The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-20 00:00:00

° would stand this no longer ;" that ho had better relinquish his estate altogether, and forthwith he sends out a mandate to dismiss the niggers, to sell the sock, to dismantle the house., and make away with es" mill " for old iron ; in fine, " to throw the estate out of cultivation altogether," without the smallest hope oft ear obtaining from it another fraction of • halfpenny. This is told to us with lamentation by a well in kesh;il West Indian, as the fate of a proprietor, one ( thi s o re class. Of "a" proprietor, do we say? It is the hike..;v of hundreds of them ! Nothing can be awe graphic, mu.'_' true, or more complete, than oar florreepoodent's sketch en han'a-dmsn nose. Ho has given us, in a few word', the closing scene of West Indian recklessness and "ruin." And the WOW West lodia proprietor he describes is, msfll be booed to say, at this hour cursing the limancipation Act, exclaiming against the isjastiss et Great Britain, besieging the Colonial-ofte• with grievances, to which the authorities therein pay_ so mot of attention, and assisting at meetings of " West India merchants, proprietors, and planters," at which the strongest possible resolutions are arrived at, cash et which may form the subject of distinct resolution) la the House of Commons, to be moved by Mr. Peru BoaTnwtog, whenever that worthy again ob. Mite a seat in parliament. Gracious heavens! Is it possible to conceive such a combination of infatuation, recklessness, extra's pace, credulity, folly and despair as this (our corns. spondee.) tale unfolds ! Here are proprietors know- Jog little er nothing of their property—ignorant of its management—entrustiog their own fortunes and the fate of others to agents of whom they know nothing, except by reputation or correspondence, and sending out their thousands, at the simple dem and or recon dition of those agents, to be emplojed " ia promoting the cultivation of t he estates," how they . know, and with what advantage they have not cient iiiformation to appreciate. Nevertheless, the mosey goes out : they have cheap these proprietors will tell you, everything that is is their pewee—they console themselves with that reale tion as they sign the cheque. Well, a couple of yeses pass over aid they see to symptoms of the least ine. turn. Does that awaken them ? Not a bit of it. Are they aroused to look further into the state of affairs, aid to exert their own energies . to avert the threatened ruin ? Oil the contrary, they give themselves up with eonstitutionsl resignation, to what they seem to think "their late ;" and instead of personally endeavouriog to redeem their losees, they order " the estate to be thrown out of cultivation altogether," thus destroying themselves without even a decent appearance of a struggle. Would any other proprietors in the whole world resign themselves to despair and ruin in this fashion, after making such an investment ? Would any other body of men, let them be proprietors, merchants, msnufactuters, or who they nay, have made such an investment in " improvements," with even a chance of being obliged to abandon, not merely those improvements, but their capi tal, estate, and everything else at the expiration of two years? This case, narrated by a West Indian, places his friend the proprietor upon the horns of this dilemma : either he must have acted in utter igno rance of his own concerns in making hie investment, or else he must have given way to mere despair in abandoning his possessions. Our acquaintance with the West Indian proprietary convinces us that be stands fixed, not on the one horn or on the other, but on both. Sapp:re, this West India proprietor had taken a different coarse. Suppose, when he wu called on to invest in improvements so high • sum as 3,0001. a year over and above his ordinary outgoing', be had gone himself out to the estates—had examined, in a business-hke way, into the intended appropriation of his money ; had made a business-like calculation of the probable returns upon it, and had acted upon what he saw with his own eyes and what he calcu lated with his own knowledge of arithmetic? Is much a case as that, how many thousand pounds is it probable he would have been the richer on this 20th of October, in the year of Grace 1849 P Or suppose, when the 6,000!. was sunk and gone— suppose our West Indian friend had even then taken a different course. Suppose, instead of "throwing the estate out of cultivation altogether," he had gone out to the colony himself, had commenced a whole sime reduction of the expenditure upon his property, bad laboured for a few years upon the spot, to right the ship after the &mage she had sustained; had thrown over the lumber which encumbered the decks, had taken in some of the superfluous sail, had trimmed a little to meet the unfavourable weather she is said to be encountering;—why, would there not have been ago chance of his getting into port, " with damage," no doubt, but at least without the owner being liable to the charge that he was the first to abandon his owe ship ? In the case before us, however, the evil is woos plisht d, and is irremediable. Why do we refer to it? To afford an opportunity for blaming or con demoirg the P By no mean . Oar object is "Adel dii )f e c r i rt i t i . itar iar as we may be from ac quitting the West Indiana, this is not the mo ment I.) assail them. Their distress, in a great measure, they way have brought upon them selves; but in their hour of that distress our duty is not to increase their sufferings, but to afford them our assistance. We desire to point out the evils of the existing West Indian system—if we could do so with advantage, we should be glad to point out how many of those evils may be remedied. We take no despairing view of West Indian affairs: we be lieve there are prosperous days in store for those possessions. But, like the landlords here, the West Indian proprietors must abjure exploded fallacies. Slavery and taxes upon food have both for ever passed away. The sys tems of management which both created must also undergo a chatgo. In the case of the West Indies that cnaege must be more extensive than the change at home, because the system is more deeply ingrafted, and is more atrociously corrupt and has fewer exist ing influences opposed to it. But we warn the pro prietors—aod the facts we dwell on here sustain our position—we warn the proprietors that either that " SYSTEK " must go, or THEY must go. There is no alternative for them. They most either abandon their estates, or abandon the existing mode of manaff ing those estates. And in pressing this position—in showing them now and hereafter, what must and can be done—if we are obliged to tell them painful truths, we beg of them to believe that we administer the nauseous medicine for their own advantage. A NEW HARBOUR OF REFUGE IN THE UNITED STATES. By the following report of the Superintendent of the lisked States Coast Surrey to the Secretary of the Treeenty, it will be me that a good harbour has recently Bess hoed, by the actin of the winds and waves, about twelve gaeles seen of Cape Hatteras. Asa place of shelter to non cm that dangerous edit, when a storm is um* 10. it .111 beef great value to eommorce. The nest depth of water at low tide is fourteen feet. Dose Moen Station (Near North Dearisid, N.H.), July J 6,1819. ensegneme of the Werfewas—a. noshed ken Ihsheant Coismeadig Mimi, sad @heady repented to you, ia regard to the hapertesse of the inlet opened is 1646, south of Ceps Hatteras, I hive bed a recessehannee 'lade of it by Lienteneat Geonweillec James Mies, IJ.B N., Assistant in the Cunt Damp. Mdsh ember the review statement of the vase of tide heist as s harbour of refuge. The report of Lieut. Akin amain the Isibewbg anoints el Innen to navWoes: "This opening beam from - Hatteras Light 8. 