The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-08 00:00:00

r SPAIN. • - n 504:. lower than they had been in the 0 4 ,,,, a the morning, they all kit Off with a great I mro r t atent. Several lutes were 10fr. and 131 r. Who . than )esterday. r .„ ; j,,rznals of the lit have arrived. In 'teeing the co maiittei, on the budget, and on t h e r t htive to the i.suc of 8,000,000,000 real,. Three pa Cent. Stock for the conversion of the floating aebt. the Chamber uf Deputies . had given lae ma wits to the g ovtinnwtst citudid.!tes. Th em pposi. n o n ',macro had held a meeting in the house of the *llll,ll, del Dutp. and had calculated that they trald have a majority of 14 against the ministry; by the general opinion out of doors was that the e n u i.dert would triumph. A o , ted Csrlist cabreilia (petty chief), called the s &Went of Villasier," is gated by the Tributo to co osid the frontier, and to have gone towards ;11,Sivri.i de liargot; and that journal adds that of Cabrera tit Bayonne had summoned some °Nile Voiles wh served in the last civil wars to u p a r m s ; bu t the Espana declares that these n ,mtut nts are o f no importauce. ITALY. • 110318. Nov. 30. Th,.bi l it.haro Giatt:e having given as the motive id Cardinal wisetian's visit to Home, the arrange went 01 future diplomatic relations, upon a regularly seine" :Aged feeding between the British and papal evert: emote, it may be as well to state the utter i mprobaiiilite of such a proceeding; any negotiations that might be ',eliding upon the subject would eer taiels erne to the British government through a tvryd.travnt channel, nor arc the conditions men• nand each as could possibly be accepted by either of the patio. Mortimer, the cardinal's visit to the „ time ; c ity was not contemplated, even by himself, at the time he left England. His eminence preached s sermon on Sunday afternoou, at the church of M. At Jrea delle Fratte, to a numerous English io:.gri l otion ; a great number of his auditors being protestant.. the cardinal directed his discourse more urticuiarly to them, dwelling upon the usual topics of antiquity, unity, and immutability, es characteris tic of the church of Rome, and describing the pro testant trete! of England as already "trembling in the whey," and breaking up and dispersing in countless sectarian divisions, u the ice of the north ern ocean cracks and yields before the warm breath of summer. The cardinal's sermon was in fact more ornamental than argumentative, and wound up with a piece of tautology which seemed to surprise and disappoint his auditors greatly. "In fine, my bre thren," said he, " you must contemplate Home as the city of God's apostles—consequently, as the city of the apostles of God"- —a variation of the same senti ment difficult to express in any other than the Eng lish lae,tuage. A select band of pickpockets exercised their predatory arts upon the congregation the whole time, delighted to have to do with such respectable and unsuspecting victims. It is really disgraceful to the Homan police that whilst so many hundred sbirri are always forthcoming to explore political offenders, two or three cannot be spared to prevent sacred edifices from being so notoriously . profaned by thieves as they are on every public occasion here. Whilst the English were attending to the car di.are sermon, the Horning were on the Piazza before Diocletian's baths, witnessing:the ascent in a balloon of an aeronaut from Bologna, named Luigi Pius, who for some weeks previously had been pre vented by bad weather and other circumstances from executing his aerial journey. At three o'clock he ascended, and at half-put four the balloon de scended near Civitella Sas Paolo, about five-and twenty miles from Rome. The country folks, greatly excited by so novel a circumstance, congre gated round the unexpected visitor, but on the bal loon's reaching the ground the unfortunate aeronaut was discovered to be quite dead. The extreme rigidity of the atmosphere, and the excessive rapidity with which the balloon arose, proved too much for the enfeebled system of Signor Piano, who was an elderly man. It is a curious cir cumstance, and one which has given rise to some irreverent speculations as to the efficacy of the Pope's blessing, that ithe aeronaut had been prohi bited from making his ascent by the Cardinal Vicar, on account of its bein the first Sunday in Advent, but he, being engaged to the public, waylaid the Pope during his rive some days before, and peti tioned his Holiness to grant him the required per mission, which Pio Noma most urbanely did, blessaag the kneeling suppliant at the same time. lor signor Sacconi, Apostolic Nuncio at the court of the Emperor Napoleon, left Home for Paris on the 13th inst. Mr. Fenton, British Secretary of Legation at Flo rence, has just returned to that city, after bevies passed two or three days here for tho purpose e/ exchanging the treaties establishing navigation as} eiprocity between Great Britain and the Papal States. The necessary formalities having been gone through, the treaty will shortly be published by the Cardinal Secretary of State. The works on the Pia-latina Railway have sit bet been actively resumed, and se several Miro st' ready exist, constructed by the ex-conspeey. twee b nothing to prevent the rails being laid &WO ea do first portion of the line, so as to facilitate the ties of the rest. There appears to he ever; bility of the line from Rome to Civita Vecchia undertaken by a French company, which wil , at any rate, allow travellers to visit the Eternal City from the Mediterranean coast without fear of being stopped and robbed by brigands. The diligence on that road was stopped last week, and a large sum of money belonging to the government abstracted by the bandits, who seemed to know perfectly well what they had to look for. The travellers in the diligence were unmolested, with the exception of one gentleman, who attempted to secrete his watch under the seat cushion, a proceeding the brigands resented with blows, considering it no doubt as con trary to the received adage, " Honour among thieves." The official paper continues to give long lists of vessels arriving with corn in the Mediterranean and Adriatic ports of the state, but, in spite of these sup plies, the price of bread is still on the rise. Exchange on London, 4811; Consols, 971; Bank shares, 2AI. SWEDEN. -•- A Berlin correspondent of the C'ologne Ga.lette writes : " The energetic speech of the King of Sweden in which he speaks of extensive additions to the military strength of the state, has caused us the' hvelivot satisfaction. The Swedish government has ercady dedicated an extraordinany credit of a mil lion and a half to this purpose. The hand of Eng land in this matter it unmistakeable, and we trust that the intimate relations of Prussia and Sweden will neigh considerably with the Emperar of GERMANY. The government of Baden has found it net:emery to arrest 21,0 priests who, canary to warning, reed the Archbishop of Freiburg's seditious letter from their pulpits. The quarrel between the (catholic) church and state has been going on for these three years along the whole line of the Rhine, the priests thitatieg that the aid which they rendsred the go Ten , two in the revolutionary period, and on which the civil raters mast in a great degree rely, gives them the ngbt to demand more power than has hitherto been thought consistent with the puhlic good. The priests and wealthy laymen of neighbouring atatts tul offers of money to Freiburg, and by ad- " di s-es end other means endeavour to confirm the (Lin •hmen in their coarse, which, it appear*, has be- , come sn popular in the villages along the Rhine that ! the high clergy of 'Nassau think seriously of pushing their 'talent*, with the ducal government to an eztreinity. Prince eHohenlohe Ingefingen has of !ate been frequeet'y raceired by the King of Prussia at Pots dam. It is believed that he is acting as intermediary between the king and the higher nobility of Friona, respecting their admission into the upper chamber, THE PRE.TOM STEEL-PRE9TON, DEC. 7.