The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-24 00:00:00

RAILWAYS. THIS DAT, Two O'CLOCK. Lit le bwin his been dor oin shares this morn fag, and the mirk. t wears an appsarar co of flatness. Caledobian4, Nli•flands, Newcshtlt. sad Berwick, and yak and North *Man& are in decline. Other lines boo s steely varied from the prices of yesterday. Is French ahem nothing is doing. Luang KY= Sales to-day up 1.611 , 4.1 llama Samara. I Yesterdsy. lis 1 o'cloaL It MI ►i sir NlBo4la 500WL o.girrojigs; I/ • .N 41. et.. 600 /S: • Mete Mats list. (Gt. Wow. prissiest p.Dt. • • linsbodost sad Unetios.allsodsly we with s psensboo so SO Dswithost • ISS Birs.Wsiwk StworTalloo * 10 IllaL.,Wolr.ord soda duly paid, = • IS Do. withott•guarnst . * M 71 Nook Otani.. and Him_ No SO &had and Easter Iga NO Do. Thtrd• INS ITO Booldegh.voulure 04 l_sharso • I* Duo. CD/ i'refereneures • 10 Cbpdredale Junutium M II CM** sad Hu:she.d I 15 Do. Plookrisee osl 4O Dahlia red DelbintJuso.. ▪ U fang Anshan - SS Is Mil* LW' * D 0431.100 *W Ct. ME IL N Isotors Cow 10 Do. 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No.-tbetn (3 per Mt. pr. 4. its. 24 it). 11 d.—Lsocisbtrs aid TorlA.re (111th dozes), 31 dorm 45 d. —linneow end Notb.Wrotern 129 (new 1 sham). I p.— 1, ttn hrth stare.). 41 (t 'bane). 141 1 1 d.-Bsath Lows sod Doer (Nses 4 shares bi Oa), 71. Is. 3,l.—Terk, Newsom* sal Dorwok (0. N. X. II per smith& ISO), MAIL O. MANCHESTER, August 23. Wow SwOOK ly -EXMamroa —The market was Ist and priors , rapasial In marks DIRAIINGUAN, divust 23. brocz-Escatmeoz.—This narkat was a little Anaar to et; deeldedir 111010 boxietas era• dam. To-day London arid r n Wr4terre were done at 130: Ilbetmotvary 554 131.odsiblin Precr , ,er Strip was Mee at 41. 3a. 9d. pos. ; StPOPObITS Uldooll at it& Gtl.. ad 3 dia.; mad dosib guards at at. Its., 9 dia. BRISTOL. August 23. Bt4tlt-Examettoh. The market to-day vu firm, bat la price. Sums treaseetkes ie purely local stark eve effected. LEEDS. Argots' 23. !root-Zzonsitos.—Tbor* se wasely say altsistios to set Oh awning. Kew £ lomosoldreshaw NM dew i oho& how that 'worthy, sod other tiers MIS without Impromosst. The trwmutine. are:—North Weston.. 111 ; Now Bad Lou. *Witte, 161. 3a. id.; Tort sad Math *Woad, 27i to VC COTTON.—LITharoot, Aro. 23.—Tho fielit today Ile Imputed sot the Woo were about 10,444 Wes, of which 1,000 Prmluars tar export mod 4,H0 tor 'War Ave. 23.—= P liser• maim Ars la liftmen the leawaa rots wrest on Tuesday, owl boolooot, LH caddy limited to tbe 61101111/ y Ito ow Greek mad. bah Nies dielias to ammo to Goitootatioo of the snivel otooothor lo Hoot r t es Hp, with to days' Wet intelligence. RIDS& LsAozwzati.. Aug. 24. Mats, =b. "MOM '—• Is nu, IA to tia.; ditto, TIM to 44 .1 4 VC; duo. Sllk, lid. Is ad.; ditto, soh to Mt ltd. to add ; to WIN to tat Nit dam IL dd. to lord.; ron, s.„--ftwasurserr, A N.--Idoett Mak D 4140 01 —4O IMMO& ddi to Hi; ANON.. Is U. le 24.04 tS IS 2 4 Iv* IA gue eroveoo. OUTGOING MAILS. The mails for the British North America and the United States will be made up OA. evening, Aug. 24. The mails, vin Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylco, India, llong•Eong, &e., will be made up this evesing, August 24. The mails ft 4 Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on August 27. The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Ravines, Nassau, Honduras, New Orleans, end Mexico, and escluding thole toe Madeira, St.Juan-de. Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, end Peru, wl'l be made up oa Sept. 2. The mails for Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on Sept. 4. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, Ind.., and Chita, sic Southampton, will be m►de up on Sept. 20. DION NATO AT LONDON =IDOL T.l Dal —l44mAyr.B3 Eli& pea $; &M, ~ Lints rot IL T►r•auw—llMW(j.il W. DS Ahura. W. pri L LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24. Tits state of affairs in Hungary continues 'still ob scure and uncertain. Eneagh, however, is known to justify miens alarm and considerable despondency in the friends of hbcrty and internal independence. There appears to he, unfortunately, no reason to doubt that the Russians have obtained a aerie* of miner victories around liermannstadt, and in the valley of the Upper Mine., and that BEM, after ex periencing a succesaion of reverses, had been driven from the eastern frontier of Transylvania to the i neighbourhood of Arai and Temesvar. Equally in- I disputable appear to be tf e facts that DEMBINSKI and the generals acting along with him had been driven, after an obstinate resistance, from the vici nity of Szegedie, and, after being joined by Bret, had been defeated by ILAYNAU un der the walls of Temesvar. The surrender of °CAGEY to PASKIEWITCII, though nothing reliable has yet been publiehed as to the circumstances in which it took place, or even the time when and the place where it occurred, seems but too certain. Our only grounds of doubt are the character and Fr-- vie:is career of the man, which certainly ought to be allowed to tell for something. These are heavy news, and warrant the most alarming apprehensions. The Hungarian diet was at Enc4cdin • the defeat of DEMBINSKI and his associated leaders between the forces of PASKIE WITCH and HAYNAO towards the Theirs, and the victerious Russians on the upper Mar. a, appears to leave no resting-place for this centre and rally ing point of Hungarian nationality. And the surrender of GoRORY would place all Hungary east of the Theis., in so far as military resistance is concerned, at the disposal of the Austro-Russians. Even this gloomy intelligence, however, does not appear to us so conclusive as to the final prostration of the Hungarian cause as it does to many. Ilan-' garian armies still keep the field in the Bakooyer Wald to 'he south, and on the Waag and Mum to the north of the Danube. And the threatening, the I I revs/log and inhuman language held by lIATNAU in his proclamations to the inhabitants of the districts cell the 'fheias and Maros, proves beyond dispute that hi feels himself among an inveterately hostile popula tion. There is something, too, very remarkable in the excessive anxiety evinced by the Russian gorene meat to expedite and accreeit the news of Geer:mai surrender, to say nothing of the extraneous and often contradictory incidents with which its alien's have in many instances coupled that event. TheEtaperor's owe adjutant was despatched express from Warsaw to convey the intelligence to the King of PRUSSIA. At Paris and London the caterers of intelligence fur rho newspaeer press