The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

CUAL.—The arrivals of foreign are my innimte, an 4 rtes.: aivaneiner. Liverpool Omit is selling at 10 dolt. to II par tun. tkoteh Cannel at S dole. We- per taa-1 watt - v. l'astutip. —To Liverpool, flour 36. 64. to 4.. per LAI. lima 12 t.. 15.1 a..1.v.1 per bushel. Cotton 7.32 to 1-1.1. per it... neatly pods 30, per ton. To Lon.loa, flour 3.. 61. ptt bbl. Nay..l store. 3.1 6.1. per bbl. Grain 12 to 1..1 per 6.t.c. Wavy roods per ion. To Glasgow, 11,yr Kt n. .4s. per buil. Ota;it 12 to 15.1. per bie.bel. Et. Go day , 5t1bt,1(6.4 to 110. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. The Royal Brazilian Mail packet Tay, Capt. It. Itivett, from the Brazils, &c., arrived at Southamp ton on Saturday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. O'Reilly, R.N., Admiralty agent. Ihr dates of sailing are:—Buenos Ayres, Sept. 2; m,,ste Video, 5; Rio de Janeiro, 14; BahM, 19; Pernambuco, 22; Teucriffe, Oct. 5; St. Vineect, Sept. :id; Madeira, Oct. 7 ; Lisbon, 10. The Tay brings 65 passengers, among whom are bus Exeell. my Sir Charles llotham, Edwd. Thornton, Esq., secretary of legation; Captain A. T. ilodiam, 75th Regt., private secretary • W. O. Ou•eley, FA+, attache ; Martin Tupper fir;od, Esq., late consul at Buenos Ayres; the Chevalier St. George, French minister to River Plate; MM. Brous sard and Vurinz, secretary and attache. kr Majesty's ships at Rio when the Tay left were ntuur, llonetto, Sharpshooter, and Crescent. On the lltth of September H.M.S. Express sailed on a cruin., as did the Trident on the 11th. ll.M.'s brig Star was at Bahia, at Madeira H.M.'s brig Philomel, and at Lisbon H.M.S. Leander sod Odin. BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, SEPT. 13. --•• • - . _, ‘Vith the exception of large transacti ons in some articles of import, generally at still lower quotations, business has been very dull since last steamer. Little has been dune in exchange, and the sales of coffee have scarcely reached 115,000 bags, of which .12,000 were fur the States, and the remainder for the north of Europe and the Mediterranean. As our stock at market gradually rose to 200,000 bags dealers have slightly given way, and prices may be quoted from 100 to 150 ills lower than at the commencement of the month. At those reduced rates about 10,000 bugs were taken after the arrival of the Tay. Our money market is much easier, Lnd money is plentiful at $ too per cent. 'Die National Bark is at length organised, and the Counsellor Joao Duarte Lisboa Serra has been nomi nated president by the government. The only political news of importance is the for mation of a new cabinet, composed as follows : ~'i.count l'arana, Premier and Chancellor of the Ex chequer; Limpo de Abten, Foreign Affairs; Couto Ferrsz, Home Department ; Nahuco d'Araujo, Jus tice; Alcantara Hellegarde, War and ad interim Marine. We estimate the amount of exchange passed fur this conveyance at 290,0001. on London, 800,0001. on France, 360,000 m. b. on Hamburg. BUENOsAYRE;', SErr. 1. Never were men more grateful for a return of peace than are the people of this city and province. The political pressure having ceased business is pro secuted with new energy, after a suspension of near three quarters of a year. In our haste to enjoy the blessing, perhaps we are too little attentive to the political safeguards by which it is to be secured. However, there is one lesson resulting from our late troubles, which [ think no government could stand here without respecting. Everybody feels that the primacy of Buenos Ayres among the Argentine pro vinces rests upon her trade and commerce, and 'a not to be maintained except by preserving peace. We shall have no wore stupid attempts, for the present at least, to impose the will of Buenos Ayres upon the other provinces, such u that made by Arista, which has cut us a seven months' blockade. In a note to the govern. ment of Santa Fe, which, like the other provincial go. vernments, adheres to the cause of Unpile and the Confederation, Lorenzo Torres, the Foreign Minis'er of Buenos Ayres, writes that: " The government wishes peace—it desires progress—it longs to re unite the bonds of fraternity—it wishes to re-esta blish commerce, and to accord every possible facility in favour of the other provinces—and since it is sin cerely animated by these sentiments, it regards it as a duty to obviate any sinister interpretation its acts might suggest." It is only in this way that peace can be preserved in the province of Buenos Ayres itself. The people of the rural districts are very unsettled. It has been necessary to send General Herne* with a division to the northern districts, and elsewhere the attitude of the people is not very assuring. This state of things is strongly reflected in an address lately issued by the Buenos Ayrean government to the country people, which is of a highly comminatory character. The legislature of this province is in recess. The government is doing as little as it possibly can in its provisional state, thus exhibiting at once its wisdom and its weakness. The elections take place on the tith, and it is expected will lay a foundation for a more enduring political structure than we at present possess. Among the administrative acts of the go vernment I should men:ion a decree, dated August the 6th, subjecting the ports of the province opened to Lagos to the regulations in force before the Ist of December, 1552 ; and declaring the port of the ca pital the only port for discharging or loading vessels arriving from or bound to foreign ports. Besides this a decree withdraws the license of Messrs. Henry Green and Richard Sutton as ship-brokers, on the plea that the former had not been enrolled in the Nations] Guard during the late rebellion, and that the latter had remained throughout it in the country, and establishing the general principle—a most ex traordinary one as applied to ship-brokers—that public functionaries, of whatever nationality, are by the fact of their accepting office, subject to all the obligations of citizens, at least during the time they hold said offices. The work of national organisation is of course suspended. It is, however, expected that it will be resumed. General Urquiza has offered his resigna tion to the Supreme Constituent Congress, if such a proceeding will facilitate the attainment of unity, but it appears not to have been accepted. A steam mill has been erected by Messrs. Halbach and Co. in the Plaza Loma. The engine is of 75 horse power, and can despatch 200 fanegas, or about hOO bushels of wheat daily. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Rto as JASEIRO, SEPT.I3. EXCHANOV.—London, 28 to 281, 60 and 90 days ; France, 345 to 354 ; Hamburg, 640 to 645 ; Stock, 6 per teat., 101 to 102 ; Ditto Provincial, 99 to 100 ; Sovereigns, &900 ; Spanish Doubloons, 29.700 to 28.800 ; Dollars, 1.900 to 1.920. Corral.—Superior, 4 400 to 4.500 ; good first, 4.250 to 4 300; ant ordinary, 4.050 to 4.11./0 ; American assort ments, 4:300 to 4.350 ; stock this day, 16.5,000 bags. filtemate.—White 2 500 to 2.600 ; seconds, 2.300 to 2.4 W ; brown, 1.900 to 2.100 ; stock. 230 boxes. IblZlOßTS.—Channel, 40s. to 4.55. • Hamburg, 4,111.; London, Ms. to 405.; United States, 50e. to 60.. The British vessels arrived since the lest steamer left are the Menne Graham, Prospero, and Balelutha, of Liverpool ; and the Amaranth, of Greenock. The Eatl Mulgrave came in on the sth, having put back. BUNN°. ATIIB, SUPT. 1. Excitxxos, Sat?. I.—Spanish dollars and Fatacones, 19 ; Patriot doubloons, at 2924 ; Spanish ditto, at 2934 ; Bills on Euglani, per doubloon, 66s Currency, per dot.,' . 2 11.16 d. The highest price of Patriot doubloons during the week, 292 ; the lowest, 2904. Highest rata of exchange on England during the week, 665. 