The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

Os Wedhasdsy RUFFS GUIDE to tie TURF for 1880. — Prise la cloth, Is. eld.; helm vers, erile edged, 3s. eat.; es • point-tost, with renteDis war mama 4s. ltd. Ccirrorre.—.l iilieneer of the awe In Grist Britain and Ireland he I 11.11—lime• ot Beeins—lneirthe et Oeursee—Datity. Otie. set US. Low Leek kit Loan : B. 1+... . e Idlisellisetieei Gantry, legestatroat - Vie reoo. OUTGOING MAILS. Tlin malls to British Nati America and the Nulled' lures will be swede up this evoul a z i Ner. 9. The West India Mails, encl Berusada, Revenue, Nadeau, Nesdares, New Ozbunis, an IMIMICO, and including those hr Madeira, St. Teen-do-Nieweges , New Granada, and Pen. will be sada up on Nev. IT. TMnot useile I r Lisbee, Spain. sad (*braids will be sods var at Nov, 17. The made Ise Gibraltar, Malta, Onset, t 6 balsa Egypt. Corylda, ladis, sad China. Ws tioutbanspeen bi , " A M mobs up on th e nionsiag ladYti el Nov.lo. The leas vie Nandllic, to the bilediceraseen, Nape, ilearliosi, &a, will be wade up ea the of Iwo. Id. TM uses dr Nadel's, the Bassi* ail Busse Ayres, will be mil up es Dee. 4. t.. s s '~i. r.'.'~°5'.....~a ~F~~r►a.,,.- u►t~~ LONDON, FRIDAY, NOTENDER 9. A MZETINO of soseiderable hispeatanos to railway shareholders WAS hold yesterday. Oa the withdrawal by government, last sissies, of Lord MONTEAOLI'S Railway Audit Bill, the representatives of the rai way interest in the Houle of Commas, it will be re collected, entered into an engagement, themselves to introduce next session a measure which should establish an efficient system of railway audit, to the exclusion of all government interference. And tee meeting yesterday constituted the first public step that has been taken to fulfil that engagement. Like all the deliberations of the able men at the head of railways, its pr ceediogs were characterised by great good seine, and by a determination to render all government interference in railway management un aseemary, by improving the existing system of self management. How far it succeeded we shall see. The plan of self-audit proposed is simply this: two paid auditors are, it is suggested, to be appointed by the shareholders (not the directors) of each company ; bat the present fi eld of choice is to be enlarged, by enabling the shareholders to elect, if they please, competent persons who have no interest in the com pany. These auditors are to have the power of appointing an acciontant under them ; and they shall (cot u at present merely audit a balance-sheet laid before them by the directors, bat), from time to time, during the half-year, examine and check the com pany's books and accounts, and, at its termina tion prepare a half - yearly statement o f its affairs, to be laid before the shareholders for their approval or disallowance. Should differences of opinion arise during the half year as to the book*, emanate, and affairs of the compiny, between the auditors and the accountants, they are to make separate reports to the shareholders, who will decide for themselves on those differences. So far the meeting was tolerably unanimous as to the plan to be proposed. But, in addition, Mr. OLIN suggested what he deemed a farther security for shareholders, but what a very large minority dissected from. His suggestion is, that even in oases in which the accounts so prepared shall receive thy approbation of the majority of the shareholders at the half yearly meetings, a minority of one-third, on expressing, within a month, their disestishction with the accounts so sanctioned by a majority, may have them subjected to another examination by (Choi auditors. Should, however, the halt-yearly accounts be posed without such appeal, or be adopted by the shareholders alter a mooed examination consequent on such an appeal, they are to be considered as finally closed, and are not agars to be opened even by a court of law. With Mr. GLYN'S addition, such is the plan en which the opinion of railway proprietaries generally has to be taken, and on its receiving their suction, it will be reduced into legislative shape, and introduced into parliament early next session. Tbat this plan is, both in principle and in detail, infinitely superior to the crude, and rash, and un workable scheme prepared by Lord MONTFAOL; is patent enough. That, however, is saying very little in us praise. But a railway audit is so entirely a matter of detail that we most kuow much more than its out line (such as was given yesterday ), before any sound opinion can be formed as to its sufficiency. The ma chinery by which the contemplated auditors and their accountant are to any on a continuous and a tho rough examination of railway accounts and books throughout each half year, without ha erfering preju dicially wi:h the operations of the company, must be fully developed, ere we can say whether such an au dit will be real or formal. The power intended to be given to a dies rating minority is so entirely novel a principle, as to require the gravest consideration before it can be adopted as a rule of action in a com mercial enterprise : for by its exercise (and it may be exercised unnecessarily) it is quite obvious that the declaration of half-yearly dividend+ honestly earned may be delayed to the serious inconvenience of shareholders whose maintenance, comfort, or move meats may depend on their punctual receipt at the accustomed periods. Equally novel and startling is the principle that half-yearly accounts once defini tively passed by half-yearly Meetings are to be there after closed against the world, even should frauds of the grueest description be discovered at a subsequent period. Such a principle appears to us of very doubtful expediency, and one that ought not to be hastily adopted. There are, however, objections and doubts which a fuller working out of the plan will in all probability remove ; so we merely hint at them. But there is an omission in the scheme as yeat rday sketched, so palpable and grave that we must press it on the attention of its authors and on railway shareholders generally. What is a railway audit ? Is it a mere comosri son of items of railway expenditure with their vouchers ? Or is it a more serious ex =leaden ? And, if it be a deeper investigation, to what extent ought it to descend? To the policy end necessity of the expenditure ? or only to the system on which it is recorded, and on which the books are kept ? On this, the fundamental point of railway audit, great dif ference of opinion, and very great difference of prac tice, prevails. And until it be settled, until, in s ho rt, principles of audit are laid down and acted on, we do not see how an efficient system of rail way audit can be established. Now, the plan explained yesterday takes no cognisance of principles; its only object appears to arrange ma chinery. And herein is its great deficiency. The importance of the omission will be at once seen by an Mewed= or two. A railway company has no power to invest the moneys of its proprietary in the shares of other lines; yet, in spite of this want of power, it has been a common practice to make snob invest ments. What are the auditors to do with such items ? Are they to be satisfied with the production of the share certificates which represent the outlay? Or are they tontine to pass the accounts in respect to the investment on the group of illegahty ? Another company exceeds its powers in the purchase land; here *gain the same difficulty occurs. Are the auditors to sanction or to reject the purchase ? Have they power to consider and to report