The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

TEE CHOLZRA. Beton et ewe of 'bolero reported to the (_zeal Ulla of Wadi yeseintly, August 15, 1849: Attacks, Warm ea vicinity, via.:- lets* Dersambly . 24 8 ilxberhithe dku:Awerk NewiLgton 43 21 as lietbusl•preen Sboretlizeh paler kcilitate is Lambs 2Ol 92 Teal in 125 In saglini and "anion:— Li.,./nwA ?.,112%r Tydfil l4 5 20 9 D 4 .6ia I:yer oath Nerve ntlwandir•Lyrne o:ber towns In England 164 73 Total 4 0 153 h ttemlend ; Pun lee o.lltr emu is Boatload lO 3 General total mtarsossn.—During the last fortnight, we regret to soda that J..aths teens the prevailing epid mie have, as in • L atios and its suburbs, been on the iaer , om. and net eon- I food to any particular district of the town, but scattered t blond la all direction: to en taunt sufficient to lead to the . opinion th certain cuLatitutiono, or persons of certain habits, am the no , st liable to fall viciims, rather thin the residents 1 certain IN:allies. The number of deaths rrgistered In thrtes: ad, from the 23rd alt, to the 9th Wet , have hews I Si, of which aumber 15 were iel abitmits of the town, 3 mates of the union-how, 3 tramps in the 11,tege (all mew , 1 119 of one family), 1 tramp in another part of the town, omen rtemls horn the Pool, in.! 1 steward from airmen locket. The tome ?hot the attack lasto, Iron% its commence oat to the death of the patient, I. uncertain ; as in the came , ohm enumerated one patient, a child bat six years of s e , mina but three hours ; whereas two ether patients lon- I ter sin days Atm the Asst appearance of to. diterte. a addition to these. we notelet to add the rarne of Mr. superintendent el the Bosherdlle Gardens. Mr. w„Nally had tees fer s day or two compl•ihng that he wss ▪ iiisja o oat of sorts," hut was not attacked wish decided i p o ppenros u :oil shoat 1l o'clock on Sunday night, when Be Hideo was called in, sad other &elegance was had, w., Were, the (Slowing day, but \u•-ices skill and medical ~,,pee were unavailing. and the unfortunate man eartood tail on Tuesday morning, leaving a widow. end a large wets of him:Ws, rained duffs' a period of four yeah, to lament hit Is. —Rochester Gazette. BitteruL —The returnee( peat. relay Indicate a mac . ' mire s ahronrable condition of all the dirtsiete of this city. The gement iouoil by the health commitem of the corporation piths poor lo se followo: -Dia:shwa, 11, appriachin s cholera, 6, e.hoieta, ; death', 14. The return oh pauper cases is inso Goes thetere, 7 ; Seethe, 4; blather* are many conv ict is private practice which am not incl,.ded in team* num b ro. In tha outpatirto of St. Philio and Jae h, the disease la Ime virulent and fest In im char cter. and althousk rtaxasull peer oils toe large extent, cholera +mild seem to be an the &Nine. The return for the last 24 hours lo &aria. 1 4 : *Stomaching tocholers, 8; eholrts, 2 ; e ith, 1. The total in Ono parish to the 13tii inst. have boo diorrheet, sproachirg to cholera, 411; cholera, 156; deaths, h 5. Lanoc—There were m.ny new caste of a w l., I n L im b yesenloy, tai a• th• di.-ate is :Ow s ; rralint the local wontities hove commenced reporting daily to the B .erg of e •ti. is Leaden the numb." , of curt returned to them. Teem 1., however, as indisposition on the part of ' , me of the (malty to make retain', oos the ground that the pub- Imo in dtlains bomb-rat-a the nomad of disease. Close yeetentay rimmed at Woodhons , „ Woodhow Carr, North:- snot, and other oasts of the to waship. • The tout number of deaths si .c. lost Baturdity morning in Leels is S. Eight member' of me family, of the nom •of Cuero, have died of the disease ; some of them had r,ided at Int Bank, ind others of them at Uolbeek, where myna deaths hive this week occurred. At Hurtle, where it was Doped the worst was past, the dieoase has grain made pro ret4, no fewer than 22 persons baring died of it sieve lint Sear* morning. At Morley, also, a monufactitring vil lage, 14 miles soule west of Leers, on the llulderstield road,l the dines is et re resale rt, and eight deaths occurred there is the early part of the week MAX( hiseltit.—Tne cholera, during the last few do's, to have been *lightly on the lowa'.. Oa Tuesday, re . L at S l iad, mother of the late Mr. 8. Sand, clerk to the Chorlion t card of guardi ins, who dial of cholera about a fortnight WO, died of this fell dims..., after a illness of 20 boo" at her reeklenee, in Welbukrtrect, Caortton- upon- Mrtkuk. . . WoLszuwAntrutr.—Since our lase, the eholigni, we re gret to state, has made its appearance in this town, end ns attache, frius the want of precaution and the character ef the lo:aiiiy in which they took piste, in 'he first four lesteaces insetted in the medical honits of the Wolvir bampt m district of the Poor-law Union. have t. uninvited fatally. The first victim was an Irishman, who had tome from Liverpool, sad who resided for two or three days io a state of alight isdiermitlon In the Romeo...ow. oe, u it is now generally named. Canal-street. After brier in the house in which he Ant lodged a nigh* or two, he went to another in the same neighberwhood, where the attack (which was doubtless in an incipient stage before his removal) became violent, and In • few hours was followed by (teeth. A man from Shrewsbury, who lodged in the tame neighbourhood, was afterwards attacked, sal with • fatal result. A child in the house where the first eels* as. caned also fell a victim; red another attack, with • like re- Wt, took place in a house neat door fro that in which the int loath occurred. Toe whole of the his... are within a few doors of each other; and the neighbourhood is one of the Wit densely popalst..t in the town, and lareeljthe resort d Irish immigrants. The number if attacks in Canal. street, up to Monday night, were eight, of which five have faded tinily. The attacks in other parts of the town have bees six. bat no death has yet occurred.-IVolrerhaesplon Chronicle. BRIDI.NORTII.—.ChoIera still lingers in this town. The Hoard of Health hold their meetings twine a.w.ek, and attire measures are in progress for the removal of all filth or ether matter which may land to encourage this awful @Mmes..— Woierrbawitifon CAromiele A TEIVWftEIt-sTORM Oeckered at Bangor on Thurs day last, which did much mischief to property, and was fatal to a lady named Avery. This North Wales Chronicle thus describes the catastrophe : The house skink by light ning was in the occupation of Mr. and Mrs. Afton, end is 'tutted en the lefts de of the high road to the Menai-bridge, pnweedini from Bangor. On the night preceding the storm it woo a neat and well-tarnished residence; when laming dawned it was a tattered and shattered building, al:celled, broken, and disjointed, roof split, walls furrowed, searedy a wiodow sash or apace left, from ground to upper stay, and, raving the kitchen, a heap of rubbish and mortar. The stream of lightning must have entered at the china my, and not unlikely, the roof likewise (at the back of which several slates have been displayed), break it through the chimney of the top room, which is a double bedded roam, one a four-posted canopied bedstead, with the head to the wall on the right side of the fire-place, the font reaching down almost to the room door, oppoolle to which is • plain bedstead without • roof, the head resting against the frost wall to the left of the window. In the ire or curtained bedstead, Mr. Avery and his wife retired is rest OA Wednesday night, in good health and spirite, lum ina made an excursion to Snowdon, in company wilt the lady's sister end brother, who occupied other apattmenes under the tame roof. It was between one end two o'clock, instaataaeously with the last and loudest peal, that the cur twat of electricity emote this house. On the right side of the chimney, in the room mentioned, imme diately behind the bedstead, and above the head-board, Is a deep semicircular rent in the wall, from which the lightning darted on to the bed, taking Mrs. Emery's ear dean 8. The unfortunate lady uttered no word or groan from that instant—she never asaved in fact, and the proba bility is that her case was instanione death from concussion of the brain. No other marks of violence are discernable on her person, but some time after death, the left shouldet bleekkied. Mr. Emery was slightly scorched on one leg, and his shirt was set um to ; but the kaoor gentleman has re vived el dreadful • alto& that has recovery is doubtful. From this apartment the lightning appears to hove paned into the aeljoining chamber, occupied by Miss Beach, sister to the deceased lady. This lady's tempo wee miraculous. FIRE.; IN CA3InRIDGESHIRE.