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it'-' 1 / * Bli I . w COTINT-GARDEN TIfF:ATRR. TLL Ewald& FRIDAY. Oct. 11. trill be performed (Aar the let time) Ms Operatic Drama. called LILLA. Ihe Prisetpal Chambers by Mews. rawest; Cooper. Connor, Power. ROOM Mesdames Meadows: Paton ani Lora • , After . CHARLES THE SECOND. Chula t ai lLeelde s gr. C. arable; Lord fioeltmear. Mr. Jones; Mr. Fawcett. Mary. MW Helms. ihrareetoilt with osoabil A TALE OF Cooper. MYSTERY. Count R. Sir. iIAYMARICR7' THEATRE. This ['salad. FRQIDAY, CORRE Oet.4ll.CT. will be performed UITE The Characters by Marrs. Yhting. Raymond. and Liston) • es Glover. F.dertoo, P. Glover, and W. Clifford. After which PAUL PRY. Yhr Pidelhipall er barseter• by Messrs. Williams and Limon; Mrs. . Wse P. Mover. sad Madame Testes. . . To tone luae with FRIGIrTEN'D Tu DEATH. RAHMau. Mr. Harley; Patty. airs. Willett. To Illaietsu Passe commenced publishing yesteedey morn. 4 . as five o'clock. • - T.ONDO FRIDAY. Ocrossa 41, 1823. "Me Paris Papers of Sunday have been received ; but tlicfr contents, with the exception of the financial article from the lefunilea.r, of which we have given the substance iq Another column, are entirely without interest. The -cont►ary winds have prevented the arrival of the papers of 111ontay end Tuesdey, which ought to have reached us ilst right by our usual express. .$1( e beg to draw at!entlen to the Meeting of the Pro. prietor's of the British Bock and Patent Salt Company. 1.1.7 1 . d yesterday at the City of London Tavern. Flom the statements then• Made it *ems that this new Associatiatt' csieulated to prodtrre some benefit to the nation, as well a...much profit to the Shareholders. There is &peculiarity iu. the cor.stitution of this Company exceedingly advan tyzeous, ►oth to the public and the proprietors—viz. that the minuet:tent is vested in gentlemen who must have a bona rfelnterest in the conc:rn to the amount of 5,0001. each, which interest cannot cease until six months after ' they Lave retired from the direction. Among the many Joint- Stock Companies that have been formed for domestic pur p.oea, none, we think, bids mere fairly fur success, or is, oa public grounds, better entitled to it, than the one to we arc mow directing the attention of our readers. MTV. THURSDAY EYRYING. . 'There was great languor in Consols almost the whole of • tint marling. They opened fur the November Account at , „ - tun, sad there were altertuttely buyers and 'elites at that • *rift fee the first hour of the Market. The price after . „puerto, wan SS, buyers ; and that at the dose of the day • use#4l7l St The causes assissed for this depression were, e , Aka: the Equitable Assurance Company, in fulfilment of curtain internal amusements, was selling stock to a large giant, and that the Seek was smiling in their advances Aillask Stock. These reasons operited Powerfully upon tll,c Market, and heavy sales were made during the middle •• • :• and latter part of the slay. e .... , . Matket had very little badness doing in it, amt.lllui.olius in most of the Securities drooped. Greek lisetilsiefle, and Colombian Bonds 74i S. Mexican . fit idl Serip S r idisciunt ; Brazilian ditto Si 1 discount ; add 'Onsternala ditto saj discount. Danish Bmds were ;‘,.aod Old Spanish Bonds were 17i j. The Share Market transactions were very unimportant. &Lear Shares were eo, Anglo-itexicui ditto 35, and those oc the Rrasilian Company 1i preminto. l'he Colonial Market wit very dull. There were scarcely ▪ se e ctof &war, Coif' e, or Rum, glominumusta from the manufacturing districts eoritir.ue flecurahia. Couon is rather higl cr in price. r • *Latters,treso Alexandria of September 1s mention that three - were MVO troops about to sail, to reinforce the army ' of Ibrahim Pacha. 'AceotcHug to recent advice' received at Ilia de Janeiro, from Upper . Peru, it' would seem that a very strong effort wiz made to excite unfavourable huprettsiors in the mind (Y . ^ennui Bolivar, when on his road to Cuzco, respecting theigritith, and also to point out to him the destructive effects °reversing the ports of Peru to foreign trade, but more particularly that from England. In Poarearcolla and quiquisana, a few leagues frenk Cuzco, a number •of Peruvians bad assembled, for the expr.w purpose of meet ing the Liberator, in order to lay before him a report on t atm* of She cotton and woollen manufactuies c llpper•Pein. Corroborative statements of the truvnber or families ferniest, anpportOil b) , this species of industry were presented to him, from which it appeared that op wards of 10.000 looms were theta standing still—a misfor sue* attributed entirely to lb.:m.lol6ms of the British. PRICES OE RIOTIB9I STOCKS YESTERDA Y. par Coat. Red. 874 1 6 Long Ann. 21 1-16 • per Nit Cone. BB 4 1/74 India Stack 91174 • lei 4 so Didis Roods II 14 pm l i re la i llie le:t. 113 341 C:. Rilli.l )41.1.000 / . I 3 1 pa 3 oe , Coat. Red. 24f 1 Ditto, b4lui. 131 pm New 4 per Cont. 1034 4 113 Ditto. Small 324 pm 'PRICES or romsici:x wrocKs VEsTERDAv. Ikatillast bands • Quatetnala Scrip :sista Acct. 84 4 dis Ditto Acct. 5 dui Ream Ayres Bonds 13 f Meek= Rands 70 4 Colombian Bands Ditto At-et. 701 1/1110 ACK. 714 _ Ditto Hoods (1023) 77 704 Rio* Rauditt 18981 Ditto Acet. Vivo AAfA 76 41 4 f Ditto Scrip (1823) 8Z 9 Sig Thaish &mds ' Ditto Aoct. 81 4 di* Data Dash (IRM) 6414 Neapolitan Bundy Prom& lhatos I per Ct.JW. lie. Pompom Roods 833 • RI W Me. Ditto Met. 331 4 Xsithavo 211.1 k. lie 10c. Russian Roods (1822) 924 321 3 lona RlDte, I, /WY CU 711:73c. Ditto Acct. 924 Itsattsaigo W. Ik. Spswisli Eons. 174 18 la 4 Grist Sonde Ditto Acct. 174 1 1 Ditto Routs (16112) 30 294'f Ditto Cons. (180)13 1 Ikt:a A vet. 30 Ditto Acet. .. PRICES OF SHARES YESTERDAI . WINE'. Share. Paid. Premium per Siam. Asilet.ll4xiesa £lllO 20 34 ' iri vik all IO OSO 1 21 6i 7 LopkltoiSsetionrattl 100 I 4 4414 l e..r. - . 