on it, or similar excesses of power on the part of railway boards—excesses which, though illegal and not bin& i n at a single proprietor, may still be beneficial to the company ? Principles on which to condeet railway milts are, we repeat, essential to a good system of audit; wigs egat thing auditors and their sotiountante mast SOW tine; to be, as they now ars, at sea; without ram, seder a more strisseat ossokkery, collisions between *lvry boards and auditors are inevitable. It is. them to be hayed that railway shareholders will mod the plan, monocled yesterday, back to its anthem to bo minded on this , its chief head. Ms gabled fe, of coarse, far too important to be exhausted by these, asesmarily hasty, remarks. Tim total Whim of the resent attempt to sell the Connemara emits ha, appareatly some upon certain Actin in this country by surprise , . and they ere too thdensgbly Alamo :did to conceal their disappoint ment and vexatiem The parasol, of the property in question formed ahvady in their SiNfllillf drums, chapter No. 1 in their anticipative history of "the greatplantaties." Te m timid corporations tofullow, n was needful to Gad bold individuals to lead. Even docks require dewy.; and so, to win the oonddenosof Joint-stoolt spemdators, it was thought to be expedient to set op bur ale the picturesque and storied, regime, once the heritage lakes east reeky aphis&the fallesisesepainse el r Bheesso. er of the feetile dry wen regarded r ems at hay lots ; 1122 ... egra1t. Beek wag Iles& nNi gio banned that said in any uses lei _ _,_ _ _ te the position et baled • treo-ammeas-st-fha Nest he WM* its sail* value his besit depreilduis W. • she l l es2ly *glom the stale.. . ant eillesdleg .. d e t the twatination. Ihr Obi geesfmr. el Ws 1 affair, as a natural and seessmatie. wallet of VW on the project of a whideed• ImilisSiVa Noe' of Island, we own that wren ea little Owed lay wonder as by resat. Fees the outset we Ishii epos the scheme as a mere delusion; and ea USN% Is divert men's attendee from the real and the pets doable, we deemed .its promulgation simply nue shims. We laughed aloud at the awkward puffery 'wherewith it was attempted to fill the sails of the pins= and on this. the first session when the cash mime bidders for landed property have had an oppwtunity of manifesting their sentiments, they appear to have unanimously done the same. great pains were taken raviolis to the auction to etnact attention ; and we have no doubt that every fair chance wee given to the speculative to invest. Bat people seem to have come to the very essible though sufficiently obvious conclusion, that on the plan of holding Irish lands as absentee proprietor*, and re-peopling the same with prize labourers and cattle from this side of the channel, the pur chase of Connemara might be a highly bas sist project, but as en invessent it was net very likely to pay. Accordingly, they refused to bid; nor could all the eloquence of Mr. WAINWRIORT nor all the recitations from Sir ROBERT'S speeches and the Times' articles coax a shilling out of the dogged disbelievers. Lot after lot was bought in at priors far below the highest nominal offer that was mid to have been made; and the vast stretch of territory comprising the baronies of Balli nahinch and Ross, and consisting in all of not less than 260,000 acres, remains to be sold in the ordinary way to bona fide purchasers, as in due time it no doubt will be. We quarrel not about race or origin. We are for die trade in land in the widest sense of the term, and seensequatly we desire that every man, whatever his lineage sr extraction, should be free and welcome to buy land in Connaught or elsewhere as he pleases. But we insist open two thing.. First, that no man will serve himself by meddling with Irish Sod who does not mean to live on the land be buys ; and, secondly, that no man's porchsea of land in Ireland is likely to r-res any true or lasting interest of that country, unless it tends, and its se far as it tends, to promote his individual profit need personal advantage. We scout the notion of rescuing or redeeming a errantry by leo-I speculations which are to be partly undertaken for profit, and partly from motives of philantbropy,—ttie philanthropy consisting of sec tarian propagandises, sad the profit to be guaranteed by • " cash credit opened on account of the scheme at the Treasury." All such quackery must end, where all similar exteriments in times past have ended, in disappointment and failure. The very out line shadowed forth in the present instance has pro• yoked a biter and jealous spirit of aspic on amour our too irritable neighbour.. But they may discard their fears. English capitalists are not such blockheads as to sink their thousands in the fee simple of land which in its present condition is worth nothing, end which can only be made to yield a moderate rate of profit by resident owners. Few Eoglist men of large capital are in the mood just now to make up their sends to reside during the rest of their lives in Connaught. Many Ecglishmen there are of moderate capital who are not indisposed to do so, and who would probably undertake their indivi duel speculations there to-morrow, had they any con fidence that the great aid crying sources of dis quietude and distarbswe would speedily and effectu ally be removed by the legislature. But until they have some such assurance, shrewd and wise men hesi tate to venture. 'Ms vain to say—why mix up political with social questions ? They mix themselves up. At the pre sent moment, Ireland heaves to and fro with fierce sad destructive passions. The mass of the people are shim religion; the proprietory of the soil are. of *n ether. The former regard the la• tee as their persecu tors and oppressors; and the law unfortunately seems only to exist for, as it has wholly been framed by, the landlord clay. So long as the ascendancy of sect and class is suffered to prevail, property in land can never be either eligible or desirable in the sense it might otherwise be rendered. The settler who buys and goes to live upon his purchase may be willing Ito leave every prejudice of country and of creed behind, though that is by no meats se easy a task as he may at first suppose. But in spite of all his honest and benevolent intentions, he may find himself identified by the distrustful and demoralised peasantry with those of his own position in society, in whose misdeeds he bat in no way shared, and for which he justly feels in no way chargeable. Call this peulu injustice, ingratitude, insanity—what Isyou will ; does that mend the matter ? It the universal fate of those who dwell in communities that are rent by social and sectarian enmities, that the inoffensive of both sides are exposed to the lame sufferings and vexations as the most culpable. It has been so in all countries reduced to anarchy by misrule, and Ireland is no rack ption. In a word, if our legislat ors are sincere in their professed desire that English capital, industry, and skill should safely and permanently flow into Ireland, let them hasten to break down the real barriers that now impede it. Let them allay the bitterness of religious jealousy wherewith the creed of Englishmen is naturally re garded. Let them wears by law the rights of indus try, as well as those of property. Let them equalise at ones and for ever the - political privileges of the two nations. Then will the lard bring forth its in crease, and the value of land in the market will be restored and recognised. The races will be then happily interfused, instead e one being extirpated, and