The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

to ore stud. or wattles, or thatch, or some other wretched substitute for the material which almost every ate of the world has recognised as the legiti mate material for building. No one can expect to find morality or contentment asitcl with a broken roof or a falling wall. Them are abundant proofs that the high rate of rents created be the brick duty, amongst other things, has a most rissoirous effect upon the habits of the poor. Th e B e e. Pr. OILLT, 006 of the osnoss of Durham and incumbent of a large parish in Northumberland. has &ea the following picture of the stabs of the dwrlangs of the poor in that part of England: lahourrs of this county are proverbially "heady, thrif.e. sad w• 11. informed ; and the lest view of the interior of • eof their cottegee—weU famished, well swabbed, sad r epleniehed—would lead a stream to suppose that all s• it emit to be. Bat even la this imam' diserkk pub. he b, sub sad goblin! Meese, are salmis. booths mashed m ai et army ef dee \ striation', while the modem and lamas of the meet emelleat sad eiseerviag body of mss in the mold," an seerifieed I. Matteatin sod aegleet. Very 'ew mown have say secommodatios whatever for the male of seta e. It many of them lamp families are Ab e d to sleep together, without that separation of age sad ova eibieh Mersey requires. Is two cottages whisk I could some. and ins single room, there ars two beds sampied by l a ther. mother. and am Mikirea ; aad is ameba wasp there se • noels room, wi th two beds sett;, la which father, m other. sod ilia children, eight la all,ea * . Box•beds, es the) are called, placed adjoiaise to each colwe la the we room retain the married sad the samervied la malignity, which mum be N osily fatal to health sod &limey. We believe such things are not confined to No/r --ater:. erland or the more remote rural districts of Gnat Britain. In many of the villages immediately in the neighbourhood of London quite as but a state of things prevails. We might instance cottages at AVillesden or some of !hoes about Kilburn. But, as Dr. OILLT says, if such is the state bf things in the tlourishing villages of Northumberland and Middlesex wh.t must be the in:seeable and debased condition of the working classes in the poorer hamlets of other counties, and in the fetid garrets of our crowded tows, ? . . The only objection we have to Mr. Hulas motion is, that it dues not go far enough. Who ever saw a 41. hones in the Metropolis? And yet there are suburbia districts, Kennington for example, where we could show whyle streets built for the express areceamaistion of the labouring poor. To these Mr. Ilt•ma's elation will afford no benefit: in the country, however, and especially in clay districts, it would afford the people a very considerable boon. 'floe Duke of BEDFORD has lately been engaged in building L r the working people upon his estates houses of a very improved description, which are intended to be let at the lowest possible remunerating rents. N,,w these cottages are to all appearance substan tially built; but we are told that the intermediate 'pace between the bricks of the inner and outer walls his been uniformly filled in with cinders and ashes. Thie is done for no other purpose than to save the cost of brit ke, so considerably enhanced by the Excise taxa tion. Were Mr. Humes motion to be adopted, his Gray's co.teges no doubt would consist in future of solid brit k walls. ore question with us is, whether the brick duty ought not to be altogether repealed. It was creigi taly a war tax, imposed by Mr. Pirr in 17144, in order to provide for the payment of the debt incurred by the American war. No tax that ever was imposed bs Prrr was more vehemently objected to in parlia ment. It met with the most "decided opposition and was only st:opttel alter great difficulty, and upon the distinct understanding that a cus tom duty upon seaborne stone and slate should also be imposed. Such duties were levied for many Term, but they were found so objectionable that ulti mately they were repealed, though the tax on bricks bad meanwhile been doubled. So much for the pod faith of government to the brick-makers. The tax on brick*, as at present levied, Is most enemas urn the manufacturer. All bricks must be of crrta'n dimension,. They must to made in sheds duly entered and regularly marked, and numbered by thiEscier. The duty is charged whilst the bricks are in a raw, or street date ; and no matter what damage they may anbittioestly suffer, the Excise will allow the manufacturer no compensstion b:ycnd one teeth for injury. This allowance operates most unequally scwrding to the different situations of the brick fields, std there bare ban cases where thousands of pounds' worth of imperfect bricks have been ruined either by frost or flood, or hot weather or wet weather, without the slightest compensation being afforded by the Leese to the u:ttappy sufferers. The rate of duty is estimated by the Excise to avenge Ss. 10d. per thousand bricks; but from the remiss restrictions and impediments, it amounts in reality to not less than eight shillings per thousand. This is more than one-third of the value of the article ' • and it is calculated that every person who can make his own bricks saves another third, so that the excise duty may be said to be a tax of two.thirds upon the value to every con sumer under the existing system. And this tax, be it °teemed. is tot imposed upon an article of luxury, bit on as article of useful manufacture, which may be said to be even et' the very first necessity. The effect of the brick "duty upon architecture ge nerally may be recognised in every street in London. Ornamental brickwork is exploded ; and instead of it we bare plaster of Paris and concrete. Our bun dstioas are all of concrete; the casings of our houses art plater. The bricks that are used are of the worm que:ity ; for the mode of takieg the duty is, to DOMe extent, ad ralurem : polished and other bricks le.rg charged nearly double the amount of duty ul...ch is chargeable on inferior sorts. Such are some of the abomicatiots of the duty. The number of britkonkers affected by it is estimated to exceed 4,100. The amount of recenc~ the duty produces is r , " 40.1,0001. a year. 1: a maa wants to build a house he may collect his stote..ime, slate, and timber from the adjacent fields, sti•t+nut let, hindrance, ar melentafioit ; bat if be v.:apt to take op a pines of his own clay and bake it into a brick, the Facie, Gems down upon him for 'briny Faulty. When we consider what an absurd iejtatiee is involved in this, and when we reflect also dm this tax is imposed with great inequality on one of the most whit of our native manufactures, we think it is high time that this duty, with others, should receive the attention of the legislature. NorirMiefeargen the surprise sad aaitnadversio, With which we eoeld not but receive the first intelh ram of the bl xhade of the Piers by a British gumtree, we must admit that the case of Mr. ftNestr is a eery strong one; that hie claims rest not only upon his own statements, bet upon the ad mission of the most anti-English minister that Gatos ever had, being General COLZTII him sr 1 ; and that the interminable delay to ren der him any kind of justice, worthily wound op by ea insolent refusal, was conduct on the part of the Greek government to an Englishman, with which to British government could put up. If any foreign parer can treat an Englishman aa the Greek c ourt re a treated Mr. FIN i LAY, with impunity, there s an end of any respect for either the rights or property of Englishmen abroad. it. publication of the officiil correspondence, we bur no hesi•ation in declaring, puts the conduct of the English admiral and envoy in altogether a new And we are only sorry that a case, so strong end so plain as Mr. I.IIILAY's, should have been Isr.s.d with others that are trifling, captious, and eves ludicrous. Hr. Frsi.sv, in 1830, purchased a portion of land sear Alhens from the Turkish proprietor; all the for llielitiee to give a clear title to the land having been gone ttroelth, sad, indeed, not being disputed. In licie King Orgo selected a spot for his palace, and telt (art of Mr. FiNteY's ground to form the royal gardens. 