100 4 1 6 ••• • 23 dis liskral.Munag Aesociatioo lOO ti 24 14 2 614ytiesi lOO II 14 dis Potosi, La Pa:, and Peruvian 68 A 4 }ells Royal Waldeck lO6 1 14 141 04 ylsarabale..... —.. .- Waisk Iron ordCoal.: .... 2l IS 44 6 dis ASSVIAWCI coirsitiES. AlSaaos British and Foreign.- 100 10 31 litsto Marine ........ ........... .., lOO 3 IL Peiteittor rue • •ws LWOW! AND OAKS COWPAWITIF. ttnltadDeaorol ......... ..... 1%.401 %AMWAY'. RicallitgEttawad LivorppoL." 10 3 14 xstscit.x.swaous. iliktifax4atis Mint Si 4 4 row Osseorsay..— lOO ' 23 Oils 11211112 Rseik sad Nowt Salt IM .6 i le. 1. 111 = 164 3as Engin* ........ V:a Coast Association 1•11 1 . li 4 dis groat Westminster Ditty ?I 6 2 die • liiimertl 'Dyeing sad Priming I 1 4 . legronal Enna .."—..... 2 14 4 1 -• ilib., &Aims's:Stamp - 1011 I is Mao .. ..... - 30 2 Nos Core chnnie. ...... .._ 1/Efte iiit•ittisit prroo• i DRURY-LANg THEATRA% To-rpogrog..inTusp.oo,lll, will he performed INC SIERRA' Inv= or WlNOtion. !Pr John Falstaff. Mr. Omelets t 'Mister Slender. Mr. Harley : Ford, Mr. Walla*. Mrs. Fwd. Midi. Oraddon. After vbieb. TYR INNIITZPCRII IMUGNTICR. Whey. Nibs Lilly. INLR !NM:LH:INCR. FA. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury arrived in town yes terday from Hatfield. hod Hervey has left tows fcr Tckworth Park, Suffolk. The Countess of Beauchamp has left town for Paris. Lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish and family have arrived in town from their seat. Eastbourne, Sussex. Lady Louisa Lygon left town yesterday for Sir Charles Kent, Bart.'s sear, Grantham House, Lincolnshire , . Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and family left the Waterloo Hetet, .1-mmln-stmt, yesterday. on a tour. Mrs. Egerton left town yesterday for Wicdsnr. Arrival at the London lint el. Albemarle.street r—Mr. and Mrs. Graham from a toter. Departure:—Colonel and Mrs. Dashwood on a tour. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. M.P. left town yesterday for his seat, Tap low, Berko. Arrivals at Read's Hotel. Lower Grosvenor-stash :—The Rev. D. F. Hatton and the Rey. Mr. Lawrence from Northamptonshire. Departures :—Vircouuteas and Miss Allen for Surrey, the Rev. Henry Torte for his seat near Litchfield, F. S. Blnunt, Esq. for his seat in Sussex, W. Aikwright, Esq. for his scat in Norfolk, and Captain Osborne on a tour. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and family are expected to leave Woburn Abbey on Tuesday next for the Continent. The Duke of Devonshire is expected in town to-morrow from his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. Arrivals at Fladong'sUutel, Oxford-street :—Dr. F. 0. da Silva and Miss Silva front a tour, Purcell, Esq. and 3lrs. Purcell from ditto, Captain Demetrio Miaulis and suite from ditto, Hugo Chadwick, Esq. front ditto, E. Protheroe, Esq. from ditto, and T. M•Nagitten. Esq. front ditto. Departures :--G. G. Gilbert, Esq. for Cheh.• .ham, Rase, Esq. on a tour, Rev. Mr. Street field on a tour, -- Fane, Esq. on a tour, and Captain flarrison for Hampton Court. Departures from ;Miller's Hotel, Jermyn.street :—Walter Boyd, Esq. Mrs. Boyd, and family, for Rath ; Captain and Mrs. Saunders for ditto ; J. Ball, Eeq. Mies Ball, and Mrs. Thorpe ; Henry Entwisle, Esq., and James Daly, Esq. M.P. Cot Tun bridge Wells. The Duke of Cumberland honoured Prince Eaterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, with his company to dinner, on Wednesday. Yesterday the Princess Sophia paid a visit to the Duke of Cumberland. Prince Esterhazy transacted business yesterday afternoon with Mr. Secretary Canning, at the Foreign Office, Down lug-street. :Mr. Haviland, the King's Messenger, was sent off on Tuesday evening, from the Foreign Office, to Paris. The Bishop of Durham is residing at Warwick House, Worthing. The Earl of Clare is about to lead to the hymeneal altar the accomplished Miss Burrell. Notwithstanding the assertions of some of the London papers, we entertain no doubt whatever that the Kin . will be here next month. The Duehessof Gloucester will also honour Brighton with a visit ; her Royal Highness will of course reside at the Pavilion.—Brighton Gazelle. At the Palace every thing remains in Oulu quo, but the return of the King thither about the time mentioned by us last week is regarded as certain. The Christmas enter tainments to the juvenile nobility, &c., there, it is said, will be given by his Majesty with peculiar splendour this year.—Brighton Herald. The Duke of Clarence has been graciously pleased to grant his distinguished patronage to the Scots Military and Naval Academy forming in this city. His Royal Highness says, in a letter he did Captain Erskine (one of the Direc tors) the honour of addressing to him, " I am happy to accede to your wishes, and consequently to put my name, in addition to the many very respectable individuals who protect this excellent institution for the army and navy of our country. Ever believe me, your's sincerely, WILLI st." —Glasgow Courier. At a dinner given by the Mayor of Lynn, on the 29th tilt. Mr. Coke said that, advanced as he was in years, arid being decidedly a domestic man, he should be happy to retire from the turmoil of public life, and if any gentleman of staunch Whig principles would offer him self as a candidate to the electors of the county of Nor folk, he should have his decided support, but rather than a Tory should be brought in, he would remain till death at his post. We find there is no doubt that Major-General Sir D. Ochterlony, Bart. has resigned, and has come to Calcutta, on his way to England. Sir David was Political Resident in Malwa, and it was a difference with the Supreme Go vernment as to the management of affairs there which is supposed to have led to his resignation. An order of the King of Prussia, directed to the autho rities of his Rhenish provinces, prohibits the Roman Ca tholic priests from exacting, previous to the celebration of marringe between parents of different sects, a promise that the oftspring should be brought up in the Roman Catholic faitb. It would appear that the bigotry of many of the rriests had led them to require this unlawful engagement. Tire Monileur of Sunday contains an official report of the state of the revenue of France for the first nine months , 1 of this year, similar to our quarterly accounts. The pro-1 duce for the first three quarters of 1824 amounted to 766,773,000 francs (or 30,670,9201.), and that for the same pet iod in 1825, to 779,101,000 francs. There has thus been an increase of more than half a million sterling in the course of nine months—a truth that might have been rendered more consoling by an equality or a diminution in the ex peuditure. This is, however, so far from being the case, that in the course of the last nine months the public debt of France has been increased by the large sum of 40 mil lions sterling voted to the emigrants. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. —Although it is scarcely possible that Captain Parry can have made any important discovery during his last voyage, yet his surveys will add something towards the hydrography of the Arctic regions, and the collections that have been made must increase our treasures of natural history. The course taken by the expedition was through Davis Straits, Baffin's Bay, Lancaster Sound, and Barrow's Strait, which leads into Pritice Regent's Inlet. Fort Bowen, where the ships wintered, is, as we stated, in N. lat. 73 deg. and W. long. 89 deg. being about 120 miles from the point where Captain Parry was stopped in his last voyage. It must not, however, be considered that the expedition did not reach so far as the preceding one, as they proceeded on different routes. It appears that, as soon as the last summer commenced, they stood to the south-westward, and reached 72 deg. 46 wan. N. lat. and 91 deg. 50 min. W. long. where the Fury was lost, and they were compelled to turn back. This point is about 4eo geographical miles N.E. from Cape Turnagain, the bound ary of Frpklin's discovery, to the eastward of the mouth of the Copper-mine river; but it is not so far west, by, 300 miles, as they made out on their first voyage of discovery. There was a alight fall of snow yesterday monting at three o'clock. Assuatc•br LITERAZY TITLCS.—(From the Harvard College Catalogue.)—" Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D. et Lugd. Batay. Med. Theor. et Pm. Prof. Hers. et Col. Ins. Rhod. Hist. Nat. Prof. A.A. et M.M.S. et S.P.A. Soc. S.S. LL. PP. q. Manc. Ilathon, et Preston. S. M. Lond. Schol. Med. Gall. et Acad. S:ient. Lit. Eleg. Art. ac Commcrc. Efasail. Soc. Corresp." A tornado occurred in Vermont, in the State of New Jersey, on the 31st of August, the destructive effects of which were very remarkable. Fortunately its width did not exceed 500 yards, but within that space every thing it encountered was swept away by its fury; houses, barns, fences, and even forests, were laid prostrate. A few lives were lost, and a greater number of persons was seriously injured, but its consequences in this respect were less fatal than might hare been expected. The eate•nt of litigation in sc• le parts of the United States is •ery remarkable. The New Hampshire Patriot of the 10th ult. mentions that at the first term of the new slate Court of Common Pleat' for Stafford county, held at Gilmanstovrn, five hundred new actions were entered ; and Oyu in the same Court for Coos county, there were 163 new entries, 10 jury trials, and 51.5 continuances. A school has been established at the New York Navy yard, for the purpose of instructing seamen, in the service of the United States, in the manner of rigging a ship. The old steam ship Robert Fulton has been purchased for the purpose, and her engine taken out altogether. Sailors when Snit employed are put on board, when competent masters decide whether they are qualified as seamen. If unacquainted with the different duties, they arc to receive the necessary instruction, and to be kept at work in mak ing, arrdnging, and taking down the different parts of the rigging, until wanted for service on. board some of the ves sels of the navy.. Every month the Fulton is to present the appearance of a fun-rigged ship, and again that of a ilia:wasted oze. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Perhaps Love fur I,9re is the pleasantest, if not the best comedy, of the four which indolence, gout, and 1200/. a-year, permitted one of the greatest comic geniuses of his own or any after age to leave us. It possesses in an emi nent degree all the leading characteristics of Congreve's mind. The characters are witty to a fault : even the fools give the lie to the folly which is imputed to them, anti justify Pope's line— " Tell me if Congreve's fools a'e fools indeed?" You see that their imbecility is a make believe on the part of the writer, and their folly a masked battery, from whence he takes occasion to discharge the artillery of his wit. To be sure, there is little character and less humour in all this. The personages of the drama come on and go off the stage merely to say good things, and help forward the intrigue which the author has concocted. They appear to breathe an atmosphere of wit. in which they live, and move, and have their being. Folly cannot co-exist with them. The air is too rarefied for it to live in. The thoughts are all clothed in an appropriate garment of lan guage. Even ordinary ideas assume a fresh beauty from the gracefulness of the diction, as pebbles at the bottom of a rivulet take a brighter hue from the brilliancy of the stream. If we could overlook the indecency of language, and, generally speaking, irremediable dissoluteness of plot and character which pervade Corigreve's Comedies, they would be perfect in their kind, and we should hail their revival with rapture. But this cannot be. They are unsuited to the moral tone of the present age. It is well they are. In addition to this, many of the local allusions are lost, or fail In their' effect. A century back, citstoins were different from what they are now. 