the other factitiously and fruitlessly transplanted. NAPLES, OCTOBiII 31. The Pope made a formal visit to use Church of the Jesuits the other day. There were many women present dewed in blotch with veils, and a few priests. Here, as usual, his Holiness's prwence did not attract aay respectable body of Neapolitan. I am assured that the Papal government is about to invite some 15,000 Irishmen to form an army for the protection of his Holiness sad the Roman States. lam told also that an Irish gentleman is now in Naples negotiating fur that purpose. I give yon this as a report only, which stew also that the English government w.ll be officially addressed on the sabiect. P.S. Since writing the above, I learn that the Pope at last seriously enttrains the idea of returning to Rome, in consequence of the French °Mrs to facili tate his path. The state trials have actually com menced us the High Crimioal Court, which is open to the public. One of the prisoners, a chemist of Otti an, is condemned to death, " for exciting the people to revolt.' It Ism proved that this person shouted, at the head of a mob, " Death to the tyrant! Long live the republic!" It now remaiosto be seen if the Bing will spare the life of this first victim, as the policy observed on this occasion will be a key to future conduct. ROME, Ocr 30 The Pope's return is every day more positive given out, aid the 20th of November is now fixed upon as the unfailing epoch of the great event; there is probably some accuracy in the assertion, as communi cations have been received from some of the members of the deputation, who will, it appears, stay some little tiros in Naples previous to coming hack to Rime. The.. of their party who represent the mu nicipality are the Prins Odncalehi, Advocate Sea remised (the Pope's nephew), and the advocate Belli. The envoys of the commercial dosses are Signors Costa, Perieeli, and Rinbetti,. who was for merly Rogers eabetitate in the Ministry of Finance. The ecclesiedies have entreated their part of the mis sion to the Absti Arrighi,Ternasel, and Raggieri. The original idea of this deputation, as it was sent from Gaeta, was much more graidicee and Imposing, sines nothing less than a monster petition was ordered to be got up, entreating hie Ranee to return forth with, and sign' d by twenty ow thirty thousend of the most respectable inhabitants of Rouse. This plan, much as it was applauded by the zealous nevi, wee fortheomint We _ w ba reatieesi le t ffi g n i grellireadis Of tie Wiwi. city. liita is Ilk twat the Pope Writers will be an inunesse ed. =jut new, in a cemmersial Point of view— . will be raised, exteroally speakiag foreignees, whose many is so necessary for the very exiatsace of susseroas dames of innkeepers, ciceroni, valets, mosaic maims, cameo cutters, sealptora, painters, d hoe gams saw, will be eneemnged by the re.establiehment of the papal throne be tomb the persoss amidst the mach vilified repabilesas of Rome. Toe partial withdrawal of the foreign prd. sons will in eons measure relieve the treasury, and the rich provinces of Bologna and Da Maros, whose taxes now barely suffice to pay , the government oil. cies, and =attain the Austrian troops, (who very wisely make no estimates and ask for no votes for supplies at home, but live out of the omqured country,) will be able to contribute ometiisg la grease the wheels of the state machine. Robberies are not quite so frequent just now, bat noctsraalaggressions are still practised . Let tea. day mernieg, just about the hour of the mama& in the Corso, I saw a crowd of people before the Oats Nape% intently gasiag cm the ground, and re eel ~i.di..e arpsise I found that the object of thole min. wee a human thumb, which had boa eel isaThg—ent or bit off in some night fray, and left en the pavement in the heat of the scuffle. It was a silent but an eloquent w:tnees of some horrid some. I bear that the money taken from the more respect able Jew merchants has hien offered to them again, bet that they have refused to take it without a pal& declaration being made of their innocence„ es some reparation for the arbitrary violation of their dsmi• cats and property. No preparation far the departure of the Mesa be yet taken place. General Rostolan reviewed 92 ball tallow, 8 ?quadroon of cavalry, and 4 battalisoi artillery, in the plains of Acqua Autos's, the day before yesterday. NEW YORK, Ocr. 23. As the Nicaragua question is sore to come op be tween the two governments, and to be the subject of debate in Congress, I desire to keep you advised of its phases from time to time. I notice to-day, from the same pen that has hitherto advocated the Ameri can view of the question, a fresh publication ; and is its arguments will be the staple of the correspond aloe, I analyse them thus : The British agent at Nicaragua, Mr. Chatfield, has weakened his Rosition by taking it on the following' grounds : Ist, That the grant to the American Com pany is ho-tile to the rights of the Mosquito King ; tad. That there are debts due to British subjects by Central America, which must be first satisfied or paid by the company before they can be permitted to pro ceed. As yet no authority of the Mosquito King has been shown by Mr. Chatfield, or any one else, by which an interference in that behalf can be justified. When that attempt is made, McDocald'il papers will be produced. Any protest should come from Sambo himself. But how can Mr. Chatfield hold the territory of his Mord the Mosquit, King a 4 security for the payment of the deb's of the Central Amerioans ? Why should the Mosquito territory, wheels independence of Nicaragua is stoutly maintained, be held by the English as secarity for the payment of the debts of Nicaragua ? Is not this very declaration tantamount to an admission that the Mosquito territory is a part of Nicaragua ? In an index to a volume of law re pmts, I once found this truism, —l. The property of A. cancot be taken in execution against B." !!! And • granting all that Mr. Cnatfield asserts, it is very add, that to get payment of a debt from N. he should hold fast to the territory of Sambo. And so the matter stands. For my life, if it were at stake, I cannot see why the English governme .t should make any diffi culty on this emotion. Nicaragua will now never permit any English com pany to make this canal, and would certainly never grant it any privileges on the Pacific side. Nor has England any each interest as to make it important to her. On the contrary, by the terms of the contract with the American Company, her trade will have as good a channel by this route as our own. Why then should there be any disturbance of a project to make a commercial route which may . be indispensable to us, and will be perfectly convenient to England ? I cannot conceive of a greater absurdity than a quarrel on such an issue, or, rather, want of issue, as this. I have learned within a few days that Mr. Clayton had no hand whatever in recalling Mr. Brodhead, the late Secretary of Legation at London. He was op posed to it, and so was Mr. Lawrence, our present minister. The very party who effected the change now denies that it was his doing. I should cot be surprised if Mr. Brodhead was sent back to Europe ere long in a higher grade of diplomatic life. One of our moat interesting pieces of domestic news is connected with the session of a slite convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky, to revise the constitu tion of that state. Frankfort is described as a minia ture cite, containing onlv 3,000 inhabitants, yet having the peculiarities