- .Le iyet tt, ee %jolter: cossmittse has this aftersvon .au•i so a., 1 rt.. see otiorsdisg the heti% to !taxi firm end lac.t upor !be " 10 per cent." THE SANIT.4RY CONDITION OF LAMBETH. SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION TO LORD PALMER- SION. Yesterday afternoon a deputation from the rate payers o f Laoibet waited upon Lord Palmerton, at the Home-office, for the purpose of soliciting his lordship to introdace into the bill which he tau peening to bring be fore par4ament nest session the representative systems, so se to enable the ratepayen to hare power at the board of the Coassnissionen of Sewers, and • voice ia the distribu tion of the rates. The deputation consisted of Mr. W. Williams, M.P., and Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P. (the hon. members for the borough of Lambeth), Mr. it. Taylor and Mr. Strat'on (churchwardens of St. Mary, Lambeth), the Rev. Charlton Lane (Rector of Kennington), Captain Woods (a magistrate (or Surrey), and Mr. Rhodes, from Stockwell ; and Mr. It. H. Manning. The deputation was introduced by Mr. W. A. WlLltseow, M.P., who said that a very re spectable and influential meeting had been hold in Lam beth for the purpose of appointing a deputation to wait upon his lordship respecting the very defective state of the drainage of St. Mary's parish, and other parts of the borough. Mr. Jebb, who presided at a meeting of the commissiouers a few days sines, stated that the difficulty with the cosinsimionen was the great want of funds. The people of Lambeth felt that they wanted a representative system. As his lordship would remember, last session he required a larger sum than usual, and met with groat opposition. Now, if the people had bad representatives at the board, in ►is opinion his lordship would not hare met with that opposition. Mr. Churchwarden TAYLOR then addressed his lordship, and stated that he had waited both on Mr. Walpole and Sir George Grey, and a short time sines on his lordship, with reference to the drainage of Lambeth. On one occasion, after a serious outbreak of the cholera, he waited upon Mr. Walpole, who said his views were that what the ratepayers contributed should be distributed amongst them for their benefit. A memorial was presented, which Mr. Wal pole forwarded to the commissioners, but nothing was done fur Lambeth. After that he waited upon his lordship, since which time the ratepayers had been paying a very heavy rate, but still not 1001. had been upended over the drainage of Lambeth. lie had inspected Gulden-square, Brewer-street, and other thoroughfares in that locality, and found the Commissioners of Sewers had been laying out several thousands of pounds for that district. In 1849 the cholera broke out with such (cartel violence in Wel worth and other parts that whole families were swept off, owing entirely to the shocking state of the drainage. The commissioners were applied to, and they promised that a different state of things should exist, and that something should be done for them. Notwithstanding this they were still compelled to pay heavy rates without having their wants attended to, and a proper sod efficient drainage found. Even if the system of arterial drainage proposed by the commissioners were carried out, the inhabitusts of Lienheth would not receive any benefit from it, and he hoped his lordship would not sanction any large sums of money being granted to the board until his lordship had brought forward his promised bill during next session. He begged to suggest that the commissioners be elected by the parishionero in the like way that the guardians of the poor were elected. Lord l'atoraturron—l suppose you mean for every parish to have its representative commissioners. I think it would be diMesit tl combine these small fragments; one parish might say it would be better to have one line of sewerage, and another parish a different one, and then probably teats two linen would not meet. Mr. TAYLOR—The great desire is that the parishioners should have a voice in the distribution of the rate, and then the money raised by rates would be expended fur the benefit of the ratepayers. Lfird Pabisraorox—The rates levied, I thit.k, amount to about 200,0001., out of which there are expenses to keep up an establishment, to pay off old debts, to keep sewers in repair, and the remainder, which cannot saloon, to a great deal, is expended in the construction of new *ewers. Captain WOODS observed that the commissioners received a sum sr 46,0001. from Lambeth. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., said that is his opinion settle ' thing must be wrong is the coaritution of the commission. The best course would bo to raise money to carry out the works on Exchequer Bilks The sun of 3,000,0001. was loaned to England and Scotland to drain the lands, and upwards of 6,003,0011. for railways, at 3 per cent. interest. Ile should say, raise the required amount at 3 per cent., to be payable in 60 years of Exchequer Bills, the average in terest of which was about 21 per cent. If the representa tive system were introduced, his lordship might induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to advance the money. Sorely if the government loaned money for any object it wood not be out of the way for them to do so for the car rying out a thorough and efficient drainage throughout the metropolis. Mr. Tartu's thought the commission, as it now stood, might Woe a precept for the amount, as was done for the police rate. Then the expenses attending the collect ing of the rate would be done away with. Lord Pabxnaarox—What does the cost amount to ? Mr. TAYLon—At least 5 per cent. It costs Lambeth 501. three Ukase every year fur mert4 espying the rates into a volume, which in size exceeds the "London Directory." - Mr. Wicusits hopcl his lordship would promise to in troduce the representative system. Lord PALMERSTON said he would, and observed it would be better to have a joint commission for both sides of the Thames. He thought the commissioners would be bitter Judges of the matter had they a supervision of the whole metropolis. Mr. TAYLOR urged the necessity of one commission for the north and mother for the south side of the Thames, and they would then have better drainage. He must observe that all Lambeth had at present only one individual to represent them at the board, and he, from pressure of business and the fact of their sittings being held in the day time, could attend but very seldom, notwithstanding the fact that they had a population of 140,000, and that the borough extended Isom Blackfriars•bridge southward as far as Norwood. After some further conversation, Mr. WiLl.rmse asked his lordship to promise that until a new commission was formed us new works should be comiesseed, er any large same of money granted to the Lord PALldiallolll said be could not exactly make the required promise, but es the gated= which had been so ably laid before him was coo of the greatest soonest and importance to the public at large, he would give it his most earnest attention, and consider what he meld reconcile to hie own mind as the best COUTO' to panne for the mutual benefit of all parties. The deputation having thanked the noble lord for the courteous in which they had been received, then withdrew. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1853 THE RIGHT OF DISTRIBUTING RELI GIOUS HANDBILLS. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON. On Tuesday last, a deputation from the committee of the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Konen Catholics, waited by appointment upon the Right It-n. Viscount Palmerston, her Mujesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the purpo•e of making certain representations respecting a recent decision of a Dublin mafistrate. The members of the deputation were Viscount Lifford, General Sir Peregrine Maitland, 0.C.8., Hon. A. Kin mint, M.P., Admiral Hope, C. 8., Colonel Alexander, John Hackett, Esq., Rev. R. Ilickersteelt, Rev. E. Auriol, Rev. H. H. Beamed*, Jobs Bridges, Esq., Rev. C. J. Goodhue, Captain Kelly, Rev. Dr. Armstrong, Rey. Thomas Nolan, Rev. M. M. Preston, Rev. A. J. Item, and Rev. W. Mumble. The memorial was signed by the Duke of Manchester, president of the society, and tortytfive of the vice-presidents and members of committee. The Hon. A. Kfturtatno, M.P., having introduced the de putation to his lordship, ' The Rev. R. ISICXERSTETII etated the object of the depu tation, and read the following : " Your memorialists humbly pray that your lordship will institute an ioquirr into the circumstances which have lately taken place in Dublin in reference to the decision of Hugh O'Callaghan, EA., the police magistrate, in the ease of William Smith, for a coo struetise assault; arid also into the instructions given by Colonel Brown, commanding the Metropolitan Police of Dub:ln, to his inspectors, in the matter of the placards recently exhibited in front of the office of the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholic., in Rutland equate." My lord (Mr. Bickersteth proceeded) William i Smith is an agent of this society whom we employ in I Dublin, for the purpose of carrying about haudbills and placards in the course of the proceedinas which the society has taken for the reformation of the Roman catholics in Dublin. He was pursuing his employment as usual, on the evening of Thursday, the 14th of October list, and in passing up Sackville-atreet, having delivered copies of this handbill to some four of five hunured persons, be offered a bill to a lady who was walking down the street with a gen tleman. Nothing was said at the time the handbill was taken, and no remark was made ; hut about five minutes afterwards the gentleman with whom she was walking ran attar Smith, collared him, charged him with haying insulted him, and said he should take him to the police station. The men at once said there was no necessity to resort to vio lence, and he was perfectly ready to go. He was accord. ingly taken to the police studios, the charge was made against him of haying insulted the gentleman (Mr. O'Bren imp), and Smith was held to bail to appear on the following morning before the magistrate. He appeared accordingly, and the magistrate before whom the case was heard was Mr. O'Callaghan. Mr. O'Brennan stated the charge, that Smith had insulted him, and thrust a handbill into his hand ; and when the case had been heard so far, the magietrete asked Smith if he had any witnesses to call. Smith said that he had not, but wished to be heard in his own defence. Mr. O'Callaghan declined hearing him say anything in his defence, and required him imme diately to enter into recognisencee for his good behaviour for the time to come, or otherwise he would commit him for a fortnight. Smith was discharged on paying half-a crawn, which was the cost of the whole proceeding. Now, my lord, we complain of that procedure, because, as it appears to us, the man was guilty of no crime whatever. liters was no charge substantiated against hint, at.d yet he was subjected to punishment, as we think, unjustly. The bill was perfectly inoffensive. Smith has been em ployed in a similar =HUM for three or four years past, without giving offence to any one, or being accused of insulting any one, and he declares that his couduct was perfectly inoffensive; that he merely offered the handbtil, and that nothing was said calculated to give offence. With respect to the other case alluded to in the memorial, namely, the order given by Colonel Brown to the police to take down our placards, I would simply ob serve that we have been in the habit, for several years past, of exhibiting placards outside the walls of our office, and that they have never upon any one occasion whatsoever led to any assembly, or any breach of the peace, or any tett or kind of tamale ; and we now feel ourselves obstructed in carrying forward our work through the means of a most important instrumentality—these handbills and placards— first, en account at the decision come to in the cam of Wil liam Smith ; and. secondly, on account of the order of Colonel Brown. It is under these circumstances that the Committee of the Society earnestly entreat your lordship to inquire into the circumstances connected with thee, two charges. Viscount PALMSURTON—What were these placards and handbills—the announce of them? The Rev. R. Illeasnexern—They contain questions re latiag to poiats in dispute between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. I have here an exact copy. This is one of the handbills. It is an advertisement of a sermon to be preached in Dublin. This is the part complained of. (The rev. gentleman here banded a bill to his Lordship ; it was on .‘ The Supremacy of St. Pater," with qui stions appended, and quotations from the Roman Catholics' bible.) It was not this identical handbill, but it was one precisely similar. Viscount PALMERBTON—The question is, whether there was anything in it that was needlessly offensive ? The Rev. R. BICKLUSTETII—In ell the proceedings of this society it is a fundamental rule with us to abstain from all intemperate hinging., and any kind of conduct that could be justly regarded as offensive to the Roman esthetics. Viscount LIFFORD—I can only state that, acting as a magistrate in Warwickshire, if English magistrates were to act on the same principles, there would be very great dis turbances and complaints , very o ft en placards and papers are circulated respecting church rates and other matters, which are a great deal more offensive than any of these. The Rev. R. Blcxsassyrn—l think we have distributed about 44,000 of these handbills monthly, fur two or three months past, and this is the very first instance in which any complaint has St4Fel3 in consequence of our so doing. The man simply offered the handbill to the lady as she was passing by. He was on the side next her. And it was not until five minutes afterwards that Mr. o'B:ennui ran after him. -- -- - - - The Hon. A. Kifizstan—lt is what happens every day in London, as we are walking along the streets. Vanua% Lizroan—You u can tell what is put into your hands until afterwards. Viscount PALMERSTON—Yes, but in London the hand bills offer you cheap goods, instead of a creed. The Hoe. A. KINNAIILD—Bat the principle brought forward by Lord Lifford, aa to the church -rate, is perfectly analogina Viscount Panama/mat—Yes. The Rev. R. BICIIIIISTZTR-4 should =SWIMS also that the Roman catholic, are in the habit of doing the same thiny in Dublin, and the protestants make no complaint. Viscount PILLMIRSTON-1 think it is absurd to my that a man distributing things of that son is committing or likely to commit a breach of the peace. The breach of the peace is committed by those who may be made angry by it, and who cannot keep their temper. Viscount Lirruna—Without driving things to extremity, it would be a great thing to have such an expression of opinion as would deter magistrates from talking such an arbitrary line as we are deterred from taking in England. I think it would be a great thing to have something of that as z to give security to the protestants. VRISNInt PALIIIRSTON—What were the placards that inn tan down by order of Colonel Brown ? TM Rev. W. Mennanut.