were hastily and eagerly cram med with exaggerate I versions of the story from the Russian embiuseies. All this hot haste seas to indi cate a tre muloua misgiving on the part el the Russian government as to the real extent and probab.e per manence cf its vaunted sera as. It is like the anxiety of a coward to have his fears dispelled by hearing many voices repeat his own evocation that he has no need to be alarmed. And to all who look not merely to the parsing events of the day or hour, but to the resent in combination with the past, it is evident that, even if we are to take all that ese hear teem Vienna and Warsaw for granted, the Anstro-Russian ' allies have little meson to f. el confident in the security .1 their position. Even a HAYNAC does not threaten a whole nation and its agwegate priesthood with fire and sw ord and the gallows without cause. The pro-1 elsmations of that general are a confession that the Auetro-liumians have no hopes of bein: able to keep' Hungary in subjection, except by intense terrorism. There are limits beyond which fear ceases to affect the minds of men, except as a spur to resistance. Thole limits HATNAI7 appears already to have passed. Add to this the insults which the victors are offering to all the races resident in Magary, and above all to their clergy. Add further the bankruptcy which the destruction of Kos-teen's paper meray is entailing upon all into whose bands it has come, many of them hitherto fritnely to the Austrian dynasty. It would require almost inexhaustible maxims, to keep permanently on fo.,t ouches military forte as will be necessary to keep down a people goaded to meek by the circumstances we have enumerated. But the Au 'cream einsuces are known to be tottering on the verge of bankruptcy ; and there is discnntoat with the government teetering and extendirg in Croatia, in Behrmin ' in Vienna Pule ; while Italy is only held by the sword, and Gallicie is garrisoned by the Rus sians. Austria is incompetent to a protracted struggle tiniest popular deaffection • and though the Emperer of Russel, as an individual, is enormously rich, the empire of Russia is far from wealthy. The accumu lated plunder of a CHIENGIs KHAN, or a NADIR SUAII, c aid re co do much in Asia, but the most overflowing treasures of an individual monarch are a &kiddie when a European struggle is in question. It was the oggregate wealth of the French, German, and English nations, not the private purse of any monarch, that supplied the means of carry:or en the colossal and protracted war from 1790 to 1816. And the present strife, like that to which we have alluded, is a European struggle. The intervention of Russia in the affairs of Hungary has not been motived solely by a desire to re-establish in that country the tottering poxer of the house cf Haps burgh. The object of Russia is to drive back from borders tee spirit of political freedom which is weeking . its way eastward. Wise is its generation, the Hessian cabinet has resolved not to wait for an at tack on its own territories, but to assume the agerea r ire, and strike a blow at its dreaded enemy, outside of its borders. An effort will undoubtteliy be made to advance the frontier of the eastern despot isms as far into the west of Europe as possible. Already the oriental diplomacy is gravely deliberat ing on new partitions and groupings of European territories, ana a new holy alliance. A spirit is still alive in Europe that will net tamely submit to the carrying out of these plans. It is the spirit which carried NAPOLEON m triumph over the necks of the combined sovereigns of the continent ; and which, when disabused as to his intentions ' carried the same sovereigns to the gates of Paris. It is the spirit which has baffled and broken all the fine arrangements of the Congress.. of Vienna and Verona, and has within the bat two years challenged Russia to its new crusade. Under innumerable reverses, and apparent prostration., this spirit has been steadily ;crowing in stature and in strength ever sine. 1789. Men will no Langer submit to be transferred from the ownership of one prince to another like droves of cattle. If the aggressive movement of Russia and Austria against constitutional Europe is persisted in—and it is not easy to see how these powers can draw back— s greeeral European straggle is inevitable. It will readily be imagined that the resuscitated Holy Alliance is animated by anything but amicable fe cling. towards England. Even its presumption, how ever, does not go the length of threatening this country with warlike aggression. Their dreams are of a Eu ropean league for the purpose of carrying into effect NAPOLEON'S idea of excluding English commerce from the continent of Europe. A scheme which utterly failed i in the hands of one powerful despot, is little likely to sneered in the hands of a congress of little despots. After the issuing of the Milan decrees all the English ein all the stoles of Frankfort w ere seized and s Earned in a pablic lame: within a week the stores of Frankfort were as full of English manufactures, sold at as low prices, as ever. Even though a new "con tinental system " could be decreed, it would be with as little avail now as then. The Spanish eontrabandistas could tell the Austrian and Russian cabinets what chance they have of excluding English ma- si 14 I 511 ts% 6 1 i 121 1 41 37; i 1291 9 141 I 62i i 221 / 7A 13 1113 A Ili Si i 27% 7 6i THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1849. nufectures from the continent of Europe— even on the incredible assumption that Fritnee, Prussia, with North Germany, Holl►nd, and Belgium, coull to persuaded to join them. And the press of England, recur.) in its island fortress, will continue to wage war against the desprtic principle. There are Austrian and Rus sian ministers still alive who have had experience of the power of that pram; who remember the time when dirndl's Geist der Zeit, published in Lon don, dealt the first deadly blow to the power of NAPOLEON in Oermany. Though we look with calmness and confidence to the ultimate result of the seemingly impending con test, we are not the less alive t 3 the terrible and pro tracted sufferings which must precede it,if the eastern bulwa,k of Europe has been levelled in Hungary. The agonies of thoec communities destined to supply bntle-fields and combitauts for the strife—the minor but On the whole the canduct of the emancipated rail way comment' ties has been judicious se d busies sa-like. Tne majorities have not allowed angry or vindic tive feelings to divert them from the grist ob ject of restoring