The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

g u * may upon from the ede-eimidnet given to him by Agsrhii, from the doesumont sanded " Proclamation to my ps is liesgary, dated Bthoehrson, Sept. 22, 1848, ot phich 3I k!11241 apes the primmer; from the Asir prAlszetion, entitled " Manifesto to the people of sly llonserisa Crows," of the sues date, of which he had lg sou , is his possession, hr the imitations of which the ywkl , s isUg order is attacked is the mate of the King, pd the ill iOny of which mat bus been well known to im owner, Mom their mot betas somater-eigned by an nowise =Wirer. Lastly, hoes the prim:lees own cola- Imicei, sad from collation of Isom, it is evident that altMagh sm. 0000 f Ulm of the approach of General Ruth OR MI WO SOUL, M 10100/41 to intuit the Hangs:inn amp of this bore the 2etli, bat repaired with the peorianatioas is i s s , a mp of General Bon, whets be hoped to am a s su m with effect. The lentemes of the auditor 14 o u s, fue, that Coast Burma ashy is an accomplice et thof ememere d the kingdom of ibmigary, that be rendered ethethai oreltlooM to tin NOW GM bring b,eta seized in the set of dastrotheringembeetal s zdnittions, framed for the offereties d this and the destruction of thst sat= his comany he be executed by Isintinft. 1080.068 baying been declared by the President A m u vas gamey. wait annaimowsly adopted. Signed, beeileat of tbe ClenthfUrtial Arthur Chirpy, maid and mi litary fignedeliegt na tins islands of Csepel ; Cheeks ItsarsiMe. TM edresoAnd Med is the meat was as follows : •fileand At tha pa r ra lCount Eugene Zichy, I Imo iielMised WI a be gives to the count, and f ury promeekm —Btahlweimenharg, Kept, 27,1848. Iss.acasce." COLONIAL BRITISH NORTH AMBRICA.-CANADA. - We are in receipt of Montreal journals to the Bth bet. inclusive. They are full of angry divevv.ioo, with veer few positive facts. The Herald intimates that a meeting of the Execu tive Council was to be held in Toronto on the 10:h oo Lord Elgin's arrival in that city, at which Mr. Enda was expected to be present. The newspapers Is general throw doubts on the statement that the vat of government was to be removed from Montreal ; sad the Minerva, a French journal, which supports and is understood to enjoy the confidence of minis- Iwo, says that everything leads to the b lief that the Seat of government will not be removed, at least for the presest. Mr. Blake was ganitted on the 61 as solicitor-general for Upper Canada. Two movements of oessiderat le practical impor tance are on foot. The Montreal Gazette of the Bth mays,. " Many of the French parishes in the various district, of Lower Canada have chosen delegates to represent them at the meeting to-day, to consider the subject of the seignorial tenure. We have been un able to barn the number of delegates that are likely t o be prevent." The Herald, of the 6th, notices a meeting at 13owmanville at which it was determined t o form an Anti-state Church Association, and view kg this am a first step to a renewal of the queestio wzata of clergy reserves, congratulates Itself on the event as likely to occasion a rupture in the liberal LTGTee tory journals concur in representing the annexation party as rapidly increasing in strength. Some of their own statements are, however, of a La tare to throw doubt on the assertion. Some of them will have it that the French are for annexa tion to a man. The 1116ntreal Gazette, however, in falai us that a meeting was about to be held in the county of St. Maurice, at which M. Pspineau was to be called upon to explain his conduct during the late session of parliament. Whereupon the Casette lauds M. Papineau as the only French member whose con duct has been uniformly consistent. Again, tbe Mon treal I wirier supports annexation, on the ground that England wall not recede from her free-trade policy. The Montreal Herald, on the contrary, equally tory in its politics with the Courier, and abo addicted to 'platonic flirtation with annexation, enlarges as fol lows on the benefits which Canada is denying from this same free-trade policy : 13141IFICIAL lint= OP Till ABROGATION of .BIT NAVIGATION Lrove.—As the first and consistent public shout« of the repeal of them mom injurious enactments ' we Mee anxiously wailed for the time when the new law mould C9llae into force, in order to see our ix: 'mations res lived by the event. We hardly expected to hove, so long before Laud, to announce the proof of the happy Effects Maly to moult to our trade from the new pace. We learn, hoverer. that • • Nor weg ian ship has been already chartered New York to prommd to Quebec, in the spring, and there Mad a cargo of timber, Me.. for • British pore, at the low IBM of 31s. pee load. If this has been dote already, what mg not be expected when we enjoy the fall advantages of impend= ? _ _ _ - - The opposition party in Canada are at present very angry, but this anger appears to be their only bend of union. The Orangemen, a portion of the French sod the old ascendancy and family compact patties, are at one in their denunciations of the local and im perial governments. Bat some are for free trade, Nome for protection, some for the resumption of the clergy reserves, some for the extirpation of papists. In this state df affairs the following exhortation of the .Ibrolitig Courier, if not exactly reasonable, is at least neural : We undinetaail that • metals 11. P. purposes resign's, kis Int, in order to enable kiln to agitate the grand question of useast.oe. 8e vitel a matter should be argued, sad carried eat, if prectioshis, by thee of strict iategnty, andeyiating pimples, and without the whit* sleeve balm of their coats hsisg wen Le no wan listen to, or Plow any oilier, We ▪ soon bars our bands full, and we shall take care who bade us. " Let no man listen to or follow any other." What a picture of a party do these words mosey! Such laagasge strengthens, if it does not absolutely con firm our previous impression that the present effer vescence in Canada is mere passion uneombined with Inflection or definite purpose. It will, if this view le correct, endure only so long as men's minds are rat occupied with practical questions. And such die tensions as the Clergy Reserves and the Seignorial ' Titles once earnestly entertained will soon banish it ham the people's mild'. The habit of conforming to established institutions will outlive it; men will quietly fall hick into the old accustomed paths. buch is ear inference from the present state of Canada. 7be prognostications from the United States ore un worthy of affection. They speak the wishes more %a the reuoned convictions of the writers. Ever as. the commencement of the American revolution Se sear Lotion of the Canadu and the acquisition of tisk Lawrence has hem a cherished object with the statesmen df the Union. This is not the first time by a roard doses that they have predicated with equal @Bandeau) the arrival of the hoar which was to see Se cossummation to this wish. The Canada* (French journal published at Qeebec) of the ;Ird iast. , states that the emigration from Canada to Catania "is becoming almost a national morement." Many young men of good family have tom or are about to depart overland for California in small parties, along with American emigrants. Others who had settled in Oregon are moving south ward to the gold regions. "Itis in fact an epidemic which threatens to depopulate Canada worse than the cholera." A party of thirty were to meet at Montreal abort the time this notice appeared, to proceed through the United States to tiro Francisoo ; and two or three ships were expected to leave Quebec with emigrints for that port in the coarse of a month. The writer of the article from which we have extracted these statements mentions that he bad been present at a meeting called by Mr. Holt, who was about to dispatch a vessel to lea Fraacista. He proposed to form a joint stock company, tript 40 shares of 1001. each, to be invested it a cargo. Shareholders who desired to become passengers were to pay no passage mosey. It was to be deducted from their share of the profits, and the balance paid to them in San Francisco by the am- Lord sad Lady Jobe Russell left Pembroke Lodge trnenlay 'Samoa as a aat to ha Majesty at Wiadoor Lade. • E x TENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.