01 course Mr. FINLAY remonstrated, an`!ought indemnity. He did this in 1837, when Litmus, th e Greek Home Minister, told him that nis laid was not, and would not be, required for titter the place or the gardens, although it was oc squid by the buildings for the workmen. In 1838 a see remonstrance was answered by a new minister, 14. Zonturitos, in the ume terms. At last when the , sal gard'-ns were endued, it became impossible to deny that they did take in a great portion of Mr. }MAT); property. At length, in 1842, Mr. FINLAT r•tolved to appeal for support to the British minister, rod then, the Greek Under-Secretary, unable to :s -prat the old exam., put forth a new one. from M. Scourros I learned (said Mr. FINLAY) .1 hat a rot al ordinance, dated in the year 1837, offered terms • intleranhy to the proprietors of the palace land hut a copy t. ordinance was refused to as., Slid I found that it did !I t• on the archives of the CO/ONOISO of Athens, the ulfrh. vino only furnishni the Dimarsh of Attune with a lriiptis ofits provision . Tie ealstente et this ordinance awes hinted at to me until M. Beenlico mentioned it. Ih, fact that Plots of ind. meity rtiesined eenotaled for SO may pan 1* • county wino* th• {•tent of now has °fun Dw doing th• tutorial 24 pox nut. poi ••ens, ►.wire the ear de son whl•h night hays ban r••••••bn fa 1837 ea •et la••I; 1. 1641. Other parties were in the stamrpositioa as Mr.' FINLAY. Lied for the Eases was also taken from M. PAPAILIGOPULO, the Medan coasal-pnerel, and Gem the Rev. Mr. Hui, goat of the American Episcopalian Society, neither of whom wished to press apps the Ortek government. M. Omni r, the Austrian consul-general, who was in the same cars, was mot so scrupulous and he got basdemsely From 1842 to 1848 Mr. FINLAY kept dunning Lad ADIUIDENN, and Sir EDMUND LYONS fail ed not to make represistations, the judos of which were fully admitted by the Oreek Minister, M. Rtzo. At length, in 1846, Sir EDMUND LYONS awakened M. Cohan to the serimmasse of the claim ; end Column proposed to settle it by referring it for arbitration to two of his own officials! This proposal was supported by the plea that other claimants bad emisented to a small indemnity, and the Greek go verment could not make such an exception is Mr. FIRIAT'S favour as to grant his full demands. Mr. FINLAY having objected to this Battlement, CoLETTI told him to bring the case before the Greek courts of law ; but the claim of FINLAY against the King's civil list for being expropriated by the King in virtue' of his previously absolute power was not cognisable by the newly-established constitutional courts. And the Bavarian functionaries who had committed the injus ties had long since quitted the country. Mr. FINLAY mold not demand indemnity from the Greek courts on the plea that the land was takes for the public service, for M. Zooaseuos had palpably denied that it was taken in any each light. It was the private doing of the court. To fresh remonstrances, M. Coharn repred, that certain proprietors were paid in 1837 for their land at a certain rate fixed by government; and that Mr. Fuerre must be contented with that rate now. Fresh refusals followed on the part of Mr. FINLAY, who demanded the same rate of tudeinnity that was paid foe other spots of ground situated similarly as bl own, and at the same distance from the palace. No demand surely meld be more fair than this, and it amounted only to 45,000 drachmas, or about 1,6001. The more recent facts and correspondence have bees for some time known. Oar envoy was ordered to press the matter seri?esly upon the Greek minis try, who we believe yielded so far as to consent to name an arbiter, whilst England should name another. If these disagreed, who should be called on to Bette the matter finally P M. Loewe; said, in that case, he would act arbiter himself, far he °sold not think of putting the decision any further oat of his hands. Something of this kind we understand to have been hie reply, and it a really so puerile and impertinent, that instead of bringing several hundred guns to coerce him, the man really deserved a more humiliating and boyish castigation for his folly. It is quite evident throughout the whole of the case, that the Greek government was actuated by some personal pique to Mr. FINLAY, either with re ference to his own character and *aims, or to his being an Englishman. The sum was set large, the injustice patent, the various excuses with which he had been pat off mean. And the final determination of the Greek minister was no less tban that it would not do an Englishman justice, but would pt English power at defiance. We are not eurprised that such conduct should have stirred the meek Mr. Wren and the circumspect Admiral PARKER to Rem not to be immured by the magnitude of FINLAY'S demand, but by that of the question whether Engl ohmic ions: despair of any justice or consideration from the Greek government. From such claims we do not see how the British government can desist. Although we think it committed the greatest of errors in mingling it up with any political or territorial question, such as that of the islands. The matter sh ould not be looked at in a political light at all. It is en purely commercial, that bad the Greek court at first offered to refer it to the arbitration of an impartial personage or power--Governor TAILOR, for example—we ought at once to have accepted it. The government of France would, no doubt, be equally impartial in each a matter. But there is a puerile faction in Paris that long since erected a baby house at Athens, and which cherishes that baby house with childish spite and infantine predilection, without being actuated by one thought or one motive of rational or manly policy. The idea of France and England having lastly distinct interee's in Greece is absurd. And we trust that the mission of Baron GROS will not only put an end to the foolish and un settled account between Mr. FINLAY and King Onto, but also prepare the way for a settlement of the more wide, though far more puerile differences between French and English diplomacy in Greece. FRANCE. PARIS, IdoNDAT 5.30 P.M The anniversary of the revolution, yesterday, passed off with perfect calm. The weather being beautifully tine, there was vast crowds of promenaders on the Boulevards, in the public gardens, the Champs Elynee, and other places of resort ; in the Champs Elynes, in particular, the gathering of pedestrians and the display of equipages were larger and more brilliant than had been seen for the last two years. During the day there was a crowd of workmen, nearly all attired in their Sunday clothes, around the Column on the Place de la Bastille, and the railing of the Column was decked with crown of immortelles. A religions ceremony was performed in all the churches of Paris, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 24th of February, and a Te Deum was sung. The Archbishop of Paris officiated at Notre Dame. M. Dubois de fltaligny, Minister Plenipotentiary from France to the court of Holland, has arrived in Paris from