The Express. — London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

I A • ij - fl 3 rt uctx-k [I is /~~ No. 6,636.1 t• r and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE r P tt•• ET SHIP. —For SYDNEY Direct ;tolluglng the -Ow, to mil from the river on the 25th September. •. !I>mouth on the lit October to embark passengers If the well-known frigate built ship VIMEIRA, A 113 -:ir 1,1017 tons, IIALCOLII GREEN, Commander: * • East liatla Docks. ?Ma Ens 'hip has a foil poop, eseellent acooausodation Oar cabin passengers. Her wins lofty amt airy she odors sidostrabia oppor , fr. Intermediate rs, and wIII carry wimps —For terms of tre tor palms* apply to GEL EV. and SEW ELL, ST, LesdaaO I street: or to I MOIRE, 9, Billltor-sireet. DE ITT and 3100 RE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE i• icEET SHIP. For ADELAIDE Direct (to WI • • ,l: , ~n the 4th September, last shloplag day Ind Sep * ' tom register. IL W. HARMAWORTIL Commander; 1.1 the London Docks. This beautiful vessel, built 6•r iae Austrian= trade, has most elegant accommoda- I . I r i.,,,,ugers, and is one of the fastest ships out of the r. I haring performed three voyages from the 79. and 73 days respective l9.—For terms of freight apply to DEVITT and 140021, 9, Billneeetreet. IREVITT and mooßrs AUSTRALIAN LINE r ICKET SHIP.—For ADELAIDE Direct (to tan ptuse the 4th October, last shipping day Ist October, the , •111 it clipper barque ST. DUNSTAN. A 1 10 yews, • - • tons. S. 'MOUSY. Commander Vint In the London • this regular trader Is noted for sound delivery of cargo, • t .1 acsirable opportunity to atdppers of One and season sill he punctually despatched—For terms of • ,T patitgr spply to DEVITT and 34008 E, 9, Enter- L DiIEVITT sod BIOQRICS A tr ii rc STA l te LINE T ICK svh - P:-For LA (to .11 .• • ...1) nu the 7th September. last shipping day sth Se wilful new clipper FUGITIVE, A 1 10 years, 470 boos r. U . S. BARWOMD, Comataiwier ; loading in the Mist .• This doe ship has just been built by Messra It • c. Ile}. and Co., of Sunderland, expressly for the trade. 1 !TA rate accommodation for a few chief cabin passe.- -- r- terms of freight or pply to the owner . Mr. tc tIK ER IS*. SL Hel m; or to Dzvirr and Billiteuelrget. Ill:VITT and MOORS'S AIJI3TRALIAN LINE JJ ..! P sH I P.—For LAUNCH:IION Meet (to follow ^( i, e wan w possible despatch . the well known etiogrr !•• •• O:ELLA Al. register Ng tons, J. CiAL %. • tN. Commander . Via( in the Loaded pock!. This smart I I.ai a poop, with Aril-rate accommodation for Chief cash; or.. and being noted for her quick passages, offers • opponunity to shippe r, —Tor tetras of freight or pow to DEVITT sad 1.9,, 9, 11/Id9r-aireet. Th E VITT and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE 1,/ of PACKET SHIP.—For HOBART TOWN Direct (daily op , led from the Colony, and will hare quick despatch , . the :1 known dipper ship lIAIROWDY, A 1, 515 tons twister, STORIE, coannaaaar to Iced la the East India This regular trader hea first-rate accommodation for t -die Ploristers, and liming noted for her quick •:.rt a desirable opportunity to shl —For k'T,Vros; .4.1.4 to DEVITT and MOORE. 9. •street. BLACK BALL PASSENGER LINE of CUPP= PACICEIII tar AUSTBAZIA trout Loudon direct. 861 9. Tmmes. Docks. 1 To 241/ •..-y .. '.• ry .....urtie Pegasus Y,01)11 , L India 1.. 1.1.11141 .. * Gtil.len City 2,500 L Leda ..,. nlord .. Flying (..I.lual. xi. Ai, timid ....ilight Brigade celebrated line of weals bass, by their punctuality and atpd pima" earned a world-known reputation. and their per soar ac. , mraudation is unsurpassed by any vessels alma—Foe at particulars respecting !Malik or purge to Australia apply to :th BAINCS and Ca., Lfv•Tool ; Agent. for lhe Black tall Lae and T. m. mAczAr and Os, 1, LestAstamilMuset, !anion. LC. :ALAN FROM LIVERPOOL OR QUILKNRTOWN TO - NEW TOIL. THE LI/MAP ; , 0 , 0 1. 71 k ; NEW YORK, and PHIMADZLPHIA -SHIP COMPANY Intend der *chin their tall-powered Clyde-belle Iron Screw litesnabips. with Q. tralltd Metes PION LIVIIIYOIIL for NEW YORK . CITY OF 31 A NCleViThlt, Wednesday, August 31. ITV OF DUBLIN. Salinity, September S. CIT 1 OF LONDON. Wednesday, September 7. And every Wednesday and every alternate noonday. Cable peons by the man steamers Galling every Wedamday. 6,17, and 21 Wank sowed's to the accommodstios. Cabin mem* by the Warders Mmunera, 13 guinea& leeward pump guineas, Including all provisions cooked. Passengers for Canoe; the United Slates , end Britian Cohunble, booked tbrougb es advaatageous te rms—For farther particulars apply to WILLIAM INMAN M. Waterstresa, Liverpool ; or to illrla and MACZY. el. King WllMemsneet. City. CCNARD LINE—BRITISH and NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL WAIL ISTRAWRIIIPS, appointed by the • to saU between LIVERPOOL and NRW YORK, scd between VISRPOOL and BOSTON, the Roston ships calling Halifax to land and remise paaseusgen and walla The tot lowing or other vessels are appointed to sell from Liverpool. tailing at Cori! to !twelve *b.. malls: . for BaUTON. Saturday, Sept. 3. PERSIA. for NEW YORK. Saturday. Sept. 10. ASIA, for BOSTON, Saturday., Sept. 17. ?usage money, including iteward's fee and provifdona, but without wines or liquors To Halifax and Boston, chief cabin, 522 second cabin, Alt To New York, chief cabin. £26 attend cabin, 418 Freight to Halifax, Roston, and New York, £3 par cu. tad I per cent, prima—Apply to J. B. loord. rt. Old Duadetreet, London ; J. IL Curria, Ram, and 12, Place de la bonne, Paris: P. and J. Burns, Dachananwtreet, D. sad C. Meet Li Ilac rsegool. law, QIIIIIPOSSOW11; or D. and C. Marital., 8, Watts. 13HILLIPPS, GRAVES, PHILLIPPS, sod .LCn.despatch the undermentioned Brat-clam simmers : Yoe ROTTERDAM. the BATAVII.II, every sonday morning. hem Hermitage Tier, at 10 am., ealUng et Blackwell for pr imer. at 11 a.m. Fares, 42 Sa. Cl 10a, and 17e. ed. : and the 7yEN• RAD story Thursday morning early from off the Tower. late &I. Tu.a/NEN neutral Teasels, under Emden Sag, the ADLER, 11 0 WE, or SCHWALM, every Thursday morning (weather per. Inning , at 10 a.m., from Horeelydown, and from Blackwell al 1 nine. and hem Boreelydown every Saturday till farther tioniv. Farm, 12, /I, and Ifie. For GOTHILSTBUISO. the LONDON. on or about September S. fr m ifnraelydowu. Fares, 43 Si. and 12 To be followed 11 the GI 'STAY WASA. CoPENHVIEN and STOCKHOLM. the NEWSY Y, from Alderman's Tier. In a few da applym. Fare , . M and 14 for freight, ma. te.„ itt Chapfla's Untronat levon ma cireas. W.. or to PIPPI. GALVIN PHILLIP S en, 111„ sod Co.. 11. Rood-lane. LC. UNITY JOINT STOCK lIIPITAL BANKING SOCIATION. n liquidation / NoTICE Is HER AS EBY GIVE N, thit a SPECIAL GENT/JAL SWING of the Shareholders will he held at the London Tr tere ktiliotwitate-atreet, in the City of I fiction. on ?AIDA T, V. ;eh day of September next, at It o'clock precisely, to receive stn-meat of the accounts and dealhure of the liquidaton, and tit manner In which the winding up has been conducted, mg, Iter with • balancs-sheet and report recommending forthwith a at m. of •.1 per share to the proprietors: also to consider the ral account.. hcsiness. and affairs of the Bank.