The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-29 00:00:00

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The Nei et ail Melees maier, me the quotation Me am new. The agent Wade le haft toe ONNollie. et idea emir themead Waft Yee Newel herb AWN the left yak at 400 a. Ita im MEL The sew el elber desees la 3 dele. to 4 Ocle. tie mimeeNed; 4 Alb. 71111. le 4 dela Slick he emote Mate Nil Wald Itassee; 4 le 4 dela Me. ice BINA& State mg pod Ream; 1 Me. te tioo kr pen Oneeee; 4 00a Dm kr Cy Flee le wiling at 4 Ma. le 4 deb. Ili& bee lee bream ewe% and is bele at 4 dela to 4 Ob. M. Rye Thar 2Ma the. Cote mug leas at 3 Ma. 130. is 3 del. Lk. OaAss.—Va wheat the enact a dalL Isksalleams at 114 to Me. (1 la bald at 10 to 1124..; Cowl" is 105 to Me. Fr Mly, Rye to deemed at 61 to Si a yet Ohba Patk7 helnia hi le Me. pre 4314.. Oats. 3$ to 40 0. pet head. ladies axe yi him supply, without much varied= la pia. Mixed Westerns at 64 to 63 e. ; det yellow, 651 1 6.; aed nand pekoe, OGc. pr 5610 e. Vamoimi.—We are male without any heyenvement to notice to *swim. Oktaa to laverpeol N taken at 1-lad. to 7.224.; Soar, p h id. to 100 6.1. • sera, AIL to id.; wheat, 4d. to 444 ; drew, Rs. ; to , pradekle. 61. ; beevy 004 79.. to 22 M. To toe. dos: tub tie. la Re.; Suez, fa ; naval mom to. 4d. to 2s. ; Imaoy M kle. To Havre oak" to ; dee, ym, tibia le 40Na; whelebtee, I 13. TORTION EXCHANGES. Zuhluage as Ladle MI a 110 la, a 1..2.,14 Do. 00 Wenn .--... • 111 . Do. co As ir ......... . *4 Do. es Mamba**. * ' 113 i SOUTH AMERICA. long revaida nadir the_ SpWsi yaks. A Frei•en steamer which reaced Maraca on the 214 f October, had offered its aid to repel say thr-stened invasion. A private letter from Vera Craz, dated the 16th of October, intimates the expectation of *trines troulics. ere long, in Mexico. Time are difßoultits in soar, of the straw, which are supposed to have their origin with the partisans of Santa Anna, who are moving " heaven and earth" to procure his return. The Meads of a monarchy are equally anxious to oda hlirh a Mexican throne ; and Et Universal, •hair organ at the espital, advocates the idea as one ab-o lutely essential to the pr arse and tracquiliits of who is now only a "burlesque republic.' The wile of (loners' Hernandez Governor of Vera Cruz, was recently buried, wan military bowers. General Vega bad resigned his command at Tam pico, in order to escape the necessity of obeying toe orders of the Governor St. Cardenas, who is repre sented to be both a brute ar d a tyrant. The weather at Vera Cruz was very bad, the ex cessive heat of the day being followed by nightly rains in large quantities. This reminds me that the natives and Americans in New Mexico have recently held a convention called together by the American commander, at which it h.or been resolved to form a rate, and et ek an rdm.es•on into the Union. The Californians had already taken similar steps. Both will be admitted with as lade delay as possible. Our New York correspondent writes : The ship Maria arrived in this port on Saturday from Rio Janeiro, with dates to toe 4th of Octob-r three is licks later than those previously received. We have Nl•aite gamin dates to the 15th of September, and Buenos Ayrean to the 11th. The chief commer• vial u. sea ie to the effect that the Brarillian coffee crop lea very alma one, and higher prices range accord ingly. 'She political as vs is highly important. A root naval expedition is in preparation at Buenos Apes, the object of which very rationally inferred is, so 'lurk on Brazil, a state of things long contem plated by those familiar with the difficulties attendiog the affairs al the Plate. The government had pinhead a Danish brig and an American schooner to ii.crrase their Stet. The relations of Monte Video aid Bnenoe Ayres continued to remain as they were, to pros.ese towards pacification having recently been male. The elections of tepee:mutative. to the Oaer.l Assembly in Brazil were going on in favour it the government, but accompanied in many places by the meet a.rocions assusimeions. Several distill- Basted nun bad MIA , . victims to political hatred. Among these were Cavaleanti, Carvalk , , and Dr. Chalou, who was killed as he was coming out of the Electoral College at Pushy*. The army of Paraguay maintained its position, and was da•ly rtoeiving reinforcements. It occupies the aissious of Commits, and the territories of Aguapey and Quirkier's. Colonel Horace, with a number of emigrants from Uruguay, had joined the Para ray en , riis force amounting to 600 men. Corrientes m also about to rise against eta governor, lied mean while Brazil Is supposed to favour secretly all these movements. The United States frigate Brandywine was at Rio, looking after American interests. The United States of the It.o de la Plata are certainly in a Terry unhappy condition. The following is a price earn ct of October 1, giving the state if the markets at RI,: ftru us JAIIIIRO, OCT. 1.-Impeirts fises the United Sure Lave been 12,617 ma. flint, 369 pesetas's domestics, 1211 or to .ea, 300 buses sperm esadles, 1,044 feet lumber, 1,909 bills. testa, 100 d o sitch, 230 beef, 170 ditto 5130 Ines pepper, 40 n chain, 7,124 lba. wax, 200 kegs kwa 1.3 d, awl esadries. Eros Trieste, 2,100 bbls rwar-The import being larger than could have been ex pected, se the new crop woe near at hand, importers were kis iw,ltn, so that the an nit on the 22tid lost. was reduced to 2,000 Lb.* in first hands. Richmond was sold at 16 dols. 1100 r.. to 17 dole. 600 re., and in retail at ; the firmer .as 1,500 bbls. Genera by • speculator, which had a &peening ad et. Baltimore sold at 16 Sob. to IS dils. GOO re. Authi ro, 16 Aga. to 16 dela. 200 IA Oaths 22nd the ant par r:else new Brandywine, per Maria, arrived, and es the 24th the lint Reebnioad (11exall), per Active. The bakers being well supplied, have kept out of market, sad sot • sale of sew has bees yet made ; over 16 dole. for the Brandy wine. and IS dole. tor Biennium', cannot be expected. Tee stork in tiro hands is 2,000 Ws. eta Richmond, 3.200 Bran dywine, 2 600 sew Richmond, 600 new Baltimore, and 1,600 old do.-Tuial, 10,000 bpi/. The prospect for the Sour trade is no [avowable, the prevailing pinion being that the im port volt be large, and in consequence of Um retail system amie will buy largely. Donates are excessively dull, sad ;Rein are qui.e nominal at our last quotations. Coin ; Tile demand for coffee from the 10th to 20th ultimo was very moderate, and the stock increased to sewn 160,000 begs, with every prospect of a considerable decline u, im the arrival of the English packet, as the &d -em a from Euraps nearly to tow time of sailing, were not elation , red quite so favourable. fibs uric, d on the 22nd, but contrary to all expectations, several purchasers appeared, and u;.wade of 60,000 asp were bought at rather sarest-d oriels, and since then the dealers are very firm at 3,650 t' 4,100 for superiors, 3,600 to 3,760 be good Mrs, and some will not even sell at nine rates. The steak is eattaisled at 90,000 bags, and the arrivals, sal moderate, thus maintains all the previous accounts of the itorvoes. of the ernp. Toe total export in September was 76,671 baps, of which 26,128 went to the United Steles. In S -pt. into!, 1848, the total export was 126,662, of eibizh 61,640 were to the United Btatm. The expert to the United SWAM, in 1649, has bees as follows : nt six ems =webs. July. ms._ Sept. TotaL nay '4l New Yak 150033 17,727 13,063 3,6.6 114,109 144.341 Baltimore Neva OT*4lll 64,031 3,175 - 9,406 96,404 103,965 1.111,,ge phis 14,734 3,661 11,354 1,640 30,391 36,064 listen - 4,299 - 19 331 38,60 i Charleaton - - - 2,900 2,900 13,766 I.sannere 906 - - -906 Total 301,323 31.871 45.1541 54,1211 422,1110 SANS Lou —The salts have bees eaten:aim all the small havlos bLeo VA tap at 130 n. to 166 n. to 160 n. The export t.. the United 5 atm has been 31,201. Freights have eoanaued Ten 4111,43 costs. having been taken for northern ports 01 Os U. 164 States by vessel. on &mirage. Those anew/sped ar. k-Id w• 60c., but there is very lit le offering. New Orisons, Etc Em.haace ruled at 26 d., with an op ine tenottny. It hoe suddenly advanced to 264 4 , and many h Id for 27 d. followiag is the last money market report : Eichang. on London, 264; dcubloon. 