Amsterdam. M. Tricoupi, Envoy Eztraordinaty and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Greece, has presented his credentials to the President of the Republic. The Bourse fell to-day co the intelligence that an energetic note had been seat, or was on the point of being sent to the powers, on the subject of the affairs of Switzerland. This note was said to be in substance 'that France considered the occupation of Switzerland se inopportune. Further, in reply to the question as to what would be the coaduct of the French executive is case Austria and Prussia should occupy Switzer land without other co-operations, that France would do what was necessary to areservethe honour is well as the interts's of the country intact. In support of this note it was stated that the government had decided to-day to form a camp of 40,000 or 60,000 men on the Swiss frontier, and to call oat a fourth battalion to be added to each regi ment. Such is the intelligence that made the Bourse Lill, and which has been common:rated tome in the same terms from divers channels. Letters from Schaffhausen of the 18th inst. state that all egress from Switzerland into Baden had been forbidden by the authorities of the latter state. Everything at the Chamber was quiet up to peat hour, the Chamber proceeding with the second read ing of the Education Bill. Previonily MM. Schcelcher and Perrinon had been admitted members cf the Assembly for Guadeloupe. Telegraphic despatches, received by the govern ment from several departments, state that the anni versary of the revolution yesterday weed off with the greatest calm. "Yesterday," says the Courier Francais, " from seven in the morning, the greatest activity reigned in the different barracks. The colonels passed their regiments in review in the yards. The authorities did not think it necessary to order the troops to keep to barracks. No symptom of agitation was apparent in any part, and our brave soldiers were, as on other days, able to walk about in the streets." BOURSE. PAM, Fis.34. Far Wary. pi Cesis. ....... 67 30 per Orsts.. 3 . 90._ 14• T Lau L(lpsolag LIMN& 6610 96!S 86 30 9640 110 De ij.MI SPAIN. MADRID, Fes. te. Her Majastywho bin excellent health and spirits to day, reeMved the city authorities, and made a brief and centimes reply to • long congratulatory harangue. General Concha, who is rich and somewhat fond of living in the ospi!al, has resigned the captain-gene rep of Catalonia. General Richard Shelley, the captain-general of Andalusia, has tome to Ma The scarcity of rain in that province gime rise to much uneasiness, en uneasiness aggravated by the rigoar with which the imposts are gathered. In Melees, in partied ir, the want of water will produce terrible diadem. Queen Christina held a levee yesterday, to receive congratu lating in honour of her daughter's pregnancy. It was most nurnerous'y attended by men of every shade of opinion. _ _ _ N;1111311, Ti, 10.—Thres pir 19# amount. Tour per Cams. If 9.116 wpm FIT* For Oiatit e r4 piper. CloapcoVe vaR• Seal of St. 1 , 411. ftabrige as Lehr. 50.30. ITALY. ROMAN STATES.—A letter from Rome, in the Oeriststutionnel, contains some particulars relating to the facts we have already given. The person who wounded the French officer on the 11th has been ar rested with two acoomplices. The name of the former is Fattori, those of the latter are De Vecohi and Rossi. The court martial has condemned Fattori to death, and the other two to hard labour for life. Among the wens arrested on account of the attempt a,fainst the Prince of Moslem°, are MM. Tittoni, Petracobi, and Mme. Narduoci, who, together witlimany . others, had been obliged to sign a paper at the ponce, de claring thenntelves reeponyble for any disorders that might take pines during the carnival. The Russian ambassador, M. de Boutenief, has arrived from Na ples, and h ad an interview with the government com mission at the Quirinal, which lasted three hours. The Giornaledi RoMa of the 16th publishes a noti ficetion from Monsig. Lavelli, minister of police at Rome, announcing that a voluntary enliitment is opened for the formation of a body of guards of public ',fay. The same journal publishes the minutes of the operation of burning 66,770 scud' (333,850 fr.) worth of the paper money of the republic. Letters from Rome of the 16th announce a change in the ministry t iere. Genersl Kallermatten, who has grown in papal sr nice, hikes the post of minister of war, vacated by Prince Orsini. TUSCANY.—The Piedmont.** Gasette states from Florence, 18th inst., that a person publicly received forty strokes of the bastirado at Leghorn on the 16th, for having jointed the authorities. On the 17th M. Zappoli and Cenni (the latter was aide-de-camp to Garibaldi) were suddenly arrested at Bologna. At Pesaro the Gonfaloniere was arrested on the 12th, for having 250 loaded military muskets. 80 swords, and flee drums in his possession. SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN. REFUSAL OF PRUSSIA TO RENEW THE ARMISTICE. BERLIN, Fes. 23. Prussia has refused to renew the armistice with Denmark for six months, on the ground that she can not countenatoe the coctinuance of a provisional go vernment inlthe duchy ot Schleswig, which is entirely paralysed by the universal resistance ot the people, whose acts are in direct opposition with the reason able wishes of the people, aid whose administration cannot be defended by any principle of political or moral right. The armistice rune on of itself indellnitively ; but denunciat'on on either side renews the war in six weeks. The consequence of Prussia's declaration will be the breaking up of the Administrative Commission in the duel of Schleswig. Count Eulenbarg will retire, and then, of course, Colonel [lodges and Count will follow. The Times alludes, in the number we have received to-day, to the secret articles in the treaty of July 10 ; but has forgotten to state the first and tncst important of those secret articles is, that Prussia is not to be called on tn enforce the conditions of the convention as made public. On the other hand another secret article stipulates that if Denmark shculd not be con tent with the states quo, she may insist on the with drawal of the Prussian troops. The results of the refuel' of Prussia to renew the armistice are likely to be the withdrawal of the Prus sian and Swedish troops ; the marching in of the dchleswig troops from Holstein on one side, and and perhaps of the Danish troops from Denmark on the other. The highly exasperated mood of the Schleswigers seems to render war probable—perhaps inevitable. The Danes, however, seem, notwithstand ing their high-pitched demands, by no means so anxious as last liar to renew the combat. Hence it is belied that even when the ineffectual attempts at mediation are withdrawn, chances will still remain of au accommodation. GERMANY. BERLIN, Flll. 23. In the Second Chamber yesterday, the debate on the budget was broug!it to a close. The estimated receipts for 1850 amount to 91.338,448 rixdollars, the ordinary expenses to 90,974,393 rixdollars, the extra ordinary to 4,925,313 rixdollats. In this shape the budget was voted, and the house stood up to thank the committee. HAMBURG, FIB. 22. A petition, worded in very expressive language, has been sent by the inhabitants of Angelo to the Statthalterschaft of Schleswig-Holstein, at Kiel, de claring that the present state of the country is no longer bearable, and requesting that regency to as inine again the reins of government, and, if there should be no other means to settle their dispute with Denmark than war, to make their army draw the sword again. They snide to the sacrifices made by them to preserve their