—By order, tatWALD HOWELL. Accountant to the tiquidelon. Broad.street-bnildinp, Loads" ILC.. August 30, 1914. THE IMPERIAL BANK of CHINA, INDIA, and J APAS (Monad. NAME la HERYBY GIVEN. that an EXTRAORDINARY ON SR AL )lELTING of the Company will be held at the tv&ses of the Company. No & Walbrook. In the City of London. 00 BIiNbAY. the 13th day of September next, at 12 o'clock st preriftly. to confirm certain resolutions passed by the 1 mi..) in extraordinary prenatal meeting on the WA' day of As vu, 1,54, of which the following are copes nIL : That an 14rrectnent , dated the 24th day o f August, 18014. and tale between the Bank of litsdnetan, China and Japan fladted , of the one part, and this Company of the other part. 3ai mg been read and submitted to this meeting, this Company c, Levelly approve of the same, and do authorise the directors Si :ails the seal of the Company thereto. " 2. That this Company be wound up voluntarily. ' 3 That the Honourable James Frederick Ftnart Wortley, P.,thard Cooke Coles. F-sq, Joseph Hacked' Smith. Fan , and henry pithlnner Fay.. he appointed Liquidators. for the purpose ".luiling e affairs of this Company. and distributing! the Property and that the Liquidators be authorises' toreceive In ronipcuution. or part compensation, for the husineu and pro 'writ of ibis company shares let t. e Bank of Hindustan. China, and Japan ;Limited upon the beam specified In the shoo'"rnol ti,•ne.l.izern.ruent. and if any member shall express his dissent from this resolution by a notice ha writing to the Liquidators, ma later than soy, u days after the meeting at which this resole. I s paesed, and .lull require the Liquidators to purchase the Interest of sit, ti dissentient member, the Liquidators Oen Mae the 'mediane money to be paid to ouch dissentient nem , er by the sale of the share or %ham In the Bank of Himinstan, China, and Japan Limited , which under the terms l.f i!:. said einvement would have been allotted to such das scia..ia member. - -By order of tbe_lieard.___ MiiiiiTeß-NIR, Manager. ‘. Wall•rrook. August 110. 1861. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the &I. BANE of HINDUSTAN CHINA , and JAPAN limited) L0TH1"..% .--Dy 01. from 16. condi'. to No. I. BANN-HunDINC..% .itYrder. • 1..1. SWIZZ TOKLAM, Beezetary. buildup. August 114. NV HITE and SOUNDTEETH are indispennablo vt, 2.-movuti Attraction. and to health sad 10-cavity by " mmti•Atice of food. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or i 1 i.:I. lik:N 111 , RILL, compounded of Oriental Ingredients, b 'slue in preserving and beautifying the teeth. the Mims. and in pining • pleasing fragrance to I, P 'm•th. It erailicres tartar from the teeth, removes spots tpipnt decay, and polishes and mamma the enamel, to It Imparta • pearl•like whiteama. Its invaluable pro frn.-4 Aare otasine.l the patronage of royalty and the aristo . •.f kunme, and It is universally in MO repute. Price •••• • pi•r hot. x•• 141 at 20. Hattoonactien. and by Chegalata at, srnrrk Ask fnr ionised: Odento." IyNNEFoRD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA bat been, during twenty-Ave yaws, erepliatleally lane I n.L L 7 the medical profusion. and universally accepted by Odd., as the beat rem e dy t o r ac idity tie stomach, bsarte iro. headache. cut, and Indigeatios and u a mild aperient 7d deb ate eanstitntima, more especially to ladies and elitt• dot. it la prepared. Ina state of perfect party and de "liken strenetti, by DI N Liklkl7 and Co., 111, New lbsadarturst, Len g. 4 and sold by all respectable chealmis Sirgeihni $lO weild. Sept 10 Oet 10 Bes. n Sept 15 To follow Sept. 10 THE OXFORD and CANTERBURY HALL COWART (LhaWelt. THE OXFORD. SELECTIONS from LA POEZA DEL DESTINO, La Travrata. Nabaco, and the Two Oentlimien of Verona, by the whole of the wonted com pany. Dlrector—lAr. Y. lONORMANR. Comedy by Cneworth. User*, W. Randall. W. Barton, and Iddlla. Caralho, dm cele brated comedienne sad mimic, EVERY STEVENS and SONS, 78, Biahopagate-atreat telthlu—LlGHT BllMilgit WINES, Bottles included. Claret, 14u, 20a., Ma. Bargrandp, 114., SOu, 26a., Ioa per dol. Chablis .... 10s, Mu imams* PM, 24a. .. Hoek and Manalis loa., 11a., PA Champagne Mu, Ma., 4 .. All attar Wire sad Ipirlas *quail, reseemble. ipteaLoirs PATENT CASK STAND, new lavesthas, se admirably contrived that a tall butt, Wall as amnia mks, may b• salad or tilted on It labour or Unable. Ita action is so impalpable that the sallnient of the most limpid llald by no passibility can be tlntarbed. Prins 9a, lb., 14a., to snit tt. 9, and 18 gallon casks. BARLOW'S SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP. No oat-peg malts& No more let beer or soar Willi. Price 4a. 6d. dhto, oleo direct to JAM BARLOW, patentee, 14, Mansion-banin Ise that his Dam and addrus am on ever, article; all others ant spasions Imitations. Engravings gratis. Eataigielted 18E4 CIAIITION.—COCKS'S celebrated READING NJ SAUCE. for Flab, Gran, Steaks. Soups. Gravies, Hot and Cold Mesta, and unrivalled for general no, is weld by a re spectable dealers la eerie. It la menutsetared only by the Rnentors of the Sole Proprietor. CHARLES COCKS, I, Ddie. street, Reading. the Origami Sauce Warehouse. AH others an Spurious Imitation& FIELD'S celebrated I:MIT= SERVICE SOAP TABLITS, 4d. and Id. ea* sold by all ehancUers and Ccerithroughout the kingdom ; bat the nubile should salt ro bleldh, and we that the name of J. O. and J. Ft= le on each packet, box, sad tablet. Wholesale and for exportation at the Worts, DPP= !WISH, LAMBETH. LONDON. 8, where ales nay be *Maimed Oar Prise Medal Passes, Caasdlas. JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, A aIINAIITTAATJUISI. COVENT-GLILDIN. JOHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 16, 11/LNRIETTA-9TRILET. COVINT4AIDII6. AFTER SEA BATHING use RIMMELB EXTRACT of LIPS MICR and GLYCERINE to coun teract the Workless/feet of ass inter oa the Rah. Pike Is ed.. aed sad 4a. 64. Rinanas Toilet Vinegar is also highly re commended for its delteions aroma mad sanitary properties. Price Is. and fa. ed. field by all perfumery dealers. EGGENS 3.12121 EL, as, Strand, mad 24, CaraliM. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (isvnies rzwasAils.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUGUST O. The Note Prenuische Kreuz Zeitung of to-day says :—" There can be no question of a withdrawal of the troops, even from Jutland, before the defi nitive conclusion of peace. The return of all Prussian troops from the Duchies is therefore far lees to be expected." DEPARTURE OF THE EMPEROR NAPO LEON FOR CHALONS. PARIS, Arm? 30. The Emperor, accompanied by the Prince Imperial, Prince Humbert, and Prince Napoleon, left at noon to-day for the camp at Chalons. SPAIN. M ADRI D, AUGUST 29, EVIISING. The conductors of the journal Mersa were to-day tried on a second charge by a court-martial, and were again acquitted. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, AIJOWIT 30, 3.30 P.N. The Bourse has been dull. Rentes closed at 66.35, or the *awe as yesterday. SIR GEORGE GREY'S BILL AND THE MORNING NEWSPAPER COMPOSITORS. TO THE IDITOR OV TUX lELPIESS. His,—Your 'correspondent, " A Compositor," whose letter appeared M your impression of to-day, seems tome to have touched toolightly upon the matter mme immediately in hand, viz., the grievance of the corspositors, and to have darted off, with the butterfly's fickleness, to the market gardener's sad country innkeeper's source of sues plaint. The injustice inflicted upon the 1111Nliiag paper con, positon of this great metropolis by Sir George Grey's bill ma only be fully understood by theca who are prat. tinily acquainted with the suicidal procure of their nocturnal labours. Lamle' their homes, and the cool fresh air of evening which they breathe as they proceed to their night's work, they enter the priating.office to encounter • close stifling atmosphere, and are immediately plunged into another of nuified air, where they have to encounter the glare of argand ps•buroere, rendered blindingly brilliant by reason of the umbrella-like shade or reflector, which is so 'constructed as to cover and give Bent to two men standing opposite each other and the ((Aid odour of the heated type sending out its fumes laden with arsenical and antiroo- Biel poison. Thus greeted upon his fiat entrains, the morning paper composites. commences his sight's toil—toil in the treed sense of the wad— far his is not only physical, but heavy mental toil ; the brain is equally active with the busy fingers that are employed in picking up and placing together the types that are to furnish forth the maid'. news for the morrow's bnakfast table. It is his task to decipher the hurried caligraphy of a Lords' or Commoos' reporter—to wade through the dry material of innumerable folios of closely written micemoopicel copy, detailing at length the transactions of a banking or a railway company—to retain in bin memory • knowledge of general public events, the names of aldermen, magistrates, police officers of note, and public characters, by which means elope be is frequently guided to • right conclusion of the miserable scrawl placed be. foie him in the shape of manuscript, and which he is bound to produce in type with as few errors as possible. Often with a glaring argand scorching his head has the compositor to bend to his copy during the night, closing one eye whilst looking at it in order to get • clearer view of the labyrinth of scratches, which may, perhaps, be but • simple word, the omission or wrong reading of which would destroy the seers of a speech or annihilate a whole article—turning his copy now up, now down—aaos taking • sidelong glance : his efforts an fruitless, and whilst in solemn conclave with some fellow sufferer, or • reading boy, attempting to decipher the word, he is soddenly aroused by a can. paniou shouting from a room either above or below him to know whether he is "On Fire," or if be bad the "Small pox in Lunheth"—whether Mr. O'Deetighue, the reporter in the Lords, follows Mr. If 'Sycophant—and whether the collision on the Great North Wasters of Timbactoo sorted a break—all of which are technical terms, that would sorely puzzle any one of the general public were he admitted to the working of the com posing-room of &morning newspaper office. For six or seven hours does this harass continue, and there being no set home for refreshment, it will be seen that • man out have but little time to take any repose during his work hours even if he were so iodised. The generality of competitors, however, prefer to leave the peroicioua atmosphere of the office as soon as possible, and seek a refuge of rest, sillier in the tavern or coffee-bouss that has hitherto been kept open for their me, where for an hour they can enjoy the solace of • friendly chat with their fellows, and repieniek their wore bodies sod miads with refreshment, sad rest for the bran which is obtained by the comforting and solacing pipe of tobacco. Compesiton do not desire that public houses aboald be geeerally mined at night; but they do desire to ban that which Sir G. Grey pleisly promised their deputation they should have, namely, stavern and coffee house is the beighbourboode of the morning paper printing. offices, to be specially opened for their exclusive me, wader a proper polio, regulation ; to be • harbour of refuge and rest for their w bodies before performing • fatiguing journey to the ost.kirte of Loudon, where morning paper compositors meetly rmide. Trusting you will kindly grant me mom for my letter— I am, he., ANOTHER COMPOSITOR, Auguri 30. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 186 g. OUT OF THE SEASON. concerning whom we hear a whispered legend that Ihe has "danced before the Queen ;" here the dancing girls have the privilege of selling biscuits instead of being paid a salary, and sit or drink with Jack, and mingle with their sisterhood amongst the audience upon terms of fascinat ing equality • here the landlord bee a griev ance oonnected with the license he has just lost, and complains bitterly that "it's only the music that fetches 'em," and that now he's debarred from providing that, he may as well " shut up shop at. once ; " there are tawdry women talking to every variety of the genus sailor •, there we see every variety of the genus sailor talking to tawdry women, and that is all. There are no mad orgies, nothing of wilds revelry, or reckless debauch, in these public singing and dancing taverns now, whatever may have been the case in years gone by. The constant and übiquitous supervision of the po ' lice, and the prompt withdrawal of the license where —as inthe case of our fat and rather snivelling friend, who might have been the " fawning publican" to whom fihylock compared Antonio—the least irre gularity is proved, make such things impossible now. Again, the opening of the Victoria by taking away many of the ships formerly stato c rn at the adjacent one of London, has played serious havoc with these sailors' pleasure houses. Every where their owners are complaining of " slackness •', nowhere does the demand seem equal to the amount of accommodation supplied. Many large conoert-rooms—notably the handsome and ex pensively fitted upstairs one at the "Paddy's Goose" aforesaid—are closed for lack of custom; and the paltry shabbiness of the amusements we saw elsewhere provided is amounted for by the steady decline in the taste and demand for this particular class of entertainment during the last ten years. The schoolmaster has been abroad here, as else where ; Jack looks for something higher than the old tavern-keepers of the old school are able or enterprising enough to give him, and the result is stagnation in, and decadence of Ratcliffe-highway. It is true that there are un usually few ships in dock at this particular time, but these observations apply generally to the dis trict, and are confirmed by both tavern-keepers and police. The ill-favoured Hamm stroll from house to house, so that the visitor making a round comes across the same faces with puzzling fre quency, and asks himself whether the women are really all alike, or whether, say, the , high-sliouldered lady in the crimson check (whom our landlord pronounces to be " most respectable of her sort ') has really been preceding him at one tavern after another. During an inspection of some hours, when we had ample opportu nities of estimating the entertainments provided foe Jack we failed to find a single oasis in the barren desert of unattractive dulness ; and it is almost with a sensation of relief that the explorer finds himself conducted down the dark and sordid Blue gate-fields and Palmer's Folly, to sojourn for a while at the Chinese opium smoking-bowie in New court. Essrus PLEASURE ROUSES.