of a populous and commer cial town—river navigation, pavements, gas-lights, fountains, and public buildings. Here the convention has been sitting several weeks to revise the sta'e con stitution. When our institutions grow obsolete, or oppressive by reason of inapplicability, we do not re sort to fictions of law to sustain the old fabric, and yet make it the same as new. We actually alter and repair it at once. This convention was called for by three distinct classes of the people. First, the democrats, who, under the present constitution, have but little share in the state government, as the principal commissions are issued by the governor, and the state has long been a whig state. Next, the philanthropists and liberal-minded men, who desired to effect a gradual emancipation of the slaves. Third, those honest whigo who wisbedto see some existicgabuses rectified. The democrats have a small majority in the conven tion, the emancipationists have scarcely a member. The result of the session so fcr is to secure an elective judiciary, and to Mika emancipation remote if not impossible. The truth is, that in Kenivky, slavery assumes a very mild form. No large number of slaves is owned by any one person. They form part of the family, and work in the fields side by side with their owners and their sons. They are well fed and clothed, their work is light, and in sickness they are cared for with unremitting seaL It is, indeed, hard to my whether they could be any better off if they were free. - . Certainly, nothing can be more forlorn than the condition of the free blacks of the north. Though free, they do not advance one step in the mid scale. They have churches and school', yet make no pro gress whatever. They seem to fall by taste or is 'duct, or something else, into the lowest conditions of life. They keep drinking and eating shops, or sweep chimneys, or clean shoes, or employ themselves as waiters, barbers, and cooks. They are a class by them selves, acknowledging the superiority of a white skin and falling tar in the rear of their fellow men. If they have opportunities they do not know how to embrace them. What is to bedme with such a ohne? What could be does with the slaves of the south it they were let loose at once f The wisest are power lees to answer this question. Under the =gaitede of the responsibilitT attending its solution, we prefer rather to do nolung than make a mistake.• • Oar ceerespoadent his anima to state whetter the free blacks in the north enjoy the elective franchise. Unh Is they de they are an artificially depressed clue, and their &grada tion easily accoanted for. In the British West Indies there WO MU Of colour ia the lerielature.—Ba. SIR WILLIAM GOMM..--Acooiding to lettere' r•- erivd by the lam mail, this distinguished awurrl otiose, seconipanted by Lady Comm, had arrivep at Port de Gall:, Isle of Ceylon, from Calcutta, els route for Barla• d. We regret to acid, that by tha last accounts the is& tnt general sad suite were detained at Ceylon by tha Massa o: Lady Goma. Muzak—There are a few days' later advice' in Liverpool from Pernambuco, bat no news. Mumma Anurinsa.—The reoeut arrival of several packages of sterblea be Ike mai La Bali.. Allies" from Bombay. eceg= ef aposimeas illastr , ,tiv • of nistory, which pat eats rase of :Cloven, were sot as=lem brought Ise the purpose of dencsit ia the Rational resepwile W sae► stealer, bat wen imported, for Sir 1. Gust, Bart, bode the private prop my of that gate. deans, and intended W tors part alas private Sherbert.** Josoriesk ins. of the Mi . / •- Hatt found to tok otter' Jetsmotioahls, _bootees no lip yoga fort" be r . 'tl . "joat iou ttf, Vz sd sausa ut to w ots & the rich satirist ong t ...,,, .. , rent!. plains "Tut Min ..: attentga , &beaten middle of I as eff 00r4the I n . • ent . ttag Oval**, whin, au. sad , wft„ to • „,,,,,t , mat air MI tat cixtg este, rte the s - " bee dews stales es antis dosing the IL I day's *mit, that the grew at the go...sates. in quids. smisa. sal throw up the whole andertsktas. taken es affording a tree aim mitten int signed Witte& Vass forthcoming, leaded vowing ht luka . a, ertflOti We _!ESsills selll lol °I be retielb l4 _ _..c_ -.LA- ..:•- - - a. TIIE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1849. tbe court. C WINDBOIB. Nev. 8. The Quota Sad Prises Albert walked this 'er g.mornin la **Slops aid Wimiser-puk. Tim royal Pralklait and POlT:ersreise. Rer Royal Itlikame the Dashes' ef Oaustrillye, their Royal Rigbaemse. the Him. diUry Gras& Deka sad Doreen of Ifeekleabarg Strelitee, sad dis Primer Mary of Cambridge, attended by Lady A. Cadolea aad MAor Staelmak took their departure from the Castle Mk Moralelt. T b. Jame lilt WariCarils. 'Tbe Belem Milker and Nadathe Via do expeotod to &die Alla - Venda tali day. Kb Bard Ridblistrdos Psims Albert 18epieled die wadi'. ,atodok et a a+etemmergies, lammed by Cards Fits. meMioe, at Wisdom Malik ca Timothy lam ilia Royal Rieman afterward, peeeeeled Dateber.bridge to witmor tbe Peeking of the emghte to The bon fitted for the purpose. THE QUERN DOWAGER. The following favourable balletic of her Majesty's awl* woo lowa yesweday: "T I Priory, Nov. 8,1819. " The Chum Dowager passed a most comfortable sight, sad au Majesty 4 rehooltal this " DAVID DAVIS.. Y.D. " RIC/lAILD BRIORT, M.D." Their Royal Higimemes the Duchess of Cambridge. the Princess lUzy, sad the Hen ditary Grand Duke and Grand Doane of Heaklaaburg StreWi, rational to Kew 'someday. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday evening from I the rosidaaes of Sir Chutes Wood, Hicaleton Hall, near Diameter. A COMMITTEE OP THE LORDS of her Migrety's most Hon. Privy Council will meet on Monday, the 12th of November, to settle the roll of shed& for the ensuing Jeer. THE EXPELLED WESLEYAN MINISTERS. Yesterday evening a meeting of the societies and congregations of the Wesleyan connection comprised within the second London circuit wu held at the Freemasons'-haul, for the purpose of hearing statements from the Rev. Messrs. Dunn and Griffith relative to their expulsion, and that of their rimmed colleague, Mr. Everett, by the Conference. ' The large room was densely crowded. The follow's' resole:ions were adopted : "That this meeting desires to record it. share attachment to Weelepa enethodism, its doctrines, and essential institu tions, and deprecates every messars calculated to impair its ufficieney, believing that in its primitive simplicity and power under Almighty Goi, it not only has been, but still is de signed to be • blessing to mankind." "That believing the purity of the churele,:and, especially of its mini ten, to be essential to the progress of religion among us, this meeting, although deeply regretting the necessity for the exercise of such discipline, and which • deep and conscientious feeling of duty to God and hie cause rendered so imperatively necessary expresses its approbation of the proceedings of the lute Conference in the expulsion of more than one of its ministers for grossly immoral conduct ; bet this meeting enters its solemn protest ageing' other acts of the Conference, by which three respected ministers, Musts. Jams Everett, Sum. Dunn, and William Griffith, benr., against whom no such charges were ;al;eged, have en visited with the like extreme penalty of expulsion, not only from fraternal connexion with the Conference. but alto from the ministry amongst us; and have been held up by the Conference to greater execration than men guilty of gross criminality; and, under all the circumstances, this meeting regards the acts of the late Conference with a eater ence to Messrs. Everett, Dunn, and Griffith, jeer., as highly unjust, es well se incompatible both with the dignity of the Conference and the welfare of the eenursion at large. And deeply sympathisiog with these esteemed and beloved minis ters in their present painful position, this meeting resolves to assist in rai.ing a fund for their support ; and that the fol lowing gentlemen be the committee fur the second London circuit, with power to add to their number." THE HOP DUTY. The Inland Revenue Commiesionfre have issued the following recount of the duty on hop. of the growth of the year 1849, distinguishing the districo, and the old from the new duty : During& In-nr. laanstagie .........