The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-31 00:00:00

or asp a ides e, bit t. Ilse rums OM to is Mr. ,ntrapt, oar* is PK OM lace io not et is, wee by the spiral lordship room is ); which A d. Be • fifth I sad the macaw rated he tie% }co- dlse.ost gr. Joie iy Wow I ?my ire alts. ss of Alia the &I' lb* to tbi ndsiney sr lotto nee would sot Woad no 'SW IA kara Yer sakitug. sestifel ing Sala* herr was g AP owl eeir the so" the deo. Wised all bet POUM **NT. le SU Wall" }SargLoB llll. Pia 1- 611 er l Plasset DWI.. 114 ' • im i lAdy PI it. mod"' hM v" loon a , ;440. be Ira Ma% r e I ussissaVis 01 811 1 6 ,1 ssi I slow.— Thisima. WM; THE CHOLERA. Ratan of cases ad deaths from cholera mid thor ium tarsal to the General Board of Health yesterday, BM" ; lir TIN INIZTROPOLIII. gsjoriatmalog Ragistrar's Deaths. pietist : Attaelts. Cholera. Dumdum. Bolton M. Oil's sad St George West Loeb* 4 9 1 lit. George. Southwark Bromwich 7 2 Bethnal oss 18 St Olar 2 1 AR At 4 I;l;t 4 th atopety Osurgols4ll.lll4 . _ llatylelme Bt. Promo • repllo Strand O.xg'. Haawtft f St J•mM, Wouskralw Clelkaswell Bt. Lake —..— Camberwell St &Moo, Somkwuk Hu kmy Remin Wand?worgtoniti i,swiabais Eut Landon ihoreeitch It )therhithe Ch-.sea City o• L.uiclon St. Martin. inthe-Fulda Bampatesd, no return Total IN TSB COUNTRY. Return of eases and deaths front cholera sad diarrhea% »- ported to the General Board of Health yesterday, August 30. Baperintr ndiag Becietzer's Maths. District : AStasks. Cholera. Diarrhea. Liverpool ll4 28 8 Illuther Tydlli -` • • 4 8 Clift» Piyutosth Ports» lieliebory — 1 Biesec a stio-nader-Llnse Tyeemonth 8 7 Lancaster Brighton 2 8 Beath 24 West Bun — 1 Bradford & Nurth Bristle,' 20 9 1 Seeleoetes e in 232 39 Bruin . • • • Gravtwai ---. ilamiGtos• .. Genie, itOcitOri Sato' 11,ric Trekeet Thrby Dm - : ludo . _ Hiatus Resting* VicITITIWipt O6 B lielywell East L mellows South Salads Bed /Wiwi Nol Vellum iii, -- D.nM7 Pommel Tabled' Bury Preston Wr, %ham Wolstantos Towel In Scoqmoil : Dundee B•itb -- Arbroath St. Andrew% Lid ad Boni, iesheia Wilts. by Maid* Total 18 8 1 3 4 3j 33 One& Total —Country .. 261 Metropolis . 2t9 Scotland .. 33 5.53 238 11 Ciatettl Total 432 Ltvearook—le was repeated yesterday to the health sm. Wane that dialog the past week, the deaths from all caws regiatend oithut the Ihroarh of Liverpool amounted to 682. Of three 408 were from ra, Wag a decrease in Ilbe ram , , tality hem that malady Y o mmpared with the previous week IP4. PLTYOI7TH.—The returse for the last throe days skew lee August 26 : Cholera, 20 new cases ; cholera &arnica. 18—e total o f 38 Dew cases, and deaths 9. Fre 27th : Cho. kn. 18 ; cholera distraint, 26 ; sew eases, 44 ; sad deathly 1 8. Foe the 28th : Choler a, 22 ; titans diarrhea, 24 ; not I mesa,46 ; sad deaths, 10. This it will be sees that the mor‘Uty is eesaiderably Is. than it was a weak shwa STONSMOVIIIL—OnIy three deaths by chokes have bees ed daring the 28 th, 27 th , sad WM of Assiut, ma I =I; sew same. evosvoar.—The retire for the 26th: New One of abiders, 12; cholera diarrbass, 15; deaths, 11. Feel 27th : Cholera, 10 ; cholera diarrams, _ ,27 • deaths, 8. Fee 28th : Cholera, ; cholera diarricele deaths 13. Since the first appearance of Os Aram ea the 4th of July, thew have been in this tows MUM. lalieedles 1.000 cues of cholera avid cholera-diarrhea. sad 488 doses. Cuts t WALL—This dire disease km at length reached the perish of St. Martin, sear Loos, ia Cornwall, whkle is eitnated 16 mike west of Devoaport. The first vices was a boy, who was taken ea Thursday morales, the 16th bast., mail died as the same eight. IDl24lllllllOlll.—We regret to state that this epidemic _ states to liner in this city. It is satisfectory, however, hatier that the somber of cases duns, the prawn mouth bare namely averaged three daily, and that the eireak of the disease is sot, by any mesas, • wide ass, being cona..ed, almost emlueively, to the low and dirty localities of the city . From the returns kept at the Royal Collage of Physicians, it appears that from the Ist till the 26th of August, there were 70 cams. 1 4 deaths, sad 6 recoveries Siam the latter data the returns have been as follows : —Oa the 28th, no eases and no deaths; ea the 27th, 2 eases sad 2 deaths and on the 28th, 6 eases, 2 deaths, sad 2 recoveries.— Scotsman. SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNOAR MEETING AT HAMMERSMITH. A meeting was held last night at the Albion-hall, Hommensith, to sympathise with the Hungarians in the pretest adversity to which they have beers sablested. The chair was taken by Wu. Samos, Esq. Lord DUDLEY STUART, in moving the fi ni Temotalisa, stated that in the draggle sew a lately icing on r is t ir h; brave Memoriam tie sympathies of Englishmen, in or'defrat, were equally with 'Rem He feared that then. ports in circulation might be tee true, and that a old gol lant people was obliged to gMleaub tO overwhelming amt. bat ; but whether or not, thug were entitled to the gum* tly of Eaelishmen, and that sympathy sosal andese se bo manifested, not by Eaglishmen ekes, but t by every knee of f ree dom throughout the world. lamb had been made by portions of the Eaglish Inso ft malign the motives and misropreant the objes. at*, Ihrydoss. who have struggled for a consuls*. do*. . air Ismind from generation to genenitim t is gen am. t cathrresgsaCharts extorted from if Jahn. The present mosehethm, since the changes introduced by the Elnerione Ilesseek gave to his 1 countrymen of every dem IA w orl d os ere 1 that enjoyed by any maim in the The m numerous why Englianten shoed feel deeply he Ilimprey, whose struggle was against a government ever giving lie meet I determined opposition to the progress of hymen freer 1 dom. The noble load, amidst great cheering, Roved the first resolution : " That the destruction of Hungarian independence by the combined armies of • sovereign not legaly m entitled le the crown and of • foreign fee only renders i t ore hewn-' tire on Engli.hams to smear their sympathy with oppressed parrots who have, in 009Z10111 with all mankind, an Lade &feasible right to a 'oversaw's% of their own choice, and whose liberties ere moreover confirmed by positive com pact, and are immeersted boy time and historical records." Mr. T. I. SERLE seconded the resolution, which was carr ied unanimously. The following resolutions were also serried : "That an address be tad to Lord Pelosenton, in the hops that Engin\ di M y may succesefully interfere to eses beren mete g e e th e E nados its own histenesl liberties. instead of more hies with the remainder of the Ananias teritoriei." " That this he desire' that this expressioa Cl its sea• lissome ssould he semmealeated to Kossuth sad to all who may have show* themselves to the last swarthy to be his err wijotows, wilt the SWIM sapiratica that a day of easserses. Wino way sussed tide emesios palatal eosidolewm." Thanks were thee voted to the Chairtasa, to Lord Daley Stuart, mid R. G. Nisholey, BK., sad the meeting esp. rated. Wzinnos Cans Tannlatui.