—This is the one in reference In which Dr. Nugent complained, sad swore that it was alleasive to him. (A copy of the placard was then handed to his lordship.) Generally the placards are similar to the handbills announciat sermons to be preached, and asking • few questions from the Douai version of the Scriptures. Viscount LIP7ORD—I think it was an error in judgment in Mr. O'Brennaa to suppose that such measures can be taken because bills are offensive to him. We all see bills which are offensive to us, each, for instance, as those an nouncing socialist meetings and aormous. Viscount PSIAIRRSTOR—Yes. The lion. A. KINNAIIID—Bat the most important fact is, that there has is Dublin in coasequerce of these placards. The Rev. R. BICKIRSISTR—SimiIar placards have been affixed to the walls for three yearn past. They n have led to large assemblies of persons ; there never has bean the slightest tumult or breach of the peace in any way whatever. At the same time we think :he circulation of these handbills and placards has been a most important in strumentality in leading to the very great success which the society has met with amongst the Roman catnoliee Ireland. The Rev. W. M/lIIRARLE—And the late government sanctioned the exhibition of them. Viscount PALMERSTON (to Mr. Bickentetb)—ln wind way ? These things may not convince people much by reading them, but I suppose they are calculated to draw or nation. The Rev. R. Broccitsvarn—People passing along the 'met cannot help observing them; and the result is that they are led to inquire, and are induced to come to the controversial cleans (of which we have six or seven in Dub lin), which are encouraged by the Archbishop of Dublin, and in which discussions are carried on in a friendly spirit between protestants and Romanis s. Viscount PA LVERSTON—I have the memorial. The Hon. A. KINNAIRD—Yes, the same as that which has been alien, forwarded to your lordship by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Viscount P Vitcount Unman—The subject is a very important one. Viscount PALMERSTON was understood to say that he would inquire iu o it. The deputation then withdrew, thlnking his 1 .rdship for the mane., in which he had received them. Nee. Fetet Fot. ACCIDENT.-11n msturdity night last Mr. WeartJar, a respectable former, residing at Sandell, two miles from D neaster, lest his life in consequence of the dense tog which prevailed He had returned in I gig from Donerter market quite sober, sad woe proceeding on foot to the Sandell lock-house to ascertain that all was sighs, as be forms the river toil. at this paint, when he appears to nave missed his way, notwiihstadding he had a lantern with him, end to have stumbled into the Den and perished. BELGA IN DARKNIM.—On Monday evening, front .T . llllr triet;!!sin . d cause, the whole of this diets Ct wee suddenly in..nerted in darkness, uwiug to the extinguishing of the atrret gas lamps. Tug COAST DEPENCES.—A detachment of Artil lery passed 'brooch S •uthanatiton, on their way to Hurst Caste, at the mlath of the Solent, to increase the Artillery force there. Scone: Poiat, opposite Hurst Castle, is also to be strongly fortified. THE RUSSIANS AT PORISMOUTIL - 4. - PORTSMOUTH, Dsc. 7. The Russian frigate Aurora, Captain Islamatiff, sailed from this port to-day for the Pacific, and has thus terminated the matter of the Habeu Corpus writs for the recovery of the bodies of the re-captured deserters from her. Yesterday the writs were again sent down here from London, - eing addressed to the - Conunanier-in-ehief and Commander Wonfold, of the Neptune, commanding them in the Queen's name to predates sot only the six men in question before the Lord Chief Justice, but also to bring the Russian captain hinneU before that dignitary. Acting upon Mein, these officers, however, though most courteous, spin declined to obey the writ, except by the orders of the Admiralty, the men not being in any way in their custody or power. In the meantime every eff.xt was nude to get the ship tows. She was towed out of harbour to Spithead is the afternoon, and her powder and shell fol- lowing she took them on board. At Gentile this morning she was observed through the fog to begetting tinder weigh, and in another hour's time she fired a parting salute, and wr soon out of sight. The Russian corvette, Nutria, is stilt in dock under going n thorough re caulking and repair. A number if dockyard awn Cr, engaged upon her. SUICIDE TM THE PENTONVILLE MODEL PRISON. —Yesterday Mr. Wakley held as inquest on the h ily of a prisoner sassed Edward Graves, aged 21, who had com mitted seicals °tithe previous Sattuday, by hang:ais him self in his cell. The drceri,d, who bau been cievicted of oAtgininft goods under false pretence's had been guilty of some eccentricities, but he had not been considered in the least i by ths authorities of the prison up to the time of his di ath. The jury found a verdict a'• temporary in unity.'• ESTIIINSTER PLAT.—In conoequence of 4 domes t.c afiLstioo, the head muter has suspended the representa tion of the play for this year, by the expressed wi.h and desire or the Queen's scholars. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE 8110W1 DINNEIi. Last evening the annual dinner of the Smithfield Club was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, when about 150 gentlemen were present. His Grace the Duke of Westmont), the President of the Ciub, presided on the 04:01111311, and was supported by Lord Portman, Lord Hornets, Mr. rimy, Sir John Shelley, Bert., M.P., Admiral Saustatez, and other eminent agri culturists and breeders. The noble CHAIRMAN having proposed "The Health of her Majesty the Queen," which use responded to with enthusias tic applause, widths next toast he bad to propose, was " The Health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert." In doing so, he begged toasty that he had, as president of the club, written to her Majesty and his Royal Highness PrinceAlbert,inviting them to visit the show, and the only reason they would not honour the Show with their presence this year wee, their absence from town ; but both her Majesty and the Prince expressed their sympathy and approbation of the objects of the Club. He had the greatest satisfaction in acknowledg ing his Royal Highness Prince Albert as • member of the Smithfield Cattle Club; because he felt that his Royal Il.gbness being so, and becoming an exhibitor at their Shure, did a great deal of good : and that, by leading the fashion, his Royal Highness contributed much to make 'gel culturt• fashionable. It was equally gratifying is find that his Royal Highness Prince Albert had this year carried off the gold medal in the pig chum (Hear, hear.) It was to be hoped that the Prince