—ShortIy niter one O'clock this moraines, a great daetruetion of property by fire look place in Holton Old-tows. The consumed were occupied by hat manufacturers, andtMe Are was disco vered by a penal push*, who raised the ma'am alarms ; hat, by the time the firemen could nosh the spot, the en. tin fottory was one horsing MM. An abundance of water WAR **clued, end not lees than eight of the brigade, West of England, and other engines, poured water on the lipase, but my hing could pre** the destree. lion of the lackey, dwelling house, and every other valu able attached thereto, The fi r* al so injured some buildings near. eLd havoc was experienced by the hasty removal 0 tx m 1 ..... of (ono: ure. ~itt half-test two farther Mud, -- from tor confusion prevailing . correct of til aright and lose could .not be ascertained, . Nelsen sad big family, it is understood, succeeded in laving their lies in this manner, but two boys who were sleeping in one of the upper rooms world not be awakened, whet Mr. Maws rushed to their room, sod, at th e l ik o f his owl llfe, amend to pa the two youths trees theirbeda and drop them from the whedew in safety. Al= iim e that was snow pliged at halt-past two o'clock this a female who slept on the premises, said to be • of ung the pro prietor, wan missing, sad from the in qu i r i es ma d e ,i t was lured that she had perished. gbe court. WINDSOR, Ocr. 22.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the slop's. The royal family took their usual airings. His Royal Highness Prime Albert west eat shootiog this forenoon. His Royal Waimea' wee atteaded be Lori Watorpork, Lieat.-eoloael the Hoc A. N. Hood. sad Lieut.-eolorel F. H. Beyetwor. Lord and Lady John Roma, aad the Hos. Ralph sad Lady Miry Aber aromby, see expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, sad will have toe hoarier of joining the royal party at dimmer We 5-. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN DOWAORE. Her Majesty the Qaesa Dowager passed s had might oe Sunday. Her Majesty condone' seriously ill, bat was decidedly *at verse yesterday. Dr. Mew lot the Priory yesterday Ise tows. 8w David Davies resasiaiag is attendance os hat Majesty. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS. A public meeting took plate last ensuing at the Honorer-maws Asses, far the poems of **lag tato era siderstioa the heel sons *EMU wide water sup ply ef the easWepails, sod Ike alb s centred thereof is the hawk el the thawashas. It was aaaosatwil la the plasma sessewbes the siosefai that Mr. J. L. Tebbe/oar sod &dental)a fres the Illetrepolitaa Water Supply Aseeelatise would be is atteerkwes M exposed their pica fur the sttaisuest of the above Wryest. C. LINIIIING. TOW, Fog., 352., presided. There was a crowded at • tenders", 1 The CHAIRMAN said no one needed to be told that, for some time pass, there bad been heavy complaint, of the in adequacy, impurity, and imeeinive demur of the water sop s plied to the metropolis. (Cheers.) II these complaintswere welifounded, of which he had no doubt, it was the bounden duty and obvious interest of lite inhatileate to seek • remedy for an evil eo enormous. (Hear.) Common sense, prudence, and social morality, alike forbade them to disregard them Lets. The pestilence had now all but paned away, for, which all mast feel grateful. (Hier, bear.) He was far from thinking it a judgment ; it was rather the result of our own improvidence sad want of care. (Sear, hem.) It had desolated the city, and had caused Ismer to pervade every district and every risk, though its severity had been more especially felt by the humble claims, owing to the Mews of thusly precautions to shield rhea from he hand of the destroyes. (Hear, beer.) The Court of Sewers, and Mr. Simon, the city medical officer. °Gemmed in attributing much of the virulence of the disease to the want of a sufS• tient supply of water. To secure to the public an exuberant supply was the c.bject of this meeting. In March last, on the: omission of the Henley Waterworks Bill, it had been sated that there were 60,000 houses in the metropolis um supplied with wain. Farther cake: jolts had Mown the number to be between 70,000 and Br` dOO, of which worn 7,000 and 8.000 were in Lambeth. (Hear.) To remedy this state of things, something energetic must be dons. The public at large—not only the poor—called aloud for retie from the evils caused by the present scarcity of water. (Heru, bear.) Some scheme ought to be devised whereby this country might be rescued from its present disgraceful position in respect to sanitary arrangements. He came not to that meeting to accuse particular bodies or individuals, or to advocate say pi/neuter scheme. (Cheers,) He was de termined to set with impartiality, and to suspend his jade. meet on the schemes proposed, as they must be brought before the legidature. He hoped that any plan submitted woald receive the impartial consideration of the meeting. Dr. LANICBSTER was called on to mom the first reso lution. Tie subject of the meeting was one to which he bad long taken an interest. The resoluttin he had to move was: That an abundant supply of pure water is one of the first necessaries of life and health ; and that the present wafer supply of the metropolis ia deficient in quantity, bad is quality, sad obtainable only at such a price es practically to preclude, in a great degree, its being made available for the neceasitioe of the poor ; and that it had been proved, &goad ing to the most eminent medical testimony, that the present detective supply of water has greatly aggravated the kasha mortality by which this densely populated city has Wu lately visited. It was well known that a continued deficiency in the supply ol water to the body externally cased a prodispui tion in the system to disease. (Hear, hear.) Another source ol dimeue was the want of cleanliness in the houses and dotting of the people, arising from the same deficiency of water. Though he did sot go to the extent of some sani tarian. and Jay that foul air might engender such diseases u cholera, there was no doubt of its creating a predisposition for the disease. In London, at least 600,000 persons were suffering from a deficient supply of water. The badness of its quality might be proved from the sources whence it was drawn. Prom the Tomes, into which all the impurities of the City ware loured, the south of the nsetropolia was wholly supplied. Other portions were supplied by wells, not sunk very deep into the soil, and subject, therefore, to all the impurities which percolated through the soil. He thought it higkly desirable that the objest of this meeting should be carried out, not by government interfe rence, but by commissioner appolatod by, and responsible to, the public. (Cheers.) Dr. ALDIS, in seconding the resolution, said It had been calculated that 30 millions of gallons of sewage water were diseberged Into the TOMOS every 24 hours to say of other impurities, dead dogs and eats, &a. (Hear, ne = Dr. ELLISON (a medical officer of the Whitubspol Union) said he had recently taken charge of a district hay ing 70,000 inhabitants, and had been surprised at the ehs reeler of the diseases there preys ling. In inquiring into the emu, he was convinced the supply of water was not half wallieient ; the inhabitants had not "sough to wash their faces is a morning. (I. tughtar.) He was astonished to see N easy clean farms present. (Great laughter.) In Whit*. dispel the cholera bad prevailed very much in January sad Mesas" lett. By great exertions he had obtained a better supply of water for dm district, and the disease had subse quently been very mild. The retolstimt was then put, and unanimously speed to. TABBERNER was then called on, and said that be should ree"mmead the Henley project, the Maidenhead pro ject, the Staines project, and the Telford project. Bat he was urines to keep aloof from every particular plan, and to assist in getting a bill through parliament to break down the existing monopolies. (Caen.) This wee the grit thing to he dory. Then a power of control mot be Netwad, by in corporltion the whole water supply