70 deg. W., dieted attest 12 miles. It will be easily recognised by the reseallibly mud hautncek covered with trees on the east side of the entrance. The least depth at low water on the bar is 14 feet. It should be approached from the earthward a' d eastward, and as the breakers seldom extend mainly across the ennead, it can be readily discovered by the smoothness of the water between them ; at that point steer corgi:net by west, keeping aloe' the breakage as the starboard hand until well in, then heal MOM to the northward, mad anchor soon after inside the seed pits, which form the esteems, and which, together with the her °staid •, afford walleient protection spinet all wish hem that quarter; the bed anchorage, however, hr a steed dresses 10 feet of water is where the eehooser's hetwashiss is narked es the chart, sad where the current gal be Mt moth lees thee is aid eheassi; the aureate sad tides are influenced very mesh by the WWII; the greatest veleeity we' found was three tomb between the two said phe ; the was NO sad fall wee 2.2 feet There are two opseiega, the use to the westward is mall sad has a very searew - sag twists channel, sad mat be smoldered of &tie er no intperteset while so near a Milk Seer and better one. Good Ada am be obtained ti, Bahasa Islet at say that" The sketch of Liestaseat Comeeesdiag Ablea's repos neisesece has bees aniseed to peblicstios, alad will be at once placed in the hash dm esgrever. Toy A. D. Dams, Il le r st p. tr a l atm . Am. W. K. ISAndiily Ses. et Unary. NEW YOBY, Ocr. 3. M. Poulain, the French minister, has arrived in this city, where he will for the present remain. He is evidently sorry fx his mistakes, and is very much in hopes that he will somehow be enabled to remain. A rumour is afloat as to this affair, which I shall allude to in another part of this let ter. We are in possession of later news front Yucatan. A brig arrived here en Sunday from Sisal, which place she left on the 10th of September. The Indians had advanced within fifteen miles of that place, and an attack was hourly expected. Great alarm existed among the inhabitants; but the authorities of the Aoaoe, 'wino bean reinforced by 600 trams from ' Merida, was determined to Main a stout reashmee. It is the opinion of many sensible persons, that the Indians, being numerically superior to the Yenta nese, showing equal bravery, and burning with the desire of renege, will finally obtain possession of the country. Wave an snivel from the east coma of Africa; the brig Margaret Anne having arrived here from the island of Mozambique, with dates to July 6. The French settlements on th e coast have been attacked by the natives, and burnt to the ground, and neither wood nor water could be obtained by vessels visiting that coast. We have also, by the way of New Orleans, advice§ from the city of Mexico to the 224 of August. The Indians had been ravaging the state of Durango to a feuful extent. General Uraga had obtained an im portant vistory over the rebels in the Sierra Gordo, and a regiment of cavalry had been sent from Mon terey to Matamoras, to reinforce the troops already a.m. Mr. Cliffurd, our minister, having been re called from Mexico, had his audience of leave as the oth. The circumstances attending it are .remartable and serve to justify some of the predictions which made at an early day; in tbetiourse of this correspond ence. All pains were taken to show him honour. The President received him in his audience-chamber, surronaded by his cabinet, and a guard of honour was in attendance, presenting arms. l'dr. Clifford made a very complimentary address, to which the President replied as follows : Direr I feel a lively pleasure to listening to tio neanifeela. tdsa of the friendly disposition of the goverment of the limited Mates of the North towards Merino, sod he mete. liss Mdo all in its power that peace may be pressrvai be. SIMS the two republics. I beg of your excellency, Mr. I:l3lbrd, that in oar name you may be pleased to manifest ta the most iniosinat President of your nation that the govern ment of Mexico cherishes like sentiments, and that Its met coma drive in Is see daily augmented harmonious relation Minn bah emearise. But I see with positive repel the a=loa Mtn Minable a minister as your excellency, Mr. ,who. In discharging the functions of your miasma, to eassatleg the actual relations of good undnutanding, sad le earieg to he forgotten the motives of discord between bee republics, have fulfilled the duties of a diplomatist, OM issagher, sad lover of the peace of notices. I hope that year szaelloney, on returnieg to your °emery will do ell tied yea ay believe aftweary tl promote the friendship of red andentanding of our people, and you may be save east you carry with you the sympathies and kind renew lumen of this government and of the Mexicans. When this was over, the President, accompanied by his secretary, went to the minister's house to take have of him there ' • the first instance of the kind re cordcd to the history of tl.at country. He informed him that he had ordered an emote of the National Guard to accompany him to Vera Cruz ; that his talents, his love of justice, and his gentlemanlike de portment had endeared hint to Mexican hearts, and that if such ministers is he bad previously repre sented the United States in Mexico, toe friendly re lations c f the two countries would never have been interrupted. (Mr. Clifford has since arrived in Wash ington.) Letters from Puebla, seven days later, in form us that the &arm in regard to the secret expedi tion still continued. The conducts for the English mail steamer passed through on the 23th, with specie amounting to 1,300,000 doh. The stocks of merchandise in the oountry were large, and business was very dull. The weather had become remarkably fine. A communication from the Mexican Blinieer for Foreign Affairs has been addressed to the British ministry, through the authorities of Belize, Honduras, complaining of the ass stance afforded by that colony to the insurgent Indians; and the reply received was. that the colony had only exercised its undoubted rights. Some difference had arisen with the governor of Jalisco, in conszquerce of his having imposed a duty of 61 per cent. on the tobacco imported into the country during the period of American (meow lion. The matter bad become the subject at dip:4)- 121111 C correspondence. We have by the way of Savannah intelligence from Havannah to the 14th of September. There have been 1,349 cases of yellow fever, and 84 deaths during the month of August in the Ks vannsh. In the rest of the island, same month, 234 cases, 12 deaths. A en•pension bridge is about to be constructed across the river San Juan, from Matanzas to Pueblo Nuevo. _ _ _ . . We ises received about ten days' later intelligence from California by overland conveyance. The Ameri cans had determined on driving . all the foreigners away from the mines, and had given them notice to quit by a certain day, or they would expel them by force. The amount of gold taken from the mines 'outlaws to be large. Before closing this letter we shall probably have a telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, giving us the news by the Falcon, from Chagres, with a month's later intelligence from Cali fornia. A friend, writing me from San Francisco, says he is about to visit San Jose and Puebla (the finest part of California), where the most delicious fruits are abundant. When I again hear from him you shall have the results of his journ ey . Within a