indept-ndence, and moreover that their sons and brothers are ready to shed their last drop of blood in the same sacred mums; they will rather lay down their life, they say, than be tyran nised over as they are now. The petition is signed by all the seventy-two leading men (eorstelser) of the country, on behalf of their communes. The papers likewise contain a protest of the clergy of Schleswig against the arbitrary acts of the provisional adminis tration in dismissing several of their members, and of the headmasters and other teachers of the schools, by which a number of children are left without educa tion. They protest against the right of the adminis tration to meddle with these affairs, as belonging to the church, and not to the temporal authorities. POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH FRANCE. A deputation, tousietiog of Mr. Mseermao, M.P., Sir Jaws Deka, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr Brown, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Basendale, Mr. Mac gregor, chairman of the B,utb Eastern Railway Company, the Mayor of Salford, and other gentlemen interested to the postal eoanosicatiou with France, had an interview with Lord John Russell on Friday, to present memorials from the City of London, liverpooll, Manchestn, tine Norwich, praying for the conveyance o' the mails between London sad Pena by the direct route en Folkestone and Boulogne. These from London and Liverpool were signed by the gnat insjerity of the leading beakers and merchants. REPEAL or TUB WINDOW Dodge.—Let stetting • sweating of thepnrieltionsuo of St. Pancras took place at the ve.try-roam, .lii'a-road, Clanaden-!awn, for the put pow of cnneideriag the steps necemery to be taken for securing a repeal of the window duties. Mr. F. Healy (church warden) presided, and the meeting, which was numerously attend. d, was addremed by Lord D. 81uert, 111 P., Sir B. Hall, H.P., Dr. Birmingham, he., he. Resolutions were adopted declaring that tae tax was unjust in princi ple, and partial sad odious in its operation, and that sani tary mewur'a must be a mockery tides' coupled with a rep, al of the impost. A petition, founded on these resolu tions, WAS also adopted, and the meeting separated. FEAT UNDER ARME.—On Friday a match WAS un dertaken by a young shim of the Guards, to walk, accoutred In every respect es • private enleller, In heave marching order, from London to Windsor Barrack' la mesa hours ; 6 to 1 was subsequently betted against his doing it in six Lour, the distance being 21i miles ; tits weight about 10 pounds, with grenadier cap, knspssek, larreesek, musket, die. ; and the diSculty at walking under such equipments, without previous rousing, was great. The mat was accom plished In 61 hosts, to the surprise of the natives and soldiery. Crowds were collected at the entrance of Windsor —the cheering was humenas. The kart from Ilyde•peek. corner was at eight a.m.. The first 10 miles were walked is twin nine minutes, and the remaining eleven alike In a :knit two noun and a half; the time of balling was forty minutes. Tk• rate of walking, therefor*, with such equip ments, without previous training, being about Sour miles an hour for 21 miler. AT MANCLIII!;TFIi FIB. 25. The factory operatives of Lancashire held another delegate meting ow Sunday. Tits central coamisse domed It aessmey to sail a mooed mating oa amount of the seals mesas that had been adopted to pea the meeting held ea Use previous ftaday, by a few pinions net at all oonaeetod with factories, and who appear to be dividing the seekates, with a view of prolonging the tiritatiors. The ateetiayt, as ea the former mosioa, me held at the Caton TN, Timers, is this tows, sad wee my numerously allsailed, at les^ so far u the amber of towns was sos eller" The Mewing is as sired of the eirealar wiling the meeting, hewed by the esavel sessedues lamenesearse des mks mew drat were adore le seek the t=agsUrial *aft, WI. Ihe mese emmiltas hal they st he * these e koalas. sae Ihmeriese es yearder sot Os see Welk= oussi tit Oaab kt than alms dry reemm. Thus. saaker lekosis tosailegooss odedelsetks sink= Sams Sabo alma Ms sod edemas rsepulles le their Ill* • slew el essell. Wag Ohs etseilsg as Web esaewpla they haw weld OM lb* M. keit* doll los its band t—Fer wary IS,. lasing MAIO kisikosts or miss, or ilko; 1f am to "NO eat mks HOW% ass disoan; If ace* ftsi MAN salt waft IN" Urea lanais V moss IakISO awl sobs esues. kee ask. pass sod Vases Ibis MAIO. hos vide sal lo sells' Is saws kis stesang friss the isintelta 'finnan sal pee= who take so Lama be Oa wok the scarce hays andeled yak tha circular the umber et meat he aid* year dlerlet le Waled Is lend del.- ✓ata., sad on se mane whatever will say pawn be permitted to ewe t o ms te re take part la the proceedings enter he Wit ot three Mr. P. HAILGREAVES prodded, and in opening the badness of the meeting said the committee felt it to be their duty, before carrying out the resolutions of the meeting held lest Sunday, again to anneal to the operatives. At that meet ing &grope insult had brat offered to Lord Ashley, and that too by persons who had no right whatever to beet the meet leg, and, therefore, the committee, knowing that the real workers in factories ware almost, if not quite, unanimous is favour of the noble lord, who had so long and well served them, deemed it their duty to call • second meeting, from which strangers and agitators should be excluded . Mr. GRANT said that he regretted the neuesity of these Sunday meetings; but such were the circumstances under whisk the factory operatives were placed, that they had so other means of assembling except on the Sunday, and, therefore, be willingly attended them. They (the delegates) were sow called upon to express their feelings, and that of their constituents, and whatever their sentiments might be, U they were consistent with the objecte of the meeting, the central committee would feel themselves boned to carry out. Mr. S. Field= then addressed the delegates at c n adorable length. He had had an interview with Sir 0. Grey, who said he would not propane to oppose the bill that might be introduced by the muter, ; but as the organs of the government wrote in favour of the Ten Whrs Act, he believed that, with tie assistance of Lord J. Mennen and the Duke of Richmond, they would be able to prevent the government from opposing the bill about to b e introduced to declare the validity of the Ten Hours Act. A long discus sion then followed, in which many of the delaratestork part, as to the constitution of the meeting. The first resolution, expressive of the determination of the operatives to stand by the Ten Hours Bill, was then put and carried unanimously. The soloed resolution, proposed by Mr. Grant, and seconded by use of the delegates, expressive of con fi dence in Lord Ashley end his ability to conduct the bill through the House of Commons, and requesting Lord J. Manners and Mr. Bankes to render him their assistance in so doing, was also carried unanimously. A resolution, appointing Mr. Paul Hare , Manchester, Richard Unswortb, of Raton, Thomas Pitts, of Ashton, and John Kay, of Blackburn, delegates to Loudon, was then agreed to. The next resolution entrusted to the Earl of Ellesmere and Lord Fevenham the conducting of the bill through the House of Lords. Thanks having been voted to the chair men, the meeting separated, about five o'clock. RAILWAY MEETINGS. BAST AND WEST YORKSHIRE JUNCTION. Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of thisoompany was held at Leeds, D. W. NELL, Esq.. the chairman, presiding. There were also present T. NunneVey, E.q., Walter Stead, Esq., Robert Baker, Esq., and Joseph Whincup, Esq., directors of the company. The notice convening the meeting having been read, and the seal of the company arlixed to the register book of share holders, The SECRETARY read the report of the hoard of dine. tors, which stated that an exact state of the revenue account could not be gives, in consequence din not being received (though much pressed for) from the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, which company had worked the line and retained the receipts, without ren dering any account except the weekly return. In order to lessen the cost of the trains, only two each day, except on market days, had been run, whilst the Sunday trains had been entirely discontinued, in consequence of the positive lose sustainet by them. The fares, as an ex periment, had been reduced, but if necessary they would be again raised. The most rigid economy had been carried into every department. Considerable delay had taken place in the rebuilding of the fallen viaduct over the Nidd, in conse quence of Messrs. Wilson and Benson, the original o3ntrac tors, disputing the award made by Mr. Grainger, the engi neer of the Leeds and Think Company, but the works were now proceeding as rapidly u possible ; and as the rubbish of the fallen viaduct was removed quite sufficient was revealed to occasion wonder, not that the structure bad fallen, but that it bad stood at all. In consequence of this delay, the line c3uld not be completed before the next Harrogate season, a circumstaace which would occasion much delay in the development of the traffic on the lin% So soon as this could be dose, and the traffic could be carried through on the Leeds and Think branch to Harrogate, not only would the preference shires receive • full dividend, but the original shares also would participate is the advantage. The abstract of receipts and expenditure from the com mencement of the undertaking in 1846 to the 31st of Drs., 1849, gave the total receipts (exclusive of the traffic account for the hale-year) at 230,260/. 6s. Bd. ; and the expenditure to the same date was the same sum, with the exception of 31. 10s. ld. in the secretary's band. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the adoption of the report, said it was so full, that he had nothing to say in ad dition to it, except that in the plum of Mr. March, who had relined his seat at the board, Mr. Robert Baker, had been appointed in his place, which was ultimately adopted intent moualy. T. HOLT, Esq., of Harrogate, was unanimously elected an auditor in the place of Kr. M. Sweating, and alter KIDS other formal businam the mating broke up. BOSTON, STAMFORD, AND BIRMINGHAM. Yesterday the half-yearly ordinary meeting of this company took place, at No. 14, Moorgate•streat. Mr. MAC LULIT took the chair, when the mon and acoounts were read, stating " The directors hays been occupied during the put half-year in carrying out the arrangements entered into with the Great Northern Company. The amounts paid up by various proprietors in advance of calls, under the former conditions of the company, have been respectively returned to them with intermit ; deducting the second call of 44e. per share. An exchangcdeed, conveying to th e proprietors, in lieu of their Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham shares, the proportions agreed upon of guaranteed 'hares in the Royston and Fijian Railway, has been prepared by the Great Northern Company, and (together with the Royston and Hitcltin sealed certificates) has been handed over to your directors, and has now been executed by a very large pro- portion of the shareholders, to each of whom Royston and Hitehin sealed certificates have been delivered in exchange for the sealed certificates of this company, aLd who have been registered on the books of the Royale* and Hitehin Company. It will, however, be requ'site to con tinue the °Moe and the executive of this com pany for another twelve months, there being some claims and other business of importance still outstanding, and under the consideration of the directors. The Royston and Machin Company having been ascuatomed to pay their interest annually, the shareholders who have executed the exchange deed will not, as :hitherto, receive from this company their interest warrants for the last half-year, a year's interest being due and payable to them, in common with the other Royston and llitehin proprietors, in July next." The statement of accounts showed a balance of 3,9011. 6s. 6d. in the hands of the bankers to the credit of the eompany. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which passed unanimously. A vote of 4001. for the directors, and 101. each for the audi tors, wu agreed to. The CHAIRMAN said as this company was winding up, it might be wondered at their passing this remuneration to the board, but as there were various outstanding claims yet to be set-led by the directors, he emaidered their services would be %sally required in the present year, as well as those of the auditors, and hence this resolution for the remu neration of their services. The meeting then adjourned. ROYSTON AND HITCHIN. Yesterday the eighth half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders In this eompany was Uhl at Hadley s Hotel, Bridge•steeet, Blackfriars. Mr. W. WMBIIIIIII pre sided. The SECRETARY read the report, in which the direc tors state that, notwithstanding their 'Sou, they have been unable hitherto to carry maths arrangement for leasing the line t. the Great Northern Company, but they express • hope that they will be in a situation to apply, in the course of the ensuing month, to the Railway Commissioners for their artificial*, preliminary to the execution of the lease. With regard to the Shepreth extension capital, they state that as it has been all allotted with the exception of a few shares, instructions have been given to purchase the land necessary for the construction of the extension, and steps will immediately be taken to let the contract for the works, and to urge their completion in the shortest possible time. .The financial sheet showed that 158,6041. had been re stive& mad 123,6054 expended, leaving a balance in hand of 34,9991. The report was carried unanimously. The retiring audi tors were re-elected ; and, on the motion of th e c h i rman, the seeretszy's salary was increased 601. per annum. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH. Yesterday the tiuth half-yearly general meeting of tha shareholden In this company was held at tie White Lion Rotel, Bath. Sir John W. Awdry, in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report of the directors, in which they stated that taking advantage of the nnanimiti of feeling existing between them and the board of the Great Western, they had determined in order to avoid all risk of litigation, to carry the original intentions of the companies into effect by as arrangement of so simple a character as not to admit of dispute. It was proposed therefore the* under the powers of the company's act of incorp .ration, a sale of the undertaking, se it new stands should sopersede the agreement to lease the line when completed. The condition of psyment would bean annuity charged upon the under taking of the Great Western Railway Company, and equal to 4 per cent. upon the share ca pit a l actually pa id up by the shareholden la this company, w ith a right to a contingent income as provided in the exi s ti ng agreement . The right pertlelpateso ln future creations of shares by the Great Western Railway Company, which might possibly become valuable hereafter, was not affected by the pr o p ose d terms of sal*, but remained in fall forte. By the sale, therefore, of the line to the Great Western Railway Company, the pecu niary right' of this company would not be varied, but their assertion would be simplifie d; and the measure having been to by the Great Western Railway Company, the ri l :!t d ors recommended that it should receive the assent of** shareholders of this company also, at the special general meeting Should this be obtained, it would be the duty of the directors to ex. cute, at an early period, a conveyance of the line and such other deeds as they might be ar:vised ; alter which the undertaking, with all its towers, rights, and liabilities, would be transferred to the Great Western Rail way Company, and the board thenceforward only tint for the purpose of dividing the annuity among the shueholden, and for other formal business. The audited general et dement of receipts and payments up to the 31st Dee., 1849, which was al‘o read by Capt. O'Brien, showed the total receipts to have been 1,233,0741. 