The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-24 00:00:00

&ate lintel tigtnct. CHANCERY CHAMBERS. —Art.uar 23. Before Mr. Edwards, Chief ('lerk.) HO/lON ARIA OTHRRS r. JOHN BRIUHT. n.r., AND IrriitlN.--CHANCEMY arty aiIAINSIT NR. !:RIGHT, a.r. This was a suit respecting the working of some carpet looms, and Mr. dehn Bright, Mr. Jamb Bright, and others IN the bill of complaint were charged with royalties for such looms. An application was now made by Messrs. Worthington and Pluekett on their behalf to file an answer to the bill, and two months' time was asked, but opposed by Mr. F. Anliews on the part of the plaintiffs. In support of the application it was stated that the answer was to be pre re.l on the materials which were produced, and which lie. John Brieht had furnished before he left town. Tie chief Clerk asked where Mr. Bright was. The Clerk said Mr. John Bright was in Scotland and Mr. Jacob Bright was in Switzerland. On the other side terms were asked to be imposed on Mr. Bright, that Le should keep an account of the looms worked. Toe Chief Clerk declined to impose terms. The applies. tion was simply for them to answer, and he should grant a month, and if further time was asked, it could be shown what progress had been made. Order accordingly. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —LivenrooL, A 1.70. 23. Cans COURT. —(Before Chief Justice BovilL) Mil CH Alli:EY AO A 114.4 T ME3BIIS. RANKIN, I RONFoIIN DERV, Mr. Aspinall, Q.C. renewed an application yesterday morning to the judge relative to this case, in which Messrs. Rankin were indicted for obtaining 10,0001. by false pretences from Mr. Thomas Pearson. Mr. Aspinall said that no counsel had yet appeared for the prosecution, though the prosecutor himself was in court. Mr. Aspinall then made a motion for the quashing of the indictment, the motion being grounded upon an affidavit of Mr. Collins, the defendant's attorney, which pointed out that no recognisanoes were taken with regard to the bil! of indictment for false pretences, and that the Snit bill for conspiracy having ieen thrown out by the grand jury, no notice was given to the defendants that the second bill had been found, and that in fact the provisions of the act of parliament against vexatious indictments bad been entirely set aside. Mr Pearson. the prosecutor, said, in explanation, that be was prepared to go on with the prosecution, that his witnesses were ready, and that he hail a brief ready to give to counsel. He was not aware that the requirements of the act had not been complied with, being under the im pression that the recognisances which be had entered into severed both indictments—that for conspiracy, as well as that for false pretences. His Lordship said be had been very badly advised. He (the learned judge) could wily go upon what was actually before him. It was clear that not one of the requirements of the act, which was a very proper one, had been com plied with, and the indictment must therefore be quashed. [At the Liverpool Police•court yesterday, Mr. John Smith, of Birmingham, applied for and obtained a fresh summons against the Mews. Rankin, ironfounders of Liverpool, for obtaining by false pretences the sum of 10,00] 1 . from Mr. Pearson, whom they induced to enter into pirtuership with them.] OiAIkLICAL ATTE‘OT TO CPSRT ILULWAT TRATN. eougAlio, 39, William M'Afant;;, .11CManum, 42, and Peter Cellagher, 26, were indicted for having at Ince-in-Macherfield, on the 16th of Jose, at tempted to upset a train on the London and North Western Railway. Mr. J. B. Aspinall, Q.C., and Mr. Addison prosecuted ; and Mr. Pope and Mr. Wheeler defended the prisoners. There passes through the Wigan station of the London and North Western Hallway at about :17 minutes past 1 in the morning the limited mail train, which proc?eds as the rate of about 40 miles an hour. On the night of the 16th June last various obstructions were placed on the line near the Wigan station for the purpose of throwing the train off the line. The first obstruction was at a point just out of • cutting, and where the train would be on the top of • steep embankment; and then there was a second and third obstruction—one at Kay's crossing, and the other at the Canal-bridge. In the neighbourhood there is a place called Spring's Branch Colliery, from which place trains are continually arriving at Wigan, and to which place engines and waggons are con tinually returning. On the night in question, all engine which assisted the owl trains up the ascent, which is very steep at this point. was passing along the line, at 20 minutes past The driver providentially thought his engine tem short of water, and that he would run down the Jinn slowly to Spring's Branch to replenish the supply be fore the limited mail paseeiL In going along the up-line he found it entirely free from obstruction, and he came from Spring's Branch on the down-line until he got to a point, when the engine ran against something, and the violent concussion threw it into what is called the 6 feet way. The driver stuck by his engine, and it proceeded very rough over the sleepers until the Wigan crossing was reache d, when a second COOCUS/11011 occurred which threw the engine again on the line, but not the ten der. The pointsman, finding that the line was obstructed, took steps to warn the mail train, and glowed his engine. He came, however, upon • point which was obstructed, but which was free when the era,ine from the Spring's Branch had passed shortly before, and it was clear that the person or persons who had placed the first obstructions. finding that they had been frustrated, with great determination endeavoured to effect their diabolical purpose at other points. An official of the rail way went along the line, and he found other obstructions, which had been so placed as to prevent, if possible, the escape of the mail train from destruction. The obstruc tions consisted of rails, railway chairs, one being a steel tail 21 feet long, and weighing 5 cat., showing that several persons must have been enga, in lifting it. After hearing • mass of the jury Acquitted the prisoners. THII BT. EULLKNI3 NUIDZIL The trial of John Smirk, charged with the murder of Adam Mather , at Windle, near St. Helen's, on the 21st July, was opened this morning, and excited great atten tion and interest, the court being crowded. Mr. Torr and Mr. Watson appeared for the prosecution ; and, the prisoner haring no counsel, his lords hi p assigned the defence to Mr. Henchell. The prisoner, when asked whether he was guilty or not guilty, exclaimed in a loud voice, " Cod forbid that I should be !" He looked very pale and anxious, and during the learned counsel's address to the jury be scanned the latter with painful eagerness, as if to watch the impression leimle upon their minds. The Cane was not finished when our parcel was di spatched. Met Paws Courr.—(Before Mr. Justice Smith and a Special Jury.) ACTION FOR PERSONAL INJURIES AGAINST THE LANCASHIRZ AND TORASHIRE RAILWAY. Yesterday the jury awarded 7:.0f. to Mr. Royston, the son of an Accrington draper, for personal injuries. He Wei proceeding from Accrington to Hacup on tue 18th February when a collision occurred, and be was much in jured about the head and spine. It wan feared that para lysis would supervene. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Baron BramwelL) nTRAORDIVAIT PROCIITINO. Mr. Avory, the clerk of the court, called the attention of the Recorder in the course of the day to a circum stance which, he said, was of very great importance in eonnection with the administration of justice in that court. A person named Frederick Lee. carrying on busi ness as a harness maker in Brownlow-street, Drury-lane, was summoned to serve on the petty jury, and some one attended and answered to the name and was sworn on the jury. In consequence of some information be received ' lie went on Tuesday up to the jury box and inquired if a person waned Frederick Lee was serving on the jury, and one of the persons in the back row answered to the name, and he then thought there must )IIVI) been some mistake in the information he had re ceived. He had subsequently, however, received further information, and he questioned the party, and he admitted that he was not Mr. Lee, but only his foreman. and he said that Mr. Lee bad sent him to do duty for him as a juror. The consequences of such a proceed i ng as this might be most serious, and he felt it his duty to bring the matter before the court. _ _ _ The person referred to was directed to stand forward, and in answer to queatioes put by the Recorder, he said that he had merely done as he was directed by his master, and was not aware that he was doing wrong. The Recorder inquired of him whether he took the oath, and was sworn as Frederick Lee. He replied that be had. Mr. Avery said that in the first place the person coin. plained of had been guilty of a gross contempt of court. He hail very nearly committed the crime of perjury, and he and his master would certainlybe amenable to a charge of conspiracy to break the law. He added that it was • question whether all the proceedings of the court in which the unqualified juryman had taken a part were not void. The Recorder, after conferring with Alderman J. C. I.Awrence and Alderman Waterlow, ordered the person now before the court, to pay a fine of rd. for contempt of court. He also in fl icted • fine of 1001. upon Mr. Lee, but process in this case was not to issue until the first day of next session, when Mr. Lee would be called upon to show cause why the fine should not be inflicted, and it was stated that in the meantime the question would be considered, whether an indictment for conspiracy should not be preferred against both parties. A WARD TN CITANCIIRT.—YeNTATINky, at Vice- Chancellor Melina' Chambers, an application was made on summons before Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, relating to the propos•lsof a marriage settlement of a ward whom Lord Justice Corns had given permission to marry on the settle ment of her fortune being agreed upon. The chief clerk declined to interfere in the matter, es it was not vacation business, eni the young lady, he thought, might wait three months, when the case could be beard. The parties inti mated their intention to go before the Vice-Chancellor, at his country seat, on the matter. r THE EXPRESS, . ' A . SATURDAY 'EVENING, Aii : Gi7ST 24, 1867. THE POLICE COURTS, BIANSION-HOUSE. Mr. G,J-ye Joseph Us!tert Frazi • gentlemanly young man, who has for some tune =widen business as an iron merchant in the City of London, was yesterday brought before Alderman Sir Robert Carden, in cus t o dy of Ser. grant Funuell, the detective officer, upon • warrant signed by the Lord Mayor, charged with feloniously forging and uttering a bill of exchange for Mi., with intent to defraud Messrs. Glyn and Co., the bankers. Mr. Mullen,, the solicitor to the Bankers' Corporation, attended to conduct the prosecution. It appeared that on the 17th of May the prisoner went to Mr. Jones, an optician in Goswell-street with whom be was acquainted, and who was in the habit of having business transactions with him, and presented the bill in question, which was at three months' date, and made yabls at Messrs. Glyn and Co.'s. The bill purported to be accepted by • gentleman named Hanley, who kept an account with Messrs. Glyn, and who was also an acquaintance of the prisoner. Mr. Jones discounted the bill, and in duo course it was presented for p ayment at the banker's, and the imitation of Mr. Henley's signature was so good that it appeared the amount was paid. The prisoner, it ap peared, made an application for the bill, and wished to get it into his possemou, but by this time the forgery bad been discovered,-and the bankers refused to give up the instrument, and from information that was auheequently received, a warrant was obtained for the apprehension of the prisoner, which was placed in the hands of Sergeant Funnel!. The officer, however, was unable to find him until Thursday evening, when, from information he re ceived, he proceeded to the Charing-cross Railway station, where be found the prisoner, who was about to start for Paris, and took him into custody. Mr. Mullen. said that the case against the prisoner so far as the present charge was concerned was nearly completed, but he thought it better that he should ask for a remand in order to afford an opportunity for further inquiries to be made. The prisoner, who seemed to feel his position acutely, was accordingly remanded for a week. MARYLEBONE. A ;entlernan appealed to the magiatrate for pecuniary amistance to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Beckham. That officer bad been present at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria. Pyrenees. and Toulouse. and was also at the siege of New Orleans and the capture of Paris in 1815. He became security for a Liverpool merchant (his brother in-law), and in lttiai had to sell his commission to make good his security, and the trilling aniout he possessed after the wreck of his fortune is now insufficient to furnish him with the barest means of subsistence. He is now in his ;TA year, has served his country in active service 47 years, is very infirm and bed-ridden. Mr. Tyrwhitt directed the officers of the court to make Inquiries in the cam. WESTMINSTER._ AeYS sr Loftus ' who was said to be respectably con nected. was charged before Mr. Selfe with being in the unlawful possession of a shoulder of mutton, valued at rn., the property of Mr. Shackell, • master butcher, at Knightsbridge. Police-constable Arthur Watkins, 253 B, said that he met the prisoner with the shank end of a shoulder of mutton protruding from his pocket. He asked him where he had got it from,and at firsthe said that be had bought it at Knightsbridge, and afterwards at Kensington. The answers being unsatisfactory, he took the prisoner to the station home. Mr. Shacksll, in answer to the magistrate, said that the mutton was worth about 7w., as it weighed 7jlb. The prosecutor said that he did not wish to press the charge against the prisoner, who was highly respectable, and his friends were in great trouble about him. Mr. fielfe—l cannot allow this case to be settled in such a manner. In the case of a common assault I have no oh. jection sometimes for the affair to be settled between each party. I shall not send the prisoner for trial, but I shall tine him lins. for the unlawful possession, or a month's im prisonment with hard labour. The prisoner said the shop boy gave him the shoulder, and he was now sorry that he took it away. SOUTHWARK. J,,hra Don9ran . a tall, lazy-looking fellow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Arnold, charged with assaulting Pierre Desmouricux, a French seaman, and robbing him of a2O franc piece and 2s. fkl., in Duke-street. London-bridge. The prosecutor said that be belonged to a French vessel lying off Cotton's Wharf, and between eight and nine be was passing down Duke-street on his way to the ship, when he stopped at a stall to partake of some oysters. While eating them he received a blow on the side, and on look ing round he saw the prisoner with his pocket-book in his hand, which he had just taken from his trouser's pocket. Witness seized hold of him and snatched the pocket-hook from bim, when the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the month and ran away. A constable pursued him and he was eventually secured. In answer to the magistrate. Witness said that he saw the prisoner's hand leave his right hand pocket with the pocket-book in it, when he instantly seized bold of him and took it from him. The book contained a 20 franc piece and 2s. fel. Police-constable 134 M said that between eight and nine on the previous evening he wss passing down Duke-street, when he saw the prisoner and two others pass him, and suspecting them he watched them. The prosecutor was eating oysters at a stall, and they went up to him and gave him a push. Witness then distinctly saw the prisoner put his hand in the prosecutor's right-hand trousers pocket, and take out the pocket-book produced. The prose cutor seized hold of him and took it away, when the pri soner struck him and ran off. Witness ran to the spot as soon se