The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

b y --- Ig — dj r ibe t b • rib financiel reform emaciation have boen profitably studied by such as have leisure and patience to foil :w out the establishment of important truths by asstereatie induction from a multiplicity of det-ils. Tre bolder, more striking, more popular publications of the Liverpool association have roused a wider public. The rapid progress of associations f o r acquiring forty-shilling freeholds must have asteaisbed even the energetic and tangelos originator of the scheme, Mr. TAYLOR, of Birmingham. The Leedom sesociat on for promoting &Andel and reiiamentary reform has, by means of the district meetings it has held, and by re announeement of a great metropolitan meeting to b..• held in Drury-lase given an impels, throughout the whole Tut metro polis to the eau e of financial reform and dills exten ron of the forty-shilling franchise ; and what is of in fieitely more consequence, it has brought the alienated and nitcually distrustful reformers of the middle and working classes once more into frank and cordial co operation. Weat more is wanted? That the pulite engaged in them various movements in their respective locali ties, shall unite for concerted oetien. So long as each band panties apart its own peculiar object, in its own district, ministers and parliament feel no troublesome pressure. Our guerilla reformers are easily reWsti d in detail. It is only by union and concerted action that they eau hope to extort the concession of their desires from the reluctant holders of pnwer. So far from the objects which are aimed at by financial reformers, parliamentary reformere, and the parties aesocitted to acquire the forty shilling fran chise, being iocompatible. eech agitwion is a natural and necessary adjunct of the other. It is in vain for the financial reformer to look for the adoption of the measures he properee, or f.ir honest perseverance in them from parliament u at present constituted. It is in vain far the parliamentary reformer to seek to rouse the mason of English society to aid in his labours, unless he can show them s .me immediate and tangible benefit to be derived from pirlismentary reform. lone Bell. care. little fir the nice adjust ment of political eonwitutions in theory; he only asks how they wirk. It is by cheering the English people that, only throorh the ingrument silty of a reformed parliament, can they obtain reduction of natimial ex penditure, a more wiefol application of the public revenue, diminution of taxation, and a more equitable adjustment of the burden, that they are to b • roused t i sietive saclions f r par liamentary reform. Financial and parliamentary re form stand to each other in Vie necessary and insepa rable religion of the end and the mains. _ . And the extension of the forty shilling franchise is indispensable to the attainment of both. It is the sharp el s e of the wedge which must first be driven iv. The p opl must must have more friends in the parliament try garrison before they can bring it to surrender. And it is only by ircrearing the number of forty shilling freeholders that they can send their !nerds into the gives:in. It has been experimentally dem instratrd that a forty shilling freehold cm be obtained by investing 2.3/. at a fair interest. It hoe be •n experimentally demonstrated that working men, by laying wide a shilling or sixpence a-work, may, by 'sweating, make themselves forty shilling f *cholal. is iu the counts of two or three yeirs. By s caddy and prrerveringly working out the policy of the freehold land assoiiations the peo ple will be able, in the cisme of a very sheet time, to sent each a number of their real representatives into parliament se, with the ss.istancs of the pressure from without, and the diep lotion of rising public men to pay c ur to a growing power, will ensure the reform of the Howe of Commons, and with it a the roach reform of our financial spran. Union, combination, orgariut lin of financial and parliamentary r, formers an I perdu; associated to obtain the forty shilling tracelEse, is both possible and necessary. A @Alive n inther of districts have brrn rowed to admit of the work of the organisation being begun. There is ro time to bet. Psrliament is a b out to ti ratios'e its tess;un of make.beleve work —let the pt ple, awl the small but resolute phalanx of the pople's representatives, commence wit_owt delay ther session of real work. Mecum:re of floanetrl, frey-shilling freehold, and all other fermis associrionv, ought im nediatrly to be held in every town and district when any each moo elation ezi,te. At them meetings delegates ought to be appointed. to fetid a preliminary general meeting, on an eerie dty, in some &steel and easily aocerm:ble locality. At that general inceing • M 3 broil general principle, of interim co-operation should be agreed upon. A day and else, ehnold be fixed he • general meeting of deloottes from !tut reformers of all parte of the hit gd-sa. The resolutions and the time and Ore of enetaieg should forthwi h be inti mated to tare feeling lib •ral, thrsughout the country, and their a t.ve co-operati in invittd. And thus • general meeting of reform delegates might be en surtd pos« eyed of much an amount of informatiln respe,ting the rate of pohlic opiaian and sentiment as would render it easily pos-ihle to organise • national less t ue, and concert a plan of action for the extension of the forty shilling franchise, with • view to such a real pr 'client ream of parliament, as will more a tit rough reform in the netional finances. This is a p -ace tble, legal, and constitutional mode of prosteuting ref./ins from which the most timid and wary rebutter would have no excuse fur stand ing aloof. I e result most of necessity be so re.tl, that the mr.t decided theoraical reformer has no valid pret-at for superei:iously refusing his aid. The Reform L. rigut would be al sure of attaining its objects as toe Anti-Corn Law League was. And while the rod work was in progress the knowledge of the active existence of the le tgue would of itself be sufficient to ext at many minor reforms from the hands of men in power. We have a few mire Isst words to say about the Hospital of St. Cris ere th« session acmes. About six weeks ago the House of ('o:nmon■—on Mr. Hume's motion —addisee4, it will bs recollected, the Crown to issue a It lot Commission ti inquire into the nature and amour• of tie property of that institution, and to devise some scheme for its fn'ure administration with greater advantage to the public. Up to this time, however, no such commission has been issued ; and a report is now in circulation that none will be Wined ; but that other steps will be tak n for its improve nt. Instead of a commission, instrucions have, it is s'p'ed, b4-n Riven to the ArroavaT-Genanat. to file an lotalnation in the G urt of Chancery against the Master and Brethren of SP. Cro-s, for the purpose of aseertai ing the nature and value of its property and of devising a scheme for it. beter administration OD the demise of the Earl of GUILFORD. If this et ttement be corr. C', we must express a strong preference for a royal commission, and an un oonquerable dis!iks to a Coancery suit. We do not at all d .u'st the , aoy rich inst-uctions to the ATTOR PET-OaNtam. hare b• en given in perfectly good faith on the part of ministers; for they are really de sirous, we believe, of turning Sr. CROSS, on its vacancy. to rod account; and we are quite certain that Sir Jolts Jeans will do everything in his power to c Ivry out s, eedily and effectively his in structions : still we must press on all concerned the impolicy of proceeding in the neater through the agency of a court of equity. In the fist place, there is no necessity for doing so. There are no con tending clnens to reconcile; there is no dis puted or alienated property to recover; no old accenting to audit. 