few dais paseit has leaked out that as hag ago as May last Mr. Rush, our minister Paris, wrote to our Secretary of State, that Louis Napoleon had declared if he went to war with any country it would be with the United States. Thb communication from Mr. Ruh wu dated the 3rd of May, and it was on the 12th of May M. Poulin made his uncivil demand on our government. This infor mation comes direct from Washington, and has got into our newspapers. Most of them think the re mark has been misunderstood. I do not. Believing that a crown is the aspiration of the President, that he believes his popularity will carry him through every thing, when events mature, I should not be surprised if he sought to give a turn to the French sentiment against this country, solely bseaw it is a republic. If this was his ibtentin be has now the opportunity, for General Taylor h asi taken his ground, cad he will be supported in it by the country without respect to party. Our navy is pant. ing for active service, and if France wishes to lose a few ships, and roll up a few more millions of francs debt, she has the opportunity. I take it for granted that Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Leeds would have no objections to the exchange of a few blows between the United States and France. Mr. Abbot Lawrence, our new minister to your court, is probably with you ere this. It is due to him to state that he was opposed to the recall of the late Secretary of Legation, and had Mr. Clayton listened to him or to Mr. Everett, there would have been no recall. It is doubtful whether the gentleman who fills the poet will be acceptable to the United States' Senate. Mr. Clayton certainly goes on Mun i= a style which is rather unusual for an Secretary of State. Amara railway, reaching from the city of New Took to Albany, on the east bank of the river, is vapidly approaching its completion. It was opened a tow days since for a distance of about 45 miles. Thin Meatus is one almost of a romantic character. It is oaths very edge of the river, and sometimes moms its small estuaries. It piercis mountains and emus* numerous streams. Its grade is easy, and its wide line, about 145 miles, will be traversed in four ham Already, as a natural consequenoe, all the pic turesque eadbeautiful rites on the east bank of theHud sert aIIIS become valuable, and one company is formed to ielehlisb a large town for the residenoe of me anies and working men, whose business lies in New York. The whole is to be built up for them at ones, the dwellings in which are to be rented by them et ems dollar per week, with the option of s purchase, by an additional small weekly paymen until the pluebeee-money is paid. The town is to be within thirty minutes' ride from New York. This will re lieve the sky from a class of sufferers who are now Allied to live in narrow dirty streets, and are sob jaded to every kind of diseenifort. After the Ist of November we shall have a mac natio line between New York and Halifax, and I 'ball avail myself of it for the benefit of your readers. They will have two days later news than that which the SISMIIIMI tram this port can possibly carry with tbava, cad onolleso three days later. The Creasing Cer yesteeday for Mares with a lugs new hw d pleengers. Fanigestion to con *NM 01. waked data matins. to be 00011111111, tory of the rumours that the Americana mean to drive all the Mexicans and South Americans from the mines. By . the arrival of the bark Einem Corning, Capt. Corning, we are in receipt of files of the Rio Janeiro Jornal do Comercio to the 19th of August, nice days later than previous accounts. Quite an excitement had existed in Rio Janeiro from the fact of the British ship Apollo having arrived there on the Bth of August with several cases of cholera on board. The conduct of the captain is much praised by the papers. It appears thtt immediately on his arrival off the port, without waiting to communicate with the •".. I fhorities, ne . noisietl "allow fief, and come to anchor rat a long distance from the Mid inttirrege ground. He bad on board 700 soldiers, and was bound to China. During the voyage to Rio symp toms of the cholera made its appearance, and be fore their arrival they lost 18 oases ; the last one on the day previous. At that time, however, all were healthy on board. At :a meeting of the authorities and those con nected with the marine service, both Brazilian and foreign, it was determined to afford the vessel all the assistance which the exigencies of the ease required, at the same time to take ell due precautions and pre ventive measures that should be deemed proper by competent judges. The Apollo was met to Grand Island on Brazilian coast, a place peculiarly ap propriate to disembark the crew and soldiers, and perform the cleaning and painting of the vessel, and at the fast accounts no further cases had oc curred. ACCRust' bad been received from Para to the 18th ; Mamnham, 21st; Cara, 24th of July ; and Pernam- Imo, to the Bth of August. In all these provinces perfect quiet reigned. At Pernambuco the elections had passed off unusually quiet, and the government party were in the ascendancy. From Buenos Apes and Montevideo nothing later had been received at Rio. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1849. COr Court. WINDSOR, Ocr. 19.—Her Royal Higbee.* the Dulles of Heat dined with the Qaoen and hie al High est'. The Earl of Carlisle, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mn. Pnippe, had the honour of joining the royal party at dinner. _ - - The Hon. Mina Stanley, and the Hon. Mile Mac donald, have relieved the Hon. Miss Cavendish • and the Hm. NW Kerr, in their duties as maids el honour in waiting to the Quin. (From last Right's Casette.) FOREIGN OFFICE, Ocr. 17.—The Queen has been pleased to approve or Mr. John Adams as Cooed, at Ber muda, for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, Ocr.l9.—The Queen has been gird appolat Jobs J. Macintosh, Esq., to be Colonial rutty sad Prothonotary for theTrarks sad Cakes Isleads also William Henry M'Coy, Esq.. to be Registrar sad Secre tary, Clerk of the Enrolments and Clerk of the Connell, and Joseph Paden*, Beg., to be Provost Marshal, for the island of Domiales. _ _ COMMISSIONS SIGNED DT THE LORD-LIEITTENANT OF NOBTILAMPTONaIiIII.I. —.Edward Allesloy BOOf i t g iton Ward Boughton Leigh, Eq. ; John Edmond & mc a sq.; Philip Dasoombo Pauscafort Damon* EN., to be Deputy Lieutenants. _ _ _ COMMISsION SIGNED EY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OP ATASKIKI.—Jaums Lindssay Crawford, M.D., to be Assistant Burgeon in the Ayrshire assistant of Yeomanry Cavalry. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LOED•LIEUTENANR ON Bli/CLMOULIIIIIII.—DougIas John Dialyses, Adjutant, to serve with the rank of Captain in the Brecknockshire Militia. DEATH or Slit THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, BART.- This venerable baronet, who was for many ysan a prouo neat member of the lower house, died, on the 17th Mt, at the Royal Crescent, Bath. The deceased gentleman was a son of the first baronet, by the eldest daughter of William Buckler, Esq., of Bonham, Wiltshire, end wee bons in 1778. Sir Thomas was colonel of the 2nd Somerset Militia, and represented Sumenetskire in parliament for many years, on conservative principles. lie feeld p lige na mpertit the latter mentioned county as well as in domed was twice married, vie., first 1796, to the daugh ter of Sir Thous Dalrymple liesketh, Bart., and secondly, in 1803, to the daughter of Ambrose Goddard, ~ of Swindon, Wilts. Hi succeeded his father in 1815. Req Sir Thomas had issue two children by his first marriage, sad six by his second. He is succeeded by hie son Johm, by kis first marriage. The family claims descest from an eminent legal functionary of the reign of Queen Elisabeth. DEATH 01 MAJOR-GENERAL MUNRO, B.H.