«........... . tlO i 9 Centellinry ......... —. 27,197 1 36 2 1 10 Dory --.......—. ... -. - .... 10 26 Ins— ................- ......... 3 3 1 3 13104 vela- 7 Groatirs 4 Mats Hereford . Lk of Vila .. 2,310 9 30,447 1 I r=e .....1 ........ 633 le -- 331 96 Maw Woks, lias .. I Inman: 2,002 1 Ii /143,70114 71 4/461ty44 117.791. per lb. 79,791 7 11 646 Paw ads, at Of 4.301. per 4 . 38, 9 -6 4 1 14-24 Addition/ duty of 3 per rum, per Lot 3 Th., 4. 17 £1115,703 14 7* CHAS. S. HAWTHORNS, Amid. to Asat.•Gswral. Inland Ravenna.oftlee, Brosd•stmt, Nov. 8. THE COURT OF ALDERMEN met yesterday, when the question was mooted whither or not the Lord Mayor was justified in carrying the city sword of state before Prince Albert at the yeast opening of the C al Exchange —that ceremonial being a compliment usually r.served for cotes when the sovereign wu present in person. The point was referred to a committee, who are to report as to its merits. The refusal of the soli 'altos to the Mint to prosecute persons sent for trial for pass lag counterfeit coin to the City was also brought before the smart. Alderman Sidney stated his belief that the City had IMen paying 2,0001. • year for such oases in their own wrong. • motion that no further pioncutions in Mint cases be or dered by the City authorities was then agreed to. FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.—One of the most serious Min that has for some time taken place in this neighbour hood happened on Wednesday morning. upon the premises of Mums. Henry Foster and Co., in Clevelatnistreet, by which a Imre amount of property his been destroyed, and a denditwabla Etigaler of hands thrown out of employment. Mast • warts, past twelve o'clock that morning, as a party of siniehemee were approaching the extensive premises of Meems. Pester, they perceived a dense volume of smoke beak( from the lower part of the building, and is a few minutes afterwards the whole of the *wee put of the premises became suddenly enveloped is Liam, which raged with the most violent fury, Owedesing serious consequences to the surrounding 'Monty. As soon u the fire was perceived information wee immediately conveyed to the authoritir s at the polies siatios, hat the lire being nearly a mile from thence, it was am leis than half an h ur after the alarm was first given that the engines were able to be brought to play upon it. At this time the Are had got a firm hold, having communicated to every part of the building, and the flames illuminating the district Tenni about. A plentiful supply of water was at coos found, but it soon appeared evident that the fire had already attained too great • height to prevent the entire destruction of the building end its contents. The high wind, for it was blowing a severe gala at the time, added to the combustible nature of the materials on the premises, combined to accelerate the entire destruction of the whole of the property in an incredibly short epees of time. The engines played upon the building with all passible force, but without having the slightest effect in subduing the fiery element. The different floors of the building fell in in quick succession ; and in less than an hour from the time when the fire was first discovered, the place was completely gutted, and the property is now nothing more tnen a smouldering ruin. No was on the premises at the time when the firs Cr oat, end as all was apparently safe when the place we, left for the night, its origin is altogether a mystery. Some na-row escapes took piss amongst those present on the ocomion, sad in one instance a young man wee knocked down by a huge piece of burning timber which bad heft carried away by the wind. striking him upon the body. Re was imessible for some minutes. The buildings and mashinsear insured, it is understood, in the Royal Br for 6,0001., and the material in the naper y :Teat 2.0001. Tig COURT-MARTIAL A? NOTTINORAM.—The emelemertial upon pirate Kam, charged with ming threat. gig Ineemege upwards Sergeant-Major Davis, and other wise mamadag him, cams to a conclusion on Wednesday maisieg. Thu court assembled at ten o'clock, the room be densely crowded. Colonel Arbuthnot egoist occupied the mat se president, and the court coosisted of the sum AIMs attended oa Tuesday. Mr. Bosley, Rnoz's lediedmel adviser did not attend for his client, sup. pelag e hem his being unable to render him any material waiSsmse ea the previous day, that his attentbuies M smart would be of little use. After Knox's case head been disposed of, the prismer next brought up kr trial was private Butterworth, the most athletic man ia the Teeniest, a man universally respected by his comrades em mount of the amiability of his disposlirm. He was ehataed—let, with Welkin oat of hermits while confined iftemite, and net retusing seta 'sought back the following day; ilosl, issaheed modest, in forcibly detaining Sergeant-Mejer Davis, sad saying to him, " I'll not Mut you, nor see yea hurl, bat I'll hold you," while two primers 'seeped. This eirmasetsses took place at the Gas publishes's, when Davie made his with a draws sliced in his hand. immediately grappled with the sergeant althesei himself a powerful man, and at tee ass time armed, was held firmly by the private mall the other two "Meted their escape. Evidence for the peeseestioa la this we Wad mill half-pest one, when the MIN adios:mod nevi two. At that hour it re-assembled, milks ease wea u 4 ten meeseded wi th . A despatch was re adied at the in the town, from the Horse Oars, earodag sentences on some of the insubordi• sates, bat its esamsta have not been publiely made known. Two primes, yet await their trial ; and if we may judge from the keg* of time the preeedieg cases have occupied, itis ia = the whole bminse will not be brought to a unfit this day. AUDIT OF 'RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.