314000; Paris, ; d.diars, 14960 ; government stook, 88,69 ; provJusial,s3. PUBLIC COVP&WIIII. Paid la. Dcl'. Sold for. Dolo. Stenmer Peeks! l6 - .. 'WoeTim ..... ........ .. 100 Omnibus 100 Mast Pita lOO ....... 140 Cansierelsl Beak By the arrival of the steamer Ohio, in four days and tight hours from Havana, we have dates from that place to the 6'h of Novemb-r. She brought the egmune of Geo. Worth, Col. Duncan, and Major Gaines, all of them dietingn shed for their bravery and strvioes in the Mexican war. These are now lying in the State Arsenal in this city, and are to be paid military honaurs on Friday of this week. Among the passengers was Ctl. White, the officer who took oat a regiment to twist the Yueatecos in their war with lac - at. Pat, atd was the reputed leader of the et vet f•zp•dition some weeks agoaesem bled at ltnund bland. When it was known to the authorities of Havana that he was en board the Obio it effected their aeries very greatly. Had a bomb shell fallen on the governor's palace, h • could nct have been more alarmed. The captain of the port was ordered to ke.p watch on the steamer, end prevent Cut. White from goal on shore. A soldier and a spy in citizeu'is d•esa were placed on boat d, tot keep an eye on tam and oliative toe parties with whom be btld cummuniestinn. The reet of the passengers were• allored to go about unm , lested. Thn Americans in Cuba coufidently astcrt that the island will not MP. EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 29, 1849. //be Court. OSBORNE, Nov. 28. The Queen and his Royal Meiners the Prince Albert have taken their usual walks in the 'muds this day. Her Royal Highness the Prionits Royal and his Royal [Newts the Prins* Alfred arrived at Osborne yesterday, at a :Pao beam two o'clock, from Wasdcoc Castle. Their royal highnesses wen attandod by Miss Rildyard and Colonel the Ron. A. Gordon. There eraenc idaiii;.:io the royal dinner party last a. ht. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The Priory, Nev. 28, 1849. M The Queen Dowager pawed a similar night to the preceding en*, and her Majesty retrains I. the same state as yesterday. 0 DAVID DAVIN, 11. D." A cabinet council was held at half past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the ministers. The conceal sat one hour and a half. Mr. Birley and Mr. Morley, churchwardens of Manchester, had an interview with Lord John Russell yes terday, at his official residence, I. Downingsdreet The Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal), arrived in town on Tis sday night from Scotland. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colo nisl•orEce, from the Gov - mon of the West Jodie colonies. Despatches were also received yesterday. at the Colonial. dice, from the 33•17107 of Cape Coast Castle. NEW CABINET MINISTEIL—WO have mach Ves ture in sunouseing the seemeion of the Right Ron. Fox Miele, IM P , to a seat in the cabinet —Globe. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER has re ceived from X " the first halves of Bank of England notes for six.y pounds. CITY OF LONDON COMMITTEE OF HEALTH. Yesterday the City Board of Health aasembled at GniWhitt. Mr. BAHILIT in the chair. CALIFORNIA. Oar New York cmrespondeat writes as follows : The Empire City, which arrived in this city on Sunday morning from Cbagres, brought no arlt • million of gold dust, and also the mail from California that should have come by the Onio. With htr cam • a large number of passengers, and it is now a " fixed fact " that there is to be a crowd of travel rs con stantly oft the way going to and coming from Cali fornia. Them:mbar* even now exceed those tram.- ported by the Cunard line, and the repulsr esilina packets barrier' New York and Liverrol, and the amount of merchandise and gold is even greater. This may seem Ike sxaggeration, tut really it is the truth. Already there are 100,000 people in Ca,ifor nil ' • before the next six months are passed :brie will be 100,000 more. Let us see wny this be so. It appears by our advict s from Sao Francisco to the Ist of October, that the gold, so far from being exhausted, is only beginning to be discos?. red. Trinity river is the latest point of attraction. Gold has be. n found so abundantly that th. re is quite a rush tic re from the old plectra. Feather river has been elm st abtudoned in consequence. The labour of Indians at • comparatively cheap rate is the only inducement f the miners to continue at the latter Incslity. The _ . mountaineers country, washed by the Juba rii.r, con tinues very attractive. Nu less than 5,000 people er there constantly employed. An ounce a day is the usual average of each man's work under the elisad vantag.sof extreme heat and high water. At the middle fork the miner. were doing well. A party of four men obtained 6,000 dole. in e ight days. At Dry Creek the miners were still more successful. Six p-r -eons beloogieg to a Dr. Boyerot's e mpany gained in eight days, 8,000 dole., and the hard workers gath.red several ounces daily. Tte tributary streams of the San Joaquim are ascertained to b' extremely rich. A lamp of gold was found imbedded in rock in th • dig gings of Callaverns, weighing nearly 30 lbs. A per eon writes in refereLce to this, " I r m preprr.d to believe anythirg I hew about the gold in Calnernis." I could multiply these einem ere to a degree th.t would be tiresome to your readers. Let In-. add bet two more. Within three m leg a toe place where the first discovery of gold was met., eel vibe re it was suppnsed it was no longer to no u ,d, ad pi sit of the precious metal has been deeded equal in richness to anything in California. To-day it was my fortune to he present at the re ceipt and delivery ot about 84,000 d Mars in gold re ceived by the steamer. T e pereAs varied in sums from 7,000 doll •rs to 60 dollars, and many were addressed to hma'es. They were packed up to small boxes, leather purses, and mars, brown piper. 'lt was a curious sight. They are sun:. remitted by USW ads, brothers, sore, the prow, ds of veinier. mer cantile adventures, or the gatherings of the had merging children of necessity. The wind could not but be struck by this &trance innovation upon Ameriern business. Within a year a new world has been opened to American enterprise, a metal with which we are not very familiar has b come riiremely common, and almost every person you meet has re ceived iOlll6 of it from an ate q.t and adventurous friend, and carries it about his person. One thir g is very curicns. Toe Chinese are &Ire egly quite am fat of California wants. Houses &resent from Canton in con siderable numbers, grotesque enough. and as crooked in their timbers, as the most unsightly and ill ere.. n trees can make them ; and yet they ell leeway at 1,500 dole. each. A friend of mine, who almost built a shop for himself, and that at an expense ot 3,000 dole., writesme that he has sold i for 9.090 &Akin earl. To sum up the whole of this pert of our nesse briefly, it is enough to say that the population of California is rapidly increasing, .he amount of gold to be taken from the rivets and rocks is incalculahie, and the commerce connected with the country must be come immense. The convention for the formation of a constitution for California had been in session three weeks and had not entirely concluded its labours, though it was expected to adjourn early in the month of October. The constitution as proposed is chiefly borrowed from New York and lowa—from the earliest and Meet members of the confederacy. The only feature