11.1 d the Bishop of WIN CHESTER, the patron of the hosnital, been averse to its improvement ; bad his lordship been resolved to appoint a new M lettr on the old terms on Lord Oututorto's demise, a resort to Chancery might be useful. But Dr. SUSINZIL, it is now an-rtained, will not oppose the cooversi,m of the how tvl to any really useful ourpos • coon cted with religion, charity, or edit( talon ; and he has pledged his episcopal word not to fill up the Mastership wh n i• becomes enlist. There is then an agreement on the part of all con cerned that a erheme for its improvement ought to be forthwith devised. Now, in the second place, a Chancery suit will l be a very effccual mode of daliying the adoption of such a sch-nee. An intonation e meet now be filed until the c •mmenerment of Michaelmas Term; then the nature and amount of the property will have to be aseertainet, the duties of the matter and brethren, sad pariculars as to the charity. These ascer tained a reference will have to be made to a Master of Chancery to deviae a scheme for its iroproyemen ; months will he spent in its considers'ion ; and the chances are, that a Yen if it be sanctioned by the court, at the end of some two or three years hence, a very imperfect *Acme will,be propounded. • Now, hr n e ICS of a royal commisaion, the whole subject might be inquired into in the muse of a few weeks; and, by the rc•eaembling of parliament, a measure fur the be:ter application of the revenues ‘f St. Cross might be riady prepared, to be introluced, and might be enacted before ma wicks of the session were over. Delay, expence, and an imperfect scheme, are cer tain to he the maul's of a Chancery suit. Expedition, economy, and a satisfactory plan of improverect, would be the probable consequences of a commission. Now that there is an universal assent to the principle of improvemeot, the only real difficulty m to what purpose shall the plan of improve slat be directed To chalky P—to religion ? ert teeductation? Oar own opinion incline strongly to the last mentioned object. The whole spirit of modern charitable institutions is founded on the voluntary princip'e, and is opposed to large endow ments. Charities surported by voluntary contribu tions are everywhete moat useful and sumessful; whilst endowed charities have, with few exceptions, degenerated into grime jobs, and, where they have not, their benefits are quits incommensurate to their means. The application of the funds of St. Croft to parochial purposes would involve their d's;ersion, and an exclusion from the r benefits or all who dissect from the church. We confess we think that funds of so noble an amount ought to be kept concentra'ed; and their fittest ap plication seems to us to be the foundation of an Uni versity, where it is mush wanted, in the west of England. There has, we know, been another scheme pro pounded ; viz., to assign the revenues of St. Cross to the future B shops of WINCHESTER, and to app'y the existing revenues of the See to parochial pur ples-a, in that diocese. particularly in its chief ecclesi astical eye sore, Southwark. But this is a very ob iectiongble prop - nisi. It would extinguish, instead of Improve, St. Crests ; it would exclude di. liters from any direct benefit to ba derived from its revenues ; it would give to the Bishops of WINCHESTER an income much grt &ter than they ought to possess ; and it would relieve them to a great ester t of the responsinility which the present state of the boriugh throws upon them. The condition of Southwark spiritually is still a disgrace t r the !Pe of Winchester. Thence it is that its bishops have derived the principal part of their great incomes; and there it is that vice, immorality, and paganism most prevail in the dioce e? From this cooties'. we have no desire to see the Bishop of WINCHESTER exonerated at the expense of St. Cross. They have wealth in abundance to enable the church 'Po fulfil its great mi-sien in Southwark. It is only their own devotion to " purple and fine linen" which =t t s the church b.coming all-powerful in the h. In conclusion, however, let us again press on minis ters the importioce of a royal commission on this quentien of St. Cramp. It is what the House of Com m ins addressed the crown for; it is what the real exigencies of the case require. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—Dstee from Vienna are to July 25. It may remembi rod that come days aeo it was announced that columns of the Ilungsnans had shown themselves in Jasb•reny and liere.. These, which were topsk•re of as a f •Ir stosgzlino hussars in ' , myth of t riser, now nen out to be the outpost. of a powerful Iluegerian emps leaning on the midtiL Tneiss, and thn.atenirg at the same time b,,th PdS kiewieb and lluynau. The scanty grains of informa tion which ma , h us do not permit us to ire to what event the activity of this Theis., corps has been pushed spinet th • Raglan lice. It m highly pro bable that the Ti cisi owes attacked the Ronan posts between Pestli a.id Edna, while Riidiger with the 3rd army eirps was in pursuit of Ciiirgey ; and that this mew d the move of Paskiewich from Aszxl to !Istvan. It is briefly possible that so ext• nded a line es that of the Russians should maintain itself un broken when ensiled by compact masses on both sides. We mar, therefore, exprc to hear of a hale in the neighbeirhor,d of Miskolc: between Giirgey and Saps, the result of which will, if faroerable to the former, cut Psskiewich off from his illician base. end make him concentrate his forces ahoer Pesth and Wait.. n, as Win lischgriez was compelled to do at the cod of last March. _ _ Despatches from General Grote nhelm, dated from Distrito on the 18.1 t, report an unimportant e ngsge ment, in which be professes to have beaten the Magyars. The importut fact announced by the Wiener Zei lung, of the 3rd Russian corps being at G3iingyiis dis poses immedia'cly of all the news in the Vienna pipora with re►p ct t 3 Risliger's movements in pur suit of Giirsey. The corps of Gen. Clam-Gsllu, which basing been filed at the Itothenthurm past is moving round through the Wallachian territory into the Tiimiish Pass to gain Cronstult, is de'cribed u Icing in the It-t state of dissrganfzetion from disease and want of clisciptioe. A thousand men tied in the camp at Czerae•z, and a great number of sick were left behind th-re. Two regimonts, the Dixon lagers and Banater Greour, have been nearly destroyed. The corps under General Nugent acting on the I)rave had come into conflict with the Magyars of Aulich at the villtge of Piqua. A battle of seve ral hoors te.minsted wtth the imperialists setting fire to the village, aod burning down 72 houses. General Hunan has hit upon an expedient for clothing his troops which is worthy of him. He issued on the 19. h a proclamation by which the Jew ish communities of Path and Alt-Olen are required to furnish within the space of six months equipments to th' amount of two millions of florins, as a punish ment for their friendly behaviour to the rebels. The following einnibal proclamation htus hi en pub lished by General Haynau: To THE ISIANITANTS OF 81713 k AND MTH. After ....metal vietorim, which the imperial arms have ob tain. d over those of the traitors, we are again among you. We bare again planted the imperial standard on your steepha But our feelings are far differtn. from what they were when we left you a short time agn. Doomed to death is every person, no matter of what rank er sea—doomed to instant des b, on the apt of the crime, is every one who dares to millet the canoe of the rebels, by words, or by deeds, or by revclutionary derv; doomed to instant death is every one who dares to insult any of my soldiers, or of those of our allies ; doomed to instant death is every one who enters into traitorous communication with the enemies of the crown, or who maliciously presumes by rummits to assist the rebellion or to conceal we +pons. Schmerlinct is said to have accepted the post of Minister of Justice. FRANKFORT.