—AbOut midnight on Monday last, the ixtensive farm premises of Mr. Simeon Sell, of Beminalsolara, were discovered to ha on fire, nearly the whole e f which were soon levelled to the ground; for tunately there was no grain of all kind in the barns. The horse. and ether cattle were got out in time to be saved, with the a xesptie a of • calf, which was burnt to a cinder. The Bassinghourn engine, which is • very powerful One , was at play in Rawl time to save several cottages, which mutt otherwise have fallen • eacrifiee.—On Tuesday, the extensive premises of Mr. 8. Slott, eons and seed merchant of that place, were found to be on tire, and the whole of them, excepting the house, were destroyed, in addition to six fat hop, shout 300 quarters of seed, and perhaps as much men 31 , 0 sacks of the mod were dressed ready for the mulct. The girl's British schoshroorn and tome &tine , premiers adjacent wens oleo destroyed. This mattes the fifth Ike within the loss few months in the comparatively small *Bane of Buoingbourn. Mr. Blott is insured, but tonidelmably below the amount, the damage being estimated at 3 ,000/,—Becese Pod. A STREBT - PAVED WITH GOLD.—The San Fran cisco correspewdent of • New York paper, gives the follow isß st or y :—We had • way intere s ti n g gold fever on a smell seals new days sine*, fa our very midst It seems that some keen•tietif Holt, it trembling through * pogo of the streets, me lying on the ground • piece of gold. Stooping to pick g ep hr qh..rved ease more, and as he still cordoned at hi * . : o Pelicie, all the eseenbriene soon gathered around him. In sedan hour the whole sereet was lined with gold seekers. ',Se.' wrings to say. all were finding some. Yee, there lay i " Mow ml's" scattered in our Very streets. The eager its soon ensiled the attention of our citizens, and • L ar 'etl,e 4 oldniema were, as is usual in such cues, expressed. " a ' , *mine quite enthusiastic ; declared that Sao Fran csco wee resting on a gold mine, and threatened to bring Whams and shovel, and dig, to the groat detriment of the pu'ilie onsets One;man dici actually dose, but after wheel kis hie dirt and finding nothing in it, rave it up. The *lowing mil eons solved the mystery. The fine particles *gold can be found in every street, and are the sweepinee Ilk *tees where gold is taken in exchange for goods 4 , l t u e . excitemeat has died sway, and the town has assumed its .1 quiet, if there is any such thing as quiet in San riencieco. e ke te. if- POTTERS' EMIGRATION SOCIETY. TO THI IDITOR OP 11111 3[PIRESII. SIR,—Yon will grostly obl.ge the Potters' Joint S ock Emigration Society and Savings Fund, by in serting the enclosed latter in the columns of your valuable journal. You wili perceive it is of general interest, and gives an impartial statement of the potters' movem-set in western America. I am, B:c.. WM. EVANS, General Agent. Examiner (Afire, Stefford Potteries, Aug. 14. 1111101ATION LETTER [From the Fifuhire Advertiser.] [The following very interesting letter bee Just been handed us in for publication. It is from P young man, a native of Kirkcaldy, to his sitter in Linktown, and cannot fail to be read with interest. It must also be gratifying to tithes of our readers who are in connexion with the Potters' Emj oration Society, to hear such good accounts of their propaty in Wisconsin] Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, June 9, 1849. Dear Sister—lt is with grist pleasure I now sit down to give you an account of my voyage to New York, and subse quent Journeying into the "Far West." We left Ore. neck on the 2nd of April, and anchored at Gourxk, three miles from Greenock. Oa the sth, at eight o'clock in the even ing, we set sail, and, in a few days, were fairly rid of land and sea sicknesa,and were sailing merrily, tmjd,ing the utmost health sad comfort in the midst of the vast ocean. Ido not think any set of passengers evt r enjoyed more health, felt more agreeably, or exhibited more of a friendly disposition to each other than we did. In eight days' .ime after sailing we gained the backs of Newfoundland, after Ehlers we bad frequent fogey and calm weather ; but, netwithstandieo, our excellent vessel gained the land a the mouth of the Hudson on the let of May at noon, havinz paternal her passive in 27 days. We had on hoard 394 pamenpers, s a cargo of a tootanod tons of pig-iron. Give ay cots. rliments to Mrs. and Mr. F—, wed let them know that John wee a most stretable companion tome. I was much affected when we parted, perhaos never to see each other again. Oa the night preceding the day of our seporadon we paced the deck alone for a long time, deliberating how we were to act for toe future, and eschanging good ativien. Amour other things we aerosol to write to each other con stantly, but es neither of us knew his ultimate place of set tlement, it is impossiliss we can know where each other are ; therefore you will, I hope, be so kiad as to get his direction for me, and give lie people mine to transmit to him. 11. ft New York oft the 4 h of M is' for Buffalo, a dist ance of 375 nib s west. My cmpanions were John Thomp son—a kir.d.heartcd and agreeable man—and Alexander Sirs sod f Alexander is a mason, and a member of the Potters' S - eirty ; and as he was going right on to his land, we resolved to accompany him anon the ink II as far as Milwaukee, 988 miles farther west. Ihre we stayed some days, having taken a house for ourselves. I readily htsined work, as I took any kind of job that offered, and got 3s. a Jay, which is considered a low wage. But pro. visions were . %newly cheap—beef at 2.1. and 24d. per b. ; .he best beefatakes 3d. per lb. ; eggs commonly at 31 per sirs.; flour at 4 dollars per bsarel of 1961b5., or 16s. 84. per %fermi. All other kinds of provisions are alike cheap, so that one day's work In Wisconsin t•ill keep a man a week, but you know that a week's work in Kirkalrly will sanely keep a man a day In file, I Aced like en Ba rr of; perfectly Peppy in all respects, and only regretting thot you were not with me to shore in the plenty that every where abounds. We left Milwaukee for Fort Winnebago, about 104 miles farther, into the acw state of W.SeOesie. We passed Pet tey:grille on the road, and slept one night in one of th-ir leg homes. I was charmed with the comfortable appearance of them cottages, particularly the inside,whhh in each appeared to haenriste in plenty and content. On the told, the whole nanny, from Milwaukee to Putter•ville, and from thence to Winnebago, waa clad with fruittrees in full blerm. Apple*, **lmre, cherries, hickory nets, and hazels. were abundant in a I dine' ose wile fever we turned our eyes. Itaipbstries, gooseberries, •trawbeerie.,and every kind of fruit were equally plentiful, and all *llk- free to whoever throe : tog ether therm. Bat I must rowel to more im portant matters. The potters have purchased a tract et country nn Fox River, about eight miles from our dwelling (fur we, John Thompaon. Alexander Sim, and myself, ore' will in comp my). This place we have visited, and are mere than satisfied with ita fine appearance. We saw Mr. Thos. Twin, th , manager of the Society's land hare, and be has accepted us as members, as far as he can, and given us all the privileges of those who are already on the land, and are full narmbera. John Thomson and myself will always re member his lereineni to us. In a few days we ere all three going to erect our own Milan on our own forty acres of land. Now thin b somethieg after our toils and dangns, and something with coming to Wiscnnnin for. Bet As it is impneuble for us to join the society here, you will rtqued my mother or my uncle to do en in my name -at th society's branch in Kirltaldy. 