of the enelcogolis tato one public institution; the existing oompanbre to impeive a just compensation, and no more. (Hear, kw.) A animbnies should be establahed, ideated by the differ's: e V*, NM as a controlling board, sad to appoint eel and others. The New River Company mutt set egad their shares would be purchased up at 62,0061. par anew r but let their pipes and supply be yielded unto the seteigie of the public at a reasonable price, to be fixed by artitratees Sir CHARLES ALDIS trusted the proposal for a general incorporation of the water supply would be carried out. Thirty years ago, Dr. Lambe had broached the theory that mother g but distilled water was fit for me; without going to that extent he must express hie 4:Natation that nothing was more injurious to the public health than the present impure water of the meropohe. He was an advocate for the supply from Artesian Wells ; be believed that a thousand auk wells would supply the whole of the metropolis abundantly. London was at present more pure on the average than may country villages ; it would be much muse so with a wafiledeed supply of water, and if they could get rid of Saltkliald, and send it up to Islington. (Cheers.) Fee the NNW supply of water, the charge ought oily to be shillings where it was now pounds. At the public baths and wash-houes, 60 godless of cold water might be had for a penny, and of warm water for twopence,—a proof of the cheap rate at which it could be supplied. (Hoer, hear.) He had to move— That regarding water as one of the NNW eleumints of life, this oszeja cordially approves of tbe priardrias adopted by tbo Ma Water Arosai aolartida• lag by @Luigi inquiry the most pure sad aboadost moon of supply, and the best mode of emotes at the NM andlio cost to the pablie, and of placing the comma and meat thereof under a public, popularly eloativo, endr= • disinterested board. Mr. DARBY sesonded the resolution. _ _ _ _ _ /Ir. SAUNDERS, one of the overseers of St. Martin.la the-Fields, said he had taken an active interest in procuring a better supply of water in his own perish, sad was glad when be hued • meeting like this was to be held. The sesociaiim briseglis before the ametiag professed haven& once of all pleas or companies; bat he hand their pme epeeists strongly stamped with a preference be the Waite well system. The meeting, therefore, would de well to look I with suspicion on the {normal. (Hose, hem-) It ante well known that &Waage matter fouled its way tato the wells. Besides, it could never be foretold beforehand what would be the effect of sinking • well. Mr. mar r rose to order. The meeting was called to discuss the dedrablenese of a hotter supply of water, no to consider the different plane. (Hew, hear.) Mr. TABBERNER said the meeting ought *ow that Mr. Saunders was a "Hied erernam* gentle:Ram (Cries of " Oh, oh.") Mr. SAUNDERS vela reined as the prospect* of the association, and said he hag as emmezioa whatever with the Henley scheme or say Whir mien* (Hoer. hear.) It ante proposed that the &add mnicessias the general sup ply of water; bat * an the seeder *web* the al. vantage, that had melted km rheas marks. The efforts of the parishes might be beemisially dinged the details of the apply, whisk weld met properly be Meta W the great companies. The Very Hee. the Dean of WESTMINSTER, who ante received with load cheers, said he came there neftwo important cmuideratioes—as a private hiedml the metropolis, and se one charged with the MIS Mazleneke property. (Hear, ham) He came to vie dr aeiM of , ao years' experience as to the necessity of an almnient of pure water, net only as the sestrepolie, bat as in the empire. Oa nil ea hapermat widely he tel l t ir 7.4, duty to eomeaseleato whatever isdermatien he had derived from his large . owlmisaeo. (Hear.) Shies when he published bu Bridgwater Treatise," ea the supply of water to every portion of the globe. sad ass MM deetsbudon of which had beta controverted or that the of supplying such a vast population as that Leadea dial :2 water from below the eurfase had been meter of Ithesey. (Hear.) Though there had existed mattorel wells be seve ral years, it was a fast that every additional well Wet had been *rid had lowered the level of toe *WM* tea seem fifteen or twenty feet. (Hear.) On this odds* he would appeal to his published opinions as well as to time ezpreseed by the civil engineers of Englaiid, hi proof of the ha that not a tenth part of ea adequate supply for Lemke wall be obtaiaed from orteelan wells. (Hsu.) .The Wanted Robert Stephenson, whom genius had fast gadded the !demi Straits, had been applied to fer aa spidM. as as the practicability of bringing the Coble watts fres Watford, and, ineideatally snarling to artesian wells, he said he did not believe they would yield the advantages which were generally expected fr, m them. (Hoar, hear.) While repudiating the idea of seizing himself up with commerelal treasaetions, and eartag sot for the Watford Company, or the Henley Conapaay, or any company er mum, an the ate of troth, he held it a soigne duty I. piees et the sapebkeseuland of the pub lie that sz Ebb: hail had epeeial impartanitles ef soq sad Mos le Mamas egaiset tbe pert et the lesteßdniabeet asiestMe isgeky, sad refeeting storage lalbesinspestes of the nrs iled se, which mated, " That as 4fastWeisil iseshatatible waggly of pure warm b provided be this gnat popubtise, ashes ten Sties mere itsgMtade, is the webe-Wtsieg semi whisk tinder ow fest . ' That wee as whisk wee y false. (Hear, hear.) A pails was sot the piste to diocese the question. He pront i le giving a imbue at the Regal Institution es Media wells, sad he would thas &Awe all the engissess is the sventry to disprove whistle should adverse', banded en the c of sash seen se Humboldt, Aug.,i sad De la= (Cheers.) Without amylase whether the Iwo, the Thames, or the Coins yielded Me beet water, he would simply appeal to mechanimil prinelpies as to the (ellipse water in the wells se additional ones were dog. la short, it wee a physical ice poesibilit7 for 60,000,000 gallons of water to be daily extracted from the chalk stratum beaeath London. (Hear.) If he were tomenessamestiMest it would be,thatthe passage he had quoted abesid be summed from the prospectus that had hiss laid helm Me issetiag. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN esid it was rather irregular to notice say peseta* of that pesignetus, u it was not properly before the meeting. (Heat, beer.) The DEAN said ha spud is the affirmation of the reso lution, bat ne wit opposed Is phial the control of the water supply in this sameiedes. Ile would, however, withdraw his anceadisent. Afar some f;rther emmereatios The reeolatiat wee put, and 'carried, with about belt doses dissentients. Mr. I. H. MANN, of St. Pancras, moved: - That It is desirable that each of the metropolitan pariahs@ should organise a land movement In support of the Metropo litan Water lispply Association ; and also, that a pablis sub. i lieriptios be forthwith entered in to Mr the purpose of defray. lag all necessary captives in carrying into offecive operation tie propositions of Ms association. Mr. J. N. WARREN moandod the resolution. Mr. LUKE J. HANSARD moved That the cordial thanks of this meting be presented to Charles Lusbington, Eeq., M.P., for the readiness with which ha accepted the invitation to preside over this meeting, and for his urbanity in conducting it. The resolution was seconded; and briefly acknowledged by the challinan. Ths proceedings terminated at a little after 10 o'clock. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1849. resnlatiens of the coanissioners, and to them, of course, the public would look, if there was anythieg in the sewer age, constructed under their direction, calculated to endanger kassaitlife. So much for the construction. The next point to which Gay would have to direct their lineation would be win thee every proper MO had been taken kith* natter of ventila tion. It appeared that in this sewer then ware no gully boles, or at least none trapped ; that it was on a dead level, sad had therefore no power of carrying of the soil. He trusted that. with a view to the public safety in future, the animation of the Commissionen of Sewers would be directed to this Past, es it plaialy appeared, from a great concurrence of ending% duet if As sewers had bean kept clean this me lancholy sendent would not kayo The jury would next have is annekkethessiandiewfiwse they had received as to the erase fides& !inlaid hen their resellection that one of the witnesses (Dr. Me) Ind attributed the death* to the presence of ealphoretted hydrogen and puede acid, which the witness believed had percolated through the crown of the sewer from a series of supra:eta of has waste. To this hypothesis/Dn. Millar sad Campbell, Mr. Goldsworthy Garney, and lastly, Dr. Lyon Pisgah. bad offered a posi tive contradiction. If th e j ur y did ;et believe that the deaths had not been caused by the lime waste, they might find that it had been caused by vapour gene rend in the sewer without alluding to the lime. The question about the gas lime might be le ft open. They all knew from their schoolboy days that in wells snd coal-pits were generated vapours which caused death. He was afraid that there was • too prevalent canon of allowing labouring men to venture into sewers sad such places without taking proper precautions for destroying the iota gas, and that often, although they escaped without im mediate loss of life, they suffered much permanent suffering from such exposure. He must express hie wish that in this case more precaution had been taken. After some further observations on the evidence, the encase conaluded by cautioning the jury against inculpating any body of individuals except they meant such inculpation to be the foundation a a criminal charge. He would recom mend to them to find a dry verdict, leaving it to the public to judge who was the real criminal. A ism, before retiring, wished to hear some further evi dence respecting the mode in which the deceased Mr. Wells had been treated when taken out of the sewer. Many of the jury were &twigged, and some of the deceased man's relatives complained that he had been removed to St. George's Hospital without having the dart rem,vsd from his face. . . . . . It seemed to be the impression of many of the jury that with better and more prompt medical care Mr. Welle's life night have been sane, but after the examination of three or fear winsome who were recalled, and one new one named Sherwin, who had brought out one of the bodies, it became quite clear that the unfortunate gentleman was dead before he was taken out of the sewer. The jury retired at 6 o'clock, and, having remained an hour and 40 minutes, returned the following verdict: " We find that the deceased men, 1). Pert, Toomu Gee, and John Attwco4, died from the inhalation of noxious gas generated in a neglected and unventilated sewer, situate in Kenilworth-street; and we find that the deceased Henry Wells and John Walsh met their deaths from the same cause, in their lendable endeavours to save the lives of the three first sateen. The jury unanimously consider that the COIILMINWINTS and °Motu of the Metropolitan Sewers • are Reach to blame fur having neglected to avail themselves of the nassnal advantages offered, from the local sitnatkn of the Grosvenor Canal, for the purpcse of flushing the sowers in this divriet." Tne Coronet informed them that he could only record the fleet portion of the verdict. The second was only an opinion concerning extraneous matter, and its insertion on the record would be illegal. The jury were then discharged. THE REGISTRATIONS. HERTFORDSHIRE. The barrister held his court for the ll9ddesdou dis trict on Saturday. The new claimants in three of the parishes were struck off the list because the overseers had not published their claims, as required by law. Henry Neslion Smith, a partner in the house of Meux and Co., the brewers, was objected to by the liberals, and a solicitor from London attended to prove the gualleation. Having done so he applied for costs. Mr. Borerans stated that this was a new claim, and said it was generally held by revisicg barristers that costs should not be given in the:ceas of new claims ; besides, if he re membered rightly, Mr. Smith had once made a fictitkus claim, which aaturaly raised a suspicion as to the accuracy of the claim now disputed. The BARILISTIS considered that the objection was a " groundless" one, and the costs must he considerid without reference to the merits of any previous claim made by Mr. Smith. He should award one guinea costa. Mr. BONTI3IB reminded the court that this was a larger amount than could be panted. The highest amount of ci sto which the court had power to award was but twenty shil lings, and he certainly considered that the objection in ques tion wee not of that vexatious character which warranted the infliction of the highest penalty. The Bastaurrsa said he thought so too, and bore testimony to the fair and judicious grounds on which the objections had generally been taken. Although he should award costa, he thought they would have been as well not asked for. Mr. Bowsaws said it was not the question of a few Phil lips* in this particular eke, but, as these were the first costa that bad been granted, it was desirable that no bad precedent should be introduced. The court, oa rising, adjourned to St. Alban's on Monday. The following is the result of the day's recision Liberal gain on claims lO Ditto on objections Tory gain on claims 7 Ditto on objections The revising barrister held his court at St. Albsn's on Monday. Mr. MANNINO objected to the claim of Mr. Dickinson, of Sondridge, because it appeared to have been altered in the fourth column after it had been signed by Mr. Dick Moon. Mr. BONTINS caged the overseer, who swore that the claim bad been sent in by Mr. Dickinson just as it now stood. Mr. &writes said it was monstrous to object to a claim merely because the descriptive parts of it were in different hand-writing. The fact was the claim had been prepared for Mr. Dickinson's signature, and that getylenten, finding an error in the fourth column, bad very properly corrected it previous to signing the claim. The Banister said he could not understand what ob jection then could be to the claim. He should therefore at once admit it. . _ . The Court on rising adjourned to Hatfield, where the cir cuit will close. The following is the result (tithe day's proceedings : Liberal gain on claims Ditto on objections 4l Tory gain on claims Ditto on objections AMERICAN RAILWATIL—The official statistics of the railroads for tie state of New York were published a short time sines. The eartrada subjoined will be found interest ing, especially to English sand other Earopean capitalists, who have invested in the stocks and bonds of the different companies Railroads of the State of New York, 1848 : No. talks la Coat of Ea oparatiod. cranatructka. promo. West Road. Dollars. Dollar Atlrmy an Storkbridp 131 1,914,701 44,045 Lockport and N= g a i Lalls 23 :MOM 11,000 Viand W 4O 30,372 021 34 27,000 RCS SkaneaddeaandJordan .. WWI 2502 . , Hubs* isd Berkshire ....... 311 807,774 11,209 =rand lqdcat 63 • , 1,969,036 577,383 n antliErk 74 3,276,678 193,508 Twirl °rumba* Lag bland 961 2937,639 136,006 W Ilsequetumai 29 18,900 15,904 ♦26 1,125.866 99,495 io ff ie rzs u e r or m 90 17-100 3,579,567 193,490 Atdoliall "ado 81 821,313 399,662 7=999 1111 1r= 7 76 3 639,668 46,717 ,161,688 328,108 Ilarthaas . POO sidirimpas Falls 22 250,396 24,575 Namilasit sal Sonless 974,1305 85,611 ‘1240 1 10119111... ... grow um -- Ilibic . ;,iy .. ..... 22 331,038 27,116 AdM2l4 SW 26199662 7B 2,644,590 188,027 Blab Nal Auk leek 3 98,000 2,041 913957 as 9 sabaustady 119363 Totals, .Mt Ineome from 21&:g 4 53 2,51 Sao et aced. Tonnpiii. Tragn, 144. -- Din. Dem. Mawr. Lapel dad Nadas Tab ION 730 13.750 lars63. sad Waiddastia-- 1,454 311 3,977 Ilmailiks mad Jordis....4- 1,114 1,976 3,496 !alai ... .......- 7,114 746 7,372 Heim sea * m artian; 4ISI 10,719 13,130 =rsad Elks 146,1111 340,839 677,670 at ead Erie Troy tad 076599991 33,106 24,947 113,055 14414 Island 106,954 49,134 154,003 Gyms sad Ilistataaas. 2,375 11,694 16039 A lora ma 79r. Tot a 5 11:43 . . - Atari 1411 _..-.-..... =Tsal Troy .. - bur i zai.:: : 14 . 14 1 4,244 60,014 Bialsallit ma 196,090 419,732 ita9a1544..4-- -- _ . 