their affairs to a sound and healthy condition. New blood has been infused into the various managements, without pris=ing inch en tire changes of administation as must have deprived the companies of the services of experiencedmen4Old servants have been retained with new associates placed as checks upon them. Arrangements con cluded under the old dynasty have not been rescinded merely beanie they were concluded under suspicious circumstances or by unwarrantable *gender. Like sansible, practical men, the shareholders have de termined to f.co their actual position and make the most of it. It was rot to be expected that everything should go off smoothly in such numerous meetings. Men invested with delicate and difficult charges soon learn the tricks of office, endesecur to concede a minimum of publicity, and are apt to push concilia tory measures too far. On the other hand, indivienals unencumbered by responsibility are always for push ing their right to extremes, and, not satisfied with the publicity which is useful, aim sometimes at that which merely gratifies anger or indulges gossip. Be tween parties ea differently circumstanced jealousies and antigonism necessarily arise, which in railway meetings, i.e in the councils of all democracies, occa sion interruptions and clamour. But the wrar gling in the meetings referred to has never exceeded what sterns indispenzable as a safety-valve for poccant humours, at d by concessions on both sides judicious conclu ions hive uniformly been reacted. The most delicate and difficult discussions have ari-ea out of the mutual relations of the different companies amalgamated by the intrigues and jobbery of the ancien regime. Wherever tetra has been an appearance of undue advantage gained by one com pany, there has been a natural rec.lcitration on the p art of another. Where the bargains had been twi rled in all due legal form, all parties, however, have judiciouely acquiesced in th- icevitable. The arrange ment betwein the Great North of England and the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, was in an exceptional poei:ion, owing to unaccountable end suspicions irregu larities in the minutes relating to it, and the ex ecution of deeds. Matters seemed at one time verging towards the dangerous issue of a law suit ; nor is that contingency even yet she gether impeesible, though it is to be hoped that the voice of justice and common sense may yet avert so irrational a procedure. The York, Newcastle, and Berwick have resolved to bring Mr. HUDSON to book, and to that end a bill is to be filed in Chancery. The provoca tioe has certainly been great. It appears that he had been duly receiving his dividends without having paid either deposit or galls; and that the terms of arrangement be offered were too I Ay to be entertained. This certainly justifies the recourse to a suit in Chancery, greatly though that proceeding have tie appearance of throwing the helve after the hatchet. It is not improbable, how ever, that Mr. HUDSON, when ho sees the company in earnest, may mend his offer—always assuming that he has realised sufficient to ensib'e him to do so. Of still serious suffering which embarrassed and par tially interrupted inuustry and commerce may entail on our own inviolate and inviolable island—are enough to stir up the most bitter and vindictive feelings against the despots and camarillu whose bloated pride provokes the contest. And to the last we cling to the hope that its fall extent may yet be averted— that Hungary has not yet hopelessly fallen as Poland fell befsore it. IRELAND begins to feel as if the spell of her adver sity were at last broken. The harvest, though later on the other aide of the sea than on ourt, already wears the glad look of ripeness. In the eastern countit s many golden fields are felled ; and in the greater portion of the kingdom another week of sun shine will suffice to render reedy for the sickle what the rail' neither of the last month has gradually matured. The oat and barley crop will be healthy and abundant. Wheat has, upon the whole, bet n less ex'eatively planted this semen than formerly ; bat in general it also promises well, and is ',tinder it may be looked upon as nearly sits. Of green crops, mure especially turnips end mangel wurzel, a greater breadth lira been sown this year than was ever known before. Peas and parsnips likewise in many distrie's occupy, though in subor dinate degree, a fitting portioi of the soil. All of these were resorted to as substitutes in some sort for the once universal potato; and had they failed, while it appeared once more to revive, experience, however insufficient, would have probably contributed potentially to confirm the prejudices that among the /meant farmers had been shaken by the last three years, and the ruinous alternation (for rotation there was cone) of two crops would have been resumed. On the oe . er hand. there wee, and to settle extent there is still, a danger arising from the rare abundance of the potato crop contemporaneeusiy with that of turnips. The het , r were doubtless sown chiefly in the hope of realieing a remunerative price for human food. If not required for that perpeee, they can only be made useful fur feeding sl'ep ; and these unfortunately are 1 much reduced in nurebers,as art- also horned cattle. Had there;bne, therefore, as much lend devoted to the pota to this year as there has often p-evionsly been, or had no symptoms of blight manifested themselves during the preterit BE 11S30, it is possiele that the gembling chance might terse been resorted to next year with renewed infatuation, er d the eali.'ary lessens which calamity hid inculcated might have been hastily for . _ that, however, ecnsidcring how money got as his has been is apt to go, there may be reason to donb*. woten. For the old nioneeist of the soil has net yet shown itself free of tam' and Mitre. Where plants d early and in open grounds reining can indeed be mere inch& or sound twat the too ;:nportstnt rant. But in hardly say oler variety of e'rearristine_ has it altoaether escaped ; and in most places where the planting was 1. te, t! c se. d tn.:hang( d, or the shelter of ti e - s too near, there has been a loss of part, if not of the whole. Where such is the ease Ito surces3 of other green crops h-s rarely been anti-c' ; ri this, a`t: ciarh dis tress may and must he anticipated next s .ring to re cur in particular Irea`i'its, its advtet win probably be much longer &term d, and its pievalence much more narrowly circumscribed. On tite whole there is erop'e reas - n to regard wilt ennfidence