likely to excite any interest in England is that with regard to slavery, and it must be confessed that the decision of the convention so far has almost bordered on the ludicrous. Not only are slave s excluded from California, but free negro& The proposition, excluding them front settling there, passed in committee of the whole, and seemed to accord with the sense of the delegates. It was, however, feared, that the exclusion might jeopard the admission of the territory into the Union, and it was supposed it would be reconsidered and rejected. This idea of exclusion seemed to hit both slaveholders and abolitionists. It was like saying, a fig "on both your houses." And now, let me ask lin all gravity, why it is that the whites must every ' where be followed by this interminable question about colour ? The white Americans populate Cali fornia. By what right a plausibility of right do the negroes, not tow there, thrust themselves into a com munity, where they are not wanted, and their pre sence creates disunion and discontent ? What new code is this, by which black men have a right to go where they are not desired, and demand an equality of rights with people who do not desire their some ty, and to the acquisition of whose rightsthey have contributed r.o thing? I am nofriend of slavery, but why isthiseverlast ing subject of disc . rd to be kept alive by men and for men who are of no possible advantage to the com munities where these questions are agitated. The people of California do not want any blacks at all, free or enslaved. Can they not be permitted to say so? Why should a fractional interest be allowed to impair the general peoeperity of thousands P I cannot for the life of me see why the blacks, free or not, should be thrust on any population against their will. I should like to see the attempt made by a tribe of Patagonimis to be recognised by act of parliament as qualified English voters, when even Englishmen themselves are confined to certain limited qualifica tions. MARKETS. SAW Faartmwo, OCT. 1. —The flour market hu deelleml, and geed sad sweet Amato* lad Chile sour can be purchased at • alas bstow oar quotatioaa Mot, navy bread. end oases Nadu of bessabalb ay sail dull from torentatked market. Seer temfame dall of lab. walk • largo stock in band. Um sad am park anis &mad tad fko Moor rata. Sam and bum a palm grain ant is dimwit salasna Good broody la ad of mkt; is brls. of 15 to 1$ saltme, Inn at or uail= ; astansa arms aro selling at say low prams. issmadi taw gdoolgally ger pal collar, and la mall ri=sulalia Ow inaspeasisa to ths Wm. Ala sal pater is inn% eau as Ma et lagortaasa ism tuba gime dm am ha. Iltsaly. Mos If Ole dim" Ms Ilia lhom tee 111 hal data ansa oar lot spsttkisi• etas* osonaseked imiekettelimeeim ilirst amp la diamod —Salaam has advanced to 4 ads. I Ito 6 ask Os terevettebtemle. Leman. am—Amerkos }treat-Fria the saissaglisa d this ar tlsa ha banal asrposta prim aro arm tsevoral Muses him antsal Ikea Otagia and MINE par% tat lisoMaktat to we the its sand. tiagles sae am% sad Ml* wanted. We Um hard of • sale of am In lid• at al deb. is St deist per Ng. The arrival of a whale ddp has sepias. the media et am quotations. Mr cargo was taken tweedy fire exportalen. 'dive wands this mash tam the Atlantic and twelve porta have been eery ameereas, sad seeteeartly throw a large &monist of goods In the auks; which him less dimmed eat luw rates. THE OPPROBRIUM Or THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. —" The right of next and perpetual presentation to the Neo tory of Mansfield," in this county, with ► net annual incense of VW., was put up for sa'e last week at the Auction Mare, London, and k ,nt ke I down for 4,4505, a sum below tba amuck yr.c..—Brighion Guardian. SANDWICH ISLANDS. WP have, by the burn From the Sand wich Islands to the 27th of August. It appears that the French have taken very decided steps, in conse quent, ot a difficulty between the government and toe French Consul-General. The latter personage in- sis ed npin the nght of importing French brandies at ' reduced rates if dime., and the sale of rodent spirits to French whalers. The government, which is some what on the tear:eel plan, did not like to allow this, sod the American missionaries, who exercise a large influence there, were also opposed to the demands of the French. The Hawaiian government also objected, that the demands were contrary to the terms of the existing treaty, and effend to refer the whole matter to the cabinet of Louis Napoleon, or to the British Consul-General. Neither of these propositions were accepted. he following is the communic Won made to Mr. Dillon, signt d also by the admiral: Ahetraet of Domino, thie 22ua day of Anorak 1840. pre sented to the H govertastat by Adtalr..l Tromatlie cad the coma ot France: _ _ 1. The complom an.: total adoption of the treaty of 26th March, 1816, aa it reads is the French test. 2. The r. duction to 50 per cent. ad calories of the duty up. n bestial. e and spwitutue bquun ot French origin. 3. The sublectioo catholi schools to the direction of the chief of the French minds'', and to special inspectors, not pro.ntant, end a treatment rigorously equal, granted to the two worships and to their aohoole. 4. Toil nuoritin .1 the French language in haziness inne r:muse between French citizens and the Hawaiian depart men s fadministra 5. Ine withdrawal of the theeption affecting French whalers, importing c inn and 'pinta, and the aormation of the requisition which obliges ?semis laden with liquias to pay ann support the Custom-bouse officer placed en word to euperintesil time lading anti nub atm. 6. The return o - a 1 of the duties received in virus of the regulaions ot which the withdrawal is demanded by the Han paragrepn noised amity pr. coring. All these conclusions ought to be the object of resolutions of his Maj. sty, paused in hi. council, and are of urgency. 7. The re urn of the tine of 25 dole. paid be the French ehiu U. neral Tere, besides an indemnity of 60 .it a. for the time during which she was unjustly detained here. S The tees «.0 in the official j ottoal of the Hawaiian guveri.rnent of tne punishrn. at inflicted upon Vat elluOlere of the hieh school, whose mo.out cunduct gave motion to the complaints of M. A -be Caudell. 9. The removal ut the Cirvereor of Hawaii, who vi.lated, or bowed to he violated, the damicile of H. Abbe Marsh:d, sir th- order t at the potato..r make reparation fur the nine to the zni.aionsry, the one decision or toe other to be inserted k the official journao 10. The peymoot 'o • French citizen, proprietor of the Hotel of France, of the damages aeumitted in his house by breign saikri, against whom he Hawaiian aominntration hae not taken any thati. Toe undersigned giv- a delay of three days from this day, Aug. 22, 1849, to , Ii• Hawaiin ii.Wetnnient to make a Cate gorical reply to the demands above. Ou the ottault of this government making known its de. riven betve.n ttis eau Saturoay nest. the 25th August 1819, at 3 o'clock in the a.ternuou, the undersigned, Lire► ably to the formal laetrile ion, of t.-e French goeernmeat, will have to declare the tt.aty of 26th Marco, 1816, nub an i void, and repl ..