—The Quint hall taminandod Mr. Bartley, who, ft miff be rereenbesod. nad, by desire, Wig bar Majesty, the illustrative verses d the Oratorios or AthaJiy Inlipsw_, mid Wilips, to appear n Falstaff in the dna pan Mary IY., at Windsor ant Mistime. when tho annatka npowiwialline aro to be rw , santed. Mr. B irtistines his groodlows winless ant week as the Birmelghaat Festival, and use this vans of the ditAatio. SEWAGE MANURE. LORD BROUGHAM AT THE CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND AORICULTURAL SOCIETY. I COURT- Yesterday waileffirg at a general wort of Commis sioners of Sewers. Mr. WooLarnaaread letters teem several patients re lative le the basellial effects el tlis legaid manses. Aiseogst others. ken Oelwasi CYtherss.Wads( that kis gr ies land to will& She same had Ws applied pedseed upwards at a lead asi sWt el bay per son ; sat ken Mr. Atli', of Park Pon, Haswell, who dared list wbes the sewage suave wee applied Ia the win e it wadi piques t►roe Tustin of a load et hay per aria sere than the average crap, and on wheat Wide it wadi recluse sae load of straw and fully a quarter of wheat, red proliflo wheat, per Me mom than the average crop. Mr. Lesion stated that he had letters on the other side, and salted epos the ffeentaty to read them The Swart/ir then reed letters from Mr. Bake, the celebrated egrisaltarist, of Wnttle, om r Tramper, of the Wanes, Hanwell. Mr. Baker stated that irs each Weep WOW to be b.neficial it would be necessary, owing to its dasted character, to apply It is such large quantities as to MOW it doubtful whether it amid ever be applied with advsatage. The oast of carrying maser. would he Is. per tos, and 16 toss were required icr one awe of lard. THE LATE CHAPLAIN OF COVENTRY GAOL. We copy the subjoined documents from the Coventry Herald and Observer. TO THE IDITOZ OF THM COTENZT NZIALD AND OSSIZTER. Sir,—You will, I preserve, favour me with the insertili of the following medical certificate. The italics are Mr. Laxon's own: " I hereby certify that on the third day subsequent to the alight injury inflicted on the late Mary Ball's hand, by the flame of a candle (no evidence of mischief remaining), I di rected the covering to be removed from it. ° WILLIAM LAXON, M.D , Surgeon to the Gaol. "Coventry, Aug. 21,1849." There is an inaccuracy is the deposition of the chief wit- nen where the singular is substituted for the plural number, viz. "a hundred years" for "hundreds of years ;" and also en important amisdoa. My wort were to this effect : " What is this compared with the imam of hell, where your whole frame will be in torments ter Misdeeds of years, if you depart this life without making an acknowledgment of your guilt ! RIMMED C COPT OP • " Lorna FONWANID DT THE LATZ CHAPLAIN OF OOTENAT GAOL TO Tall SHOILETAZT OP ITATP FOR 11111 BOND DIPLICINUINT. " Aomori 10, 1849. "Right Honourable Sir, —Although antacid notice hem the visiting magistrates of Coventy Gaol, respecting my OW pension from the duties of the cbaplalsey, and my WSW quint realisation of the office, may have already reesited you, I ban neveribelin thought it not inexpedient to trouble you with a brief account of the circumstances which led to such an unfortunate result. The condemned prisoner Mary Ball (who was executed yesterday), i bad attended privately for several weeks prior to her condemnation; and from the time the sentence of death was pronounced over her until the Saturday before her execution (i.e. for the space of a week), I was unremitting in my exertions to pee. pan her for the awful fate which awaited her. No paint 1 assure you, were spared on my part to awaken her mind to a sense o , her condition. But I had to contend with an ob• tam libelled, a l-thargio temperament, a moral sense ex ceedingly debased, and a conscience apparently benumbed by long-costnoed babies of vice. The proofs of her guilt hat been clearly established at her trial, but no acknow ledgment of it could I extort from her. On the con trary, her protestations and amertions of innocence were repeatedly conveyed to me from her lips in the strongest language that she had at her command. I trust that, as a Christian gentleman, you will make every reasonable allow ate, for a clergymen anxious for the salvation of a human soul, and in a state of perplexity how to secure it. On the meriting of Saturday, Die 4th inst., I read and expl*ined to her several parables of our blessed Lord whin inculcate the umessity of repentance ; I also read to her the Gospel account of the penitent thief, and eadearowed, from them instances, and from other passages of Scripture, to prove to her that remittance without coafessioo, or an nen served acknowledgment of guilt, wee necessarily imperfect. I then pointed out to her, as plainly . as I could, the dreadful consequence of departing this life without having completed the work of repentance, and reed to her some passages from ' a work of Jeremy Taylor, on the nature of eternal p u nish,. meat in hell ore. Haring expatiated thereupon at some length, I implored her, in th e kindest and most malting sr mots, sot to incur the macho( Oat by penistieg in the assn. ties other inert:ones, and requested beet* kneeldowa without* in prayer. After these religious exercises were finished, hail manner seemed to be rather subdued, in spite of a litalf sullenness which now and then betrayed itself, and an un willingness to be communicative. On revisiting her in the aftersess, a thought struck me that an application to the senses of a person who was inaccessible to reason might be Minded with the desired result. I called for • lighted enek, and requested her to give me her hand,. which she unreristingly plead (or suffi red to be placed) in my own. I then held it over the lighted candle, and asked her if she suffered pain, to whin she made no reply, but o;ndy began to struggle, but I instantly released her This operation did not occupy more than two smordo, or three at the most, during which she never some aged out. I then 'squired of her if she would vesture upon another trial, and proceeded to ta ke her bead for that purpose ; bat peregrine her die iselnatime, I did not persist is my attempt. Whereupon I addremsd her in the following or similar wards:—' Do sot =es that I have been influenced by asy feelings of towards you in thus plena; your hem& over gm eandle; I have done this to teach yon the value of year loons cal soul. If you flinch from seek a trifling amount of pain as this, which I have been inflicting upon you, how will you endure the temente of an *teens' ere hereafter, whin\ will inevitably be your portion, unless you make an amide confession of your guilt before yaw die? I regret very mush to state that the hand of the unfortunate women was IP blistered by the flame but two days before she suffered received intelligence of its entire ..emery, and that she had almost forgotten the circumstance. Perhaps it may not be unimportant to mention that she subsequently con fessed her crime, and admitted the Indite of bet sentence. I have thus endeavoured to give you es clear a statement as passible of the transaction whin occasioned my napes- Dion. The possibility of the other prisoners entertaining a prejudice enlist me, on their coming to a knowledge of this circumstance, has doubtless lammed the decision of the magistrates ; and this consideration will, perhaps, walnut for the apparent harshness of their resolution. Erroneous sad exaggerated reports relative to this ridiculous affair have been circulated, some of them too ridiculous to be credited by any person of intelligence. I have, therefore, thought it advisable to write to you myself upon the subject, not for getting to mention that, by the advice of my friends. I have forwarded my resignation of the chaplaincy to the chairman of the Quarter B e mions.—l am, sir, your Oodlest servant, I still " a. Cummx." MUSIC. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY ETENING, AUGUST 31, 1849. being tarried about the forecastle by Mr. Brake, the wrist ast-eurgese, and *sally seing taken down to the galley fire after he had bees esrubbed P—l do not remember the per sand appearance of the boy Sanger, neither did I see him strabhed er carried by Mr. Brake, bat that he was scrubbed late laail 1 am oonfithat of, and I saw Mr. Brake holding him babes the fire to revive him. Oepatin Mamioughall—How were you osefident that be wee INTAilledi ? Woman it was so public throughout the ablipae4lllo4 Is you consider was the cause of so many men mak, Him dos ship at Hobart Town ? The cruelty of treatment Ili beard. I remember a seaman of the name of Jam Milos Imlag :7*Q. It is enured in the log thus: ..,,,s, tri m , vi a c hweir. m a. pan i ni z! John Maclean, ordi aZ^. seaman, odllt a issbm for being dirt' : . ...diT i si° 4 •" What te Pulf Irides at Commander Pitmen's trei;:etelli of his p's marpony &dog bre voyage from the Cape of China ? ski I believe it wee eery met in Tory severe and very sinneossigery puniehmeats. The President: Wes Commander Pitman on deck at the time when White jumped overboard P—To the best of my recollectelass, yes.