6d. per oz.: lowest, 665. BAHIA, Bsei. 17, Business in rn enufactures dull, particularly prints, of which the Moot is choked up. There has been o little more demand this month, but long way from 'wive. Brown sugars advanced to 1,800, mixed brown., or 15s. 4.1. cwt., ex 'Weight and commission. Stork about 3,000 tons all sorts. Shipped of this crop, up to 31st August, 66,400 tons, the largest ever known. Cotton Little here, lest sale 6,100 or 5,87.1 lb., f.0.b., ex freight and 0.111111161.1.11. Es. change opened at 289., has sinew gone down to 274.1., but the close will depend upon the southern news, over due. Ektl6Hl4.-304. has been done Trieste ; 40e. London ; cee. Bremen, torriatte not abundant. Flour stock 18,500 barrels, retails from 15 dole. V. 21 dots. per barrel. That with the United States hews date San Jose !province of Entre Rios), July 27, and is signed on the port of the United States by Messrs. Robert E. Schenck and John S. Pendleton. TILE EASTERN QUESTION AND TILE PUBLIC MEETINGS. The following letter, from Lord Beaumont to Lord Dudley Stuart, will just now be read with interest: Genera, Oct. 9, 18.53. _ _ Dear Dudley Stuart,—! observe with satisfaction that a popular movement is taking place or the Eastern Question, and that a favourable opportunity is thus afforded of placing before the public the true position of the different parties concerned in it. This is the more necessary, as prejudiced writers and in. terested journals rave endeavoured to create a general impression on the subject totully at variance wi:h the truth. It has been the object of these parties and their employers to keep up the idea that the Turkish government is founded on principles of re ligious intolerance and opposition to social improve ment ; and that Mohammedan institutions are hostile to personal freedom and scientific progress. What ever the Turks, at different periods of their history, may have been, there is nothing now in the conduct of either the government or the people of the Ottoman Empire to justify such an opinion. A great, albeit a gradual, revolution has been taking place during more than thirty years in the more important portions of the empire: one by one, every law or custom which tended to oppress the rajah or keep up the barbarous privileges of feadalism has been abrogated or repealed, class distinctions have been softened down, and those formidable institu tions which were the results of the barbarism of the I middle sgcs, rather than the consequences of the due -1 trines of the Koran, have been all but entirely swept away. There changes, while they appeared at the time to annihilate the military superiority of the empire, have eventually considerably ameliorated its political position. They have placed the Turkish government and its Nlahommedan subjects on a level with the other European nations, and destroyed com pletely any argument which could be drawn from their religion to exelade them from the European community. Nor have the violent changes ef fected by Sultan Mshmoud cooled the mar tial ardour or weakened the national en thusiasm of the people to the extent to which the friends of Russia both wished and repre sented them to have dune. The effects of that great monarch's policy are now beginning to show them selves. They who talked of Turkey u dead, now see Laz it us coming out of the tomb. The Porte has, by its own exertions, placed itself in the ranks of the great powers of Europe. It has an army and a diet inferior only to those of the three or four greatest military states; its ministers of state have displayed a tact and ability which has thrown western di plomacy into the shade; it has organised a national movement without coufusion, and preserved internal order without violence. Amidst unparalleled difficul ties, arising from foreign complications, it has dis played untiring courage,dignified modern t ion ,st raight forward action, and consummate skill, mixed with honour and honesty. S 3 changed is now the relative position of the different powers in the east of Europe, that the Crescent means religious toleration, personal freedom, na tional independence, and social order, while the Cross (whether Greek or Roman) is misused as the banner of those who would establish religious intolerance, personal slavery, absolutism in governments, and a return to the middle ages in literature and society. The question at issue and the subject at stake are something far beyond a personal quarrel between the Czar and the Sultan. The contest is between civili sation and barbarism --right and wrong—progress and retrogression—liberty and tyranny. All this ought to be put in detail before the public. Nor ought the difference between the commercial codes and tariffs of Turkey and other European states to be forgotten. Beyond al. this, it is eerily shown how necessary the Sultan's independence as to the peace of the world and the balance of power in Europe. The masses seize only the salient points of a question, and it would therefore be useless to weary them with the minor details of this importaot subject. It is unnecessary to point out at length to them the deceit, insolence, chicanery, and falsehood of Russia in her recent pro- ceedings, nor need any one now dwell on the timidity, folly, ignorance., and subserviency which dictated the disgraceful Vienna note. The people overlook the blunders of a government, if they believe their principles to be right, and should they now act with energy we need not recall the past weakness which has led to the present crisis. One thing ought to be pointed out, namely, that Austria is not fairly with us ; her fear of Russia binds her to that power, even though her interests are in the opposite direction. This very fact of Austria being at the mercy of Russia makes it the more necessary to support Turkey, as the only remaining bulwark agains • t absolutism and barbarism. The mischievous intrigues of the Greeks must be guarded against, and it should be shown to them that their only choice is between a liberal government like the Sultan's and an iron tyranny like the Czar's. No one who is ac quainted in the slightest degree with the east could imagine an independent Greek empire, or think of extending the frontiers of the present semi-Bavarian kingdom. Our policy should be founded on princi ples of justice and not on favouritism, we should make no distinction between Mosle m and Christian, Greek or Roman, catholic or protestant. Religious toleration, liberal government, national indepen dence, and if you like, commercial freedom are our doctrines, and whenever circumstances oblige us to interfere in the affairs of other states, we ought to urge on thou in whose favour we act the wisdom, if not the necessity, of adopting our principles. I find I have written you a rather longer letter than I intended, but as I am detained here for the present and cannot conveniently assist at any of the public meetings about to be held this month, I cannot re frain from giving yon a faint outline of the line of argument and of conduct our friends ought to pur sue. Above all I hope no wild scheme of republi canism, or democracy, or violent revolutions will be mixed up with this clear, great, and European ques tion, but that it may stand forward on its own broad basis of right and justice. I am, yours truly, BEAUMONT. P.S. Drop me a line to tell me what is going on, and say if you think parliament will meet before the usual time. THE LATE LIEUT. BELLOT. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1853. Vio Court. WINDSOR, OCT. 15. The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, walked in the grounds adjoining the Castle this morning. Ihe iimourable Eleanor Stanley and the Ilemourrkle Beatrice Et nq h ire succeeded the Honourable Mary Dulttel as Maids H•enoer in waiting to her Majesty. 