and hope e physical condition of tbirgs in Iteliud. Sore and yrotract das the period of trial has been, we brgia to fe 1 that its teee‘rirge will not have wholly been in vain. It w.or Ibmolutt iy indiepansable to the safety of the occupiers of land that some great and permanent change should tako place not oily in the teanderd of their pecuni ary relations with the owners of the soil, but with the merle of its culture. So long as a factitious price for wheat was created every now and then by tic opera tion of tl.e corn laws, that price was sure to be gam bled for by the hard.drivett tillage farmer. And so long as half al arcs of newly br. ken-up grass lar d would secure his household food for eleven months out of the twelve, the tot Wareing expedient was certain of being r•Sji ttd to. From these two 13311tC3S sprung that matveilens stream of Irish rack rents which no r:asoning marld cheek, and no warning induce plea to b here eculd ever fail. Pro tection was diminished, yet rent, did sot fall. The competition for laud continued aver rising with Cs in. Tease of population, at d their credulity in the pos sibility of eking out existe: es as their ferefsthe , s hrd done. The landlords traded on this credulity to tl..e protracted degradation of the peastntry, and to their own eventual ruio. It anal of the corn-laws rccdertd the growth cf wheat in a as h c'imate such us Con naught, or on light soil ilk ! that of Ulster, a &six rate risk instead of en equal locery, and the rep:ated failure of the potato first abo:ished con-acre, and subs quently antihilated to a very gre.A detrce the old ciao tition for land. The question with land lords in Ireland now is, nct who shall we give our farms to?—but, where can we find solvent tenants to take them at conting , nt abetment.? Even these will not do. Certain abeemen's and certain tenures are likely tobe exacted with resolute caution, as the only terms on which tenants will embark in future in t Mtge farming enterprise. The people are growing thrifty by experience ; and the proprietary are becoming sel lers in an op:a market where ;the competition of the world regulate& the prim:, instead of patentees cf the soil, having a right by law to hold as much as they pleased in their own hands, and to extort whatever they chose for the remainder. When first the vision of this their new position broke in upon the hereditary jobbing class, the met-' cenary thought instinctively occurred to them of turning all their lan Is into pasture. The week of extermination was with this design fearfully accele rated, and the horrors of the last three years were aggravated in too many instances by the barbarities of wholesale eviction. The human occupants of the soil Wan no longer paying ; so it WU re solved to try what sheep . or oxen might do. Already, howaver, it begins to be felt that in their haste to overtake false rents they forgot that it was necessary to have fools enough as of yore to give them. There does not exist in In land a class of speculative farmers with large capital; and the smaller farmers could better afford to till than to tend cattle. The landlords cannot afford to let their farms lie ask in the hope that Scotch or English agrieraturistrMay some day or other go over and bid for them; and thus if the people are but cautious and circumspect in their future dealings, they will be able to obtain land at a more reasonable rent, and for a more reasonable term than for some time past they could have done. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Capt dn J. Soy, attired at Southampton vertercay, and landed Ler male in charge of Litut. Politick, Admiral y agent. She brings the South ampton rort:on of the India mail. The Hindostan, during r her homeward voya in , ex per:enced fine weather the Mediterranean, with sung rortherly winds ; from Gibraltar to Cape Fini 'core. and np the Quarrel and in the Bay, winds rem the eastward. Her dates of sailing were, Alex aadru, August 9; Malta, 13th; Gibraltar, 17th. The ruratcr of pv,sengers brought by the Hindos'sn was 77, r.moni,st whom was General Elici, from litr freight cors'sted of 159 packages of specie, calm. 100,770/.; 38 bales of silk, 9 cases of opium, 1 pa:kage and 7 barrels of elephants' tusk% 38 pa:k ola s lk, 55 boats of ditto, 38 p.cksges of tor t';seshell, 1 bin of crocodile, and 102 packages of merc-attlise. Ir we have not been forward to comment on the proceedings at the various railway meetings now in progress, it bas not been for want or interest in, or attention to, them. But we have confidence in the judgment of Englinkmen, and their power to help themselves out of strapts when roused to a Wag of their real position and the necessity of action. Recent revelations in the railway world have effectually shaken shareholdery out of their good-natured drowsy disposition to be led by the note by railway magnate!. We have no doubt tf their ability to set matters right, if 1 fc to themselves, and believe that they will do so all the sooner and better if not distracted by ex traneous volunteered advice. A special interest, however, attaches to the aggre gate of railways which constituted the nucleus of Mr. Runsou's operations—the central dominions, as it were, of the late railway potentate, from which he stretched out his arms to incorporate the Eastern Counties into his territories, and waged offensive warfare against the Great Northern. Though still determined to persevere in our system of non-inter !lrene., so long as a wider public interest than that of the shareholders is not directly concerned, it is not in human nature to resist throwing out a few remarks on the deportment of the federated republics which have thrown off the yoke of the Louts Pnu.vrE of railways. VD, Court. llALAtoael., Au curie 21.