154,963 67,339 116,3 '1 _ _ Siadaila erlgarterlegy 91,119 23,500 37,018 labees sod rierrissesr 399,471 96,230 431,738 faro awl 2,610 2,810 eamegeffigMsaserq 113,741 62,180 173,931 *Ma 2,452,339 1,300,381 3,937,9011 Grow Ilutems *at all sources, 1948 Expeolliere, repairs, end operating road, 1849 . 2 15A 9 . 314 MI newton 11148 Dollars • 1,433,341 The Now York Herald says, on referring to this statement : According to this the running expenses and repairs con sume about 66 per amt, noon the reported ewt of construe. tion. It boa been the Impolitic* for $ long time among stockholders in railway companies that the running messes and repaimooly areinntted to 60 per cent., but ibis has been erroneous. If aMr and full account was kept, and every thilig put down that hlgitheately belonged to it, ere should find that the running expenses amounted to nearer 76 than 66 per cent. of the grew serainue." TifiCONDINNID CRIXINALS WILSON AND BRADT. —The Provost of Jedburgh has received a ettramoniemtion from the Seeman of State in reference to the prieon•re WWI), end Brady, now ander sentence of death for the murder of William Lander at Bt. Boswell's Fair on the of July lest. Brady has best renrieved; but the law le di. rected to take its 00005$ in regard to Wilma, who will con sequently be executed at Jedburgh on Thursday, the 23th mat.—Kslio MR. HUDSON'S RAILWAY TRANSACTIONS.-FALSIFIED ACCOUNTS. The fifth and final report of the committee of in vestigation, to the sharshos in the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, wee issued yesterday in an en trawdirtary member of York Herald. It bas follows: ' In order to save future diduadon respecting the wound of the company, betwixt the °amines and then accountant, and also between the old directors and the committee, or their accountant, it was arranged in the owes of the inves tigation that all them parties should, if possible, agree respecting the various points on which a difference of opinion might arise. The ow:mitts* so. happy to state that this arrangement has been attended with the most beneficial results; all the points oa which Merman arose having, after much labour and anxiety, been amicably adjusted. Si, John Simpson and Mr. Plows, in the firs t instance, sated on behalf of the former board of directors and latterly, Mr. Plows acted for them alone ; and the com mittee were enabled to arrange every disputed item with the board, and the accountant, Mr. Cotta... The committee have thus been enabled to present, in minute detail, a aeries of amounts, containing everything of importance atonality to be known respecting the past and present state of the company's affairs, the accuracy of which, in the drawn /4MM cannot be doubted. The ;report of Mr. Cottam is at ones so concise and clear, and the documents referred to therein ao plain, that the committee need do little more than refer to them. PILLAINOD ACOOUNTS, It appears, from thins documents, that the accounts of the company hays been falaffied,to the extent of 121,9241. 10.. up to the 31st December, 1848. In the report by the direc tors, dated 13th February, 1849, and signed " George Hud son, Chairman of the Band of Directors," it is stated that, atter paying a dividend at the rate of 8 pee cent. per annum, for the hallyear ending 31st December, 1845, there would remain • surplus on the earnings of the ball year of 25,1271. Is., which, added to the alleged surplus of the former belt-e ar, made the total reserve fund at that date 59,7771. 9s. 81. The report is as follows: " The directors beg to transmit the enclosed copies of the capital and revenue amounts of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, for the halt year siding list of December, 1815, and also a statement of rscepts and payments in respect of the capital created for the Great North of England purchase. It will ha nee from the revenue account, that • - balance of 244,8791 Ss Bd. remains to the credit of the com pany, which, after deducting the rents of the Great North of England and Hartlepool lines, will be more than adequate to the payment of a dividend after the rate of 71. per cent. per annum upon the capital of this undertaking now entitled to dividend; but the directors are of opinion that it would nut be prudent to declare a higher dividend than six per cent. upon the resent occasion, which would leave a surplus of 25,121. Is., to be added to the former reserve, making the total amount of the reserve fund 59,7771. 9s. Gd. The directors feel that with a reserve fund of this amount, the c mpany would be placed in a highly satisfactory position, al regards future dividends; tor, although the present year has commenced with much mere cheering prospects than might have been anticipated, expe rience shows that it would not be wise to be unprepared for adverse changes." It appears from their minute book that this report was laid before the board, for the Gist time, on the day on which it is dated, and that it had previously been printed. It was then apprned of, and ordered to be issued. The directors presentiwere Mr. Hudson, Mr. Robert Davies, Mr. James Richardson, Mr. Nathaniel Plows, Mr. Charles Tee, cad Sir John Simpson. It does not appear from the minute book by whom it had been originally prepared, but the committee are informed that all such documents were usu.lly prepared by the committee of management, consisting of Mr. Hudson, Mr. Robert Davin, and Mr. James Richardson; and it appears from the minute book of the committee that they held a meeting on the Bth of February, when all the mem bers were present. The report and accounts, prepared by Mr. Canine, prove that in place of having a reserve fund of 69,7771.9 a Gd., in aid of future dividends, the company had then divided their whole earnings, t'gether with 61,1431. Gs. 3d. out' of capital above what it had earned, and that if this debt be discharged from the traffic of the succeeding half-year, ending 30th June, 1849, it will nearly swallow up the whole available earnings of that period. These document, explain the various ingenious contrivances, by which the amounts were &hand, all having the fame object In view,— to swell up the net available revenue beyond its true amount, and enable the board to pay higher dividend, than were earned. These increased dividends again enabled Mr. Hudson to realise increased profits by the tale of the shares which he took from the company, for his own benefit at higher prices than be could otherwise have obtained; and thus he bad a dap personal interest in the faleidcation of the accounts. . The contrivance', by which these objects were accom plished, were these : The half-yearly traffic accounts were overstated by 14,5521. 19i. SJ. ; capital was burdened with 31,1311. 16s. 6d., by charges which properly belonged to revenue ; accounts incurred on account of revenue were left unpaid to the extent of 59,8111. 14e. 84. • and fictitious, and otter improper entries, were made of alleged debts due to revenue, which had no existence, in fact, amounting to 16,4281. Os. Bd. These sums make up the aggregate amount of 121,9341. 10e. 3d., before•mentioned. These falsifications of accounts appear to have eommeneed during the first helf-year of the existence of the railway, and to have been systematically carried en up to the period when Mr. Muds ni resigned his office. It will be seen from Abstract No. 12, that daring the first halt-year (ending 31st December, 1844), the net balance applicable to dividend was 17,5121. 9s. Ild. ; and that it was stated in the printed accounts laid before the shareholder,, at 21,1491. Os. Bd. The dividend then paid was 8 per cent., and amounted to 18,4301. 6e. 2d. An alleged surplus of 2,7181. 