engaged in lectaring upon a new modifica tion of the electric telegraph, patented by Mr. J. W. Wil kins. The mo ification in the present instance consists of =ingeniously coctrived apparatus, by means of which the electro-magnetic current is made to pass, as at present, in a horieantal lure, or :o deviate from it at the will of the ope rator. The advantage taken of this double power ie that the deflections made constitute an alphabet which the per son who rnei.es the message can at once decipher without the necessity of any pointers or needles. The message ie written by the telegraphic instrument itself. Amongst the other advantages wales the invention is said to poems are the simultaneous transmission of the meuage to all Of any number of the radiating stations without intermediate ope rators, the use of one wire only, greatly iucreeeed facility of operation, the necessity of only one operator at each tele graph, instead of two, as at present, superior insulators, and the most perfect accuracy in the tranemissiot of the mes sage. A company has been, or is about to be, formed to carry the aew modification into practical operation, and they propose to erablish telegraphs in 800 towns at the uniform rate M Ott. for every 20 words. THE CHURCH Iv DANGER.—On Friday evening, as the Bishops of Natal and Grahem's Town were proceed ing ins fly to Cuidesden Peltier, to meet a party at the Bishop of Osturd'.. the carriage was upset near Wheatley, and the righ: brethren were extricated from thole perilous situatiiic `:y :wing helped out through the window, lithe door o;.ened, Their lordships sustained no injury; and us the Bishop of Oxford's carriage, return ing from Oxford. tir: onstely reached the spot shortly after the accident. iordships were enabled to proceed to their destinshou wit.iout much delay. • TIIE THIMBLE:I DONE.—On Tuesday evening gentleman from Hngland left Edinburgh in the train for Stirling, and found himself shut up In a carriage with a number of persons wham, it being dusk, he could not see, but discovered from their talk they were no better than they should be. One of them produced a candle, and then the card trick 'oegan among the fellows, who were tire in number. Erery etfirt was made to engage the stranger in the play, Mr he, oeing wide awake, kept atolf until he bad nearly resawd his journey's end, when, under standing the card trick thoroughly, he risked one pound against fifteen taxied by the thimbler, and won the whole. Then pocketing the cash, he coolly left the carriage at Stirling, amidst the grumbling, of the crew, who pro nounced him so gentleman."—Caledonian Mercury. THE FARICNGDON-STREET ElTENBlON.—Yesfef day workmen were engaged in erecting a hoarding round• block of houses in West-street, Saffron-hill, preparatory to their being pulled down for the purpose of carrying oat the proposed extension of Farringdon.street. The houses in question were the resort of some of the most noted tbityes and a:mm.lomA women in London.