—The lettst intelligence is to Jule 27. The Ministry of the Empire has laid the fallowing financial etstement before the plenipotentiaries of the individual state., from which we give the leading re sults. If we except Electoral Hessis, Luxembourg, and Vechtentrein, all the lesser state@ have paid up their respective eontirgent contribution,. Among the greater states, Hanover has been the most punctual. The money still due, hit granted, to the central power amennts to 8,894,000 florins in round numbers. Austria owes alone nearly the half of thiasum,namely, 4,194,000 florins; Prussia, 1,800.000; Haver is, 1,296.000; Wtirtemburg, 149,000; Hanover, .52,000; and Saxony (which ns yet has paid nothing), 465,000 florins. The expenses for the central power, without including a national assembly, are estimated at nearly 39,000 florins a month. SWITZERLAND. The following inttlVgence comes, rill Germany, and appears in the Frankfort 0. P. A. Zeitung of the 27th in•t. BASLE, JULY 24.—The Auttrian Major-General Eberle passed through here, for Berne, as deputy of the German central power. It is asserted that his mission is concerning the German fugitives, and also the delivering up of Baden weapons, &c. BERNE, JULY 24.—The federal council has in• strueted the government of Thurgau not to accede to the dem Led of the li +den government of the lake district, consequently to delver up neither the wea -1 posts nor money. II AMBURG.—A corret pondent in this city, writes, cn the 27th inst. : " Commerce is reviving, in anti cipation of the raising of the blockade. Yesterday, 4 300 b►gs of coffee from floating cargoes were sold. Sugar, tea, and other colonial produce, spelter, and esti its other articles of expnrt, went off at better prices. The evening train from the north has n t yet (9 o'clock) er-ived : probably it is retarded by the number of troops to be conveyed." Tu QUEEN'S CARRIAGE arrived at LiTerrol testay, and w.Ls cut over to Dublin by the Rojal William steamer. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1849. A MAZZINI MEDAL. TO TIM ZDITOR OP TEI IXTIMS. Sla,—Mazzini has left Rome. Protected by a British passport, be has hitherto defied the burglarious hands of the French government—the ready pickers and stealers" of the inspired Oudioot: inspired "with the voice of God." upon the sweet faith and weeping testimony of lackey cardinals. For French gunpowder is now your racrificial o 4 our—your only myrrh and frankincense at the altar of St. Peter's. azzins is now in Switzerland. "A great pity"— thick certain ones who speak and write the Et.glish tongue—" a great pity that the arch-conspirator was not for once and all provided for ; pat to sleep with French lead in his breast." Tee English people think otherwise. The Eng lish people have watched with kindling adm ra tios the glorious growth of the man Mazzini, cc la,ged and ennobled by the most sublime of human motives. The heart of the Engl eh nation glowed at the manful digni'y, at the direct simplicity, straight is a javelin to its m rk, with which the triumvir met the Frenchman. Hew admirably did Mazzini tear to shreds the palitic sophistrits—ot approved French manufacture—of the stammering Lamps ; with the cold calmness of scorn puffing back the ambassador's fallacies in the p! niputential visage ! By the down right directoeis of purpose the Italian made the Frenchman nothing. It was the swoop of the eagle trussing the barn-door cock. However French lamb-shells have prevailed, and again the However, hat burns in Roman sunlight. And then the French have wormed Rome gently, kindly. They need philanthropic bayonets, and, in the name of freedom, carefully cut the throat of liberty. All, too, with such self-denying veneration for monuments of art; proclaiming a determination to repair, by Freniii hands, the devastation of French shot. Guido should be improved, and Raphael in misfortunebenefit by improving art, d la mode de Paris. Nothing more easy for FrenA genius. Were it possible for Fr, neh artillery to damage the planet Jupiter, French compliancy would squeak the name of Arago or Leverrier, and serenely promise to make the battered Jupiter a better planet—a much more jaunty Jupiter than before. It was not permitted to the people of England to give to the Romans aught but their sympathy and the it prayers. The sympathy was deep, the prayers wire fervent; and Mazzini with every new despatch grew in the national heart the statesman-hero of the struggle, the man who stold out from the cause with the severe serenity, tt e grind simplicity of early Rome. But Marshal Oulinot shelled the city . ; French metal prevailed: nor was it permitted to England by a single gun to gainsay it. Nevertheless, as I conceive, Eng'isbanen may yet mount metal in the cause of Roman freedom : most potent meta', the more potent that in the end it bht d 4 no blood, defaces no picture, shivers no statue. I mean the metal that enshrines opinion. I mean in this especial case, a medal struck in honour of the Roman cause, and as its noblest expositor and de fender, bearing the name or effigies of Joseph Mszzioi. Despotism, that for a time has crushed men only g' a li•tle lower than the angels"— flattery, tba..has /ea vered things on y a little high r than the ape—loot rapine—imp-rial faheho bd—all these have had their medals, immortalising lies: shamelea eouttt rfti.s, straok at nctigial mints. Let the English people a.rike their meda' in honour of human I:b.r y, and in symplthe with its suffering. It is the game of a car tam pmtv to preach and advocate the spat-y of Eng lie men towards the social and political emdition of the foreigner. " Good Englirdiman," gays the tory preacher, "Provolerce hes cast the sea about your I nd ; let y ur beset b' as insular as your courery. Fill your belly with beef, warm your krees be ere a eeaca.l fire; what have you t„) do with Hungarian or Roman ? You have your habeas cwirris and your House of Commons, at.d—in the name of Lord Aber di en—why trouble yourself will the foreigner ? Pay your taxes—sing ' God save the Queen'—and, above all—believe there be no livers out of Britain." But, somehow, the ENlishmen ceases to listen to this good counts]. He still likes his beef—finds comfort at his sea-eoal fire; but nevertheless has a restless yi art ing to know how that Mazzini bears himself in Rome; and hopes, with all his heart and all his soul, that Hem will give a maul ng hug to Brain. In conclusion, sir, I wool! propose that a cony mi tee should be formed to receive subscriptions, that a medal be strn k commemorative of English sympathy with the cruse of the Romans, and of ad miration of the charac'er and genius of Joseph Nlaz sini. Here to dwell upon details is needless. I would merely suggest that the medal be placed within the possession of the humbl, et subscriber. A few thousand Mazzini medalscirculating through out the continent would in due season, do more endur ing service to the cause of European liberty than as many thousand cannot, -b &snow slumbering (may their s'sep be eternal!) in the. Mecca of the Horse-guards, Woolwich an enal. I remain, sie, DOUGLAS JERROLD. West Lodge, Putney Common, July 30. Cbt Court. 0411ORNE, MoNo.tv.