11. In. 61. is all that is required to make me a member, and send out the cer tificates of membership instantly to me. As we are going to erect our houses oursCves, the ripen.* of each will he about 30 dollars. or something more than 61 ; and the expense of tweaking up and fencing a few acres—say nine or ten—will be something. But I am h elthy and str.ng, and eau get along; although, at the same time, if I could get a little as siatann from home, I could make a paradise hare for you all whenever you should like to come out, and nothing could give un greater pleasure then to see you all here. Bat I wish you to understand me. Nothing is farther from me than the idea of " begging pound in the meantime," for I can get work, and eau earn my bread and raiment, and in a few years could make a shift to clear off everything, if Ood grant me health, but you cannot but see the importeace of taking fortune when she comes at last. and haying a few dollars to moist her toed intewine In fins, it is more for the rake of my br the es and yourself and my uncle, that I make this i remark, es I hops you and they will come out this leneth next spying; moreover, I wish to let the people of Kirkcaldy seie that we understand how to get on when thirge go with us. have managed to tome all this way, a distance of 1.617 sidles from New York, with very little. I had only ti7s. wiles I landed; on every one of then I lost a penny, so that I had not 34.. to carry one 911 the way ; and now, if lealth be granted me, I will succeed, and be to a condition, I hope, to w•leamis you all to a better and happier country, and have a home prepared for yon. The society takes 101. for a log house, and 12/. f‘r a framed one. Ours an to he framed houses; so you are the advan tage of working for °omelet', and combination on our °en aceoult.—No more at present, but remain, your affectionate brother, 0110110 E MIICIIELL. CORONERS' INQUESTS.-.-YEiTERDAT. MURDER AND SUICIDE .Cf PECKHAM.—Before Mr. Carter, at the Marlborough Arms, Booth-stoat, Camber well, on the body of Maria Lindsay, aged 22 years, and Charlotte, her child,aited seven months, who were found drowned in the Grand Surrey-canal. The particulars of the case have already appeared in the Ezpress. The jury reamed a verdict that • Charlotte Lindsay was wilfully murdered by Nutria Lindsay, her mother, who also destroyed her own lite whilst in an unsound state of mind." MYSTERIOUS DEATHS IS WIIITECHAPEL.—At the London Hospital, before Mr. Wm. Baker, the Coroner, touching the respective deaths of Sarah Craig, aged 41 years, and Elizabeth Lewis, aged .53 years, the former lumina (Hid in Whitechapel workhouse, and the latter at the Britannia Coffee house, in High street, Wnitechapel. It will he remembered by oar readers that on Tuesday last an inquest was held at the Grave Maurice public house, on the body of Mr. John James Watts, one of the parochial surgeons of St. George in-the• East, who died in Whitechapel Workhouse, from the effects of poison. The deceased had been suspended by the poor. law guardians, in consequence of his having absented himself from his professional dude' for up words of 6 weeks, end he was not heard of during that time. The deceased had in the meantime been living with Sarah Craig, and had wanted the common neeeiestii aof life. Oa Tuesday, the 7th inst., Mr. Watts, accompanied by Sarah Craig, entered the Britannia Coffee house, and paid Eliza beth Lewis 25., for the ase of a bedroom for the night. On the following morning Mr. Watts and the deceased Craig were found exceo' ingly ill, and lad all the appearances of suffering from an attack of cholera. Dr. Allison, the parish surgeon, gave an order for their removal into the work house, where Mr. Watts died on the following Tnursday. A pod motels examination of the body was made by Mr. J. Nash anti Dr. Lithehy, and it was found that he had died from the effeas of oxiatc acid and corrosive sublimate. A packet of powders was found in Mr. Watts' clothes, and one of them was marked poison. The decessed Elia ebeth Lewis gave evidence before the coroner and jury, and ap peared in good health. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from poison, but how administered there was no evidence to show. The coroner now proceeded with the cams of Elizabeth Lewis and Sarah Craig. Sarah Mullins, a vivant at the Britannia coffee-home, stated that about four hours after the deceased Elisabeth Lewis returned home on Tuesday last from the inquest on the body of Mr Watts, she was soddenly attacked with Vossitiag and purging, and she died on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses were then called to prove the state in which die deceased Sarah Craig was found at the coffeehouse on Wednesday morning, her symptoms being such as promoted themselves in cams of cholera. _ _ _ Sevenloithe jeraa aid they were perfectly satisfied with the evidence, sad they believed that the deceased had died from cholera. The coroner sail it certainly would appear thst the deaths la all three cases had arisen from cholera, and not from poison. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of "Death from Asiatic cholera" in each case. The friends of Mr. Watts expressed themselves very such dissatisfied at the manner in which the inquiry was tenni sato& They wished to have a further investigation of the affair, u it appeared oa the previous inquest that Mr. Watts bad poisoned himself and also the female, which was highly improbsEe. They desired that all the bodies should be opened, and the contents of each stomach analysed, and the precise cause of death could then be ascertained. The Coroner said, if Mr. Watts had poisoned Sarah Craig, be was himself his own exsestiona, and the present verdict would net make much difference in either way. Mr J. Nash, the surdean who was examined at the last is quest, again asserted that Mr. Watts had died from the erects a poison, and that Sank Craig had also died fr m poison, and he could prove it if he was allowed to make the necessary examination. DIALOGUI AT AN INN IN A FASHIONABLZ WATIIIINO•PLACI. — TraTaItT (much excited): "Blew ay Wart! there's the bell rinsing on the pier. Holio Why, where's the carpet bag I left in the pereage ?" —Betel Keener (faintly) : " Oh, how should I know ? Don't ask as only the landlord. Ton had better try if yon can't welcome fifths miter,."—Awed. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1849. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM GLOUCESTER. is about a month ago since a piragr:ph an nouncing a " Sudden death ' app arc(' in toe columns ef the Express. It wns a case of awful:y sudden death iudet d. An elderly gentleman stepped into a public omnibus in Regent-etrtet : he had oily been seated a few minutes when he suddenly fell heck, without enunciating a word, or uttering a gro .n, and was picked up a corpse—stone dead! Sudden death is a fearful thing at all times: it be comes doubly dreadful to contemplate when it occurs in the midst of the busy world, amid the gaieties and hopes of our temporal existence, in a public street, and amongst utter strangers. The body of the gen tlemau whose death thus happened was cone yea to the dead-house of St. James's parish soiktiouse, where it remained until some ore claimed it, and re- p. , rted th. deeeased to be John Phillpottt, Esq., for many years member of parliament fur the city of Obsuce +ter, and the elder brother of Hmt y, by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of the are of Exeter. As it is upon the conneaon of Mr. Phirlpotts with the city of GI ,ucester that the prr sent narrative mast mainly hi. ga, it my not be out of place to say a few words here !mating that gentleman and the family of which he formed a part. Seventy-three years ago an individual of the name o!Phillpotts, previously an in r keerr, at Bridg water or Barnszable, took the Bell Ho - el, in the Southgate, at Gloumater, a house still in existence, and then probably, as now, amongst the twat within the &Cy. Mr. Pnilipotts had bur sons, of whom ',hit Phil:pots was the eldest. All these boys were sent to the College School, and they obtained the reputation of boing among the c'evurest of the many clever pupils of that institution. Henry Ph illpotto embarked in the church, and every one knows how he has succeeded. 