of Wales would follow in the footsteps of his sire, and that he would interest himself in the land of his birth. (Cheers.) The tout was drunk with great applause. The CHAIRMAN then proposed, • " Success to the Smith field Cattle Club." He said he believed that every indivi dual then present was aware that the great object of the Smithfield Club was to improve the breed of cattle, stock, And pigs. It was net to produce the monster animals that they saw from the county of Buckingham, but to produce wholesome and cheap fond fur the contunsen of this coun try. Ile (the noble duke) was instructed by the judges to say the show of this year was on the whole better than an average one, mon especially the sheep and cattle classes, and that the show was a credit to the exhibitors:ef this country. There were many very superior animals in th • allow this year. (Hear, heir.) But a few years ago it was predicted that the Smithfield Cattle Show wowu soon cease to be thought anything of in the metropolis, as the clubs of Birmingham and other places were treading so closely upon its heels, and competing with it to such an extent, that they would soon outstrip the Smithfield C.ub. lie (the noble chairman) hoped that there would be no rivalry, either between them and the Birmingham and Yorkshire clubs, except that honest emulation which was to try and do the best they could for the agricultural interest and the consumers at large. It appeared to him (the noble president) that there was a field open fur many mere such societies than there were at present. But if these societies were flourishing, he would ask, to wham was the credit due ? (Hear, hear.) It was to the Smithfield Club that the credit was due of setting the example to all other parts of the country, and he thought, therefore, he was justified in saying that he thought they bad done great good. It had been said by some that these asso ciations were of no service to the country. If they were of no service, should they find them existing in every county ? (Hear, hear.) lie would contend that they had proved themselves of the greatest utility and service. and the Smithfield Club had done so in parti cular. If there was not a deep interest taken in the suc cess of thew institutiou by the public, should they have seen the thousands of people who had attended their show yard to see the exhibition of their cattle that day ? (Hear, hear.) It was an advantage, he was sure, to all interests, and especially to the agricultural interests of this country. It was most gratifying that they not only contri buted to benefit the agricultural interest and the con sumers generally, but that they could also afford pl to their fellow Unsure, who could never have the opportu nity of seeing a sheep exc.-pt in Smithfield. (Cheers and laughter.) With respect to flounce, NI that was a thing which had a great deal to do with the prosperity of an in stitution, he was most happy to say that instead of being in debt the society had a large margin of surplus in their Chancellor of the Exchequer's hands. (Cheers.) In fact they had a clear balance sufficient to meet all the demands ' which could be made upon them for next year, and there fore he thought that he might reasonably congratulate them upon the prosperity of the society. He would there fore give them " Prosperity to the Smithfield Club," and may others follow its example. (Loud cheers, amidst which the toast was done honour to). The swaths of the judges were here read and the prizes distributed to the successful competitors ; after which the health of Mr. Richard Stratton, u the winner of the gold medal and most successful in the cattle classes, was drunk and responded to. Lordßzuszas then proposed " The Health of the Pre sident, his Grace the Duke of Norfolk," who acknowledged the compliment. The health of Prince Albert, as the winner of the gold medal in the pig classes, having been given, The CHAIRMAN gave " The nesticceuful competitors," which toast was responded to by Sir John Shelley, M.P. Lord PORTMAN, in reply a the toast of "The Trustees," observed that the objects of the Smithfield Club were to support not so much the beginning as the end of farming, by bringing the best of food to market at the cheapest rate, to pay at the acme time the grazier and the butcher. He, however, must say that he regretted to see that the butchers of the metropolis were not so active as they ought to be in supporting that which was so much to their own benefit. Lerd Bza.Nzas, in reply for the toast of "The Vioe- Presidents," alluded to the advantages which the Royal Agricultural Society of England were to the graziers and breeders, and related a cue of his own, wbere he was con tinually losing valuable animals by disease, until, under a rule of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, he made application for a professor from the Royal Veterinary College, which they supplied gratuitously, and under the advice of Professor Symonds 39 valuable beasts were saved. It should be known to all that, upon application to the Royal Agricultural Society, they gave this service gratui tously. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN proposed "The Royal Agricultural Society of England, coupled with the health.of Mr. Philip Pusey, its President." Mr. Poser, in responding, said he believed that that society now represented something like 6,000 of the tenant farmers of England, and that it had and was conferring a national benefit. Its operations Were scattered abroad from the Land's End to the cliffs of Dover, and the neat show was to be in a county which, through its instrumentality, and the energy of the agricultural body, the greatest provement had taken place. They had heard much of the drainage of Rolland, but to Lineolashire no less than 600,000 acres had, by means of species of canals, been reamed from the sea, and were now in a forward state of culuvation. (Cheers.) The health of the Judges, the Stewards, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs (the secretary), and other touts, s having been dis pied of, the company separated. Large as the attendance at the show at the Baker-street Bazaar was on Tuesday, the numbers yesterday, it is stated, nearly doubled them. The only sale of any importance effected thr. ugbout the day was that of Prince Albert's pea of pigs, which obtained the gold medal, and they found a purchaser in Mr. Wall of Jermyn-street. WINE DUTIES. -.-- Mr. Oliveira, M.P., writes from Bordeaux : " Since my arrival its this rity I have received the greaten support and assurance of the sympathy f.lt in our efforts t. obtain • reduction of the wine duties. The apprehension felt by some p noes as to a deti.ieney of supply is quits futile. I:4e present stock 'is very large, quite enough to meet any iernand for the neat three years, sad by that time, if our measure is carried, there will he immense tracts of country planted with vine and producing. The lest vintage was a short one, and all wines are dear, yet much good, round, agreeable wine sells at 3d. per bottle. lam happy to soy chat en far from the French desiring a reduc• lion of duty upon their wines, without any corresponding concessions, I a a informed, on the best authority, that I recent efforts have been made, and serious discussions I taken place upon the question of admitting into the ports of France, duty free, all materials used in the construction of shim as well as to grant to foreign built vessels the same privileges as to national ones. Inquiries are also set on foot with reference to the feasibility of a reduction in the duty upon cotton goods. if these two important con cessions be mode, one great ground of objection will be removed from that section who requite reciprocity. II:son the whole, these are very satisfactory indications." FATAL ACCIDENT. The Oriental Company's steamer Madrid is undergoing repair in the Southampton graving deck. Mr. Colebrook, the second engineer of her, MI, on Monday last, from a stage outside the ship into the dock, a height of 16 feet. end was so injured that he died in a few huun afterwards. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILIV.4I. 0- Yesterday, in accordance with a resolution adopted at the meeting of t►e 19th ult., after it had been declared at an end by the late chairman of the board (Mr. F. &cot) a number of sharehohlens reassembled at Hawk atone Hall, Waterloo•road On the motion of Mr. Pun• Ober, seconded by Mr. Austin, Mr. Serjeant GASELEZ was called to the chew. At this time there were present 22 shareholder's, the number being increased by subsequent arrivals to about 30. The CHAtaMAN said he was still of opinion that the dissolution by the late chairman was illegal. He had since proposed to the board to take the opinion of Sir F. Kelly on the point; but this the majority had declined to do, and they teal also rejected hie proposition that the poll should he published. He advised the shareholders not to rest till they bad got the poll, as the publication of it would open the eyes of many who were now greatly in the dark. They would then know who were the real managers of the railway, and who were working for their de m ruction. (Cheers.) He did not believe the directors them selves Weser:bled any improper influence, but there were influences at work more powerful than that of the directors, and extending to the remotest corners of Scotland and Ire land ; and the railway could never prosper until the board were the real managers, instead of persons who were inter ested in extensions. (Hear, hear.) Among the five direc tors who had resigned there were two for whom individu al ybe entertained great respect, and who had assisted the shareholen in detesting a central extension scheme; sad he had no hesitation in saying that the non-extension part of the board was weakened by their retirement. lie would caution the directors against continuing in their present course. He asked with confidence whether the disgraceful scene which had taken place in that room could have occurred, if there had not been a determination on one side to put down the other? In the selection of new directors they mast take care that their opinions should be properly represented. Having gained two great victories they had a right now to insist on a proper representation. (Hear, hear.) They had no feelings of hostility against those whom they hat conquered; tney were ready to let bjgones be bygones—(hear, hear)—but they must have security for the future. (Cheers.) They must know that the new directors were parsons who would not sanctisu every extension scheme that might be laid before them. Hitherto nearly all the time of the board had been taken up with endeavours on the part of the dissentient directors to stop ruinous extension". He believed that if they ms'e a good choice of new directors, before the expiration of a year the shares would be at par and the dividend 5 per cent. (Cheers.) Mr. Asnuous wished to know how the officials in the company voted in the recent division ? The CHAIRMAN $ id the clerks who held shores did not I vote at all; the engineers voted against the shareholders. I (Hear, hear.) Mr. Anototte inquired how the solicitors voted ? The CHAIRMAN said the solicitors voted against them ; the bankers did the same. (Hear, hear.) Every director, except Mr. Mortimer and himst If, was opposed to them, and he:had no duuht that the majority in the hoard obtained the vote of every lawyer. contractor, and tradesman that they could get hold of. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SNELL thought every gentleman in the room would agree with him that, on account of its very restricted powers, the special meeting shou.d be dissolved. He would there fore move its dissolution, with a view to the holding of an uth.r meeting immediately afterwards, at which an import. ant resolution would be proposed. He would here observe that, with a view of putting a stop to dissensions which were prejudicial to the stock of the comp an y, an d o f h o ldi n4 ' out the olive branch of peace to the other party, on the 24th of November he wrote to the secretary suggesting the denirablene.s of endeavouring to come to some timirable I arrangement. He subsequently left his card at the office of Mr. Birchall, the solicitor. In neither case had there been any response. Mr. EDWARDS seconded the motion, and said the exten sion nroepectuses issued by the board were as gross as the South Sea scheme. Mr. SALINTSBURY laid, before the motion was put, he could not help adverting to the address published by the directors who had resigned. He bad never seen anything more indecent than the terms of that letter. Mr. Scott there told the shareholders that they had been guilty of a breach of faith and a violation of principle, and had suit red • loss of character. How dare he address such language to a body of men who were at least imitated by as honour able motives as he was ? (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. &Ants bury) did not deny that a silly I leiige was given; hut the directors themselves broke it (Hear, hear.) Besides, what was the v‘lue of the Wharncliffe order if they were not to be allowed to act as they had done ? (Hear, hear ) The resolution was then put aced carried. The special meeting was accordingly di:eland by the chairman to be dissolved. A SHAREHOLDER then moved that Mr. Snell should take the chair, which resolution having been seconded and agreed to, Mr. Bnell briefly addressed the meeting. On the motion of Mr. W. HENDERSON, seconded by Mr. Asiisiosta, the following resolution was then carried unanimously. " That this meeting, considering it to be of the utmost im portance to prevent contention in the company, and to ensure the adoption of a prudent and pacific course towards other companies, and referring to the announced resigna tion of .five of the present board, resolves to support such candidates only whose opinions accord with the general feeling of the company sod are opposed to a brunch nuking policy, which has been so decidedly condemned in two successive years by majorities of the shareholders." The meeting then adjourned. MAXCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE RAILItAL A special meeting of this company was held, at Manchester, .esterday afternoon, to receive the report of the Committee of Consultation appointed on the 18th of Inns last. - At the suggestion of the Earl of YARBOROUGH, who presided, the report, which hart been distributed among the shareholders three weeks ago, wits taken as read. The Right Hon. J. PARKER, chairman of the committee, in moving the adoption of the report, recapitulated the chief topics contained in it. He said in drawing up the report the committee had gone upon the principle of telling the shareholders the whole truth with re gard to everything in it. They bad avoided uo ques tion, but at the same time they had not overlaid it with statistics, nor attempted to perform the part of speculators or prophets as to the future. The great fault of this, as