—IIer Mejeaty fled the Priu•• • us. Led out in the grounds of Balmoral this morning. llis Ito3al Hight:ma the Prince of \Velem, attended by Mr. Eire , row: cut on hlrat.back. Sir James Clark h.a returntd 'o Balmoral frmi Birk-hall. Dr. Robertson will j..in the rayal dinner party this evening. Sir Gcvir Grey has arrived at his seat, Fallodon, Al wick, Nerthumbirland, from Balmoral. Tho Olin: eau of Minto arrived in town on Wednes day zig At. Despa'chcs were received yesterday at the Colo nial-, &es from the Governors of Hong-Hong, Ceylon, West Aur2slia, and South Aestralla. THE QUEEN AT CRATHIE CHURCH. BALIATIM, Aram' 20. The royal ftmly pursn3 here the life' of a country rquite's houthi.cl', with this dis.inction, that they create apparently less stir and commotion in the neighbourhood of tin it abode. Her Ilejesty's cvcuninns have been confined wittio the limits of the pignut* pronads artacbell to the mush Since her arrival the has gone but twice beyond them. On S.sturiae she vi;ited Hrkhall, where Sir JIWICII Clark is now re tidinq . with his foxily. O' Sunday, her Majesty, accompanied b' Prince Albert, vtin 'e ; divine servico in the church of Crethic. As pre tors in the parith, of cour', a pew in the church has been el. Are , ' ch , in. It it in the front of the gallery, and tastefully trimm.ii with scarlet cloth, The whole edifice had under gone t; fic:al pur:fication, in anticipation of their pre s nee. landing, which is by no means large, we filed, but not to excess. A very long walk to church is not thought much of in the country, rprcially in the Highland districts. The dwellings of some of the parishienera are by no means in cloth contiguity with the church. Crathie is a parish of wide extent, though the population is compara tively small. Tith incumbent of the parish eftliated. The whole gervita was mom concluded, and the sermon, which was very short, was perhaps a fair average specimen of the quality of the instruction which our rural congregations receive. The congregatirn behaved with the utmost propriety and deroruw. A staid soluirry and attention pervivied the whole ; and we wets glad to see there was not —what we fearcdthere might have been—any rude, unseemly goring at the pew where the Queen was seated, such as would have annoy her. Before the benediction was pronounced, the collection was mode through the congregation, and the elder wl o hid th,.t pert of the church—a grave, intelligent looking man— with all formality of demeanour, shoved kis " ladle" be fare the royal perry—a phenomenon, however, with viola they last year mode acquaintance, so that their wonder was now abated. The like propriety marked the departure of the Queen as was displayed on her artival.—From the Glasgow Hail- OFFICIAL PAYMENTS.—In issuing an order strictly enjoining the immediate discontinuance of a practice has been found to exist at some of the ports, of making advances to officers end persons out of the public money, on amount of pensions, salaries, and 'newsmen, the eushms authorities have desired it to be distinctly understood that they do not intend that the practice if pat ing monthly the retired allowances of superannuated inferior iifffeers, under the general regulation leaned in S. ptember, 1817, /holed be discontinued, nor the pensions of widows, or eau small pen. stone; which have hitherto been paid monthly; but they base directed that such allowances and pensions be paid mcnthly in Ware, and not treated as straws payments, but taken credit for at the time as regular Pernents. ACCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND RAILWAY.—An at. cident took place on this line of railway late on Tuesday night, that might have been attended with meet serious. it not fatal resign, and which was mainly owing to the negli- Fence of the company. The 10 o'clock down train, consist• tog of seven carriages, and which stops only at Putney on ita Ontll6ll to Richmand, bad got a few yards beyond D) er': - lane, Putney Lower-common, a level crossing, when the engine came in collision with a horse, and the shock was so great as to throw the contra caning., a se cond elms one, completely off the line. Henry Field, the engine-driver, with the assistance of the etch. r and _guard, uncoupled the carriage which had got off the metals from the three hindmost carriages, and proceeded with that portion of the train to Barnes anti's, when, with considerable trouble, the carriage which had been forced off was righted, and the train backed to the other carriages, the inmates of which mese, as may be sup , poetwi, very much alarmed. There were only two gentle men in the carriage that had been thrown off; but, beyond a severe shaking, they experienced no hurt. The following morning the cartage of the hone was found lying by the side of the line, horribly mangled, and the heart, which had been torn out by the collision, was lying nearly five yards distant. The hone, which was the property of a Mr. Whiting Putney Lowernamsnon, was sinned at 14 guineas, , and bad been turned out on Barnes common only half an heath previously. It was e admit, from the hair of the horse remaining on the gate in Dyer'islane, that the animal had pushed the gate open, It not having a proper and secure fastening. burnale=Glasgote Post. """ .! • J • . . • , I ;• 2 • i '• • / ,•-• • -. I • VISIT OF THE COUNT AND COUNTESS DE NRUILLY TO THE LORD MAYOR. Yestirday the Right Hoc. the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress were honoured erit.b a visit from the Count and Countess de !tinnily, at the Mansion-house. In order to give the late King and Queen of the French some idea of the magnificent room in which the hospitality of the Lord Mayor of London is principally displayed, hie lord ship caused the Exeptian-hall to be decorated, the Massion hewn plate to be exhibited, and the tables to be laid out in the style of splendour to which they have been accustomed daring the present mayoralty. The drawing-room and the lofty corridor were prepared for the reception of the illus trious guests with equal ears, and in the long puller a dejeuner dla Mocha , * was laid. His loroship invited the following disunguished persons to meet their late tasked., The governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of England, the chairman of the East India Comp +ny, the deputy-chair man of the East India Company, the L3rd Provost of Edin burgh, Mr. Masterman, M.P., !Le. At the appointed hour the Count and Countess de Neuilly. accompanied by La Duchess. d'Orlesits, Le Conn. de Paris, and Le Comte de Chartres, and attended by La Duchene de Marisier, La Marquise de Vine, General le Comte de Chabannes;General le Comte de Dumas ' and Col. le Comte de Ilontguyon, arrived at the private door of the Maicion House, where they were received by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, amidst the cheers of a multitude who bad 'resembled in Charlotte-row. The Count and Countess de Neuilly, after havin4 visited the justice-room in which the magisterial duties of the mayoralty are performed, entered the Egyptian Hll, and they expressed the highest admiration of the magnificent ornaments of the home of the Mayor of London. At 3 o'clock it was announced that the d,jetoter was ready, and the Lord Mayor conducted the Comteiee de Neuilly (preceded by the sword-bearer and the mace-bearer) into the long parlour, followed by the Comte de Neuilly, who