possible and pursued the prisoner, and after a smart chase captured him. The prosecutor then came up and gave him into custody. ' The prisoner pleaded guilty, and elected to be tried by his worship. It was the first time he had been in trouble. Mr. Arnold doubted that, but, ss he was not known, he sentenced him to only four months' hard labour. WANDSWORTH. Chyme BNAM, who held hie hand to his head, which was covered with bandages, was charged as follows : Police-constable Green, V division, said that at two o'clock in the morning he saw the prisoner with some greens in Garrett-lane, Wandsworth, which he dropped and ran away. He took him into custody for the unlawful possessions of the greens, when he became very violent, kicked and threatened him, and he was obliged to nee his staff. _ _ PriaOl;er—l made no use of any violence. He came up and knocked me down with his doff. Constable—He bit my finger. Mr. Dayman—Have you anything else to say? Prisoner—l know better than to molest a policeman. I have served in the ►rmy for 15 years, and I know better. He knocked me down senseless, and while I was down be hit me two or three times with his staff, and cut my head open. Mr. Dayman—lt is very unlikely the constable would knock you down without any reason. If you are violent, he baa a right to do his best to protect himself. Prisoner—l was nmer knocked down in my life before. Mr. Dayman then fined him se. for the unlawful pos session. Mr. L. Lewis, of Ely-place, applied to the sitting magi strate for a warrant to apprehend the late secretary of the court " Friend in Hand " of the Ancient Order of Foresters, held at the Stag Tavern, Wandsworth-road, who had embezzled various sums of money belonging to the society. The secretary had been summoned for the embezzlement, but he did not appear, and it was stated that he had absconded. Proceedings could not be taken under the Friendly Societies Act on account of the trustees and members of the court having allowed sir months to expire. The complaint was that he had re ceived various sums from country members, signing their cards, but not entering the amounts in his book, or paying them over to the treasurer. He had also drawn money from the treasurer, and had applied it to his own use. The magistrate thought the complainants should bear the responsibility of giving the man into custody if he had committed a felon 7, and, not endeavour to shield them selves under a magis trate's warrant. Mr. Lewis said the complainants were not like members of a large Arm. Their object in taking the proceedings was to protect their fellow-members. Ultimately a warrant was granted. THAMES. Jose Etairgt, a determined-looking woman, about 42 Mr. of age, the wife of a seaman, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with unlawfully abandoning and ex peeing her infant child, aged four months , whereby its life became endangered, on the 22nd of June, 1867. The prisoner's husband, by whom she has bad a large family, was away from England six years, and by his in dastry and talents maintained a high position in • distant part bf the world, and be allowed her 61. per month during his absence. She became faithless to him, and when he came home about Christmas last she was seven months advanced in pregnancy, in consequence of her baring carried on an adulterous intercourse with another man. She imposed upon her hus band • tale that she was ill and labouring under dropsy. In February last she gave birth to • male child at the house of her daughter, Sarah Busby, a mar ried woman, of No. 18, Arbour-place, Stepney, in the immediate vicinity of the Thames Police-court ; left her newly-born babe with her daughter, and returned imme diately to her borne, to impose another fiction on her injured husband, that she had undergone an operation, and been relieved of the dropsy. The illegitimate child, of whose existence the prisoner's husband was quite un conscious, remained with Mr.. Bushy, until the night of Saturday, the 22nd of June, when she removed it in the absence of her daughter, who never saw it afterwards. On the same night, or rather early on the morning of the Mrd of June, • lad named Thomas Piper, of No. 87, Heath-street, Stepney, was on his way home, when he kicked againat • bundle on the ground. The squeaking of • child indicated what the bundle contained. It was the body of an infant which had been placed on the ground against the railings of Albert-square, Stepney. about SOO yards from Albion-place. The child was taken to the station-house, and afterwards transferred to the Stepney Union Workhouse at Bromley on the 11th of the present month. The inquiries of Inspector Turner, of the K divi sion, and Police-sergeant Briden, Na. 4 K, left no doubt that the prisoner was the mother of the child, and that she had erne:ly abandoned it. Police-sergeant Briden went to the dwelling of the prisoner, at No. 1, Arbour- plane, Stepney, and told her be bed called to see her in consequenm of a child to which she had given birth a little while ego. The prisoner said, " Yes, sir, I h ave h a d a child." Widen asked her where it was, to whioh she replied, " In the Stepney Union-house at Bromley." Briden said, " How came it there?" She answered, " I took it there ; I left it on a door-step." Widen said, " When was it?" She answered, " On the 22nd of June.' Mr. Paket:-ThieitildWWfound by the boy Piper on the night of the 22nd of June after 12 o'clock? Briden—Yes, sir. Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she wished to ask any questions of the !Buns. The prisoner —Not any, far ; whet he says is quite true. I lid leave it in the square ; it did not belong to my hus band. George Smith, a police-constable of the K division, said be received a child found in Albert-wmare, Commercial road, Hamlin', on the morning of the 23rd of June last, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock. The child was very cold and weakly. Mr. Paget—When was the child born? Inspector Turner—On the 20th of February, at the house of the prisoner's daughter. • Mr. J. S. Hawkins, surgeon, of No. 7, Campbell•road, Bow, was called to see the child on the 23rd of June. It was in a fearfully emaciated condition, and the hand forced down the throat. It was admitted as a foundling. It died on the Ilth of the present month. Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she had any defence to make, and delivered the usual caution. The prisoner—Nothing, sir, at all. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial at the next Middlesex Sessions. BBOADHEAD AND HIS LICENSE. Mr. Sugg, solicitor, applied on Thursday to the Sheffield magistrates for a renewal of the license of Wil liam Broadhead, of the Royal George, Carver-street, Sheffield. _ _ Mr. Sun said—l am not aware at present, of course, of anything being alleged against Mr. Broadhead. There fore, if there is anything of that kind, I should like to know what I have to answer, that I may address myself to it. __ The Mayor—l am not aware that we are obliged to allege anything. The matter is in our discretion without the necessity to make any allegation. Mr. Sugg—l hoped I should he wore acquainted with what there is against my client before I addressed myself to the bench. As lam instructed Mr. Broadhead has been a licensed victualler something like twenty years, and there has not been a conviction, fine, or even a complaint against him since he has been in the house in which he now lives. Therefore there must be a something of some other nature which has led to the notice from the chief constable. The Mayor—Which is within Droadhead's own know ledge. Mr. Sugg—lf the notice had stated the season why, I might have been prepared to answer it, but I submit irre spectively of that I should be informed of any grounds that might be in the minds of the bench why the license should not be granted, so that I might answer the charge. Mr. Dunn (a magistrate)—lf you do not yourself of your own knowledge know, and if your client does not know of his own knowledge, that circumstances have arisen within the last twelve months which might by suspicion— I will not say more, but which might by