—Her Majesty and h's Royal Hisimiess Prince A inspected on Saturday the finished engraving, by Mr. Rial, of the royal christening in Bucking ham Palace, from the picure pain ed by C. R Lesli. , lb A., fur Windsor Castle. ts a eanspanion io the Hols Ss mount at her Majesty's Coronation in Westminster Abbey, which was submitted by Mr. Moon. PRIVY COUNCIL The Queen held a Privy Council and Conti at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at her Majesty's marine resi. dens, Oab , rne, Isle of Wight. The privy nouncil wan at tended by his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the Mar. qui, of Lansdowne. Lord President; the Earl of Mint., Lord Privy S , al; rd John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary .4 &ate for the Home Department; Vissount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Forelon Affairs ; Sir C. Wool, Chancellor of th' Exchequer; S r F. Baring, First Lord of the A !lethally ; Sir'. Rubbouse, President of the Board of Control for the Afftin of India; and the Earl Fortescue, Lord Steward. At the tunnel! the royal aural, on cluing the seseicn of parliament, was at. ranged and agreed upon. Mr Matthew Talloot Baines, First Commissioner of the Poor Law. was, by commend of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's most honoureble privy coun cil, and took his place at the board. Apr cams is,n was ordered to be issues for giving curreney to coins called du. rims. Another prod smstion was ordered to be leaned for a distribution of prigs money. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the clerk of the council in wai ing at the court. Sir David Dundas, Judge Alvocate General, bad an audience of the Queen, and submitted to h. r Majesty the proceedings of some courts martial. Licut•C•sl..nel Shril was presented to the Queen at an audience by Viscount Palmerst, n, G.C.B , her Majesty's principal S cretary of State for Foreign Al. fain. Her Majesty gave audience to the tdarvis of Lana downe. The nohlsmen and gentlemen attending the Queen's court trims lled to G mport by a special train on the London and South Western Railway, crossed in the Fire Queen steam-packet, landed at Osborne pier, and arrived at o,hlrne at a quarter before one o'eleck. After the council luncheon was served • and at three o'clock the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl oeMinto Sir George Gsey, Viscount Palmerston, Sir John Hotshot's", Earl Fortercue, Sir David Dundee, the Right Hon. M. T. B sines, the Hon. W. Bathurst, and Lt. Col. Steil, left Osborne, reemberked at Osborne-pier in Ithe Fire Queen, crossed to Go port, and returned to town on the London and Sloth Western Beltway by a special train, which arrived at the Waterloo bridge terminus at a quarter put six o'clock. The Chaticellor of the Exchequer and Sir Francis Baring left Osborne for Guernsey, and Lord Jelin Russell remained at ()alumni on a visit to her Msjssty. Her Royal Highnen the Duchess of Rent left town yesterday moroing for her r. 'ideate, FT0111120T• House, rear Windsor. Her Real H;ghnesi returned to Clan nee House, Bt. Jamie's, at halt poet six o'clock in the aternoon. Lady Anna Miele Dawson has relieved Lady Augusta Brune in the &vies as lady in waiting on her Royal Highness the Duel:eta of Kent. Despatches were remind yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governors of Hong Kong ,Ceylon, the Mani. this, and Gibraltar. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE IN AN ILLICIT SOAP MANV PACTORY.—Intorrovion Paving been communicated to the police that an extensive illicit amp menu actors was carried on in Dome premises situate No. 1, Orsnvill•-mews, Orte ga!, *Meet, St. PAACTSI Nemroad, at 12 o'clock on Sunday night, Inspector Penny, G. who is also an inlsod revenue officer, in campany with Mr. William Hardy, the supersPor of evil', and A strong party ef pr deeded thither for the purpose of aciaiog the property. Trey found an exten sive illicit soap menufaetory, with several large boilers weighing tins, iris of a ton each, lacing full of fat. a great number of mho, harrele, ears, moulds, soap lees, and tal'ow, and upstros t f 1,500115. weight of mottled soap, teprether wig variety oe fetter articles nerd in the marulactme of soap ; hut there was no person arively employed en the premises. On eraretting the hoses a great nunaher of hills and other d settments were illsc ivered, which went to show that the mAt • c'esitiv: traritsi times had been carried on in Landon and vicious parts of the country. INDEPENDENCE OF HUNGARY. GREAT MEETING IN MARYLEBONE. Lest night a public nit sting of the inhabitants of Marelehone and the neighbcuruig district was held at Hall's Riding School, Albany-strut, Regent's-park—Um great theatre in this borough for the expresern of popular demonstration—for the purveys of expressing sympathy with the oppressed Hungarians in their present struggle. Lord Dudley Bluer., M.P., filled the chair. The platform was ornamented with the English standards and the national ensign of Hungary, and amongst the mot tos++ exbibited we noticed "Kossuth sad Independence," " Dembinski and Victory," " Batthyany and Freedom," " Gorgey the Brave," "Bem tke Invincible," whilst Jell& °blob' , name was exhibited reversed and 'need. The CHAIRMAN, who was received with the most rap turons applause, s-A:1 he was delighted to preside over • altering of the men of Marylebone assembled to bear wit ness to their attachment to liberty, and to proclaim their sympathy with the oppressed, who were calmly, yet boldly, dallg themselves against their unjust oppressors. (Cheer) He had no doubt hut that the people of this great and enlightened country would speak out from one end to the other. The people of London had already proclaimed their feelings, and immediately afterwards the great, and i ',portent, and influential torough of Marylebone followed, and would not be outdone in the earnestness of the sympathy which they expressed. (Cheers.) Marylebone towed certainly only a portion of the metropolis, but the three parishes composing that borough formed together a city larger in population and In extent, superior in talents, and far superior in intelligence, to many of the capitals Si Europe. (Cheers.) They had assembled to express their sympathy with the gallant people of Hungary struggling against the attempts of the vilest despots. He rejoiced to say that sympathy with the cause was assum ing in that borough a practical shape. Sir B. Hall, his hon. colleague, who was only prevented being present by a severe attack of illness, had expressed his entire sympathy with their cause, and had contributed 101. (Cheers.) His hon. friend toe member for Someretshire bed contri buted U. Another friend, who refused to give his nerve, but Ind signed himself, " A Detester of Tyranny," had given a like sum. A lady, also, who described herself as an Eng lishwoman, had subscribed 51. Mr. Jonas Murray had given 101. And he had also to acknowledge a noble donation from • gentleman who " Did good by stealth, and blushed to find it fame," of 1001. (Loud and protracted cheering.) Judging from these subseri. tins et us readily pound in, he trusted that they should be able to afford to the brave pitriots of Hungary some important assistance. And against whim were the Hungarians fighting—who were the oppressogs of the Hungarians) Let them judge from • proclamation which he had seen that m ruing. Hainau, the Austrian enteral, on entering Frith, had bathed a proclamation con taining the following paragraph: " Doomed to death are all who take part with the Hungarians of whatever ageZof what * vet sex, who circulate any false rumours in belted of the rebels." (Groans and hisses.) It was not possible to con ceive anything more base, bloody-minded, or brutal than such a proclam.tion ; but he was happy to think that their rage was likely to prove impotent, because he bet eyed that the Hunger ens had not only beaten General Hainan, but every other geeeral who had been brought against them— (cheers). lie was sure the people of Marylebone would help those pliant fellows, that they would cheer their noble spirits, and afford them such moral support es it was in their power to give. (Cheers.) Before he eat down he wished to tell them one little anecdote about L .rd Palmerston, which was only of that day's