conducted the Lady Mayoress, and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who conducted the Duchene d'Orleans. The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of her Ma jesty the Queen and his lintel Highness Prince Albert, which was drunk with the car omary honours. Hi. LORDSHIP then proposed the health of the Comte and Countess de Neuilly, the Duchene of Odeon', the Comte de Paris, and the Duke de Chartres, with had honoured him by visiting the Mansion-house. He regretted that he was prevented, by the rt queit of his ptionpal guest, from more strongly i..dicating the high respect be enter tained for so Ottani rus a man—for a man who could not but be illustrious under any circumstances, adverse or pros perous' by which he might be surrounded. (Cheers.) The Courts de NEUILLY said he felt deeply grateful for the honeur done him by the Lord Mayor and the company by whom he was surrounded, and it was with the greatest pleasure he revised the health of his lordship, and pros perity to the City of London. (Cheers.) Soon after four o'clock the C. anti Comtesoe de Neuilly, the Duchene d'Orleans, the Comte de Parie, and the Duke de Chartres took leave of the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. evidently delighted with their reception. The moment they entered their canines, the crowd, which 0 completely filled the wide space of Charlotte-row, burst into lead applause. See. ral gentleuren shook hands with the I lath King of the French, when he was seated in his carriage, id all exhibited towards him profound respect. THE CHOLERA. Return of cases of cholera repotted to the General Board of Health yesterday, August 23 : Attacks. Deaths. In London and vicinity, vim : Lambeth 93 15 Southwark Newington butts Bethnal green Soorediteh Other Lcalities la England and "Ada:— Liverpool lO6 31 Merth. r Tydfil lO 6 Dowlais Plymouth Newcastle-ntider•Lyins Bristol B6 30 Other towns, ite. la Scotland : Daa4es Rana Other towns, &o. General total EOO 408 CJIATIII:II.—SeveraI casts of cholera have occurred ct Chatham during the lust week, eight of which have proved fatal. SALISBUKT:—In the lut few days the number of attacks and deaths in the city have increased, tied at Fisherton Anger five or six deaths {Life Sunday last. In Hardieg's buildines. the Wilton. road, the discus has appeared in the most virulent form. liermax.—The continued prevalence of the malignant cholera in our union workhouse meter much alarm and ex citement. About thirty have been sitlecked during the lag: fortnight either with the premonitory symptoms or the actual disease. Death has occurred in ten cases, and five or six are salt under treatment. GAIMEOROI:OH.—A correspondent of the Eastern Come ties Hired says : The cholera is making fearful ravages in Oainsburough. Last Wednesday, betwet n five and elev.!' o'clock in the morning, there were eleven deaths. 0.1 Mn day last five persoca were lying dead in the small sp..ca be tween toe Pillared Ilouse and the river. It is at the, b' vat, 1 am told, very near to the Neptune Inn, that a number of piggeries ewe, and the great sough has its outlet into the Trent. PLYMOUTH.—During the week ending on Tuesday last, 382 casts and 72 deaths have been reported. DEVOMOkr—lo this town the statement for the week ending on Tuesday is :—Caste, 357; deaths. 129. STUMBOUSS.—For the same period :—Cases, 26 ; deaths, 9. Among the miiitary the following has been the state of things during the week : On the 16th, 1 man of the 2i.h. Refit. died ; 17th, lof the 82nd Refit. died ; 18th, 1 of the 28th and 1 of the 82nd Rees. died, and 1 new case in the 52nd was reported ; 1 woman and 1 timid of the 82nd died on the same day; 19th, 1 of the 28'h, 1 ram, I woman, and 1 child of the 82A, and 1 Royal Artillery died; 20th, 1 Royal Artillery diem ; 2 children were di-charged cured, and 2 children are under treatment; since which there has been no new case among the troops, nor is there any clue at the military: hospital. Bittsroh.—The disease is rather more prevalent than yes terday ; the following is the return from St. Peter's Hospital, August 23:—Diarrocoa, 14 ; approaching cholera, 2; cho lera, 9; deaths, 7; un-le r treatment, 30. From Dedmiccer our accounts are mere favoured -, and the disease is dimi nishing. In the out parish of St. Philip and Jacob it has not by any means abated. SWAMEA —No new cams ef cholera were reported on Monday or Tuesday, and the few occurring on the previous days were of a comparatively mild charecter. Caticknoweht.—Cholers has Mtd• its appearance in this town ; the number of cases up to Saturday has been six, four cf which have prov , d tate!. Since Saturday no Mrs have occurred. The sanitary committee has made great exertions to cleanse the place. 11E11'1/Mt.—The following is the return issued yesterday : —Mertbyr, attack. d, 10 ; dead, 6. Penydarran, attacked, 10; dead 2. Dowlsis, attacked, 7 ; dead, 2. Abereare, I attacked, 4 ; dead 4. a SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS.—The first 01 a series of public meetings, which are intended to be held in Gloucestershire, to express sympethy fur the Hungarian nation, was held at Seilsworth, on Tuesday. There was a very large attendance. T. Plink, Esq., a clothier, occupied the chdir. linolutEns were unaeircionsly carried, expres sive of strong eympatty with the Hungarisns In their struggle for liberty. THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.—An idea may be forted of the extent of the commerce of this pert from the I feet, that according to the local *Moping list of Thursday lest, there were on that day, in the duck.; and in the ever, no Sewer the^ from 90) to 1,000 Treads —a circumata3ce, we may v. Ste to say, unprecedented in the anneds of Liverpool, or of the world. By oh 3 last annual statement of the dock treasurer it appears, that during the year ending the 23rd of June, 1849, there was an increase, as compared with the preceding year, of 422 in the number of vessels en tering the port, of 354,183 in the amount of tonnage, and of . .9.710/. in the receipts of rates and duties !—C,turrer. NARROW ESCAPE PROM. POISONING OF • PAIITY or SPORTSMEN IN STRATHDON. — Mr. Grant, of Mony. musk, and party, consisting of his son, Captain Grant of the 4th Dragoons, and two other gentlemen, elks' partaking, at breakfast on the 13th, of chicken pie, were suddenly seed on the moon, three hours a ft erwards, with all the usual syLptorns resulting from poison, and were with difficulty eni.bled to reach their shooting quarters. Some of the party who had not ate of it before, and who had divided and taken soother beat, and not knowing the baneful effects produced, consisting of two of the gamekeepers, consumed another portion of the pie, and were, a few hours after luncheon, attacked in the same way. Ftvtunntely medical aid was quickly procured, and all the patty, seven in number, Imo convalescent the following day. The professional men called in are of opinion that the poison arose from some of the kitchen utensils originally used.