the vaguest 11111- picion—(laughter)—give rise to the opinion that he is not a fit and proper person to hold a license, I wilt not ask you to go on, but if you do know of any such things, and have anything to say upon them, you had better proceed. Mr. Sugg—l apprehend in my own mind that your remarks have reference to the moceedings before the com mission at Sheffield. Mr. Dunn (ironically)—Oh derv, no ; not the proceed ing* of the commission. (A laugh.) Mr. Sugg—Then I really do not kaow what it is you mesn. Mr. Dunn—Then we have only to retire to consider. Mr. Bugg—Do I understand that this application is going to be dismissed in a moment without a hearing? The Mayor—We want to hear you. Mr. Sugg—Mr. Dunn has suggested that circumstances have arisen within the last twelve months which may have affected Mr. Broadhead's character so much as to induce the bench to resolve not to grant the license. Mr. Dunn—lt is possible that circumstances have arisen to lead the bench to such a conclusion. Mr. Sugg—Very well ; if the bench had been kind enough to say that at tint, I should have admitted, what I cannot of course help admitting, that Mr. Broadhead, in his evidence as a witness before the commission, was obliged to admit certain things. Taking that now to be the fact I will address myself to the bench upon it. Mr. Sugg then urged the absence of any complaint against Broadhead as a hoensed victualler, and contended that after the indemnification granted by the commissioners be should not be punished for the offences he had confessed to there. When he had concluded, the Mayor said—We have no answer to make, except that the matter is in our own dia. cretion. Mr. Bugg—Then I leave it with you. It is evident it is ea I have said. The Mayor—You can draw what conclusions you like, but we admit none. Mr. Sugg—Then in anticipation of the decision of the bench I beg to observe, with all respect, and in simple fulfilment of my instructions, that we shall appeal against such decision. The Mayor—Quite right. The magistrates then retired to deliberate, and on re• taming into court after a short absence, The Mayor maid—ln the case of the application of Wil liam Broadhead for a renewal of his license to the Royal George, in Carver-street, the magistrates say the hence is not granted, because the magistrates are unanimously of opinion that V. Broadhcad is not a tlt and proper person to hold a Bowie. THR ENCROACHMENTS ON WANDSWORTH-COMMON. —Yesterday • meeting of nearly 5,000 inhabitszta of the parishes of Wandsworth and Battersea was held on the piece of land lying close to Clapham Junction, in accord ance with • premien made at the Spread Eagle, a few nights before, that the assembly should take place, and the de struction of the fence surrounding a portion of the com mon enclosed by the Brighton Railway Company, signalise its gathering. Earl Spencer learning this, applied to Sir Richard Mayne for • body of mounted police to be on the spot to cheek any damage. The request was granted. The railway company appeared also to have trepared re sistance to any aggression, for • suspicions number of "navvies" stood is knots among and in *he out skirts of the crowd apparently ready for saner. gency. The proceedings commenced with an ad dress from Mr. J. C. Buckmaater, chnrchwanien of Battersea, who implored all present to abstain from any act of violence. AM they had now to do was to protest against cruelty and injustice. Up to 1831 there had been no encroachment for generations. How, theywere told they had " no right whatever on the Common," though the House of Commons had said otherwise. If they were trespassers, why didn't Lord Spencer order thorn off, and punish them for being there ? When they saw the Com mon taken away without reaaons assigned and a hurled before them, " This land to be let on building it wee time to take action. It was no s ecre t th a t be meant to have that board down. He appealed to those present to abstain from violence that night, since it might endanger future gnomes. Two or three gentlemen hail arranged privately to break down the femme, and so assert their righter, fortified in the act by the expression of public opinion there manifested. The following resolution was carried unanimously : " That this meeting regards with ethernet mor row and regret the enclosures which have taken place on Wandsworth-common, and urges the committee appointed for its preservation to take every step to restore the privileges which the public have enjoyed from time immemorial" Cheers were then heartily given for Mr. Buckmaster, Mr. Rose, and the committee, with groans for Lord Spencer. The people did not immediately dis perse, but stood about in groups on the Common till lute in the evening. STRIAE or AGRICULTURAL LABOURER& —Yes terday 200 soldiers of various regiments stationed at the Colchester barracks were dmughted off to harvest work, in accordance with the recently-issued regulation. This is partly owing to the difficulty felt by the farmers in in ducing the labourers to remain at work at the usual rate of pay, and because of a strike amongst those who attend to the stearn.threshing machines. The farmers were obliged to send theirordinary labourers to the machine, but they too objected unless they received extra pay. The consequence is, nearlyall the steam threshers inthe vicinity have refused to work, and roost of the machines are now lying completely idle. The disaffected labourers refuse also to work with the military, because they say that the remuneration paid to the soldiers is nothing but • little beer. The farm labourers of Essex are talking of organ ising. There is an abundant crop of wheat and other cereals ; and notwithstanding the drawbacks con nected with the recent unf►vourable weather, the greater portion of the " golden grain " would and no doubt will have been secured within a few days. THE MCBDER IN BEDPORDBlllllE.—Yesterday morning Mr. Superintendent Pope took the accused men— Levi Welch, William Woraley, and James Day—before the local bench, and formally charged them with being concerned in the murder of William Bradberry, at Round Ground, at orabout midnight of Saturday, the 3rd instant, or a few minutes later. There was a great crowd of persons to witness their removal from the lock-up, and the pri soners were remanded till the petty sessions on Monday. The horse-nail makers in Warwickshire, follow ing the example of so manyother trades, are about to strike for higher wages. HEALTH EISTORED ET DII BLERY'S FOOD TO THE llroinnt, nerves, lungs, and liver of old and young. dyspepsia (Indigestion), constlpatioe, dlarrbosa, aeldity, c = hysteria, palpitation, slaspisnmess, del:Silty, had aria, tough asthma , asthma, fevers, consumption, low spirits. 60.000 annual cures which lad resisted all medicines, including that of his Holiness the Tope—Tins, at Is. lid. ; Ilb., h. ; 121 b., 2Sy. : 241 b., 404.—Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London : also at 61, Oracechurch-street; 6, Cheapalds; 89 and 160, Oxford-street ; and all grocers and ahamlita.