'though the substance of folly be the same, the form has char.grd, and men ride other bobby-horses than did their great-grandfathers. Who cares for Judicial astrology now a days? Yet it is on a belief and practice of that en the character of Foresight is founded in the present piece. The wit only remains. That, to be sure, is immortal ; but in our opinion better appreciated and more relished in the closet than on the stage. Under those circumstances, much as we admire the old comedy—ready as we are to admit " Strong were nut sires ; and as they fought they writ, Conquering by force of arms an.: dint of wit"— we cannot look upon the revival of I ove far Love as a measure likely to add much to the funds of the treasury at Drury-lane. ' The cast of the play last night was extremely strong; and if the management do not obtain, they seem at least disposed to deserve success. Dowton played the part of Sir Sampson Legend with great force and effect, without, *she sometimes does, overstepping the modesty of nature. Mr. Wallack was respectable, to say the least of him, in Valentine, and went mad after the most approved fashion. To the Foresight of Mr. Williams we are disposed to give more commendation than did the majority of the audi ence. 'ibis actor has not got the trick to delight the gal leries, but it is the want of. this qualification that recom mends him to our good opinion. Ile uses all gently, and subdues rather than overplays his part. This is a fault to which we are always indulgent in a new actor, and unfor tunately it is one of which the performer, generally speak ing, soonest contrives to disencumber himself. The Fore sight of last night, without reference to preceding ores, was, in our opinion, an (xcellent performance, and whit the au th or intenile‘it should be. The look, ton manner, g tit, and deportment, all smacked of star ng and feeble wonder. The by-play, which is material in (his character, was capital, and excited what Mr. Wii lia ns should value more than noisy applause—the laughter of the spectators. Ben was bustled through by Harley with the usual liveliness winch he contrives to fit upon every pa t consigned to his care, and which, spite of all its man nerism, we cannot but laugh at and admit to be pleasing Mr. Russell had the little part of Jeremy, and he contrived to make it less. Angelica, the heroine, originally played by Mrs. Bracegirdle, fell into 3,4 hands of Mrs. Davison. Would she were as young as we remember her! The two sisters, Foresight and Frail, were well sustained by Mes dames Ow and Yates. We have not time to praise Miss Kelly as site de , erves, in Miss Prate, and shall therefore make no ineffectual attempt. Mr. Brabam appeared at the Dublin theatre, on Mon day evening for the first time dime three years, u Covet Bain°, in the Devil's Bridge, to a crowded house. He was greeted upon his entrance with general and warm applause. On Saturday last, Miss Stephens made her last appear ance this season, at our theatre, before a very crowded audience, At the conclusion of the opera the manager came forward, and, amid great cheers mingled with some hisses, announced his having entered into an engagement with Miss Foote.—Gtarew Chronicle. The story of Bergaint being in Russia turns out to be a mere fabrication. This person was at Pesaro a month since, and it was understood he was going shortly to Rome with his wise sad daughter, to place the latter in a convent for her education. Letters of a recent date from Alexandria mention the fact of no case of plague having occurred there for some time, and that a British ship was waiting for a clean bill of health, which she expected to obtain in ten days. We understand actions will immediately be brought against the officers of the Customs for the illegal detention of the two vessels seised on their voyage to Greece.—Eeen ing Paper. The trade at the Port of Shoreham continues to in crease—the duties received in the quarter just ended amounting to sixteen thousand pounds, being eleven thousand pounds more than the annual receipt eight years ago. We arc happy to understand that the Revenue of Customs at Montrose is still on the increase. The amount of duties received at Montrose, during the quarter ended 10th current, is 4,732/. and at Arbroath, 3,370/. ; total, 8102!. This sum exceeds The whole receipt in the year 1822.—Edinburgh Star. On Wednesday evening last, the United Associate Con gregation of Albion Chapel, Moorgate, met for the purpose of electing a Minister, when the Rev. James Gray, A.M. nowjtupplying at that place, was unanimously chosen. Time Rev. Wm. Broedfoot, of Oxen don Chapel, preached and presided on the occasion. It becomes our painful duty this week to record the melancholy accident which on Friday evening terminated the life of Wm. Harldersicli, jun. Esq. of Rickerscote, late of Stafford, is the 9114h.year of his age. Mr. H. wasl on his return from Rugeley•Races, when the high-spirited horse on which hi was mounted took fright, and, be coming quite ungovernable, ran away. After the enlmal had gallopped a distance of about two miles, and passed the end of the lane which leads to the residence of the young gentleman's fitful., it became more manageable,' and was temperately, carrying its master towards his home, when, it is supposed, sinetbiug twain occurring to alarm it, h suddenlyatartediemf oallopped down the lane, came in contact with some rails a few yards beyond Silkmore house, and threw its rider with extreme violence head fore most against the trunk of a tree! The skull of the unfor tunate young gentleman was fractured in so dreadful a manner as to leave no doubt that he was instantly killed. The father of the deceased, accompanied by a servant man, who had been alarmed by the appearance of the horse with out its rider at his nu.ster's gate, was the first who disco• meal the lifeless corpse of his only son ! The accident happened about nine o'clock in the evening , and the body was found about half an hour afterward s. Mr. H. was much esteemed for the many excellent qualities of hit heart, and his unfortunate death has excited the deepest commiseration of his acquaintance and relatives. It issaid lie was heir to a foshatte of 200,000/.