-ed by the convention coutduded the 121 day of July, 1839. between the a met Caputo, Laplace, acting in th. na.ne .f the Lim of the Frenct., mu his Majesty Kemstismeha 111. Hadae toe two p atiee entering by right under the pro claim:is of that couvainuon, it will become 'he rule ot the reciprocal corduct to (dhow, and the Hawaiian government will be forced to es-cute it, in ail its extent, remaining atter that day ra possible fur any in ringement thereof whoa they may eozhealt. And in re a m( to the demands comprised in the pare graphs 7,8, 9 and 10 above, t under. sued th clan. that in case justice be not done, they will tra,loy the m-a. eat their disposal to obtain a complete re, 'ration, dechoing fur this case and from time present all the responsibility of the subsequent acts that may nipper. (Signed) LEGO/titUT Dil Dillon, Consul at France. Hoar A tonal, &c: We ap peni the treaey stipulation concerning " Arita. TI —Fteutbh vierehatadies er (eels ;visioned as coaling from the Preach dortaioss, shall hoe b. prehib,ted, nor shale they br ruhj.et to as import duty nigher than titre per cent. ad valorem Wales, oranei.e, and otter spirituous liquois. ere. however, excepted le in this stipulation, a, d snail he liable to tuchresomoble duty r the Ilawaiito ,„-overitment may think fit to lay upon them, prod-a al.a}s that the amount of duty rat. not be so high as Resolutely to prohibit the laden of the said artiolts. After these d minds were formally made, three days were allowed the government in chi sh to re turn their answer. Tte Kit g was absent, a d his advoers r. fused to comply with the demands. 1)1- rt c ly the admiral, with the assistance of a war ateauter, procieded to inn some marines and sailors, and captured tie fort wit - out opposition. The French flag was hoisted in platte of that of the coun try, the gaits wete spiked and thrown from the ram parts, the muuttione of war, and the public stores were also destroyed. The fort was held for three days by the invaders, who then retired uninoiest d to the r vessels. The royal yac . .t watt seized, macced with a prig • crew, and moo off to Valparais s when the admiral steered for Sin Francisco, at d hie consirt the steamer paddled off to Tatiiti. Mr. Whin is on his way home by the Isthmus. The British eusul general offered his mediation but it was cecl n while the 4ocrosa towns of the American warm maie a string protest. IRELAND. DVIBLIN, Nov. 28. The question of the registries is b, guar rig toe:cite the attention which it must command. The Evening Post of last night, in an article on the resslte of the Cork election, says:—" In the city of Dublin we find, by a return in one of the newspapers, that the regis tries in favour of the Writs were nine or ten to r ne. How it may be in the corporate towns we cannit se) precisely, but we are satisfied that most of them will change their members." The following paragraph which appeared in an obscure corner of Saunder s hews Letter Gf ye.terday will not fail to draw forth strong animadversions in the Irish press: Law RIDVCTIONS.—Sir John Emnilly, ti's Solicitor- General of England, was recently in Dublin on the subject of a bill to be presented en the opening of perliament for the abolition of the equity side of the C.•urtui Eschrquer, and the transference of all equity ben lame to the CUM' of Chan. cery. The amount of business in the Four Courts is sr less than some time ago, sullen pref, wing the cheaper ana more summary courts of the Avistant 13arrissers. It is quite true that the amount of business in the ' Four Courts is considerably diminished at present ; bat this arises from a suspension a business owir g to temporary cause., rather than a transferring of le.;al proceedings to other courts. It is a circums' since very well known to lesal men here, that, independent of the general depression, and of the operation of the Encumbered Estates Commission, there is an inter ruption produced in Chancery business by the Judg ments Act of last session, and a temp rary holding back in law-suits caused by the New Bankruptcy Act. The provincial journals continue to describe the stagnation in the trade of towns as being neatly as bed as daring the wont part of the late disastrous veers, while singularly enough the markets are well filled with agricultural produce idling at reasonable prices. The farmers pocket all the money they can, and purchase nothing that is not absolutely no on ion, and at the same time say they can neither pay their rent nor rates. In truth, the blight came not only on the potato, bat the whole land system of Ire land, which, as regards both landlord and tenant, has shown itself to have been full of the element, of decay and rottenness. A meeting, attended by Sir R. Kane, the Presi dent of the Queen's College ; Mr. Fagan, M.P. ; Chatterton ; the High Sheriff, and several other gentlemen of distinction, was held in Cork on Saturday for the purpose of establishing an agricul tural school of industry in Munster in connexion with the provincial college "by the formation of an agri cultural, batanical, and arboricultural garden, ann experimental farm, and also a museum of materials connected with these important subjects, so as to se cure to this locality the appropriation of the 5,0001., as set forth in the second section of the 11th and 12th Vic., shap. 115." The necessary steps to carry out the objects of the meeting were unanimously AND CLERICAL - - - CAMBRIDGE, Now. 28. —Caster's Coxieos —Subjects far Voluntary Classieal Examination, 1849.60: Platonis Themtetos, Aristophanis Pax, Cietronis Pro Carina Oratio, Eoratii Satire). MICHAELMAS TERM, 1849.—Subject for Latin Prose Essay: Aurigae's* an lentos, hurnano sieneri perniciosius. Latin Lyrics: Mamas caritas milli' divina poemata compuit. Any student may be a candidate who has not previorly obtained a similar prise. The may, must be tent in to any one of the tutors before the end of tau. NAVAL. ADIMULIT, NOY. 29.—APP0:111111111111.—TO Terrib/e.-- Chaplain: W. M. Dyne. Naval Instructor • C. Oshuarae. Carpenter: J. Bnewden. Powromorrit, Nor. 28. —The Cettetanto, 50, Capt. Cour ' tenany. sailed yerterday IS'Aaing for Deronport, to be I paid Off. REPORT PROM TO■ MODICA!. OFFICIO OP RIALTO. The CHAIRMAN stated that sines the committee had IRO assembled, Mr Simon, the medical officer of health, had made a report of the most important kind to the Commis goners of Sewers, and it was considered inexpedient to call a me-ting of the City arard of Healls pending the (Lica ri in of ite merits. Taal report, however, having been re ferred to a committee appointed by the commissioners, and copies of the report having been forwarded to the members of the corporation, there was no longer any occasion to delay the ceremony f assembling on general Weans. Mr. SIMON stated to the committee that the statement which he had made three works ago to the Commissioners of &were was intended for the Committee of Health es well as for the former body. He had made some additional re m•rks seising from subsequent occurrences, and ha would read them to the committee : TO THE HEALTH COMMITTZI OF THI COMMON COUNCIL OP 1111 CITY OF LONDON. Lancaster-place, Nov. 28, 1849. Gentlemen,—l have the honour of submitting to you the py of a statement which I laid before the commissioners of sewers three weeks ago, and which was frailest as a report to be made to your committee conjointly with that court. It eiseusees at considerable length the general sanitary affairs rat th • City, not only in regard to matters provided for in the .wen Act of parliament, but likewise in regard of other evils hitherto untouched by the law ; particularly I may men tion that, in accordance with your desire, I have awed my views on the subject of intramural burials ; and while I here considered myself restricted to the semi. tan Marines of this subject and to a general ote line of remedial mearures required, the City so liciror ha., I hellin ' matured for sour consideration the details of • plan for extramural 'stemmata. I Meet yen will concur en the opinion which guided me la the ems struction of my report, that is my uncertainty hew ease el the great sanitary reform might devolve on rue ewe te ao. cemplish, and how mach on another, it would be mast see. venie nt for those interested in the question that I should make my report a single one, te:erable to both jurisdictions, rather loan endeavour to divide a subject which naturally hangs together, and where the various parts contribute to ex plain and qualify each other. Having already reported to ion amply on the arrangements of the household visitation