date. The members of the government were to-day to have waited upon her majesty a' °thorns. Just as the train had started from the Waterloo station, op drove a carriage at full gallop, and in it was Lord Palmerston, who was too late for the train. His lord hip, however, hesitated not a moment, It was necessary far him to go to Osborne, and in an instant he jumped up upon an engine which was standing there with no carriages attached, and was whisked ell to 0-borne. (Cheers.) Now, he sal I, let Lord Palmerston ride on the ' engine of public opinion—let him rot stop for the first class. but let him take the advice of meetings such as that, and he would the., overtake and surpass all ether minim( rs, and would consult for the advantage of his own country, the wel fare o the Hung orient., to el the cause of independence all over the world. (Loud cheers.) Mr. HUM E, M P., then cause forward, and amidst the warmest approbation, proposed the first resolution. (As this, however, and the subsequent resolutions were preciecy wear in trims to those agreed to at the great meeting in the City, it is unnece ivory to repeat them upon this occuion.) Th, hcn. gentleman commenced by expressing the pleasure which he experienced in marking, by his presence at that meeting. his aporobioion of the gallant conduct of the Hun garians in struggling as they had done for the preservation of their natural rights and lob. tries. He believed that almost every mole in Hunger) had joined in this holy cauee, and the peep's. of England, whose ancestors haul gone tbrough similar trials, should be the first to render them their moral sympathy. (Cheers.) He did not belie vs that any ratio. so united as the Hungarians had shown themselves, could be overcome by whatever hord. a might be brought against them. The proclusaion to which his noble 1 friend had referred could have emanated from no one but the grossest barbarian, but it would only tend to nerve the aims and excite the spirits of the gallant Hungariass in their struggle for the ir 'therein. The hon. gentleman concluded by submitting the resoluti en to the meeting. Mr. JOHN CASSELL seconded the resolution, and s an inhabitant of Marylebone, expressed the delight he eapa rienced at seeing that large assembly convened to express their opinion of the unjust wa r whica had been waged by Austrie and Russia agaieet the prop!, of Hungary. )1,. M. MILNES, IL P., supported the resolution. What they particularly wanted in the present crisis, was the saanimous expr.seion of their sympathy with the Hunga rian, and the more they dirt red in other anatten the more voluble would be the ir unanimity in the prelate cause. (Cheers ) At the same time he assured the meeting that if he thought they bad ease mbled to interfere *Ph the proceedings of any other nation he should not have been with them that day, for he Ineko d upon it that con-intervention in the affairs of other nations was r. principle that should be always acted ea. (Cheers.) They haul met, however, not to inter fere with anybody, but to protest against the invasion of Hungary by Russia He had no objection to Russia so long as she remained at home; but he did assert 'hat this in tervention of Runk to noted to eisturb the balance of power and to &ecru the hide pendence of nations all over the world. (Cheers.) Aner a few words from M. Xt'czoit also in sapper of the resolution, pledging himself on behalf t f his Jewish brethren to assist the Hungarian cause, the resolution was carried unentanowelv tool notelet the utmost approbation. Sir DE LACY EVANS, 33.1' , came forward to propose the next monition. His appearance, however, was the signal of immense uproar. The noble Chairman interfered on his behalf, and after the lapse of soma time he was allowed to proceed. The bon. g-atleman said that he had fought and bled for the caste of hberty, sod he certainly was surprised teat they would not hear him now. Spain was at this moment an exempt. , of du beneficent results which had followed from the cause of which he had been en humble assivant. (Hear, hear.) Yes, freedom of de bate was now f ully establithed in Spain. Free dom of the pro as had also been vented ; and the very lest :act of the Come had been the ;oeing of • free trade mem thee. He must remind the meeting that we had bad our *elves on former occasions to tall for the en stance of foreign nations to sin in the attainment of our liberties, and he coxed not admit therefore that the principle of noe.intervea +inn was at all time a and on all occasions to be acted ulna. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, he did not stand there to advocate the going to war in support of Hungary ; but ha asserted without fear of contradiction that justice was with the Hungariacs, for when dad they ever hear of a station being so unanimous as they had been unless justice were on the ir side ? (Cheers) Justice being teen on their side, were not the people of England justified is ee l ruing their symoattiee with that gallant people, and, if nee I be, In doing something more to advance their cause ? (Loud cheers.) The gallant officer concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. HEADLAM, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously, and with acclamation. Coil. THOMPSON, M.P., proposed the 3rd resolution. He contended that 'be great principle which should govern cations, as it should govern inelisidnels, was to do unto others as we would he done by ; and if we saw a nation which h a d fallen amongst tide. s, sot to act the part of the priest or Levi's who passed by en the o her side, but to be the good Samaritan and to set it on our own beast. (Cheers and laughter.) They talked about non-intervention. Let them remember, however, that the judge interfered to restore property, but he did no* interfere until the thief interfered first. (Cheers.) Let England, then, be the judge in this ease, and not hesitate to interfere to take the thief by the throat. (Cheers.) He believed the government had the right feeling in this matter, but they were rather a slow trate. Mr. HETHERINGTON seconded the resolution in a speech of considerable ability, which met with a ready re sponse in the sympathies of the meeting, by whom it was cereied unanimously. Mr. J. WILLIAMS, M.P., proposed the fourth revolu tion. The hon. gentleman referred to the anecdote rela'ed by the noble chasms en of L rd Palmerton, and expressed a wish that we had a govern:nett of Lord Palmenton's, be lieving that, in the main. all his sympathies were with the rights and liberties of nations. Mr. WYLD, Id P., seconded the monition, and asserted that there were occasions on which an armed intervention was justifieel. Unless they were prepared to back up their words be deeds, where was the good of thole meeting In that hall ? (Hear, hear ) The resolution wee earrierl with acclamation, as was another proposed by Mr. Wormy, determining upon the adoption of a petition to both houses of parliament in consonance with the principles enunciated in the resolutions which had gone beeore. Mr. HARNEY advocatedthe propriety of England seudir g an armed force +owls' the Hung arises, and concluded en ener- Retie and forcible 'Mime. by expressing a determination to test the ethinion of the met ing, although it was not his in tention to move any amendment oo the resolutions that had been submitted. He actor Ugly called upon those who were in favour of an anted intervention to hold up their hands, when it app orei that the meeting was unanimous in support of the speaker's views, Alter a vote 0 , thanks to the chairman, and the due ac knowledgment of the co inpnment, the meeting, which bad bees chine erred by the utmost unanimity, separated at an advanced hour of the merino. LIEUT. WAIGTIORN.—Me hear from good authority the , Lt.nt. Thomas Waghoro, the e.khrat.d ovarian i voy ager to In iis, has been gr seed Den of 200/. mason= from the Royal Bounty Fund.