—Did yogi hear any of the officers or the ship's cesspool make any remark upon that emeasion ate at time P-1 remember perfectly he bun talked publicly in the skip; bat I cannot name any person saying that he jumped overboard in consequessee of Commander Pitman having told him that he would give him four doses. I re member having heard Bayley and Bright say the sense thing. It was a thing that was publicly known, and spoken of publicly, but I don't know that any one in particular ad dressed to me en the occasion. Sir T. Maitland: Was marine Haig kept primmer on deck seven days after he was punished on the grating, with out any shelter from the weather? Was there anything over hien ?—I cannot remember the number of days. I said several days—four or hve. Did the man get wet, and will you sweet that be was wet by the sea or rain ? Yes, I swear he was; it was impossible for any one to be on deck without being so. Was he kept in irons?—No. Was he kept prisoner by night as well as by day during those four or flee five days ?—I believe so. I do not recollect. It is my firm belief that he was. You stated that it was your opinion that the conduct of Commander Fiume wee very cruel. State any one particular act of cruelty that you actually saw. Describe the cruelty ?—I consider this very act enough which I have just given in evidence. I have seen boss taken into the head several times by the sergeant to be scrubbed. I cannot say that I remember having seen the scrubbing brash. I saw the boy named Banger held before the fire.—Was the weather cold at that time ? The weather is marked in the log, and the thermometer ranged from 60 to 63, meetly to. wards 60. Tae weather was variable, average about 4. You have stated that White sppeared at quarters with his clothes dirty, and not properly mended. Was there any reasonable excuse for his not being clean ? In consequence of the state of the weather, sometimes in small vessels men are not &bat to keep clean ? Yes. To make that passage we had gone a long way to the southward. We bad got lato bad weather, and during almost the whole of that time the vessel was battened down.—Were the rest of the crew clean ? Ido not consider that any of them were cleaner than himself. Captain Wellesley—By whom was the complaint made of Waite being dirty ? I coasider it was by Lieut. Boys.— Was the punishment of scrubbing boys ordered by the first lieutenant or by the commander ? By the commander. Captain Johnstone—Did the marine give any armee when the commander said he would give him four dozen, or forty-eight lathes ; did he asks any remark, or give any answer ? 1 did not hear him. It is my belief that he did not.—lt being now six o'clock, the prisoner requested that the case iniglA be adjourned previous to his entering upon this witness'eczoseexamiastion, as he (Commander Pitman) had lately been suffering from illness. The court was there fore adjourned. SECOND DAT, AVOCET 29. The Court resumed its sittings this morning at nine o'clock. Mr. Elliott was cross-examiaed by the prisoner—lie said he entered the service in January, 1839, and joined the Childers in August, 1846. He declined to say whether he was, or was not, frequently reported for neglect of duty. Denied that he was aware that Haigh had committed any offence, before bring flogged, except stealing candles, and i x• pressed his belief that he was kept on deck, day and night, for several days. Was not aware that the man was reported the day after his punishment for another offence. Did not know that he was plaoed in irons on that day. Never heard until now that Haigh was reported for mutinous conduct, in having attempted to strike the non-commissioned officers, when ordered aft for stealing. Had beard that Haigh broke into the officer.' wine cellar at Portsmouth, and got so drunk that he tell into a dry dock and severely injured himself. Had heard his insanity ascribed to that accident. Did not believe White could have fallen overboard. Never beard any one , doubt his having drowned himself. He had been heard to threaten that he would do so. There was no inquiry made on the man's act of jumping overboard. lie persisted in that answer. He had in other ships witnessed the scrub bing of boys. He was not aware that the circumstance re lated about the boy Sanger never came to the knowledge of Cons. Pitman until yesterday. He believed it was the commander who ordered the two boys to be scrubbed on the head. Had never heard of any other officer doing so. He could not say bow many men ran from the Childers whilst lying off Hobart Town, but he thought about 20, and he believed the cause of their leav ing was the cruel treatment of the commander. lie knew that some men were entered at Hobart Town who bad b'- longed to merchant vessels. Never heard that the high wages offered by the whalers was the cause of the men's run , ring from the Childers. They were lying at Hobart Town about a fortnight or three weeks. lie had no recollection' that a man called Allen was brought on board the vessel at Hobart Town under the lufluenee of some medical drug, nor did he recollect that intercession was made by the officers of the gun-room that the offence of Allen's getting drunk should be overlooked ; and, if such an intercession had been made, ke did not believe, from Com mander Pitman's conduct, he would ham overlooked so grave an offence. To what conduct do you refer i—The oases of John Haigh, the boys Cleverton and Sanger, the two men Gillmor and Pitts, who died in China, the midshipman Store, who com mitted suicide—these are all instances of cruelty which he at present recollected on the part of the commander. They were all cases of decided cruelty. The cross-examination was continued throughout the sit ting of the court. At five o'clock the court adjourned until next morning. The inquiry is likely to lest several days 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 26 ON COMMANDER PITMAN. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC FESTIVAL Livszrooz, THUSADLT. The concert last night was the most fblly attended of any of the performances that hare yet taken place. Nearly all the artistes were engaged in it: Grisi, Genie, Alboni, Catherine Hayes, Jetty de Treffz, the two Curbwris, and the two IVilliamses, Mario, La blache, :and Tagliatico. Formes was to have @nog, but was prevented by indisposition. The sllo in strumentalists were Ernst (violin), and Bottesini (oontra basso), aho elicited a hearty encore. Garcia has made the greatest impression of any of the artistes here, for every one speaks of her as a great vocalist. From the extreme length of the con. cert, the encores were few, but still, everything went off with great brilliancy, the receptions being flattering and the applause vehement. Grisi sang " Non fe wine " with en energy she seldom exhibits out of open, and the encore was tremendous. Garcia cave her great song from the " Prophets (the one in the prison scene, ' Sal capon and the duet from the first scene with Mies Hayes. The sestet, which occurs at the close of the first act, was given, and went with immense effect. Mario was suf fering from cold and a slight hoarseness, which somewhat marred the effect of his beautiful organ. Alboni g pia he mega the second time in Liverpoo l , a nd r wonderful facility in froriteri both surprised and delighted her beanie. There was the usual amount of concerted music. Benedict conducted, and the band went better, as Benedict knew the time to whic h t he operatic vOcal ists are accustomed to take their music, an d was t h erefore surer and firmer than any local conductor could be, however great his ability. The band gave Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony," and it was considered to be one of the gems of the festival by those who admire and can appreciate clas sical music of the highest order. This closed the series of concerts, and was certainly a very brilliant finale. This morning the " Messiah" was performed, and the artistes announced for it were Garcia, Catharine Hayes, and the Misses Williams, Sims Reeves, Herr Formes, Machin, and Benson. Garcia aad Reeves were too ill to appear. Miss M. Williams took the lady's part and Benson the gentleman's. Miss Hayes, for some reason which we have not been able to weer tain, scarcely sang anything for which she was set down, and in consequence of the changes there were many mistakes committed. Herr Forma