The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

THE sOUFACTURING DISTRICTS. (hoe Os Deep lio. Deo. 28. o or C o mmercial AwlisliatiOW was yeast isoossiog disclaim witit „,,, „ s ki ....Omaha' sod Tribunals of Clow sooshnia was bee hoes lawaumeatei hewing *el Caboose' at lieeepeol. TOD Atelier Ai,. W hit *este all the ahead+ of the AseeelalW fra &be te the ezraiesey el Actin •a aale r is 1111e:awith the Chamber of thelOseee. he isaviatits of liandhsatee. it nay be wog of pen nave, ft .h =eal of eintowlif—Uklird the a Commons, Lll lll i obse la a bay maw yeara ere seemeassos o g ;• • • • oosesse of a rhtlesl i same ening eat et the free Ma wens y everiaresed aad basked by PiAo si gi r s ige. Levi. now that the snot d separation Of wok ogspien that bygones should be Ingesoo, 010/ 11 ree sate. He contends that they valet gee good se • dale body—that their repro. l' e _-_.„.„ 1111• I. = ogee rater weight in support of ay eon sogiseeibedi with parliament awl with gave tamest, Omagh balers them as repeeseatative of the omaniircial w ool of the wools teem saber than if • o a n OM Be tanned that whilst divided ant only have wros sestioas less weieht wi th goveraneat and the aor , ban two intaans the efforts of the one bsdy au j.. hoe a neutralising ',Met epos Uses of the g oo Thee sewed object of lir. Len's interview with the s wedes had ref r. oce to the establishment of • better toMier estamereisl ststieties, and he pointed out to theta • l oaf •licb much valuable informalioa sight no set ammo: wit h ou t the aid of per tart mos. es suggested that the various caraNaor• seesations sad climate of commerce thrash oetie coenuy should cooperate as ime mesas to Ws oat, O dor esti shd f inere d ta the oth ect on whisk is ers tee stalled. of Mt lowa , A ar e rsting subj seat owl dee &mimeos of ins dir.con of the association eras offesties of nitwit , ' bearing up on commerce in the this country. lle had propounded swab of his t i rthie question in his pamphlet, la which he had agog that pew ut the 556010 C ninkettial inassares of the g ag/ were indeserisioately brought the by toe m os Leto of the Trasury or the Chancellor • ske Each/quer. He suggested tee Ingestion d s body of seen more competent to dad with snot, sea . wpm sad to iaiti iv them, mom their practical acquaint s* with sematernt Upon this subject be suggested a I odd. SS the legislature showily, that though intim dual isterris sot Santry are the best promoters of commerce, . idoups occcial legialatioe and eolitical economy have a rginieshis trains* on its advenceen . .nt and prosperity; Seth the framing of commercial euactmentein r. weeks ordeals' b ra nches of trade, it sh -, e l d be • matter of pal ▪ eavesidentiin how each of thint mty be directly or to anny dieted by any measure, so that the gotten c romegs may be cone teal; that at present the commas , thykoruater or the executive is, from a variety of causes, gams in practical knowledge and experience in matters a ll ege ; sad that the want of • better intrumentality in siaarresal legislation to wry out practical =wares of seoscent Swarms"' to commerce is catty experienced teas these euntastances he ma , sted that the prayer of feereduot siould be to consider • hetticr a representation dolio sat es; see, deputed from the various chantons of am pas, to forms standing °amities in the Board of Trade Misr die es p e rintiendents of the ministerial el dest pi he se ropey of isidating and nomoung sat comminicating the views of th eir respective ar , would not supply the present deficiency. Mr. moposidmat this peat ion should also cell dim leps.sture to U. evils that unavoidably cult from fils roost isuatioa of commerciol laws in tbe Nun Pfes Coarta lie contends that the six-monthly as • are insinuate to the wants of commerce ; Oa the lung h of procedure, the coat of i egesettp, the capttous arguments maenad to, ▪ th e prolixity and sate ot legal pleading act in • Blot opposii n to the prisetples of justice and equity which irs the hash of commercial traneacoots. As a Fount of iedki-hey art the pretest tribestals In moments to the kuuw• kip requisite for urytag questions appertainug to trade, Li Wows the tact, that meal et oar comoserctal disputes, disr having been submitted to the adjudication of law mam mies see fri qaently renrnd to arbitivors more conversant with sick matters. Referring to Lard Brougham's motion, Miummely adopted of the 'Louie of Commons In Ilia, toe =clam to the crown, to take niewares fur ceasing le aky mss the origin, procrese, and termination of actions ha awns courts of cowmen law, and into the lass awl* tie Messier of real properly, be thought they men shore particularly reef in ibis petition to the waggon- Iss " tkat tie great mesa of eLorteniog litigation are to us Mad la ea e , largess's of our low at arbitrament," and tlia wasp spun it 'Aerators (bring commercial seen) Amid be 'pp .iate.l in commercial towns with • legal tour es a resident, sithet appointed or approved of by at. W o re whom parties themselves might, W tint place, state their grounds of Wisdom, and be head by the decision st seen mensal. (to be ea.itled Tribuseals of Commerce") th em e that seen c eirt stotaki essetastly be nd tithe the platy of Price Cowie lass mature relating to issitenial Input. s. Tie members of Ow association ®tees test Is end to Mt. Leese Levi's vainest' with Nalbeil Meaty, and with a new to eliciting more fully his views ea we dillenat points, pat questions to him, and entered Ito tdoesusa with ban. Or course they dtd not pledge diesel's to tales say sewn upon the points suggested, let toy fromited to give tull ocesideric ion to them. With ▪ nor to promoting the commernel reforms he has I slew, it is understood Mr. Leone Levi is en gird is an trent,. corremondeay with • vice, to worteising the modes of admiabtering cowrie' , fed laws us fun tga countries; aad kas already obtained lame t e medium ot • r. erectable conenseresi how it, losepail, a toil of the laws at the Tribunal of Callaisfer ■ Hamburg, sea of the a muse reial code of Napoleon, which be a about to puhlieh in a week to which he i as obtained the asses Mit "lading houses hem as subscribers. La seen is to be made in llaachestez between now and seeticg of parliament to obtain a reduction of the ti TM Commteciel Arsociatioe, withoot joining mate Muer sent, is sio Stealing to aid it. The su eet Ins tan suer dietaries at the last three meetings, sod Ivy rritos to petition parliament, and also to sets hatatises ti Lsidos, wi , h the view of pressure its setter span the ministry. The our-door mum Yet is to be conducted with some spirit, and as m raisint of the seal with which they take it up, sentsi redeem. have put their names diva for tab sonetwas of each, towards may tapes es that say b• in eamd. It is sot proposed to oak for • reduction of arlilling. wan gives sew but to urge a renuction to the greater USW pessibis, insistent with the financial position of the wry. Livirpol sad other large towns are espeet . .d to smash with Meachetter on the subject. The larlea sad Norte Winders Compsny are pressing for etell dais to the pretest Mode of railway ratinr *WSW hyl e e s :a gs rishes and towaships through which their Wens ; sad our borough Court V Quarter Sessions has been alarra ibis Stomas in trying an appeal against the rate bet s hapeed by the overseers of Illsataiestor upon that Pr is their lire called the Masethester ant South Amellinlbillway—a rate amounting, aosordiag to the a Ti an= Mines* at the hearing befois the magistrates, to Iluddllarsee dna the income which the company *elm waft ovar tit, line. Th. case had not been pup aft rho of despatchiug sty letter by the FLoaDS AT YARMOUTH. LOWS/TOR, &C.—A cer rem re says The spring tree, with the wind blow i4 'heavy gin from the N.W , Mee hid under weer rue pa - of the towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft with inch o f the surrounding country. Tore is seareely a Men het nu the lower rooms filoded. TM Yannontk Roads are a eted with snipping, tney having put in throuak stress or mother—tke kavea is also tilled with muss* the water Bawler over the quay. Soak Town. on the Suffolk side, win Gorle.'on rarob, is also under wit. r. The market place m Oren! Yana , uth, the north and math quay., •he D 41.0, sal meet of the Berra inspirable. The trains eoulil ate pe , d h !nod Reedhami to-dat (nine miles from Tar mnaU.l, they I seine to return to Norwich with their pie. Intro the rids being completely under water. From Barham to Lowestoft the same, the trains not being able %Pr 40t41. While writing this it has been announced that the Ridge at Ilistind bad gone, having been washed from Anon tier eorrespoldent writes on the 28th MAN Taws*: Toe Cockle light vessel (revolving) dragged her Sawing, tat night, and now lies about half a mile to the lov %heard of her proper station. The Adam Clarke , of =witch • paned from two anchors this afternoon, and went "e;t. , tM ..t/Award. The tilers the b. aeh this morning Vii h;letw thee Mehra known for many yaws, and carried sway ialny yells of the cliff. GLUT COAT! o e FCALOI/011.