14s. 64., was professedly set aside, after payment of the dividend; but, if a real surplus had been eat aside, the dividend, in place of being 8 per cent., would have been only 6.42 per cent. The system of deception thus commenced, contributed materially to enhance the price of shares, and foster specela tion' and, no dou' t, contributed, along with other causes, to the formation of new lines and branches, from the large profits which it was euppoeed would atteathem. The gra dual increase of capital expended, without a corresponding increase in the revenue, rendered it necessary, in the coarse of a few years, either to reduce the dividend' very materially, or to increase the amount of the falsifications Ina corresponding ratio. Unfortunately for all concerned, the latter course wee adopted, and the falsifications, on a large scale, com menced with the half year si ding 30:h June, 1847, when they amounted to 16,1181.94.91. In the halt-year ending 31st December, 1847, they amounted to 18,3361. Bs. Id. ; fu the hall-year ending 30th Julie, 1848, to 24,0931. lie. 2d. ; and in the half-year ending 31st December, 1848, to 31,6871. 10s. I Id. These sums belong to each half-year se• parstely, without bringing forward any balance ; and there fore, is order to ascertain the aisciunt of the falsifications at any given period, it will be neoesauy to add jogether the several sums belonging to the different half-years included in such period. It is necessary to explain, too, that in the accounts of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway (not then amalgamated with this company), for the year ending 30th June, 1847, there were falsifications amounting to 2,0301. 68., not included in the above sums. The whole of these sums will he found in more detail at the hot of the cor reeteet half•yearly reports, from No. 20 to No. 31. With regard to the traffic account, it will be seen that sums amounting to 14,5.521. 19s. sd. had been added for the half-year ending 31st Dec., 1848. Ot this sum, 8,4001.19 s 2d. had been added for passenger traffic, being the amount re ceived for the first week of 1849 • and 7,2191.44. 7d. to the merchandise traffic beyond what had been actually earned in that year. The instructions were sent in a letter wrifi ten by Mr. Close, by the directions of Mr. Redeem, to Mr. Allport, dated 3rd Feb., 1849, of which the following is a copy : " Private. "My dear Sir,— In order to make things pleasant, we have had to take in hat half year the first week in this. Will you be so good as to add to your quarter's statement as follows, say— Merchandise £2,156 9 3 Coal 4,980 10 6 Cattle £7,2 1 ,9 4 8 Be so good as to send MO the ascended quarter's return by an early train, as our audit begins to-morrow morning at tan o'clock." Thereturn was so altered by Mr. Allport, and sent to Mr. Close, with a letter, of which the following is a copy: " Newcastle, Feb. 5, 1849. "My dear Sir,-1 return the December quarter's account I current, with the week's traffic added, according to your I instructions. The amount added will have to be deducted from the present quarter's account, as our books are made up to the last day of each quarter, and, of enure, I cannot alter them. You must not complain when the March ac. count is sent in, as I hove no alternative but to deduct the sum, to maks our hooks balance. I am, yours faithfully, (Signed) JAM ES ALL? ORT." The whole sum added to the traffic account for the half year ending 31st Dcember, 1848, was reduced by the occi dental omission of 1,1744. 1 ls. 4d., few tolls earned in 1848, which was not ascertained till this committee made an ex amination of some of the accounts. Your committee have to state, this improper dealing with the traffic seceunt, was corrected in the amount for the quarter ending in March, 1849 ; and it does not appear there was any other instance in which the traffic receipts of the company have be, n to dealt with. (SMELT NORTH OP ENGLAND PURCHASE OP SHARES ACCOUNT. In the third report of this committee a reference was mode to the stool of this aeccuet. We append at the foot a short examination of Mr. Close, the secretary, as to the mode in which the balance-sheet on the Great North of Ragland purehaes account was made up for the February meeting la this year, and presented to the auditors, and allowed by them. Dr that account, " George Hudson and others" (words calculated to mislead), appear to be ere dit:rs to the extent of 14,0721. Ot. 3d.; but so far from this being the fact, Mr. Hudson himself was a debtor to the . y at that time on that particular account of 2= 14e.6d., for monies he bad received and used far his own purposes, and nne-halt the amount (14,5380 had been in his POSINVion since Feb. 6, 1848. The money, it will be observed, was roped i in the month of Match, 1849, soon after the appointment of the Great North of England Par chase Committee, with interest thereon. ma. CLONE, EXAMINED HT TUB OOMMITZE. Q. Did Mr. Rodeos use any of the money belonging loch s G. N of garland Purchase tecount-? A Tee ; part of toe money belonging to the Great North of England purchase was debited in error on account of payments made by Lawrence and Co., on account of Mr. Hallam which was not debited till the account, were balanced, in c 3 =evacuee of Miser, . Lawrence and Co. haring a runnin g credit at Glynn's. Q. When were these payments made so you allege in error, and what were the amounts ? 9. d A. Feb. 6,1848 i l4 £ ,638 0 0. March 1 ~ 6 60 3 6 Sept. 15 „ Oct. 13 „ Dec. 6 „ , 26 13 „ ' IJ ,I 775 0 0 .11 28 ~ ~ 30 „ Jan. 6, 1849 260 0 0 „10 „ tf 20 ~ 26,855 14 5 Q. When was the amount of 28,8551. 14e. returned ? A. It was returned, with Interest, on the let and 15th March, 1849. Q. When was this appropriation of the company's funds to Mr. Hudson's own use first dstee'ed ? A. Wten the books were balanced before the last half yearly meeting. NET IILAANINGB OP TSAR PR011 . 1 ... 3 . 1;thl tt12411, 1818, To THE SEWER ACCIDENT IN PIMLICO. VERDICT OP Till 00ROPER'S IVRY. This protracted inquiry, which wag resumed yes terday morning at the Clarendon Tavern, Kenilworth-street, was repo! ed hilly in yesterday's Express up to the hoar at which the jury adjourned for refreshment. On the return of the jury the first witness examined was Dr. Lyon l'layfair, who deposed as follows: I am chemist is the department of Woods and Forests, and have a diploma -se doctor of philosophy. At the request of the oommissionen of sewers I have examined into the cause of the recent sod dent, and I wish to state in commencing, that those of era bare no idea as to the nature of the evidence I am about to give. 1 have gone down into the trench for three somessive days, and collected specimens personally, except the sewer water, for which I sent a man 30 feet into the sewer. I saw collected bricks and mortar from the top of the sorer, and I took great care that the specimens should not have been meal apes by the atmosphere. I have also obtained a berboatoll samion of the substances found in the trench. (Ileetima predecal.) There are two layers of gas lime, and lodge the lower is a layer of earth, or clay, containing iron, the same intermixed with sand between the first and second layer. In the upper layer of gee lime gives, with water, a salines of a sulphuret, and this solution may under certain conditions produce sul phuretted hydrogen, for example, by the application of car bonic acid sad gas water. The lower stratum of lime con tained nothing which would ergot* sulpharetted hydrogen. It contained a mall quantity of cyanic, the substance that produces prussic arid. I next sought for symptoms of porno lotion, and I found first, on mixing the earths with water, that there was no soluble eulphuvet in the lower stratum, bat I found evidence in it of • percolation downwards from the upper layer. I observed that immediately under the upper layer of gas lime, the clayey earth was exceedingly black, growing lees black as it descended, and that this blackness was owing to the promos of sulpboret of iron, which the soluble sulphuret had ionaed by acting oa the iron in the day. By digesting these blink portions in as acid, Mandan.