12g. 4d., of which 1,198,5851 bad been received en calls and payments is advance. The total expenses had been 1,230,3431. si. ld., leaving a balance in hand of 2,7311. 7s. 31. The CRAIRNAIN moved, and Mr. BOURN seconded, the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously after some conversation. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the election of William 8 yap Wait, Esq., ea a director, in the place of Mr. Long, retired, and also the re-election of Col. Olivier. The motion was carried unanimously The mewing then resolvet itself into an extraordinary general meeting. A list of shares recommended by the directors to be for feited was submit•ed to it* meeting atd confirmed, and ' the shares ordered to be sold, noises the defaulters paid up the calls with interest and expenses. Capt. O'BRIEN then read the heeds of the agreement far the sale of the lime to the Great Western Company, and it was resolved that it should be forthwith carried oat, after which the meeting separated. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN. Yesterday, the half-yearly nSeting of this company took place at 449, Stroud; the Earl of Couurows in the chair. Oa the motion that the seal of the company be affixed to the register, several .4 the proprietors objected to the pro needing, insisting that they should be allowed to inspect the document in the first instance. • The CHAIRMAN said he must proceed with the busi ness in the regu:ar manner; and the first thir a to be at tended to was the ad , ption of the r pert. lie therefcre called upoa the secretary to read the report, which was u follows: The directors of the Waterford, Weafurd, Wicklow, and Dublin Company have to report to the shareholders that, in pursue/we of the resolution adopted at the last half-yearly meeting, approving the re aommendations contained in the report thesi presented, they have eaued a bill to be preprred embodying the substance of these recom mendations, which bill has passed standing orders, and been read • first time in the House of Commons. The directors exceedingly re gret to find that there still tants among a portion of the ahareholden • disposition to thwart sod embarrass the board in their prosecution of measures which have been conceived and adopted with • conscien tious desire to benefit all conternod, and with a sincere cone - inks that they are the best which circumstances permit. They sre wiling to believe that such opposition or obstruction, proceeds mainly from a ml under at andieg of the exigency of the case, and of the pod tion in which the shareholders are placed. It is not by dissention that diflacultin n• be overcome, and evils remedied. It is precisely in adverse times that cooperation and uaion are indispenstble. With the aid and support of the proprietors, frankly given, the ()Andorra have a confident hope that the aftssin of the company may be, if not altogether retrieved, at all events, materially improved; and they appeal to their good sense, so well as their good feel tog, whether the coune which tome of their body hare thought it right to pursue eon be otherwise thn rots aneroid to therowlres, and disaatrutts to the ands [taking. Ito object which the directors hare in view is, to oak the sanction of parliament for limiting the line to toot portion which may be con fidently expected to prove remunerative; and, In so doing, greatly to reduce the burden and Whiny which now presseson the shareholders. The opposition to tins course, If enceesful, would greatly augment the ()Acuities of the board, without ultimate relief to the proprietors; and if, unhappily, the efforts of the directors should thereby be ren dered abortive, they will have no alternative but to proceed, in the strict ()recharge of their duty, to tact ute the works as originally con. ti iodated, and to enforce the payment of the subscriptions in full. Bow severely this would press upon the Phareholder , it is unneeeeeary to suggest; and the director* entreat thosenmon whom the pressure would fall, not to sufiar themselves to be deluded into a brief that there Is any escape from their legal liability to the payment of With respect to the provisions and details of the bill itself, the direc- tors do not purpose on this occasion to ask for any aelnite opinion or decision of the shareholders. When the proper time arrives it will be submitted to • general meeting, specially converted for the purpose, when the sense of the proprietors will be regularly taken upon it. The directors deem it almost unnecessary to warn the eharebolde, against statements occasionally Inserted in newspapers, or embodied in circu lars, issued without anthority, respecting the again of the company, that are so obviously mischievous and unfounded. From the staument of receipts and payments to the 31st of December, 1849, it appeared that the former (including a total of 144,1664. 16s. to the 30. h of June, 1849) amounted to 141,3961. 16.., and the latter (including the expenses of the act of incorporation, and other large item., dated to the 30:h of June) to 140,4001. 18a. 3d., leaving a balance in hand of 3,9951. 17e. 9d. The CHAIRMAN proposed that this report be received and approved of, and printed for circulation amongst the shareholders. Tne H n. F. POSSONBY seconded the motion. Major COURT said the report contained a threat to the shareholders which he considered very objectionable, and not only objectionable, but contrary to the Lct. The directors were bi nod to give all the information in their powt r to the shareholders, with a view to enlighten them as to the state of their property. He wiehsd to know the amount cf the debts—the liabilities of the company ? Mr. DIUGGERIDGE, the recretaly, said they were set forth in the balance-sheet now before them. Major COURT (to the directers)—Have you entered into any contract which you are unable to fulfil by means of the cash in your cossession ? You tre directed by the low to provide us with a statement of the liabilities of the company. Mr. AMOS slid that, as chairman of the dissenting com mittee, he called upon the directors to produce the writtea balance sheet setting forth the amount of the debts of the company. Several proprietors, following up the remarks of Mr. Amos, insisted on the production of the balance sheet, and after 10/113 further discussion the secretary acceded to the re quest. It then appeared that the de bts due by the company tor land purchases ware " assume I " to be 17,0001, and the amount due for works, parliamentary expenses, At., was 15,0001. Mr. AMOS inquired what contracts the directors had eatared into ? The SECRETARY replied that no new negotiations hod been entered into. Mr. AMOS—What are the namee of the prevent direcors? The SECRETARY announced that the direction con sisted of Lord Courtewo, Lord &Word, Lad Villare, the Ran. F. Ponsonby, Mr. Stephen Lewis, Mr. David Lewis. tiir Thomas Esmond', Mr. W. Mathew', Mr. Barlow, and Mr. Jas. Alston. Mr. AMOS—What b the number of the shams? The SECRETARY declined to answer the qu.stion. Mr. AMOS—When were they appointed directors The SECRETARY—At different periods. That is the best answer 1 can give you. Mr. AMOS wished to know what was the nature of the arrangement the directors had m►de with the South Wales Company as to the 11,200 shares which they bed taken in the present company. The CHAIRMAN said they bad paid their culls, fiat no . • part' sr se I 671 93 40 IS 10 For Amount Lowsett Closing 4 per Mob I re it. _ _ Cinnamon an Lannino: 10 Chia. 24 414; N dark 1 3 U . balloc 2 . k MO - :I Illarri. Capiam mies„ 23 23 Meg Ds. 8.1017 Do. 44 Do. 11 2.70 .. Piolascat 4 por Cents. VI 7. Ilaanas.