—Thin distineodelesd "Moor died on the 16th last. at Redwine., close to the Portobello Barracks, Dublin, the station of the Royal Artillery. The deceased officer was connected with the service for upwards of 65 years, sad saw during his career some rough service. He served throughout the Egyptleat campaign of 1801, and took part in the memorable scum of March 21, and the siege of Aboukir. He also pre coded with the expedition Is Welchem, and was at the siege of Flashing. He was one of the artillery officers ro mped in the action at New Orleans, 23rd of December, 1814. In the subsequent year he eared on the continent, sod wee with the army of occupation. He was connected with the Sib battalion of the Royal Artillery. Msjor-Gen. Munro received a medal for his services in Egypt His first commission was obtained in 1795, and his last, that of Maier- General, in 1846. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Her Majeety the Queen Dowager paned an in different night an Thursday night. Dr. B. Bright attended her Majesty at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, on Thursday, and afterwards left for to en, Sir David Davies continua; in attendance on her Majesty. Yesterday the (lama Dowager remained in the same state of indisposition. Dr. Bright re turned yesterday to the Priory from London, and remained in attendance on bar Majesty Mat evening. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY TO OPEN THE COAL EXCHANGE. Yesterday the chairman and other members : of the committee appointed by the eorpontioa to , make the arrangements for her Majesty's ppttiion amities ' occasion of the opening of the Coal Exchange, assembled in the Guildhall for the purpose of commeseing their labours. The Lord Mayor continued with the committee during the day. Hie lordship aad the commitlee, attended by b a iled. Bunning, the City architect, took • view of the new build inn and the approaches to it from the Custom Howe Quay, where it is proposed tier Mejeety sad the members of the royal family will land from the Admiralty barge on the 30th last. The moment It was understood that it woo the royal • wish to p by Water the authorities at the Costoni.licius placed beiEdbeg at the disposal of the committee to enable them to carry out all the details of these operstMas is a sauna calculated to do honour to the City of Leedom. The committee came to the determination that an oreasseatal and meet extensive corned way ehould be erected °prods, to the centre of the Custom House, and extending to the entrance of the Coal Exchange, sufficiently capacious, after all due preparations shall have un made for her Ma jestp's regress to the new building, to accommodate • coe d duabb umber of their fellow-au:ens to mitosis the pro mote* by water and the Queen's landing. They isetneeted Mr. Beanbag, the able architect of the New Coal Ex change, to provide all the suitable decorations sad ABMs" in such a manner as would be calculated t• give the meet sag nificaut effect upon the occasion. This day the committee of the Court of Miasma will meet for the pur of making each regulations as may be necessary to be Umamml ia the eeremedal, as for am their authority as magistrates extends, concreted with the streets and the river. We have reason to believe that the fu wring arrangement, which is copied from the report of the presiding' of the Lan des-bridge Committee on the ocemion Odle visit of Willisai the Fourth, will be strictly adhered to ea the 80th init., so far ea the City will be concerned : "T. ilmilimes their Ma jesties' passim down the rim • and, to gssient seadaska and isaaveniesee, two parallel Cues rinds Trsw firmed into a paws, of about 150 feet wide, ossiblims el a doable, and in many instances a triple, line of barges. Msamele, yachts, and craft of every description, which monad ism the "promote/gate of Somerset H ow, ne xt r WsMdse. bridge, to shout half way between Boutheark-bridge sod the se regp, when the line became more opts, and gra dually ft the stain of tie new brides on m side ei I as to aegis spree Ise the boats in tits pcoesesina to land lb* lambs and retire. The termination of the liar at *ass relate wee timed by the za llit City with Mae astispation barge mai horde = l t statisa, them Odes L i t:Tiara (the Mahe lien. • ?otr i b zl e s mus d Statham' Chnogeny wen Tether in edemas • of the end all were provided with Wads of meals. FiWand of all dieeripliims were breaght into re ciden, _sad eves the "Neel, below bridge all appeared in their Milky decorations."; Amongst the numbers assembled yesterday in the Guild , hall, dame was ens preilemiaaat feellag, voe that Her i Hut Omahas Majesty would be pleased to 'wisdom His , dlighness the Prime of Wales to he grateful aids's' 1 of Leedom on Ike sespidoes owsira Res CASE or CATALEPSY IN NOTTlNG zass.—Essly sa Tuesday morning last a wears Is 'sagest oiroaretslisse. used she. Cassasght, was hisselit Is the tels ... of the silos werishows, is this tom k a ebb of . lialeseedisary symptoms el isemiliby had taks=Sese veer early that weesisg, sad is hoolossd, lessonlas greatly alarmed, had boo waroysi le lbe swiss VIITi wee at bet inegised to he a mos , mud restedise wan westquatly Ali stomp* to restore whistles were however mhos ; the pathos seatissed Is breathe, at so other symptom of life were visilds. Base las reweised ia this state, 'WM hoe eyes yesesnisy (Friday), parte/41y lasseeffide se all sad all mimosa to roam the torpor appear of 1 ;-• RAILWAY MEETINGS. YORK, NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK. Yesterday an adjourned meeting of the shareholders in this eompany, resident in the Liverpool district, was held at the Wellington Hotel, for the purpose of receiving the report of the delegate (Mr. Wylie) appointed to attend the meeting held at York, on Wednesday, for nominating persons to be submitted to a men! meeting of shareholder to be held at York, on Thursday next, as directors of the company. The attendance was numerous. Mr. Mellor was called to the chair. Mr. WYLIE said that out of twenty persons selected as delegates, nineteen were present at the meeting'. Southampton was the only place not represented. The first question which arose was, Wlethe r r 2.1 committeeOf inreleigatiOn should or should - not take any part in i 2.41 preesedings ; some asenthers of the committee holding that although it might not be their right, it was their duty to do so. He (the delegate) moved, and Mr. Sidney wended, that the committee should sot inter fere in the matter; but upon the motion being put, the meeting was unanimous that the committee should partici- Pato in the Proceedings. The next business aria to submit to the nuieling the six queries which had been previously drawn up, the answers to which bad been given by 2,024 shareholders, representing 168,0001. of stock. To the first query,—in favour of there being eight directors or more, there were in favour of eight, 1,926, and in favour of a larger number, 98. To the wooed query, in favour of one managing director or of three, there were in favour of one, 696; in favour of two, 1S ; and of three, 977. To the third query, having reference to the remuneration of the directors, there were in term of the proposed remuneration 1,782 ; that it was too mush, 242. In favour of remunerating in the managing dinner,against, 47. Fifth ; !STOW of the proposed form of accoun t end audit, 1,957 ; in favour of a (*cera mist audit, audit, 66 . Sixth query : approve of the general recommendations of toe committee, 1,842 ; did not approve