—At this inclement hla .11 of the year, the only one daring which furloughs are Ifittal to veletas, it strkee us as a peculiar and antlers. eery hardship hat they are not in many regiments allowed is t.kc their rem coats with them. In the protrame4 and tea s. ,r i . ;". P•tvages from different parts of Ragland and We Midler (generally a deck parellW) is exposed is a tine rod jaeket to the wintry blast and rain, a privation rheum to the sailor, who I. always well protected in a l'"i'unt. The seed of consumption and of other disorder se'r quenily hid by this in the young soldier, and (to say "'ming of ham i nity) the trifling sa ving of the great Goat's wen and bar to the Ordnance, to whom it belongs, is more Wan num rbalanced by the for to the service in enlisting a rent to nplace the man whose health may have beeo r 1"" d, ts tbcse stated. We think also, that in our humid them , where, in toe Emersld Isle particularly, rain falls without e. billion for several da the soldiers should be per- • 11. compelled to wear their great roils when off ' 4 1Ity an Est, out n 1 berreeks.— United Service Casette. As Esra.imn PiLonix.—The Southampton steamer writi ro, which arrived at Havre on Sunday we. k, MM na hoard a well-dressed person, who attracted attention, "i'•g t. his being without shoes or stockings._ It was, he 4 2:1. hi- ' , lonia' to go in that way on a pilgrimage t o the P eas It me to fulfil a vow and obtain indulgence. lilt FIRS AT BELT/21.—It t e ees us great pleasure p i s 1. •laswe do from the best au rity, that the extensive sad d structive fire at Meier. Ward's w a rehouse, at Helper, woof h•ii interrupt their buglers, the whole of which will he twee owl as heretofore. The stock was insured for 25,0001., the ' 4o4 ings far 3,5001. The surveyor of the Norwich Viio's Office was at &leer on Thursday, and agreed to pay tio amount of its insurance upon the stock ; the settlement wr h regard to the buildings is traiied until an estima's 'Men undo. W e have authority for saying that the Ines o, roe tier. over and above the insurance will he 71 0004 . - 44 theyhant AVreury. &yid on d.etory. kat after prsiest of the ;Ti% par 1. it 7 whist' too oonft to ((cord noon's* .11 &Ws and )11Sidera IfUln the I nietencer vi report ir on the °seen in ouveying be society period Of /sprier prove, ►e wig 01 in alines sting, the tram as of this is . togeth er fiber report L varpool. urns of t•i• pi praising .aufasauda- I • "V s , Wongm= rate of the 17 ad.:ed ‘ 4 ) • for a kw sad thy% ea ea ctitada to oil* • tour ea tha cangatille metedwoe t and alar aftm wit h to WWI its in tha ,se of thill Lte. were WV RAILWAY RFMTING. DUNDEE Alf D ARBROATH. Os Wedseeday a aposial ad essetiag of As elms holden the Dundee aid A Railmy Compaq was bold within the Thistheltall, kr the purpose of re esiviag aad disposing of the report ef the committee appeiated at the general meeting of 10th November last; anal Aso of oemeildering notion given by the Dudes sad Perth mad Aberdeen Itsileray Jesuitic. Ct.mpany, of bills to be brought data peolimest duistg the misuse meet.., with Muses for tame Of emedillestiou betimes the two camps/dm The at lemdeataimes assume. Wm. Cism e But , Duties, me of the direstres of the tom gas,. wee sailed to the shale. ORORGR KINLOCH, Boa., of Kinloch, brought for med the report cot doe mamittee, a copy of which bad been Moat to evay shareholder. The report stated that the opialoa of onamil had been tales ea the &gramma% far a Imo entered into is 1846 be tween thee compasy sad the Dosage and Perth Railway • ampeay, la wilco the latter 'company agreed to lease the Dude' sad Arbroath Railway kw • term of years which the seoseel coseidend valid ad obligatory cm both comies. As alteration el the terms of the lease was permed ti the Daisies and Perth Company, sad counsel recommeeded that power to carry through the alterst on should be obtained from parliament, me As quads. night give Me to much litigation. 'rats advice the ammittee were of opiaioa should be followed, mod that the sbarekolden should soscur with the leasing conspuy Is obtaining from parliameat the necessary authority to enter into the prepeeed modifies tiun of the terms of the agreement; provided the set to be obtained shall contain clams for giving your anapest, suffi cient security fur maintaining the line; and for creating • proper based for that purpose; and also clauses for sowing, es for as ;gamble, the prompt and full p.ayament of the guaranteed dividend; all the necessary detaiis to be arranged to the satisfaction of • committee to be appointed fur that p Alter a ti = convenatiou between Mr. Kialor.h and Robert Mora.. Bp , &dumb', Rdiaburgh, r is the report baling been issued wit bunt so opportunil being sfforded to Mr. Horse and another ,ember of committee who were opposed to it, of stating their vi we to the shareholders, • circumstance which was explained to have occurred through a slight intoundentanding as to the calling of the meeting for the approval of the report. Mr. Klif LOCK moved that the report of the eat mittee he adopted, subject to certain modifications. He pre posed that a committee should be appointed to revise the arrangements proposed between the two companies, under the contemplated modificatioo ; and that they should take WO that clams s sutticiently stringent as to the IllaillttlMlCO of the line and plant, and the payment of the dividend, be inserted in any ant of parliament to be applied for ; and that the clams, when approved of by the committee, should Mo be submitted to a special inutinar of the share. holden ; that the arrangement for a modification should be entirely contingent on their approval of the clausi ; ad that, moreover, payment at the rate of if per cent. be exacted from the Perth line, not only for toe put half•year, bat also up to the time when the imputed modification shall be motioned by parliament. Dr. RRID, of Karkaldy, seconded the resolution. Mr CAREL said, so far as he was aware, every one of the directors concurred in the amasser nta proposed by the committee. Mr. HORNS said, that although a member of committee and although Ith Lselpearrescy attrition In his power to the su'ject, he had not seta wealth rot meson advanced for agreeing to the modified tames. He was not, like Mr. Kin loch, almost • nominal shareholder, but held 200 shares rot the original stock, and 200 of the 01 s- third new share'. Ett ina, therefore, • lugs interest in the company ; and as be held no shares in any other eailway,his desire to see this one prosperous was not interfered with by any other feeling. The light in which the question presented itself to him was a very simple one. Is the teeing oompany solvent or is it nut ? If it I. • solvent company, he considered they were quite entitled to demand that the solemn agreement, eat,fled by parliament, and on the faith of which large iiinatments Abuuld be made, should he strictly enforced. (H.ar, and applause.) If the Perth Company is not estunt, and not able to fulfil the agreement, thee be ooasiderel it would be a very i,judieious thing to go into a new agreement with them, and one, which from any thing that appears on the face of the committee's report, hey may be as uneble to fulfil as they were the previous one. Mr. Horn* concluded by sieving two noolutions, in accord '.nee with his remarks, as an amendment on Mr. Kinks:lea resolution. The CHAIRMAN said, he wee in some respects similarly situated with Mr. Hume, al hough not to the same extent. He held forty shares of the original stock and forty of the new one-third shares. He had neither bought nor sold. He wee fist • partner of the Dundee and Perth, or any railway th came in contact with the Dundee and Arbroath. Mr. Horne's statement et 24,0001. of traffic returas for the year, although correctly quoted from the printed document, war 700,. more than was rewind, the sum received for the mails having been 7001. less then was anticipated. After some discussion • division took place, when the chairman declared that 3d had vat. d tor the amendment, and 20 for the motion. A scrutiny was then demanded, ware the teliess (Messrs. Ellice and Kinlich) reported that thus were 163 shares in favour of the amendment, and 227 for the proposed modification—the amendment being cuseequestle earned. Ante making the necessary arrangements the meeting then broke up, leaving set for nearly four hours. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTI GATION -CoroLumw.) 4011111111.111 1 1 WIWI Malts coieraithe antics nave NOT Nat SaNCTIONID NY PAKLIANIINT. Scanlan CANTIAL.—By en arranges or, dated January 3, 1849, between the Lowden and North Wectere, the Lin crater and Carlisle, and the Caledonian Railway Compeniee, on the first part, and the Scottish Central Company on the second pen, it was agreed that the first parties should pro s ite plant and work the Scottish Central traffic. The ea:a le- are No be el pardolesepayment of balance of annual burdens thereinbefore specified. 2. In pay ment halt .y ea fly to the Seer tie h Central Cum. pany of 35,7001. 3. In working expenses dis bursed by the parties of tke first pert. 4. In p.yment to them of their proportioix of tolls for through traffic. 6. Balance to be divided in equal moieties — one moury to the Scottish Central, and the other moiety to tar s uioern companies. And there is a provision to this ff. et " that if the Scottish C. ntral Company shall refuse to alter tolls atter being required to do so by the southern compantee, the letter may determine the contract on the .11-t January or 31st of July thereafter. The contract was to endure for 25 years, unless the railway be sooner leased by or amalgamated with the southern companies. This eereenkat has been in operation since the date of it, sad the effect of it upon the Caledonian Company is, that for the first half year their propoei ion of loss amounts to 14.1491., or near 6,0001. more than the satire tn.& The nth and 9:h Victoria, cap. 96, restrains companies Rem making a sale, lease, or other transfer of any railways, ex cept under the provisions of some act of parliament. D .übts have been entertained as to the validity of the above agree ment, and the way in which it is drawn shows that the framers of it studied how they might bast elude the previ sions of that act. Before the directors executed the agree ment they consulted some of the mat eminent lawyers*. the &Adak bar, who advised that the directors had kept within the powers conferred on the respective companies by the general and special nets. But without reference to the eafidity of the agreement it is very clear, that at the time it was attend into all parties were under very erroneous im mune's. as to the value of the prospective traffic of the line, and a he result has been so very much below the estimates that the Caledonian Com: any are fairly entitled to have the terms considerably modified, or to be allowed to extricate themselves from it ; and for this purpose the bill for leasing the saws should be opposed in perliament. In the meantime the Scottish Central C Anpan7 are justly eutitled to every peen hie tacility and accommodation for the working cf their traffic Mania AND Plarli,—Then are two agreements of the same date, one as respects the Dundee and Perth, and the other the Dundee and Arbroath companies. By the first, the Caledonian guarantees to the Dundee and Perth 8 per cant. on • capital of 430,0001., being 36,0001 ; end hy the second, a similar rate of dividend to the Dundee and Ar broath, _on a capital of 266,6661. 13sand, in addition, the Caledonian compsay to work t h e lines and the Nowtyle branch, and the whole of the plant was to be assigned to them. The Caledonian company have paid the Dundee and Perth company 69,0001. on account of plant ; bat the D u ndee company refuse to deliver the plant, and say they hold the money as security for the performance of the epee went. Counsel have advised the Caledonian company that they would not be warranted in paying the sum claimed, at of eadertaking the duty or expense ef working the Dundee and Perth line under these contracts. At the same time, the Dundee and Perth company are adrenal that both companies an bound to Jo to parliament for a lease. The Caledonian company, at the present rated traffic, would suffer a loss of about 40,0001. per annum by this cooped ; acd the commit tee are therefore of opinion that the agrment is invalid, and strongly recommend that the bill to b e introdund into parliament be opposed. The report gain plowed/ : Allowing for the extravagant opinions of railway strain universally held at the time these agreements and leases were entered into, and admitting to the fullest extent a license for directors to eared occasion illy th. ir strict literal powers, still the committee are compelled to declare that the conduct of the directors with respect to these guarantee', indicates a want of judgment and diem.- non. They mere from the commencement beset with diffi culties requiring the vastest prudence and caution in their management; yet with a capital barely sufficient for the original g, their over-zeal induced them to em bark in schemes and speculations to an eatent seriously com promising the safety of the company; and under such deli pions were they as to prospective tnffia on the guaranteed lines that the chairman, by a circular dated the 3rd Novem ber, 1848. ventured to assure the shareholders that an add' tion of 7921. par week of revenue would secure them a divi dend of 4 per cent. The receipts on these lines have fallen BO far short of all the estimates as he lead to the conclusion that the directors had tither acted upon very inaccurate in formation, or were indifferent as to the profit of the shun. holders. The small stake they hold in the undertaking gives a colour to the impression of their nine being i n . different as to its profile. There are mem bers of the board, who, in December, 1848, bald 1,633 shares, but in the same month, in 1848, they held only 2,56 shares, and few of them have mammon than a qua lification for their ants. Much stress has been laid upon the tact of the London and North Western Company holding • large interest in this company, and the advantagesand of the e conn ection have frequently been expatiated upon, due weight with tho shareholders. It is much to be regrAted that they did, not ass their inflames in eentiaing the THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1849. =agate et the Cana=lea amnia, within reasesalile It kr, however, to be observed that their policy was approved at the time by the engineer' and abs by the tharehelden. Is elmeladbm their obesevatiens upon this breath of the lewdly the eamaires mawram their deliberate senvisties that the Meet the reek depends natal ally epos a redustise being 7 1 &21 in the toms of the guarantee sad ether preferable claims ; tsr if they are sus tained the whale ~Maas of the limes will sot be maffident te &they them: sod all parties etteeseaed will be involved ID forieri litigation sad lass. Susi Puitcatheas.—The hada of the sempany have Is. employed by the directors in purchasing shares In ether companies to the ratan of 37,744 shame, upon which 407,1141. Es. bed. was paid, which, with interest, arrears, in• tenet span emus, and same not yet called up, amount to a total outlay and liability of 1,011,2511. ea. 4d. Alter giviag a detailed aceeset of there trananitioes the eammittee state that the 'lmolai embarrassments of the sesepany are really owlog to the appropriation et so large a portion of its funds to purposes not contemplated by the act; but with respect to the liondffele of these share transactions the com mittee believe that they ware entered into by the directors bend Me fee eervies the interest of the oompany, and not for their own personal advantage, and that they ha d derived no benefit whatever from the transactions. The committee consider that those pushier, are illegal, as against the com pany, end subject the directors to the per teal respousibil;ty thereof; and that the sum so expended might not to be allowed in the company's accounts. But to visit them with the fall penalty fir errors which appear to be more of Judg ment then intention would be uenecessuily severe; and, at the uses time, to allow them to Gneiss would be unjust to then who have ruffered from their acts, and the following compromise is thereby* preposed : that, under the autho rity of se act of parliament the dieters= shall retire, and that now directors he sppointed fa then place. That certain shares be taken by elio wiwaritif e and the present and future directors be fully ease mated from the repayment of th• funds eseeeded in the purchase el them and interest thereon, and indemnified therefrom from all father calls, amounting together to 359,0271. 21. 2d, and that the present and previous expenses shell also be owe minted from the repayment of the sum of 136,9011. 3s. Id., the sum expended by them on shares in the Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ardroman,Caledonian and Dumbarton, and Dundee and Perth, and Dundee, and Arbroath, making a total, with 17,9621.145. lid.; interest thereon of 495,9281. 