—St(7i. Mire Ad vertiser, Oct. lE. : A farmer, on his way home from Leicester Cable Fair on 111ondav se'nnight, was attacked by two men on the highway, Between Thurniaston and Systen, in that county. The villains pounced upon him suddenly, and laying fast hold of the reins, with horrid imprecations demanded his money. The fariner,., greatly alarmed, IVIS proceeding to give up his property, when the ruffians pulled him off the horse and rifled his pockets of Banknotes, &c. amounting to 1001. The miscreants then brutally ill-treated their victim, al:d finally decamped in two opposite directions, after starting tin/ Sorsa without its master at full gallop. We are sorry to add they hare u yet escaped detection.— , Derby Mercury. • • ••••• BRITISH ROCK AND PATENT SALT COMPANY. A General Meeting of the Shareholders in the British Rock and Batelle Salt C.1(11)3115 , WA4 held, pursuant to advertisement, yes terday, at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of submit ting tor the inspection and approval of the Proprietors the draft of the Dzed of Settlement, and to receive and proposals for amending the same, in order to confirm a Resolution of the ROAM of Direc tors, for reducing the nominal capital of the Company from two millions tire hundred thousand p4unda to tire hundred thousand pounds, by a reduction of the nominal value ot t)te share from fifty to ten pounds, this capital being supposed sufficient to accomplish the objects of the Company and in order to receive information from the Directors respecting the proceedings of the Company at the different works. . . . --- ATOICeO 7 CIOSCii. M. PAIRATT, Esq. took the Chair. The following Report of the Deputation ir.f the Directors of the Company was then reed by wu. Beset,. (NE, E s q.:— " Conformably to the resolution of the Board of Directors, we left London on the 24th of September last, for the purpose of vi. siting the works of the Company, situated on the Grand Trunk Canal, aui at Anderton, near Northwich. " (In arriving at Shirleywiek, the most southerly of the Com pany's works, we commenced our inspection and Inquiries, in which we weie assisted by Mr. Law, one of the Directors, to whom the management and superintendence of the wake on the line of the Canal is intrusted. " The Shirleywiek Works are most eligibly situate on the banks of the Grand Trunk Canal. The salt is of a peculiarly fine qua lity, and hat long been esteemed in the London market ; there is, therefore, not only an immediate sale for that which is at present manufactured, but an increasing demand, which, even with the as sistance of the patent principle, when it may be in operation at these a orks, they would scarcely be enabled to supply, In con. sequence of some very judicious suggestions kindly furnished by Mr. Sutton, who accompanied us, the quantity of salt manufac tured per week will probably be much increased, with little far. ther expense to the Cora any. " We next proceeded to the Lawton Works, which, together with :hose at Roughwood, are under the management of Mr. John Pedley and Mr. Andrew., the former of whom has been employed on this spot twenty.eighr, and the latter twelve years. The affairs of the Company we found were conducted with the greatest regu larity and precision. " We afterwards visited the Upper and Lower Works at Wheelock, under the management of Mr. B. Gregory, and were equally gratified with the result of out investigation. " In this brief outline of our visit to that part of the Company's property in which the patent principle is not in operation (and there. fore the least productive), we have not been anxious to enter into minute particulars, our cotirse being rather to state results, than to Fatigue the attention of the Board, by detailing the mode of our re search ; we therefore conclude this part of out Report by conga tulatieg the Board on the following fact, : " lot. That the quantity of salt which it was stated the Line Works, when in full operation, were capable of producing, on the Company's first purchasing them, is proved to be correct. " 2dly. That there is not only a constant and regular demand for all the salt now produced, but it is the opinion of your agents that double the quantity, if manufactured, by an extension of the works at the south-end, would be readily disposed of. " 3dly. That the estimate on which the profits of these works was originally formed, is now ascertained to be correct, although the past six months comprise the dullest portion of the season, during which time the Company bare been subjected to a want of water, arising from the drought which for a time prevailed in the summer just passed. On the 26th, we proceeded to view the Company's property at Anderton ; and here we should not do justice to the talents of Mr. Furnival, if we forbore expressing the pride and gratification the sight of these stupendous works occasioned. This feeling does not arise simply from their magnitude, but from the peculiarly judi cious manner in which they are constructed. The western Bide of the building is completed, and contains a great extent of pannage, part of which is now in full operation, and the remainder will be so in the course of three weeks, at which period the Company will by this range alone, according to the estimate of 3lr. Manly, on whose judgment we may rely from his long experience as a salt maker, produce one thuusand tons per week That which has al ready been manufactured, although under the disadvantage of new peonage, has amply demonstrated the excellence of the patent prin. dole, as the Agent at Liverpool states that finer salt was never exhibited, and