'Moms§ became a merchant ; George is now a eoLuel in the Engineers; John t ,ok to the law, and &nem; in due course of time a partner in the firm of Whi!mrnab and h r, crackers, at Gloucester. . . It was, however, rather in a political than in s professional capacity that Mr. Phillpotts obtained his reputation. in 1810.11 there occu'red iu Glou cestershire a eery celebrated contest between the fami lies of Gai,c and Dutton for the representation of the county. The aeietccracy exclusively supported Dutton ; the reople were ranged upon the sde of Guise. Mr. Phillpotts was Sir William °titre's &lent, and after ten or twelve days' polling Sir William was succ ssful. The result was in a great measure attributed to the skill of Mr. Philip its,and his re putation end his busiaess rose accordingly. Mr. Phllpotts became intimately emit:et-led in all the political mermen's of the cou..ty and the city. The politics of both were whig. In those days the faehion of Glouceeterehite was all upon the . peeple's side. the Berk- lel., the Nloretons, th • Owes, the Dutton., the Kiogscotes, and many others still re main professors e f whi; principles, though dome have been lost to the cause or have treacherously ecaerted 'he rani-loos of their forefathers. Glou cester itself was always a whig city. Tue old corporation was while to a man. 'i he dignitaries of the cathedral, within recollsc.ion, could scarcely elect • tory member to their chapter. Mr. Phillpotts went with the current of local opinion. Henry of Exeter, in his time, has been many thing. : John Phillpot s of Gloucester wee always a reform( r. In 1818 Mr. Hebert Bransby Cooper, a brother of Sir Astley, was, by dint of bribery, elected a member for the city of' Gloucester, in the high t try it terest, and he managed to retain his seat throulh three par liaments, met,' the general election of 1830. At this time the constituency of Gloucester was composed of freemen, resident at d non-resident,—in all about 2 200 eleetors. The city had bet n held by Mr. C toper chiefly by his management of the a ut-voters. They were numerically an impirtant class; principally On-makers, resident in London. The " pin-makers" inihnse days were ready "to come down" to Glou teeter as voters upon ether side. Mr. Cooper gene rally brought them. Io 1826, Mr. Phlipotte, who had obtained a celebrity in the city, had been invited to contest its reuresentation ; but the pin-makers were engaged, and he found he could tot eircte el. In 1810. however, Mr. Phillpotts consented to stand : Mr. Bransby C ooper, who had spent a little fortune amongst the pin -makers, had no more money with which to subsidise them; and Mr. Puilipotta, " the man of the people" [and of the pin -mitten], was re turned to parliament, vice Oso.ier, at an exrence of 16,0001., nearly 13,0001. of which came cut of his own packet and went into that of the etcetera. Mr. Philip sits came in on what may be considered radical principles. His colleague was Colonel Webb. of Norton House, an old whig, who bad represented Gloucester dining the greater part of the century. Colonel Webb, having grown grey in the service, was not disinclined to retire alto;ether from the repre sentation. He only waited until he could do so with out injury to his party, and Mr. Phillpotts having been returned, it was uederatool in 1830 that at the next general election the colonel would go oat, and that another liberal would take his place. The other liberal refe•read to was Captain Berkeley, the present representative, who, es a memb •r of one of the most popular families in Gloucestershire, and, as the I viol; er,rg ca• &dace in 181tialiad an hereditary aid personal claim upon the town. Captain Berkeley and Mr. Phillpotts were looked upon as the future re presentatives for Gloucester, and they would probably have combined the local parties of the ci y, and com pletely have dyfeatel all the tory machinations in it, had it not been for a malapropos occurrence. The tt rgiversation of Henry Phillpotts, canon of Durham and rector of Stanhope, on the important question of Catholic Emancipation, had recemmended that extraordinary pamphleteer to the Duke of Wel lington's administration for the next mitre that might, perchance, fall vacant. We fate was in the balance in the winter of the eventful year when John Phil!. pots, Esq , now NI.P., was first elected for the town of Gloucester. There came on, as will well be recol lected, an important question in the House rf Com mons respecting the civil list of William IV. The government exerted a strong whip. Whether they told the bishop that his elevation depended on his brother'. vote, or whether the bish ip told his brother so, or whether his brother only imagined such to be the case, is now a matter that cannot be decided ; but on this eventful question John Phillpotts, member for Gloucester, faithless for the first and only tame to his professions and his party, voted with the government and against Ws principles. Ws vote was of no avaiL The government were beaten. Henry of Exeter got his cony (relire, but the Duke of Wellington resigned. Earl Grey came into power. The Reform Bill was poled John Phillpotts voted in its favour, but nothing could eradi cate the bad impress:on which had been created by the vote he had given, fraternally, against his principles. When parliam' nt was diseolved in 1831, the outcry against Mr. Phillpotts had in no degree subsided. His friends in Gloucester were lukewarm; his opponents were angry and active. A body o f them went to Colonel Webb. They persuaded him that it was neces sary for the whig interests that a man who had given each a vote as that should not retain his seat. They begged him to consent to sit another parliament. The e dooel came down. Tories and whigs both voted in his favour, and Mr. Phillpotts found himself ejected from the seat : Colonel Webb and Captain Berkeley, " consistent reformers," being chosen in his plat*. The Reform Bill carried, Colonel Webb let it be generally known that he should not again represent the city. People, at that time, were ditposed to over look pest grievances, and to contemplate only a bene ficial future. At the election of 1832 Capt. Berkeley and Mr. Phillpotts both cote red the field again. Their parties were not openly united, but circumstanca drove them into harmony. The tones brought do en Mr. Hope, a candidate from the Carlton Club, uncon nected with the city, but possessed of extraordinary wealth. Mr. Hope used every effort to get in. He spent, it is said, 20,0001. in the contest. He was a young man, and though at the time his chances were but small, his supporters led him on, and assured him of success. They fought with a determination to win : treated to an unusual extent; introduced direct bribery for the first time into Gloucester, and failed signally, the numbers being, for Berkeley 684, Phillpotts 6.58, Hope MO. This election, in which reformers were united, was a test of the prevailing feeling of the city, and, as we shall subsequently show, remains to this day an index of the relative state of Glonemeter Those who search the parliamentary debates of 1 1833 will find an account of a squabble which occurred in the House of Commons between Mr. Hume and Captain Berkeley, in the course of which the latter told the former that he did not think he knew what " honour " meant. It was whilst the eircum- .. ._ stances of this silly affair were fresh before tho pub lio that Captain Berkeley was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, and was obliged to come to Gloucester to solicit re-mention. Mr. Hope was at his heels. The rrienda of that gentleman made use of Captain Ber keley's attack on Mr. Hume. just as th y had made use of Mr. Pnidpotts' vote upon the civil bet. Ihe remit in both cults