of too many other companies, it appeared to him, bad been the expenditure of too much money. (Hear, hear.) This was a fact which could not be disguised, but, at the same time, that was a matter now beyond remedy ; he had said from the first that he would be no party to a by gone inquiry. What was done seven or eight years ago could not now be undone; their business was with the future. And in reference to this they had speed to recommend to the new manager (Mr. Edward Watkin) to re-model the establish meat by the adoption of a somewhat novel but not unpre cedented experiment, in following the example of the I Caledonian Company by making the salaries of the principal officers, to some extent, dependent on the receipts of the concern. That course bad been adopted with success by the Caledonian line, and the committee thought it might be carried out with equal advantage on this line. He found that high satisfaction was expressed with the choice of their new manager, and he expressed a hope that the shareholders in future, if they had complaints to make of the management, would deal with the board in these matters, inasmuch as it was undesirable that the time of the manager should be wasted by being brought into collision with individual share holder, as bed sometimes been the ease in times past. (Hear, hear.) In referring to the alliances with other com panies, he said there were some pasties of opinion that a working agreement with the Great Northern would be most advantageous. On examining this question, he found there were some parties held that 7001. or 8001. per week might be made by such an agreement; but, on the other hand, those who opposed it contended that by so exciting the opposition of the London and North Western they would lose a. much as 1,200/. or 1,3001. per werk. He must remind them, however, that at present there was an agreement wi.h the London and North Western which they were bound to observe. If any one had supposed in placing him on the committee that he would agree to break such an agreement they had mistaken their man. It was not the fault of the committee that there was such an agreement, but finding it in existence, they held that the time for dis cussing new agreements would be when the present ones expired. He concurred in the recommendation of the re port fur the abandonment of the Humber Ferry litigation, and pointed to the great hopes of the company for an im proved position as lying in a diminution of working ex pears and the development of their coal trade. The com mittee had recommended that the 280,0001. arrears of dividend on preferential shares should be capitalised, but they did not consider the terms, thinking that a matter to he determined between the board and the holders of those shares. Mr. JOHN FENTON seconded the motion. Mr. Wu. hiam..tunv, of London, said he had attended a meeting of the six per cent. shareh o lders that morning at the Spread Eagle Hotel, at which it was eat wished to ob ject to the report, hut simply to protest against a pars graph in the report thing uustrued as sanctioning in any way an interference with the rights of the p:efcrence share holders. The paragraph in question said—" They may however express their hope, that if an opportunity arises front the above, or other parties, of placing the strain of the company on a substantial and permanent basis, the burr,' will not fail to take advantage of it. life magnitude no doubt of this concern, and tile variety of pref(rcntial inter ests from time to time created mast operate against such propositions, but if any such should come to past., the eev - ral classes of shareholders will probably be ready to niscuss the terms on which the company shall Le incorp .rated with one or other of its neighbours ; and in consideration of increased security and augmented market able value, will waive something of their legal claims." Mr. Mallalieu, who had presided at the meeting, read a pro test agreed to by the preference sharohnloers against this paragraph being underatosid as sanctioning an interference with their rights. and suhseviently rc. A utsted that it might be placed en the minutes. The resolution swab carried with only one dissentient. The CHAIRMAN having moved that the Appo:ntattat of Mr. E. Watkto, of the London and North Western Com pany, as general manses , - of confirmed by the shareholders, it was objected to by ?dr. Sturges unti others, because it was foreign to Inc purposes of the meet ing, and would be a precedent for shittiug the responsihility of such appointments from the dire eters the shareholders. The Chairman esplained that Mr. W. 4 is hintaelf• had suggested this course ; but Mr. Watkin now expressed him self satisfied with the opinion of tie meeting , us he had only wish ed to s u b m i t hi s appointment to them for confii matte°, tn order th a t h e m i g h t be assured of tin it con fidence. The motion was therefore withdrawn. It wee afterwards stated by the Chitin:nail that Mr. Watkin's salary had been hind at 1,200/. per annum, it...teased by lit per cent. on all increase of the net rtvenuta or savings in the working eepenses. Mr. FENTON explained with reference to the pretest of the preferential sharekulders that the corrmittee of consulta tion had never any idea of sbuting one iota of the claims of those shareholders, but only suggested that instead of mere claim they would prefer a marketable debenture. The Cetalumate thought the shareholders themselves should take the initiative in any arrangement of th:s kind. Mr. PAILkEIt moved that "the directors be requested and are hereby authorised to make such t erms w i t h the de fendants in the limber Ferries suit, with a view to the final settlement thereof, as the directors shell c nnider mostadvaotsgeous to the shareholders." The motion having been seconded was carried with only two dissentients. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the committee of consultation and the chairmen. DENSE FOGS AT MANCHESTER. .e. Fogs, whic'e have been more or less dense, ha- . - e hung over Manchester for weeks past, but one which commenced during Monday night, and continued up to last evening with little abatement, was exceedingly thick, end during the whole of Tuesday and yesterday the shops, counting houses, warehouses, and other places of buNiness had to be lighted up from the earliest hours. The streets or. Tuesday morning appeared filled with a vapour like steam, only that instead of giving warmth it hail the effect of a cold wet blanket. Later in the day it became mixed with the black smoke from the tall chimnees, which was beaten down by it, and produced a smarting of the eyes, and • choking sensation in the throats of all persons unfert,inate eaough to come in contact with it. Su thick wee the fog in some of the streets in the evening, when derlinees ap proached, that many people lost their way in the streets, and became unable to make out which end of the thoroughfare they were approaching. It was impossible, in some parts of the busiest thorougleeres, to see objects at • distance of three or four yards, and a serious hindrance was thus raised to the progress of vehicles. Omnibuses became 'indistinguishable, despite the lamp, they carried both inside and out, to paestnaers on the footway, some of whom would have been une ;nine to risk being involved in • cullision by entering one of them, whilst other., more confident in the ability of the driver; to steer a safe passage, than willing to risk their neer' by en countering the