gave indirect answers, 382. The names of the gentlemen who had been seleeted for the purpose of being laid before the general meeting were—Mr. Leman, of York, solicitor , and secretary to the committee of investigation • Mr. IAIP • ham, of Glasgow, another member of the comm ittee, a man of well-known &DWI ; Mr. Wharton, of Darks's, a magi strate of the county. Mr. Sidney was moved in plus of Mr. Wharton, but the meeting chase the former. Mr. Madmen, of Edinburgh, and Mr. of Darlington, had also been selected. Mr. Alderman Hodson, of Newcastle, was also chosen, and he (the eieretary) must say, that when the New castle came was brought, he looked at it with suspicion, for it was generally supposed that the gentlemen of that district had many private interests to prejudice them. Mr. Plows, of Darlington, was also selected, and it did not seem to him (14r. Wylie) that the question both of policy and expediency were concerned here. Mr. Flews might be • valuable di rector, as regarded his knowledge and influence on the line, but being chairman of the Great North of England, it might facilitate the arrangements with that line, and it was quite possible, if they went to litigation with that company, the fact of Mr. News being chairman to that line would be 'to their advantage. He thought that Mr. Flaws, whom he believed to be a perfectly honourable and upright man, must have neglected his duty a. a director, otherwise Mr. Hudson could not have acted se he had done : Mr. Plows received thirteen votes out of twenty-four. The list gentleman selected was Mr. B. Hunter. of Glasgow, who received twelve votes only, but this being a greater number than that for any other person, he was selected. A conversation then ensued, in the course of which Mr. SIDNEY said he was in possession of • confidential communication which enabled him to say that the other company positively declined to came to any terms whatever. They were confident in their lease, and that they should get possession of their (the York, Newcastle, and Berwick) line, and take the proceeds. They had no copy of the lease, neither was there a charm of their getting one until they got in chancery. They (the York, olio., line) bad offered tour per cent. for six years to ratify the bargain, but it was declined. WYLIR mid there were two parties to this' question ; and if the other company threw it into chancery it would preetade them from obtaining a dividend. The CHAIRMAN said his individual private opinion was, that to select eight gentlemen living at great distances, with three paid directors under them, little better than a suicidal act. His judgment was that there should be en efficient 'Aid director for the head of each' -nd t' Po— department, and that no proprietor of the company should be allowed to sot in that capacity, for they could call to account mach more easily a delinquent *errant then they could • delinquent proprietor. If Mr. Madsen had been a servant instead of a managing director he would have been much more easily assuaged. The motion that the imeetiog approved of the report of the delegate was carried unanimously, and a vote of thanks pulled to Mr. Wylie. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND. The following is the first part of the third report of the committee of investigation to be laid before the meeting of the shanholden on the 31st of October, 1849 : " At the desire of your committee, the board of directors have called a general meeting of the shareholders for the 31st instant, before which time your otinualtise hope to present the concluaion of this report, containing amuck information as they have been able to collect and digest ; but they beg leave to submit, previously, the following statement of the circuuestasoss which induced them to all you together before their final report wee ready. " Your committee feel greatly disappointed that their labours have boon so long protracted, which has been oeca *lamed by the procrastination and delay to which they have had to submit before they could extract the requisite infor mation from the officials of the company. As an instance of this kind, they may mention the fact, that it was not till the bth of the present month that your committee received the ratans and statements of the accountant employed by the directors to make up the accounts for the period of 1845 and 1846, between the last balance of the old books and the opening of the new ones, referred to in your committee's knew report. Until these amounts were made up, and the results farsialsed to your committee, it wee not possible for the committee's accountant to complete his report of the capital accounts of the company from the commencement, and even now the statements of the directors' accountant flit fer in their results from the half-yearly published accounts of the company of the 30th of Jaw, 1846, and require to be reconciled or explained. " You committee have had to contend, not only with the difficulties inseparable from the investigation of a large undertaking, which bad been conducted for so many years without any fixed system, and without proper books or re• cords of proceedings of any kind, but they have had to do so without the cordial support and assistance of the directors, and in the face of a general manager with whom they are at variance, who receives the full support of the directors, and whose authority over the whole establishment is maintained by the directors against the repeated remonstrances of your committee. " The first subject en which your committee had the mis fortune to differ in opinion from the directors was with regard to Mr. Peter Clarke, who war engaged by Mr. Hudson io January last ea general manager, at a 'slaty of 1,2001. a year. In their lint report your committee informed you of the part taken by this gentleman in =akin/ up the half-yearly statement of your accounts to the 31st Danaher last. These accounts were altogether delusive, and were known by Mr. Clarks to be so as the entries were made with his knowledge and by his inst ructions. " It was therefore for this and other reasons the opinion of your committee, that, for the character and credit of your extensive establishment, the services of Mr. Clarke should be forthwith dispensed with, sad they so informed the di mmers. They were informed la reply that the board would not think of retaining Mr. Clarke permanently, but that he was so talented, and from the knowledge he powered, he could so materially aid, or injure, the company's laminar, that they wished to retain him for a short time to obtain informa tion front him. . . Your asinine* consider this rum unsatafastory ; because, =las reliance could be placed upon these talents being y y applied, the more necessary it became that he should be i removed from a position of so much power and ldaoaeehy also oansider that the support be has moth= hem the :board may be looked upon as an indirect enseneeponnt from the &Won to every officer in your establienmit to follow his =ample. " Your mmuedleaa find that Mr. Clarks has been retained, not for the sole now of obtainiog information from him, for be lea bosa left with the complete management and control of the whole establishment; and almost all the appellants= of officers for the last three mouths have bee. made en his recommendation, or nomination, chiefly of perm= who wars in the employ of the Brighton Railway alt the time Mr. Clarke was its gamma manager. " The pelley pursued by the directors on this subject has hem oath* in opposition to the opinions and wishes of the esmiiitts% and is inconsistent with the successful and re epollabb nothing of your buiness in future. " In the =am of the investigation the