was a aucc:: a. They succeeded in dividing th..: liberals regarding Nlr.Plullpotta: they succeeded also in dividing them respecting Captain Berkeley. The gallant captain found his conatitueLts in an unplcoutant tempt r : the radicals refused to be parties to his return, Lind he was beaten on the poll. Only 1,023 electors voted, and the numbers were for Hope, 866 ' • Berkeley, 457. Rarely has there been a cate displaying more re markably the value of discretion. A bad vote in 1830—a Pickwickian squabble in 1834—cost two ex cellent representatives each a neat. But the effect of these blunders did not end there : it would have been well that it had dme so. In 1835 came the general election consequent on the ecceeei-n of Sir Robert Peal to power. Captain Berkeley, Mr. Hope, and Mr. Pbillpotte again took the field. The wntga who supported the Bret were savage with the radicals who supported the last. They determined to give them a tit-fur-tat. At the poll Cap tain Berkeley and Mr. Wirt were returned, whilst Mr. Phillpotts was rejected, though( nly by the small majority of 23 in favour of the tory : numbers, Berke ley 708, Hope 621, l' .illpott4 398. On this CCCI - 93 liberate plumped for Captain Berkeley, and 105 split their totes between that gentleman and Mr. Hut*. Two years a'ter came the contest of 1837. The wound was etili rankling. Mr. Phillpotts, ejected from parliamert, was determined to get in el.-epite the whip. There was a tacit but unholy coalition with 'he tory; and Captain Berkeley, in his tarn, went to the wall, the numbers being, for Hrp.r 727, Phillpotte 719, Berkeley 630. These alternate defeats and success.. only mode matters worse. Captain II rkelry, now thrown out of the Admiralty, took the next beet thing that offered, namely, the command of a 74 in tLe Mt ditereane on. When the election of 1841 occurred, the captain was absent. His friends, however, put him in nomination. Mr. Phillpotts' supporters also took the field, and Mr. Hope came down himself, and was e xtremely busy. The whigs and radicals were mutually suspicious. The aerie, calculated on succeeding as before., on ac count of the divisions on the other side. In the course of the canvass the friends of Mr. Phillpotts relied that they were much the wrongest. All they dreaded was a whig and tory coalition. Scouts acre accordingly sent out, and measures taken to eurcer'ain every move ment that was going forward. It was soon ascer tained that the whigs were holding fee quent meeting'. 'Choy were evidently anxious and undecided. At length information was brought that they wero all eollected at a private house,—the house of one of Captain Berkeley's friend.. The radicals teL that this was the crisis : or e of them went dawn : a mutual understanding was arrived at : it was agreed that the two parties shott'd carman in conjunction; and the result, us in 18.111, was a decisive victory for liberal opinion., the numb-re being, for Phillpotts 753, it. r kelev 732, Hope 646. Oely 4 electors plumped for Phillpotts, and but 18 for Berkeley, whilst no less than 660 split for there two emendates. Here, it might have been hoped, was an end of the feuds and misunderstandings of the Gloucester li berals. During the long parliament from 1841 to 1847 all sections of re formers were we'l repre,cated. Tneir members were free-traders; ballot men; fa vourable to the extension of the franchise ; agreed, in short, upon all great questions of commercial and po litical freedom. The suicidal folly of their previous policy was proved; the value and mutual security cf unanimity lead been ca'ablished. Unhappily, that which policy might have gattran te lA, the courso of nature refused to grant. Mr. Philipette, come few years ago, although in the en joyment of robust health, felt that talon-like griping ut the heart which S.r Edward Lytton, of all one English authors, has alone described, in his ITIEV t. ly portraiture of the fate of Justice Brandon. Mr. Phi I potts consal'ed his physicians. They advised repose. Tranquillity might save him; but the first strong emotion would assuredly cause his death. Love of life, stronger in advanced age even than the ambition of its prime, exerted influence in it, turn. In 1847 Mr. Phillpotts expressed a wish to retire from parliament. No sooner was that desire rremulfokled `elan Mr. Hope was again a car. didate. Mr. Philip , tts could ore 'tared the excitement of a contest. He withdrew his pretensions altogether. The radicals brought forward a good man t r succeed him, but they were too lste. On the strength of Mr. Phillpotts' resignation Mr. Hope had secured the seat. He had come forward, be it observed, not as a tory, but as a liberal coneerva five, pledged to free trade, and inimical to protection. As such he was returned in 1817, toeether with Cap tain Berkeley, and, for the first time at Gloucester since the Reform Bill, without the taking of a poll. Such is the representative history of Glouce etcr ; a his'ory peculiarly interesting and instructive to the liberal., as showing the value of union in a common cause, and the necessity of merging minor differences in order to obtain a great result. Since the Reform Bill, Gloucester has, no doubt, been greatly influenced by corrupt practices. The tory canvass there in 1832 introduced a system of bribery previously unknown. The treating, in the anti-reform days, was extensive, and the cost of an election was frequently ruinous, by reason of the num ber of oat-voters to be brought from distant parte. But at no previous period had bribery been a prac tice. It has since prevailed to a considerable extent. Out of the 1,600 voters for the borough 200 are at present notoriously corrupt, and their price is from W. to 101. each, according to the severity of the contest. But wo believe that we are authorised in saying that, come what may, as far as the radical reformers of Gloucester are concerned, there will ba no more practices in that city of a description so debasing and so infamous. It is understood that one of the circum stances which caused the withdrawal of Mr. Price, the radical candidate in 1817, was his determination not to commence that public career in his native town for which hie position and his abilities alike qualify him, unless his success is determined by the unbiassed I suffrages of his fellow-citizens. On the night preced ing the nomination Mr. Prioe's committee found him about 150 behind Mr. Hope. That 150 might have been made up by bribery, but Mr. Price sent his op ponent a communication that he had resigned ; a !resignation which does him more honour than hi. elec tion under other circumstances could poseib:y have conferred. There is little doubt but that this gentleman, a na tive of Gloucester, a wealthy merchant, and a con sistent liberal of very considerable ability, will eventually succeed to the representation of the city. The registration at the present time ire, we believe, even more favourable to the liberals than it ever has Ibeen since the Reform Act, and the popular party are daily gaining ground. Gloucester, since 1830, has been far more expensive to the torin han to the liberal candidates. All of ' them however, have spent more money than they ! werejustified in spending. Numerous agencies, bands, banners, open houses, ribbons, and all the tawdry paraphernalia of corruption, have been common tr all parties in the place. But only one party has un blushingly bribed, and that they were openly charged with at the last election by Mr. Guise (a grandson of Sir William, the former member for the county), in reply to whom Mr. Hope would only observe—(it was more an admission than a defence)—that "he thought it hard the sins of indiscreet agents should he charged upon an individual candidate." FIRES IN ESSEX.