had re covered from his illness and sang very finely . indeed. He was not so nervous as on the former morniag, and the music was evidently more familiar. The oratorio was so long in the performance that we are only left time enough to mention the choruses, which we do not hesitate to my are about the finest is leglend, they were the feature of this morning's peelhimmos. Steurrow morning the " Stabat Mater' is to be gi v e, aad es it has only been heard here once, ex pectation is raised about it, more parties/021y as the original vocalists will wear in it. The anniversary cf the Cumberland and Westmore land Agricultural Scary was held at Penrith on the 29 h. After a most excellent show of agricultural stock, predate, and implements, Lord Brougham presided at the dinner, which took plus in • marquee erected in the immediate vicinity of the Crown Hotel, Coven were hid for 350. Alter A. routine teeMs, and others of merely local in terest, Lord BROUGHAM proposed "Seems' to the Camber hod sad Westmorland Amicultaral Society," whom pro. 11.1164111 lad brought tlina together. He ought to ap pear& mash • subject ea that, on whisk he was, amo ral, speaking, so ill-infecund, Nei of which he had Nab no pranks' experience, with very great distrust el klf sell They were met certainly to avoid all 6116.1 des elatever to political topics, and to units la that which should further one of the great , at interests of maiskiad the cultivstioa of the soil. He cheerfully adeptod the principle. He held that whatever might N the effect of the late very important doge la the law and Folksy of this country with respect to the seen age, el mu mem admit that its first tendency, whatever might be Its admits effects, was upon the whole, to ellaselate the farmer te el measures cf improvement, whereby le east ke his Wade more profitable and his land more productive. (Cheers.) He did not mean to resew the discussion of the corn laws. He heard it debated till he was sick of the very name of sera—almost u much so es a lame man might be of the med. (A laugh.) He was as sick of it es he could be &m -iser that tiresome and •to be sufficient/y-depreeded session of 1846, owing to the labour it took in that home of parliament of which he was an unworthy member. Bet it always was the opinion maintained by those with whom he associated on this subject—it was the most im portant lesson that could be drawn from the result of that controversy, and whatever happened to prows oa the Ihreser, it was the mere important limos for hint to learr— it became doubly and trebly important that he should move all hot powers, and pat all his energies in form and action fee the purpose of increasing the produce of his land and diminishing the expense of his cultivation. (Cheers.) That was the ground on which they might all meet, what ever their opinions, on local politics or pima politics might be. His noble friend hod justly adverted to the great im portance of draining. It did not re quire a man to know much of :arming to appreciate the importance of that matter. For himself, he hardly knew more than the duffing.' be tween an ox sad a sheep—(a laugh)—he scarcely went fur the rin his knowledge of stock than that. He might be able to discriminate barley from wheat. With buley and rye he might, perhaps, be taken in. (A laugh.) In share, he knew almost as little as the legislature cn the subject. (A laugh.) It was utterly impossible to know less. (A laugh.) For in stance, they passed a measure—a most important measure, for it was a model set—the Municipal Clauses Act, im prig various penalties for overdriving cattle. Tney did not know an ox or cow to be cattle ; and, in the interpreta tion clause, which had been very carefully framed, they said —putting forth, no doubt, all the knowledge they powered —" cattle shall be taken to mean horses' —not very likely to be overdriven • " goats"—not very likely to be overdriven ; •• mules"—ha rdly ever seen (a laugh); swine"—not to be driven. (Laughter.) They might as well talk of driving the legislature, the only way of driving ttem was to pull them back. (Lauohter continued.) However, the leguls. cure left out oxen and cows as if they were not " cattle," and very likely to be overdriven. (A laugh.) He knew almost as little as the legislature; but, without knowing much more, he could easily tell that as long as the earth was a sponge of water, as in many parts of the country—some, not far off he was sorry to sty it—still remained, it was utterly useless in ploughing and putting in manure. He bad actually sees people throwing lime into wet ground making lime water, very good for • burn, but of no use to make the groaad dry. His noble friend near him had taken the judicious course—deep draining. (Cheers.) He had drained to an enormous extent, and he world go on drain. ing until he made his land doubly valuable. From many practical agriculturists he knew that the e &et of deep drain ing been to double the value of the land. (Cheers.) r they had drained it was of the greatest importance no doubt to attend to manure ; and a friend of his who bad attended very much to that subject produced a most valu able invention which bad been patented in France, and would have been patented in this country but for his death. It would have been • very great accession to the powers of manure, both in respect of cheapness and efficacy. Bat a very great step had been made lately, and approved of by all farmers, not merely specalative, bat practical, with whom he had the opportunity of conversing. He alluded to the effect of liquid manure. This he knew, that Lord Reknit', himself a very excellent farmer, stated lately, at a meeting of • sanitary association, that manure in a state of liquidity, impregnated with offal, applied to the soil—when the experiment was tried on a moderate scale—raised the value of the land from 7-. to 16c, and when tried on a most extensive scale, the value wee incensed by the liquid fi iw in the proportion of 7. to 28i. (Caters.) Tie operation requited no apparatus—no expense of outlay. It only required that sufficient water should be applied to the manure. The amount of water was most material to the success of the applicatioa. Before sitting down he whited to allude to machinery. He had been very much delighted to see so good a show of valuable engines, some of them most ingenious and very untenable in price for churning, hoeing, threshing, and so forth. A f.iend of his, • ',ream' agriculturist, informed him that • very ill portant step had been taken for the purpose of saving ltbour, sad thereby economising the egoism of production, an ob jet which, with care and judicious mechanical contrivances, wee always in our power a... when we °raid not increm IN fertility of the soil. (Cheers.) The most valuable import mate had been mad, in the application of steam on • small seals. People were apt to suppose that steam could only be employed on a gigantic stole, for locomotion on railways, er la great =flummeries of various kinds; and of course in pro rates to the rise of the engine was its expense both in first mat mil in working it by means of fuel. But In the town of Oisegew a person had been able to have a steam-engine not larger than • tea-kettle—he had seen such an one himself; ia inns instance he had heard of one not larger than • teapot, whisk was quite capable of driving a small turning lathe on whit& • cutler could work. (Cheers.) Still it might be said this power had only been employed In manufactures; bet, It might, with the greatest possible advantage in saving lassige, be introduced into erica - tare as well as smou'act tires. (Cheers ,) Tbrashing machines, straw-cutting machines, sad veriou, other engines might be worked most Nun lemma* by the application of steam; and he had the meet eselisat, sanguine hope, that he should live to see this new sod met valuable extension of the application of steam. NSW had he seen such beautiful cattle, such magnificent MOSS end bulls, as he bad seen that day,—not to men den their extraordinary exhibition of poultry. Thirty yams ego no man could have contemplated such • thing air* of the Trent. He ventured to say that as great psopor had been