—Uateed Stroke Gantt*. LAWS OF LUNACY. Last evening a public meeting was held, at Exeter ball, foe the purpose nr ob.aining en amendment of the law of lunacy. Celan Lie Ltranixotou, Efq , 111.? , occupied the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he attended there in compliance with the request of the com mittee of the alleged Lunatic's Friend Society, which request had been most respectably signed, by persons of every geode of political opinion. Though he was imperfectly acquainted with the details of the society, yet it was ennossible net to observe that the present law regarding lu nacy was exceedingly detective, and that too great a facility existed tor procuring medical certificates in the ease of apprehended or alleged lunacy. He also per ceived that when a person as. consigned to care, under the ' charge of being a 'lunatic be or she was denied the advan tage of eonsultieg any fr iends, or of haying the counsel of legal advisers. These were abuses which undoubtedly re quired to be remedied. (Hear.) Then he thought that the keepers and physicians of the establishments, however respectable they might be, possessed a power of abusieg their trust, and that that power was not sufficiently guarded against. He could not imagine anything so wretched and so horrible as that of a penen of a ner vous and anxious temperament, whose mind might be slightly affected by some domestic or affictive events, fi nding himself confined, separated from his friends and relatives, and compelled to associate in future with lunatics and persons incompetent to conduct their pri vate affairs. (" Meer," and cheers.) When he contem plated the mist ry of persons so immured, he confessed that he felt the deepest sympathy with such individuals. and he entertained the meet anxious hope that every possible exer tion should be used to prevent them from being made human sacrifices. He understoo? that there were no less than 30,000 lunatics in England and Wales, 5,000 of whom wets: private patients confined in private asylums. For the aggregate of 25,000 public provision was made, and he ! trusted that very little abuse occurred with regard to them; but he believed the object to which the attention of this so ciety was directed was, to provide a safeguard against the ' ill-treatment of the 5,000 persons in private asylums. Re feared that the supervision of these private asylums was neithet sufficiently attentive or energetic. Mr. Purnell, the chairman of the county of Gloucester, who had visite d several asylums in that county, bed discovered various abuses, and had explained many points upon which improvements were urgently required. Among other eases, Mr. Purnell men tioned that of a man who vas confined for many months, at the instigation of his own brothers, because those brothers wished to eejoy the property belonging to the alleged lunatic undisturbed and unmolested, without having to pro vide for the expenses of their unfortunate friend. That man bad since been released. He had since been married to a lady, from whom, by the machinations of his relatives, he had been temporarily separated ; and he was now perfectly clear as to his intellect, and in possession of that domestic happiness from which his unfeeling relatives had endeavoured to deprive him. (Loud cheers.) He (the Chairman), was happy to state that the Law Society had decided that the lunacy law was very capable of revision, and that that revision ought to be d out. One of the remarks they proposed was simple. It was this—that when an individual was placed in an asylum under the charge of lunacy, his property should not remain under the control of those persons who placed him under restraint, but that it should be entrusted to certain public officer., by which means all inducements to the improre• treatment of alleged lunatics would be contravened. He thought this an excellent ru'e, 11. serving the support of the society and of the public. (Cheers.) JOHN PERCIV AL, Etq., peopled the first resolution, as Leßow*: "That the present laws of lunacy are highly defective ; that, under these laws, persons may be secretly seized end con fined as lunatics, without arty opportunity of defending themselves, in a manner contrary to every principle of con stitutional freedom and judice and that acts of the ;modest aggression and cruelty have been, and are still, committed in lunatic asylums in consequence of the imperfect system adopted for superintendine the same." He stated that under the present lunacy laws any isms - in, who, by an act of eccer tricity or irregularity of conduct gave umbrage even to a stranger, might, under the certificate in many cases of oulv ore medical men, be torn at any hour of the day or night from It's home, without respect to his per eon or rrooerty, and confined in a lunatic asylum. Ile thought this a most objectionable state of the law, loudly calling for amendment and reform. lie then proceeded at some length to relate various instances of the oppression practised in private lunatic asylums ' referring to the secretary of the society es one of those gentlemen who bed for yesza been most unjustly confined as a lunatic, simply upon the ground that he was the first discoverer of atroes,eheric railw ys. LUKE J. HANSARD. Esq., grenade.' the resolution. Mr. MILLER supported it. He said he stood before the meeting as at, alleged lunatic ; and he proceeded to state the extraordinary circumstances under which he had been con fined. He bad some years ago connected himself with a re ligious denomination. which brought him into contact with a convened Jew. I)..flering upon some p lemiesl question, the Jew went out and introduced a doctor, who had a per centime upon all he sent to lunatic asylums, and who pronounced him insane. A keeper thi reupon entered and took possession of hie psrLur, and when he threatened to use the pok. rin ejecting him at 10 o'clock at r lila, the keeper called in a number of hie fellows and I,e was placed in a straight waitetat, and told to he " quiet " aa if such treatment write not sufficient to make any ease man med. (Hear, hear.) He was then compelled to sleep in the same room with the keeper, who shaved him, break fasted and dinedon the beet in the house, and rummaged all his drawers. The doctor before alluded to, ordered tim pills and leeches, and why, he refused to take the pills, he was informed that a ready instrument would be found to break lie jaw. His salic.tor at length released him from custody, and upon brineirg as scion against the doctor, he obtained a verdict of lOW. damages. Mr. BOLTON. after alludit g to and commenting upon Dr. Connollv's pas'phlet, in the cekbraed case of "Nottedge r. Ripley," moved the adoption of a petition to parliament, pray me for inquiry into the laws of lunacy, with a view to their reform. The petition was unanimously adopted, and the meeting sepsrated, after having passed the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman. ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOClETY.—Yesterday t►e general meeting for the annual election of annuitants took place at the Londo t Tavern, the Rev. W. H. Jones (the chaplain) pi...aiding, in the unavoidable absence of 11. Pawnsll, Esq. From a list of 8i candidates, two males and three females were elected, in addition to the 28 annuitants alr adv on the funds of the institution, which was established in 1827. TAILORS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—Yt gerday the annual general meeting of the members of this institu tion was bell in the Freesias ma' Tavern, Great Queeit street. J. Holt, Esq., in •he chair. The Secretary read the annual report, from which it appeared that the almshouses, situate at Haverstock Hill, and containtag 70 separate apart. omits, had now an infirm ry with wards ' bath rooms, &e., and ev.rything necessary for the accommodation of invalids. The present number of inmates amounts to 62, all of whom receive 81. per wt ek in addition to a cwt, of coals and ether ne-eesaries. The institution has so relieved since its come meneement, 98 pensioners, including 12 widows. The annual cost of the maintenance of these persons was about 2,0001. The permanent fund was now no less than 13.234/. invested with the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt. The report having been adopted and other routine business disposed of, the election of two additional pensioners was proceethd with. A vote of thanks was passed Ito the chairman and the meeting separated. _ SPITALFIELDS SCHOOL oP DEBlGN.