-NO. I. Where female apparel of the coarsest and gaudiest kind flaunts from doorways and is piled up in windows—where shill) , water-proof coats hang flaccidly in shops open to the road, like seaweed thermometers steadfastly predicting rain, and long rows of black tarpauling wide-peaked cape are ranged like strings of Saturn-ringed cannon balls—where huge clasp knives, with holes in their common hafts, are festooned with fancy pipes and metal tobacco-boxes—where red and brown sheathed Toledo blades, aneroids, sextants, and cases of mathematical instruments are foremost amongst I the unredeemed pledges at the pawnbrokers—where parrots, monkeys, love-birds, and foreign produce are common items in the general dealers ' stock— where rodghly-coated coarse blue and red flannel shined sailors divide the pavement with bonnetless females, whose bare arms and necks, short petti coats, ample crinolines, and common rings and necklaces combine to give them • distinctive look —where the tribes of Judah may be heard chat fering over their counters, orseen smokinga peaceful calumet at their doors—where the language is polyglot, and, when intelligible, strong—where I each nationality has its house of call, and the Sleswig-Holstein coffee-shop enjoys equal conei- 1 with the depot for Bavarian beer—where all the commodities on sale relate to those who " Rol down to the sea in skips, that do business in great waters"—where "outfitting" sometimes means ad vancing money on an able-seaman's note of hand, and pandering to his weaknesses by supplying him with cash—where the courts and alleys are dark and noisome, and the gin-ahopsevenmore than usually brilliant and gay—where the prevailing aroma is of tar, ropes, and salt fish, as if dried haddocks were being vended in the musty hold of a superannuated ship--where all these phenomena are welded together in an incongruous olla podrida, the music and dancing license known as the 25th of George IL is extensively taken out. It has been the means of lighting up first floors, of adding spacious back rooms to already unwieldy premises, and of bringing together fiddlers, pianoforte players, castanet clinkers, clog dancers, patter and other song singers, burlesque performers, infant phenomena, and ruddled elderly gymnasts, to display their talents and exercise their art. These for the entertainers. The entertained are migratory, bibulous, and easily amused. Down a court leading from the Wellclose-square previously described, and entering the open door of a large, tavern to the left, we meet with plenty of both classes. In the long cexpetless upstairs room, where the violins are giving out a very pronounced schottische, are some hfty or sixty people of both sexes, few of whom are English, and al: of whom are regular patrons of the place. Ladies, the counterpart of those you have men patrolling the streets, are crowding the little parlour to the right of the bar, cluster aoout the court approaches to the bar itself, are dancing together or with male partners, or are giggling behind handkerchiefs on the seats round the room. There is a sprinkling of finery, such as red morocco masquerade boots with mili tary heels, light semi-bedgown semi-ball dress gar ments, and massive head dresses wherein the blue and white artificial cabbage rose is conspicuously prominent ; but the geueral tone of costume is quiet. Gentlemen of Teutonic mould, with bushy beards, rings on forefingers, and large brooches in cravats, dance or converse with ladies, or proffer them refreshment, or eye them critically from the vantage-ground afforded by a bare apace of wall at end of room. Much curiosity at appearance of Inspector of Police, who is affably weloomed by proprietor, and keenly though carelessly scrutinised by the people round. Foreign inscriptions setting forth the superiority of some German beer, where we are accustomed to see the placards of Guinness or Bass, framed legends and rules in a strange tongue, and many strong gut tends in the speech around. Such are the first impressions of a visitor to the tavern, which is, we should remark, patronised almost exclusively by the German sugar bakers of the district and their friends. The men and women before you all conic under this category, tut the place seems quiet and orderly as • temperance ball-room. The women were originally inveigled (in many katauces an obviously long time ago) from home by specious promises of situations in the city pared with gold— London. The standard of beauty is not high, the amount of excitement is not great, and the whole affair has a placid, beery, semi-comatose look, which not even an extra stamp of the foot in the schottische rouses into life. The other dances scarcely vary from the ones in vogue iu England ; and if—as seems most improbable—there should be the slightest approach to romping or skittish ness on the part of the dancers, the sight of the land lord's uplifted admonitory forefinger suffices to quell the unwonted disposition to vivacity. Leaving these specimens of a peaceful, cud-chewing, rumi nating race, who bake their sugar, drink their beer, smoke their pipe, and talk to their female com panions in regular rotation, and regard one to be as much a portion of the grave business of life as the other, we proceed through more doorways and up more lighted stairs, and the same scene is several times repeated on a smaller scale, and with a gradual and increasing admixture of the British maritime element. The sailor's regular dancing place, the " Jack's Delight," or the world known " Paddy's Goose "—so called from an Irishman saying of its sign (a swan), " A mighty foine goose, that, anyhow"— ' and the hundred and one other places of the kind wherewith Shadwell, Wapping, and Rat- I cliff-highway are studded, do not greatly differ from those frequented by Germans only. The music is the same, the women are of the same order, but English; and the drink is not both beer, but such as Jack has loved ever since seamanship became a profession. All orderly enough, and, to be plain, a little dull, though this may be partly attributed to the presence of Mr. Inspector, who in closely buttoned coat and leather-crowned bat, evokes a whispered " hush," and the sort of indescribable movement school children make I when in the midst of their sports the eye of the pedagogue is felt to be upon them. Next to the prosaic routine character of the proceedings the