—As many as five fires have oc curred near Rumford during the put week. A hay stack upon Sutton's-farm, Horuchurch, its the occupation of Mr. Gooch, on Tuesday last took fire from over-heating, and communicated to two stacks of pea.haulm; they were all de stroyed. A fire also occurred on the premises of Mr. Jame Biggs, Manor-farm, Balking, when two new stacks of rye were consumed ; the cause unknown. On Thursday morn ing last a barn, nearly empty, upon the Old Bernie., an off hand farm belonging to W. H. Tolbutt, Eq., and an open shed adjoining,in which vagrants frequently intruded for lodg ing, were destroyed by fire when the roof of the barn, which stood upon elevated ground fell in, the horning embers flew to a considerable dirance; and about 2 p.m., not long after the outbreak of the lest-mentioned conflagration, premises in the occupation of Mr. Anthony Vince, on We b ridge farm, Hornchurch, distant about a mile from Old Bernie., were found to be on fire in two places. Two stacks of wheat four of hay, and one of roe, with an extensive ranee of buildings, the barns filled with corn, were destroyed, •he dwellintyheuse and a few outbuilding.' alone being saved. On Saturday morning the premises left standing on I Mr. Vine's farm were found to be agAin on fire, but our correspondent does not state the result of the second out break. The owners and occupiers of the two last-men ,, sured the latter Me property of the Marquis of Salis bury, are in. LITERATURE. Before and After. 2 vols. Newny. The proper title fur these volumes would have ben " Our Borough, before end afier Reform and Rail ways." It cumprists a chron'cle of the sayines and doings of the people if Staggerton during the last quarter of a century, a history in whi'.h, as is very natural and proper, individual episodes occupy the largest and most prominent parr. " 13;f ,re and Alter" is, in fact, a second cousin to Miss Mitford's "Village," and a first cousin, or as much more nearly related as prose can be to verse—soya half-brother--to Crabbe's "Borough." The author is not quite 83 lavish as Crabbe of Rembrandtb-h effects, nor does he, on the ether hand, like M es Milford, take all his sketches from the brighter side of human nature. Altogether, he di as with his subject in a more modern spirit; and records the vicissitudes and vanities of his native place with a fair mixture of the kindly and the sati rical, brim ing the light of a shrewdness, acquired in the metropolis, to bear upon the curious nooks and crannies in which borough human nature notoriously abounds. The two volumes contain ab:ait a dozen ateriee, each complete in itself, yet b longing to the same locality, eceupied partly by the same personages, ar,d coati bating to bring ts a denouement the persocal fortures of the writer himself. The latter is greatly a mr re talented and experienced person than the simple ar rangement and unaffected style of Lis work wouli at first lead ore to suppose. And havicg red the book through, we can recommend it as a very agreeable melange ' and well adapted for ceurtry reading at this time of the year. There is scarcely any of the stories that is not a good one in itself; while no one can complain of a want of variety in the clia-acters and incidents, enticed though they be to the great and little notables of a town, which appears to have lid but • sleepy existence until, first, the Ref-arm Bill, and, secondly, a railway, awoke it into something like progress and vitality. Where Stag gerton is situated our gazetteer foils to inform us. But there are a pod many towns in most parts of the kingdom whose residt nts will find their later expe rience mirrored in the chronicles of the ancient and cathedral borough of " Staggerton." As a specimen of these volumes, we quote the picture of the town when resuscitated—in fact its " after :" The changes which have come over individuals are trifling compared with the utter revolution that has been effected its the appearance of the place. A long absent native would doubt its identity and the antiquity with which its town emancil still boast. Except one or two by-lanes and out-of the-way corners, everything seems bright and in.proved. The principal streets have been widened, and all the rest re paysti. One might almust take it fur a burghal " location" on the Mississippi scarcely a year oll—it looks so new. The ments of osterhauging .Wrier are filled up; the cockle shell faxing, have been smoothly plastered over to imitate stone-work, tho Leenge windows have been replaced with plate glass. The display of shop-fronts alorg the High-street is megni ficent, and some of the signs betray the progreseive pre tension of the Staggerean saopocracy. Mr. Sulphate's pea green lamp new illumines a blazing inscription, d• noting ' that his is no longer a mere eru dg i,..'a shop, but " the Me -1 dical'l"lit" 'Verde, the draper, has in his dotage caught the infection, and lengthened the dssignation of' his firm by the addition of a " Co. ;" although raters body knows that the only pullet connected with aim a.-1 his establishment are his sun, his dog, and his housemaid. The exterior of hi. shop presents a flaring specimen of Arabesque ornamtosta tion, and the windows enclose the largest squares uf glaze ever before seen in the town. Mrs. Tarleton's daughter, having been sent to the metropolis of fashion for a year, has come beck " Mademoiselle," and her mother has inscribed her on an &arising brass plats, as" Ma-demo-sell. Tarletun de Paris," no longt-r milliner, but " modiste." Sle lee, the farrier, hes obliterated the word " blacksmith " ov, r his smithey, and sub stituted" veterinary surgeou," above a surgery fur tour footed p Aleuts. The butcher no lo time owns OWUS himself a butcher, out a " purveyor of meat," which he dissects in elegant sham bless, lint d with Dutch tiles, and t dgt d all over with brass. Mrs. Hawker, again, began her schemes fur enveloping her lesser half in the tddermanic gown, by enlarging her premises, and c'.overting her spouse from a hurter into a" grocer and tra-dealer, wholesale, retail, and far exportation" The S . affordshirc hawkers and their locomotive baskets are ex tinguished by a crockery shop of wonderful pretersions, with a show room as long as a small street, whole galleries of pictures displayed upon plates and dishos, and an a.sort went of chandeliers that has caused those respectable ilium nators of the Blot Assembly-room (erst. unique, and the admiration of the whole town) to be cut duww alter having been hanged fir nearly a century. But the public buildings of Staggerton ! They hays flair kept pace with the tradieg ones. Thu old yarish cl,urch is no more. It was carefuity taken down in the third year of reform and regeneration, and a new one was raised at a convenient distance from the too odoriferous burial-place This is a madicevel structure designed by a Puseyite archi tect, with pointed windows, eeprese.siting party-col- ursd saints, with gloves for toes, and all their heads pat on the wrong way, to imitate with flielity the high art of the dark ages. Even the venerable collegiate church has been modern ised. The chancel floors have been laid wit's encaustic tiles, after tee patterns presented by a powerful kaleidescope, and some of the tomb. have been fretted out with the brightest arvi freshest possible elements., with the intention of " re storing" to their ancient condition ; so that the mind may ne carried completely back to the slays of the Crusades—by means of colour laid on last week--just as the palate : jars of Tubosa reminded Don Qeizote of hi- Duleinta, or the varie gated effigy of Peeping Tom of Coventry imparts to the ant sr tlegical beholder vivid impressions of the charms, life, and tunes of the Lady 0 diva. But the change of changes is that which has been effected on the Town-hall. The Hotel de Vide of ante reformed Stagg, rtoa did duty for a matket-house as well. It was a ponderous shed, supported by a peristyle of wooden props, and sheltering beneath its Ii mr the Fellers of poultry, eggs, and other perishable commodities, on market days, Now, it is a substantial—nay, an ornamental—edifice, intensely Ro man in style and structure, from the architecture to the cement. It has • magnificent auembly-room. a court house, quite as large as the " two pair back' in which one of the vice-chancellors of the High Court of Chancery holds his sittings in Londen ; and a lockup, whose elegant propor tions and