—Aberdens Herald. CURIOUS CASE.—On Saturday evening hat it was euppeeed that a poor woman was dead at Fiaberton, and cous.quently the appointed parish authority, with great promptitude, paid •he husband the burial ezptsese for coffin, bearers, etc. It prividentially was discovered that the poor woman bed eympt -me of life remaining, and she is recovered, hut her husband is since both dead and buried.—Sherborlw Journal. NINE LIVES LOST IN A COAL PIT.—An explosion of fire-damp took place at Mr. Wilson'. No. 6 Pit, ishaw Colliery, on Monday week, by which nine lives were lost. Some idea may be twined of the strength of the blast, when we state that both cages, slides, part of the barring,a portion of the mid wall, and one men, were blown up and out of the pit, and earned to a great distance in the air, and fragments of human flesh and bone have been gathered at four hundred yards distanc- from the pit. From porions of clothing ga thered in the fields, the men blown up is supposed to be A. WKimilin, a native et Tine, but as the body has bees dashed to pieces, no one can tell. Immediately after the blast, a boy named Thomas Hunter cried to be taken up ; but saga and tackle of every description were blown away, and before a rope could be r et _the pit wee filled with damp, and his life gone. Hunter's body was recovered on Monday. It was found wastage, to put in new barring before me. could go down and up with anything like safety, and on Thursday meaning five bodies were &loomed, all tamely burns4.—Glargoto Port. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY. CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR. 'JUDSON. _ _ Tema, Tstraeoa y. The half yearly meeting of the shareholders of tee; com pany wets held hi tho Festival Caneert-room ie this city, for the receipt of the directors' report, and the ordinary business oonsequent thereon. It was afterwards made special and extra seienary, in pursuance of a requisition signed by 3,010 shareholders, for receiving and considering a report of the committee of investigation ' and vesting in them power and authority to prosecute such legal proceedings as ineeht ere deemed expedient, and taking such other ate; s as might be determined upon for the interests of the competiy. The meeting was convened for half-put eleven o'clock, and shortly after that time the business commenced. Itunmer Davies, E.g., the Deputy Chairman of the Directors, being in the elude. The attendance of shareholders war net so numerous so at seme former meatier, and m eny of them did not arrive until after the business had com menced. The CHAIRMAN mud that the seal be affixed to [the register of eharehelders, which was agreed to. The report of the directen having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be rea bed, and entered in the minutes of this dae's proceedings. Title sea luting' was also agreed to without amount Mr. PLEWS then entered into a detailed statement se to the traffic account prior to the present year, when there was an apparent balance of 69,7771., but suesequeet pay ments uf trath amen's bills, intuits: on various accounts, in- come tea, and other payments, and allowance ter had debts, belotiging to the former half-year, had absorbed that nee phis, sea created a deficiency of 38,7891. to bo provided for out of the surplus ic.come of the present half-y. are Mr. CHAT LOH made some remarks, ahowene that on the half•year's aceeunts, there was an apparent decrease of re ceipts of 30,0001., and an increase of expenditer. tf 3.5,0001. Mr. FLEWS explained that the expense of working the Hartlepool line wee now included, and not previousle. Mr. CHAYTOR urged that a return shrewd be made, showing the salaries paid to thiir respective °Moen • with a dimes:felled Lucerne and an increased expenditure , ' he held that this was imperative. Me. PLEWS accounted for a large pertien of their dimi nished traffic, which erase from the Danish blockade, whilst their expenses were of course going on. Mr. LOVE made some remarks respecting the Hartlepool purchase, torte, effect that the committee of mvetheation hod not been able, for mast of time, Cully to consider that trans action. Tree resolution for receiving the report and eatt ring it en the minutes was then sgretd to. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the interest of i per cent. on the lest coil on No. 1 and 2 extension thetas oc paid, which was agreed to. Mr. SIDNEY, of Liverpool, asked if the diretters were prepared to resign their office, which he trusted, they would do. Mr. H. S. THOMPSON requested th d this question should not be pria•ed at the present m , moot, as it might be prejudicial to the interests of the crteepeny. Mr. SIDNEY strontly pressed that his question should be answered. The CHAIRMAN sail. that the directors were reedy t• resign their trust immediately on the eleceou of their 'en amors. Mr. THOMPSON then addressed the met tic,e. Were the shareholders satisfied with the reales which the can. mictee of invest gein had mane? Fur himself he was perfectly In suet 1 c !raised aeon these docainetti es most valuable. lie therefore hail great pleasure in mewing a resolution, that as a temperate meat ore, ant with a view to the ad Tejon of leg-I pruceedines, time request four of the anent directors to retire, Jll4 the: the Lind Mayor of York, Mr. M'Lsren , Mr. Leeounen, Cdr. L we, and Mr. Klein, members of that committee, is elected direct rts, lU c.nr.u.o• ties with Mr. Iles , . and Mt eWeod, two of the preeent directere ; an ewe ly newlyrtenstitutsd permanent beard to be termed on the 4 ti of Oct..b.r next. Mr. CARBUTr Puget nod they elesuld Stet diepose of the question of dividend. lir. LEEMAN said it was intended to ask the il.are holders to posepot e the question of dividend until the fad re ort of the committee of investigation wee received ant considered. Air. PRANCE then secende : the metiea mete ley Mr. Thompson, and u.g-d the greet policy of its ad, pen. He added that t!'o weal report ef in • eo.orni.tie w..uld be be made in ab. art sex we. in, • rid, t her. :ore, that this temeo• retry arrauge men would not he ter lag. Mr. CIiATTUIt m reed