—Parla and OrWan 700;1 and Havre, 247 50 • A s 2;son and I pale, Ill; Orleans 407 30; North, 451 26; Ne i = 232 50; vermin= Weld Wu sad Rouen, 126 2s; Roan — on, 200; Strae= a ead Orleans sad !am S2l 1$; lisur• 21 . 21 - (loft beak), 170. OREECK—Lettem from Oafs of the 18th state that Greek •easels captured by British cruisers are constantly coming into that port. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1850. Int eourt. Her Royal Highs.= the Dashes ol ReM visited the Queen yeeeseday iambi, es Reshisataaa Palen. Royal Ingham Prime Albert reale eat ea horseback ritirdaYr ollsalkal by /Mat-Wesel the His. Alsztaador iii - nake awl Dasher lie Neiman *hod boo Melody yesterday. The Qom ad Niue Albert, aelesagettied by his Reyel Highness the Duke of Base Nissan Gotha. bewaseed the Remark's Theatre with their proem* petrels, wrewing. The royal mite esasieted of do Oewassee of Roast Mew eassbe. Lod a nd bookloy. owl Berea d'Agd. Their *yea . Prim Wales, Prima Al fred, the noses, aof Ike Primers Alter, the Primo Helms, sed the Prisms Draw, took their assertemed n erds* liir 411 1 11 wt C. Rs% S A., had the Macaw of taking the het Mats yeaserstay fir the salaistar• of her Royal Risk awe the rhumb Ledo. Her Bawl Memos ao Dubow of Beat loft her reeklease, MIMS Reuse, 84 JUDIled, as three °Week yes radar alleewesa. fee Pregasere. Vienne 1111 Mamasevo, the Portuguese Minister treamiled beim. el the Foreign-olice yesterday. Hi: Erwallaway led aloe wa Monitor yesterday with the Right Hon. R. Leman. at the ease of the Board of Trade. Captain Denham, B.K. F.R.8., has ',tarsi d from his elleial visit to the entperle. sad bad the bower yester day of laying his sport it lb. supervision sad equipment of weasaera before the Right Rea. the President of the Board of Trade. TRU Arra RRMarriott or 1861.-0 a Saturday the Lord Meyer, Aldersaa Hnasphery, end the Rev. Mr. Marshall, the chaplain to the Chief Magistrate, had sn inter view with his Royal Richness Prises Albert, who steeped an invitation to dine at the Nassion-Houe, on Thursday, the 214 of March, is baser of the tummies of the forth coming Great Arts exhibition. The entertaiontent will be of the most magaillemeat deseriptioe, and several of the moot illustrious men will be Melted by the hospitable chief magis trate to meet his Royal Righoses. Upon the paper of busi ness for the next Court of Cosmos Council is the following notice data= by Mr. Deputy Lott, Fellow of the Society of Arts :—" That this lout do subscribe the sum of LOON. towards the exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in the year 1861." Some discussion took place a short time ago in the court oa this subject, but an adjotutatent took place. It is expected that the whole amount will be voted at the next meeting. LORD GOUGH AND MAJOR RDWARDEB AT 8017THAIIPTON. Yesterday the Assembly Rooms of the Vic'oris Hotel were fitted up In gala style. At 12 o'clock the large room was 0711111110 d with military and naval officer., nobility and gentry, and the inhabitants of the town. Lord Gough was decorated with the in.ignia of all his military honours, and, with his fancily, occupied the front mats of ea elevated dais, and was surrounded with the most distin guisbed_persom in the town. As soon es the cheer, with which Lord Gough and Major Edwardee were greeted on their entrance had subsided, Mr George Hewett, Bart., of Fremantle, who had been an °Hay in Lord Gough*s regiment, and had served under his lordship, addressed the veteran warrior in a graceful speech, and then presented to him the following addrers. TO GENERAL TEE RIONT HON. LORD TIECOVNT 00IION, 0 C.B. We, the undersigned reddest' of Southampton and Its neighbourhood, beg leave respectfully to offer your lordship our sincere congratulations on your return to your native country, and to express our unfeigned admiration of the many splendid victories plied by the British arms under lour lordship's command. We are not unmindful that your ordship has been engaged upwards of fifty years in the ser vice of your country, leading our soldiers t 3 victory, in the Peninsula, in Chia*, and India, more particularly in the Punjeub, where the splendid achievements of the army nadir your lordship's command have placed your name in the proud position of one of the most distinguished soldiery of this or any other country. Knowing that your lordship has received the highest marks of our most gracious Majesty's approbation, as well as on repeated mammas the unanimous thanks of both houses of Parliament for your lordship's eminent and distinguished service, we hail with the highest possible gratification this earliest opportunity of welcoming your lordship on your arrival at this port, and of wishing your lordship a long continuance of health and happiness, and that the bleisiog of the Almighty disposer of human events may rest upon the remainder of your days. In this our welcome and the expression of our good wishes we beg to include Lady Gough and your family. After a few moments Lord Gough rose and said— Sir George Hewett, ladies, and genUemen,—l thank you very sincerely for this very flattering mark of attention towards me,•s perfect stranger to many of you, without other pretension than that to which so many naval and military men may justly lay claim, an an: mu wish to fulfil to the utmost of their power and ability their duty to our Queen and our country, and to uphold that which has been so justly acquired by the Anglo-Indian army, the supremacy of British power in Indio contributing as it does so largely to the proud position England now holds, proud from her mili tary achievement., but much more proud from the loyalty of her sons. An absence of thirteen years has not lessened my nationality. Whilst warmly engaged in conducting war is distant lands, I have watched with deep interest the course of events in Europe, and I land oa this favoured spot and on your time-honoured shores, with a deep feeling of grad tude to that All-Wise Disreer of Event., who has graciously vouchsafed his shield of motel:don through not a few fields of danger, but ever in fields of conquest, to the aged soldier who now addressee you. It is that Almighty Being who has safely conducted me with my long-tried friend and partner, together with so many members of my family, to this land of loyalty and true freedom. Called by a gracious Sovereign to the performance of other duties, I shall pray for the power of fulfilling them with the same devoted ness as that which I trust history will word to a career of military exertion extending over a period of fifty-six years. That the great blessing of pesos may be the result of the recent military operations in India, which have added to our territories one