made, during the last 20 or 30 years, g sad stock, through Cumberland and Wiesner,- Ned. es in any other past of Ragland. (Cheers.) Perhaps mer season was, they bad very great occasion for improve. meet; for, certainly, 30 years ago, they were not quite in the state they ought to have been. (A laugh.) But, with reference to steam, if any one 30 or 40 years ago, bad said we should go to London and b ack in 24 hours by steam, they would have been laughed to scorn, as though the thing were utterly, absolutely, physically impossible. Mr. Darwin, in deed, by • most wondsrlul gift of prophecy, anticipated the day when he said— "Neu shall thy powers, gigantic sem, afar, Path the slow bark, drive the raiment az." Bat he was supposed to be • visionary. Mr. Canning and ether wits laughed at him fee his pees ; but had Dr. Dar win lived, he might have laughed at them for the ridicule east es him ; for now steam was the great locomotive power in the universe. He could not help thinking the sages- Van well worth the attention of formers, that • better system et keeping their accounts, as tending to economy above all, to regularity, a great sours, of wealth in itself, should mad be =see generally adopted. (Cheers.) He hardly ever awe s great good farmer on a considerable scale, or see ens moderato male Irk* did not to a certain degree palbru the office of hi s own accountant. keeping a molar see ef leeks, as tradesmen were accustomed to do. It was uasumery for the farmer, them anufacturer of corn, as it was hie the manufacturer of cotton twist or steel blades, to keeteseenats of all the details of his Waimea. He never could tel exactly what Mate he was in—what was his ex. pudgier, what were his gains or losses, without regular and s 3 stem& bookkeeping. He therefore strongly recommended his agrisel.ural friends to adopt a good system of accounts. (Cheers.) The noble and learned lord concluded, amidst loud cheers, by giving " Soma to the Cumberland and Westmoreland Agricultural Society," which was duly ho noured. Mr. SENHOUSE, the viol-president, proposed " the health of the members for the two counties " Colonel Lowther, Mr. E. Stanley, the Hon. C. R. Howard, Mr. W. Marshall, and Captain Lowther, severa ll y returned thanks. Tice awards having been read, end theheslth of the judges drunk, The Earl of LONSDALE proposed the health of Lord Brougham. They all knew the great variety of his noble friend's attainments, as well's his great industry and gala nes' is attaining knowledge of every kind. His acquire ments were in truth the surprise and admiration of all wee had watched his career—and who had not t (Cheers.) They must all, therefore, feel great 'satisfaction la knowing that the enlightened mind of his noble friend was directed to the most important Weenies of the country,. and as agriculture was now to be worked by science, they might hope from the scientiflo and philesopical taste of his noble friend, that lm portents Malta would follow from his application of chemistry to manures, and mechanics to thetaovement of agricultural implements. (Cheers.) The was drank with all the honours. Lord BROUGHAM rebutted thanks in • humouroos speech. Other toasts followed, and the meeting broke up. WESTMINSTER FREEMOLD LAND SocIETT.— The Odra fortnightly meeting of this society wss held at the Yoth Hotel, tipper W -street, Strand, on Wednes day evening, when 621.8.. was nicely/a for entrance feet and subscriptions. The motives for joining these seeleties appear e to Ds twofold—the po li tical one of being able to rale= th 11(214 . Cosam e ate i under t i ti k e4=lser, sad the aerator ad CLEAN th S e II y IRTS " seIN"CIIIIRERLAIID.—A Cumberland paps! says :—" That an establishment mists In the Market place, Whitehanni, where labe~mett resort en Saturday nights to procure clean skirts kr Sendai. Having bought the original skirt at this cep, the owner takes it bark on Saturday night, after a week's weer, ad essliaaPs it for a clean one en mutest of three lsaltemes. Wag es* halfpenny less than "add be charged by ale imdiMreglign. A A ex. Moshe Imams Is done us this way." • P L YMOUTH, AUGUST 23.—As important noun smug m ..zsenced today on board her Majesty's ship ha lerotl., 104, rapraiin Sir Thomas Maitland, now lying in ,r for the Pil.rgen of trying Commander John Charles Pitmen, lute Q. !ler Nelfotr! ibiLF__filiikti• no smut gondsted of Admiral Sir sfee. l L' °*° . '' Pl. "'" I Nelda Wm. James H Joheaten..% `l/ the Affinwourt i Coggin Jobs II I A geese: Ceptain Sir Thoreau ac * Maidesi, CIL, I • sal Oiptoth a. l ."'P Gniill. I Wash% shio. chirps were: N Elsong meat/ aim or about the 4th a Septelef.r , MS, nail the Ile of May, 1849, and for hiss statesman In the log of her Majesty's skip Childers, oa or about the 9th Say of October, ISM " Genseal enmity and opreesion during the period eons mendne of se sheet the 4t h of September, 1848, and ending en the nth of Wry, 1849. "Palm expenditure of stores; vie , a hammock cloth, rt g=srted to have been washed away on or about the 14th of ;1846; and a maintcpsail, represented to have been bell on se about the 9th of October, 1848. " Palm statements in the log-book of her Maj esty's ship Alden from September, 1848, to May 20, 1849 . * The lest of the above charges was preferred by Lieutenant Orabass, and the others by Mr. Elliott, the late master of the Childers. On the court being opened, it was stated as both sides that many of the witnesses were not present. Out of thirty ene named, five for the prosecution and nine for the defence did not answer to their names. The Judge Advocate said that some of them had net been eammoned until yesterday, and they could not be in Gaut until to morrow. The court was then sworn. Mr. Oliver Henry Davis, a clerk is theme untant- General's department of the Admiralty, prodhe log books of her Majesty's ship Childers, from March, 1846, to July, 1849; also produced the boatswain's and carpenter's expense. books for the same period; also the punishment warrants from March, 1848, to December, 1848. He did not know of a punishment book for minor offecees. After some conversation, it was agreed that the first charge Inferred by Mr. Graham, should be the first tak-n. Alexander Rodney /nigh Carter who belonged to the Coast Gaud. said, previous to being examined, I wish to state that it is two yens since I left the Children, and during that time I kept no dates, and I can only speak to the best of my noolleetion. I Ezamined by Mr. Graham—Was serving as a lieu• tenant in the Chadors, on her passage, in 1846, from the 'Cape to Chios. Recollects a letter being found on the cora mander's skylight, on the panne from New Zealand to China. It had no address on the outside. I forwarded it to Commander Pitman, after having read the contents. It was a most mutinous letter, saying something about punish min% and making men jump overboard. it was addressed Inside to Captain or Commander Pitman. There was no regular signature to that letter ; but it ended with, "My name you will find out," " My name Iceland tell," or some thing of that kind. By Captain Johnstone.—The charge against the prisoner is that of general cruelty and oppression during the period commencing on or about the 4th of September, 1846, to 20th of Kay, 1849, on board the Childers. Will you state to the sort if yen recollect any particular acts of cruelty be tween those dates ?—I cannot recollect any particular in stance of cruelty, but I consider ,in many instances, Com mander Pitman was inconsietent and severe, but I cannot recollect any particular instance. By the President.—On what grounded° you consider that it was inconsistent and severe? I considered be would punish a man severely for a fault one day, and that were a similar fault to happen the next day it would be considered a slight one. There wee a great deal of flogging and a severe black lisp. By Captain Johnstone—Can you state to the court the usual system of secondary punishments observed in the Childers ?—Bleck-listing, and men earring their hammocks and their handspikes for boars on their backs, and stopping their grog.