—Yesterday afternoon the seventh annual meeting of the governors of this institution was held at Crosby Hall, Bishopagate-street, for the purpose of reporting the result of the examination and distributing the prizes to the successful candidates. The Earl of Granville presided, and was supported by Lord Claud Hamilton, M P., Lord Robert Grosvenor, AI P., the Right Hon. W. E Gladstone, M.P., and other gentle men. The noble chairman 'aid, in reference to the popu lation which the institution was meant to encourage, that it was a:ways remarkable for its peaceful and quiet conduct under affliction, loss, and privation of no ordinary nature A report which was read by the secretary spoke favourably of the conduct of the pupils during the past year, and of their progress in drawing and designing.—The noble chair man then proceeded to distribute the pyres for designs in gar ments, damask, painted pr cups of flowers, drawings in crayon, &c.—A vote of thanks to the chairman, the muter,, aid others was carried, and the meeting separated. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD A STEAMER.—Yester day morning, a singular, but unfortunately fatal, accident occurred on board the Kent, a steamer belonging to the Eastern Counties Roilwav Company, employed in curving passenger, from North Woolwich to Rob's Wharf. The Kent bad been laid up for tome months, and was just on the point of replacing the Essex, another steamer, on the same ferry. Yesterday morning, shortly after nine o'clock, the stoker, Thomis Bouchell, wu employed in cleansing the machinery, the steam being up at the time, but the en gites stopped. The cylinders were oscillating, and on step ping on the side of the cylinder ' liicuchell's weight set the engine in motion, and tho crank coming up at the time, unshed his chest against the framing of the curiae. The unfortunate man was immediately removed toe neighbour ing public-house, but he died almost immediately. He had only joined the steamer a few dap, and has left (at Strat ford) a widow and six children to lament his loss. STABBING BY A SOLDIER.—Last Tuesday Con siderable excitement was occasioned by a report that one Of the soldiers had stabbed his wife in such a manner that her life was in danger. It appears that the name of the offender is Wilson, and he is a private soldier in the 3rd regiment of Dragoon Guards. On the day abovoinentioned, Wilson's wife went into her room, and was shortly afterwards fol lowed by her husband, who asked her what she was doing there. She said she bad gone there to get oat of his way, upon which he rave her several kicks as she was lying on the bed. She then got up and sat upon the bed, and in a minute or two her husband went to her with something in his hang tied up in a handkerchief She immediately ex claimed that he had got a knife in his hand, and without farther delay he got hold of her, and stabbed hole in the bath upon the blade bone. A private soldier, named Sydney Wdliuss.was in the room at the time, and witnessed the whole of the transaction. Medics' aid was promptly pro cured, and the culprit was taken into custody, and was 111 brought before the magistrates on Wednesday; but tho cue was not fully gone into, as the woman was too severely wounded to appear in court. She has since so far recovered as to be out of all danger, an l therefore her husband Lea been admitted to h next Monday, when he Vial again be brought up.—Sneirscld YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING AT LEEDS. Yesterday (Monday) was the first day of the pre ceedings connected *ha the annual show of this society, which is this year held at Leeds With the exception of the trial of field implements, the whole of the proceedings are preliminary. At nine o'clock in the morning, the various land implements intended for trial were put into cperation in a field at Hirkstall, clue to the Leeds aid Brad ford R Malay ration. These operations will he con tinued this (Tuesday) morning. The show-yard is conveniently situated at the south side of Welliestrn , street, and close to this stations of the Leeds and Dewsbury, and Leeds and Think railways, and wi•hin a few hundred yards of the station ol the Midland railway. The right hon. the Rul of Carlisle, president, and the Earl of Hareao d, one of the v:co-yreeideets of the stciety, are expected to be p, 'sent on Tuesday and Wednoday, acd there is also a rumour that the Doke of Richmond will be present in Wednesday. Thesoute.l of the society meet to day (Tuesday) on private business, and to receive deputa tions Iron places inviting the soclety to met there in 1950, and at six o'clock in the evening the council, committee, &c., dine together in the Music RSA, after which there will be a dissuasion on the best mode of housing fatten ing cattle. The show-yard will be open all day, but tie great slit w, when the rock will be exhibited, does not take Aare till to-morrow (Wednesde) ). T4O society will cline together on Wednesday afternoon in the Stock Exchange Heil, Albion-street. As na as we can at present juigo, the dose promises to be first rate. Tee number of implements which were yesterday (Monday) placid in order in the show ground is Inge. The entries for cattle, sheep, and pigs are not yet published, I.nt we understand that the show of pigs wilt be the larpst ever axhihited in England, tie entries amounting to upwards of 400. RAILWAY MEETINGS. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. Ralf yearly Meting —Mr. J L. Rieman), M P , is the chair.— S ske.upon•Trint, July 30. The r..vet, which has beer. tar some days in the hands of the I, , areh..lders, and a summary of which has appearsd in the Epress, was read to Vac meeting by Mr. SAMVUA, the secretary. Atter some diseussion, the motion for the sidopt'on of the report was put and unanimously carrisd. A discussim ei sued on the subject of decre•sirg the number of directors, ultimately the mate, w, s left for the consideration cf tre board, and the retiring directors were rs•elected, as were alto the auditors. A resolution declsiing ft il:sldend of three sbil'ines pre share was adopte I, and tee mt, ling brake up at live o'clock after a Tule of thanks to the directors. EAST LANCASHIRE. May-yearly Meeting. —13 u, y, July 30. Mr. JOUN GRUNDY in the chair.—The rs.p , ,rt meted : • "Tar working expenses fo: the hilt-year are 391 per cent. upon the net receipts, sgaiect 43 per cent. for the previons half year.—The directors have olnerv-al with eatidaction a stem:) , mi nr. in the traffic reesipis. which have in creased from an average of 371. 80. 9d. per mile par week during the half-year ending Doc. 1848, is 401. 8e per mile per we k k y the past hell-year.—The Lot disposable ha ' lanee-36,7831. 15e. '2el.