16s. 3d. The directors on their part shall effectually protect and indemnify the Caledonian Company from calls in arrear, interest thereon, and future calls. 27,0931 shares in the Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ards:ann. the Caledonian and Dumbarton Junction, the Dundee end Perth, and the Dards' and Ar broath, and which with the arrears and interest to be paid up, amounts to 620,9591. 19s. lid ; and, if required, the direc tors shell, at any time hereafter, transfer the whole or any part of the said shares to the Caledoaian Company, or as they shall decree. This was submitted to the directen, and they expressed their wiLingness to negotiate w ith the commit tee for the above purpose, and that they saw nothing in the proposal to p them from entertaining it. And, further, that they are willing to retire, so soon as Marla mints can be effected, which will provide for the interests of the company, and secure the directors from future litigation. A compromise will not only relieve the company from all this expense and loss, but offers an early opportunity tot having its affairs placed tend r the active and efficient ma easement of men of business habits, who, by closely attend. mg te its interests,. and guarding against the repetition of previ au errors, will impart new enereorto the undertaking and restore its credit. Oa these grounds the committee re commend a compromise to be made with the directors, that all past difiereaces should be made up, and that the entire body of shareholders should henceforth unite in striving to improve the joint property. Tea FINANCIB OF Till COMPANT.—The committee ex pected it would have been unnecessary for them to have en larged upon this branch of the inquiry having the report of Messrs. Quake, Ball, and Co. to refer to; but, in answer to an urgent desire for its completion, they state by letter, dated the 17th instant, that further time is absolutely neces sary for the due fulfilment of their instructions, and that al though the accounts of the company have been well kept in a book-keeping sense, yet they hays not been so arranged and classified as to preclude the necessity for a close examination of each head of account, in order to ascertain that it has been correctly stated with reference to its apparent import and object ; neither do the books contain all the information requisite to elucidate every question arising under the investigation. Pending their examination into the accounts, the committee prepared a statement of the capital, and the amen and liabilities of the company, which they believe to be accurate and comprehensive to show its present financial petition. ABSTILaCT OP CAPITAL AccOUNT.—RECEIPTS AND Ex- PerfUltllll DP TO JUNE 30. 1849. Expenditure 6,149,3191. 17e. 3d. Receipts 4,654,6211 lie. 9d. Belem* excess of expenditure over receipts 494,6981 ss. 6.1. In the amount et assets and liabilities there appear to be asset., in cluding the 172,6001. the company is authorised to nee by debentures ' to the amount of 510 , 6091 . 19 '. 3 d. , whilst their liabilities amount to 853,7621. 2.. W. leaving liebilities onprovided for to the extent o f 343,152/ 3s. 01d. The large amount of the floating debt and the immediate necessity of raising the requisite loan to satisfy it, pressed most upon the attention of the committee. The directors could show no other resource than a sale or pledge of the rolling stock, and for that purpose they opened ne c triations with the London and North Western Company. Altbough this subject was not properly within the scope of tar powers, the committee felt it to be its duty to interfere and prevent this disposal of the rolling stock, also patties it in the power of the directors to discharge liabilities whirl had not been examined into. But, after much end anxious deliberation, the committee egr.ed that the negoastion should be proceeded with, subject, however, to the sanction of the shareholders. The negotiation was broken off. Then were no funds. In this emergency the sh.reholders must be ceunated. The committee are of opinion, that if the doe working of the line can be effectually provided for, it might be advantageous to have it worked under a contra ct with some responsible party, and by the sole of the plant the most urgent claims might be discharged WI h this view the directors have opened a ne gotiation e ith Messrs. Bras ey and Company, and the terms offered by them for working the lines are very similar to those under which the Lancaster and Carlisle, the Scottish Midland, and several other railways are worked; at the same time they agree to advance 250,0001 at 6 per cent. interest. The terms of the contract are high. The lines could have been worked by the company for less, provided they wen la possession of the necessary funds. DZBINTUZILS.—The amount of debentures issued is within the parliamentary limits by 172,6001., but there is small excess beyond the votes of the shareholders. The report then gives copies of the several balance-sheets of the Gangway which hays issued since 1845, by which it is shows that every statement issued by the dinners after the sbarebeiden exercised their right to examine the books of the company, has been misstated. The statement dated the 31st December, 1845, the first given to the shareholders, shows a balsams of 207,6411. in favour of the company, whilst it was oily 162,9661. The last statement, dated June 30, 1848, shows a balance against the company of 337,8931., whilst the true balance sheet was 690,0491. The committee then refer to the AMALGAMATION WITH THE EDINBVIGH AND GLASGOW .ideslN upon which ihthoewydreem:tk betweent lit it theis two admitted eoin p o sai n all If, however, the amalgamation is to be carried out, the com pletion el the agreement ought to be entered span at once. SUGGISTIONB POI FUTURE MANI.OEMBET.-1. That the somber of directors be reduced to nine, so as to allow three committees for the three pyincipal departments — viz., fi nance, locomotive, and treffiC. 2. That the system of con ducting the affairs of the company by en iudependent pain manager be continued, in preference to that of paid ma fagging directors, but that the present salary of 2,000.. be re duced to one half at least when the opportunity occurs. 3. auditorsThat4.That thet tbt sys te m required apical °a ftec to l le n t p h : i rt b y e a t cl o u lth it e e d be d u ir ad s e oo c o t p o n te rs u d' e pos i lre C t l Y b m ha le t . tntiatiii. DIVIDEND.—Tbe committee have not gone into the ques tion of the propriety of paying a dividend of 3 per cent. on the ordinary stock, and the dividend on the preferable stock, in consequence of not having received Meurs. Quitter's re port (Signed) OW. Caws, Chairman, J. A. CAMPBELL, R. E SCOTT, W. WADDELL, D. CAMPBELL, C. BORTH. WICK, J. BAIRD. LITERATUBB. The Royal Phraseological English French and French. English Dienonssy. By J. C. Taaysa, French Mesta, Bum. [Dcdiested by permission to his Boyal Hiehaess Prince Albert ] 1401141011: Delete sad Co., 1846-60. We are much mistaken if this cork do net form an epoch in the study of the French language by Eng lishmen, and indeed in the general study of living l es by men not born to their use. iu rf a o g re the publication of Mr. Tarver's volumes, the important truth upon which they are based had been recognised and enounced, but it had never been syste matically and patiently worked oat in practice. This truth is a very sim le one : it is that, in order to speak a language y and idiomatically, we must an custom ourselves to cast our thoughts in the same coeventional forms as the society to which it belongs. Every nation has its own way of realising abstrac tions to the imagination, and this lends form and body to its phrases. "La maison set I gauche," says the Frenchman, simply noticing itsexistence; " the house stands on the left, says the Englishman, more pie turesquely indicating its upright position. This is a trifling example, but the principle we would illustrate by it pervades the whole of a nation's language, im parting a distinctive character to its poetical or sttentiee phraseology. In simply translating from a =We, the divining spirit of the imagination eny man of average intellect to rinder.tand the oonventional figurative expressions of foreigners; but to interchange ideas with them he requires to note and adopt their conventionalities in expressing his own thoughts. A wide experience of them, and a careful comparison of them with those in vogue in his mother-tongue, is required to give facility in this. Hitherto such experience could only be acquired by those resident in the land where the language they would master is spoken, and in constant intercourse with her natives—even by such tnly when endowed with more