perils of street crossings on foot, were yet unehle to open a communication with the con': nt , s;rx, and deterred from any vigorous attempt to do so by uncertainty as to whether the ;Kluge was sufficiently clear for a des perate charge to the door of any particu:ar cenveyance. The progress of some of the country omnibuses, eepecielly i was marked by incidents of the most ludicrees ile• :ription, for when they had 1„:•ut clear of the town, and theee Vil.TO no lights to guide them, it became necessary, in nieey cases, to proceed at • walking pace, with a lantern carried in front by a person on foot. The incidents in one case described by a passenger were very miming. The omnibus ' , tailed at 5 o'clock from Market-street for Cheadle, u distance of seven miles, which, under ordinary circumstances, it would have performed ir. cr hew, but did net arrive there till five minutes past 7. As the vehicle proceeded through the streets at a w.ilking pa _e, the Inside . passengers, scarcely conscious where they w..r.: being Idriven, would now and then see some veil:err:6e foot pai- Isenger emerge out of the fag or, to the door-step, ask the conductor where he was going to, and on finding that the omnibus was not going he any direction ilia= ti ically oppo site to the one which it was pursuing, wuuld vani,h into obscurity again. Oa uppreaching the suburbs, the OCC:1 i pants of the vehicle became alarmed at the sadden and in esplicoble twists and turns which it seemed to be making, first coming in contact with the footpath on came side of the road, and almost immediately afterwards hump ing against the kerb•stone on the o ppo s it e s id e . 1 When the omnibus approached the open country the driver was quite unable to distinguish the course of the road, end nearly all the passengers alighted, weleing by the side of the vehicle, whilst the conductor preceded it on foot, blowing his horn and carrying a lantern. Presently another horn was heard in the distance, which proved to I proceed from the conductor of an omnibus c ar..ng in the opposite direction, escorted in the same manner. The be nighted cavalcades contrived to pass etch other without a collision, and after proceeding in this manner rather more than a mile, the fog became much less deuce, lard tie eiut t e. bus was enabled to tannin its journey in the normal man ner, and at • more reasonable speed, after hosing love most of its passengers. From Market-street to Itusholme, a distance of two mike, the journey had occupied 50 minutes; and Withington, two miles furOer, sat not retched till half. past 6. Other omnibuses on the same road were also detained in a similar way. The coach from Derby got upon the foot pavement in Longeight, near Manchester, and was near meeting with a serious accident in the even ing. Neither omnibuses nor coaches kept nay regukr time; and the hackney coachmen, in many tales, refused fares and withdrew from the streets. The vw.crt anni lives dritsrs of private vehicles were in all directiccv seen dismounted from the boxes, walking through the mud at the horse'. head, with bridle in one hand and lantern :a the other. There were many hairbreadth escapes in the roads, yet, strange to say, no accidents were heard cf yesterday a. having occurred, either in the common roads or en the rail ways. Yesterday a frost h►d set in, and there was some hope at Right of au improvement, though the fig was still very dense. THE RUSSIANS IN PORTSMOUTH DOCK- YARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THL DAILY NEV... SIR,-1 beg to enclose a copy cf a letter which I have this day addressed to the editor of the Ton , I am, air, &c., CHARLES RONALDS. 96, Guilford-street, Russell-square, Dec. 7. TO THE EDITOR OP THE TOWER. Sir,—l take ihiliberiiorititornirTg Y.T.lthat the iuttlli gense on which you have grounded the leading article in the Tines of to day, respecting the Russi..n is erroneous in several particulars. It was net en hard the Russian ship, the Aurora, but on board the English ship, the Victorious, that I produced the writ of labeas cog 143 to the Rowlett captain, and (through the medium of an lutes preter) fully acquainted him with its nature. It was also from the porthole of the English, and not of the Russian ship, that a document to which the law attaches so muen importance, fell, not by accident, as you. informant has misled you by asserting, but from the hand lof the &Milan lieutenant, who threw it cottemptuously from the vessel. These facts can be established by the molt irretragable evidence. . . . I also beg to deny positively, as the solicitor through whose instrumentality the writ was obtaMed, that the parties frim whom I received my instructions had in any way aided, abetted, or advised the escape of the Russian sailors, or had received any information of thu circum stances, until after the capture had taken place. I have no knowledge of any such attempts to influ-e desertion having been made as those which you describe. Juliting tram the watched appearance of the Russian crews whom I saw in Portsmouth Harbour, and the mis ruble quality of the bread—so called—on which they are fed (and of which 1 con produce a apecimsn), it appears 10 nt.. much less surprising that a few of the crew should have :eft the ship, than that any should remain. I abstain from offering any remark on the legal ques tion, as that wiil very shortly be decided by the proper tri bunal, merely observing that no one can be more convinced than I am that the writ would not run on boar! the Rus sian vessel, but that I am advised ou high authority it is equally certain that it would run on board the English 1 am, &c., CHARLES RONALDS. 96, Guilford -street, Russell-square, Dec. 7. n avETORMERS FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—Thift society has jut completed the yurelisse of an etfato on the high road at Muswell• hill, and live minutes walk trim the railway station st Colney• batch. This estate is to confer un the members about 169 votes for the cowl,- of Mid ' dlesex. UNION FULEHOLD LAND SocteTY.—Last night a public eb ose tm e t i . in,: m o r f h ell . : , t u. a n t ia A r n , d , Lr i ri t a cs Osl, Itarthgate, the tatte purchased by the society was iu :1 LTIIIOIOII the most beao tilal iu Middlesex, near the rail way station at Harrow, aadi on a suitable house being built on each allotment, the pros priein ur his nomii,ee will be entitled to a lits!-clase free pass by railway to and from the Euston and Harrow di lions for eleven years. Resident proprietors would also be e ntitled to a presentation to Harrow school. Mousy new members having ji,ined, the ballot far rights to ai:i.,tinente took place, and the proceedings (tided by a vote of thanks to the chairman. FiNtilllatT FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETL—A public meeting was held on '1 uesday oveniug at the Sportsman Tawro, City•road, Mr. Freestone in the chair. It was stated that the state at. Wood green, near llornaey, con misted of GO acres, ift a Moat eligible situation, and that shares to the sormut of 5,0001. had been paid up in full by members fur allotments on it. The negiwiati'isis with the New hiver Company for the sale of about three utrea having been cen,ioded, the members would .horey be put in poss,ssion of their allotments. Two other estates had also been purchased at Mitcham and at Merton, in Surrey. A ballot for richt, to allotments on the Woad-green estate tutu took place, about forty new members having Were ap share,. th, proceedings of the even:op enistil.