edopted under your auspices, and on the success of those ar range meats, it remains for me only to inform you that, according to your desire, the visitation ceased oa the 131 ultimo, having then continued in fora for a month. During that period of anxiety and alarm, upwards of 5.600 families were visited daily be the preventive medical staff; 2,4i3 eases of epidemic diar ekes were discovered and bioeght under treatment, cases differing in their severity, bat including a very large number of the severest deseripti n previously without medi cal tro ttment, and probably aggravate t by neglect ; 32 cases nnly terminated in choler,. In the height of the epidemic more than 200 eises of dierrhcce were discovered in a der, and nearly 480 cans were under treatment at • time. It will be obvious to your committee that these numbers refer to cases beyond the ordinary medical practice of the Ca., ; cases brought to light solely by the house boll visitation, haying previously been without me. tied treatmont ; and that they are in consequence exclusive of all came which bad made voluntary appreetions for medical assistance. The medical *fillers of the Ci•y unions, on whose valuable services have already ' more than once reported to piny committee, during all the period invited applications from the suffering poor by night es well as by day, letting it be thoroughly undentood that they were as accessible at one time as at another. Printed notices were diffused as extensively as possible among the poorer population of the City, and in cense quer en of this arrangement nocturnal applications for ether became very inquest. The same gent'. men likewiso sat plied all medlines and other means and appUst.c-s which the household visitation syn. dared necessary ; and thus, in addition to their sepsis tend-nee and aid in the visitation, and in addition, alto, to their habitual attendance at our medical committee in the Guildhall, incurred consilerable labour sod expense, which our committee no doubt would wish to be informe d oe and which I therefore take this opportunity of bringing under your notice. I must beg leave, gentlemen, to repeat, in the eronzest manner, my conviction that • very import ant ger Lee was rendered to the population of the City by the coone you thought it right to adopt in the matter of the household visitation. Not only were very many cases ef disease bra ught under medical treatment which otherwise, in all human probability, would have died for the want of it , but a general feeling of confidence and 1011201fative security was given to the public of the City by the knowledge of your exertions for their welfare. This desirable result was additionally promoted by the very iwticieus address which your committee caused to be °into lased in exponation of your proposed m• anwes, at the tires of the greatest panic and Manse. The cholera bevies ap parently passed for the present season, it becomes impera tively necessary that inquiry should be made, by what means the renewed visitation of so dreadful a plsgue may best be obviated. Experience has shown that when the patience is at our thresholds the time for preventien has passed ; but now, fresh from its awful pretense, and with the nee it knowledee of the misery which attended it, we are better qualified than under ordinary circumstances to reflect gene rally on the conditions which determine our Hell civic mortality and which render the City so accessible to epi demic diem.. These are the subjects on which I have entered at length in my annual report, and I therefore re frain from dwelling on them now. It will suffice that I should remind yes that cholera mast new be considered a disease of periodical recurrence here, that it is impossible to predict how long it may remain absent from oar shores, or with what modification of severity it may revisit them. Me dical science is quite incompetent to foretell whether the diva e may recur next year, or may wait a longer interval and give us ampler leisure for resistance, nor as we venture to decide whether. in the absence of sanitary im provements, it might not visit tee with a constant progression of frequency aid fierceness, and at last perhaps become, like typhus, the habitual desolator of the poor.; nor can I refrain from reminding you of another epidemic—the infi wouch stands in some mysterious connexion with the recent one, and which is at ones little less fatal than it, and far more frequent in its invaaions—against these diseases and equally against the unremitting plainest of typhus and scrofula, which fill our register of mortality with the record M so much premature death, the pre sent is the time to strive; therefore it is that I have considered the chess of the epidemic period an appropriate occasion for bringing under review the satire sanitary rela tions of the City as in the report which I submit to you ; end for the same reason I consider the opportunity alpenhorn ' ....plaints for the establishment of some permanent Board of Health within the City, which may habitually maintain under its consideration all the great questions of senisan lioprovements ; may watch over the public health during all per eels as vigilantly and effectually as your committee bee watched during the last three moatha ; and may be ready at the recurrence of any such calamitous period, Ito advise and to initiate all needful measures of Prevention and relief without the delay and the liability to conflict of jurisdictions which are almost insepa rable from extemp treasons arrangesni its. I hope, gentle• men, in conclusion ' that I may be permitted to express to you my own grat eful acknowledgments for the extreme kindness and courtesy with which you have been pleased to neat me during my temporary connexion with your com mittee, and which have rendered it no less a pleasure than en honour to me, that during this fearful and laborious period I have had the opportunity of co-operating to the extent ef my humble abilities with the humane and en ligh•ened exertions of the Health Committee of the Common Council —I have the boaour to be. etc , Joint Simon. Toe report WIN received with the strongest masks of sp. probation. SODDEN DEATH OF Ma. TURQIIAND. OFFICIAL ; Asst.:um.—Yesterday morning, about half-put eleven o'clock, Mr. Turquand, one of the official assignees in the Court of Mr. Cummissionir Shepherd, died suddenly. It appear. that he left home at Norwood in his usual health, and nn al uhting from the omnibus at the corner of Bircbin lane an I King William-stmt. he bit unwell, and went into a chemi.t's sbrp, and whilst waiting for a dose to be made up, he suddenly fell off the chair ; and although prompt assistance was rendered, he expired is a few minutes. Mr. Turquand had been ono of the Akita assignees since the act for their appointment came into operation, and by his death a third vacancy =AM und• r the new act—no vacancies b- log Mien up until the rtine,ec of official aseigneta is below right. Mr. Payne held an inquest on the body last ' night, and the einem' utters atte..ding . the learned gentle- T an's da " h havin, , ,een detailed, the jury returned a vet diet to the eff. et tr,at the melancholy event was occasioued by spasm et UV. heart. 6,618 RAILWAY MEETINGS. SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. SPECIAL MEETING. Yesterday a special general meeting of the pro prietors wes held at Nine Elms to determine on the propriety or otherwise of making appliestion to parlia-nrat in the su ssing session for an extension of the time for carrying out the provisions of the act for the exteneion of the lice from the Waterloo Terminus to London-bridge. The chair was takes at ors o'clock by Mr. Cmagusr, M.P. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, anted that In coosequenes of no official communication having been received from the secretary of the delegates who met to Palace Yard in t me to be included in the notice, that gun 'heriotr disaus not it i. den was not announad for diacuasion. It would be for the d y nt w s t to h ive e ie d b et e ll i i n d trud nor ' co d :ne ll ive e benefitof f c i z e ld eo be m d pin eri y ved bad . H be e m ple i dle b d ru h u i y m a se n l d f hesestly managed tram the commencement of the railway; sad the capital would not be reduced, nor the dividends ineressed, by the audit question. They must look to the further dent panne of traffic on the lines and it was with that view that he wished to introduce the question of the extension to London-bridge. The passenger fans could not at waiton souywitb patience ti b s e naced advised fa i r n e s a t o publicr ati n of ub d p: r . t i ts p e r u i g t; , . t h i e t; be lowered with advantage to the company ; aid they must em derive a great deal more from economy, ei her as re P cu ani uld . eluded their tfficiele or their labourers. The number of teaks could not be reduced without damaging the inter .lB.2thathisesetbaninflteywaretvoiassbousat, Nuns of the district. The only resource which he felt to be available was the merchandise traffic,. They could only be restored from their falling position by the merchandise trade. That trade was sot to be collected in the districts traversed: it could only be derived from • further development of the port and commerce of Southampton. It had occurred to him, after close corn ' pering, that the bulk of the merchandise traffic which they then derived from Southampton was attributable to the steam-ships and mail-packets; there was very little from trading vessels, and the trade altogether was at present merely nominal. Hitherto there bed been a want of co operation between the Railway Company and the Dock Company, and whenever a reduction of charges had been made by the former, an increase bad been effected either by the Dock Company, or by intermediate agencies, so tbat 'hey (the Railway Company) had not reaped the benefit expected. Now, arraugemems had been made with the Dock Company, in the appointment of a join: committee of management, possessing due authority to regulate the charges for tonnage, entries in'o tie port, manipulatioas is the dock, railway transit, and collection and deli very of goods, in order to secure, If possible, a develop ment of too merchandioe traffic of Southampton. Hitherto navies having vested interests in the docks had prevented any such arraugement from being carried out ; but from the et of January next new imports and exports would be in troduced, end every effort would be made to bring ships to the port and to ensure deep itch and economy. Such scope for increasing this branch of traffic had never before been presented to the company. As regarded the extension to London-bridge, he would observe that the company bad not hitherto commanded the fruit trade of the Levant and the Peninsula because of the loading and unloading at the Nine Elms, but it was thought that by this means they might succeed in attaining it. They felt—or rather he felt personally, for the directors did not saltlike the same view— (hoar, hear)—he felt that they would succeed. If the object could not be attained without going to London-bridge, it might be regretted two or three years hones that they had not gone there. (Cries of " Never.") The dinston taming pledged themselves not to mare without the share holders had been faithful to their promise. The laud might have been bought in Augu t lost had the directors chosen to take that course; but the directors had preferred taking the opinion of the shareholde rs before proceeding any farther. The powers having cost so much to obtain, they would cer tainly have been censurable had they not submitted to the proprietors the question of renews. (Hear, hear.) The hen. gentleman then entered into a comparison of the pas serine traffic with the merchandise traffic en the line from Havre to Paris, the former brine 3,0001., and the latter up words of 4,0001., although the railway ran parallel with a river. There was reason to hope that by • vigorous and united effort they would secure a great increase of their merchandise traffic. 'fhe meeting might think that it would be better to clone the aceounts--(oheers)—bet in voting against the renewal of the powers they would incur as much responsibility as rested on theme who took the same view as him., it', (Hear, hear.) Having thus explained his own views on the subject, he would leave the question in the hands of the proprietors. Mr. ASHMORE asked what would be the length of the extendoe. The CHAIRMAN—OIe rcile. Mr. ASHMORE asked, also, what was the estimated ex pence, including Plyt rr kind of outtay. The CHAIRMAN-610,0001. (Cries of " Oh, oh," laughter. and • voice, " A million and • halt.") Mr. ALEX. KAY, the chairman of • regent meeting of proprietors at Manchester, was glad to °burrs that the coairman had shrunk from the responsibility of himself pro posing a revolution in favour of applying to parlament. (Harr, hear.) The CHAIRMAN sail he had at all 'WWI not 'brook from publicly expressing his opinion. (Hear, hear.) As some of his nolleaccues differ.:d :rum him, he did not know bow he could with propriety prop so artsulutioa as chairman of the board. Mr. CHRISTIE said, that in order to raise the question, be had no objection to move that the necessarynotices loran agplies:itm to parliament should be given. (Hear, bear.) Mr. S I EEL seconded the motion. Mr. SNOW would remind hen. proprietors, that what they were then ea:led upon to decide, was not whe tiler they would go to London-hridge, but whether they would ask for power to do so her. after. As an original proprietor, holding by no means the least stake in the con cern, he felt that his prop rty might be thrown away if the powers granted by the legielature were suffered to lapse. Mr. A. KAY said he was prepared to accept the responsi bility of opposing the application to parliament—(. Hear," and cheers) —being convinced that it was impossible for them ever to derive any pr. fit from the proposed scheme, and the, on the contrary, it would, if d out, involve • large annual lest. In Jar., 1846, the chairman stated that the result of inquiries by the directors was, that the scheme ought to be persecuted. Nothing beyond general statements was then put forth. From the papers lodged in the Private Bill-office, itappeared that the line was to branch off in two directions near Loudon bridge. The estimated expense was 600,0001. On this occasion there was an entire departure from the ordinary course of proceeding. So much power was placed in the hands of the directors, that the rain log aloud', except by means of borrowing, was not provided for ; and the y had been told that dayby the chairman, that the asking of their permission was a favour. (Hear, hear.) There was an arrangement, he undentoad, between the di rectors and Mr. Alderman Humphery, by which the latter was to receive 140,0001. for a piece of land. (Hoar.) Mr. TITE rose to order. (Loud cries of "Kay, Kay," "Order, order.") The CHAIRMAN acid there was no such engagement. He knew nothing about 140,0001. (Hear, hear ) Mr. KAY said that by the act power was taken to buy 20 acne for a station. Such an embankment was to be placed against the river as the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the Corporation of London should direct, and they were to pay the paving rate in the parishes through which they went, and the church rates in St. Saviour's, Southwark. He put it to the meeting whether a bill involving such engagements ought not to be abandoned ? (Chows, and cries of " Kick it out.") For • long time the directors rested on their oars with regard to this question. The compulsory prices would, in fact, have expired last August but for the passing of a general set, which extended the prices for another year. In going to parliament for an improved immure last year the directors did not ask for an extension of time; a conclusive proof that at that period they did not intend to re-introduce the sutject. They were now asked to spend 3,0001. for • little time. The shareholders could not spare 3,000 pence. (Cheers.) Much as be admired Mr. Bircham's talents, be thought he had already had toe much of their money. (.. Hear, hear," and cheers.) No sane man would enter on this scheme : it was like the expedient of the gamester who naked his last penny. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman then read four tables, showing the capital already expended, the revenue received from extensions already opened. and what, in his estimation, would be the real cost of the extension to London-bridge. He maintained that the extensions already opened had not only proved valueless, but had caused an actual loge to the company. The following was the statement in reference to the expenses of the extension : " Much understated eoct'of one mile and a quarter from York-road to London-bridge, including area of 20 acres for station, 1,000,0001.; much understated annual charge in respect thereof, via., interest at 41 per cent., if the entire amount be borrowed, 46,0001. ; working expenses of 11 mile, via., le. 101 per train, for 26 trains per diem, J. 71. Bd-8691. 18e. 4d. ; expenses of station, clerks, pesters, rates, tae,, lighting, and mileage duties, 6,0001. ; much oversta ted annual income, via., 6,000 passengers per day, or 2,190,000 for the year, at an average of 2d. each, 18,2501. ; net profit on goods traffic, there being no charge for expenditure on this head, 12,0001., least probable amount of annual cost." Nuw the proprietors must tell the directo rs in a voice of thunder that they should not indulge their personal vanity by r;valling the monster folly of the Easton terminus. He was glad to seethe chairman looking so well. (Laughter.; He and** other directors would not have been able to ideal in their beds if they carried this scheme—it would rise befor them like a net;hunare. And even it they did net care for such a result themselves, they wer e bound to consider the interests of others. (Cheers.) He concluded by proposing the following amendment : " That it is at present inexpedient to apply to parliament for an extension of the powers of the London bridge Eaten. sion Act, 1846, it,being the opinion of this meeting that the capital accounts of the company should be closed without further delay: the liabilities of the company aseertaisod and stated by the directors in their next hall-yearly report; and that the further energies of the directors should be entirely devoted to developing the traffic sources of the company on its different lines and branches, and to introducing and en forcing the most rigid economy is every department of the cmapan) s works and 'Bain." Mr. WALKER seconded the amendment. Mr. Bede:int GAZELEE said that it this line were to go on, the shareholders would be in a sad predicament ; (or he had pledged himself that it the Ilse were made not e'en 211. Tit'ollid be charged ; but the public should be car,ied Feats The lee.noed serleant then quoted from • former speech cl the cloak man to justify this statement, frog.. which it ap ps,sengsrs would not be called up n t o t he" , sorb in g extra. eesre'l that the chairman had declared that 'a l e Southampton tie (3U. &siesta (J%ache) would this question on the Mud basis that be had no confidence in the e treaters Si • holy. (Cheers) Public men should be above suspicion. He wooed then ask the auditors whether any of the directors bad burrowed the company's money to pay up their own eats. at what rate of interest they had borrowed it, and whether a loan of 16,0001. had been granted on the security of a direct, r of another railway company, and was still unpaid? Mr. CLOSE, one of the auditors, replied that no money wan rimed., borrowed, though some of the directors, being in arrear for calk were debited in the books in the same way as other proprietors bad been. No money actually palsied to them. It was a mere debit of of cal's. The wedeors had complained to the directors, and the evil had been redr wed. Mr. BOERS, the other auditor, said ft was with pain that be found Mr. Close and hintselediffering with respect to this transaction. (Hear.) When they came to these amounts in the ledger they instantly saw that something highly improper had taken - place with regard to the finances of the company, mid they called upon Mr. Urielli, the chair men of the finance committee, for explanation. The trans actions ureic place long before Mr. Close and himself accepted office. Had they told the proprietors cot their dis covery, one result probably would have been a depression of the shares, and they thought it better, therefore, to remain quiet. (Hear.) Within four or five days from the time when the matter wee mentioned to the directors a large emnunt was paid, and the balance was newly wiped off before the next meeting of the proprietors. (liesr, hear.) There was one transaction still open ; it ought to have been eloped; and if any lois was sustained he thought the directors would be hound to make it good. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN said the documents relating to the nutter would be brought before the House of Peers by Lord Brougham. Mr. ROTES considered that the directors were greatly to blame. With rupee% to the transaction which he bad par ticularised they were most reprehensible. In reply toe question from Mr. BAKER, l'ir. CLOSE said that before the auditors celled attention to the subject no security was given by any of the directors. The CHAIRMAN thought be knew more of these tran sactions than the auditors and he believed that when his explanation had been hued the meeting would feel disposed rather to thank the directors than to blame them. (Laughter.) Ti. truth was that when the third shares were issued they were not subscribed for by the rublic. The dire Mon being desirous that no load should rest on the con cern asked themselves what was to be done with the unsub striped shares; and in order that they might appear bakes the proprietors with a clear breast, it was at length agreed that the remaining shares should he taken up by the dine ton and one or two of their private friends. The result was that 26 per cent. more was deposited as security than otherwise could have been deposited. Those who took the shares bound themselves not to negotiate them fur within five or six months ; he could not remember the precise pe riod. Lest the property of the proprietors should be de pressed by the issuing of them, they were locked up in the strong box. (Hear, bear.) The gentleman referred toss not being a proprietor bad lodged as security 25 per cent. more than the amount due from him. This was a plaia un varnished statement. Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE maintained that a board which could act in such a manner was utterly unworthy of confi dence. Instead of going to parliam..nt, they should weed the direction. and infuse new blood into it. (Cheers.) The amendment was then put and tarried, only four bands being held up against it, Mr. Tite being among the dis gentients. The effect of this decision was, of course, to negative the proposition to apply to parliament for an extension of time ; the extension scheme itself being thus virtually ebandoned. Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE then proceeded to propose the following resolution : " That the directors be requested not to attend the meet• ing of delegates in Palace yard, and that a petition be pro. seated to parliament in favour of a government audit." Lord MORLEY, a director, said it appeared to him that a very grave and serious charge having been made against the board, the meeting are bound to appoint a committee of inquiry Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE thought the meeting had better first discuss the Buell question. (Hear, hear.) He had re ceived from all parts of the country letters remonstrating against the conduct of the self-elected delegates who had met in Palace-yard. (Hear, hear) lie could not ade quately confess his sense of the indelicacy of dem promed ings. Thank God, the eyes of the country were open to the deeds of railway directors and parliamentary lawyers .