scrolled iron gratings must strike prisoners with pleasing admiration. Ni ither had " Progress" contented itself with mere reno vation—it had also created. It gave birth to a handsome mechanics' institution ; an infirmary that dipped into the county rates to the tune of ten thousand pounds sterling ; a joint-stock bank ; a splendid orphan asylum, that cost more in building than would support all the orphans in the county ; a substantial and serviceable set of baths and wash-houses ; sued, lastly, there is now before me the prospectus of a club, which is to be a branch of the huge establishment in Pall mall, and is to he called the " Staggerten Reform." The still life of Staggerton has not more altered than its active existence. The scenes and groups in the streets pre sent an extreme contrast to men and things as they were. readmits xi no longer appear in white aprons and sleeves, hut in cravats of the same spotless hue. }semen' daughters are still seen on market day, not, however, to sell eggs, as of yore, but to buy music and berlin wool, and to flirt with sung bachelors in the library. Their paps& breve largotten tley ever wore galligaskins, and ride such well-bred horses that spurs have long been obsolete. Squires have resigned buckskins and "tops" to their grooms, and only one doctor's gold-headed cane, and one old ladies' sedan chair, are left in the town, and they are kept in the Mechanics' Institute Museum as curiosities. How are all floes: changes to he accounted for ? I Bay to reform. Elise why did Staggerton stand still from the days of the Danes up to 18:32, and then to shoot so rapidly a-head subsequently—else wherefore, in other word., was its " be fore" so stagnant, and its " after " to active ? BONDING PRIVILEGES.—The Revenue authorities have acceded to an application ri questing that copping ma be allowed to be landed at one of the wharfs on the south side of the river, the report of their principal officers thereon having recommended that copperas may be added to the lilt of articles allowed to 1)8 landed at all the first-class sufferance whites on the viva. :ids. TRIAL OF THE NEW SCREW-PROPELLER &DP " Tote BOOritOnt. 7 9 "—The trial of this ship, which belongs to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, took plena on Monday, in the Thames. The following ventlem• n were on board to witness the experiments Capt. W. Houston Stewart, R.N ; Captain Halstead, R.N. ; Mr. Chatfield, Head of School of Naval Architecture, Woolwich; Mr. Humphrey , Chief Mtuvineer, Woolwich; Mr. Dienes, Inspector of Machinery Afloat; Mr. Smith, Chief of the Screw Department ; hieurs. Mandalay and Mr. Jack son ; Mr. Mare, the builder ; Mr. Laming, ma naging director; Captain Ford, superintendent. The result of the trials, running the measured mile, was considered by the gentlemen above named as the most satisfactory that has ever yet been known under simi lar circumstances. The dimensions of the shin are . msg., 175 feet; breadth, 25 feet; measurement in tons, 631; h - rse-power, 80; diameter of cylinder, 36 inches; stroke, 24 inches; diameter of screw, 10 feet 6 inches ; pitch, 18 feet 6 inches; mean revolutions, 62.2; length of engine-room, 30 feet, which includes a space for the stowage of 150 tone of coals ' • draught of water on trial—forward, 6 feet 8 inches ; aft, 9 feet 6 inches, the screw propeller being 14 inches out of water. The trials at the measured knot were : Time. let knot .... Sat n. lOnee. 2nd „ _ 6min. 21•86. 9rd " Grain. 4440. 4 th stk „ ;riving a mean speed of slip in knots 9479 ; speed of screw, 11.348 ; slip in knot., 1.669, or 141 per cent. The Bos phorus left Blaekwall about 1 p.m , and proceeded in capital style down the river, the wind at the time blowing hard from the S.W. After the trials the party partook of an eicellent repast, provided by Meson. Maudslay and Co., during which it was generally remarked that the vibration was so trifling, that it was scarcely to be imagined the table WBS spread in the saloon of a steam-vessel. The elegant f ,rm of the Bespboras, ber compact, powerful, and smoothly working engines, and the great combination of comfort and taste displayed in her internal arrangements, were greatly admired. The stsebbrery of the vend wee made by Moors. Mandalay. RAILWAY MEETINGS. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD. Y.sterday, the half-yearly gei.eral mo.tiug of the share holders of this compmy was held at the Rusmn.equare S.etion. Capt. Moonsow id the chair. Notwithstanding the announcement of the chairman that the report was most unsatisfac'cry, none of the shareholders made a single re mark, either upon it or the resolutions su'aiquently pro posed, which were adopted in profound silence. The SECRETARY read tte following report, dated 15th August, 1849: " 1. The causes which have operated to delay the comple tion of the Britannia-bridge, and with it the opening of the enure lin^ ' I.ryond the prriot contemplated by the directors at the last half-yearly mewing. are explained in the accom panying report from your nigh:leer, Mr. Stephenson. The board much regret that circumstances beyond control should have retarded a work so seaential to the full utility and 'due of the undertaking. " 2. The director, bare the pleasure to inform you that the main tine of the Mold Railway has been inspi cud and ap• proved by the government en g i..eer,en d was opened yesterday. The c znstruction of this breath has barn affected at a mode rate cost, the full advantage of which will be secured te you by the tenor of the agreement for the purchase already laid before you, and sanctioned at the meetutrf 30th Match lust. Arrangements are in progress for bringing the various coal warlacgs into connexion with the line. " 3. fire directors have continued to give unabated attention to the employment of the stezan packets in coon. Jaen with the railway. The actual returns of the o unpany'a v. eels are LOU nearly equal to the government p ckets, although the latter make twent y -eight, and the former only twelve, tripe :n the wok; the exp. rience of twelve months in their working proves that both must be Tanning at considerable and that all parties would be benefited by the whole aer vice heir g performed either by no government or by this csmpany. The directors stated, in their last report, that they bad, at the invitation of government, submitted a pro poshun for undertaking the whole packet service between Holyhead arse Hinastown. That tender nct having been accep . L.d, has been withdrawn, and the qu stion therefore rem zinc unsettled. " 4. The following return does not include either the amount due for tho converoice of the mails or the toll pay able by the Shrcwrbury and Chester Compsny. The Post.- ..411a authorities ins:sted upon the amount of remuneration for the conveyance of the mails, previous to the commence ment of the treasury contract being referred to arhitration ; and, althoug'i the directors appootted their arbitrator in September, 1848, co decision hag co yet been given, in con sequence of ft.. Bog-office not having iurnitled their arbi trator with instructions. The number of passengers eonveyel from January I, to June 30, bee been— By railway „ ELMS beats ... 119,911 „, 6,4117 Making a total of ... 12,,519 The goo receipts hare been— fr,rn railway. from steam boats. 23,379 10 0 3,281 13 3 2,473 12 2 ... 