-DELE GATE MEATING OF DIRECTORS. Yesterday, at one o'clock, en aggregate meeting of the representatives of railway companies was held at the Ringer Arms Motel, Wesindaster, to consider the best means es encasing for the railway ihareholders of the United King dom II OM efficient system of auditing railway aceounts drag hes been generally exercised by companies, and ice maim with the opinions expressed at the various half-yearly Inaiethqm of that* dies recently held. The roll of representatives was as follows : The Right Lien. Lord Lonsdale, chairman of the White haven and Purses; Mr. Gouge Can Glyn, M.P., chair man Mr. Forster. M.P. Mr. William Ellie, XP. , Mr. David Hodgson, Ceptail Hebb, R N., and Mr. Charles Stewart, represeatatives of the London end North Wes tern; Mr. Msegregor, the chairman, Host. James Byz, Mr. Charles Irosade, Mr. Carmen Smith, Renshaw, Mr. Lewis SW, directors, representa tives of the South Eastern • Mr. Ellis, M.P., chair man, end Mr. George 'Brag Paget, sad Mr. Beale, the dimity chairmen, representatives of the Midland ; Mr. Chaplin.M.P., the chairman • Mr. Antic, of Liverpool, Count Byre, Mr. Ribbon, and M r. Wyndham Harding, on behalf of the South Western ; Mr. Joseph Glynn,ltr. R.W. Keseard, and Mr. C. P. Roney, on behalf of the Eastern Counties ; Mr. Leeman, for the York, Newcastle,bind Ber wick ; Mr. Rickshaw, C.ll , for the Lancashire and York. shin; Mr. Swift, for the Lanouter, and Carlisle, and Cale donian; Mr. Edwin Tooted, for the Buxton sad Matlock; Mr. Alderman Bancroft, for the Birkenhead and Cheshire Mr. Nathaniel Plows, for the Great North of Enelend and York, Newcastle, and Berwick ; Mr. Richard Barrow, tor the Birmingham and Clousester : Mr. Oman, on behalf of Lord Powis end the Directors of the Shropshire Union Mr. Samuel Laing, the chairmen of the London and Brighton • Mr. C. L. Webb, Northern Counties Union ; Mr. W. Rawson, of Liverpool; Mr. Ramon, and Mr. Parker, on behalf of lines is alliance with the London and North Western • Mr. Francis Parker, Mr. Monett, and Mr. Bax ter, on b ehalf of the Earl ofYarborough end Mr. Denison, M.P , of the Great Northern. Otter minor companies were represented either in person or by proxy, and amongst proprietors, nubile* directors, present were Colonel Buck ler, Brener, to the Queen ; Mr. Hoye., auditor of the Seoul Western ; and Mr. J. B. Yates, of Liverpool Several letters of concurrence with the objects of the meeting were received from the directors of various other railways, and amongst them one from Mr. Charles Russell, the chairman of the Greet Western Railway (from which company there wee no representative at the meeting), ad dressed to Mr. T. COOMBS, the secretary, as follows: " Deer Sir,—l was deputed by the Great Western direr ton to attend the meeting to-morrow, but I have been coe dited ter two or three days, and there is not time fir me to procure a substitute. I shall feel obliged to you if you will inform the noble chairman, that the Grcat Western Com pany is quite prepared to co-operate cordially with other companies in establishing an efficient sj stem of intik.— Yours faithfully, Caestees Rusem.L.—Argyle-street, Wed nesday, Nov. 6." Lord LONSDALB (in the motion of Mr. Glyn, M.P.) was voted to the chair by acclamation, and, in opening the proceedieas, recalled the consideration of the meeting to the bill introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Monteagle in July lase, for the better auditing of railway accounts. As chairman of the railways he represented, he opposed the passing of the bill, which created no small excitement in the railway and commercial world, upon the ground that the principle of government interference with the private coin morel el afiain of individuals was bad, obnoxious, and ob jectionable. (Applause.) There were several important discussions on the question is the House of Lords; but there, unfortunately, he was not strong enough to throw any suffidently effectual obstacle la the way of the passing of such a measure, but when it went do en into the House of Commons, more practical men bandied and opposed it, seed this resulted in Its being thrown out. (Applause.) They were now met as the representatives of the great railway interests of this country, to hike seeps for organising an effectual opp esition to anything like the future progress of such a measure. A deputation of the railway interest had waited upon Lord John Russell, who after hearing them, frankly said he had no notion himself of 'sectioning such a measure, if a gur rantee could be given that a bill should be introduced in the next union of parliament that would give such an efficient &odic of railway accounts as would be satisfactory to the general body of the sharbolders. Consequent upon the u•urance of Lord John Russell, they adjourned all further proceedings until that day, in order to give the representa tives of the railway bo.y full opportunity for deedieg on the course they would adopt. It was,he believed he was right in stating, the general opinion that some better sys tem of audit should be adopted by law. ( Applause.) That plainer and more lucid expositions of attended affairs should be forthcoming, for at present the various railway companies pursued different systems of keeling their accounts, and he *believed it was the general opinion that railway shareholders as well as the public expected that there should be far greater uniformity, he might almost say, a strict uniformity of accounts. (He.r, hear.) Certainly under all the general heads of account there could be. Some railways had expenses that otters had not, but in then cases the re should b, no omissions. All these items of addi ti 'nal expense should nevertheless be distinctly stated. For instance, in the Case of the two railways of which he (the noble lord) was the chairman, the Whitehaven and Furness Railweys, they were at great expense occasionally for repair ing sea walls, en expense that did not occur to his friend, Mr. Glyn ' end a the London and North Western. While he advocated these additions to the accounts of railway com panies, he contended that there should be no omissions In any term of railway accounts that might here after be adopted as a pree dent and model, and which it would be their duty to circulate thrrughout the country and submit to every shareholdt r for approval, in order that they might either approve or cisap prove, and by sending in their objections or suggestions thereby make toe scheme of audit more effective and com plete. It had been urged that government interference would be desirable, and it was particularly urged in parlia ment that the bill should be delayed to take the sense of the shareholders of all the railways on the subject. S nce then, a pretty good index had been given on the muter at the various railway meetings. Oa looking ever the printed reports of the different half-yearly meetings he had found that on one or two occasions the proposal of government audit had b. en started, bat that the parties who started it met with no support—(hear, hear) —evidently showing that it was against the general wishes of the shore. holders. In one company the vote, when taken on a divi sion, was as 40 to 1 against government interference • and from all these proceedings ewnasw:talutoinfairethetor againsti th t i e t in he . t e l i ii i re n nc o e f o r t ilssi government in oommereial °encores. (Applause.) The none chairman conch' 'ed by proposing a resolution to the effect that the almost unanimous feeling of railway proprie tors, as expressed at the recent halt-yearly meetings, fully justifies the opposition rude to the audit bill of last session, and warrants the conclusion that it is the desire and deter mination of railway proprietors to rein any attempt on the pan of government to interfere in the audit of their accounts, or otherwise in the conduct and management of their pro- iety p . Mr. GLYN, M.P., seconded the resolution. In connesio_ with their present proceedings it was most material it should be understood that they were the result of the experience of the last six months, in relation to the aggregate meetings of the railway companies ; and that now, having taken into consideration the various votes passed at those meetings, the object of their reassembling was to embody them In a manses and substantive form. The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Col. BUCKLEY (Equerry to the Queen) said that &t -annish he might perhaps sta..d alone in the expression of his s, intone, he begged to state that he by no means agreed with the