that its superiority ulone would always command a preference in that market. Large quantities are now on the way to Liverpool, at which market we have ascertained beyond doubt, that we can find a really sale for all the salt that can be produced by the Anderton Works, when completed, on the extended male now contemplated. It must also be remembered, that the Com pany possess prculiar facility for shipping salt to the above port, the Aederton Works being bounded by the river Nreaver on one side, and on the opposite tide by the Trent and Mersey Canal; the former being the ruedinm of transport to Liverpool, the latter to thieve/rifts canals by which the internal markets of the kingdom are chiefly supplied. The projected works on the Eastern side are in a great state of forwardness.; when entirely complete, they will contain nearly double the quantity of pannage of those on the western side ; and will, it is calculated by Mr. Manly,. already re ferred to, produce at least one hundred thousand tons annually. The eastern side has been projected on this extensive scale finer the ascertained fact, that by an outla y . very small compared with the cost of the western side, this large Increase of peonage might be obtained. The Anderton Brine is fully saturated, and inex hatnitible ; and it has been found by analysis, that the Solt menu lectured from it, is equal in purity to the beet foreign salt. " We should be deficient in justice to Mr. Craig. who has the superintendence of the Winks at Anderton , if we failed to convey the unmingled satisfaction we derived from our inquiries into the various branches of this extensive Establishmant, the utmost order, regularity, and correctness prevailed in the conduct of every De partment. . - " Accompanied by Mr. Sutton. to whom we were much indebt. ed for advice on all subjects of difficulty, we next proceeded to in. spect the progress of the Rock Salt Mine. Mr. Manly, the en. gineer, reported, that they had already passed the first stratum of salt, and by letters since received from Northwich we find they are now in the second stratum. After acquainting us with many satis fartory particulars, he concluded with assuring vs that in about six weeks the Company would be iu a situation to commence their shipments. " There are several mines of rock salt in work in the neighbour hood of Northwich, but that taken by the Company possesses great advantaves over them, not only in point of locality, but also of rent and quayage. All the rock salt exported from Liverpool (the only port which exports the article) is derived from this neighbourhood, and the principal shipments are for the Netherlands, Russia, Prussia, Scot. land, and Ireland, the export is about 100,000 tons annually. Of these countries the Netherlands take the greateat quantity, and as one of your chief proprietors has establishments in that place for manufacturing salt, that country will most probably be entirely supplied from this Company's mine. Indeed, negotiations for con tracts to a large amount have already been entered into. •'ln concluding this part of our Report, the Board will perceive that the objects to which our inquiries were must anxiously directed " lit. To ascertain, not the future prospect, only, but the actual condition of the Company's line works, and by on examination of the accounts to prove the curve:nest or fallacy of the expectations of profit entertained. " 2dly. To ascertain whether the anticipations of immense ad. vantage from the application of the patent principle at Anderton, were botne out by the result, now that the experiment had been fairly in operation. Whether in the event of the Company manu facturing 150,000 tons annually at Anderton on the new principle, at a much less expense than by the old process, there was any ap. prehension of want of demand. Ica short, whether any and what difficulties in attempting the new primes had occurred. by which the solid advantages to be derived from investment in this concern could be matter of the slightest doubt. " To the first of these questions they have alluded in the former pat of their Report. It was estimated that the line works alone (the least productive of the Company's property), would nearly pay the interest of the capital. The deputation have to state the profit of the line works during the period of the year already passed to be nearly equal to the original estimate. " This opinion is sot hastily formed, it is the result of an exa. minntion of the accounts, an ordeal alike unerring, whether applied to the hopes of the sanguine, or the doubts of the sceptical, " To the second inquiry they beg to remark, that in the projec. tion of the Anderton Works. it was stated that. wrong other ad vantages, salt would be made by the new process at a suing of fuel to the amount of nearly one half, and that there would be an obvious superiority in the quality so produced. These were Marie of the anticipated advantages dependent on the success of the introduction of the patent principle—a success, the perfect attain ment of which was considered, twelve months since, as the vision of enthusiasm, as the calculation of an ingenious but ever-sanguine theorist; but prejudice has now given way to conviction. and the new profess has, witb a success equally flattering and indisputable, passed the difficult test of experiment, and has arrived at the cer tainty of remit. " In conclusion, the Deputation feel warranted in congratulating the Board and the Proprietors at large, that in this age of Trans.at. Jamie mania and chimerical speculation, they have embarked in a cumrany of purely English growth, whose works and property may in 2i hours be subjected to the test of personal investigation ; thut the dividends are constantly accruing; from the daily esmaumption of an Indispensable article it, Increasing demand, particularly for agti. choral purposes; and that while their profits bid fair to realise every rational expectation, they are derived front a commodity of British proeuce, whose supply is certain, a . tich can neither he in terrupted by thn casualties of war, nor rendered liable to the fraud , and delusions of fore ign _ agents durin g th e cont i nuance of peace. " It was moved by Mr. RoaxuTsow, and seconded by lily. Noe- Mee, that the Report now read be received and adopted, and ordered to be printed.