933 2 11 ... Pap cm , ers GoodA raccia '55 15 1 131,083 3 1 ... /3,437 8 9 Total The working charges have amounted to 223,079 12 10 ... £11,536 10 1 "5. The act authorising the raiaint of further capital, for which your ruction was obtained at the last half-yearly meeting, received the royal assent on the 26th June. By this act the company have obtainel the restoration of the power of leirrowing on debentures, which had been merged in the former creation of preference share'', whilst the shares which the said resolution of the last meeting authorised the directors to create are reduced from 735,0001. to 525,0001., leavieg, however, a discretionary power eventually to capi talise the loans by • creation of shares. "6. In order to meet the liabilities of the company, and to avoid the eacrifiim which the immediate raising of addi- • tiosal capital to complete the line would entail, the directors have solicited the assistance of the London and North Western Company, who have agreed to advance 100,0001. on the security of a resolution of the board, pledging itself to act upon the power conferred upon the directors at the last half-yeaily meeting, whenever required by the L-ntion and North Western Company. to repay the loan by means arising from a further creation of preference shares. " 7. At the last meeting it was intimated that interest would be paid on the original shares, until the line was com pleted by the erection of It- bridge over the Menai Straits, in accordance with the emstruction put by the government upon the c .ntract with the Treasury fur the conveyance of the made, the commencement of which is dependent on the same circumstance. But the directors now fe• litto be their duty to state, that since the fords necessary for the payment' of this interest could not be provided otherwise than by a new issue of preference shares, at a rote of discount, or of in hanzed interest, whist would render the transaction perma- , wilily injurious to the int, rests of the company, they cannot recommend the proprietors to purchase an illusory advantage at such a cost. The only mode of meeting the difficulty appearsi to be by a creation of shares, under the powers of the last act; 4 . • eauryeentteo the amount of intarest due, and! .a..amen., . • " " "t. to issuing them, dhatargeo .Som toe , paymena ". ea." , • . proprietors of the orig:nal '...aares. If it should be the , pleasure of tho proprietors to adopt this course, the directors j recommer.a that these shares should not be issued until the; next isoir yearly meeting, by which time the entire line will! ba nompleted, and dividend will then be payable out of; traffic. " 8. The arrears of calls due at the last half-yearly meeting, amounted to 46,7861, of which 11,6901. have been received.! Notice of forfeiture has been give° to the holders of 506 shares, upon which, in the aggregate, 8,8921. 10s. have been' paid ; and the directors are using every means to recover the balance. although they anticipate but p xtial success. " 9. By the minoval of the offices of the company to the Euston station, an annual saving of rent will be effected ; and the directors have r. vised the establishment, and placed it upon the most economical footing. " 10. Agreeably with the intimation - given you in the last report, power§ have been obtained by the act of this session of parliament to seduce the number of directors to twelve, and the board recommending that the reduction be forthwith effected, have received the resignation of Mr. Col:ett and Mr. Troduas, which, with the previously reported vacancy of Mr. Laird's seat, will leave the number of six representing the general body of the shareholders, and on your approval of the reduction of the board to twelve, the directois ap pointed by the London and North Western Company will be reduced in the same proportion. The directors recom mend that the remuneration voted by the proprietors should also be reduced. " 11. It is proposed to declare a dividend of Bs. 31. per share, on the preference shares, to be made payable on the 20th instant. " In conclusion, the directoreare compelled to state, that the causes specific.' in their report of the 16th of March last, u having disappointed, in respect to the traffic o! the line, " even the most moderate expectations that were entertained at the time when this company was formed," have continued to operate to its detriment. The terrible calamity with which Ireland has been visited, the consequent depreciation of all property connected with it, and the diminution of the inter. coulee between the two countries, is obviously beyond their control. Your interests have also in a minor degree been in juriously effected by the unavoidable delay in the completion of the Britannia bridge, the tardiness of the procer dines in forming the Harbour of Refuge and Packet pier at Holyhead, . and by the competition of the government steam vessele with those tf the company, at a heavy loss to both parties. The first of these impedimenta to the deval•pment of the traffic, will vary shortly lie removed. The second and third it is beyond the power of the directors to obviate; but they cannot believe that her Majesty's government will continue to compete fora traffic, the whole of which, under present circumstances, would be utterly insufficient to remunerate any other party than the proprietors of the railway ; but, whilst thus laying these facts before the shareholders, without disguise, the directors also feel it to be equally their duty to express their confident expectation that with the restoration of Ire land to its ordinary state of prosperity, and the further de velopment of the lecai treiffic, the position of the share hollers will be materially benefited, and that the returns of the railway will be sti.l further improved upon the comple tion of the harbour at Holyhead. In the meanwhile the directors have used their best endeavours to administer the financial concern , of the company, ai.d to avail the inselues of its credit, so as CO obviate the necessity, otherwise una voidable, of increasing the capital upon teems detrimental to the interests of the existing proprietors. "Mr. Philip Hanbury being the auditor who goes out by rotation, now offers himself for re.electioa." The SECRETARY then read the engineer'sreport, dated August 13, 1849 : " No. 9 Coorraiicr.—Since my last report, the lining of the Llandagai and Bangor tunnels has been completed, so that at this moment the !ice may be regarded as entirely finished up to Bangor station. 0; the works between Bangor station and the Britannia Bridge, there rem .ins to complete one tunnel front, which is in a forward state ; No. 12 cut ting, which will be ready for ballasting next week ; the re mainder of the contract is ballasted ready for the permanent way, and 220 yards of lining in the Belmont tunnel, which is commenced, and may occupy six weeks. 'fns cost of co.npleting this portion of the contract will be 9,0001., and I have no doubt about the line being finished up to the Britannia Bridge by the let of October. "BRITANNIA BRIDOE.—The masonry of this contract is completed as far as practicable, prior to the floating of the tubes; awaiting that operation. the nrowress of the remainder • will depend upon the rifting. procee tnere has beta some delay, owing to an unsoundness in one of the large castings of the new hydraulic press in the Angle:tea Tower, which occasioned so much leakage, as threatened at one time to render a new casting necessary, which would have delayed for several weeks the process of lifting the tube, which has been, as you are aware, floated into its poai tfon for being raised. I have, however, the satisfection of reporting that the leakage has been successfully stopp• d, and that the operation of lifting is progressing, and might by this time have been completed ; but I have deemed it pru dent to lift by short stages only, and to build up step by step underneath with brickwork, in order effectually to guard against the serious coneequences which might arise from any &due or derangement of the hydraulic presses, whilst the tube was suspended from them. Such an acci dent I believe to be very improbable ; but, after the fracture that took place in one of the cross-heads during the lifting of the Conway tubes (which was fortunately disco ver-4i in time to prevent a very serious disaster), Ido not feel that I should be justified in omitting in the case of the Britannia tube (where a mishap would, in all probability, interfere permanently with the navigation of the straits) any one expedient which caution can suggest, With three feel. lags, therefore, I hays, with your sanction, resolved to follow the course alluded to, notwithstanding it will protract the time of lifting in each tube a fortnight or three weeks be yond the penes originally contemplated. The aITUIPMO6iS