* of sulphurets of hydrogen were pro dead, much more hem the uppa porticos than beneath. The acid used was saurian said. I then mandaed the I clayey earth immediately on the top of the sewer. In some places I found small quantities of the sulphuret; in others nose at all. I then thought that the noxious properties of the sklphuret had been destroyed by the iron in the clay ; and accordingly I took some of the sewer water, and filtered it through • portion of the upper bed of clay. The reindt I obtained was this : It cutlass • large of the sulphurs.l that took the same poetics and Mt it through • portion of the lower bed of clay, and I hand that it was wholly deprived of its sulphurst, the whole being takes up ia the earth. I then pat some of the mortar with which the bricks were joined over the sewer into sewage water, and it became green. If, then, the sulphuret had ease from the lime above it would have left a green, or, perhaps, a bleak stain. I then carefully examined the aortae to see if this green colour was produced there, sad I did not find the slightest — tree of it. I put it to this further test : If the cythogen composed bad filtered through I should have found it in the sanar. I examined portions of the sewage water, neither could I And any traces of cyanogen. I had thee evidence that there was percedatioa of sulphunit from the sew layer of gas lime, and also that it was arrested b the lees in the earth. Further, that it could not pass through the lower layer of earth next the sewer, but was all taken up. Again, that the motor of the sewer was not coloured, sad that the compounds of eyeaogen could not be found in the sewer. My conclusion from these premises le, that the me lime bed nothing to do with the sulpinnet is the sewer. To be elemieally comet, there was as WeMed hydra gas is the sewer ; but then was hyohoas shwa orimink. The &Owl idea that the gas lime had cared the wee very feasible, but minute chemical evident, proves 's :it have been ill founded. If you will allow me I will state what I onside/ to have been the cause of death. That 'ewer, which was, in tad, no sewer, but ea elongated Cesspool, took all the refuse night-soil and effete matter of three bosses which is two years would have discharged into the sewer 16,3 pounds of animal excrement. making • quantity quite suth meet, of hydro-sulphate of ammonia, to produce instant death to any human being who should venture into the sewer. My decided opinion is, that the gas-lime had ankles whatever to do with the deaths of the men. There was aufßedest canes La the sewer without the lime to destroy the whole spiamiesion et sewers with all its officers. (Laughter.) I also examined the places with • view of rentaiaing if any hydrogen bad permeated upwards, so as to affect the beelit of the district, and found no Ina. With raped to future ventilation, I think that with some expose the sewers of all large towns might be ventilated. The slain of ventilation must be the carry. ing of a stream of fresh air through the sewer. The sewage vapour to be 1111110ii01111 011 mixing with the atmo sphere must have heated to a' high temperature which would destroy the ponce. Dr. layfar, in con duits, stated that he had received every amistaace from the emantheion of sewers, and that his lamidgation was per =riZtTie Wormed professor wee highly compli ery en the clear and eatiehersey charade/ of his miaow. He added that he would lot advise the me of gm lime as a material for plods; ever sewers. In answer to Mr. Hopwood, There was iron in most slays. If the lime had penetrated through the mortar it would have formed sulphate of cal aura, sad thence, oa dropping into the sewer, sulphate of MENSAL Jobs Ward was then celled, and proved the identity of the plisse of lime and the sewage water used by Dr. Play fair is his experiments, and that which he (Ward) had taken from the sewer. Mr. Phillips, surveyor to the Court of Sewers, was recalled sod maiden% M some length by Mt. Hopsood—The object baths to obtain ea eillaissisa that the *ewer is Kenilworth street received ea man areastity of sewage in *eschew of she =tare of the eimelredisa of in anion with the War wick-Meet rawer. The whams said it was possible. He did not know. He was still donation that the gee lime had mused the deaths. In &sewer to the brew of the jury, Yr. Phillips stated that the whole of the Mahaj it the Weald had Nam en trusted to Yr. Lovlek. "Livie — k - r;Ceils7l by the broom if the jary, sad ma saiwed—l lam lad the whole if the leskiag operatic= of Leaden wader my metre& Mem her Oleo year. I did est lower, whim eatertai din, that them were mews of Itaehlog the diemia fa the Onemace Camel. Then an mimed %shift the MINIM We hive tried the melte/Mai Swain pia I Shish it impeedllie to flesh enter without _set Ths dinner, in commenting to sum up the addaxes, Seek meads§ to semplimana the jury on the exemplary times end iskilisense ther ta kad exhidted through that meet panful prehowled airy. Connolly es no nos demo withia the whole mope lue professional experisase, bad hr ieolliss leen man severely tried than they had bola he lidding the maul with which their t lamed =illiwwe seameelsd. The all recollect pmfulal vide OM the how j ar Wells, a aestivate& who wily lost his life fa ads sera to save Ws fallow orealenres. • They then reemassi to the how ia which were dlllKiat. mid menial, a more awful eight he wen wham* Orlin Mem bodies of form MU in sh e pose dm*, all of wham bad been prematurely cor ilasebg tie sense unhappy catastrophe. Three of those kiln errs laboaren, and the fourth a noble young man, a polimmas, who ba dly rushed into the very Jaws of death in the 1111ffiel of humanity. It had come recently to lie (the ooreases) knowledge that the Lie of that untortaame yonag my bad been se nomplery a s hi e a m * was sable, end that he had been fa het the soh sapped of an seed seethes. Them maid sot be a better 0710 Cr 04100 Asa the pelmet for setting those facts before the public. The wrong than remosied to rocapinslan the facts of the awe, which have already been fully given ia the evidence. In commenting on the evidence of Mr. Phillips, be observed that it appeared that the Mien in question had been built strictly in accordance with the 30nt JUNE, 1849. In the third report of the committee was inserted a state ment of the revenue, expenditure, and nit available earn ings of the company for the yew 1848, based on the assump tion that the amount of capital on which the board of directors paid dividend was correct; and the result showed that a dividend, at the rate of 6.827 per cent., was earned on that hypothesis, but the following explanation was added : "It will be obvious, from the foregoing statement, that if the n t profits really earned had been divided by the board of directors half-yearly, the dividend for the first half ye ar on the smaller cal i-al woull have been more ; anti the dividend for the last half.year on the larger capital would have been less than the above average dividend of 6.527 per cent. It will be equally , obvious that the dividend for the year 1819, supposing the net profits to be the same as in 1848, would be considerably lege than the above averag e o f 6.827 per cent., because the capital entitled to divi tend from re venue this veer will be much larger than the average capital which received dividend from last year. By punting the plan adopted in the account referred to, but leaving out the first bait-year of 1848, when the capital was small, and substituting the first half-yeu of 1849, when the capital was considerably increased, it appears that the net available earnings of that year (from 30th June, 1818, to 30th June, 1849), after defraying working expenses, rents, interest, and liabilities of every kind, was 164,1011. Is 61.; and four per cent. on the capital entitled to dividend during the same period, would amount to 164,4101. AnNINCIS OE THE HALM-YEAR ENDING 30TH PINE, 1849. It appears, from the accounts of the half-year ending 30th June, 1849, that after defraying all expeneee, of what ever kind, end all rents and interest procerly belonging to the same period, the net available earnings amount to 69,1111. 19s. 10d. The share capital entitled to dividend daring the game period, amounted to 4,332,7701.(5upp05ins all the calls in wear to have been paid), on which a din dead at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum would be 70,4071. 