--lA.dvertiessnant.] RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OREAT WESTERN. A further report of the committee of consultation appointed at the adjourned general meeting of proprie tors, held on the 29th March last, "to consult and advise with the board in reference to the financial position of the compar, and the organisation and manage me nt o f it s affairs,' has been published. The committee say—ln their previous report the committee informed the shareholders that the floating debt, which amounted to 1,300,000/. on the 31st July, 1866, had then been reduced be the mum of 614,000/., and they have the satisfaction to state that the liabilities under this head have been so much further re iuced as to stand now only at the sum of 341,5301., while the debentures have been regularly provided for as they have become due. These facts are of so manifest im portance that the committee may fairly congratulate the proprietors upon the material improvement in the finan cial position of the company which they indicate. It was intimated in the same report that it would probably be necessary to continue for a short period the payment of dividend In some form of the company's stocks, in order that the revenue:might be availabl e f or dischaiginglithe repudning temporary loans and liabilities, and aa the confidence of the public in railway securities has not yet recovered from the severe shock then recently encountered, the proprietors will be prepared for the issue of the dividends for the past half-year in pre ference or debenture stock of the company. The effect of this operation in the preceding half-year has been to place the credit of the company in a greatly improved condition, and, looking to the vast importance to the shareholder; of every class that the finances of the company should not only be placed beyond the risk of present embarrassment, but that they should be established upon a sound perma nent basis, the committee cannot too strongly urge upon them the wisdom of unanimously acquiescing in a repeti tion of that proceeding. The committee have been in formed that some proprietors would prefer to take deben ture stock, which takes priority over the Six per Cent. Irredeemable Preference Stock, while others would choose the latter as bearing the higher rate of interest. They, therefore, recommend that the option should be a ff ord e d to each proprietor of taking whichever of the two he may elect. Thi further investigations which the committee have made confirm the opinions expressed in the pre liminary report as to the security of the debenture and preference stocks of the company. The report of the directors to be presented at the sixty-fourth half-yearly general meeting of the Great Western Railway Company, on Friday, is published. We give the chief portions : The falling off in the passenger receipts of the last half year way be attributed to the commercial depression which has prevailed during that period. It may be ro marked that while the receipts from merchandise traffic are diminished by 2,413/. there has been an increase of 9,864/. in the receipts from coal traffic. By the exercise of strict economy in every department, the directors have been able during the same period to effect a reduction of 6,875/. in the working expensed. After providing for all fixed end preferential charges the balance would be sufficient to admit of the payment of dividends on the ordinary stocks at the following rates per cent.:—On Great Western consolidated stock at the rate of 11. Is. per cent. per annum ; West Midland (Oxford) stock, ss. ; West Midland (Newport) stock, 10s. ; South Wales consolidated stock, 31. ss. ; Vale of Neath consoli dated stock, 5/. ; leaving to be carried forward to the net half-year a balance of 20,430/. 19e. Cd. The continued add unavoidable appropriation of revenue, however, in dis charge of temporary loans and other pressing liabilities, leaves the directors no alternative but to recommend that, in lieu of • dividend payable in cash, the proprietors shootd accept an allotment of the company's stocks to an equi valent amount. This course, which has the unanimous approval of the shareholders' committee, was pursued, with the sanction of the proprietors, in dealing with the same question in the last half-year ; and having regard thereto, and to the general approval of the proprietors, which has been subsequently expressed, the directors do not hesitate to recommend the repetition of • similar course on the present oocaidod. The directors propose to avail themselves of a power whiah they obtained in the last session of parliament to imene.6 per cent. stock instead of shares in lieu of dividends. The convenience of this course will be obvious. Stock warrants can be issued for the sum of 1/. or any multiple of a pound, and it will be only in respect of sums of leas than 11. that any payment in cash will be required to be made by a shareholder. The directors propose also to give to eadh shareholder the option of receiving the amount which may be allotted him in debenture stook, bearing interest It the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. They believe that mady shareholders will be glad to avail themselves of this option, and that the exercise of it would be beneficial to the company. The expenditure on capital account during the half-year has amounted to 154,9031. 12s. 11d., of which it will be seen that 90,5421. 17s. 7d. has been expended in the supply- of additional rolling stock. The proprietors will not fail to observe, as a satisfactory item in the capital accounts, that the temporary loans, which on the 31st July, 1866, amounted to about 1,300,000/., and on the 31st J•nuary, 1867, to 859,323/., have been reduced at the close of tke last half-yearly account to 367,530/. The position of the company, in reference parti cularly to this question, has been so fully treated in the report of the shareholders' committee, that the directors deem it unnecessary to de more than refer to that document sa the expression of an independent opinion on the pre seat financial position of the company. Advantage is taken of the present opportunity to circulate among the proprietors this report, which will be read with metafic tion by all who are interested in the future prosperity of the company. Assuming that it will be adopted by the proprietors, the directors will be prepared to submit • resolution to give effect to the recommendation contained in it as to the appointment of an audit committee. In compliance with the expressed wish of the proprietors that the number of directors should be reduced, and in accord ance with the recommendation of the committee, a clause was insertedin the Various Powers Act of last session by which peoviddoa is made for • reduction in the number to ' 16. This reduction has been effected, and a list of the directors who now constitute the board is appended in the usual manner to this report. The board cannot allow the connection with their late colleagues to be severed without placing on record their sense of the valuable services ren dered by them to the company, and their regret at the ter mination of the official intercourse which has so long subsisted between them. In redemption of the pledge given by the chairman at the meeting which was held on the 29th of March last, in reference to the outlay on capital account, the director intend to submit to the pro pdetors at each half.yearly meeting, an estimate of the outlay on new works proposed to be undertaken in the course of the succeeding six months, it being understood that no expenditure in respect of works which have not already been approved of is in future to be incurred with out the previous emotion of the meeting. The proprietors will learn with satisfaction that no such expenditure is contemplated during the next six months. SOUTH-EASTERN. The report of the directors to be presented to the proprietor, at the sixty-second half-yearly general meeting and special general meeting of the South- Eastern Railway Company, on Thursday, the 29th day of August, 1867 rye that the gross income for the past half-year (including the receipts for steam boat traffic) has amounted to 714,718/. 7• 3d. or aa increase in receipt over the corresponding period of last year of 56,022/. 3s. Ild. The expenditure on the ordinary working of the line during the ball ear hes amounted to 292,3291. 17.. 7d. ; on rates, tolls, and government duty to 48,1971. 10s. 106. ; on the steamboat service to 15,822/. Se. —making a total, including payments for compensation and parliamentary expenses, of 386,794/. 17a. 7d. After making provision for all fixed charges, rents, and interest on the whole of the capital expenditure on lines and sta tions projected and open for traffic, the sum remaining applicable to the dividend on the . consolidated stock is 107,904/. 6a. 11d. This sum is equal to the payment of • dividend at the rate of 2!. 16s. 6tL per cent. per annum, but the director recommend that the whole of the interest on capital in vested in unproduotive works, including the direct Tun bridge line, be charged to revenue ; deducting this sum (29,182/. 4s. 2d.) there will remain 78,722/. 