—What duty were the men required to per form when they were in the black•lin I—They bad their regular duties, independently. They carried their hammocks during the first or second watch, on the gangway or abaft, during their watchea—Were any of the men obliged to carry any of their hammocks or handspikes, during day or night, when it was their proper watch below I—They were. Can you state for how long a time, for any one time, they were ordered to walk the deck when under pu nishment I—From four to six hours, and for trival offences —Did Commander Pitman have general intercourse with his officers, as is usual in the service, by inviting them to dinner? He did, when the state of the weather permitted it —Did you consider the crew an orderly crew, or otherwise ? I con sidered the discipline very defective, and the crew a dis orderly set of men. Did not hear any of the officers cons- plan of Commander Pitman's conduct towards them further than they complained of the vessel in general. 1 By the President—Dii you consider that Commander Pit man's conduct wee marked by cruelty and oppression whilst you were in the Childers ?—At times he was severe. I can not call to mind any cruelty or oppneeion. I sin not aware that any man or boy was started by rope or cane by orders of Commander Pitman. The usual number of lashes inflicted in punishment was three &nut ; it depended on drown- stances. Cross-examined by the Prisoner—The offence' that I eon eider trifling were such as a man not being present at his muster, or not furling • gallant-yard proper.y. Blacklisting was a frequent punishment, and grog-water for each offences. I cannot mention any particular individusl who was kept walking shout with his hammock or handspike for six Gers, but theve been. I cut name many e sers who mitt a h o y totsoi thoiasolvos out of tit* ship. I bare heard the two progenitors say so. I have also heard the purser, Mr. Stephen Fisher say, that he wished he could get out of the ship. There were several other officers who mid the same, but I cannot bring to mind their names. I did not hear Lieutenant Boys say so when in the ship, but I have since heard him say that he was very glad he bad left her. Here the court war cloud fora quarter of an hour. On being reopened, Lieutenant Carter was re-ailed and questioned by the prosecutor : la hit judgment the want of discipline in the ship was to be attributed partly to the inconsiderate and severe measures of Commander Pitman, and partly to the I frequent changes of officers that had taken place during the short time she was in commission. I left the ship because I wished to return to England, and I was glad of any oppor tunity of getting away from an uncomfortable ship. Do you not believe that the constant change of officen resulted from the conduct of the commander ? [The prisoner took an objection to the question, as it Ing e( sod to the witness • question and en answer ; but the, difficulty could be got rid of by the wiener stating that be could not answer it.] What I consider an uncomfortable ship is, when the commander and officen are not on terms. That was the case on board the Childers.—Wes lon bad terms with you ? Ido not know whether you were on bad terms with me, but I trust I always paid proper respect to you as commander of the ship.—Will you name any officer I was on bad terms with while you wen in the ship ? From the observations I have heard, I should my many—several ; but the captain and officers were in the habit of dining with each other. Mr. Andrew Richard Elliott, late muter of the Childers, examined. I was serving on board her Majesty's ship Childers during her passage from Mauritius to China, in the year 1846. I remember a marine serving In that ship, of the name of Haig, being flogged. His offense was steeling candles, to burn in the lower deck whoa the ship was bat tened down, which she was the greater part of the passage, in consequence of bad weather. He received (oar dozen lashes for that offence, end a ft erwards was kept for several days a prisoner on d eck, abaft, on the stern gratings. The weather at that time was very cold and boisterous, inasmuch as ft was inspos-ible to remain on deck without being wet througb.—What became of that man? He became insane before he was released from punishment, and was invalided for being of insane mind.—DO you recollect a marine of the name of White serving in her Majesty's ship Childers? I do.—Do you recollect what became of that man ? He jumped overboard and was drowned.—Did you hear Commander Pitman my that he would flog him ? I did ; I heard Commander Pitman say that he would flog Min,. that he would give him four dozen to-morrow morning. His offence was, appearing at quieter' dirty, and with his clothes not mended.—Will you refer to the log, and state the entry of that event ? " Henry White, Royal Marine, 424 company, Friday, Sept. 11, 1846, being found dirty, was ordered forward to wash himself, from which place he was seen to joints overboard, and was drowned. Rounded to; let go a life buoy ; shortened all ail ; lowered jolly-boat; carried away meiatopmart. The weather was very fine that day, but it had been most severe for many days before ; in fact, during the whole punsge, we had the most severe weather, inasmuch as it was impossible to be on deck without being wet through. We bad been battened down neer:y all that way.—Wnet time elapsed from the time of the commander saying be would verbosrd ? give him four M dozen, end his committing the act of jumping oerely the time of walking from the quarter-deck to the head, which, being a small vessel, would probably be three or four , minute'. Not any inquiry was made, but I remember the fact of his jumping overboard, in consequence of his being', told that he should be flogged, was not even named in the log-book. The Preeident—Yon could not have put it in the log-book that he was told he was going to be flogged ?—Witness : it is pot in the log-book that, in consequence of Henry White having gone forward dirty (not in consequence of his being told that be would be flogged), he jumped maw WO. Captain Macdougall—No one could know the cassuatelat man jumping overboard unless you heard it. Yew mown swear that - he jumped overboard in consequence of the threatened flogging ?—The Witness I can swear that it was pat in the log that he was sent forward in consequence of', hie being dirty. The President —But you cannot swear that be jumped' cioard is consequence of his being threatened to be Bogged, whatever your suspicions may be ; that fa only . a matter of opinion P—Witams : TAW it the only thing I wish to make evidence hen; that the thing was hashed up; that it was merely put down that he was dirty. lir. Graham—l should wish es elms that part of the ease sad go to another. Did you ever, during the Imago from the ManrWas to Hobart Town, see the boys 'stubbed in the head of her Majesty's ship Childers t—l have never witnessed their swabbing, but I have sem them come from It asked. Usedeagall—Do you mean scrubbed naked —I inCroattiern *ern to be scrubbed, bat I could never look at it rape. ' e pt a in Maitlead—Ton have at men it because you mean D it via too hurtful to your feelings? Yes, that is it.—But ',cruao t er saw o ilt . No, I sever saw it, bat I am confident of its Mr. Gaia—Do you recollect a boy of the name of Banger, than serving on board Ste Majesty's ship Childers, RAILWAY MEETINGS. NAVAL. ADHIHALTY,AVOCHT 30.—APPOINTMiNTS. — To Alarrn— Master : J. P. P. Warren. Cormorant—Surgeon: W. , MuKinley. Assistant Surgeon :J. T. filosgrove. WOOLWICH, AVOlisT 30.—Desperate, at. sloop. was un docked to-day, and taken into the basin, having been cop pered and having had her screw propeller fitted. DZVONPORT, Arecur 29.—Arethusa, new 50. gun frigate, in charge of Mr. Mills, second muter attendant, and party, arrived on Sundsy from Pembroke, and was towed into har bour on Monday, to be unrigged and prepared for ordinary. Myrtle, steamer, arrived with supernumeraries yesterday from Portsmouth, and returned the same evening. —Crane, packet, Lieut. Parsons, has bad her defects made good ; she was taken into the Sound yesterday. —Sunday being the an niversary of the Prince Albert's birthday, the various ships in the harbour and the Sound were decorated with their colours, and at half-past one o'clock, royal salutes were fired by her Majesty's ships Impregnable, 104, Capt. Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., and Agincourt, 72, Capt. J. Hope John stone.—The Arab ship Artender, Capt. Mahommediliamees, belonging to his Highness the Imams of Muscat, put in here on the 23rd instant, in consequence of the sickness of her crew. She burthens about 500 tons; has a complement of 55 hands, and being laden with a general cargo, is bound from London to Zanzibar. On the passage from the Downs alas lost five of her people from the prevailing sickness, and on entering the Sound sent four sick on board the Tyne hulk. One more has been sent there since, but they are all I in a convalescent state now, and the ship will probably, on Thursday, proceed OD her destination. MILITARY. WOOLWICK, AVOUCT 30.—The whole of the Royal Horse Artillery. field batteries, and battalions off duty, were asstsabled on Woolwich common this morning, and went through the evolutions of a field day, in rehearsal of a grand review, which, it is stated, will take place on Saturday next. OWLS/LC—On Saturday, Capt. Ross, barrack-master, Devosport, received orden from the Board of Ordnance, to issue male to the different guards in this garrison, for night use, during the continuance of the cholera, in communes of an application to that effect having been made by Major- General the Hon. Henry Murray, C.B.—On Tuesday, a gunner of the Royal Artillery , quartered in Plymouth Cita del, weeneised with cholera, which terminated fatally in a few hmrs. This has been the only case among the mtlitary, during the last ten days. THE RECOVERY OF THE LOST JOURNALS, &C. OF Tan Horse OF LORDS —ID addition to the 12 journals of the minutia of the House of Lords saved from the prat fire, and so recently and singularly recovered (es described in this journal of Wednesday last), and which, it will be recollected, were found at the shop of Mr. Tarry, cheesemonger, of the Walworthrood, he having purchased the same with other waste paper at a sale of the effects of the late Mr. Croft, one of the librarians of the House of Lords, another manuscript volume which was bought by a gentleman a few days since has been forwarded to the librarians. This Is a thick folio, bound in calf, and lettered on the back. " Cases, H. of Lords," and apparently is a sort of index. His entirely ma nuscript, and on the title-Page is described as "An Abridge ment common placed of Cases in the House of Lords upon Appeals and Writs of Brrors, witk two tablm, one of the title under which they are placed, and the other of the names of the cases, with notice taken whether varied, affirmed, or reserved, and when." It is evidently a praise tion which has cost much time, labour, and careful research. ere recorded is that of the cAiebnted John Church i ll, first duke of Marlborough, and is entitled, " The Duke of Marlborough v. Strong," dated Bth March, 1721. SERIOUS RIOT AT WATERLOO BRlDOE—YeetEr day, between two and three o'clock, • gang of thirteen fel lows, evidently wih an intention of robbing the toll house, caused great slam s and confusion on the Surrey side of Wa terloo-bridge. They endeavoured to firm past the pay place without payment of one of them, but Snowden, the collector, anticipating their object, closed his door and re sisted, when he warstruck by one of the gang. Snow den called to his cempanion (Denman), who bad charge of the carriage toll, foir assistance. but after a few minutes the fel lows passed over towards the Strand, seeing that the precau tions taken by the collector had thwarted their designs. Jest as the affray vas over an officer of the L division reached the tell house, having been round hie beat; bat better pro terglon 4 required for the Surrey side toll collectors. They wen all reosiois' ad as • gaga of sraishen yesterday 8 r ia g n t . o , n r . ta C d . t 7t he . Gre SO at r W .s ALE ta,tivoNn S : The ninth half-yearly meeting of this company was hold M. TALBOT, Esq., M.P., in the chair. report of the directors, of which the following is a copy: " Since the half-yearly meeting in February last the exer tions of the directors have been sedulously directed to the completion and opening of that portion of the line which lies between Swansea and Chepstow, from which they have i considered t reasonable to expect a large amount of traffic ; :11's available mesas of the company have, thererore, been chisfiy devoted to this portion, and they confidently hope that it may be completed and ready for traffic early in the ensuing year. Oa this point, as well as en the state of works genirally, the report of Mr. Brunel, the engineer, which is subjoined, enters so fully into detail, that it will only be re qutaite for the directors to refer to the report itself. " The borrowing powers of the company Wive been for some time in operation, but the existing state of railway affairs, in reference to the facility of raisieg money on debenture, has rendered it difficult for thew coalmines of which the works are unfinished to avail themselves of these powers to any great extent: hence the carbon the proprietors have been made with &degree of rapidity which the directors would wil lingly have avoided had it been practicable : seeing, how ever, the paramount importance of getting some portion of the line into operation, they trust that the policy they have pursued will, under the circumstances, be deemed sound and judicious. " The question of the agreement for guarantee with the Great Western Company has been one of much anxious de liberation with the Directors. It must be borne in mind by the shareholders that the Great Western Company con tend that this guarantee will not come into operation until the completion of the line to Fishguad. Under the altered prospects of those lines in Ireland with which the portion of the South Wales Railway from Swansea or Carmarthen was more especially designed to work, and the little probability that exists of their being proceeded with very rapidly—the completion of the Fisbgustd portion at present appears so manifestly impolitic, with regard to the interests of both the Great Western and this Company, thatyour Directors con sider they were justified in entertaining the ex pectation that some arrangement might have been made with the Great Western Company for suspending this portion of the line, the guarantee being permitted to come into operation on the completion of the line to Swansea. They regret to say this • expectation has been disappointed. Several interviews have been held with the Great Western directors, at which the point has been discussed at great length, but hitherto with no practical result; the Great Western directors not considering themselves justified at present in recommenhing to their shareholders any altera tion of the existing agreement. Grailying as it would have been to your directors to have seen such sa arrangement as the above carried out, and advantageous as they doubt not it would have been to the interests of both companies, yet, under the expressed disinclination of the Great Western directors to admit any modification of the view taken by them of the conditions of the agreement, it ap pears to your directors that the interests of this company will be best consulted by postponing, till some more favour able opportunity, the further discussion of this grave question. Under these circumstances, your directors consider it the best policy to keep steadily in view the eventual completion of the line to Fisnguard, which they have the satisfaction to state they confiiently expect may be completed, and the guarantee brought into operation for a sum within the four millions. st Upon a careful revision of the amounts paid and still to be paid, upon land, works, permanent way, and stations, the total cost of the portion of the line between Chepstow and Swansea, a distanie of 75 miles, may be saltily estimated at ' about 1,560,0001. To this sum are to be added the amounts which may have to be expended upon other portions of the iod line de up t o it e oe x the n t h s e pe s ect c ao h ni y i tt h is is c a a l t cul s c op e ning, t h e a dw teh i Ils t he f o h Pr a T v e l e nt mt e e l E T U n ae t add what time to 960.0001., independently of our subscriptions I to other lint 5, which may be estimated at about 140,0001., asking a total sum of 2,660,0001, To meet this expendi ture, the whole of which will not, however, in all probabi lity, have to be paid for several months after the opening of the line, the company may calculate upon receiving 2,260,0001. upon shares, after all due allowance for amen and unproductive shares which have been, or must even tually be, declared forfeited, leaving a compere, tively small balance to be raised upon debentures, of which about 100,0001. are already issued. Upon the moans of easily reaching this first stage of our proceedings these.