thanorditery quickness of perception. The great majoray of those who are called upon to express themselves in a foreign tongue have gone on content edly dressing their native logical formula in foreign words—uttering a ludicrous and often unintelligible jargon. This truth has been incidentally announced by more than one, but we know of none before Mr. Terve: who based his instruction in any language u.:cou it—certainly of none who has devoted so much acuteness and patient research to the comparative anatomy of the phraseology of two languages. The first part of Mr. Terver's work was published in 1815; the second has just apreared. This fact, however, would convey a very inadequate idea of the protracted and pains-taking study it has cost him. The dictionary lain fact the result of the labour of 30 years. In a pleasing though brief auto-biographical remini scence in the preface to the second part, Mr. Tarver states the circumstances under which the importance of his principle was forced upon him. In coming to this country to devote himself to tuition in his native language as a profession, he soon found that his long study of English, though it had enabled him to un• derstand the language thoroughly, and relish its literary refinementr, had not enabled him to speak it. His words might be Enut•sh, bat hie sentences wire French. His own difficulty suggested to him what meat be the great difficulty of his pupils; to overcome it has been his constant aim as a teacher; to produce a work that might enable all to overcome it has been his ambition as a li:erary man. Mr. Tower has taken the Dictionary of the Aca demy as the basis of his French nomenclature, adding all tne words that have acquired the right of citizen ship through the use of distinguished authors, or in consequence of the necessities of science, trade, or manufacture. Johnson, Richardson, and Webster, with similar additions, have supplied his English nomenclature. As a mere word-dictionary the work is valuable and trustworthy ; but its distinguishing characteristic is the wealth, the accuracy, the delincy of what we have ventured to rail its "comparative anatomy of the phraseology of the French and Eng lish languages." Under every word we find an ex haustive list of the phrases in which it is used, when ever a different phraseology is employed to convey the same meaning in the other language. All wordy, in either language, which are without exact synonyms in the other—words relating to social habits, or em ployments, or modes of exertion peculiar to the one or the other nation—are paraphrastitnlly explained. Many proverbs—a fertile source of idiomatic pecu liarities in most languages —are explained Ind illus trated. The idea upon which the work has been constructed, it will appear from this brief indication, is sound and practically useful ; and the taste, judg ment, and patient research which Mr. Terver has brought to his task have enabled him to work it out moat satisfactorily. Onsar Nomrendit.—This company am entering into contracts for the construction of their passengers and goods stations on the north side of the A•gent's-Canal and King's• cross, and 1 , 1 , their goods, warehouses, sad lommotive btuld lags on the main line up to Peterborough. THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE PARIS NATIONAL LIBILLRY.—Let any Ina compare the reading rooms, day after day, of the British Museum and the National Library of Paris, he will at once perceive that two distinct cleans of persons frequent these rooms. In London he will find onl Iny men of letters and artists, the teachers of the people. le themselves that come Paris he will see that it is t he p eo p to read. In the British Museum be sees only grave men and women dressed in the customary suits of solemn black, so well be fi tting the avocation of letters . In th e National Library he observes groups of students from the civil I military colleges,:soldiers of the line in their blue coin, ( (B een,. clerks, shopkeepers porters, and, generally speakihg, ssroculeennsoltallel gire6asresnoiintltlePt7ouirsti.D. 00ms will le c v e e p al o a v n er otb 'h e; difference between them. In London you me the tables sneered with old volumes, maps, sad manineripts—the lite rature of the pest. In Paris you notice that the :leaden are chiefly poring over the new books and new writers—Thitre, Luanda@ Louis Blase—the living literature of their own age. In ;riot truth the British Museum is only a library a reference ; the Parisian institution Is a library tor reading. —Companion to the British Alitianach for 1860. ANCIENT RELICS ON THE MALVERN HILLa.— The ordnance surveyors recently employed on the (mimic of the Worcestershire Beacon, while excavating to find the old datum mark of the former survey, uncovered a cavity in the rock nine inches below the surface, whirrein lay a small s^pulchral urn covering some bones and ashes. Another de posit of bones, but without an urn, was found at • short tame. The cinerary remains are believed to have belonged to an adult hams subject that have passed through t'.•• profess of cremation. The urn is made of burnt clay, very rude in its constructioe, but with an impressed ziuseg orna ment round its exterior, with one beaded line above and two below, followed by • line of punctures evidently made by some pointed instrument, and the rim is also marked with a aireig border and beaded line above and below it. The hetet is little more than two inches and the breadth of the top meetly three. No coin or ornsment was found with either of the sepulehrid deposits. Not having yet seen nese interesting remains, we will not endure en ovinion as to *heir rehab% date, nor as to the individual whose r sting p ace was selected on this lofty altitude, bat we be l ie* it rn is the fi rst mortuary discovery Mt& on these (et* Chreesiel . Dumas, Deo. W. Now that the mock nationality of the 'nth protec tiosists is pretty well exploded, we shall have them coming out themselves and candidly admitting that it was all a hoax. Notwithstanding all the fake pre tensions of the Okapi' memonal, there is not, in fact, one particle of liberality mixed up in the whole protectionist movement. No one was fool enough to suppose that they could tolerate any meddling with the church question. Then as to an adjustment of the land question, with any degree of !airtime to the tenant, it would be scarcely reuocable to expect much on that score from them either. There remained the franchise, at this moment, perhaps, the most vital of all to Irish and national interests ; but upon that sub- ' jeet the leading organ of the Irish protectionists pro claims hostility to all reform. The Evening Mail, of lest night, thus sneers at an anticipated franchise SCOTTISH UNITED INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. IMPROVEMENTS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.—In these new works the honourable Commissioners would stem to have taken seriously in hand the Augean task of punfyir g the & rpentine. In the first place, they have cleared out the 'mad bed which the previously id-arranged sewage system at the bead of that piece of water had so deeply deposited. With the progress of that operation frequenters of the gar dens have been familiar. Their next and more recent pro ceedings have been to bring a supply of pure water (let them if they please, say "perks eleetro") to the rustic bridgehead at the Bayswater end, by a line of metal pipe communicating I with the Artesian well at Charing-cross. This, together with a contribution from the Chelsea water wollts, which have hitherto given that strange caricature of It fountain —by which this sc ne has beer, but is no longer, disfi gured—its aquatic gush, will replenish for the future our metropolitan lakelet. Their united current will be brought through the archways of the bridge, and as their volume cannot, at bent, be very copioue, its flu w being unfortunately a drain of incessant expenditure, measures seem to have be,n judiciously taken to give it as much strength as possible. These consist in raising the bed where the waters break forth by • gradstol ascent to the mouth of the arches, and at the some time drawing in the banks on each side, till narrowed to the breadth of the bridge. This is at once simple and obviously effective. The change has, however, to be made as yet com plete by ornamental details, in which we trust that the ho. nounble commissioners, moving, as they now are, sponta neously, in the right direction, will not be found wanting. What has been done tends, pro tanto, to c :mplete the ori. Ring design with which this regal domain was laid out, in which stateliness and inartificiel beauty—the rich, in gene ral effect, the beautiful to etre, scrutiny—were happily in tended to be combined. — Are hitect and Budding Operatme. DESPERATE ATFItAT WITH POACHERB.