10s. This capital dugs not include the last call of 61. per share on the Extension Snares, bscatoe the interest on it was paid out of capital, pursuant to the resolution of the general meeting of proprietors; nor does it include dividend on the 3)0,0001. borrowed from the Great North of England purchase account. These two sumo, however, do not exceed the amount of unproductive capital during the Mlle perinl, taking into account the large unproduc tive balance at the credit of the company in their banking account. WOREING EXPENSES. Great care has been taken to menu* the exact amount of the working and other expenses during the last year, in cluding government duty on passengers, and local rates and taxes, the nations items of which will be found detailed in the corrected accounN. It appears that the total arose revenue of tke company, for the year, from 30th June, 1818, to 30th June, 1549, was 664,2721. ; and that the working and other expenses (including the rates and taxes above mentioned), amounted to 280,9711, being at the rate of forty-two and one-third per cent. of the groin revenue. QUESTION RESPECTING DIVIDEND PUN THE HALF-TEAS. The committee have given their most earnest attention to the Question whether a dividend should be paid out of the earnings of last half-year, and they have found it to be encom passed with great difficulties. Various suggestions have been made to them by shareholders having a deep interest in the welfare of the company, and those suggestions have been considered with ell the attention which the importer ce of the subject demand,. Many parties have proposed that the over payments on account of dividend during former years, should be met by deducting one sixth pert of the same from the dividends payable, during an equal number of half-years, commencing with the one now under consideration. A smaller number have proposed that the over payment. 'should at onoe be platted to the debit of capital. Others have urged that both on grounds of principle, as well as of sound policy, as it affects the value of the company's stock, the over payments should be met at once out of the earnings of the last half-year, which would leave a reserve fund of 7,9681. 134.7 d. to be carried forward, as stated in Mr. Cottam'e report. The committee have felt constrained, although with much reluetance--hav ing regard to the hardship which such • Inane must entail on ninny shareholders—to recommend that the last mentioned course should be followed. They have no doubt that the suggestion first mentioned would have advantages ►s regards the present convenience of a large body of shareholders but they feel satisfied that as regards their permanent interests, the injury can. d by such a course would more than over-balance the present advantages. The reduction of the future dividend, by a fixed per tentage dur ing several years, would be looked upon nearly in the same light as • permanent reduction, ant consequently would have the effect of reducing the market value of the stock in nearly the same proportion. Upon the whole, the commit tee are of opinion that the most "death's mane would be to pay off the whole sum at once, and to carry the balance to the credit of • fund of 24,1371., agreed to be set apart on the 31st of December next, fur the replacement of the perma nent way, in terms of their third report. Having thus stated their opinion, the committee leave the natter in the hands of the shareholders, disposed most willingly to acquieeee in whatever resolution they may come to on the subject. PRESENT PIHANCIIL POSITION OP THE CUIdi•ANY. It is satiefletory to the committee to be enabled to state that any difficulty to sparing money st present, with which to pay a dividend, formed no part of thej; reasons for recom mending that none should be paid. On the contrary, the fund. now at the command of the board would enable them to employ a much larger sum, if necessity required it; and the calls new in ureter, which are in coure of settlement, amount to 120,8341. The payment of these will be enforced, in accordance with the resolution of the general meeting of shareholders, before any ,new call shall be made. Those aaaaa re, when paid, together with the sum now at the cemented of the hoard, will suffice to pay all the claims on the company for several months to mime. and to finish all the work. now ic progress. Tne company have, likewise, power to raise debenture capital to a large amount, as explained in the third report of the committee, in addition to their power to make further calls. ROOKS KEPT AT NEWCASTLE. Nearly the whole business of the company is in reality transacted at Newcastle, end consequently the primary books of the company are kept there. The results are transmitted to York, in quarterly statements, which are balanced at the close of each half-year. The books kept at York have all been examined by Mr. Cotten., and the re sult of his examination is explained in his report and accom panying statements. The books kept at Newcastle are exceedingly voluminous, and would require a very long time to have them ell tho- roughly examined by an accountant. In order to save time, however, Mr. Cottam's examination was restricted, by desire of the committee, to such books and accounts as were neces sary to authenticate his balances, leaving by far the greater number of them unexamined. The inquiries made by this committee into the state of accounts kept at Newcastle, proved that, in one department there are deficiencies exceeding 1,0001., of which the Com mittee have not been able to obtain any satisfactory expla nation. These books never having been examined by the former board of directors or their audits,,, the whole subject ought to have the immediate attention of the new board. GREAT NORTH OP ENGLAND ARRANGEMENT. In pursuance of a resolution, passed at the adjourned meet ing, held on the 23rd August last, your committee have met the board of directors of the Great North of England Com paq I, and proposed to them a settlement of the Great North of England purchase question, in the terms of your commit- tees' third report, viz., the postponement of the time of pay ment of the purchase money of that railway for a period of six years, from the lit July, 1850, this company securing to the* such payment at that time, with interest at four per cent. in the meantime. The Great North of England board had, of course, no autho rity to conclude any arrangement with your coma itne ; it being distinctly understood on both sides that what passed at the meeting should not be used to the prejudice of either, la the event of the companies not coming to any arrange. meat, the whole subject was discussed with freedom, and various modes of carrying out in practice the pri nc iple of settlement suggested by your committee were considered. As the result it was arranged that the Great Notch of Englaud directors should consult some of their large shareholders ; and a meeting of proprietors of that company was held in London, the result of which was the following proposition on the part of that company, communicated through the chairman, viz :—That one-third of the purchase-money should be paid on the Ist July next ; one other third by debentures, payable in three years from that date ; and the remaining third payable in five years, the debentures to bear interest at four and a half per cent. per anuum until payment. The shareholders will not fail te observe the great differ ence between those terms and the proposition made on the part of this company; and the committee can have no hesitation in advising the shareholders not to secede to sash terms, as it would be equivalent to a large increase on the rent at present paid by this company. Your eummittee consider the terms proposed by this company, and the legislative means by which they offered to secure them, and to remove all legal doubts which may exist reept moo the agreement, to be highly advantagectu to the Great North of England proprietors; and they entertain the belief that the general body of shareholders in that com pany are dec daily favorable to such a principle of settlement. Your committee, therefore, recommend that the power which was vested in them, of negotiating with the Great North of England Company, be now transferred to the new board of di re ctors ; and, as the time is near at hand when notice must be given of any &pp:leaflet intended to be made to parliament in the next ,ession, and the expense of such a notice is trivial, your committe e further recommend that the necessary notice of such au application be given forthwith, rA . s .1 , -tr `~~`~ ~~~~_~% ,