as as anandnaut, " That in the selection of iii.ttt , va a enure. be paste t. sinker to ,hat followed by tie: it attro Countii a It away. Ile ale) cow tended that the allowance to the direetury be rcauce I to per amens,. Ales. Ilk Da dist. si.n lie. CHATTOI: %hi-altw his amend ment. Thu LORD li AYOR said, it wet with great nth tares that toe commit'. , consent. tto act temporally the direction. For him elf, Le could not consent to beeume • dinner oa tee ee x meant beard weigh loathd ulttheatel, have so be sat vest- Mr. JOHNSON sell, that if the final report woe! be made in six we ks .13.. y might, with great recycle% , the pe, sew dine .re to had (Oleo nail that p sloe. Ni reason had been given to jeer ify title meeeure, It ) wh. :a the affairs of the elemp•ny would be pbeed cans ely el the hands of 0 is e. ussii..4to, whose dales of Cocestieutien were tot conclude ri. Mr. WILILY Jul parted Mr. Thoraptua'a taglotion. He should he oe lightee to pee such gee demo& as et,...posed tic emnmit•te m t only temporary but pen- neat directors. It was abt,,lntely whew , ry the. the animates :hold.: be c1ati....1 with tits autherity ape ortunnt lieu t.ffice ut director. In an,wer to a at stirs from Mr. SIOXLY• Mr. OUTC !Le e, Irei•er of the e .mpan), exp1e.1 , . , 1 the process by which the toad ertdd ar rj eat t e e shoe of tee meeting. hi J. EAS eIIOPE, M.P., ask d if 'eir. Plewa eel Me Wood, u elected, %amid act in cone 'ranee with tee per new a frect. a ? 11,, erutioteti the wetting ten; it they el, eted men s.itliont expert:ix,, sullen out barmen! wed itbout co-neer:aeon great thane , would be the contequeuee, eol believer they . ft alter wards regret the I:se atece they might ouseion, that regret ' w• old net use° oh. t they were about to :elev. Mr. PLEWS •el h• oes eet 4 , 4411* that i.e anything he or Mr. W.vol had so it is any way hostile to the oominectee. are he was yea ,e and x - . 1 ir.g to do tie best is hi. power till the math of G. whet, when the heel report would be presented. Mr. WOOD wou'd not pledge I imeelf as to any line of couduet he shoeld p but he was willing to du the Lot in his power to &care ode Interests of the ciapany. Ho bedewed that the cone .rn was a geed one if managed by reactical men lit , COloi: tel with the aeries ; but ft would set trod to ke beet& to t-ceper with the direceore. The ena eany bail powerful:iv ,te who was actively et work to divert its traffic. Mr. eI'LAREN e. in the two ertetlemen had acted her mordantly with ten c need:tee hl.et , eore ; end 1 e knew ef no reason why they could net do so in future. He believed that tile adoptica el tee resolution weuhl not he injurious to the interests cf the cote piny After rue further et...motion Mr. Thompeon's rtrobirien was agreed to ; a t the directors retiree to gin keel elate to it, by making the necessary retirements and eh:mond of cheaters recommended by the resolution. Daring the abeam • of the chairman, Mr. SHIELD made some explanatient es is the r-ssens why ho had refused ..o act on :he committee, in iestitutieg legal proceedings agars' Mr. Hudson. He ceeteeded that the whole affair ve:s illegal from begineing to end; and, therefore, that he woe el rather obey the law of the land than the vote of this meet ine. The meeting had no power to make such an eepoint meet, or confer bur:, powers as it had erofeered to du. Ho ,denied that he hll bean actuated by any desire to screen Mr. Hudson, or Peet at.y intimate sequaietance had existed between that geetlernen and himself. Mr. M'LAREN they offered some r:marlcs in appeal.: ei to Mr. Shiel'd's opinion that the pewees conferred on the committee were eerketly justeied ty the law, and Le cue tended that but for that gentlemaile resignation thee creed have proceeded in enforcing the e.11:ou agnost Mr. Huelseu, without the delay that had occurred. THa LITIV&ORDINARY MEETING Commenced at two o'clock, wee!: the L'JliD MAYO. 2 of Youz took the cheie ; and Mr. Cease read the if the meeting of the directors, at which the booed had tree reseeneructed in the terms comprised in Mr. Thompsore'e re 'elution. This had been done in a room adjoining to %het is which the genteel meeting was being held. A letter was also read from Mr. Shield, announcing Lath signation as a member of the oemmittee of investiganote Much discussion erne as to the ceder of procedure, tin re being three meetings before the shareholders—the balf yearly meeting, the adjourned special meeting, and an extra ordinazy meetiug. Af.er this discussion had been con cluded, the special meeting was adjourned to the 4th of next October. The business of the extraordinary meeting was then pr t ecedoi with. Ti.. Lows MATUR entered into some expires- Cons why a fourth report would be necessary. This had arisen from their not getting the accountant's report, and be feared it would take full six weeks to coached° their labours. He trusted that the mcetiug would glen theta credit for hes ieg acted with energy and hmtaity. then enumerated the lo weal Levies seLich the report em brace, and entree 1 that when the permanent board le as conrtimeted, if they succeeded in securing men who would honestly, faithfully, end assiduously discharge their duties, this line would Le one of some value; he believed that at least a minimum dividend of 4 per cent, would be secured; but he hoped to en 6 per ant., or perhaps more, realised. lie loticed upon the opening of the Great Northern Ral!way as calculated greatly to augment the traffic and revenue uf the company tthimately. Mr. HARRISON, tee engineer, contradicted the report that the Berwick Bridge was unsafe. It was as substantial mei sound as any bridge that had ever been built. The report having been acelved, Mr. Id'LAREN moved ill adoption in its entirety, with a proviso that any shareholder should have the option to mon any amendment on any one of the fifteen heads' which it embraced, with reference to the Great North of England purchue, if the meeting approved their suggestion, then the committee would put themselves in communication with the Great North of England Director', with a view to treat for inch as arrengemeet as that which they had proposed. Mr. LOVE seconded the Motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. SIDNEY asked whether Mr. Plows, as chairman of the Great North of England, would give any assurance that such a propcsal es the committee recommended would be ap proved by that company. Mr. FLEWS said that he should be happy to do all he could to forward en arrangement, but he could sot pledge, nor would he pledge the shareholders of that rioupri ‘l4 • 1 E1: