The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24. 1855. AND NORTH WESTERN ..cons po_Utty, and he thought the right p olic y , of the North of the trained transport corps, expected, .m Eng- LONDON RAILWAY. Western Company to act on cordial co - uperation with the Ucy, laud, will be of material advantage, Midland Company. Their traffic Was to intermixed that The late promotions have co_used a considerablebeen sae company . A measure for ams a number of regiment al nffiee".4 to become supernume- Yesterday the ha tf earlygeneral meeting of the -y . mat did not at the time was den in this comps., was held in the large hall of Rion ht to have it introduced * meet with the approval of parliament; it had caries of their rank. Tb. e y have been directed to thareboi . proceed to England bs; sure Stat i on — the Marquis of Cita/MOB, bdrenatoretherefore under the consideration of the fore way way the interests of these two great awn lieutenant-colonels, 12 majors, 39 captains, IPA 1 the chat the earliest opportunity. Fem. tho Ea rm ton an -s palsies might be best promoted. They had, as the proprie --•--of the board of directors, presiding . tors were informed in the report, extended the agreement Letters from Balaklava acute that in the night of a • ,will, tb • cause , minutes of recent meetinp, will, fro:A this learn the service. onol. Mr. STIWART, one of the secretaries , having read the . with the Midland Company so as to include not only the The CSILIIIMAN TOSS to address the proprietors. Its said • goods but the passenger traffic, and they hoped they had the ith the Russians Tito had returned to the num- etr regiments. The following notice htas- been isenal: l 4 t that is placing before them the accounts of the last half made such an arrangement with them as would establish be[ of about 20,000, and taken up permlnent quarters Ilead-suarten 'oefors Sebastopol, Feb. 6,1855. year there were one or two points to which he would drew and maintain a complete identity of interests between the g t . h ‘ e hichcl amount of 0 hostility to any company have ercei e ved that their attention. The proprietots would P two companies. lie (the chairman) had not at that meeting to the east of the plain of 11..,.' . ' t s s 3 erv p a ta nt . , , le o ft n on t he to ask the proprietors to concur with the directors in active breastwork a little in ad ; ante and tO the nor th • ._ tu _ ..._ „_, instant - Ta" thiew ups Of . thre assts t p e o E f .tCheull'i-dhir9dtiaDitiveimglinone,nt a an hal offi f- c p e u r tpe et r o ee f DulecetOmfbtehr.egahalvet.anyeuin'ees weassorkmin but that it did not give •a conesponding increase in y They trusted they should be able to continue on terms of friendship with the various compa- Kamera. U" .. :: ;;;. xamitation, one end of tki imonlroZa"y": ' the 6th , be wu ~ . __ Camp car ried, ut half-way, and • little off the road, between Ma the balance in band. uring ese y D • th l t had ear two carried • w i t h • found robbed and murdered, pies whose traffic they forward, or whom they ei-reement - :eater e and Balaklava. or three causes had combined to affect the working expenses had formed an alliance. Tbsy trusted that such an 1 1 bon i st • .s•ork was frAnd to be already defended. w i t h abo din his greatcoat, marked " 9th i he... - • %es ' e right of On leaving he was deal 10A3 44 F, and aa e • jacket and the mer chandise . expanses, th e ya wya... .. OM Stud W • of the company mder two heas of which :t te w loco o. ciotive fie had flee:lt:7 ....... math with the Gee.. two lo ss end }eery guns, bearing upon Their object apps be to form an ftelitt. Nov. -•••••• * ....duet badg e . He had a regi- II 11 of the 23rd MM.• I the h rif the principal in . n mare an a estern Company, which put an end to the ruinously low our position. Regiment, with ono goat 1 "-- ' ' Lir .•: --'e expenses the y rates which, previous to the amalgamation of the Shrews our rear , and to defend it by sword, broken ia the centreepee..., a had had an increase which had bah un t in fact, en the pre entrenched camp in our bury line with the Great Western, affected the whole rail .ll ry • They might thus la • ne forth at met al volver pistol, a chako-case with shako and sundry' Woos half-year. They had also during that ball-year to way interest. He hoped they might now look forward to a formidable arti e . other articles, and a small leather medicine cheat contain- contend with *continually increasing traffic week after time of peace with their neighbours, and be able to devote our men by constant uterine, or con- Ra g fear square bottles, the property of Limit. Harvey, 9th week, but at the end of the half-year, arrangements were Isny time, harass their time and attention to the promotion of their own in • n into • vigorous attack Regiment. made for the reception and delivery of that traffic at the terests. Be told the proprietors from that chair a year ago vett a successful on C het - Any one who remembers to have seen this man after the termini, for wbich theproprietors had ahe a d sanctioned of our generals give t ime abo ve , that the interests of railway property were best promoted should an error on the part time above mentioned, who may have since seen any of the estimates. With regard to the other head of e expenses, by attention to the details of management rather than by a them the opportunity. It is said that a movement things described, or can afford any information on the sub- aamely, the locomotive , there was also a considerable in- withdrawal of the attention of directors and officers by die- i f eet will re rt to the Provost-Marshal at Balaklava, or to arisen from the same cause in part ' —vis. be made to drive them from this Je i Po crease, which had Ye i puns with other companies. He believed that such a state would probably the Adjutant General at head-quartera • the increased rate of wages which the company bad had to of things was now at an end, and it should not beihis fault it position. pay to the greater part of the persons employed, the increase that condition of affairs which had prevailed so many The IYankfurt Post Gazette is informed that the COURT-MARTIAL 1N THE CRIMEA. in the price of many articles consumed, and also years was ever renewed. (Loud cheers.) He trusted that Czar is resolved to evacuate, by degrees, . the left bank differences which arose at that time between from other companies would take the same view of the case— the com and noes in their employ. With regard to the Petty pg that they would put an end to the development of new of th e Vistula, and burn every place which might be permanent way department which had now been in ex- lines where they were not required, and that they would useful to an advancing army. The Rtleillialle, who titmice two or three years, he might say that the directoes display a desire to settle disputes that might arise on the retire, march some on Kalisch and Warsaw, and maintaining it by their own officers baying determined en g 2 04 nenhip and course of new lines without recourse to the others on Prop and Lublin. These last named for-the system they had adop ted hen instead of by contrac tors , misous expenses of parliamentary contests. He believed tresses, as well ea that of Jomok, are . so full of troops entirely satisfactory . ( Cheep .) At the correspond- Preyed c i • that, in nine eases out of ten, such difficulties might be ing period to the present of art year he did not like to settled without incurring any such expenses. In conch'. that it may be supposed that the right bank of the express any opinion as to the result of that arrangement, s i on , h e wou ld assure the proprietors that the anxious att..- Vistula would be energetic all y defended if an Asia- because it had not been in operation a sufficient time, but lion of the board should be directed to such changes as were! Irian army should seek to enter Poland from Lembo . he thought the directors were now justified in saying that necessary to meet the diminished traffic ; and he must re it would prove an economical arrangement, aad that the peat that, if there were any items is the accounts which he permanent way under it had been very much improved• had not alluded to, or any portion of the report which was There was also in the revenue account a reduction in the not clear, be should be happy to give the fullest explanation sum charged for parliamentary expenses, the result of the to any proprietor who might desire it. (The noble chair arrangements which were made two years ago with the Man was warmly applauded on resuming his seat.) Great Western Railway for the suspension of those new Mr. BOOTH, one of the secretariee, then read the follow lines involving contests in parliament, an arrangement __14",.. __ which would carry the company through the present session " k g `" I without a contest with the Great Western Railway for any malt of the half-year's working shows a tonaidezable 'name new line. The result of last year's operations was to leave In th e _ mint Of receipts, hut the MOM trammed In the report • as haring catenated to imams the working the parliamentary expenditure at a very much smaller rate, °el tee pro= the great preparkemee of sasmamilise male, and the directors would, therefore, on this occasion come to with t o e immee at am high prim o f =tot " hare vow. the proprietors for a very . much smaller vets, and with an nued ia the pea els months, oak have hitberto assurance of still diminishing the sums due from those paw a illedoseho of tie essremes disbersemsam The saddle accounts. (Hear, hear.) The proprietors would naturally too!iso of Wise seise Ms OIMINOSONIeIit et the preesa ra =s have had their attention drawn—those, at least, who had ira±Merf bre" et tabs has renamed weemery a neserally sod the heard ate MVP' IB attended to the accounts during a series of years—to the "Zl;:r i r e = eellen d„„, e ,t. pot s A so ,5_.____.,........._, ..... increase which had taken place in the amount of capital gto.Wdresiniams.—& aktdsramsb„"'="ptediZe=s•Z• invested in the line during the last four or five years, and to postman.. as bur asposeible, the outlay of the unexploded balsam the result of the half year's receipts, but they must bear in upon tothmem voted tom eet the requirements of the tbaxrelly mind that during that period there was a strong competition lanolin tealle. en the father esdmates now ittea against the company, that there was a great diversion of bass 101010,1 _ _within_ the upo lr its ... absol utely required. Indic from the line, and also that during the latter part of in to „pit msee artotnetaxiusegdund Railway, filw which 1::: *at time the receipts were injuriously affected by b een se * w p m * approved b y as proprietors of both companies. fatuously low rates on the traffic in some of the most your threaten bus concluded an extended agreement with that coas important districts. The proprietors must bear in mind pane, taking What from the lit 5114 Iser e land upon the relative also, that during that time there was &considerable change Lertac of seek uoiseteklog he the mar mhos Weds% 1834, eal in the class of traffic from which their receipts were mostly nhe e e in if lb. Nellido ban Yinewills as Wall es from Elliehandhal. the object beim to nom a asset emplete sureperetiso soil Idsottly made up; that the goods traffic, the most bulky and the of interest between the osoomiss, and tie weddegef theaffia least remunerative class, had increased to a very great ex- traffic in a numese the most systematic, emoomio owl mieselly lie- toot. One of those causes to which he had adverted as hay- neticial. In porterage of the resweinendattos ereadnell In their last lag diminished the half-yearly traffic—namely, the ruin- report your dimmers Mfg minearred with the Midland and other trusty low rates at which the company had been carrying a r r ele c e o me bite . rested on by the Wonsiter and Here large portion of their traffic—sou now at an end. f yf a bill, having it its object the speedy completion of -Hear. that oneTer P rakio ° g. A bill has been re-intr.xiceed in the present Mar.) He believed it was for the benefit of the public that session for effecting the amalgamatio ' le e re de North Star a* rates to be received by the companies tor the convey- fordahire with this company, on the terms adopUd also of the passenger and merchandise traffic should leave Iv: FCltlioll, under the advice of kir. Hope Scott and Mr. Robert is the companies a fair remuneration, or the public would Stephenson. In consequence of the great Simony( meow and inter /ad that tee work was not performed in a proper manner ruction of traffic experienced freni . the want of sufficient accommo duties at the Preston matron, a bill has been introduced by this de even with safety. (Hear, bear.) In the report which company and they arwebire and Yorkshire ' • Company, as joint lessees would be submitted the proprietors would find that the di- of the North Union Railway, for power to enlarge and improve that rectors had again this halt-year had to submit some esti- station and its approaches. An act having parsed in the last Damon Imitates for an outlay of capital, at the same time he for the construction of • railway from thts company's station at was bound to state that it would have been more etockport to Maley and Whaley-bridge, as reported in August last, satisfactory to the directors not to have asked for any such ii h d e ie d' a re p e ec ta un " i t ar e in t i ' r ts ee t t e , t i r :11=1'7 Tritt.'n'tilTunalwrllekdirt° estimate. On reverting to this he must mention that upon and to work th e line when complete, on satinActory terms. Tat' I many of those works for which the proprietors had already arrangements have bees entered into upon grounds of the sufficiency voted mosey at previous meetings, the directors had sus- of which the boud have no doubt of beteg able to satisfy the pended to the utmost extent the expenditure of money upon proprietors, when the bill, now before parliament, is submitted fur them. In many cases the works had been suspended alto- j.ipr a o rr val n et e lli cn e en s t rial g ee et t i: d ral w n i a t r i eti t n h if tee() communication calr t ier the t purpose. them. gether, and the sumo granted consequently remained unea- The metropolis and Ireland being very det ' ectiver a u nt c t a he t° qUestion ee being pended. But there were tome causes mentioned in the re- regarded by the government an one of great Importance, your uirec port on which the directors must ask the proprietors for ad- tors were induced to enter into negotiations with the various parties ditional expenses to be charged on the capital account, and interested, and, in consequence, a lea has been introduced in the these would be for the safe working . of the traffic. They present session for c o on a of t enabling this company, jointly with were chiefly small sums, comprising additional sidings, le u e u tr e ' s n te am e andv Holyhead the efficient performance of to provide ae widening canal bridge, and procuring an additional water passenger service between Holyhead and kingstown t , ithder ta a con supply at Wolverton, obtaining sidings for coal traffic, and tract with government; and a hill has also been introduced by the alterations of foot bridge at Rugby, a junction with eliesteranu Holyhead Company for the calm:sicu of that line to the the Birmingham and Gloucester line, and additional new harbour at Holyhead ; but the froeeeution or abandonment of sidings at Cursen-street, Birmingham, the erection of these bil"s depend upon the declaim of the government on questions a coal wharf at Kensington for the accommodation of the now re un u el u er their s i considerlion. Such of ef tr e e measures as may be large coal traffic which was rapidly developing itself. There prosecuted, tivagh r t e ru i l s ly e u nder the ti co o n n sideration n o o f the use of proprietor, was also a small expense for the extension of the general a t a ge neral meeting to be specially convened for the purpose. offices at Easton. It was intended to proceed with the en- The hope which your Directors expressed in their lest report, that the largement of some of the offices, fee the health of many of long protracted and costly straggle with the Great Western Com the servants who were confined in the present rooms, more patty might be terminated, has been eo tar re shoed, that an agree especially in the audit department, would suffer unless some meat al:ru been than co t r e lu a d m ed providi e rt that i n ee elt u her CoeTsrhiy, ratan Such arrangements were made. Then there was a slight ex- between the principal points of co e rpeti y tion have in consequence been prise for the enlargement el the goods station at Liverpool- revised, incuneert with that company. The shareholders bare been road, Manchester, and fur additional sidings and goods accom- informed by circular o ut t h e names f i to he oil directors who, at the sedation at Wasertree-road. There wag in the estimate a present ea eting. go out of office by tion, as well as the names of sans of 1,1581. for additional signals and huts between London two other gentlemen who offer themselves as candidates for the Cra ned Rugby, in connexion with the extension of telegraphic t t l i o e n. TlLliuetibaei of tieve general t r lreat d t t i t:culdy l i i i: t gl , v e r t i e g practical i effect . to eammanication which had been decided upon for some time to the re-election g of retiring directors, u and ih re ererr e e by the officers of the company not only as conducive• but the sit directors who go out of office by rotation, toga. absolutely necessary for the well working of the traffic to ther with the two proprietors duly qualifiert, above referred London on account of the complication of trains, to, offer themselves as candidates on the present occasion, and it will and which, the directors trotted, would prove a source of bj e f e uf e tkie l s u har t e b tolders, out of l Ce di w r, n e o t r , numb.r, to elect six dime • groat economy to the company by preventing collisions pet the death of tbeir e Colleague, Mr. Thomas south, t ad gt h ea an t r t e- o and detention of trains, as well as providing additional report that they Lave elected Mr. Samuel Henry Thompson, of Liver means for the safety of the public travelling upon the line. pool, to fill the vacancy pooccseioned. (Hear, hear.) The proposals for that extension bad bait fur From the statement of the halt-yeafe secounte it a long time under consideration, but it was found that the will be seen that thi net proceeds are £611,350 5 0 adoption of signalling of trains over to large an extent of ' to which add the balance carried tram last ac 41,197 is 2 line required considerable attention before it could he put count in practice, and the directors had not been until now pre pared with deti-aitivo plans which they could submit to tic proprietors. The expense would be but small, and the main ! tonnes trifling, the whole of the estimates submitted on this occasion being but 33,0001. Adverting to the other paragraphs of the report, he might say that the directors would have been very glad not to have again drawn the at tention of the proprietors to any parliamentary measures, but several bills not involving much extension of capital were before parliament, which would re quire, if they received the sanction of parlianteet, to be submitted to a special meeting of proprietors. The North Staffordshire Amalgamation Bill was to be proeecuted now for the third session ; and also a bill for the improvement of the Preston station, which was a bill introduced by the North Western Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company as joint lessees of the North Union Railway. There was also a bill, introduced not by the North Western Company, bu. by the Stockport and Deiley Company, for the construction of a line to Whalley Bridge. That com pany wined the North Western proprietors to subscribe, and arrangements had been made which would no doubt he perfectly satistactory to the proprietors. These bills, if they received the sanction of parliament, would be submitted to the proprietors. With reference to the Stockport, Disley, and Whalley Bridge line, the North Western proprietors were no parties to it at present, and would bear no part of the expense. He (the chairman) had not gone into the particulars of the accounts ; but he would do so if any proprietor desired any information. There was nothing else in the report, he believed, to which he need all the attention of the proprietors; but it was right, looking to the state of the country and to the state of the traffic on railways, that he should say a few words on the position of the company's traffic since the close of the last half year. There were one or two rises connected with the company's own arrangements which had effected the expenses during the last half year. The altered circus etanose of the country during a portion of that half year commenced to affect it. It was impossible but that tailway property, depending so completely as it did on the pros perity of trade an the country generally, should feel severely the effects of war and the stagnation of a great portion of business, and the increase of taxation. Since January Ist there bad been a great change in the stets of the traffic. Up to the last week of the last year the traffic continued to increase almost beyond the expectations of the directors, saddling the company with considerable expenses, in consequence of the difficulties presented at the termini. Since Jan. 1, however, a very great change had taken plus, a change which be did not think was wholly due to the war, or to the stagnation of trade, although that had ex ercised, and would continue to exercise, a great effect upon the traffic, but he thought tee state of the weather lead a great deal to do with the diminution alluded to. The pas senger traffic must have been as much affected by the weather, and the proprietors must not therefore set it down in their minds that the falling off was entirely attributable to the stagnation of trade, The directors, seeing that a con siderable portion of that change must be attributable to the altered state of the colliery and the state of trade, tack such steps as they thought proper fur such a reduction of the expenditure as would meet the altered condition of the traffic. It had been rather an un expected task upon them, for up to December lest they were obliged to extend their arrangements to meet tho extension of traffic. The board of directors were at menet anxiously occupied in taking steps to bring about the neces• eery reductions. Between 3,000 and 4,000 miles a week of traffic would be stopped for the present month, without inter fering with any accommodation which had been given to or required by the public. The directors had alto bed under their consideration, in consequence of the diminished traffic and iti changed nature, a difference in th eir stuff at the various stations. The board knew very well that the right mode of managing the affairs of the company was to adapt its expenditure to its receipts, to keep down the ex penditure consistently with the safety of the pub- Pic, and the director' looked with much ccnfldence to the result of the arrangements which had been made, and which were under contioplation, teethe accomplishment of this object. The directors had not to look forward in the pre sent anion to any veety expensive parliamentary contests. There might be questio.'ts raised in parliament in which it might be necessary for the company to appear, but they did not look to those expenses se t t that trouble which in former years had ban the bane, not oesly done company, but of all- (Hear , hear.) For many yCsill it bad been the uniform administration that may pretend to conduct the busi ness of Parliament next week as a Prot isional Govern mut.— Vauvy Vows. THE WAR. At a general court-martial held at Balaklava, on the 31st tilt., in pursuance of an order of Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, dated the 29th of January, 1855, No. 1,260, gunner and driver James Young, Royal Artillery, was tried upon the following C 10.11015: 1. For having, at or near Balaklava, on or about the 26th day of December, 1854, struck and injured Mustapha Velet Hussein, a soldier of the Turkish army. 2. For having, at the same time and place mentioned in the first charge, struck and injured Suleiman Aga, an officer in the Turkish army, in the execution of his duty. Of which charges the court found the prisoner Guilty. The tenet having found the prisoner frailty of the charges preferred against biro, and having received evidence of his very good character, do now adjudge him, the prisoner, No. 1,260, gainer and driver James Young, R.A.., to un dergo a corporal punishment of fifty lashes in the usual manner. (Signed) D. A. CAMZRON, Colonel, 42nd Highlander', President. W. G. Romanis, Deputy Judge Advocate. Approved and confirmed, Feb. 2,1855, Ratmerr. In consideration of the earnest request of the Turkish officer who has been so ill treated, and of Osman Pacha,who commands the Turkish troops in this part of the Crimea, I have been prevailed upon to pardon the grievous offences of the prisoner, gunner and driver James Young, ILA., in mal treating an unoffending Turkish "oldier, and then turning in the most outrageo us meaner upon the officer who came forward to protect him. The Commander of the Forces hopes that no such in stance of misconduct will again be brought before him, se, in such a case, be will feel it his duty to take care that whatever sentence may be awarded by a Boo court-tial shall be carried into effect. (Signe) M. Von der Pfordten, Prime Minister of Bavaria, has arrived at Milan. He is charged, it is said, with a mission relative to substituting for the Austrian garrison in that city a corps of Bavarian troop*. TURKEY. OF 1111 DAILY (PROM ♦ SPECIAL 11011ESP011 PI MTS.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Fan. 12. A vessel has just come in to this place from Balaklava, with highly cheering intelligence, report ing the weather milder, food and clothing abundant. The effect has been almost magical in raising the spirits of the army and decreasing sickness. We have now 20,000 men under arms there, and improv ing daily. An aide-de-camp of Omer Pacha is here, taking up tonnage for the conveyance of 10,000 cavalry to Enpatoria• this, joined to 31,00 0 infantry already there, will Make up a respectable force ; and should these troops be at all like the defenders of Silistria, some powerful diversion, favourable and advantageous to the allies, may confidently be looked forward to. The Ottoman troops at Balaklava made a run of it, having the English to go to, but at Eupatoria they must depend on themselves alone. There will be no retreating, and we hope despair will make them des perate should they otherwise lack courage. The intention is to distract with them the attention of the army outside Sebastopol, and, if possible, to get between them and the town on the no rth side. Should they succeed in this, and be able to hold the position, we may consider the fate of the town sealed. The want of cavalry has been the cause of the long inaction of the Turks in the Crimea, as they are afraid to move from the base of their orerations without this important arm. .C;72,573 3 2 43,773 13 S Lela further allowance for renewal of ra➢s Showing a diepoinble balance of 625,802 9 6 The directon recommend • dividend of 21. Its per cent. for the lust en months. amounting tr leaving a ba lance of 71,270. Ila 3d. to be carted forward to the neat half-year's account. A statement of accounts was incorporate d with the re port. The details were published in the Daily News on Tneeday, Feb. 13. The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be adopted and circulated among the shareholders. Mr. HADFIELD, M.P., asked what had been the amount of law and engineering expenses which had been incurred from the commencement of this company, in connexion with all the companies amalgamated with or purchased by it, especially during the last two years ? Their parliamen tary contests with other mummies had been ruinous to all' concerned. (Hear, hear.) This company had, in fact, lost a vast income in that way, and he was afraid the evil was still going on. He should not be surprised to hear that the money expended on these contests amounted to from 70,0001. to 80,000/. a year. (Hear, hear.) It IWILS a fact that their dividends had been diminishing as their traffic had been inereasing (bear, hear) and he could duly ascribe that circumstance to the ruinous expenditure to which he had adverted. He moved that an account be laid before the shareholders of the amount expended in law and engineering since the beginning of this company through other companies being amalgamated with or per chased by it, distinguishing the sums charged to capital and income, and the amounts paid within the last two yeah. Mr. HOYES contended, in opposition to Mr. Hadfield, that the accounts of the company showed that, contempora neously with an increase of their receipts, thin dividends bad increseed by about 50 per cent. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to Mr. Hadfield, said he held in his hand a return ordered by tk.e House of Commons, from which it appeared that the legal and parliamentary expenses of the company since its commencement, in ob taining acts of parliament for the main line and branches, had been 608,3921.35. Bd. (which included the engineering expenses up to 1849), and that the engineering expenses since 1919 had been 19,5u11. 6e. 11, making together 627,8931. 91. 9d. The parliamentary and general law expenses, charged to capital, were 250,9141. 19s. Ild., and those charged to revenue were 172,6271. 13s. 7d., making together 423,542/ 13s. 6d. The law sad parliamentary ex penditure of the session 1852-53 had been 140,0001. ; and for the session of 1854 it had been estimated at 25,0001. Mr. Wm. Mantles said the practical question for the shareholders in future was how they could best increase their dividends. (Hear, hear.) The reasons why their dividends had fallen were two-fold—viz., their ruinous par liarnentary contests with other companies, and the reduction of their rates for carrying heavy goods and traffic. He con tended the directors had reduced those rates when there was absolutely no occasion for it. He was also struck, on looking over the list of the direction, at the amount of local interest which was upon it. (Hear.) The people of Manches ter, they knew, likea cheap bread, and everything cheap, ex cept Manchester goody, but it was for the shareholders to see that the Manchester directors did not apply to their principle of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, in the case of the London and North-Western, to the detriment of the great body of the proprietors. Out of the thirty members of the board, upwards of twenty came from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and tee far north. To that preponderance of local influence he attri buted the ruinously low rates of carriage charged by the company. lie wished, before sitting down, to ask the auditors whether they had audited both sides of the ac counts. (A laugh.) Mr. FRANILLAND comp Lined that a sum of 14,0001. odd, the estimated deficiency from the Shropshire Union Rail way, which ought to have stood against the revenue of the present half-year, bad been postponed until the next. Mr. PEYTON, one of the auditors, atatid in reply to Mr. Fraskland tbat he (Mr. Peyton) at the last half-yearly meeting protested against the practice of not setting the loss from the Shropshire Union Railway aw.inet the reve nue, till half a year after it had accrued. In answer to the question whether both sides of the account had been audited, if it was meant by that to ask whether the audi tors had entered into the question of the rates of carriage, he load to say that they had loot done to, iossoueh al they THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (MN TUB SPIICIAL CORILISPOIIDWIT OF VII DAILY 11111f11.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Fes. 9. We have been favoured with mild weather since I lut wrote. On the 6th instant heavy gales from the south and south-west prevailed ell day tut subsided at night. On the 7th and Bth the wind blew from the some direction, bringing with it a thick sea fog. This day the wind has veered round to the northward, but the atmosphere is bright nod clear, tu.d there is no sign of frost. Our sew works are not yet sufficiently advanced to open their fire, and, judging from appearances, some days must elapse before they will be in a condi tion to undertake the renewed bombardment, which has been anxiously expected for the last month or six weeks. A rumour has been prevailing, Mace the arrival of the Princes at Sebastopol, that another Russian attack on our position was intended. Addi tional precautions have been taken, certain posts have been strengthened, the advanced sentries have bees put on the alert to observe every move ment on the part of the enemy, to watch for increase in the number or change of position of vedettes and sentries, and it has been notified to the officers in command of advanced posts that such cir cumstances, although seemingly trivial, are to be at once reported to the proper authorities. There has been a general desire that the enemy would make the attempt, for every one has felt confident of his meeting with a defeat, and at less cost to ourselves than on the :eh of November. We are better prepared than we were then, and there is a lurking hope that such an encounter may hasten the siege towards its con clusion. Every possible contrivance seems to have been adopted in aid around the town to guard against the assault. On looking from any one of the commanding points of view, so many batteries are visible, such lines of ebeveux-de-(rise, ditches, and embrasures—lino within line, and tier upon tier —that I know nothing to compare it with—so com pletely is it armed at all points—better than the provision made by nature for the " fretful porcupine." From the vast number of its works, from the irregu larity of their connexion, from the great extent of Kround covered, the defences and fortifications of bebastopol present altogether an appearance which no one has ever had the opportunity of seeing else where. A deserter, who gave himself up at the advanced work of the 21-gun battery, on the evening of the 7th instant, and who called himself a Pole, stated that every street was dyked and enfiladed by guns, and nearly every large building loopholed and fitted for defence. He said moreover that the town was mined in all directions He mentioned among ether things that a large number of planks had been prepared with long iron spikes, ready to be placed in any position for the purpose of interrupting either the passage of troops or progress of cavalry. Provi sions, he reported to be very scarce, and the rations:of the soldiers very limited in quantity and indifferent. A very general suspicion respecting the honesty and intentions of these Polish deserters exists among the troops. Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock p.m., considerable excitement was caused in both] the French and English camps in front of Sebastopol, by loud beating of drums in the arsenal and town. So loud was this drumming that it was plainly audible in the tents of the several divisions, and officers and soldiers ' were on the qt i rice as to what was to follow. No unusual movement was observable, but the roll of the drums continued for nearly an hour. A heavy fire was going on at the time trom the Garden Bat tery, and works in rear of the Flagstaff battery, against the French advanced works, and also the, works in front of Greenhill. For some time it was supposed that perhaps an attack in this direction might be intended, or that the artillery fire against them was a feint to divert attention from some other point in the lines, but the time and daylight ren• dered this improbable. No movement on the part of the enemy followed, and the roll of drums was there fore supposed to be simply intended for honours paid to some distinguished personage—perhaps the Crown Princes—visiting the works. Our troops have been very busy repairing batteries esd the advanced works, which, from various causes, have become much dilapidated and out of repair. The damage done by the fire of the enemy has net been repaired from time to time as it occurred; but almost a worse inj ury than this to the works has been caused by provision not being made for drainage, and from the men taking the wood of the famines for the purpose of using it as fuel. Every artifice has been adopted to steal away from the batteries with some sticker of the gabiona and famines, and it affords a proof of the extreme difficulty in obtaining the necessary fuel for cooking and otlier purposes when men, to secure a small portion, would thus sacri fice the means instituted for the protection of their lives. But the want of drainage, so easily effected by taking advantage of the slope of the hill, has not only been injurious in loosening the parapets, but it his caused serious mischief to the health of the troops. Unable to move for boors, worn out by fatigue and loss of rest, they have been in the habit of lying down, literally, in pools of water, and have doubtless thus imbibed the seeds of disease which has subsequently rendered them ineffective or been productive of fatal results. These deficiences are now being remedied, and working parties are engaged in these opera tions every night. Other parties are continuing to assist in arming the new batteries on the right. The French are rapidly advancing with their new redoubt in front of the Ist brigade of our Light Divi sion, and in their other works on the right. TY,. have also undertaken a new battery on French Bill, in advance of our 21-gun battery. It will an completed before this reaches England. There was a very heavy fire of musketry 11,11 heavy guns on the left about 9 p.m. yesterday, tn• lith inst., apparently caused by a sortie against tin/ ? l och. It lasted about an hour. Th e hots are increasing in number in camp. The comment:jog dame are using every effort to bring the housesup R oom Balaklava. The Spanish mules lately arrived is,7 also assisting in the work; but either from the S pe ,:lah saddles not being fitted for the work, or from the pinks being ill-placed, these gni Inlimels are beftfing *417 Piled. The arrival AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Ezra Nye, arrived in the Mersey to day, at 12 . 22 p.m. , from New York, after a very boisterous passage. The Royal Mail steamer Africa, hence, arrived at Boston on the let instant,and the United States Mail steamer Union, from Havre and Southampton, at New York, on the 3rd instant. The weather at New York had been intensely cold for several days prior to the departure of the Pacific, with a strong north-west wind. The 6th was stated to be the coldest day experienced since 1846. Tele graphic despatches from the British provinces, New England, and the Northern States of the Union, date' that the weather was intensely severe. In the United States Senate on the 30th ult. a reso lution directing the l'ost-office committee to report bow ' ranch money the Collins steam ships have received up to the present time for freight and passengers was adopted. On the Ist instant the Post-office committee reported a joint resolution providing for an overland weekly mail communication with San Francisco. It was ordered to be printed. In the House of Representatives on the let inst. Mr. Houston, chairman of the committee on ways and means, introduced a bill for passing the modifi cation of the existing t riff. A resolution was also adopted, on the proposition of Mr. Wright, request ing the president to communicate to the house, if set laessapatible with the public interest, the copies el etierespondence between the diplomatic agents of the United States and Spain, touching the causes of the disturbance of the friendly relations between the United States and that country, and the instructions of the State department relative to the same, and all the correspondence between the American govern ment, France, and Great Britain, respecting Cuba, not heretofore communicated to Congress. The Washington correspondent of tho New York Herald says :—A treaty with Mexico, substantially like that recently negotiated with Russia, recognis ing the principle that free ships make free goods, has been sent to the Senate for ratification. Dates from the Sandwich Islands to January 17 have been received. The most important piece of intelligence is the death of King Kamehameha ILL, at the age of forty-one years and nine months. He is succeeded by Prince Alexander Liholiho, his nephew, • young copper-coloured gentleman of some educa tion, who assumes the title of Kamehameha IV. There is one week's later intelligence from Cali fornia, and an arrival of 640,000 dole. in specie. Rich mines of gold and copper are reported to have been discovered on the Gila river, in the territory acquired under the Gadsden treaty. it COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Maw Yoax, FEB. 7, Business at New York has exhibiiedanlinpro'veciasPect. The money market was easier than that of Boston or Phila. delphia. Capital is abundaat at 7 per cent. on first-class securities and on call. The bulks were discounting with liberality, and were well fortified with specie. There was an increased tendency to speculate at the stock board, but prices by no means too high. Foreign exchange firm, but demand not active. Lon don, 1091 to 1091; Faris, 5.121 to 6.15 ; Amsterdam, 411 ; Hamburg, 361 to 361. The cotton market, owing to favourable accounts per Africa, was firm, but closed quietly at the annexed quota tions : Inferior, nominal ; ordinary low to good Upland and Florida, 8 to 81% Mobile, 8 to 81 ; New Orleans and Texas, 81 to 8f ; low middling, Upland and Florida, 81 ; Mobile, 81 ; New Orleans and Texas, 9. Breedstuth had been dull and lower In value, but had partially recovered, closing with a better reeling, and less Coning of sales. Indian corn was held more firmly, in con sequence of the light supplies. The provision trade was quiet, with light sales, but former prides were sustained. Freights rather higher. To Liverpool: Wheat, 51. to 6d.; flour, Is. 6d.; cotton, id.; dead weight, 16s. to 17s. 6d. REPRESENTATION OF SWARM/A.—The ,•deotion of moielet to serve forSwanssa and its contributgry boroughs has been lied for Tuesday next. The only eandida: l in the field is Mr. L. L. Deliwyn, who offers nitwit in compliao• with A regniaitice: (191 1 dig denten. conceived that was a question for the traffic committee and the traffic managers to decide. Mr. W. MaLimo objected to that question being left from time to time to the traffic committee and traffic ma nagers; and be moved, as an amendment, that, in order to allied an opportunity of testing the prices at which merchandise, coals, &c., were carried on the line, the re ception of the report he deferred until the 2nd of May. In answer to questions put by Mr. Puncher, The Cuaihruex said there was no intention on the part of the directors to make the board room at Easton Station into a booking office, nor to build a second class hotel in the vicinity of the station. He added that the company had had a travelling inspector for the last four years, who had been exceedingly enrol in pre venting or detecting the defalcations of officers. (Hear.) Mr. GLYN, M.P., said he had been connected with the company since its commencement, and he certainly did not expect to hear from Mr. Matins that the gentlemen in the direction who were connected with Liver pool pod Manchester, and who bad been directors from the beirine;el; of the company. were Be ret! , to be aniniateu by some paltry motives of their own in seep ing down the fares and rates of carriage on the line. (Cheers.) He believed not one of those gentlemen were in any way interested in the carriage of goods upon the North Western line, and from what be knew of them he felt certain they were above the paltry spirit of self interest which had been imputed to them. (Cheers.) Advert ing to the returns called for by Mr. Hadfield in the House cf Commons, ho (Mr. Glyn) thought that gentleman, in asking for those returns, had attacked the muter cell of,the railway system ; but he (Mr. Glyn) could not excuse Mr. Hadfield and shareholders in general for the supineness and indifference which, year after year, had led them not only to be silent under the evil, but to goad on and stimulate the executive of the different companies into the expenditure which had led to the results now complained of. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MaLites disclaimed any personal imputation in what he had said in reference to the local directors, and withdrew the amendment he had moved. TLe accounts and management were canvassed in some detail by Mr. Webb, Mr. Puncher, Mr. Loch, M.P., and others of the abareholdera present, and eventually the motion for the adoption and circulation of the report was agreed to ; as was also the resolution moved by Mr, Hadfield, A dividend of 21. 10s. per cent. for the last half-year, less income tat, was then declared. Mr. H. W. Blake, Mr. J. C. Swart. Mr. G. H. Law rence, Mr. R. Moon, Mr. P. S. Pierropont, and Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P., the lit directors retiring by rotation, were re-elected; and, atter a rote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. - The Board of Trade Returns for tho month and twelve months ending sth of January last were issued yesterday. The total declared value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufac tures (including only the " enumerated articles") during the month and twelve months is as follows : , For the Month. For twelve Months 1855 18.54 1853 Including the " unenumerated articles " (which have recently been included in the return) the exports of the month ending the sth of January last are raised to 7,344,4731., and those of the twelve months to 97,092,3081. against 98,933,781/. in the previous twelvemonthly period. Confining our selves to the fair comparison afforded by the "enumerated " list, we find that the symptoms of a rapid decline in the export trade which were exhibited in the last monthly issue of Board of Trade tables aro no longer so plainly observable. Compared with the previous year the;lecrease on the month is only 143,8981., whilst on the twelve months it amounts t 0,1,884,8961., being at the rate of little more than two per cent. Considering the enor mous expansion which the export trade of the king ! dom sustained during the preceding year, especially to Australia, it is highly gratifying to find that the war, so far, has interfered so little with the general business of the country. Compared with the twelve months ending sth January, 1853, the present figures exhibit an increase of no less than 14,127,665/., being at the rate of nearly 20 per cent. THE POLICE COURTS. -4- MANSION-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor requested that the press would acknow. ledge the receipt of the following donations far the poor box : A Thank-offering to the Great Provider, 51. ; C. G., second half of • 101. note ; S. and H., 21. ; J. M., U. ; A. E. G.,101. ; Saddlers' Company, Si. Also for the Lon don Poor Relief Fund: from Messrs. Ridgway and Co., 10/ ; Etat Stephenson, 21.25. ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 60/. ; Sims Willyams Nevill, Esq., 30/. ; Neve Dem, , 101. ;H. C. White, Eiq., 61. ; C. S., receipt stamps, 6s. GUILDHALL. John &Togging, Patrick Daley, John Slater, Cornelius Newnliam, and James Smith, were charged with going about in gangs to levlr money. The facts were clearly proved. There were eight men, and one carried a box in which they had 13s. in shillings and sixpences, besides one threepenny p:ece. Upon Scroggins, who had pleaded that he was hard up," there was 3s. bd. found at the station,', independent of the money in the box. The inspector called witnesses who deposed that the pri soners had employment the previous day under a dust con tractor, at 21. 6d. per day, and might have been at work that day, but they had struck fur higher wages. Sir R. W. Carden committed them, as vagrants, to prison for twenty-one days, with hard labour. Sir R. W. Carden begged to acknowledge the receipt of Si, from the Saddler's Company ; and 21. anonymously, for the poor box. Also fifty tickets from the Ci y Samaritan Institution, entitling the holder to a basin of hot soup and bread. Sir It. W. Carden remarked that these contribu tions were very acceptable, and added that no destitute per son would be permitted to have relief refused by the proper authorities, if application was medic to any magis trate. MARLBOROUGH.STREET. Luigi Baranelli, the Italian who now awaits his trial for the wilful murder of Joseph Latham, alias Lam bert, at 6, Foley-place, : and with attempting to murder Mary Ann Jamie' alias Lambert, by shooting her also with a pistol, was brought up from Newgate by habeas, for the purpose of undergoing an examination. The prisoner appeared to be in a very weakly state of health. He was remanded to Newgatc. Fox tax FOUR Doz.—From C. G., tho half of a 10/. note; from T. B. the half of a 61. ditto; the Dra pers' Company, •61. ; T. B. H., 61. ; Frederick Crock ford, Esq., 3/. ; Lord C. per Sir Richard Mayne, dl. ; J. It. D., 51. ; and from H.S., 21. WORSHIP-STREET. At this court several persons were charged with rioting. The magistrate announced the receipt of 70/., being the aggregate amount of a guinea subscription of the members of the London Commercial Sale-rooms and others in the im mediate neighbourhood of Mincing-lane, for the relief of the poor. The following additional contributions were also received:—The Saddlers' Company, U. ; V. B , 5/. ; 51. ; Byron, 51.; C. R., 1 /. ; A. H. C. 8 ., 1/. ; 8., two Si. notes ; J. K. D., 5/. ; and a packet of relief tickets from the Samaritan Society in Farringdon-strcet. CLERKENWELL. Mr. Tyrwbitt acknowledged the receipt of 5/. from Lord C. ; ,5/. from R. ; sad 21. from Moss, for the poor-box. SOUTHWARK. Several disorderly persons were brought before the sitting magistrate, charged with perambulating the streets and soliciting money iu a manner to intimidate tradesmen and other householder. Some of the inhabitants w h o h a d suf fered by their visits were afraid to appear against them. The magistrate remanded certain of the prisoners for in quiry, but committed others to prison for a month. One party which has been levying black mail in the district, contrived to collect 51., with which the person of their num ber acting as treasurer bolted. Mr. Combe received the sum of 701. in Bank of England notes for the poor-bcs, with the accompanying note : " London, Feb. 23,1355. "The members of the London Commercial Sale-rooms sod others in the immediate neighbourhood of Mincing-lane have commenced a guinea subscription for the relief of the poor ; the money to be handed over for distribution to the magistrates of the Southwark, Thames, and Worship-street rolice-courta." Mr. Combs also received 51 from J. R. D., and 51. from the Saddlers' Company. Mr. A'Beckett has also received the second half of a 101. note from C. G., and the first and second half of • 51. note from H. THAMES. Charles Devine, aged4B, Timothy Burke, 15, Shea, 48, and John Driscoll, 50, Irish labourers, were charged with begging from house to house, and obtaining alms by intimidation. These prisoners were taken in the fact. On a search it was found that Devine had 4s. 88. in his possession, and the other various sums. The following additional subscriptions, an acknowledg ment of which wag requested in the journals, have been re ceived by Mr. Ingham, for the relief of the destitute poor in the district:—The Saddlers' Company, 51; 11 , 61. ; I. J. F., 5/. ;C. 8. 101.; W. M.. 51.; G. C., 101. ;A. 0. 2s. Bd. ; H. 1., 201. ; A. H. C. 8., a 61. note (196,414) ; A. H. C. 8., a 51. note (86,415) ; B. P., 11. ; S. G. N , 6s. ; Nemo, U. ; H. M., 61 ; M'Oregor Laird, 101. ;C. C. 8., ;C. H. M., 10s.; Rev. It. 8., Ws. ; W. A., ss. ; S. S.. 51 ; W. 8., Si.; I. N. 8., 51. ; Mr. W. 8., Lombard-street, 61. ; A. E. I. 0. U., 61. ; Anonymous, 51.; E. M., 10a; E. H., 109. ;11 L. 8., 6 guineas ; M. N., 21. ; C. M. L. P., 21.; a Lady, 51. Mr. Ingham relieved many well authenticated cases of urgent distress recommended to him by various individuals; and the chief usher distributed tickets for bread to those who were known to him and others to ba in a destitute condition, but the general distribution of bread daily at the doors of the court, which led to much confusion, and not a little imposition, bas bees yery wisely discontinued. ,IT.ARY. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 23. PROMOTIONS. -- Seoorid masters E. Swain (1847) and It. C. Dyer (Lb 1S) proJeted I to the rank of muter,. AVIOINTMENTS.—CUMInfindefS A. C. D.)rdni. (1353) to the Bulldog, G, paddle-wheel steam ship, of .500-hone power, for particular service; H. C. Glyn to the Hecate, 6, paddle wheel steam sloop, of 240. horse power, at Woolwich; and T. D. A. Forteacue (IVA) to the Barraoouta, 6, paddle wheel steam sloop, of 300-hone power, E lot India station. Master's Assistant W. H. Parker to the Recruit. CAPTAIN SYDNEY DACRES, RN., is appointed Admiralty Superintendent of the Southamp t o n pa da station, in the ronn. of Captatn Cratete, appoultud President of the Transport Board. 2 't . ne tnovort No. Captain Richard I. D owner. A sh L i A p K ß L a tt ra V c, A u , ...F2.2.1 , ii:. :;-; : trtive!, 14 8 , etc Wail lowa L ' alf-wav from Constantinople. When the hawser broke in a Rale of wind, the steamer lett the trans- port (a ship of 1,000 tons, drawing 19 feet of water) to her fate, and to find a place never seen by one on board before. MARKETS. - •• - SUGAR.—The average price of sugar, the produce of the British pooremions in America. computed from the return', musk to the week erdiag the 2Lth day M Fehr uary, 1855, isloa. Bd. Sugar, the pre. duce of the Mauritius, 206. 20. sugar, the produm of the Le.t lathe% 25e. ltd. The average prim of the thrte foregidog ditetildions of auger, jointly, 18 216.10. Sewn.—Bararok, Pan. 23.—The operations in our market have been anal, suspended this week, owing to the exhattaucl stocks, and the prevalence of easterly winds, which preclude, arrival , . Reapers' produce has become rather dull of sale, owing to the slackens of da. trued from the country, and price' are rather in favour 0: the bum Hum is very fiat, and again lower. WOOL—Lena, FLU. 23.—There ban been mote inr,u:ry this week for Gt. rman and colas:al wools. The demand for Engli•b wools beg Mao been pretty good, and prices are steady. CORN.—Cnstaisroan ' Yta. 2S.—There was only a moderate sup. ply of wheat at market .o.day, which mistaken sparingly at a da. cline of Is. per qr. on all beat deacriptiona ; eecandory still lower. Wheat, red, OS& to Gas.; extra, 705.; white, 7us. to its.; ex za, Bar'ey, all the best descriptiona guile its dear, 3t.s. to 32a.; estra, Be no without change. LINCOLN. Yee. 23.—We had a dull market to-day for ererythieg. Wheat met a slow demand .t le. below last week's rates; red,dde. to 70e.; w►ite, 73e. to ha. Barley, oat., and beam, about the ease last week. Wasterretro, Fen. 23.—The principal arrieala of wheat are sdn confined to railway, and the amount In warehouse at V. akefield is 63,695 qre., buides 19,90 k qrs. in Leeds; but it was held for hit weeks prices. There was a limited businesa Bale) , net a alow We a and prices were about the tame u lard week. Beam were Is. per qr. lower. Oats and shelling steady at laat quotrtians. WATER} of o, Yia. 11. The extreme severity of the weather IVA completely put a stop to all commuaieition with the interior, and in consequent our trade is confined to the supply of the demand at about last eatur..ay'a prince. nirms. Pro. ' 23.-54114: to Ittlbs., 31d. to SO.; 4;:b.. to 721 be , 3tC. ; 72 tn. to 8 0 Ibo., 3 1d.. to , bulb.. to 112100.. J. to 4d. ; Seib& to 90tes., 4d. to 41a. ; 96105. to 101100., —d. to —d. ; bade., 55. Gd. Calf Skins, light, 4e. to X ; tu4l. 58. 6d. Ileavoteuser.— Sheep skins, polltd, Go. Od. to 2a. 3d.; Kente met holf-breds, 39. 3d. to to. td.; Downs, 4s. 01. to Is. 104. COALS.—Lownon, FIB. 23.—BudcWs Wee: Hartley, 19...; Ceet's Hartley, 19.. 6d.; Holy well, 22e. 6d.; Howard's West Herter Netherton, 19e. 6d. ; Lougridge's West Hartley, 194. 6d.; Walker Primrose, lee.; West Hartley Or•y'e,l9e.; Walt. End 'Lowell, 2'e.; Wolin End Merton, 25e.; WILVA End llctton Lyons, 2,1,..,d.; Walla End Plummer, 21e.; Cowpen, 19e. 6d. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL SHIPS AT FOREIGX PORTS.—Daring, at Oporto; Sarah and Margaret, at Dirdeaux ; Mary Su field, at Malta; Nais, at Civita Vecchia; Martha, at Cadiz; Caroline, Good Intent, Bolas, Leander, Juan, Eclat, and Cameas Second (s.s.). at Gibraltar; Africa (s.), at Boston; Clio, and Bertha, at Lisbon. SAILED FOR LIVERPOOL.—SaFah Sancta (RA.), 111411 Portland, Feb. 5 ; Branscombe, from Valencia, Feb. 13. ARRIVED. Aniox—at Gravesend, February 23, from Boulogne ( ESILIA—ut Liverpool, February 23, from . Denmark !mix itUNVAN—IIi. Liverpool, February 23, from— Hong limg OJAI i. —at Liverpool, February 23, fehm Denmark PA, Ivo: (s.) —at Liverpool, February 23, from 'few York F.ia T. Nfaser.ec—at Plymouth, February 22, from COMM BAILED. PIITiEH Mortar—from Pill, February 22, to Callao OLFOrATIA - from Cardiff, February 22, to Conatantalog Fauna—from Cardiff, February 22, to fikoour —from &Coombe, February 22, to. Gibes:tor JANIIISTJSK CtISLTJSK—from Liverpool, February 23, to... Bombay 311Ni:eve—from Peorance, February 20, to Oporto :4115041i. frum Newport. M., Feb. 21, to 3la.ta NANCT—from Newport. M., February 21, to St. rbomat Won—from Oraveaend, February 23, to Loologre VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Blackheath, from Calcutta for London, off the Cape. Chrysolite (ship), from Liverpool for Shanzhae, 22 days out, Jan. I, lot. 4.30 1an.21.36 W. Caucasian, from Bombay for London, off the Cape. Mary (barque), from Singapore for London, 74 days out, Dec. 11,14 31.20 8.,10n. 16.49 ). Pacific (a.), for the Cape of Good Hope, put into St. Helena, with machinery damaged, Dec. 20. STOPPAGE OF A 'MANCHESTER HOUSE.—Tho well known and much respected commission buyers at Man cheater, Messrs. Gibson, Ord, and Co., suspended p.tymeat yesterday, when their creditors received circulars in which the Hrm say, "We are sorry to inform you that we are under the painful necessity of at once eutpending our payments, notwithstanding every effort on our part to meet sach a result by negotiation, the unsuccessful issue of which his only just been ascertained." The liabilities are supposed to be about 30,0001., of which 10,0001. is owing to the Men chester and &Hord Bank, and the remainder will chiefly fall upon houses in the cloth trade. FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a fire broke out on the premises, No. It, Cherry Garden-street, near notherhithe, known as the Bermendul Academy, and tenanted by Mr. Callahan. The 11.miee hid obtained a firm bold of the building before the arrival of the engines, and could not be subdued until the whole at the pri vate premise!, together with the furniture and other cffecu, were destroyed. The school was also levelled with the ground. The loss falls upon the Sun and Union Fire official [Advertisement.] —HOLLOWAY'S PILLS WONDER. it'LLE Eerie Isiah IN Ck AIN° BILE, AMPLEST, AIM EPILI.ETIO rtes.—Mr. Pariels ()Lary, of the Mal, Waterfonl, suffered lion bile, a general derangement of the stomach, and frequent attacked endemic tile. The beet medical trent:neat he availed hiniseT of had nu geod effect whatever upon him, and although he feared be theta be a sufferer for ll:e, he resolved en giving Holloway's Pills a trill. from hearing that a gentleman connected with the law, acid minket in the Temple, had been cured by their use. lle can new bias: ot completely renovated constitution, and a perfect restoration to brake by taking these invaluable Ville. B,ld by all druggists, and at PM , (floor Holloway's Establishment, 2 4 4 , Strand, London, and St Maiden-lane, New York. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIR HIS. BRIGGS.—Feb. 20, at Bowls-green, near Sevenooks, the :its of the Rev. John A. Briggo, of aeon. CAS ALL.—Feb. 21, at Btofield, Berkshire, the wile of A. Csisal, EN., of a son. CUS iCK.—Feb. 7, at the Villa Chen, Florence, the wife of HMI Thomas Cusack, Esq., of a eon. D'OVLY.—Feb. 21, at Lowndee-equare, the wife of the Her. 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DAVIDSON—WOOD. —Feb. 20, at Long Newnton, Wilts by the 110. W. 11. Biederman , M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese of Comm, ma Rector of Bemoan, Antrim, M.P. I)avidson, Feq., of IF , A ris l ro: d, Regent's-park, third eon of the late 0. M. Dar' sea. Esq., War coley House, Gloucestershire, to Katharine Atn'.o, daogltor' B. Wood, Ee' q., of Newaton House, Wilts. Freeing, Bart., of Conn iti;Sa HARR,ISON—MEREDITH.—Feb. 20, at Llansber, by 11 thet ^r Rolland, C. Harrison, , (.4 Cottingham, Yorkshire , Grebe Catherine. only daughter of tSe late W. Meredith, Eq., ef mouth, Merionethshire. DEATHS. cnEvil.EY.—Feb. 22, itt Cheinututd, Elizabeth, wife of M. Chevelcy. DOD.—Fel. 21, et Po:ley-read, North Brixton, Med 62. HALL—Feb 20, 11. Hal, Esq., of Ehlort.equare, Erahog, X B3 ' Incum bent of JOWETT.—Feb. al, at Clapham, the Rev. w. Jowett, M. John's, Clapham-rise, oged GS. LOMAst.—Feb. 19, at Sneintnn, Nottingsam, Elizabeth, retwt of ths It.te Mr. 9. Lome*, aged 70. RUITEIL—Ftb. 21, B. G. 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