terms of um resolution with regard to the auditing of railway account/. No one felt mare strongly manna government interference than himself, and on every other seibut, save that of auditing railway amounts, he should wish that government had nothing to do, but from all that they Lad seen during the past seer, and all that had happened in regard to railway accounts be confessed he could not see his way clearly without a person with the authority of government to audit railway amounts. Being a shareholder in one of the railways invited there that day, and coming from a part of the country where he had taken the opinion of a large number of persons holding the same views with himself, he could not, though no one In the meeting might be of the same sentiments with himself, hesitate thus openly to express his opinion. Mr. GLYN observed that the meeting was a delegate meeting of directors, and not of proprietors, whose opinions were to be taken hereafter. Mr. COATES (the secretary) corroborated this, and said it was a meeting of the repreeentatives of railway companies, and not of shareholders. Mr. CHAPLIN, M P., explained that Col. Buckley was a shareholder of magnitude in that comdany, and having busi ness to transact at the offins that day, he (Mr. Chaplin) thought It right to take hl5 opinion on the measure, and that he could not do better than bring him to the meeting to hear the day's discussion. Col. BUCKLEY said he was not previously aware that it was a meeting of the kind described ; bat he did not like to go away without expo sing his opinion. Mr. J. B. YATES, of Liverpool, said he wee in tile same paid ia with Cslonei Buckley, having called at the cues of the South Western Campany. Whatever opinion might he oome to by the meeting it could not justly be said to be the opinion adopted by the general body ut railway share holden throughout Englud—(cries of "It isnot intended.") —but the opinion, not a co-extensive one, adopted by their directors. Mr. ELLIS, M.P., observed that his opinion as the re presentative of the Midland Railway Company coincided with the opinions of the noble chairman ana Mr. Glyn. At the last half-yearly meeting of the Midland Company the question was pointedly put to him What course do you intend to pursue upon the question of audit of railway accounts ?" lie told them that it was the intention to hold MI aggregate meeting of railway directors to take the great question into consideration, and that afterwards it was t..eir intention to take the opinion of the railway body generally on the opinions and decisions arrived at by the directors. (Applause.) Mr. LEEMAN, representative of the York. Newcastle, and Berwick 'repetition, submitted that probably that com pany had adopted the best mode of tasting the opinions of the shareholders that possibly could have been devised. The committee of investigation were mat anxious to ascertain what were the reel opinions of the shareholder on the sub ject of government audit. They were distinctly asked whe ther they were in favour of government interference or of the pen suggested by the committee of investigation, whic;l was pretty much in accordance with that propeaed by the present me eting , and the answers he thought were perfectly conclusive on the question. The answers received in favour of the plan proposed by the Committee of In ee were from 2,023 abareholden, repremuting 157,738 ahasati approving of it, while the answers neeived in fa vour et government audit were from 76 shareholders, uprisen.. 4,581 stares. (Loud applause.) Mr. LAING, chairman of the London and Brighton lian„ way, did not wish, in anything that might fall item him, disturb the unanimity of the meeting. When examined ea a witness before Lord Idonteagle's committee, he stated opinion that if government interference could be confirm o s the extent of simply nominating an independent public as. onatent, he thought, while very doubtful of e a public principle of such a measure, that it walk be advantageous to railway ahareholdme, had be bound to my, from the experience of fffe l‘ .... that had =arra during the last 12 months, they was quits warmed in that opinion. He thought that government intesfennoe could be strictly limited to Me minion of some resonated aad well known public aexmat• sat, the measure would work beneficially tor the Win: body, and he doubted whether the question is that kee k had ever been specifically submitted to the great messed railway profiting's. (Applause.) They entertained, he 6e. bend, an almost unanimous and well founded objictses bs the bill introduced last session, and en equally strong otivo don to any measure interfering to such an objectionable ex. tent with all the details of railway management. He dot nut andeestand the resolution to commit thou who sai4ln net be opposed to government interference is the qualified sat , limited form be had indicated. Mr. GLYN would not say anything with reference to ge. ' Verndleat audit, either limited or unlimited, but rose tepee the meeting right upon the point that the meeting was oes of directors and not of proprietors in railways. Mr. HOYKS, auditor of the South Western Railway, ►ad no objeotio.i to the resolution on the understanding th a t i t was a revolution directors, ►ut to purr it es represeutio; A i voice of railway proprietors generally would cause bin r e have no hesitation in sayiog he dissented from it altogether. He agreed with Mr. Glyn that the proptiet. re of the La►. don and North Western had ezpreseied an opinion uneneis o . caddy against government interference, but not that they isig appointed delegates to attend the meeting. Mr. GLYN.—That delegates were to be appointed by th e directors to attend this meeting. The CHAIRMAN—The resolutions will be sent to every proprietor in the kinedom, and they will have a fall app.. %unity of individually expressing their opinioia. Wit► re. Gretna to the other resolutions to be propel d and passed, bs might observe that during the past twelve months cute* trentactions in railways had taken place which they had a n wiuessed with regret. There was, in fact, a complete peak amongst railway companies which they really did not de. serve. People had now come down into their more sober tenser, and sensibly enough attributed the fall in cut* railway revenues to other causes over which 'Wo n directors ►►d no earthly control. (Applause.) The g.ae opinion of all independent shareholders wu now agajait government audit. lie thought that if goveramint oats get their hand in there would be Cu end of patvinage and desire for more power. (Applause.) Everyone, they will knew, wanted to have a pull at the railways— (laughter).- whether in the shane of pariah rates, landed prupristors, or government control. Col. BUCKLEY (interrupting)—ls it not rather from the conduct that has recently hapoeued throughout the *outcry! (Loud cries of " Chair, chair," " Question," and contusion, upon which the gallant colonel took up his hat and hastily left the meeting.) The CHAIRMAN (resuming) said these were the realm why, u a large railway proprietor, he believed that no pri vate concern could go on with government interference, sad that the plan proposed would give to shareholders allinfli cient confidence. The next resolution, the terms of whisk it was proposed to bo embodied in the bill to be brought be. fore parliament next session, andwhich should be it univeresl application to all railway companies, Irae to the diem that there should tie in each company two auditors appointed by the shareholder % with a competent salary, and that they i shall employ a professional accountant independent of the directors. The rceolution having been put from the chair, um carried. The next resolution war, "That powers should be take* for auditing the accounts every 3 months, the auditors 10 report the result to the directors." ♦ very long Meninx ensued upon this, in which the predrinets speakers, Mr. T. Parker, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Leeman, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Hawk- Thaw, Mr. M'Gregor, Mr. Forster, M.P., and °then took part, and ultimately, with the general approval of the meet ing, the wards " a continuous audit," instead of an audit every 3 months, was adopted. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that once in 3 months pave ample time for correcting any possible abus-s. The government accounts were made quarterly, Mr. YATES thought it should be made den whoa, the sort of audit proposed was the Procrustean one of givisg no greater amaunt of auditing to each a gionntic line so the London and North Western, than to such a has as the London and Green wich. Mr. GLYN remarked that as Be directors of the Leeks and North-Western were desirous of a purely bond fide pro prietary audit of the accounts, the proposal of a continuos audit month by mouth met with their perfect approv,l. Mr. LAING, from practical experience of a continuous system of audit on the Brighton Railway, was fitly prepaid to concur upon this point. Mr. ELLIS was also of opinion that the audit to be efee the, must be continuous and not at intervals of 3 months. Mr. LEEMAN showed that this was the opinion of the eounnitt e of invedigation of the York, Newcastle ad Berwick, and that to limit the attention of the auditors to 3 months would be very little improvement upon the present system. Mr. lIAB'KSHAW intimated that the independent sc onuutant appointed in connexion with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway had access to the account* at ell thus, and not at intervals, so that a good and prettiest audit was obtained. Mr. GLYN, reps.( tentative of the Eastern Counties Rail way, said the directors of that company had appointed a public accountant, who was now going [beetle the aconite continually, and verifying them as they arose, and who would make out his report for the next half-yearly media', subject to the examination of two auditors appointed by the proprietors. The process was carried on at swing misdeeds expense that no company, however small, need hesitate to carry out the plan. Mr. BAXTER, representative of the Great Western nil way, showed in a long address that the audit in large mei patsies to be effective must be continuous. It could be it possible at intervals of months to go through their edam/r nous accounts without creating embarrassments. Mr. FORSTER, 11. P , was of opinion that the auditoaght to be continuous, accompanied by a report to the direcron. The next resolution, which was earned unanimoualy,wm to the effect that if a question arises between the madams and directors concerning any application of the funds, that question should be specially referred to the met meeting. The succeeding ones, which were also passed, proposed to provide that the auditors should audit the as 40% half yearly, and report to the meeting of shareholders the nature of their audit and its results, with their opinions, and that tlis report accompanied by the accounts and by any report which the accountant may, if he thinks fit, make, shall be circulated amongst the shareholders five clear days before the half-yearly meeting—the accounts passed by the mane, to be final !object to the question of voting. The half yearly financial sta'ement of all companies to be made out ss nearly as mg be to the form prescribed b, the act. Mr. LAING, in speaking to the last point, observed that one of the most objectionable features in the bill of last seniors was its dic•atlon of the way in which accounts should be kept, a question better left altogether to the commos con sent of the compen it s eenerally. (Applause.) Mr. MACGREGOR observed that there were certain constants in all railway accounts, which if fairly set out pve a true account of the working, and this was what was to be aimed at. Mr. GLYN thought the great object. was so to give arida general heads of the accounts, in uniformity, as to afford the proprietors and the public every opportunity of comparing one particular period and railway with another. After some suggestions from Mr. Wyndham Harding, Mr. Paget, and oilier', Mr. GLYN proposed that, in order to afford the propree tors of railways a more speedy means of examination into the conduct of their respective undertakings, it should be cot potent for any number of proprietors holding stock or shares to the value paid up, of not less than one third of the total capital of the company, to appoint, within a month after:sny general meeting, two et their number for the purpose of making a special examination into the accounts of the cur rent half-year, and such auditors so specially appointed, together with the public accountant selected by them, shall have the same power of examination, in every respect, as be has by the proposed and other acts granted to auditese appointed in the ordinary course by a majority at a general meeting. This preposition underwent • prolonged discussion, the prominent objection being that it would open the door to any proposed factious opposition on the part of a minority of the shareholders. Mr. FORSTER, M.P., believed that if this provision were not inserted in the bill, parliament would in all probability propose to insert something stronger, unless some such potent wan given to the minority. Ultimately, after an animated discussion, the r solutics was carried by a majority of 2. It was finally resolved that the resolutions be published and transmitted to the secretary of every railway company, with a request that the °pillion of the shareholders be taken upon them whethsr for or gait" or proposing any modifications, and that the following noble- men and gentlemen be appointed a committee to crepan bill for parliament in acc - rdaaoe with the resolutions :—Led Lonsdale, Lord Powis, Earl of Yarborough, Mr. Chapbo, M.P., Mr. Glyn, M.P., Mr. E. Denison, M.P., Mr. Elba, M.P., Mr. Ormsby Gore_ , M.P., Mr. Ricardo, MT-, Kt- Blackbutn, Mr. Lying, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Betts, Mr. Wickham. A vote of thanks was given to Lord L.insiale for presid ing, and the meeting separated at half-past I o'clock. JEWS IN ROME.—Recent letters from Rome inform as that a great re.ction is manifesting itself regarding the treatment of the Jews. The Cardinal• Vicar has just hard an order to the Jews to Cischarge at owe their catholic sa vants. Thu is Jewish emancipation in Italy totteriagr• wards its grave, which wa, dug by the unjust and mean is terference of the French the affairs if Rome, from "steel she is now suffering, but, as usual, the Jews sutler the most. " I fear," writes one correspondent, " that we shall sons behold again the disgraceful gates of the Obetto."—Jew i sh Chronicle. ST. GILES'S BORIAL-GBOUNT.—The authorities of the parishes of St. Gilts and Bloomsbury met yesterday. le consider an order of the General Bud of Health, addreesd to the churchwardetu, viatica zo the churehysa of Bt. Giles ; and, with the approbation of the rector and church wardens, ordered that no new greets shunld be opened is the churchyard, and no interraenta abowe,:, except in (spoil vaults and grave. -t* WI illm sat' Fri tog shi