surpassing plainness of the women seemed most remarkable. Splay feet, coarse skins, hard irregular features, dresses which obscured good figures, and aggravated bad ones into deformity, were not condoned by the least vivacity of manner, or the faintest intelligence of expression. They all looked heavy, uninteresting, stupid, dull. Vice here is really a monster of hideous mien, and if Jack doesn't bate it, it can only be that he sees it through the glamour produced . by a long absence from England, by the innate, deeply-rooted sailor gallantry which invests every woman with beauty, or that he chooses his mistresses as King James 11. was said to do—as a strictly mortify - I iug penance. A visit to one of these places is • visit to all. They are stationed at short intervals on both sides of Ratcliff-highway, and >1: few distinctive features. Item, a coarsely decorated, 'R bare, gaunt room ; item, two or three musicians on benches ; item, some dancing couples on floor ; item, other 'couples on seats round room ; item, landlord or manager in shirt-sleeves to pre serve order and to see that orders are given. In some rooms the women have brought their work, and are calmly sewing away to the strains of the band or the click of the little boy's feet who is going through the Lancashire clog dance with such an air of supreme indifference and pro found melancholy. Here is a stout middle female in dirty pink fleshings, and a white skirt —like a soiled and elderly ballet girl—who capers professionally with a man in buff slippers and a pepper-and-salt suit. Here is a poor fool, with rouged nose and whitened face, who tumbles and grimaces for the coppers which are sparsely thrown ; hers is a comic jig-dancing Irishman, MUSIC. FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS. HEREFORD, TVLUILT. A large number of visitors have arrived to-day by special and ordinary trains, there Wog a doable attrec• tine in the holding of a regatta on the Wye. It was e carious arrangement to fix the regatta for the festival week, though probably the two gatherings, if they do not 'waist, will not mach interfere with each other. The festival opened this morning with early service at the cathedral at half-peat eight. Notwithstanding the early hut then was s large coogregatioo. The mayor, Mr. Even retaken, and the member of the nerif Cur poration attended in state ; and the bishop, the capons in residence, and minor canons wen also present. Service was held in the choir, the clergy and choristers being seated in the chancel, and the 000gregatioa in the transepts and lower pat of the nave, divided frost the clergy by the mag nificent open screen which formed so greaten attraction in the last Great Fahinitioe. The service was Ousley in C, and the anthem " Blamed be Thou " (Kent). The members of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, joined in the larvae. These early services will be continued daily during the weak. The festival sermon was preached by the Rev. W. E. Evans, A.M., as... raidentiary, who took tor his text 2 Connthians viii. 23: " They are the umesengerej of the *hutches and the glory of Christ." Mr. Dose, of Worcester, presided at the organ (which was sadly out of order), and played at the commencement of the service an andante by Sir H. Smart, and at its coo elusion a fugue by Sebastian Bach. The first oratorio wee fixed to commence this moreing in the cathedral at noon, and punctually to time Hr. Town• bend railed hie baton for the overture to Heyde's Creation, which formed the first part of the morning's musical per. formai:ma The attendance was good fora first morning, Has principal seats being nessly all occupied. The falling off is attendance was in the second and third claw seats ; the latter were nearly empty. In consequence of the opening of the tower and the erection of the open was between the choir sad nave, it was decided to alter the arrangement of the seats, placiig the orchestra at the west end of the nave, instead of under the tower (by which much of the sound would have been lost), and by this means of ardieg room for some 400 extra sittinp in the transepta, besides rendering the choir available. The congregation, therefore, looked westward instead of eastward, as formerly. By this arrangement the organ belonging to the cathedral, which is placed in the north Male, warn too far from !the orchestra to be available for the oratorios, sod an Metro. meet had to be obtained from the stock of Messrs. Gray ad Davison, of London, fee temporary us. The programme foe this morals( embraced Parts 1 and 2 of Haydn's Creation, the Overture to Iteadelseoha's St. Paid, sad Beethoven's Berries in C. The music was only °occluded just before our parcel wee despatched to catch the London train. SoaPtclore DRATEL—Throughout the whole of yesterday, end sp to a late hour last N night.. large crowds of penons congregated in front of the house o. 19, Margaret- Street, Shoreditch, in colleagues°, of • rumour that a woman named Mary Aan Birth had bees hood lying dead in • room In the above house, with marks of severe violeece on her body. On Sunday night Thomas Birch, the husband of the dammed, had some frieeds at kin house. A quarrel thee ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.-00 Thursday I took Oath between bias and hie wife. When the tripods next Mr. German Reed inangarates hr autumn seethe at left hoestosevieg asleep in bed . Is the they both went to bed. Neat morning, at five o'clock, the Gallery of Illustiation with as Opera di Camera by the husband (who is a bricklayer) states that he left the , Balfe, is owe act, 'Witted Tic &eel*" Qiiens, the libretto at half-past eight o'clock, he returned home and found eeehhi, het dead being • free version of the popular Freach piece Ne touc/e in bed. There were marks on the stomach and legs of the pas ala &tee. The sewed part of the entertainnieut deceased. Those own , it is ,feted, appeared to have bees maim a a wee ja , one act , th e music adapted from inflicted by kicks. The police ROM mat amiss engaged in iavestigatiog the circumateaces of the affair, but they have M. Offenbach by Mr. German Reed, called " Too Many , Dot .„, arrested any „rim nth of murdering the Cake." Bias D'Este Finlaysoa, a new soprano, will make ' deotheed. At four o'clock yesterday a post-sioneet enemies. her first appearance on this occasion. I tioa of the body was made by Dr. Edmunds, but the result LoNDON PHILANTHROPIC Socuertt.—The annual has sot transpired. The deceased was 63 years of age. general meeting of the friends and supporters of this old I FIRE PROM PAIWINO Tuarsta.-000 day last week City charity was held last evening at the offices, Iron. two Ores occurred sear the London, Chatham. and Dover monger-lane, Cheepside ; Mr. Clarke, churchwarden of line at Ramsgate, immediately after the liaising of trains, Bishoragate,in the chair. Mr. T. R. Beeps, the hoe. se. the brat in a field of barley, on tJpdown Farm, in the °cell a:stay, rant the report, which stated that the society wee , potion of Mr. Stokes. and the latter close by the Broadstain greatly increasing its influence and extending its operations. station. Considerable damage was done, but both less lhrnng we past year a vast amount of distress had been were ultimately got under. There had hem three previous relieved through its agency, and its beach' were highly fires from the roe our on loads Deer to the South Eastern appreciated by the poor. Last whiter b 72 toes of coal sad Railway ; and the owners have made demands se the re -50 toss of bread had been distributed at 178 Mathes in the emotive companies for the damage. The practice of buns- City and other parts of Loudon, at the Celt of 1,2171. for fog coal instead of coke, without any fender or other an imals and 6694 for bread. The society was totally onset. plummy for preventing the sparks flying through the tabus in its operations, relief being alike afforded to the chimneys of locomotives, has attracted the attention of poor of every denomination. The grow receipt' for the farmers to particular, and • memorial on the subject will be past year, winding • balance of 1941 . IL. Bd.. had brew drawn up and presented to parliament early in issuing 2,332/. is. Bd., being 1547/. more than in 18624. and the yea.—Souf• Sager* Gezeue. espeaditure, including relief to the extent of 1,8791., had THR RILATIONS BETVIRLY SPAIN AND ITALY.—A bees 2,1261.65. 3d., leavialt a halloos i• hand on the year Turin letter of the 25th says "Within the last few weeks of 20ti1. 15s. ad. On the motion of the Bev. Mr. Tyler, thee relations between Spam and Italy have assumed • more report was adopted. i fririedly character. You are aware that the two govern. At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of August, mow have each a charge d'affairm„ who constantly main. 1864, nt. the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in gins effkaal intercourse with the court to which be (is • its Ibis day ordered by hoe Majesty is Omuta accredited. Not long aeon a consular agent of the Kingdom that the parliament which steads prorogued to Thursday, ; of Italy, is a small town of Spain, thought proper to put the 13th day of October neat, be bother prorogued to Fri- over his deer the weeds ' Italian instead of day, the 11th day of November oath—An:HOZ Comeslate of King Victor Emmanuel.' The Spanish cos- Gamete. servative party were greatly irritsted by thee change, sad • MULTI' AND STRINOTH RIINTORED without. media eomplaint was addreeeed to Queen leaballa's 'overawes'. eine, hiconnedeoce, sr expense by Du Burrs delicious health- Axes rigorous measure wan expected, and certain parties did rostoring RewientaArabloa Food, which saves afty times lie all they could to provoke it, hat the Spanish ministry gave out In other remedies, and cores the stomach, nerves, longs. , woofs oif ifs r o k m t s pina by t a me ( so a l ma of the affair, Hoer, and intestines of all chronic or recent disorders. ocuoo cad IM • umoripare • •e pat up by the caaaaal sum raaisim This cores manually of dyspepsia 9adigestloel, coontinstioni dlertimui cough. consamption. 'rutty' °eighty tit old or yew*. , sett ough of little importance in itself, Devertbeless indi- Berry sad No. 77, Negros-street. Lon.lon. W. In tins ' ieadly diepoeitions on « en.~ f, the part of the Spanish b. ; gin. —Ladvertlinsosat.l goveranawat." Thera were collections both at early morning eerrioe and after the oratorio, but the amoant wadi not awsertained when ear parcel was wit off. [Stamped, id. AdditionaL) THE CHARGE OP NEGLECT AGAINST CLERGYMAN; Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex comer, resumed and concluded • protracted isiquiry at the Market-house, Fisebury-market, relative to the death of William flansel Webb, aged 5 years. The evidence taken on the previous mossiest was to the offer* that the deceased was the son of the Rev. B. Bearnish Webb, who resided at No. 50, Worship-street, and was until lately curate of All Mats, Babopegate. The reverend gentleman's wife died in March last, leaving hiss with five children. At the end of Jaw he west to Indeed for • mouth for the basalt of his health, and durisg his absence the care of the whole family devolved upon his eldest girl,wbo was sterns years of age. He had a month previously gives notice to the servant to leave, and she accordingly ldt three days after his de parture. He left his little daughter 1/. 12s. for honaekeep mg, and she borrowed another sovereign while he was sway. Directly after his return he was dismissed from his curacy, as he stated, because his eyes were affected, and he could not reed his sermons. On last Tuesday week the deceased child was found to be so ill that a doctor was sent for, but death took oleos on the following Friday. It was alleged that the children had all suffered frightfully from neglect— alltheir heads had to be shaved, and it was also deposed that the father not only was neglectful, but that he ill treated them and swore at them. All theme allegations were strenuously denied. The resumption of the proceedings seemed to excite oon siderable interest. The first witness called was Dr. R. Fowler, who stalled that be had made • poet-sto ri es simminatlos of the body of thedsomesd child. It was much emaciated, and the skis dry. The Kelp was covered with pustular disease, which just prior to death discharged a bloody secretion. Vermin crawled over the scalp. Under the left ear was a glandular abscess, and on the right side were a few enlarged glands. dearcely say fat was visible in the wells of the chest and abdomen. In the stomach was faxed about two ounces of dark fluid. probably tea or co ff ee, and is the li quid a few masse. of undigested food. There was inflammation of the membranes of the brain. The immediate canes of death was spasm of the glottis. The intestines were empty and contracted. There was meson- I kirk disease, and the child was decidedly scrofulous is habit. _ _ By the Coroner— The contraction of the intestines de noted want of use. It might hays arisen either from mesenteric disease or want of food. The condition of the scalp undoubtedly demoted loog standiog neglect. Spasm of the glottis was frequeot with serolulons, sod also with underfed or improperly fed children. The glandular abscess was the result of the thin affection. The Rev. Kr. Webb-11 the child retread to Übe food would not that produce oontraction of the intestiora Witness—Undoubtedly ; but the kind of food given would bare a material effect. There would be ao uss in giv ing potatoes or solid breed to suck a child. It would loath fetid food. It would require delicacies that only a mother or a good none or cook could give. The inflammation of the moonbeams of the brain was not from neglect, but wee doubtless iaberited from the mother. The Rev. T. Hugo, incumbent et All Sainte, Bishops. gate, aid—Tbe Rev. Mr. Webb ins my curate. He lett rue dulls at sy request. I dismissed him. Corooer—l do not wish to go into ►ny needless details ; but wu he dismissed for general mueondnet ! The Rev. Mr. Webb—l do not HI what that can have to do with the nee! Coroner—l put the question in the mildest form to your- self, and you, in reply, gave an explanation of your da intiest which may or may Dot be founded on fact. The allegations are serious and the evidence coollicting ; the quaitioa is therefore a key to the whole case. Witness mid that the dismissal was in consequence of Mr. Webb's ntiacoadost. The Rev. Mr. Webb—That is the fiat I have heard of it. Coroner—lt is neosseary that the jury should keow how far the habits of the parents may have led to the neglect of the child. Was Mr. Webb intemrende Witmer—Tea, undoubtedly. The Rev. Mr. Webb—The habits of the wait could have bad no effect mace the child came into All Sainte pariah. The answer of Mr. Hugo may be ruinous to me and to my children for ever. Witness eoetinned—Mr. Webb was with me from the 10th April till the Bth August He was absent for • mouth of that time, and was not at duty for a longer period. I paid in all 411. Il& , and 151. of that was given to him the day he went to !labial- The Rey. Mr. Webb—h 7. of that was lent to me for the nounahmeets, Sc., ordered me by the doctor, as I was not In good health ; it was not as payment. Waimea—lt was 51. given to you for your family and your arcessitieyand not to throw away. It all went into the seine P - ocetia the other moue* fon got. Mr. B. J. Aldis, so invalid, said that he was the land lord of Sir. Webb, at 50, Worship-street. The children were neglected, pale, and dirty. He had often to send them out of the factory, they were so dirty. H. frequently heard them cry from one to th e e th er, and the sound of slaps. Mr. Webb used to say to them, " You scoundrel, to tell me that lie ; you liar !" and other epithets. The Sunday of ter he returned from Ireland witness heard him apparently thug ing saunerne at them, and say. " You scouudrel, put it in its place. He swore a good deal that day. Witness sent • lodger down to see what was the matter, and be found Mr. Webb Singing his arms about like • madmen. Mr. W.bb said that the affair on the Sunday was all imagination. He very likely celled the child • scoundrel, became all parests scold. (To Mr. Alita—l believe you are not paid your rent, Mr. Aldis! Mr. Aldie intimated that such was thee's'. Mr. Webb celled Mrs. Harriet Cochlea, 2, Aniescettege, Stratford, whodeporad that she was with the children for the second week of the absence of Mr. Webb. Deceased had • good appetite and was in his usual health thee. Wit. one did not me the children for the rest of the time, but she beard from Miscie, who was very tutelligent. Witness was the aunt of the children. By the Coro•er—Under the circumstabees witness coo iddered it decant and prudent to leave four children under the care of • little girl 11 years of age. By Mr. Webb—lt was often difficult to get • good ser vaot, sad the &Whoa would he better without a bed oae ; the one he dismissed was utterly incompetent. Dr. F. Hyde Forsh•ll said he wee Dot in practice sow, but he had been in the army. He blew Mr. Webb twelve mouth.. and be was affectionate to his children, and did not appear to neglect there. Miss Mamie Webb. an intelligent little 101, said that her father seat her as. is postage stamps from babied. Oa the Seedily after his return he did Dot throw saucepans at the children. He was kind to them, and never stinted them. There were g►ocerries in lb* house while he was ►way. By Mr. Webb—You got up at one o'clock on that Sun day —not to cook the diaper, but to ask how it was getting on. I cooked it. The fury, after boor delibeestioo, returned the following morsel verdict;—" lhat William Samuel Webb, Wier au infant of tender ere in charge of his father, died from spasm of the glottis, aid the jamas farther may that im proper food sad the sadly neglected readiteec of t►e said child predisposed to the disease from which he died ; aid the Jaren lastly say, that the conduct of the father is highly ossearable." [TWOPENCE MELANCHOLY CAST OF DROWRISU AT THE VICTORIA BATHS, BRISTOL. On Monday afternoon the corner for Bristol held an inquest at the Victoria Bathe, Porter Stores, on the body of John Dyer Cartwright, 24 years of aim who was drowned at the Victoria Baths, Clifton , on Sunday morning last. The following details of the me lancholy occurrence were given in evidence at the in H. Barton, photographer, 26, Triangle, Clifton, stated that he was a brother-M.las of the deoramd. who was 24 years of age, and be went with him to the Mahe ow Sun day between 11 and 12 o'clock in the day, at which time the accident occurred, Deceased resided at Ormond-street, London, and was lamed in a literary capacity for various papers in the metropolis. He left home a short time ago for the purpose of visiting some relatives at Cheltenham, and, at the request of his mother, paid a visit to him (Mr. Bar too). Having heard that be was • very expellent swimmer, he took ham to the baths on Sunday morning. Witness went into the water first, but there were no other persona at the bathe beside themselves, and deceased shortly after followed, sad swam about the baths previous to the accident occurring. He (witness) was standing on a board at the edge of the water, when deceased called out to him, saying, " Are there any steps down here !" He replied, " Yes, yes—down here," pointing ,underneath to the place. Deceased swam toward them, then reached, sod at once touched them. He looked as deceased, and suddenly it *track him that there wee samethlng very curious in his not wanting to land, an he appeared to have " shoved" off from the steps to go down the length of the bath, and he then noticed something very strange in the position of deceased as a swimmer, his arms baba thrown up out of the water. Witness said to him, ~l a there anything wrong?' but be could not may what reply was made, although it seemed like a faint articulation of " Yea," He then plunged in the water alter deceased, and managed to grasp him, but be (wither) not being strong in the water, sad the weight of dammed bearing down upon him, he could not retain his peep. Be thou cried out for help, and imme diately muetanoe was rendered, sad corks were thrown to him (deceased), buthe did not catch hold of them. Wit ness also went out with corks and went to the spot. but when ha turned round, to his astonishment, the corks were floating, but deceased was not to be seen. Mr. Alfred Batchelor, the manager of the baths, was then examined. In the coon. of his evidence be dateribed the mesas that were used for the purpose of restoring anima tion. It appeared that not only was Dr. Marshall Hare method used in the tint place, but, finding this env= the method prescribed by Dr. Sylvester was tried, although it was not followed by the desired effect. Dr. Martin was seat for sem Woes the doomed was catof the water, sad be amved in ire minutes. Dr. Bartley was elan mot for, and he remained 22 minute*. There was not the slightest sign of recovery exhibited. Men expressed their 'malefac tion at the manlier in which the methods had been carried oat. Thomas Gassier's, of 13, Upper Park-street, who was described as one of the best divers in England, stated that, on being