-BBA 701tD, FlLlDAY.—Yesterday, a young men, named Moon Pnestley, was brought before Col. Tempest , Joshua Pollard, Esq , and Alfred Harris, Esq., three of the west riding ma gistrates, upon a charge of violentlassulting Mr. Jacob Mitchell, gamek. eper to the Earl of arough. Mr. Carr, of Gommenal, appeared for the pros ec u tio n; and Mr. Terry was present to watch the case on behalf of the prisoner. From the statement of Mitchell, it appears that on the night of the 14th inst., h. and an as istint, named John Walker, were out watching, when they had a desperate affray with four poachers, namely, the prisoner, J. Butterfield, J. Broadlsent, and another. At about 11 o'clock, while in Hunsworth-lane, they heard the footsteps of a party coming through a gap. The keepers stood still, and presently tour men made their appearance. The poachers were armed with guns and blud geons, and upon their coming up, Mitchell said to them What, you have got a gun or two I me, lads." They made no reply, but one of them, named Broadbent, pointed his gun towards Mitchell, as elle was about to fife. Mitchell said to them "If you hive guns you have no need to fire ; you are cc the highway, and we have nothing to do with you." The poachers then all four mended down the lane towards H un worth ,, and were followed by the keepers at a short distance. When they had got near the sill3ge of Hunsworth the poa chers made an attack upon the keepers, the prisoner striking wick a bludgeon, end Bri.adbent with the butt end of his gun. Mitchell re monstrated with them, when one of the party, whom the keepers did not know, said, with an oath " shoot him." Broadbent then put himselt in a shooting position, and the prisoner and Butterfield, who that moment were striking Mitchell, desisted sad eeced.•d back as if to give Broadbent an opportunity to fire. He immediately fired the gun and lodged the contents in Mitchell's right shoulder. Mitchell then said to his companion, " Johnny, Pm shot—it is over with me." The poachers then ran down the lane, and the keepers after them as fast as they could. The keepers came up to them again, and Mitchell took a pistol out of his picket, which was loaded with powder and ball, which he discharged at the poachers as they were standing together. It appears, however, that the ball minted them. The poachers then all made off, with the exception of the przoner„ who was seized by Mitchell, who made him feel nit , walking stick. In the meantime Walker, Mitchell's assistsat, bad gone into the village to raise his more esca strength, and the prisoner succeeded in makingescape 11001 He, however, ran in the direction of Walker, whom he met, and by whom, after a desperate struggle, be was again captured. The prisoner shouted and called out loudly for his emanates to come to his assistance, but the keepers rut him to silence by knocking him down, and strangling him until he said he would yield. The keepers then let him get up. when be again made an attack upon the keepers with his bludgeon, and recimmimeed calling out tis his companions. The prisoner was again knocked down by the keepers, and after struggling together some time, they succeeded in getting the prisoner to a public house in the neighbourhood. Mr. Thomas Briggs, a constable, was then sent for, into *whose custody Priestley was given, and Mr. Slater, of Gomersel, surgeon, was called in to dress the wounds which the keepers had received. Mitchell was much exhausteB, having no less than 82 wounds in his shoulder where the shot had entered. The 'bludgeon used by the Pritalier was produced in court. It was a formidable wea r an. The prisoner was committed to York Castle to thke his trial at the next anises. A reward has been off'sred for the apprehensionof Brevedbent and Butterfield, wirj have absconded. nitinittre Among the blessings in store for Ireland !sea enlargement of the franohise, which w4l place the representation, more absolutely than it is, in the hands of the most ignorant and besotted democracy in Europe. This is the stone which a tender government keeps in its sleeve to bestow upon us, when we shall grow importunate for bread. And a right welcome boon it will be to many who have no industrial re source left except to trade upon the religious lied political prejudices of the common people. The patriots :of Concilia tion-hall will rejoice In such an extension of their ways and Crane ; the Romisb Clergy will receive with benignity signal an increase of their power and influence ; and the treasury will be strengthened by the acquisition of several sturdy adherents, whose votes on all divisions of vital conse quence may be reckoned upon, as surely as the whipper-in of a der-kennel may calculate the number that will run to the sound of his lash and the summon of his horn before mesa time. Captain lindsay has given notice, that at the spe cial meeting of the North Dublin Board of Guardians, called to discuss Lord Glengall's petition on Monday next, he will move the following amendment : " That the gaudiest of the North Dublin Union are pain fully aware of the appalling distress that afflicted and still afflicts the poor of Ireland, especially in parts of the western and soothers provinees. That they view with alarm the depreciation in value of the property et the country, and the diminution in the circulation of money, which deeply affects the condition of all classes of society. That they do not deem it prudent to affix their signatures to the petition as prepared by Lord Glengall, es they consider there may be several othi r causes to which the lamentable elate of Ireland may be attributed. That without fall experience of the effects of free trade, we do not wish hastily to adopt the opinion t , at a duty should be imposed upon the agricultural produce of foreign countries, which would cause greater fluctuatis .4 in the price of the first necessaries of life." The Dunshaughlin Board of Guardians in the centre of one of the most important agricultural districts ot Ireland has already rejected the petition. Mr. Henry Grattan, M.P. has addressed a letter to Lord Glengall, expressing approbation of his lord ship's petition, but chiefly on account of the ergo. ments in favour of a repeal of the union which he draws from it. But a letter of vastly higher claims to attention, and also addressed to the noble framer of the protecionist petition, appears in the liveman's Journal this morning. The writer, Mr. A. L. 0. Guionese, is one of a family distinguished in thin country for mercantile ent,rprise and wealth, and his observations are well deserving of notice. Mr. Gain. nem says: Free trade in corn has yet had a fair trial, nor is it pcseible it can until the owners of the soil are content to re ceive such a rate of rent as the decreased value of endues renders reasonable, and the reception of which could not—or at least ought not—to militate against their interests, ins.- touch as they have received benefits in the general working of the measures of free trade which they have never yet reciprocated, and the reciprocation of which would render alarm, outcry, or agitation on the subject unnecessary. Place the Irish farmer in a fair poeition as regards his rent in the first place, and, when that is done, place within his grasp the power to cell forth the full capabili ties of the soil committed to his management, by a fair consideration of his claims and • lust concevion to his nee , skied, and I for one am aufiLiently sanguine to be tearless ot the issue ; but, until this be done, I respectfully submit, my lord, that it is utterly at variance with the die tales of reason and humanity, as well as completely opposed to the priueiples of good government, to desire that the general welfare should be sacrificed to the interests of a par ticular class—of • cies-, too, which has as yet made neither ex viola nor aser.fices, and in whose power remain remedi yet to be tested, in the application of which, honestly applied and fairly worked eut, I sincerely believe that • certain cure fur the evils complained of will be found. " I admit that at this moment the pressure upon the Irieh farmer is greater than it should be ; but I deny that the absence of protection bas produced it, or that its resumption would Fe anything else or be:ter than • very great misfortune even to him. 1 am very far from wishing to say an offeuive or discourte ous word ot any man or class of men, but all experience warns us that the feudal spirit of Irish landlords has clung to them with • tenacity which is nut easy either to r, move or to convince; and it is qu:te certain that it ever they are induced to part with so much