1. .rd De T.bky has anis ed as Lord in Writing and Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey u Equerry to the Queen. Lieut.• Colonel Frencis Seymour has succeeded Lieut.- Colonel Honourable A. Gordon in waiting to Prince Albert. The Earl of Aberdeen d from London today aid had an audience of her Majesty Lady Caroline Barrington and the Honourable Mu. Grey hail the honour of dicing with her Majesty tacky. Ihe Queen's Pris.ste Band was iu attendance in the Cagle after dinner, and played the following 'election: aw~a•" Auber.. Duettu—. 4 Die lastgeaWeiber TOO Wit.thior" 0:to Nicola. March—. hulas of Athena" Berthosea. haste —" I Martha" Floww. V;aldertraiime Weiner OCT. 16. - The Q•reen and Prince, with the Prince of iVsies,ihe Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, the ladies and gentle men of the court, al.o the domestic household, atti nded divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Cut's. The Ron. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has arrived at tiawarden Carle, near Chester . The Turkish Minister transacted business at the Foreign on Saturday. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Friday even ing from Jamul:ling the Qut en from Scotland. ll spatches for the Governor of Gibraltar were sent off from the Colonial•ofce on Saturday evening. De.patchea were also sent to the Governors of the West lodia Colonies. THE CanlNET.—Since the Cabinet Council, held on Wednesday last, several of the Ministers have left Lon don, including the Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, Lord Gransilb , , Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Moles worth, and Mr. Sidney Herbert. The Duke of Argyll, Lord Lansdowne, and Mr. Gladstone remain absent from town, the last-named right hon. gentleman having, on leaving Manchester, proceeded to Ilawarden Castle, where he is staying with his family. Lord John Russell bad in tended to have left London early on Friday morning, but being !nightly indisposed, his lordship remained in town, and it is now expected that instead of the noble lord travel ling to Scotland, to join Lady John Russell and family, her ladyship will quit Itoseneath and proceed to London with her family, to join Lied John. The Duke of N e wcastle reached Loudon on Friday night. Lord Clarendon, Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, remains in town, and received a visit on Saturday at tke Foreign-office, from his Excellency the Turkish Minister. In the course of tin days a Privy Council will be held by her Majesty, for the purpose of settling the period of the further prorogation of parliament, which at present stands for the 27th of the present month. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.—The Hon. W. Stuart, now Second Psi I Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at Pans, is appointed Forst Paid Attache there. Mr. Odo Russel!, now Unpaid Attache to the Mission at Vienna, is appointed Second Paid Attache at Paris, in the room of Mr. Stuart. Mr. Frederic R. Nixon is appointed °antilop of Woods and Forests at the Mauritius. Mr. George Price is appointed a Member of Council, Jamaica.—Observer. THE LAWS FOIt THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN. The seventh report of the Associate Society for improving and enforcing the laws for the Protection of Women has just been published. It says: Several lawyers of cmsiderable eminence In their profes sion, have expres sed an opinion that the Act of Parliament, obtained by the society in 1849 (12 and 13 Vitt., c. 76), is likely to prove a much more efficient measure than was at first anticipated. They believe that it will reach a class of cases not contemplated when the act was passed ; and, for which no other adequate provision exists. The capabilities of the act in this particular will be tested as soon as a favourable opportunity may present itself ; and it is hoped that the opinion expressed above ma be found correct. The fullowing is a brief ou , line of two or three of the cases which have been investigated during the year: A respect able young woman advertised for a situation. In a few days she received a letter from Brussels, containing what appeared to he a most advantageous offer. The writer stated that he was about to start upon a three years' tour, and that he required a young person to act as companion to his wife, and governess to their two little children. She would be introduced to the best society, and would have an opportunity of acquiring a thorough knowledge of two or three continental languages. A very liberal salary was offered, but she would be required to pay all her own travelling and other expenses for the first three months The reason assigned for this was, that a short time previously he had paid the travelling expenses of' a young person front England to Naples, who,within a month of her arrival had married, and thus all the expense in curred on her account had been thrown away. He stated that arrangements had been made for commencing the pro , posed tour on a given day, and requested that, if Miss approved of the offer, she would proceed to Brussels at once, u he was satisfied from her advertisement, 'that site was in all respects exactly such a person as he required. He stated, in proof of his respectability, that both himself and his lady were presented to her Majesty a few years ago ; and that since then they bad been presented at almost every foreign court. Miss •-•—• and her friends were delighted with so tempt ing an offer, but thought it prudent to request from him • reference. A second letter was received, expressing sur prise, that a gentleman residing abroad should be exp. clod to give references t7persons in London, and containing an urgent request that Miss would join him immediatelj, as • single day's delay would put him to great trouble and expense. This letter was accompanied by an old and much-worn copy of the Court Journal, in which was an ac count of his presentation at Court. Other letters followed, if possible still more urgent, pointing out the best mode of conveyance and fixing the time, so that he might be able to meet her on her arrival. By means of the Court Journal some information was obtained which induced the friends of the young woman to prosecute their inquiries with in crusted vigour. To their great surprise they found that two other parties, unknown to each other, were making inquiries under circumstances precisely similar. Offers, agreeing in all respects with that described above, had been made to them, and they too were urged to proceed to Brussels with out delay. The committee determined, if possible, to put a stop to such iniquitous proceedings. They forwarded a statement of the whole case to the administrator of police at Brussels, and the indidual in question was compelled to leave forth with. There is 'good reason to believe that he has been carrying on his nefarious practices for a considerable period and with success. One case has been discovered in which a young woman, respectably connected, was prevailed upon to join him on the Continent, where she was speedily via timised of all the money she possessed, amounting to • con siderable sum ; but, happily, no worse cone qui nee' fol. lowed. It is hoped that, should he be still pursuing the same course, he may, ere lung, meet with the punishment he so richly deserves. The daughter of a tradesman in the City inserted an ad vertisement in the Times for • situation as assistant gover ness. On the same day she received an anonymous letter, purporting to come from a gentleman, desiring a personal interview. If she saw no objection to this she was to sig. nify her consent by another advertisement, and he would then appoint a time and place for a meeting. At the re quest of the parents it was resolved to try what could be done to get bold of the writer. An advertisement was in serted in the Times in accordance with his suggestion, and on the same day another letter was received by the young women, appointing an interview near Nelson's Column in Trafalgar-square, and Axing a sign by which he might be able to identify her, but giving no clue whatever as to any thing by which be could be recognised. Of course she did not keep this appointment. From the style in which the lettere were written they must have come from a person accustomed to move in a respecable sphere. But who he is it his been found impossible as yet to ascertain. A footman, who had been but a few days in hie situa tion, made indecent overtures to a fellow female servant. As these were promptly rejected he locked the door of the place, and commenced a violent assault upon her, and he would no doubt have succeeded in his execrable purpose, had not her screams brought some person to her help. The mas ter was immediately informed of what had occurred, but in stead of showing any sympathy towards the young woman, or investigating the matter, he peremptorily ordered her to leave the house and never enter it again. She obtained a summons evilest the man who had attempted her ruin,but on proceeding to the police court at the time appointed for hearing the charge, she found her master there before her, who premised her that, if she would let the matter drop, he would again receive her into his service; the footmen should be dismissed, and the whole affair should be fur . gotten She hod scarcely reached her master'e house, however, when to her great astonishment,:she was informed that her services would not be further required. She en deavoured to obtain another situation but without avail, as her master positively refused to give her a character, or to see any one on the subject, Her ease was reeommentlrd to the committee. She was found to be a well-conducted good servant; and through the judicious interference of the so ciety's officer, a character was given her. She obtained a situation and is doing well. [Why do not the society pub lish the name of this master, if they believe the sta•ement of this servant.] Two young women were prevailed upon, by a promise of lucrative employment, to accompany a person to Amster dam. On their arrival they were sold to a brothel-keeper. They dittoed to become prostitutes and were confined in some part of the premises, but contrived to make their deep, did a person to whom their case became known ob taine d for them a passage hack to England. The nflizers of the society took considerable trouble to discover the parties implicated in this transaction, but without success. Atten th re has been directed to other very similar cases, but fr-ns the extreme caution 'Wowed by persons thus engaged, sind the parsing of the society's act lb'. the punishment of teed' rs in prostitution, it hes been found impossible to obtain sulti dent evidence to justify au attempt to prosecute. lIINCKFORD AGRICULTURAL AND CONSERVATIVE CLUB. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AND THE TORIES. CANTLE MEDI:4OIIAM, SATURDAY, OCT. 15. The anniversary of this old conservative club was celebrated yesterday by • dinner at the Bell Inn, Castle Hediusibans,a small hamlet in North Essex, about nine miles from Braintree, lo , g the great rendezvous of the conservatives of the county, where the "Essex ten" were wont to meet to rejoice over the fact that both divisions of the county and every borough in it returned staunch pro tectionist. as their representatives to the Commons House of Parliament. Prior to the dinner ploughing matches took place in fields abutting upon the Sudbury-road, and prises were distributed to deserving labourers and servants. A% one of these illustrates in some degree the revel question of wages at present paid to agricul . oral labourers in this part of the ' kingdom, it is given here. "To the agricultural labourer of good character in the service of a subscriber, and not in the receipt of more i than 10s. per week, eactusive of harvest, who has subscribed the longest time to a medical club, 11." Mr. G. ROUND, of Colchester, presided at the dinner, and the attendance was numerous and respectable, although not so great as on many previous occasions. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were dru,k with the usual enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN, In proposing the toast of the evening, " Success to the Hinekiord Agricultural and Conservative Clnb," said that be took a sufficiently vivid interest in the ' affairs of the county and the boroughs within it to be able to utter a few 'caulks in reference to their present position, which was one of most extraordina:y novelty when com pared with that time last year. At that time Lout Derby was at the head of the government. (Cheers.) A strong and powerful and true hotly of conservatives were at the helm, and iPwas hoped and fondly believed that those reek. less sad ruinous courses which lied been adopted to the prejudice of agriculture would have been in some degree stemmed and averted. (Cheers.) But that had not been the case, and they now found themselves, the most power ful and important interest in the country, with a govern ment that had no sympathies with them, with every party, as it were, hostile to them, with war almost on our shores, and with a high price of corn, which they well knew was nei ther the result of men nor of polities. It had been most unjustly said by their opponents that much of the present scarcity of food was to be attributed to the course which had been adopted by the cultivators of the soil. Ile hurled back that assertion with disdain. lie hurled it back, on ht half of that club, with the most infinite disdain, because he believed that a more earnest, independent, industrious, body of men in the cultivation of the soil was not to be found than the men of the Ilinckford hundred. (Ap plause.) NotwithstanOing the lachrymose language which some might hold, he maintained that the time was approaching when their seer should he in the ascendant. Leaving, however, to able: hands to point out those political views of the horizon, which might be the most cheering, he was content that they went, never caring how the course of political events (much as they longed for the day when they should have a ministry which would with heart and hand support them) wero quietly pro gressing in the discharge of their social duties, with honour to themselves, credit to the country, and with a due regard to the interests of the labourer of the land. The labourer of the land upon these occasions was an individual that must nut he forgotten, he de served their steady and warm attachment and 'support, and it they gave it him they would have his labour in return. 'the day might come, however, and was perhaps not far distant , when they might want the bone and musee of this country for other purposes than those of agriculture, and then those who had spoken of the yeomen and labourers of England with disdain, and had looked upon them with contempt, would be glad to hail them as the bravest supporters of the independence of our native country. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with all toe honours. The Rev. J. Cox, M.A., of Feirstead, in acknowledging the toast, observed, after a passing allusion to matters of a personal and only local interest, that it would seem that the system of persecution to which they had been exposed at the lest election was only the beginning of a series of complicated affronts and persecutions which were to be adopted towards them by the whig radical party. They ware aware of the prose indignities to which his honourable friend Sir John Tyrrell and his right hon. friend, Mr. Beresford, had been subjected at the last election. (Hear) He hoped he should never see the like again, because he did say now, quietly leoking at it through the vista of one year, that it was disgraceful to all those who had been concerned in that business. No sooner, however, were the elections over, than the present Attorney-General moved for a committee to inquire into the conduct of Mr. Beresford with regard to certain pro ceedings at Derby. As that question yet remained to be tried before a legal tribunal, he would not enter further into it than to say, that in the whole history of party warfare, party persecution, and party spite, there never had been anything at all to be compared with the virulence with which his right hon. friend had been persecuted. (Loud cheers.) The question which the select committee of the House of Commons had to try was, " Is Mr. Beresford guilty, or is be not, of being concerned in the bribery which took place in the borough of Derby. That was the issue— was he guilty or was he inno cent. But what was the course taken by that whigoradical committee with a Peelite chairman ? They were obliged to fiud that his right hon. friend was totally exculpated from any share in bribery transactions at Derby ; yet they could not forego their itching palm ; and so great was their love to finger something which might be detrimental to the conservative party, and destructive to his right hon. Rated, that though they pronounced him " not guilty," they concluded their verdict with a most severe censure upon his conduct. (Cheers.) He said that such a proceeding was unheard of in the whole parliamentary history of this kingdom. (Cheers.) But that was not sof fLient. His right hon. friend was to be indicted as a criminal for entering into a conspiracy to bribe the people of Derby. As that, however, was an issue which yet re mained to be tried, he was precluded from saying anything upon it. Even that was not enough to satisfy the animosity of their political opponents, hut they must present • petition against the return of his hon. friends Mr. Du Cane and Mr. Miller for the bo rough of Malden. Now, though be had not been present, he knew some little about that election, for his advice had been asked with respect to it, and his advice was to contest that borough upon the purest possible principles, without bribery, treating, or corruption of any sort whatever. (Cheers.) They had read the evidence, and they might have thought when an Attorney-General gave 2s. Cid. for a rat of porter, that a man who gave a voter 6d. more than ' actual expenses might have been honourably acquitted ; t no : having persecuted them one might have imagined a to the very verge of persecution, they were not satisfied until an adverse c mmittee declared hie two hon. friends to have been guilty of corruption. (Cries of "Shame.") Every one who had inquired into the facts knew that that decision MBA diametrically opposed to the truth, for the commission which was appointed to inquire info the wwedinp at Malden, found that the greatest possible care had been taken by Mr. Miller and Da Cane that there should be no bribery whatever. (Hear, hear.) He had been asked why he opposed himself to • conservative ad ministration. What ! an administration that combined fur oo other purpose than to throw out a conservative adminis tration! (Hear, hear.) They were sailing under false colours, and he never would help to man a ship which didn't hoist her proper colours at' the mast-head. He hoped that none of them would fall into the trap laid by • govern ment calling itself • conservative administration. (Hese, hear.) He acknowledged that the conservative party were not in a very satisfactory condition at present, and no doubt they had been greatly injured by the decision which the country had come to on the subject of protection. He should be told that proteection was dead and buried long since, and that to attempt to exhume, it would be a sin. He avowed that at that moment he was as much a protectionist as ever. (Hear, hear.) Still, he did not tell them to agitate for protection. By no means. lie thought that it would be foolish and wicked to do so ; but he thought that they might fairly appeal to the prophecies of the free traders and of the conservative party respectively, to see which had been in the right. The free traders had told them that they should have peace, plenty, cheapness, and uniform prices. But, instead of plenty, we had free trade and famine. (Cheers.) Mr. Cobden said, if we bad free trade, we should have peace all over the world, because it would be the object of the Emperor of Hauer, who was the great lock-keeper of the Danube, to sell us his cern. In place of that, however, the Emperor said, "1 hold the keys of the granary of Europe : I'll do what I please, and you dare not touch me—if you do, I'll starve you." This it was which accounted for the vacillating and truckling conduct of our government on the Eastern question. (Cheers.) As to uniformity of prices, he defied any of them to recollect the time when , within six months, corn had risen 100 per cent. The fact was, that growing. wheat at 375. • quarter did not suit them. Instead of corn, therefore, they had sown clover and barley, and had put their land under a different course of husbandry. The consequence was that haring made ourselves dependent upon foreign countries for corn, it bad advanced at this moment to a most exor bitant price, and there was no security, except perhaps, the great influx of gold, that next year it would not be down to 37*. a quarter again. All their prophecies then of peace, plenty, and equality of prices, had either vanished or been falsified. (Cheers.) The conservatives on the other hand had prophecied that corn would be reduced to such a price that the British farmer could not grow it, and that there would be such a drain upon the Bank tepurchase fo reign corn as would very likely lead to • commercial panic. He contended that the prophecies of the free traders had been much more at fault thou those of the conservatives. But the . question arose, was the conservative party to be entirely ex 'anguished because they had been beaten:upon a fiscal duty on corn. (Cheers.) Their association had been established upon a conservative basis, ant their principles were " Fesr Om!, honour the king, stand fast by the protestant intitu tains of the country, take ears of the interests of farmers, labourers, and of all persons connected with the land." i Thew. principles must remain as long as the kingdom existed, and therefore to say that the conservative party was I annihilated, because it had been beaten upon a fiscal duty 1 on corn, was a monstrous absurdity. (Loud cheers.) On what photo, I then could they constitute , a reel conservative ' I party. Were there no principles on which they could rally. Ile knew the newspapers said that party was at an cud— the ir definition of " party " being the madness of the minty for the advautege of the few. Mr. Disraeli hail given a better definition of " party," namely, " the embodiment of i • principle." (Cheers.) lie knew that party was at au end with the present government, because they had no principle but were a mere combination of Peelites, whips, radicals, Pore's bands, and a variety of other little conglomerations, e imitating a knot of persons is parliament whose object was the destruction of toe conservative party. (Cheers ) Under these mecums:UM:lP, it was the duty of the coo -1 servatives to hold fast by their principles, and to jails with ti..ne of them, leaving them, whip.. radicals, Peelites, and all, to fall into the t. re:gilt's march " plated ley the Pope's brass band. (Loud curers and laughter.) The positi of the present gosernment was this, that they were bound hand and foot to the Pope, and without his sanction they dared not make a movement : witness the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, the Charitable Trusts Bill, and the humilia ting letter of the premier to Henry. Hensel!, Keogh, and Sadleir. They must erect, then, the conservative party upon the great platform of the protestant institu tions of this country. (Loud and prolonged cheer ing.) Any man who supported the present go. vernment should be looked upon as aiding end abetting in the overthrow of those protestant institutions. It was impossible fur him to tell with.. what party it might be their duty as loyal 'objects to form a Junction; but any government that had the smallest tincture of Peelism in it should have their most unmitigated opposition. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that the great body of protestant dis senters in this country would support Lord Derby's pro testant government, because the whole point at issue and the ground on which they should have to tight their battle would be protestantism or Roman catholicism. (Cheers.) Sir J. Graham had promised the country a large measure of reform. What directi on was it t o take .. Did :hey want pure constituenciea, free from bribery and intimidation ? Then let them raise the franchise, for it was in little petty boroughs and not in the counties that bribery took place. A live pound franshise would enfranchise the men who pelted t°.em at Braintree ' whilst the agricultural labourers would be disfranchised. Let them not goon tin kering and altering the franchise in that way; but, if there were to bee change, let them go the whole hog and have universal suffrage at once. (Cheers, and sours opposition.) That might seem strange from hint, but he said that uni versal suffrage was conservative compared with a 5/. fran• chile. (Cheers.) Ile spoke only his own views, bat he re peated that there was something imperial in universal suf frage. Look at France. Universal suffrage was imperial, but the 51. franchise was downright direct democracy. (Cheers.) lie should hold up his hand then for universal suffrage in preference to any whig-radical tnkering of the franchise. (Loud and continued cheerirg.) The Cuainstan called upon the meeting after the excel. lent speech they had just heard to drink a special toast to the Rev. John Ca.. The toast was drunk in a bumper. Mr. Asul'ubv MAJLNDIE, of the Castle, in a eulogistic speech, r ropi.sid the health I f the county members, and read the following characteristic letters from two of them. The first was from Sir J. Tvrell : " Rougham Hall, Oct. 9, 1843,-1 am sorry frankly to admit that I Cato ntither heart, spirit, nor courage to attend your meeting at Hiclingham on the 14th October. I fear that many friends will think I am neglecting them ; others, that I am inditfornt to what is passing in the county. Your meeting is conservative and agricultural, and I have a few words to say upon the subject. The con servative party is so completely demolished in the House of Commons as a party, that it must be re-formed before it can he a combined party. It I am asked what has brought about that state of things, my answer is, the perfidy and insincerity of conduct and action of many of that party who talked loudly on the hosting. of confidence in Lord Derby, and who were afterwards in the lobby of the enemy— defeating by their countenance the proceedings of the most strenuous of our leaders. Under these circumstances, our mural influence as a party has vanished. Undoubtedly I acted like the cabmen and struck work, and perhaps you may say abandoned ins Outy. I admit that lam too old to enter the lists, and I have seen too much of party conflicts to attack those in our own ranks who, though their motives may be sincere, have in my opinion acted a part inconsistent with their declarations, which excited cheers from the hustings, and caused extraordinary exertions to be made to secure their return to parliament. It is not impossible that we msy ere long, from the pretests sedative state of the party, be awskeaed by some attack upon our own protestant liberties, or by the din of war mainly brought about by the an'iquated imbecility of the head of the cabinet, whose known sympathy with the Orleans party has encouraged Russia to rely upon a division between England and France, which would at once leave Turkey at the disposal of Russia. This state of things would never have occurred had Lord Derby remained in office, and that is the penalty that England has to pay in supporting a go vernment bound by a combination of trading politicians— that is, of men whose great object was to be in office on any principles or at any price, and which is daily becoming ex plained to the public by he ,It4te of the Irish party. These gentlemen, it stems, have been tampered with by the un derlings of the Peel whi t [ party, putting into the shade, by their imperfections, the little imperfections of which Lord Derby's officials were accused. The only consolation of an alleviating character that is left fur us amidst the convul sion in the money market is, the prospect of bread and meat being Is. a mouthful. t cannot be said that that has been done by the noblemen and gentlemen of the counties for their own benefit. That is the only pull, in a selfish point of view, that we have. It is a deplorable state of things that we have a cabinet composed of statesmen with out a party, who are staking the very existence of the honour awl credit of the country and the nation upon the decisions and numbers of public meetings ; and ministers of the crown get on waggons and platforms in order to give their opinions weight at the next cabinet council. I sincerely wish well to the objects of your meeting. I cannot see my way in this crash of the conservative party, sod I know that the gentlemen of the Hedingham district understand the local but meritorious object of their meeting better than I do ; but, at the same time, I acknowledgo that I have neither heart nor courage to attend and speak my real opinion, of the causes that have brought about this internal confusion and break down of our party in the House of Commons. I admit it would bring such a hornet's nest about my ears, attended with no beneficial result, that I shall refrain from attending meetings, and content myself with floating upon the political surface, till some event takes place that may render it less disagreeable than it would be now, by coming in conflict with many of those with whom we have fought many a battle.—l am, _ _ _ (Signed) "J. T. TYRILL." The second was from Major Bercsford, and was as fol lows : " Hampton Court, Oct. 13. "You will oblige me by communicating to the members of the Hinckfoni Agricultural Association, that upon mature consideration, I have thought it advisable to abstain from attending the dinner at Castle Hedingham, on Friday. Till within a few weeks, it was my decided resolution to have taken advantage of their annual meeting to lay before them and the constituency of North Essex, a full and de tailed statement of the transactions connected with the Derby election, and the consequent inquiry, and to have vindicated myself from the unjust and malignant imputa tions which I have borne hitherto in silence, awaiting that opportunity to expose and refute them. A fresh persecution has been lately commenced against me. The whole matter has been opened afresh, end is to be brought to the issue of a trial. Such proceedings necessarily preclude me from entering into those explana tions which might be impolitic as far as I am individually concerned, but what must be unfair towards others whose cause has been mixed up with mine upon this occasion. It would not, therefore, become me to present myself at Castle Hedingham tongue-tied ; neither would it be justifi able to put forward a one-sided statement to prejudice the cue before it was fairly submitted to the tribunal by which it is to be investigated. Such is the reason which induces me, however distasteful it is to my own inclination, to ab sent myself to-morrow from the meeting. I trust that those to whom you will read this letter will patiently await the conclusion of those legal proceedings before they con demn unheard, or en the es parte assertions of malignant enemies, one whose unremitting exertions for six years in the cause of the agricultural and conservative interests, if overlooked by the party in whose service he has toiled, have not been forgotten by their opponents and his unre lenting persecutors. "I am, &e. (Signed) 11'n. BERESPOYD." The toast having been enthusiastically drank, ' Sir W. B. SMITH, M.P., returned thanks. He did not concur with Sir J. Fords in the hopelessness of the agricul tural cause. Indeed, were it ten times worse than it was, he should not be afraid to meet the agriculturists of the Hinckford hundred. With reference to his parliamentary conduct, he was proud to say that he had never given one vote against Lord Derby's government, nor one in favour of the present government. (Cheers.) Mr. G. SPERLING proposed the health., of Mr. C. Du Cane and Mr. J. T. Miller, the members for Malden, who bad been unseated on petition: Mr. MILLER acknowledged the compliment. Although the result had been sufficiently mortifying, it was gratify , log to know that they had not lost their seats on account lof any fault of their own, for his conscience told him that not one single act had they been guilty of which, if weighed by an impartial tribunal, would have deprived them of their seats. In the last session, 130 petitions had been presented against members, of which only 47 had been tried, the remainder having been disposed of by the agents in any manner they pleased. Attempts bad been mado to induce them to compromise their 'eats, but he and his colleague had invariably refused to accede to any compromise._ feeling in their conscience that they had gone into the House of Commons pure and unsullied, and resolved to keep their seats upon the same terms or take their chance of an adverse decision. Twenty three of the committees which bad sat, involving 39 sCars, bad been presided over by • liberal chairman. Of those 39 they had unseated 15 Conservatives, seated 15 Liberals ; unseated 5 Liberals and seated 4 Conservatives. That was a specimen of the justice which a Conserva tive might expect at the hands of a committee pre sided over by a Liberal. (Cheers.) In c: nclusion, he expressed his satisfaction that his conduct had met with the general approbation of his countrymen, and his regret at the absence of Mr. Du Cane (on whom he passed a warm eulogium), which was owing to the death of his brother, who had recently returned to this country after winning laurels at the Cape in hie profession as a soldier. The CHAIRMAN gave, " Lord J. Manners and Mr. Haw kins, the conservative members for Colchester." Mr. C. HAWKINSi responded. " The Yeomen of Essex," " the Chairman," " the Com mittee," " the Ladies," and other toasts followed, which protracted the proceedings until too late an hour to reach London the same night. REPRESENTATION OF SALISIIVRY.—On Saturday an address to the elector. n' this city was iwued by General Buckley, of New 1614 \VW*, in which he states that he has hem requested ay •• 4 I.rgc and influential body of the city " to offer himself as a e mdidate sGr its representation. The gallant general avows himself a decided advocate of progressive reform, ban st Av. that he will not be precluded from exercising his judgment oa any 52ezific measures that may be brought before parliament. TO THI EDITOR OP THI ZIPH.IB3. will doubtless gratify the numerous friends and admirers of the lamented Bellot to hear through the medium of your columns that Sir Roderick Murchison has consented to preside at a public meeting, to be called together for the purpose of expressing in a practical manner the deep regret felt in this country by all classes at the early loss of this noble French officer, who had already, years ago in the Eastern Seas, won for himself the name of eatni des Anglais," and who, by his devotion even in death, has fully proved his right to so endearing an epithet. I am, &c., NORTON SHAW. Royal Geographical Society, 3, Water!oo place, Oct. lb. THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. At a monthly meeting of the board of the above company, held at the Easton station, on Saturday, the 15th inst., the Mai quis of Chandoe was unani mously elected a director of the company, and subse quently as the chairman of the board of directors, which no, as heretofore, an unpaid office. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SunonoNe.—The following gentlemen were admitted members of the c, liege at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 14th instant : Messrs. James Hadaway, St. Nicholas, Isle of Thanet ; St. John Stanley, Shiffnal, ShrupAire ; Frank Powell, Chi- OPENING OF TILE PARANA AND URUGUAY. citcster, Sussex; George Augustus Fulcher, Finchley, -, • - . Middlesex; Charles Surges, Sidney-square, Mile-end; The free navigation of these important rivers, ' Ri chard Henry Thomas, 'Wade, Leicestershire. James until lately clused to European vessels, is now secured r Kavo y, Calcutta ; and George Edmund Smale, Plymouth. ; , Admitted r OD the 7th instant : — Messrs. Charles Yarwood, by three trs sties with three of the greatest maritime , Di,„,i ng h ata ; Edw a rd Gregg Noutt, &upon Eihert Carr states in the wor!d. The treaties arc of the same Brackenbury Hollawl, Bristol ; John Swift Walk, r, Shier tenor, those or England and Feline* hearing date San ' mesa ; Theodore Duke, Calcutta; Henry !.: 0 11 , sns c 11 , J• h , it tiautI t t i Jess , de Flores, July In, and being signed by Don Sal- i Australia; James . Hester, , O n g . forti v ;and c g vector M. de Cirri! and lion Bet polio Gorrostings, o Siiarke, Nurtt; ir bu , t i l o din n sr; I. 'i hut At t ;he some mee ti ngei TETE CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER ANT) THE John 'ells John son passed his examine on th e part of Crquiza, and M. de St. Georges on that : the SIT.R DVIY.—The duty on silk last year amountel! theto of 11. M. the Emperor of the French ; and by Sir ti f uniar co n u a r v t 'al su r geon : this gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the college, his diploma bearing date 22 2.9361. This was one of the duties brought before Charles Huth= on the part of het Britannic Majesty. July 14, 1841. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Manchester. THE REGISTRATIONS. NORTH WARWICKSHIRE. For the Birmingham district of North Warw:ei:- : shire, the Hun. F. PONSONSY ilprotql hie coLrt last Tues dab. There were 2,541 new claims, 276 objections by third parties, and 52 marginal objections by the overseen. The piny objections proceeded wholly from the eonu natives, the liberals taking none whatever this sear. E 1 cases of objection arose filial the fact that no numbers of the houses were Witched ; and the conserva tive agent went so far as to ask that one or two marbt in Consequence of such omission be struck off the list. Mr. Ponsonby would not do this, bit in ail the cases where the vote was established, refuted to adow costs. A ,treat number of the new claims were disallow e d, ou the cieund that the amount of property value conferred borough votes. Having no official return of the results, a rough est:mate is all we can furnish. There were, then, 500 objections taken by the tories, and of these tit/ woe w Ithdrawu, and lth) defeated. Regarding the 300 new clsitus on the !theist side, as n setoff fairly to be taken into aet ount in looking at the position occupied by each party . on the register. we rind that the total tory gain is about lnty. With the new claims on their side, which were sustained, they Mate that they consider themselves as bang garnets to the ex ent of something like 200 votes. However this may be, u.-yond all doubt many a good liberal vote has hem struck off on the lihcral Fide, through the non-attendance of most ut th:se objected to.—Abridged trom Birmingham' Journal. TIIE CHOLERA. (From the General Boari of Health, Oct. 15., 1I11: bIETIiOPOLIS. Mr. Hall, of tiiePooiLa.;:lioari, and Dr. Milroy from the General Board of Health, had interviews on Friday with the Board of Guardians of White chapel, and of St. George's-in-the-East. In both instances the board of guardians recog nising the necessity of carrying out with effiertsicy a thorough and systematic correction and abatement of whatever may be injurious to health and likely to engender disease, as far as their pow(' s under the existing order in council enable them t do, resolved to appoint their medical officers to act as sanitary . inspectors of their different distrieb , . The highly important and onerous (lath. e thus de-olved upon these gentlemen are altogether additional t.. and independent of their Libours, as inedica: attendants of the sick poor in ordinary times. Much puldic good can not fail to be effected by this step, as the possession of a medical certificate will materially strengthen the hands et Boards of Guardians in scion with regard to nuisances, wherever they exist, and the purifica tion of such of the dwellings of the poor as are in a filthy and unwholesome condition. _ It - is much to be desired, that not only a:1 the metropolitan parishes, but that every parish through out the kingdom should act on the same plan, viz., that of throwing the responsibility of a complete sanitary inspection and of a vigilant supervision of the public health of the respective districts oa the already existing staff of parochial officers. A death from cholera occurred on the 12th in Char lotte-court, White:chapel; the patient, 7 years of age, was collapsed when first seen by the medical atten dant, and survived only five hours afterwards. Another case occurred on the morning of the 14th in another part of the parish. Within the last two or three weeks there has been an increase of bowel complaints in one of the medical districts of Whitechapel, and also in parts of Saint George's in the East. NEWCASTLE•UPON-TYNE. llnants. Oct. 14—Cholera Diarrhoea The total number of deaths from cholera and diar rhee-A in Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,493. In the same period (viz., the first 44 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1f331-2, the number of deaths was 2.t53. The total number of new cases of diarrhoea disco vered by the various visitors in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, on the 13th inst., since the preceding day, w:s tKi, and 1 case approaching cholera. The number of deaths the same day was—cholera, 6; diarrhoea, 1. The total number of new cases discovered by the visitors during the house-to-house system of visita tion, from the commencement of the present epidemic in Newcastle, has been—diarrhoea, 4,169; approach ing cholera, 249; and cholera, 63 ; making the grand total discovered under this system, 4,484. DUNSE, N.B. Oct. 13.—Cholera 1 Mu.'2l:lH (BEDLINGION DISTRIVI). OL:. 11.—Cholera GATESHEAD UNION. 14.—Choleru GATESHEAD. Oct. 11.—Cholera GATESHEAD (HEIVOILTH DISTRICT). 14.—Cholera WARKWORTH. ' Five fatal cases of cholera have occurred here ; there have been seven or eight attacks, and great numbers of persons are labouring under premonitory diarrhoea. Additional medical assistants have been obtained from Newcastle. WALKER AND FELLING SHORE. Dr. Galin and Mr. Hunt, Poor-law Inspector of the ciisirict, met the board of guardians the evening of the LltIA: on inspection of the localities in which the deaths have occurred, the houses were found to be built into the sides of ballast hide, many of them constituting cellar dwellings in the complete acceptation of the term. The amount of refuse in a state of putrefactive decay, the damp walls of the houses, the wet surface of the streets, and the deficient water supply, are repre sented as rendering the locality of Felling Shore a most fitting nidus for the reception and development of cholera. BEDLINGTON. Dr. Gavin, after careful inspection of this place, is stated to have expressed a decided opinion that the local authorities might remove most of the nuisances from which the town chiefly suffers, by instituting arrangements for the removal by the public, at the public expense, daily or thrice weekly, of all the house refuse of the inhabitants. STOCKHOLM. The foiiowing is a summary of the cases of cholera, &c., which have occurred in Stockholm up to Octo ber 4, the 32nd day of the epidemic in that city : PICE3IONITORY SYMPTOMS. Under treatment from the preceding day 639 Taken ili during that period Recore red t4S Passed into real cholera 2 Still under treatment both classes FROM 'ME COMMENCEMENT OF TILE EPIDEMIC. Taken ill Recovered Passed into real cholera Remaining from the preceding day Taken ill during that period Passed from diarrhcca Recovered 2.1 Dead FROM TILE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EPIDEMIC. Taken ill Recovered Dead LLANLLLY RAILWAY AND DOCK COMPANY. On Saturday laat a special general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held a: the London !Cavern, ° for the purpese of approving of and authorising or other wise the taising additional capital for the purpose of the extension railway to Llandilo, and other purposes autho rised by the Elan(lly Railway and Dcck Act of 1853, by the issue if new shares, or substituted stares, or both, with such priehci.a or preferential or other dividend or interest as the said meeting shall think lat." Mr. JOHN DULI.H, who had been elected chairman of the company, presided. The SZCILETAILY read the fallowing report The act for authorising the extension of the railway to Llsndido re ceived ties royal assent on the 4th August last, and came into o;ree pursuant to a provision iu itself contained on the 31st of August. 13y this act the authorised share capital of the company is ruereased to 284,000/. As 200,0001. only arc at pressit existing, the company are now empowered to raise a further rum of 64,01)0' , .in plump, of %inch the sum 11.W.a. is to be in substitution shares and 50,0001. ,in new shares. Either or both of these classes of shares Mir be created and issued at that meeting, a ith such ipri;!.leges as the meeting shall thick tit, in shares of 251. each. 1: is now proposed that the directors shall be autho- I rhi .1 to 1,400 50s) substituted shares of 25/ rash. and 2,000 Inew shares of 25/. each, such shares to C lye preference of dieidena user the existing ordinary shares of the company lupto 5 sr e.ut. per annum, and to come :n rateably with such ordinary shares when the whole receive that or any greater rate of dividend. Under the arrangements made with :ZCS , T!. Peto and Bette, thete genth men have agreed to take st°) of the new shares, amounting t.) 12,5n01, upon the turas proposed. They will also take a simihr amount in ilet ntar.s bearing interest at 4 pr r cent. per annum, and witted tt - c company may issue at any time as soot, as the wuole cf the new shares are ausberih.d we. Messrs. l'eto and Betts stata that they are prepared to commence the con structica cf the line as soon as they can have possession of the len& the purchase of which the directors are now taking steps." Tne report was adopted unanimously. 9 'V 1