committee found that one albs Masa Marten had been defrauding the =dry ethespresesting the amount of wages be was en = pg s sod drawinthom the smeary a larger sum then he pan to the men. This your committee anartained la be the sass fa several of the weekly pay-bills mad. out lfy hint ; _barium proved the feet, handed it over to the di tookos, =th a request that he might be prosecuted as a = a le the rest of the establishment; but owing to ir and want of promptitude on the part el the dl welmer the party in question, knowing that the fraud had bon theathed Lit the tows. " Ice soothe MN, in whisk one of the office, s appeared to year srmillisa eel to be properly socoonting for the cash in by beak they pointed out to the sae:story the nammity of his gabs at ones to his office to sundae his books, and balms Ids mi. Bat In place of this being done, the dime= sollthod the coos to the assoaatant, and although the dim hoe slam as= la his resignation, and the deface d= hoe been eapossated as emanating to several hundred pousth, there me= to have been no steps whatever taken againstkim " Thom several saw show seek a degree of lazily la the management, as fa the opinion of year sommittoo is a mires detriment to the proper working of the business of the sow Paa7- The =airman referred to coo oldies, ease at the polio 'meting, as an Jostens, a the kind thalog of the &Ninth It is =allot, however, that rash isalesopilllelbelliellsw is not cossisteat with the disk= maspenanne of • thesi unslertakieg, as the pin over of such annas i r ar z rate • te them ethos» who an e their duty with sod f "The oommillso vs arol s e . r the salacotaao to diver with the firemen with Nora to their desire to raids =the bard some a its la= mendosts. The as= self= whisk your committee ban to mead= is a= of the most vital importance to the fate= prosperity of lb' "Wish thing that of the appointment el the Mtn chasms end threat= " Mr. Crawshap bad intimated to yell? committee Ms wish that Mr. Meek, the Lora Mayor of York, should sue. teed him in the chairmanthip, but be was informed tit it the committee had insuperable objections to such an appoint ment. " ♦t the lut general meeting Mr. Crawshay took occuion, in that king the shareholders for their confident, in him, to men ti on kia anticipated retirement, and hie wish that the Lord Maya' (Mr. Meek) should succeed him. • - -" ei yonrecon4ttee did lot feel it necomary to disturb the sio n ni by an y mons at the time, not doubting that be gen say gigh wfireboanzat was made they would have ample deer M npagrag t and dime it. They believed this, not only bump they bad been eeginfitad by the board on the only usgikaumt of a di lu t or w h;:h had, till that time, taken Aim dace your contatittee's appoi:'tment, ,but also Westin they had been assured by Mr. Cmwshay; on ly two days Pm stonily, :id he would not resign the chat: until their report was ready. " They found, however, that about an hour after the ter ineties of the last m isting of the shareholders, a board meeting was held of the four only directors then in office, Mr. Crawshay, Mr. Meek, Mr. Romaine, and Capt. Sonde m*, at whisk Mr. Crawsbay resigned his office as chair man, and Mr. Meek was at the IMO time appointed his suc cessor. After this had bees done, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Williamson were appointed directors of the company. A new chairman was thus appointed by this small board of directors, and the character of the board changed, without your committee blind consulted or having en opportunity of expressing any opinion on the subject. Oa that same day the directors had presented to you a report la which they sate that ' it has bun their greatest pleasure to endeavour to forward in every way the objects of the comindthes, and to assist and consult in all main with them, and which 00-operation it is traded will be confirmed by the committee.' 'Th:s statement, year committee deeply regret, they can. not confirm. One of the first objects of your committee was to purify your establishment of all improper and inefficient oaten, and towards effecting that object they have not re ceived the amistaace and so-operation of the directors ; an. other object of equal importance was the formation of such a board of dire Mien as they could recommend to your con fidence, and towards this they have not been consulted. "Oa learning from the secretary the new appointments of ehairman and airmen, the committee took them into consideration, and with reference to the appointment of Mr. Meek, as chairman, they came to the following resolution, which they communicated to the board (19th Sept., 1849). " e That it is of the utmost importance to the interests of this company that it should continue upon friendly terms with all the surrounding companies, and it is the opinion of this committee that this desirable result can enly be insured by maintaining a perfectly free and independent position; and to avoid the suspicion of any deviation from this strict line of neutrality, it is highly essential, if not absolutely in dispensable, that the chairman of the directors of this com pany should be altogether unconnected with the direction of any other company.' To this the directors replied by transmitting the follow ing ' , Notation of the board to the committee (20th Sept. 1848.) " That this board fully concur. in the opinion expressed by the committee of investigation, " That it is of the utmost importance to the interests of pis company that it should continue upon friendly terms with all the surrounding com panies." lt cannot, however, unite in the opinion of the committee that these friendly relations will be disturbed or endangered by the appointment of James Meek, Fol. as chairman of the York and North Midland Company, Inas much as his established character for candour and integrity entitle him to the fullest confidence of the several companies, while hie experience and ability eminently qualify him to preside over and direct the proceedings of the York and North Midland Company. This board, therefore, is unani mously of the judgment that the interests of this company demand that the resignation tendered by Mr. Meek be not accepted." This resolution does not in any degree remove the objec tfon of your committee, as their objection is not to the pri vate or personal character of Mr. Meek, but to his position in connexion with other railways, but more particularly the Great Northern Railway, of which he was one of the on &al promoter., and towards which his feelings and predi lections will be likely to tend in preference to this line, in which be his had no interest for years, until, on joining the direction in the present year, be bought sufficient stock to give him the necessary qualification. " In these einem:esteem your committee cannot approve of Mr. Meek being placed in the position of your chairman, where his whole mind and energies ought to be directed to the advancement of your interests alone, and where questions may arise in which his duty to you might draw him in one direction, while his interests and personal feelings might be all drawing him in an opposite one. " In stating this the committee are actuated by no ad verse feeling, either to the Great Northern Company or to Mr. Meek. It is their earnest wish that the mat friendly relations be maintained with the Great Northern Company, and for Mr. Meek personally they entertain feelings of respect and esteem ; ma a proof of which they have requested him to retain his seat at your board. " The committee of investigation of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, have issued a report, dated the bth instant, bearing the signature of Mr. Meek, in