2s. 9d., which is equal to • dividend on the consolidated stock after the rate of 2/. per cent. per annum, leaving • balance of 2,3371. 14s. 9c1., and this dividend the directors recommend to be paid on Thursday, the sth September. Revenue will thus bear all interest charges. After some further statements it is stated that the plan proposed by the directors as • guarantee for the due payment of all interest on debentures and debenture stock was carried into operation on the lst August, and • proportionate amount of the annual charge has been and will continue to be placed each week to • trust account, opened in the names of George Grenfell Glyn, Fact., M.P., and Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. The amount at the credit of this account to be exclusively applicable to the payment of the interest on debentures and debenture stock throughout the year. It is also intended to request the meeting to nominate five proprietors to act as a com mittee for the selection of the suditors to be appointed by the company. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The report of the directors, to be submitted to the meeting of the proprietors to be held on Friday, I says the present board having only taken office on the 2nd of July last, are not responsible for the results of the put half-year as shown in the subjoined accounts. It ts incumbent, however, on them to record shortly the state of things which they found on assuming office, both in justice to themselves al showing the starting point from which their responsibility commences, and the results which follow from • system of disguising disagreeable I truths by fictitious dividends. With this view they think it right to subjoin the reports of Messrs. Price, Holyland, I and Waterhouse, which were made to the committee of investigation too late for publication, as they contain the fullest information as to the actual condition of the com pany. From the position of those gentlemen as profes sional accountants to the auditors of the London and North Western Railway, there can be no higher authority as to the fasts and figures. The first question is how far the published accounts for the year 1866 can be taken as correct. These amounts showed that while the amount of paid-up capital had increased in twelveyeanabys,o72,oool., or from 7,690,000/. to 15,762,000/., the net revenue had nominally increased by 113,000/. only ; and dividends were declared amounting to &2,7021. on the preference stocks, and to 214,6121., equal to 4 per cent. per annum, on the ordinary stock. This result was attained by charging 175,178/. for interest to capital, and by showing a work ing expenditure for the year 1866, of 686,884/., equal to 57 9 per cent., on a gross revenue of 1,189,944/a The reports of Messrs. Price, Holyland, and Water house show that these results are altogether fallacious. The total working expenditure for the year 1866, pro perly chargeable to revenue (exclusive of interest charged tO capital), is stated by them, from a careful examinatiou of the accounts, to be 807,204/., instead of 686,884 J., as shown by the published amounts, being at the rate of 68 per cent. on the revenue. Mesas. Price, Holyland, and Waterhouse recapitulate as follows the amounts which in their opinion should have been chargedto revenue, in addi tion to those contained in the published accounts. Main tenance of way, works, and stations, 27,918/. Bs. ; loco motive power, 10,2681. sa. 2d. ; carriage and waggon de partment, 28,4611. 12s. ; law and parliamentary charges, 44,681/. 11.. 6d. ; printing, new shares, Scc., 5,2501. 35. 3d.; commission on issue of stock to contractors, 2,144!. 19s. Bd.; additional lose on the Chant el Islands Stale. 1,664/. 10s. /xl. ; total, 120,379! . 10a. The interest upon the expenditure for works in progress in 1866 was 175,1781. 2s. 3d. They state that "If the investigation were carried back for previous years, the sum to be charged to revenue to the relief of capital would be greatly increased, especially for interest on works in progress, which alone during the last nine years amounts to 435,0001. Assuming that part of this would be chargeable to revenue, a very large amount, erroneously charged to capital in respect of this and other items, must so remain or be liquidated by future annual apportionments to revenue account." The directors wish that they could disprove these statements, but it is unfortunately only too true that for some time past the actual expenditure properly chargeable to revenue has been greatly in excess of that shown by the published accounts, and dividends have only been paid by a whole sale system of charging to capital not only interest on new lines, but repairs, renewals, law charges, and other am cruing expenses on completed lines. Thus during the years 1865 and 1866, the following charges were made to capital irrespective of an outlay of 2,682,X,361. upon new works in program : Total in 1865, 18011. 2 years. Plant 167,667 1170,422 L218,0c0 Ls., parliamentary charges, Lc. 20,3118 40,000 139,004 Charges In respect of opened lines 164,01 168,6116 332,6017 interest Total 0373,419 £551,697 6996,118 Some of these charges belong legitimately to capital, being for the first establishment of now lines recently opened, but there can be no doubt that • great part of them repre sent either:-Ist, charges obviously made to disguise inadequate charges to revenue as for renewals of perma nent way and plant, for which less was charged to revenue in the years 1865 and 1866, with • train mileage of 4} millions of miles per annum, than was charged in 1856 and 1856, with a train mileage of less than 2 millions ; or, 2ndly, charges for objects which cannot be expected to bring in any fresh revenue as for law, improvements toexist jog lines and stations, in terest on outlay on works entirely unproductive, or which will have to be abandoned, &o. It is evident - that raising capital to meet such charges by preference stock at a high interest is a ruinous process while it lasts, and that the time must come when the true state of things can no longer be concealed by fictitious dividends, and when, consequently, the capital account in courpulwerily closed by the impossibility of issuing fresh stock. If capital could not have been raised, it is obvious that the whole of the above outlay of 926,116/. moat either not have been incurred, or it must have been a clear addition to the working expenditure, in which case the whole of the gross revenue for the two years would have been exhausted, except the sum of 138,872/., which would have been insufficient to pay the debenture interest alone for one year. There seems no valid ground, there fore, to question the conclusion of Messrs. Price, Holyland, and Waterhouse that the real working expenses of the year 1866, exclusive of interest, have been at the rate of 68 per cent. on the revenue, and it will be presently seen that this is confirmed by the accounts of the hall-year which has just expired. With this correction the net income of the year 11466 was 383,000/., or actu ally less by 7,000/. than it was twelve years ago, after having raised 8,072,0001. of additional capital. It cannot be said that this result is owing to the new lines not being opened, for beyond the above 8,072,000!. of ad ditional capital, further liabilities on capital account had been incurred, exceeding 2,000,0001., while the late directors' estimate of traffic from the new lines, which it was thought worth while to complete, was 156,0001. a year gross, or 78,000!. net. The only legitimate deductions from the rate of working expenditure shown by the accounts of 1866 appear to be the amount of corupenution for accidents, which was eery large (and it may be hoped beyond the average of ordinary years), and some arrears of ke., from former years, amounting to about 16,000!., which were brought into account and extinguished. Making every allowance, however, it is impossible to escape from the broad fact that the present board inherits • state of things in which-14. The actual working ex poucliture has been, and is at present, at • rate of not less than say 65 per cent. of the gross revenue. 