—a.ter the perFmet.t of divi dend on preference share% will be carried to the reserve el fond, a. heretofore. This ,wn mei san average profit of 231.22.91. a mile upon Cue average mileage open,while the former half-year shoo. 19/. lid. per mile. The working stock, since the opening of she Ormekirk line, has been found insufficient for the wants of the cowpony ; hence arises the heavy charge for drummer daring the half-year. The tie rectors were unwilling mat... Tinily to increase the 'trek, until the nettle arising upon the newly opene I portions of the line should iodinate the extent to which this should he done, snd the th scription of plant roost r. guisite. The required increase is now being made with every potent's despatch. The director., with a view to meeting any d preeidion of stock, b-yi.nd ordinary repairs, propose to lay aside in Isture from the Oct engines of •he tollsearli 1 0 4 an am runt as shill he fully adequate 4. r this purpose. As was announ ed in the 'ast re putt, it is itrended that, as the , railway is now virtually coripleted, the payment in terest out of capital shall he mailer erase. Dividend will air cording's., for the future, he naid out of the proceeds of the line. The rates for the relies of t e poor form a heavy tax upon the reelipte ; but the d rectors cut:rtain the hope that the elmbin,d efforts of railway eempeni• e will eventually result in parliament sanctioning a more equitable mode at assesamrut. in the meantim.., areal. have been m: de by the company against the assessments in the veer ue town ships through which the line peter a ; sr.d in the eases hitherto derided, a considerable reduction has been effected. The works en the Tithe Barn street extension, in Liverpool, are now in course of cantruclon by the Irsncashira and Yorkshire Ccm.mny ; and sheedy • large amount has hoes expended in the purchase of the required property. TOW comp toy c .ntribute, ace-hall of the ens', es In the ease of the priest line to the baraugle geol. Tee Tittle Barn-street ext. n ion is a cAttinuatian of the joint line, arid will afford station arcatrunodation in the immediate vielniry of the Liverpool Eschnige. The directors have satisfaction fa annouidino to the shareholders, that the application to par liament this s.osion ha. rest ted iu securing to the, co.npany he power of appointing their own mounts at the Preston station, and one-third of toe members of a joint committee of nine fur the guard manigensant and control of the ration. The ether six m•coliers of the enentnirtee ore to be appointed by the London and North-W. r ern and Lancashire and Yorkshire Comma'. e in ego's' prop. rams. The Lancaster Carrel sad Lancaster and Preston Railway has. ree ntly heeime the properl of the Lemmatise and Car lisle Railway Company; end, ti 'Were, cs all hope of m ewing the-c imperant feeders to your line is at en end, it will become neeeienry, at a fitting opportunity, to dive's of the sheers purvh-si din those uudartskings. Tho directors do not anticipate much leas from the transacti, n, at, if the shares were a .Id at the present market price., the lou to the company will nest exceed the sumo) 6.027/. The arrears tf calls in the general statement of the capital account, amount ing to 68,2801. 10,1., appear wonowled. large. The din cern have used their best endeavours to effect a reduction of the amount, without having re-c rune to compulsory measures; they have, however, cashiered it necessary to serve notice of forfeiture upon attain of the shareholders ; and a mu lution, corfirming such forfeiture, will he submitted to the extraordinary meeting to be held this day. The arrests of calls attaching to the shares proposed to be forfeited, amount to 20,6581 10. , which, added to the sum of 18,6461, re ceived since the 30th June, will reduce the arrears to the nett sum of 18.9771." The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts, which was agreed to unanimously. The Chairman next moved a dividend at the rate of five per cent. per annum for the half year upon the quarter shares created on the 30th July, 1847, and 0 , six per e• nt. en the preference shares coat, d M.y, 1818. The motion was carried. Th. meeting was then occupied until four o'clock in dis guising the queieion of Sunday travelling, a portion of the directors being against cheap travelling on a Sunday. On the mourn of Mr. FAUST it was agreed that tite com pany should run cheap tripe, regal:toil to times not later than leis-past nine in the morning, and not earlier than five in the e miog A motion was next pmposed appointing auditors, but it was not carried when our report left. FATAL AFFRAY WITH A SLAVER. the Mazer, which arrived at Portsmouth yes'erelay, brinus a re port, pick. d up at Sierra Leone, that the Inns of 11. M S. Alert had been engorged with a sheer, and that one lieute nant and five men were ki led. .-•- -- MELANCHOLY DF.ATII.—An inquest wee held a f ew a i ms ego at Devonport on the body of a young man named Scantlehury, late a blacksmith in her Majesty s dockyard, which war found on the mud Pear the Ssltash road. It appeared that the d. ceased and a companion, named Wonky, had been dr;nking at the Mileehoune inn, duel• g the latter part of the day, and had left thee place in company with two females, at about six o'clock. Ti es , then proceeded to the Camel's Head, when they had swami:leg more to drink, and the de ceased fll asleep. He WU at length aroused by his friends, and they all left the house on their way , to Norio. Town, a abort time before nine o'clock. Demas d «gain returned t the inn to get some cigars, and havirg jrned his friends, they all welted on as far se the fleet turf pike sate, when &tensed went down to the water side for the purorno of hashing. He called to Woraley to come down and bathe with him. Wortlry at length went down, and having undressed thensulv 6, they went into the water, and proceeded at once (Soantlehury leading the gray) to go thy .ugh the naafi archway landaus under the ro.d. The tide was ebbing at the time, which cues ed a great rash of water through the arch Worsley, p rceiving the cianger of their situation, sucree led, with same difficulty, in tracing his steps; hut the deceased had advanced too far, and was carried through the archway (which is only shout three feet wide, and between thirty and f arty lone), and thus lost his life. The jo-y returned a verdict "That the deceased was drowned anti tenuity, by some means unknown to the jury "—Detronoorf Indepenakr.t. EDINI3URGIT.—KNoE's H0t7q , ..-011DER FOR Dustottrtox —The following interlocutor wss pronounced by the D an of Guild on Thursday 2ft•h July, 1819 Having resumed consideration of this case, with the reclaim.. ing poi lens, Noe. 7 and 8 of process, with the answers thereto, refers the desire thereof, and adheres to the in terlocutor reclaimed against : further ordrns the defenders forthwith to take down and remove all those routs of the tenement comp'sined of, spa , ified in the report of 31st May lest, as being insecure, ruinous, and dangerous to the Inhabitants and other pewit s therein ; finds •he defenders in expenses and decerna.—Gro. WILSON, D.G."—G largo. Daily Mail. ACCIDENT BY FIRE ON THE EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN NA (LWAT —While the goods slain belonging to the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company was pro. seeding from Ferry P rt-on• Craig to the south on Thursday forenoon last week, and while alma' immediately opp,vite the farm of Preston Hall, a short distance ear'. from the Caper st,tion, it WWI di covered that a portion of the train I was in flames. This was two trucks of tow, which were nest to the engine. The train was ropped with all possible le deri:y, and the mu in charge of the engine had the two horning trucks separated from the others; and, leaving the 'latter in charge with the guard, conveyed the burning seeks to the station at Cupar. On arriving there the flames were v-ry to n subdued. The line was eau got clear Wine the One vol,. d for any of the passenger trains heleg due. The damage sustained was not very consider ! able, some three tons of the materi I only being Minted, and a part of r•ce to eks in which the tow was wrapped de stroyed.—blit.6urgli Earning Courant.