which is the following paragraph. It appears to the committee, that this company situated with reference to other lieu, that its real interests will be best promoted by cultivating friendly relations with all of them who may be prepared to treat this company in the same spirit. With these feelings, the conunitne are of opinion that, as a general principle, it is not desirable that any of the directors of this company should be directors in other cempaides.. " This opinion goes even further than that expressed by yoar own committee, as it applies to directors as well es chairman. Considering all the circumstances, and the magnitude of the interests at stake, the committee are of opinion that they could not, in the discharge of their duty to you, defer to the wishes of the board without making this direct appal to you, and if you coincide in opinion with them, they hope to meet with your support at the meeting on the 31st instant. " Your committee have to report their approbation of the appointment of Kr. Thompson as director, but it is with regret that they have learned from him that he has only con sented to act for a far months, to assist the company over its present difficulties. " With regard to Mr. Williamson, your committee do not know on what grounds he was elected a director, for they find that he wee not a shareholder of the company at the time of his election. " On the 27th of September the directors submitted to your committee the names of John Bowes, Esq., of Hull, and George Hicks Seymour, Eaq., of York, whom they proposed to ask to join the direction of this company. " Your committee, after taking time for consideration and ;equity, replied in the terms of the following resolution : That the election of a director residing at Hull seems to the committee to be desirable, sad from inquiries they bare made, they consider Mr. John Bowes, of Hull, is a fit and proper person for a director of this company, if qualified by the stake he holds in the undertaking. ' That the committer are decidedly of opinion that it is not advisable to increase, except under some special circum stances, the number of directors resident at York, and they reeseamead the election of some shareholder at Leeds or el= et er plan where the company's stock is largely held, er vitae the interests of the company require to be sup- Thatported. the committee are now making inquiry with respect to some eligible party, and will be glad to be in formed whether the directors will entertain any suggestions of the committee thereon.' " Having thus stated as plainly as they can the points at issue between them and the present directors, the committee leave the decision with you, by whom it ought to be de cided, as it is you alone who mat hereafter feel the benefit, or the injury, which may be the result of that decision. " In a matter of such extreme importance to so many hundreds of families, the committee trust that no shareholder will look on with indifference, but that every one will re cord his vote according as he may believe the committee to be right or wrong in their views. " It is with extreme reluctance and regret that your committee find themselves forced to make this appeal to the shareholders, but the determination of Mr. Meek to retain the c hair, and of the directors as a toddy to support him is that determination, un less acted upon by the opinion of the general body of shareholders, leaves your committee no al tonally' but to take the eosins they now do, or to desert the trust which you have reposed in them at a time when the exercise of that trust is meet especially needed. They are compelled to this course solely by a strong sense of duty : they have but coo motive, which Is that this railway, which has ban so madly mismanaged heretofore, may be secured from falling iuto the same state for the futu re , that It may, on the contrary, be placed is the hands of parties per fectly independent, and competent to conduct It for your advantage, and to realise from it the highest dividend of which it is capable. This is the desire of the shareholders, this elm is the abject of the committee, and their only care; not one teams your committee seeks anything further, and they Modals collectively and individually all desire for w:intim forthemselves or their friends, er any profit *at whisk may result to all shareholders alike, ageorilog Me their th ere interest. The insinuations that they sew asheseed by ether motives, they altogether repudiate. " Year semmittee have been welted upon by a deputa tion from • private meeting of shareholders held in York, at whisk wore peesent sheet a doses poem. Their object in waitlag yea year emeadelee was to request them to with draw eppeoidem to Mr. Meek. This request being do @Hari, earther meads' of eharehoillors was hold in York, sad a appointed by this snood meeting, waited apes your meldag time to forego the intention whisk they had enpressed to the directors, of la nai legal proems. Year emenneeme me as fully alive to ==isistd equally fate mead fa iss preetioe, as any of the ma be, bat they assikedmit it would beavery doubtful, they may my lalea,seede of practising economy, to halts* es to tho expense of She proxies, is a matter in which la their miad, is to a 'rest extent mixed op the future welfare of the eadertoldag. In a ease of this im panel**, the distant elesseheltier, equally w ith the resident ale s km a just dela to have ids and preteeted, whisk Fez emoolltso erasider IN= pro ••pay ISM smaptby the MINS proposed by them. Without legal , the decides et the kaptment matters to be the meeting will be in a great measure left in the kande OW few shareholders reekleat apes the spot, lem then ese4wattleth of the mare body ; and year i.e.. mitts, esashiee ft wily undesirable that the management of this andenakiag should be led% to be is al It is also an by the Phan Frank* , of eal a iew ladivlds. pos. ills without a legally stomped Flay to meet the several &leen inthit may be Fomented to you. What year ems ulnae delft is, that ovary abarAr, unable to Wend the imeedes, shall Fame his proxy in the hands of sane shareheldw Mb. will attead, sad la whoosh' haaconfidenos, sad wise will make me al it according to his own judg ment. Tear Miamian would proles this mane to that of your sending the proxy to them. At the suns time they may add, that if you ebott!cl think proper to entrust it to them, they will cheerfully make use of it for you in the way tbef consider most conducive to your interests. In such case, they request it to be filled up with the name of the chairmen of the committee, John Swann, of York, E.q. " The committee find that a circular bas been forwarded to each shareholder ' containing the proceedings of the second of the above mentioned meetings held at York, and purport ing I. represent the shareholders there. " There are about 3,000 shareholders in the company, of whom about 130 reside in York and the neighbourhood. " Your committee have made inquiry about this meeting, sad find that it was attended by about twenty shareholders, and that those present were not user imoue. " Supposing, hoover that all the shareholders resident at York were unanimonsin the opinion that thepresent Lord Mayor of York ought to be your chairman, ::°ugh in oppo sition to the decision of a committee appointed by the whole , the shareholders, you committee could not acquiesce in I such a ,ke!sion without en appeal to you. " Your como:ittee will conclude by observing that they ate mat anxious to being their labours to a close ; the additional externs* Maned by the protraction of their sit tinge renders this highly desirable for the shareholders ; and, as respects your committee, the time which they have de voted to the investigation has been already so serious to them personally, that nothing but a sense of duty could induce them to continue this sacrifice any longer. Your com mittee, however, consider that they would be failing in the trait reposed in them, if they did not use their belt exec. tions, in conjunction with the directors, to establish, previous to their dissolution, a permanent board that should give con fidence to the shareholden and conduce to the permanent welfare of your undertaking. JOHN SW ANN , chairman ; :ORR BROOKE, HENRY EVLL, 0301011 KINNEAR, EDWARD LLOYD, MICHAEL STOCK& ..