2nd. The bond fide net income is not greater than it was twelve years ago, when the capital was less than half its present amount. As regards the immediate financial position of the com pnny when the present directors assumed office, the sub joined report of Messrs. Price, Holyland, and Waterhouse shows that on the 3rd June, the liabilities were estimated by them as follows, irrespective of the company's liabili ties to the benevolent and other funds, amounting on the 31st May to 61,1291. 7a. 4d.: 1. Claims due, and for which immediate provision will have to be made, 297,6371. ; 2, accruing liabilities to be provided for as the works pro gress and loans flul due, 509,683/. ; 3, estimated liabilities in respect of works abandoned or in suspense, 430,000/. ; 4, Union Bank, 551,150/.; 5, amount stated tobe due by capi tal account to revenue account, 166,8261. ; remaining sub scriptions to other lines, 282,184/. ; intrest on deben ture and mortgage debt due in June and July, 18117, 85,697/. ; total, 2,323,1771. Nos. 3 and 6 in clude amounts claimed in respect of the Surrey' and Sussex, Chichester and Midhurst and West Sussex Junc tion Lines, but the directors do not admit these claims, and the legal relations between the Brighton Company and these several lines and the liabilities of the promoters of them, are now engaging the anxious con sideration of the directors and their legal advisers. After alluding to the recent arrangements for raising capital, the report says :—lt remains to state the re sults of the past half-year, ending June 30, 1867: — Amount of capital raised end of half-year—ordinary stock and shares, 5,374,595/. ; preferential stock and shares, 7,170,0841. • mortgage debt and debeature stock, 4,089,116 1 .; total, 16,6d3,795/. ; gross , 538,1121., being an in increase of 18,810/. over the oorrespondingbalf-yearof 1886. It may be observed that the small increase of receipts over the corresponding half-year of 1866 is fully accounted for by the unusually severe weather during the winter and spring, and by the loss of traffic consequent on the engine driven' strike. Also that the increase in the coaching traffic charges Is mainly owing to en unusual amount of compensations, upwards of 23,000/. having been paid during the half-year. The accounts thus stated, inclusive of rents and tolls from other companies, would have shown a net earning of 211,820/. for the half-year. and as 63,000/. of interest would probably have been charged to capital for the half-year, this would have shown sufficient to pay all the debenture and preference interest, with a surplus of 3,000/. It is probable also that under the old system the replacement of vehicles broken up, the extra compensations and a portion of the rates and taxes, would have been carried over to the next and most profitable half-year, and thus a dividend might have been declared on the ordinary stock. Such a result would, however, have been entirely fallacious and unjus tifiable, as it woald have only been attained by charging to capital and swims* accounts large sums which were really chargeable to revenue. ['Me forego ing are the chief portions of there port, which is of • most e laborate character, giving full details under the six headings respecting current revenue, expenditure, de. Messrs. Price and Co.'s report to the committee of in vestigation is appended.) WEST LONDON RAILWAY.—The half-yearly ge neral meeting of shareholders was held yesterday after noon at the offices, 16, Tokenhouse-yard, Mr. William Hartridge in the chair. The following report was pre sented :—" The directors regret their inability to report any farther proreas in their desired object for extin guishing the M est London Company. They can only recommend the re-appointment of the committee consti tuted for the purpose of endeavouring to bring about such arrangement. It appeared from the statement of ac counts presented that the receipts up to the 30th of June last amounted t 0317,512/. 186.5 d., and that the disburse ments for the same period were 316.'J441. se. 2d., leaving an available balance on deposit of 550/., and on current account 18/. 13s. 3d. The report and accounts were for mally received and adopted, and the committee having been re-appointed, in accordance with the recommenda tion of the directors, the proceedings terminated. LONDON AND GLASGOW ENGINEERING AND IRON SHIP-BUILDING COMPANY (LIMITED),—The report of this company shows, after writing off 1,0001. from preliminan , expense. and making reserves for depreciation, an avail able total of 9,096/. A dividend of U. per share, being at the rate of 44 per cent, per annum, is reoommended, which will absorb 4,5571 ., and leave 4,5411. t o b e carne . forward. The amount of the proposed dividend has been limited by the consideration that the present depressed condition of the trade is likely to continue for some time, and it is added that " the balance remaining, with the present available capital, will be sufficient to enable the directors satisfactorily to conduct the business of the company." ORTSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAT.— FRIDAY, Auouer 23.—Admissions on payment, 2,902; ditto by smarm tickets, 1,040 ; total visitors, 3,942. MOLLER'S COD LIVER Om—The First Prize, and only . .ilver Medal at the Paris Exhibition, has been given to Peter Moller, for his purest Norwegian Gad Liver OIL The selection was made from about thirty competitors. This Nor wegian oil is exclusively used in case. of debility and consump tion. and the contracts for the North London Consumption Hos pital are now made with Peter Moller.-Sold by all Uhemlats, is. 3d. per bottle.--(Advertiannenti MARKETS. SUGAR.—BnIsrm., Arc rsr tt.—The raw sugar market i is marked by considerable diluent, and were importers press sales é decline would have to be submitted to. The, appear, however, indifferent about males, unless at the fa current rates. Most. of the purchases made have bes, Barbedoes, on account of refiners. No sales of dOating cargoes are reported. Refined goods are the turn in favour of the buyer. Foreign loaf is steady. Treacle, .12s. 3d. to La. per owt. Rums are quiet at late rates. COTTON.—Lrezaroor., Auousr 23.—The import of cotton has been unusually large during the last few duo, and in expectation of an increased supply upon the m ar k et buyers have taken a comparatively limited amount throughout the week, prices closing generally below the quotations of last Thursday. Sea Island is in limited re , quest, and slightly easier in value. The quotations of American are reduced id. to id. per lb. in the common arid middling qualities ; the better aorta remain unchanged. The late improved demand for Braid has subsided, and with an increasing desire to sell prices are very irregular, at a decline of id. per lb. in Naranbam, sad id. per lb. in other descriptions. Egyptisa continues very irregular in price, and heavy of sale, at id. per lb. decline. Smyrna is gill neglected, and has fallen id. per lb. liminess in L,,,t ladle has been considerably checked by the large supply, and prices are d. to id. lower in most instances. hiw(u. !store have taken during the week 1,160 bales ; expoiten, 20,050 bales ; and the trade 38,130 bales. We have h a d fair demand to-day and a quiet market, prices unchanged. The sales are 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 are for export and speculation. The following are the official quota lions :—Fair Orleans 13d. ; middling, 11d. Fair Mobil e, 12id. ; middling, 10/d. Fair Uplands, 121 d. ; middli ng, 100. COTTON 000Df3.—Idescismereft, Aunt's? 11.—r e have again to report a very unsatisfactory market iu shipping yarns to-day. There is an absence of liei• nese for all markets, and to effect sales spinners s k i agents would have to make a concession of ?d per lb. on the rates of last Friday. The market has been inactive and depressed all the week. So long as the Liverpool cotton market continued steady sellers of yarns anceeeded in maintaining their rates with difficulty, but the delis in the raw material seems to bare precipitated the fall ei prices, and they have given way with unexpected rapidity. In home trade yarns we have also had a very flat market to-day, at 41 per lb. decline, and there is nearly a total absence of business. The cloth market has been extr a . ordinarily dull since Tuesday, and not only business been inactive, but prices have alum further weakness. Buyers have been very cautious, sad restricted in their operations, especially for goods suited to the markets of India. Such Wiese as they do make we made at lower prices than they have yet been able to do business at, and are leading to few sales. To-clay we barn • market quite as dull and inactive as any we have had during the week. To some extent perhaps the cloth market is a little firmer than that for yarn. Standar. turera have made no change in their selling quotation% shine Tuesday, and though with some of them easier terms might be made under special circumstances, and for large quantities, they are unwilling to make an alteration so considerable as that quoted in pal). The disappearance from Manchester of two Levantine Jews, who have be e n operating here as D. Rodetti and Co. and L Gatipob and Co., has precipitated some unpleasant disclosure , . These parties had purchased goods in Manchester, Brad. ford, Leeds, Halifax, and Nottingham, in cotton cloth. linen, woollen, and lace to large amount., and are supposed to have left debts owing to the sweet: of something like 80,0001. in these various centres of nutacturing industry. From two houses in the cowl trade here they obtained goods to the amount of n,uto.. each. At one of them, manufacturers and commission agents, they were requested to show they had mut before they were trusted, and by way of meeting the re quest they professed to telegraph to Paris, producing OM after what purported to be a telegram from a highly r, • apectable banking house in Perim, which vouchNl for their high respectability, and said they were authorised to ma., purchases on behalf of the French government. Thiy have obtained goods, it is said in Manchester alone, to t amount of 30,000/. or 40,000 f. The letters and etatemer I by which they obtained credit are said to have been exce , '• ingly plausible. CORN.—CNer.werQaD, Auo veer 23. Tbe westh r during the week has been fine for harvest operation-, except a thandaratorin on Monday night, which a little delayed the carting where it wsi heivi. There NU larger show of wheat than usual in harvest at market tN day, and quality very various, also prices, best white making 6.3a.tt0 % - s. extra, hits. ; red, Ws. to 6... A tea samples of new ba rley, but we cannot tell the quality at present. LINCOLN, ACGUNT 23.—We have had a small attend. awe today is eonsequenoe of harvest operations but a , had several samples of new wheat o ff ering. 'As prigs were very irregular we do not give quotations. LIVERPOOL, Arcrmr23.— ere was a thin attendance a our market to-day, and the transactions in wheat hme been of a limited extent, and only where sellers submitted to a reduction of 2d. to 3d. per cents) any business beyond retail been practicable. flour nominally Is. per sack cheaper. Beans and peas unchan:el. Indian corn rather lower. Oats unchanged. Ostn.o.l rather lower. WAKEPTELD, Avower Z3.—The weather bi brilliant. sal should it continue the harvest in Yorkshire will, we m ourns, be pretty general nest week. In the anticipation that new wheats will ran down soot @billings, and which, under favoured circumstances is a reasonable assumption, our millers remain very careless, and only purchase for their daily requirements ; the few cotchells of old qn.dity remaining on our market are held firmly for late rah*. Other *Aides as before. COALS.—LogDow, AUGCNT 23.—Holywell Main, lit; North Pelton Gas, 123. 9d.; Walls End Harlon, 17c ; Walls End Frunwellgate, 17a. 3d. ; Walls End Haswell, 19a. 6d.: Walla End Helton, 196. 6d. ; Walls End Reno Lyons, 17a. ; Walls End Original Hartlepool, 14 al. —Ships at market. 38 ; sold, 29. V TRAFFIC RETURNS. RAILWAY& Mtge Par Mer- Total, 70h4 OPlek. efeeeee. elsandko. 1887. Ira Week ending August 12. £ It it Belgian Eastern June Wm. 24 117 180 437 - ,7 Week ending August 17. Pembroke and 27 b Teny . .. .. . . . NO -. Week ending August Brecon and Merthyr 72 112 817 1,4101 Widentan MACCLESFIELD, BOLLINOTON, AND MARPLE RAD wAT.—At the half•yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company, on Thursday, at the London•road Station. Manchester, Colonel Pearson in the chair, it was reportri that 78,100/. had been received on capital account to toe end of July, and that 76,7241. had been expended, :eerie; a balance of 14751. in the hands of the bankers. The gineer had reported that fair progress had been made a the construction of the works during the pact half rear. On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. Al* wood, the report was adopted ; and this concluded the business. • [Advertinement.]—HOLLOWAY'S Pitts are the Medic:hie most in repute for curing the nmitifariess nm% , " which beset mankind, when dry sultry weather widesh red place to chilly drenching days. 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C MA Bwan P 11 a.m., Murata trt:l t au l F col publicat wow grai sabjecte Glary ad Area, C room, at oat, to I fully Li lamas, Lt 1217".•te a tel 1(. I TVs o !sluts sr wholason Landon: wholerL red sr; 'WM n Patterns. and was iii - Oi i I/phobia Newlagt6 P R' (Pm or a rig oil or Ho Med glyc D IN Th thte pare the Stoma sr the bet aaaDtal ce.. Chen chemists t cum VI loafer/ poll di nor rola vok sod mu Dort. Bold or °Woke( THY NE C ' THE their sea the net w the rate of absorb she number of 6,921; anc being an the corm Into cone half-year's of 419/. Bank ; ab Martin's-hi filiptilledl prietors sg ballet ; tin backs, is ( future. T Mg the att justice an, regulating and there i will take s will ntheva from the Some very have been tons or eft expect to Miss T Mackay, C morning of fifty single 200 feet to single wom cut to i n , toria. Tin side, with 1 Parallel lin al a large the matron the foot of fitted up w could be pr manhy's the girls ge flow is els closets, &11l Clothe& II fur Hlw P. i n for berths, ROBPIT, PALL —Tho dustwg kit BIRTHS. BllVlS.—Atignst 21, at Caroline-place, Clain:hien. liirtel la' site mile of Mr. R. R. beefs, of a min. EVEAA — August 22, at Wmtbournepark, risewin of I , E" Nag., of a daughter. FLlNT—August 21, at Spring hill, Nollswurth, the • Flint, Esq. of a daughttr. OLASR.—Alseast 21, at Stevenage, A•r" , A" V (;12n. PUN:kJ:TT —July 24, at Malabar-hi:l, lambs), N. vik T. F. Punnet& Eau. of a daughter. BENI NANT.—August 22, at Keuslostompark•ganhu , of F. W. Remnant, Esq., of a son. SMART.—August 21, at Roltomlodge, Belsizepark , the wife of Y. B. Smart, of &daughter. MARRIAGES. DAVIRS—PARSONTS.—August 22, at St. (Mem". square, by the Rev. J. N. Masten, John Smalltime. late Rey. S. Davies, NI A.. of the Orange. 61 .fiu"K L Mary ElMabeth tux, daughter of the late N. est,ol , • Poutardams, Clianiori,mnshlre. EWING—JACKSON.- ,t mit st 22, at Trinity Chunk. lin' by the Rev. W. Cartni NI A., W • E. l ug' Oloueester.plaoe, Portreamaquare, to Edith. ww-ed • daughter of Wm. Jackson. Fay.. M.P. HOWELL—HOWELL —August 21, at St. by the Rev. N. A. Garlaud, Charles Aucu to- - Howell, Ems, of Oporto, to Frances Kate, Jsugnoi • • Air. L S. H. Howell. j°l'l4. the P R I e J. Le r. RER Mans —A reki d . A 2 l l frod , at I St a tM j p. 4* -in n i . ..o c r t f hl' by Kett of Rank Fleld, Ashton-upon Mermv, to Ada the la R. Pikher, Fag., late of St. Georh ,. ."' late 13eigravia, Loudon. DEATHS. I • By•NsoN. —Amend 21, at to bury, Kent, Visa F. • i• aged 45. , 111.11EEN. August 21, at Old Oalt-.L.. '". sloth , ' ' H. ll• Queen, seed 67. tt PACO MT —August 21, at Hampstmel -green, Asa Page. 64. SAPWELL.—August 21, at Shepherd•street. MaY'sir• P 7 Gay. the wife of 8. B. Sepwell, aged 21. wrzu,..—Av i rost, 20, at klvastotephsee, sitith K easing ( don, Anne Rites, relict of W. A. Stall. Eei WALLER.—August 22, at Kingsland, Mary Wailer. late T. T. Waller, aged 86. Pria Ln ta .m and isnst. Pubflah h ;M a b: WIUJLK efta 1 17 j O O. ll . A mi ck: v . Office, la Loinharileirelt. In the Tosnoct of tea."' SATCNDAY, A COM' M. 1807.