of their privileges as will insure the development of the fall resources of the land, and secure the comfort and anew the effluence of those who 11'111 know little of either, it must be through the agency of those very laws which it is their present purpose to repeal it they can, and which if repealed, would have a very dimes trous elect, not on this country alone, but on the empire at large. Terre or four times within the last thirty yee.rs corn has been even cheaper than it is at present, and still more Ire queutly have all the ether article of auicultural produc tion (including meat) been subject to the same depreciation, or even a more decided one ; so that protection b no means insures the agriculturist from fluctuations, *bile the absence of it, accompauted as it is by the benefits necessarily attendant on the extension of tree•trade principl, s, at lean secures to him moderation in his general expenditure. It is to be re • membered also that although the prices are now low, they ars nut so for she last three years, and with fair averages and q low rate of lie ing for so long a time, I should conceive it to be p.maible for the agricultural interest to sustain i'aelf for a season, were there a reasonable hope that hereafter it might expect at the hands of those in whom the power lie., that just and liberal treatment which would enable it for the future ti base its effors on certainty, and to meet its Dahill ties without loss. I know it is averred by the advocates of protection, that even if the rates of rent were diminished, the other burdens of the land are so many as to make pros perity inipmcible. But would these burdens c , ntinue it the relations between landlord and tenant were en" red into in a liberal and benevolent spirit, such as necessity and egoity alike demand? I do not think so, my lord. Reduce has rent to an equitable standard, and you at once relieve the farmer ; in his new covenant, include what is known by the phrase of " right of tenure," and luu will go far to empty the wurkhoutte ; under the operation of both these untried stimulants to exertion, I mistake my countrymen acted- Ugly, if you do not find them within • comparatively short period of time mere prosperous, more peaceable md bareeer than it is poesibletkey could ever become und, r the re enact ment of protection laws, beneath whose operation they were at all times, as • people, the poirest, most discontented, and most miserable in Europe. I have the honour to be, my lord, your obedient ble servant, AUTEUIL LENDEN OLIVE OVINNEIsd hum- Templeton, Stfflorgan, Dec. 22, 1849. The Great Southern and Western Railway Com pany have so reduced the tariff of charges for the carriage of meat, poultry, vegetables, &c., that any o ar n t e icl r e es s i o d f i ni f g oo i d n Lublinfrom tthe a co y obtain untryat these c the ecisea ry provincial prices, the rates of carriege being so small in propor tion as scarcely to be taken into consideration. This coarse is adopted to break down the monopoly of the retal d-ales in food. The Xreeman's Journal states, on the authority of a letter from Rome, that the Very Rec. 1)r. Collen, for many years the agent at the Holy See of the Irish Roman catholic church, has been appointed to the vacact Roman catholic primacy in Ireland. We regret to state that the mills of Morse:. M'Cean, near Fe , rybank, were entirely destroyed by fire en Friday evening. The destructive element raged for nearly the entire night, and an immense amount of property, we have heard, was lost in the flames. The premises were insured, but not to any sum that could nearly cover the value of the property consumed. Messrs. Simms and M'lntyre, the enterprising pub lishers, eutertained upwards of lhO of the persons employed by them at Belfast, on Friday last, at one of those eneeriog banquets which tend so well in England hlltanedetmopkleeoypedu.p a good feeling between employers MUSIC. ROYAL ACADEMY OP MUSIC.—The board of pro fesson, consisting of Mims. Potter, Bennett, Elliot, Lures, II Goss, and Howell, appointed to examine the candid a t es for the Ku. g's Scholarship , has sen t in its r^ p ort to the vim. I mittee, and the following were elected :—Mr. W. G.Cousins, snit Miss Martha Street. ROYAL SOCIETY OP MCSICIANS.—The Bum of 671. was Toted at the general meeting of the Royal S ciety of Musicians, on Monday, to be distributed amone di^tres , ed perons csnnected with the musical lion, but having no claim on the funds of the lanitstlopn. -- - - SUING A DEAD MAN.—In the City Small Debts C iurt yererday, a curious case occurred—A person ~amed Fernandts being summoned fora " tally bill, considerable amusement was canned by the Chief Bailiff reporting that the defendant wee said to have been dead for ten years. Plaintiff appeared astounded at the statement. Mr. Silf, the , Afieer, said he had inquired at the house, and that was the enterer he received. Plaintiff said it was too much of 1, I joke, and he would see whether be could not bring 'air A to life, if hie honour would gra nt another summons. k new sum mons was accrAdingly granted. Plaintiff anti, h e was I not to be done, aud he knew he should find defer dent riding somewhere dm than in his coils. The second annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of the United industrial Schools, &nth Gray'. Close, Highditztht, B iinburgh, was held on Wednesday, at two, in the hall of the institution , which was teetotally decorated with evergreens, &r. The examination of the children took place in the forenoon, and formed a mat interesting portion of the proceedings. It was impossible not to mark the general aptitude and intelligence of the children, which were highly creditable to *easel and their masters. Their skill in the Tarim hasdtcrsft operations wee shown b 7 the numerous articles exposed for eels and exhibition, including handsome Iferleteads, pies stands, &o. ; while their shoes end clothing attested the proficiency which they had attained in these important branches. Among those present daring the examination, and at the public mooting ware: Lord Dunformline,Viscount Malgund, M.P., Lord Murray, William Murray, lisq of Henderland, Professor Mans, Bishop Carruthers, Bishop Gillis, Rev. Mears. Stothert and Bigg, Adam Black Req., J. H. Barton, , ;Dr. &Amiss, James BMpson, Esq., W. B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq., Dr. Combs, James Mackenzie, Esq , W.I. Robert Chambers, Esq., _ Charles Trotter, Em Lewis Harkin, Esq., Captain Mitchell, William Tait, Esq., C. Farquhar Shand, sk i ., Alexander Cowan, Esq., Mr. lincriff Handyside, Mr. Sheriff Jardine, George Girle, Eirj., J. F. Gordon, Esq , R. Gordon, E.q., J. Bevis, Esq., &c., &o. Upon the motion of Lord ilustasT,Visoonnt /4 'MOUND was called to the chair, who, at considerable length, ad deemed the meeting, pointing out the important agency ex ercised by such institutions as the Industrial Schools, it, pro moting the spread of popular education, and tnereby dimin ishing the amount of crime and pauperism. The institution could no longer be called an experiment, for it had effected great good, and he looked on it with peculiar interest, be . cause it had pioneered the course by which they sought to extricate themselves from the &then' which surrounded the question of national education in this country. Mr. ADAM BLACK said he was sure that they had all been greatly delighted with the success of the labours of those who had been taking charge of the institution. When they considered the /stool' those unhappy children, and contended it with the fate of themselves and of their own children, they might well feel thankful that at least so many of them had been plucked as breads from the fire. He was happy to have that opportunity of ratting it he distinctly understoo d that in both departments of the schtel the Bible was read. He congratulated the meeting upon the report that had been , read, and upon the prospects held oat of continued success; ; and he trusted that the means would not be wittheld by ; those who had it in their power to cthtribute towards so de ; &rattle an object; for without the meths of carrying on the , institution—without subseriptions—it was impossible that it I could be carried on successfully. He trust.' that encourage , malt would continue to be given by the public, and that toe subscriptions would go on increasing with the increasing me i mos of Ye iostitutios. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Sheriff JARDINE said that he thought upon the whole, that the report was most satisfactory ; and he wu sure that it would meet with the general appro bation of the inhabitants of this enlightened city. (Ap plause ) The resolution was eanitd unanimeasly. Lord MURRAY proposed the following gentlemen as members of the committee for the present year:—President, Lord Dunfermliae. Vice-President, Bishop Caruthers. Lord Idelgund ; Joke. T. Gordon, E q , Sheriff of Edin burgh ; R. Handyside, Esq., Sheriff of Stirling ; Charles Neaves L Esq., Sheriff of Orkney ,• Win. Chambers Esq.; Adam Black, Esq. ; Alexander ennui, Esq. ; John Hill Burton, Esq.; Cnarles Farquhar Shied, Esq.; Lord Cuninghame • John Grant, E•q. ; W. 13, D. D. Turnbull, Esq.; John Boyle, Esq ; R. Gordon, Esq.; It. Monteith, Esq ; Lewis Harkin, Esq.; J. Genoa, Esq. lie said that he thought they were exceedingly fortunate in having such committee proposed, and he did not actieipate any °ejection whatever to their adoption. They had certainly realised a measure of success which they could not pos sibly have anticipated ; they could hardly expect that they were not to meet wiffi difficulties; they might still occur ; but the y bad been met hitherto, and they were prepared to meet and to master them should they occur in the course of their future progress. He moved i t n o p fa t v o o tp u e r t of to th th e e i o ns e ti o t t u y t e id at n shouldthe t w c at y t o n o a n e the approval of the report, and he wished nothing more ae than it ha t d h el at en i e t that had passed. (Loud applause.) Bishop (iILLIS seconded the motion, and having ex pressed his concurrence in the eulogium pawed by Lord Murray upon the untiring seal of the members of the pre vious committees, said it appe aced difficult to him that any gentleman :whose vocations permitted him to devote any portion of his time to the interests of such an institution as that in which they were all engaged, should ever be found deficient in seal in the performance of his duty as a member of the managing committee, for ever) single detail connected with an industrial school like that c stained in itself so deep and endearing an interest that it was impossible to suppi se that any person connected with i a admieutration could be proof even against enthusiasm in carrying out its objects. The resolution was then cordially agreed to. L erd DUNFERMLINE, in moving the thanks of the meeting to the noble chairman, congratulated the meeting upon the prosperous and prospering condition of the school. When he first connected himself with the association, he was no doubt Seduced to do so because he was aware that if they succeeded they would confer a crest benefit upon a 'sumer eus class of indigent and unfortunate chiloren ; but he confessed that he had else anothe motive, resulting from some experience which he had acquired in another situation. He had, since he had come to reside in Scotland, the opportunity of kncwing somethieg, and of making observations upon the prisons and discipline intended for the reformation of criminals. Ile con• leased that he had attended with all the core and industry he could to the effect which was produced by these institutions, and be came to the conclusion that they had net been sue ces•ful—that they were, in point of tact, an eleborate, an expensive and an unsuccessful expetiment. But he had been v e ry muc hl wreck with this circumstance, and which had impress-d him very strongly—that, as far as he could dis cover, the only class of penises up n whom that reformatory system had produced any effect at ail was upon the educated classes. Those who were utterly uneducated lett the prison utterly unreformed. Those who went there having received some education had their minds opened ; they were prepared to receive the instructions that were offered them by the chaplain and those who had the superintendence of the pri son, and such persons as these ma e some progress ; but he held that there was no real hope or pros pect of reforming criminals, unless they had previously educated them by giving them, as far as was in their power, a good secular education. Now, that was pre cisely what they were attempt in g t o do in that institution ; ens no one could attend, as he had dune, to what bed passed in the prison at Perth, without being struck, and shocked, and grieved at the immense numher if jue , ride offenders t o be found there. He would conc lude e y proposing a Tote of thanks to their noble chairman, in which. he was sure, they would all most cordially concur. lie knew his noble friend so well, the he was right welt Ssittted that nu , would nave -educed him from his home at the present season of the year, and brought him to undertake the duty of presiding upon that occasion, but the since re and honest conviction that they had embarked in a wood and honest eau- e, and that it was nu duty to give it all the countenance and support in his power. (Loud applause.) The resolution having been carried with aeclamati in, the meeting separated. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH SALMON POACHERS. —The Perthshire Advertiser sap "For some time past, about this season of the year, parties of lawless men, amount ing in number from twelve to twenty in each gang, have been in the practice of turning out at night, foe the purpose of salmon poaching, on the Earn and smaller rivers, from the Ruthven near Smiddyhaugn to the Turret above C rieff, having their faces blacken- d and their persons otherwise disauised. Prom their numbers aud daring conduct they have occasionally put the water limp rs to defiance, and in several cases attacked and maltreated them. It became ne cessary, in consequence, to have theta lawless pro ceedings put down. Strong parties of river-watchers were stationed in that district for this purpose; and on Thursday lot, the 20th of December, about two o'clock in the moiling, • body of the watchers, assoontinto 15, came upon a band o 13 menall disguised, and th e act of killing salmon, t means H of lights and spears, in the water of Jilechony, near Strathallan Castle. The watchers dashed into the rivir on theta, and the morn ing being very dark, and the poachers not knowing the number of the si aterkeepers, turned round and struck and attacked them with salmon spears and poles. &desperate en counter then took place; and after many blare were ex changed on b .th sides, during which several min were knocked dewn in the river, the battle ended in the capture of .ix of the poachers,sod the others fld. I'. however, appeared that they bad not moved with impunity, as, next morning, several women's caps, with which they hail been disguised, were found at a short distance from the scene of the a ff ray, stained with blood, and three foal salmon lying beside them. TWO six captured poachers were biought into Perth, and lodged in gaol. On Saturday the six prisoners, viz, James Bums, Andrew Taylor, James Brown, and James Smith, weavers; James Dlorison, mason; at.d James bl'Ara, la bourer, all residing in Auchterardi r, were placed before Sheriff Barclay, charged with poaching in close time, under the aggravations of disguising their prisons, and using lights and spears. They pled guilty, and wen: lined 41. 6a each, including expenses, and failing payment within 14 dies to be imprisoned for 86 days in the gaol of Perth. They were afterwards tried, at the instance of the Pro curator-Fiseal, for assaulting the water-keepers, to which they pled not guilty. After a leng trial, h o wever, the Sheri ff found t he charges proven, sod. they were sentenced to forty days' imprisonment, or to psy a fine of 21. each. At the conclusion ti.ey were admonished by ths sheriff, as to the serious and disreputable nature of the offences of which they had been found guilty. Ile told them salmon were just as much vested property as sheep or cattle, for which proprietors paid large sums, and tenant! of fiskings had to pay high ren ts ; and that sa lmon po.ching was nothing shin of theft. He also waned them of the un hue:alposothfuywraqhui i co l f ! t i thu ti e m eiry o w f th ey : fish t a o t it h t i ,salon d‘ea u o t u h p e on ye t a h r i , m b se y the and families, besides the dangers they encountered by l the d w i e v t, eg tm al d din th s e th loss e laorfewr"c.haranlit'etbr ethdeed y ' w ‘ i r re the su a r ig e h W t to set c° stei li n and by MEDICAL 1 APOTHicARIBV HALL.--24 tunes of gentlemen who passed their eursi o atioa in Om valetas and practice of mede, an d received certificates to pract'se, on Thumlay Dec 27, 1S19:- .George Clarke, Bait ; Eawsrd CioHedge Pitt, Loa !' dn • ; Charles William Whitby % William 'Vaughan Jones, 1 1 c.ttnios, North Wales. /~. '-- ~. ~/ . ' - . • • p ✓~ r ./ • - a 17 . 1 IL Wog i Wm as Dew •w hes whin Ns GI If an •d to 16 1101 Mitt, »y lay it buNI, eft, u.=. lege amt. it be ea KY d !Mks r. :: R we r and It, is r, aid eople. ▪ 8•41 rams ietint we,_ been donial Her been Letup, by [be ply J. It. 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