= therefore be no anxiety. After this period the eempany will be in the receipt of a revenue upon seventy five miles of railway, and which, in the opinion of those best informed, will be considerable, although probably falling much short of that which will be derived from the same portion of the line after the completion of the connecting link with Gloucester. With the assistance, however, of this revenue, the directors cannot entertain any doubt of the ability of the company to raise, without difficulty, and with out sacrifice, the further sumo' 310,0001. required for works, current expenses, and interest, without deductions for revenue, to complete the line from Chepstow to Grange court, where it joins the Gloucester and Dean Forest Rail way, and thus (flats the junction at Gloucester with the Great Western and Midland railways. The total sum which it is calculated will then have been required to be paid. in cluding all expent s and Mobilities upon the unfinished por tion of the line and the subscriptions to other lines, up to the period of the opening from Gloucester to Swansea, is 2,970,0001. " It has been already stated tbat,'upon a careful revision of the estimates, your directors feel confident that the line to F.thgeard can Ise completed, end the guarantee of the Great Western Railway Company brought into operation for a sum under the four millions. This is, of course, exclusive of the subscriptions to other lines end certain other amounts, the interest upon which is unquestionably guaranteed by the Great Western Railway Company, over and above the four millions, after the opening to Fishguard, although quections may have arisen as to any guarantee commencing, and as to ' the payment of interest u debentures by the reat Western Railwzy Company pr ior to this period. The G pro. pretties will at once perceive that, pending the settlement of these questions, the directors could not, with due regard to the interests of the company, state specifically the details of these calculations, and the particular amounts which they admit to be included in the four millions; but they can assure the proprietors that they have adopted the safe side in naming these estimates, and have not assumed that their views only are to be adopted. "With respect to the means of raising the required capital, should the Great Western Railway Company call upon the South Wales Company to complete the line to Fishguard, th e etors will bear in mind that, alter the oenin of e line propri from Gloucester to Swansea, the company p will b g e in ooesession of a line of ninety-four miles in length, opening a direct communication between the whole of the miseral and manufacturing districts of the south of Wales with the me tropolis and the rest of England, to which it will then afford the only railway communization. With the ample security which the revenue to be derived therefrom must afford until the commencement of the lease, sad with the guaranteed rental from the Great Western Railway Company, after that period, your directors cannot suppose that any doubt will exist of the perfect practicability of obtaining the capital. " It may be proper here to observe, that it is the intention of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company under existing circumstances, to seek powers from parlia ment to limit their lies to Wicklow, and to make a cor responding reduction in their capital, by reducing their shares from 201. to 101. each, and their number in the pro portion of three to two ; and a communication to this effect has been received from that company. As regards the other lines, on account of which advances have been made, the Vale of Neath is the only one in respect of which it is believed that any further liability attaches. " Since the last half-yearly meeting, Mr. Russell has sent in his b resignation as chairmen of the - on ed of directors. Mr. Russell hes presided over the affairs of the company from its commencement; and his great experience in railway affairs; his high personal character, together with his zealous and unremitting attention to the affairs of the company, render the loss of his services a matter of serious regret to his colleagues. Your directors are much gratified in stating that Mr. Talbot,A.P., of Mama= Park, the Lord Lieute nant of Glemortanabire, has undertaken the duties of the chair; and they cannot but congratulate the proprietors on his acceptance of the office. The great stake Mr. Whet holds in the company , and his intimate acquaintance with suf the districts through which the line passes, will . he a ficient guarantee for the faithful and effective ar h discge of the duties of the o ffi ce. They are happy to add that the appointment has given very general satefaction throughout the principality ; and they doubt not that it will be equally acceptable to the shareholders. " The least agreeable portion of the directors' duty o= the present occasion is that of having to report a defalcation of the late secretary, /dr. Armstrong, who has absconded, and by which the company will be sufferers to the meet of about 5,0001. The necessary steps have been taken BR his apprehension and prosecution. " The directors have to recommend the pesprietois is con firm the forfeiture of 1,615 shares. The amount already paid urn these shares is 16,6101. 10s., and as there appeared to your directors to be no probability of reseoveling any fur ther calls upon them, they proceeded to . forfeit them at a meeting of the board , and a resolution w i ll now he submit ted to you for c mfirming that forfeiture, in accordance with the provisions of the act of parliament. The usual state ment of accounts has already been c irculated among the proprietors. —C. R. K. Tglmow, Chiusano." REPoarr. "18, Duke.street , Westminster, August 27, 1849. " Gentlemen, —The works west of Swansea, with the ex ception of those situated between Llsnelly and Pembrey, have remained in the same state is at the end of the previ ous half-year. At the part referred to, where the line is carried screw the sands, a little work has been executed to complete some unfinished portions, and to protect the rest from the action of the sea. With this exception, all our expenditure has been confined to the operations east of Swansea. Upon this portion, I am able to report that great progress has been made; and but for the delays in obtaining possession of land, which have proved greater upon the South Wales Railway than upon any line with which I have been connected, we shotild have been even more advanced than I had anticipated at the peno o . f my last halflearly report. At that time I stated tl&t, if we con tinued at the rate we had then attained, we might hope, •with a favourable season, to open the portion between Swan sea and Newport in a twelvemonth. Since that time, some difficulties, which pievimulr existed in obtaining land east of Newport, have been removed, the . company having been compelled to make use of their power of taking compulsory possession ; and I have found that, by some exertions, the line might be completed tO Chepstow iastead if to Nrt and the entire distance of eevearkfire mils opened nearl y , if not quite as soon as '7( " . • ~~_: ;;~ \ ~\~ `~ ~ a I .1 s .1 '7; es he Ihe on that IT wen. le by n to. tree- Lrdl h the e era ra'ioa weer, ity re thu td to rti•J, ,ty el- r At the wet; to lit the tad at- la oLly or is alas is a Mr. no ow