—(eheers)—and they could no longer t e deceived by efforts to cast all the blame of the past on that unfortunate, and as he really believed, injured man, Mr. Hudson. (Great i laughter.) Another bole-anthcorner meeting was to take place on the 3rd of December, and it nu to that meeting that his resolution related. The resolution having been seconded, Mr. HELPS said, that even if the propositions of the delegates would afford a fair security, they would clearly never obtsin the sanction of public opinion in rasing the value of railway property in the market. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MOVES said his experience during the last twelve months, had convinced him that a government audit would not alone afford sufficient protection. (Bear, hear.) He MN nit in favour of such an audit. (Hear, hear.) At the same time he agreed with Mr. Serjeant Gaselee in respect to the proceedings in Palaee.yard. (Cheers.) It was simply la meetiug of directors, and the cloven foot crept out in nearly every proceeding. By one resolution it was provided that the auditors should report not to the share holders but to the directors. The effect of Oct er,thl , l he, that if the report were favourable to ate board it would be submitted to the proprietors; if unfavAiraole, it would be cushioned. (liter, bear.) The 6th resolution was unjust, the Bth simply ridiculous. His opinion was that the proper course was to ask mall anent for increased powers for the investigation of their own affairs. (Cheers.) He then proposed a series of resolutions; the first condo inning the bill agreed to at the Palace.? and meet ing . as not adapted to the end in view, and the next de claring that iu any act which might be passed, ample provision should be made to nable shareholders to make a biLoonzugeleehtthts medal; more minute investigation into their own affairs than had hitherto been precticeble. The other resolutions were in accordance with the foregoing. He concluded by urging the pro;riet ors to dismiss tram their minds the delusion, that if they h.d a government audit, they might go to sleep. They must exercise their rights with vigilance, er by and by they would have no property to ptotect. Mr. KAY observed that the resolution passed in Palace yard, provided that the accounts presented to half yearly meetings should be final. lie strongly otjected to any such provision. At a recent London and North Western meet ing the reports were issued, damp from the press, to the proprietors assembled. The principle involved in the reso lution was cooteary to that acted upon in all the great bank ing-house and mercantile firms of London. He believed that, in the house of which Mr. Glyn was a member, any error exceeding 1001. might be taken into consideration after the accounts had been passed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HALL, magistrate of Bow street, was decidedly in favour of • government audit, and equally in favour of con ferring increased powers on proprietor.. Mr. REED, (a director), was against this active inter ference of • government auditor, because it was founded on the very unsound principle of government meddling with private affairs. (Cries of " No, no," and "Hear, hear.") He would propose the following resolution . "That a committee be appointed to examine the queetion of audit, and to recommend in a report to the shareholders the plan they may deem b ist for procuring and establishing an effective audit, and also such measures as they may thick are essential to the protection of the interests of the share holders." Mr. TITE observed that when the capital account was closed, as it soon would be, all the auditing would have refer er.ce to two re three hundred thousand pounds of oo . Was it to he believed that such business-like men as their present auditors were incompetent to discharge that duty ? The CHAIRMAN had received • nearly equal number of letters fa and against the government audit. Mr. BIRC HAM, the company's solicitor, having been whoa to decl.re whether the audit question, not having been i included in the advertisement, any resolution on the subject would be legal, declared that no resolution tor practical purposes would be legal, but that it was open to the meeting I to make any expression of opinion. After some further discupsion, Mr. Serjesnt Oavelee's mo lotion was put, and the chairman declared it to have been lost. Mr. Reed's resolution was then carried uneniniously. Hovel, Mr. Baker, with power to add one to their number. Hall, zd f r o . llo s. wi r er i g es. ar t e ci t . ho oe n e a , m al es ,. '('he meeting was about to separate, when o t f , t ,c h k e e. co m m r m . i l l . . a p t . : me Mr .. . The CHAIRMAN reminded hon. proprietors that they had not yet appointed a committee to investigate tee charges investigation. ag am at t u b s e t o th ri e ,i d n ir a e to ct r or o . f , tad e ca c ll h ed ug u es po , n to M p r ro fi pm erim an nt the question, Toe CHAIRMAN put it to those present (many proprie . , - exhibiting an indisposition to entertein wished for investi inquiry. c m. i . el N e w d oh, :Yoh no.") The show i they of bands against meeting, take an opportunity of examining into the facts, and if necessary he would bring the question again under gWanT M ' i °hrne. or havingler j eo e tt a ila n g t ft(C:hhriensrooda'i' GAZELEE aid haswoet 1 d , before consideration. On the motion of Mr. HAY ' slate of thanks was given to the chairman foe the patience and good temper which he bad displayed on that mese ton. The CHAIRMAN, in repludig, said that it was his duty to manifest patience in the choir ; but he censinly felt that .) the proprietors had turned routed upon the directors rather op hardly. lore ter'f DREAD/1M FIRE AND LOSS OF DgE.—A cc.roner'w inqoiry wu opened at Bolton on Monday, before Mr. J. Taylor, concerning one et the most di.astrous fires that bee occurred in this neigishours um: for, many seam. Shortly mitre two o'clock on Sunday isontiog the premises of Mr. W. Saunders, tailor and draper, aiture in Dei:Neste, were discovered on fire. The ioinates °impel ed ID Saunders, his wife and sister, four children, and two dome cies ; and on the police aronsine thorn as to their perilous position Mr. Saunders rushed down the stairs and opened the front door, with a view of e ff ecting their immediate escape, but the flames had extended to the staircase head and prevented all chance of rescuing those who remained in he premises by the ordinary way. It should be stated that ehe sister of Mr. Saunders, with two e.ildren and a servant, had suc ceeded in rcachin tha street before the stairc.ise ignited. a i'' When the fire . ..as extinguished the rest of the inm ates were found in or e of the workrooms, appa rentl y dead from Buffo cation. They were remove d to a nemhbourie.g hail, when M.:s. Saunders and her dauebter M aria e IhiblVii strap o 7,;„Z-7-1,-, of returning animation. Restor atives were I ) , T , e iee.o4 in _ __,..... , ,- i : : 14, and tuey are likely to rec over. With ll"ai bay and o r :- . ' : te . ver, life had quite fled. The orir', o ma id n „, be i', ~, >tt welly ascErtaioed, and, in order.: t e at the fullest i n f o ,. . • ...e thei'D':iry WAS SlOATlmed tilt F . ''.'...'. • . ..:: Welt be chained , if. *--. ' 3 .. . - . 7- - - ' ' • C r • is ( y . .7•: : :'. ..-/, CC s: v/s ___-' C : ' 1 v I c 1 . . I . . '. ,1 1 i :. It i , . , 11, ,i • 1 1 p 1 , , I , i' l 1 I. i 1 ! , 1 1 1 I lf 1, 1