informed of the occurrence, he west to the = and dived immediately after the body. On dialog • time he caught hold of it, and brought it to shore. Dr. Bartley stated that be was requested to Miser' at the baths on Sunday, aid he arrived there about 10 minutes peat 12. The body wee thee out of the water, and be saw it immediately, but be bad not the slightest hope that life would be restored. I. spite of that, however, be continued using the plan which was being adopted by Mr. Batchelor. after havieg been informed Marshall Hall's method had been used. Then was • peculiar appearance about the nostrils and mouth, which was always indicative at there being no hope whatever of any restoration. He bad heard that deceased was • skilful swimmer, and be thought the probability was that be (deceased) was exhausted, he not having been previously in good b and he might have gone to the baths in an sahe= state, end then, when he got into selves feet of water, he thought be was sinking, got nervous, threw op his arms, lost all consciousness, and sank. There wee not the slightest Dedication that he had injured himself, as the appearmace of the corpse was exactly that of • man:who had been drowned. In &Bawer to Mr. Searle witness said that deceased was • re markably fine and athletic payee man, and be bad no mama to believe that he died from disease of the heart, although he should think it possible that be had been in a weak state of health meetly. The Coroner briefly summed up, and remarked that there could be no question that it was a case of accidental drowning. The jury then returned • verdict of "Accidentally drowned while bathing at the Victoria Baths." REALTY" OP LONDON. . --4.-- The weekly return issued by the Registrar- General states that the mortality of Landon has shown DO great iluctuatioa in the last three weeks. The number of deaths registered in the week that ended to Saturday was 1.413. The health of that part of the populatioe to which summer cholera is chiefly fatal hes improved ; for the deaths of young persons Wilder 20 years) cleaned from Oral in the first week °Linnet to 803 in the last. The average number of (Laths in the thirtyfonrth work of ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with a correction for in crease of population, 1,329. 'The mortality of bet week therefore exceeds the estimated amount by U deaths. Diarrbica was returned in 190 came in the week, the number in the previous week having been 212. Out of Use 190 area, 168 cocierred to chekiren under two years of age. Also 18 deaths (10 of obildren, Bof adults) wars returned as caused by "cholera." Twenty deaths from diarrlur.a occurred in Mile-and Old-town and Poplar ; and 17 in the Greenwich district, which includes Deptford and Woolwich. There were 74 deaths from measles in the week, which complaint wee very fatal in the But districts, where 43 deaths were mused by it. Six deaths occurred from it in the Si. Paul subdistrict of St. George-in-the-liacit ; 5 ia the sett-district of Poplar. On the 19M inst., at 39, Hanover.street (St. George Ilanoverequere), a widow died, whose age as recorded is the register was 100 pars. Another widow died at the •1 4 38 . . . _„_ Last week the births of 992 boys and 923 girls, is all 1.915 chillies., wen registered is Loodos. la the Ma ewe , responds., weeks of the years 185443 the average number (corrected) wee L 844. TRIAL TRIP OF A STRAY RAIL—We leans by electric telegraph that an neolficial trial trip of the Sect' pica, can of the Birkenhead was made yesterday. The speed attained wee about 12 knots per hoar. She answered her helm splendidly. The results are considered exceedingly satisfactory. Tea k mrzeoa liAroucos's NEW Banc. —A Paris correspondent of the /nth - nem/neer Beige, says :.—" The first vidume of the • Life of ewer' will decidedly be issued at the end of the year. The publication has been delayed by numberless revisions. In obedience to august desire the two volumes were only to have appeared simultaneously, and consequently the publicity gives to the work would have been much retarded, but upos the respectful opinion expressed by the publisher, the first part will soon be placed in the bands of readers. Each volume will cost from six to eight frees.' LARGO IMPORTS OF EAST INDIA AND CHINA C'oTroN irro LIVERPOOL—LW/WOOL, TCFSDAY.—Ihuiej the Jut three days the arrival of Fist India sad Chins cotton ships ben has been much beyond the avenge, so lees than urns ships having arrived from Bombay, ass from Calcutta, and one from Shushan. The ships trees Bombay are the Frenchman, with 5,648 bales; Myrtle, 3,629 bales; Euxise, 4,312 bales; Palmerston, 5,015 bales; Lady Cla readoo, 4,131 bales ; Baron Macaulay, 5,200 hales; Jamie, 4.284 bales ; Algiers, 4,883 bales ; Toon:sups, 3,277 bales. Front Calcutta, the liajahumbal arrived, with 2,787 bales ; and from Shughas, the Gleagaire, with 6,985 bales— making a total of 49,881 babe of East lode aud alias cotton. SZVENOAKS, MAIDSTONE, AND TUNBRIDGE RAIL ' WAT.—The teeth half-yearly meeting of this cornmey vise belu yesterday at the Victoria' Station, Mr. G. P. Holroyd in the chair. The report, which bas bear published, was takes se reed. The chairman. in moving the adoptioe of the report, said he thought ths general prospect. of the company very satisfactory, the increase in the traffic receipts had been very comidsrable, sod since the date of the report bad .611 further increased. He was happy to say that ar rangements had been made with the Loodoc, Chatham, sad Dover Company for the oomtruction of the line between Maidatose and Seversoaks, which would bring a large amount of blithe am to their hoe. These arrangements were not in a sufficient state of completeness to be laid Iwfore that meet ing, but lie might say that the proposed line would be made by the t on d o s, Chatham, and Dover Company without any responsibility falling apes them. Mr. C.T. Hilton seconded the motion, which was essaimotaly agreed to. STAIRLS, WOLENOHAN, AND WOlll/40 RAILWAY. —The Zird half-yeariv meeting of the shareholders is this m comay was held yesterday at the office, b, Linooles.inn. fields ; Mr. James Garrard in the chair. The chairman, in movies the adoption of the report, said be anticipated muub benefit to the line from the mastruction of two sew hoes by the Loudon and South Western Company. sae from Chertaey to Virginia Water, sad the other called the Baia oingdale and Canahridge-town Railway. Mr. ICsanard. M.P., seconded the resolution. Mr. Maughan urged os the directors the propriety of opeatag negotiations with the board of the tondos and South Western Company for the purchase or lesse of the lies. Mr. Price and other shareholders strongly advocated this policy. The Chahar, opposed any such proceeding, at Meet for the present. At the same time the board wee open to receive say fairpro petals from the South Western board ; to go to that board and solicit them would be to depr eciate their property. After a keg diseemion the subject was left for tie ear. dimities of the hoard. The report was this adopted. i~ - - . I I .1 111