of its richest provinces, I have a confident hope—but, should our anticipations not be realised, my country may safely walk!' in the well tried gallantry, patient endurance and devotion of the gallant army I had the good fortune to com mand—an army that never mat a foe but to subdue them— that n commenced • campaign witnout crowning its termination with complete success. Again, my dear country men, allow me, on the ;lei of Lady Gough and myself, to return you my beet acknowledgments, my warmest thank, for this to me, most valuable testimony of your approval. It affords me double gratification to receive this address from the hands of one of my oldest friends, cad esteemed comrades, Sir George Hewett. Cheers were then stain given for Lord and Leap Go ug h who bowed her ackeowledgments. His lordship then leJ off • round of cheerio( for the Queen, and retired with all his family and • numerous retinue of friends to his hotel. His lordship left Southampton for town at two o'clock. The followi ng resolution was moved and carried at the town mull of Southampton last week, in anticipation of the arrival of Lord Gough, and which p ted his lordship being welcomed by the civic authorities of that town when he leaded an SuMay night : " That as war has ever been opposed to the beet interests of mankind in its fearful sonsunenees against the pecuniary, physical, and moral well-being of the people: That as it is also diametrically opposed to the precept and spirit of the CluisUan religion: And as this council as composed of mon professing Christianity, it would be grossly inconsistent for them to manifest any demonstration of approbation on the landing at this port of any general °Hoer or other warrior: and more especially of one who has been so recently engaged in *most destructive war in India, almost a war of esterminatioa, where, in many cues, no quarter was given, and the most barbarous grooms committed.'' Anedvax 114 1•0/111011.—The gallant hero of Chillian wallah arrived at the Waterloo terminus of the South ' western Rsilway at flu o'clock yesterday afternoon, having travelled from Southampton by the 2 p.m. cep teals. The directors of the railway, anxious to show every respect to hie lordship, placed a special train at his disposal, but the noble lord preferred travelling by the ordinary train, and hence his arrival as above stated. A considerable number of persons had assembled at the station before 5 o'clock, and when the train drew up alongside the platform, and his lordship was discovered seated in one of the carriages with Lady (laugh and his son, Captain the Hon. George Gough, they gave the gallant general a hearty cheer of welcime, which his lordship very courteously acknowledged. The gal ant Major Rawardes strived in town by the same train, accompanied by his wife sad two children. Lord Gough is looking remarkably well, sad with the exception that his hair and whiskers have become quite white, he looks little the worse foe the 13 years' hard service he has undergone in the Rut. Lady Gough is sao looking very well. Major Edwardes, by his own request, haa acted as princi pal aide-d.-camp to Lord Gault throughout the journey from the Punjaub. It is a mistake to suppose that the gallant major is the bearer of the celebrated diamond won by his valour, and presented by Lord Dalhousie to the Queen. This jewel is still in India. A MEETING was held yesterday at Liverpool, when resolutions were passed in approval of Mr. Stuart Worthy's Bill he legalising marriage, with a deceased wife's sister. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASTLoll.—Yester day the twenty-almond mama meeting of the friends of the above asylum took plea at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing 10 additional children in the establish meat, and to receive the general and Masada report, to. The chair was filled by the treasurer, Captain H. Nelson, of the Trinity House, and after the election of 4 girls sad 8 boys, from a list of 28 candidates, Mt. 0. 8. Clarke, the honorary secretary, read th e report, which was uneaten:suety adopted. It showed that the number of orphans admitted had been 110; sad that the great mortality from cholera which had occurred among... mama had added esesiderehly to the number of candliates for admission. Including a previous bit um of 281. 6.. 2d., the receipts of the put year bad bean 3,1411. 75. 74., and alter defraying the necessary expeasso, and paying 6261. 17s. 4d. in the purchase of stork, there a balsa.* of 1741. 135., Raking a total fended stook of 8,8811. 18e. 4d. The )temaialag bantams laving been disposed of, thanks were given to the gallant shafemaa, ' which dosed the proceedings, MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. TEN HOURS' ACT.-DELEGATE MEETING ticular arrangement h►d bieneniertd into with them. Kr. AJIOSZAre they still liable supposing the I b is is my carried from Dahlia to Wicklow and not to Wtiford, originally intended ? The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative. Me. P. RICHARDS—If it was stated by the chairman of the S.uth Wales Company that they were not liable, that statement was not true ? The SECRETARY said he should not feel justifie , i in saying so. After some further conversation, the effect of which was to prove that much angry feeling existed in the mi,de of some of the shareholders tower is tlic dircetort, Major COURT iaquirvi whether it was intended t carry the Lisa from DuWin to Wexford ? The SECRETARY said that under the pretest act of parliament they were bound to carry the line to Ws x'ord, but they purposed to limit its extent to Wicklow. 'Chid, however, was the subject of a apt. ial meeting under Lard Whernelifle's ‘ct, when the So ath Wales Company would have the rower to express their approbation or dissent, ac cording to the ume privilege which all other shareholders possessed. Mr. NASH said that Hebei South Wales Company were to be looked upon in the light of ordinary shareholders, how was it that Mr. Russell, the Chairman of that company, had announced that although they bad subscribed for 11,000 shares, they had only paid the first call atal not the second ? It the South Wales Company Lad IN fused their assent to the proposition for lim.ting the line to Wicklow, it was clear they were not liable. If they were to be treated as ball tide shareholders, how was it that the 11,000 shares were n ered in the names of three ini'iv:dual director . and that when a bill was Bled against them en Crmmy, they sr, re signed in the name of the general body cf directors ? Major COURT said this matter might he brought to soma conclusion by the Chairman's assenting to furnish them with the terms of any arrangement they may have entered into with the South Wales Company, and also with the resole time passed upon th e su bj ec t by the meeting of that company. Mr. AMOS said—There shall Fe no concealment on the part of the directoes. Whore there was mystery there was mischief. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said that at the previous meeting it was open to the South Wales Coolpoity either to support i them in the proposition for shortening the line, or to oppose them. Mr. WADDY then addressed the meeting, sad continded that it was quite clear that the Smith Wales Company did not intend to pay one farthing towar Is the expenses of the line. (Heer, hear.) VOICICK —Fur whoss henetit is the line to be made? Why, for the ben( lit et the secretary! Mr. RICHARDS said it was most important they should know whether the South Wales Company were still liable or not. Aa they had tchen 11,000 shares out of the company, the present meeting ought to be informed how- fez they (the