-010101 HIND, Secretary. TRAFFIC RETURN FOR THE PAST WEEK. Name of Railway. 1849. 1849. Lt!!4l - 492 1,048 435 4,145 8,705 1,870 741 . 708 46 .2!? '691 11,002 [10,303 1 29 4,921 23 244 1,271 3,180 1,722 1,263 421 1,385 13,003 2,222 , 767 260 211 12,899 6,880 1,538 609 - 3,551 7,268 2,642 BRITISH. Aberdeen __ Belfast sad Ballymena Birkenhead Lane., & Cheshire Bolton Blackburn, and Mai Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter rD Hedonism Cheater and Holyhead Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown ander,Perth,Aberdeen Jane But Anglian Illast Lancashire _ __ _ _. Eastern Counties and Norfolk Eastern Union Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Glasgow, Paisley,and Greenock Great Northern &E. Linoolnsh Great Southern andWestarn(l) Great Western* Lancaster and Carlisle Lancashire and Yorkshire Liverpool,Crosby, & Southport Loudon and NorthWestarn London and Blackwell London, Brighton, sud S. Coast London and South Western Londonderry and Enniskillen Manchester, Shed., & Lincoln. Midland Midland GreatWestern.(l) Monklands North British Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union South Devon South Easternt Taff Vale Ulster Waterford and Limerick West Cornwell Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, Berwick York and North Midland Foastox. lA!niens and Boulogne 71i 211 1074 72 Dieppe . . Montereau and 'Troyes Northern of France Orleans to Bourges Orleans to Tours Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen HAMM and Havre • 'fluid, including Bristol and Exeter, 21 1071. f Exclusive at Heading, Guildtonl, end Reigate receipts. THE CHOLERA. ENGLAND A Return of deaths from chat the General Board of Henit) from the Superintendent Regi Almelo*, cholera 1. Birmingham, diarrhom 2. Bradford and Pudsey, it. 2, d. 2. Breakneck, d. 1. Burton-on-Tent (Horning low), c. 1. Carmarthen, c. 1. Chester-lemtrost (Harraton), it. 1. Morley (Rirington District), d. 1. Clifton Union (St. Philip and Jacob, and St. George dis tricts), o. 2. Dewsbury (Battey), c. 2. Dudley (Bodgley and Rowley Regis), a. 3, d. 3. Ecchisfield (Barnsley), a. 2. Huddersfield (Almondbury district), d. 2. Hunslet (Holbeek), d. 1. Isle of Wight (Cowes), a. 1, d. 1. WALES. ra and diarrhoea, reported to yesterday October 19, 1549, tears' di strict: Newcastle-on-Tyne & Byker, e. 2, d.l. Newmarket (Cleveley dis tr(ct), d. 1. Pershore (Pinvin), d. 1. Peterborough, c. 2, d. 1. Redruth (1llogan), c. 2. Ripon (Kirkby klalzead dis trict), d. 1. Salford (Regent-road), c. 1, d. 2. Saffron Walden, d. 1. Sculooates, d. 1. South Shields (Weston), c. 1. Stourbridge (Kingswinford), c. 2. Teesdale (Barnard Castle), e. 1. Tendring (Great Bromley), d. 3. Totnn (Brigham), a. 2. Truro, a. 2. Wakefield, d. 1. Walull (Borough), c. 4. Wigan, a. 18, d 1. Windsor (Clewer), a. I. Witham (Coggeehall), d. 1. Witney, c. 2. Wolverhampton (Bilden), c. 1. Kidderminster, d. 1. Leedr, c. 2, d. 1. Liverpool, 0. Liar*. c. 1. Manchester, c. 5, d. 2. Newark, c. 1. Pent', c. 1. Arbroath, c. 7. Cho. Dia. 'icinity.. 7 10 Wales .. 68 32 8 0 Gonna Total—London and 1 England and Scotland ... The deaths are returned registrars' distrieta, as it ill every place separately. _ 81 42 ording to the superintendent rid impracticable to distinguish RETURN OF ROUSE TO HOUSE VISITATION. OCT. 19. Return from ten unions and for the 19th lost. Teta result of the beam to .wane. In tel Metropolis. en comatenoement on the le to the 19th Inst. Lambe.—We are glad to learn that this disease continues to decline in Leeds, although it is not yet quite extinct. The total number of deaths in the township during the seven days:ending Wednesday last is 34, against 79 for the previous seven days, showing a decrease of one half. In some of tt.e out-townships, included in the Hunslet registration district, the disease still lingers. In Bramle there have been no deaths since the 9th Instant, but in Kir kitall, a village about a from that place, two deaths occurred on the 17th instant. In Holbeck also a number of deaths have occurred during the week. 1/UDDER/YIELD, OCT. 19.—N0 deaths from cholera have this week been registered; but we understand there are three patients under treatment is the new House of Refuge at Paddock, one of whom is Mrs. Micklethwaite, whose eon was the first victim to the disease in this locality. Hurssurr.—ln tbis, one of the populous townships of the borough of Leeds, where the cholera by been so extremely ' fatal, the disuses has entirely disa_ppeared, there having been Ino deaths since the 10th inst. The local board of health meet on Monday to consider the propriety of closing the hospital. It is somewhat remarkable that the appearance and disappearance of the disease in this township should mark nearly the same dates both in 1832 and in 1849, the first case occurring in the former period at the end of June, and in the present year on the 18th of that month ; the last case was on the Bth cif October in 1832, and on the 10th in the present year. The total number of deaths from cholera this year is 432, Warr about one is every 42 of the inhabit ants, whilst in 1832 the deaths were only ens in 290. W roan Ocr. 19.—The cholera has not yet le ft this town ship, which seems to be vistad to a greater extent than any other place of similar population in the ithlgOia. On Saturday last, Sun day , and lithe following days, • virulence of the disease had so much decreased that it was thought the Mb°. bitants ware about to be freed from the terrible havoc which has of late been made amongst them. However, on Wed nesday, simultaneously with a change in the weather. a number of fresh cases occurred, and during the night the surgeries of the medial Moan and the dispensaries were literally besieged by applicants for relief. No fewer than 10 deaths occurred during the night of Wed nesday, and on the following day (Thursday) there were lB. Up till 4 o'clock this day there have been six deeds. The following return will show the ratio in which the mortality has increased in the last few days : On Sunday there were 6 deaths from cholera and 1 by cliarrheea ; Monday, cholera, 8 ; Tneedey, cholera, 2 ; Wednesday, cholera, 10 Thursday, cholera, 17; diarrhma, 1; Friday ( this day), up t i ll 4 o'clo. cholera, 6 ; dianhma, 1. Notwithstanding the ravegeswhisk have bees made, the town is still in a most dlsgeaaslat Oar dition, no dep having been taken to remove the Mb whisk lies stagnant in the channels of the streets, and pellnies ere air in every direction. .;. • •• • ::14 , 1 7 4 . 7 , I . • ••• " • tO y••• - ; • Z• :4 rs lII.I # ; ,_ _II_ 1,164 6 0 1 0 aote ---•- - --- )114, Pois) let Sept 42,228 969 779 62 1848. 864 141 54 n 474 67; 78 1021 tli 130 230 i 90 1721 1621 216 141 941 4631 361 36 60 161 35 36 94e 364 71 474 914 754 67i 78 1021 22t 143 1881 230 t 203; 13 4781 - 5j 170 2211 141 1591 493 122 45 48 671 189 2001 260 iii 211 1071 1,216 17,172 1,402 4,137 2,077 2,721 980 3,19 21,201 I 3,274 111,637 0 ea . 1. 4 . 7 ?711 1,290 2,643 1 1,254 869, 1,669 11,301 2,058 822 13,9531 10,003 I,pi 2,260 3,074 8,619 6,608 2,628 Total .