—Resolved unanimously. Mr. THOMPSON inquired what had been the expense to the Company of the present management, and also whet had been paid to the deputation ? The Caustic** replied that the present manageers had said their travelling sod other expenses, and that none whatsoever had accrued to the Company iii consequence of their exertions and aervirea. Mr. Hv,OELTSWE, in 'finding to The proposed alteration in the value of the shares, observed tha: the capital of o,boo.uou wu found to be totally . disproportionate to the probable wants of the this Ga r mtip lead ti ete, the tum utti e lp,d r igrtec r 7io cc v.stero t o r sr, 1.;5e,0r,iyv,..;•:, e;,(ruregeft,,roiallnrivielagnygasuanntyccohcp7bwssept,tectr,swiswteri.nhuwlicciiilohi w t l p o wer world n o r be ert the cue with others. It was well known that where real att.. ended artificial want began. There were obvious reasons why thr pital of the Cotnpany ought not to he more than what was absolutt., necessary ; in the first place, because it might lead to and creates neglect of those minor points which were the .heat of great ones. :tinny persons also would readily advance turn of 1001. for ten shares, who would be startled at the idea of vesting 5001. for these reasons he proposed the following Reso. lotion c— " That this Meeting, having considered the Resolution of the Board of Directors, or the 22.1 Sept. 1825, whereby it is proposed that the nominal capital of the Company be redured from 2:5.00,000/. to 500,0001. by a reduction in the nominal value of the shares from 50/. each to 101. each, befog of opinion with the prevent Directors, that there is every reason to believe that. for sceoinpfish ing the object of the Company. the capital stipulated fir by the lat ter arrangement will be more than ample; cloth hereby confirm such Resolution of the Board of Directors aceordinglj, and loth adopt thsaaid sum of 500.0001. as the capital of the Company, teal tiic sum of 101. each as the nominal value of the shares accordingly." The Resolution was seconded' by James Sutton, I:eq.:cud y. : , 10 ,1 unanimously. A Set AREIIOLDta asked whether, if the Directors contemplated any enlargement of the Company's works. such determination would be made known to the Shareholders? The question arnae in cos_ sequence of a newspaper report that they were boring for brine in several parts of Worcestershire. Mr. Rotten reox objected to any p'edge to such eff:ct Wog re. quired from the Directors. The Shareholdellie it ad a esiffici v , t guarantee that nothing important would be done by the Directory without consulting the Shareholders. Mr. lIESELTINE, on the part of the Directors. observed that the Report contained accounts of all the works in which the comp :ry was engaged ; it was certainly true that a sha ft wa s sinking is: Stoke, and that buildings were erecting there; but it will be tiu , te at the option of the Company to take or reject them. These works were not at present conducted at the Company's expense. Mr. AMORY, the Company's Solicitor, then read a draft of the Company's Deed of Settlement. Some unimportant alterations haring been proposed and ad o p h ,d , the following resolution was passed unanimously:— " That the l'roprietors having had the draft of the Deed of Settlement submitted to their inspection and approval, in the man. nor stated in the advertisement for calling this Meeting.and having had the same read and explained, the Meeting sloth hereby adopt the said Deed as the proper Deed of Settlement of the Compay,y, and cloth direct that the same k.ball be executed by each Share holder in the capital of the Company. on or before Wednesday, the 30th November, on pain of the forfeiture of the shares held by any party or parties refusing or neglecting to execute the same." It was then stated, in answer to a question from n Shareholder, that the qualification foe a Director was LIM shares, which shares could not ha available to himself in any way for six martin after his resignation, and in the mean time are held by the backer under the key of the Secretary. Mr. CiII•PKAN then rose to move a vote of thanks to the Di. rectors of the Company. Ile commented in very strong terms on the real and energy manifested by those gentlemen in the manage. ment of the &Hine of the Company from the period of its cam. mencentent to the present; and concluded by expressing, en ins own part, as well as on behalf of many of his brother proprietors, the greatest confidence in their industry and integrity. The Resolution was seconded by Mr. Bonn, who observed, that he felt extremely gratified to bear his testimony to the meri torious and kind conduct of the Directors of this Coniparry—cm.. duct, which he thought might form an excellent example to many other existing companies. The CLI AIR MAN, on the fart of the Direcoots, returned thanks, and assured the Meeting, that the course which appeared to give so much satisfaction would be pursued by the Directors throughout. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the Meeting separated. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SEATURN'II FRIEND SOCIETY AND BETBEI. Yesterday this Institution held its Sixth Annivetsary, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopegate.street. At six o'clock every seat was occupied, both on the platform and in the large roam which is generally appropriated to public meet. ings, and soon after the business of the meeting commence], every part of the room was completely filed. By far the pester part of the audience were females of a respectable, but we did not observe an, of a superior class. The Right lion. Lord GA MII I G.C.B. President, having taken the Ciaair. the business of the meeting was preceded by a prayer, after which his Lordship observed, that he war happy in having the honour of meeting ro numerous and respectable an assembly of the friends of this highly-valuable institution, and he praised tied lee hating enabled him to do so. He would not detain them Ly toy ObgerVatiann of his own, but ;Imposed that their Worthy Secrr. buy should read to them the Report of the Committee of the pro. ceedinge of this Institution detriag the last year. Mr:Puttiat es (one of th 2 Honorary Secretaries) then reed ~ eery long and succinct account of the operations of the Bethel Union during the last 12 months. The attempts of the Society on the River Thames was first adverted to, which the Cohimittee were happy in stating still continued to retain the same distinguished Ammeter for its usefulness as it had done from its formation. The Stahel flag was to be seen on high in various parts of the upper pool, arid sermons were delivered and divine service performed every Sabbath in a tinting chapel near London Bridge. In the lower pool the same efforts were used, and divine worship perform. tad among the merchant seamen every Friday evening. But not. withstanding all the means possessed by the Union, it war import. sat that the public should know that there were throusardi of sai. lore still in want of the glorious privileges of having the gospel preached Onto them. At Greenwich the Committee were gratified N learn that numbers of seamen who were in the Hospital there (where there were upwards of 3000 individuals) felt the necessity of erecting a chapel for the use of the sailors. Portsmouth had been favoured with many distinguished privileges. A chapel had been erected, and which was called the Bethel Union Chapel, sad on which the Bethel flag was hoisted, and it was hoped that thezewetaid soon be something of the sort effected at Portsea. At Cowes, South. ampton, Bristol, and Dartmouth, the proceedings of the Baba Union were attended with great success. The Committee of the town of Plymouth were upon the alert, and great good had been already efletted by them. Deronport, Stonchouse, and hforriawatra, also presented the same favourable circumstances. In the neigh. hour, noel of the latter places, a pious minister had been in the habit of ()reaching to large congregations, chiefly seamen, in the epee air, and with the greatest success. Several copies of the " Sailors' 3ia. gazine" were distributed by this gentleman among the seamen, wets received them with thankfulness. Many active and pious officers among the navy had most zealously exerted themselves at those towns. The public were not without examples from persons or the most distingutshed rank, talent*, and viitues to excite them to exertion in these laudable labours of love. Tha The names of Lord Exmouth, the Earl of Northesk, Lord Gam. bier (cheers) and the Right Hun. the First Lord of the Admiralty, were enrolled among the Members of the different Committees formed in the various parts of the kingdom. They had also the example of the Archbishops of Canterbury, of York, and of Dub lin, and of many other persons filling the highest offices in the 1 State, and holding the most exalted stations in society, who, re gardless of the sneers, the sarcasms, or the ignorant writings of those who would obstruct them, gave their powerful co-operation to the consummation of this glorious undertaking—homely, the religious enlightenment of the British aa/lor. Thoexertions of the Committee formed at Liverpool bad been eery great, and alto at heeds, Manchester, Stockport, and Sheffield. from which places the parent Society had received ,minas contributions to its funds. The floating chapel at Kingaton.tipmt-Hull was well attended; at Newport and at Swansea a similar success attended the efforts of the Seamen's Friend as at other pews; and the lined Provost of Edinburgh hadattendcd one of the fleatbig chapel which was este. Wished there, and remained on bola Dearly three hour& and showed a most lively interest in the prWeeedings, where upwards of 330 boys and girls were in the constant habit of receiving religious instruction. The Report then gave a concise and very satisfactory account of the operations of various branches of the Union. which had been formed in several inland towns, from whence the l'avent Society hail received pecuniary contributions. The foreign operations of the Society were then detailed. At Paris SO. Tract called " Bob the Cabin Boy " had been translated and widely circulated, and the saute was about to be printed at Bordeaux. Versailles, and other places. Another Religious Tr a ct, ca ll e d "Th e Lif e Boat, " had been printed. At Holland, Denmark, and Norway, the operations of the Society began to show themselves ; but in advertleg to Russia, the Committee could not but regret the want of religion, that was no manifestly betrayed among the class of men to whom the exertions of this Society were particularly devoted ; bet the Committee hoped, that by the divine blessing, thesaine good. &vs would soon result front their labours three, as bad been the (WC n other parts. At Cadiz, a pious clergyman attended a sailor. who died in the hospital there, and who, there war every reason to be lieve, died in the faith "of Jesus Christ. At Gibraltar, anti in almost every port of Europe, the Bethel flag had bees hoisted and the Gospel praaelled by pious and serious Chaplains to the %oho, At Trieste, Malta, Alexandria, and almost every poet in the Ile. diterranean, the influence of this Society had been felt ; but whist the Committee raw much to gratify in the different parts of Loma% it was quite the reverse when they looked towards Africa: there !al WAR dark, gloomy, and forbidding. The Committee honked wt , h peculiar satisfaction at the proceedings of the Society at Calcuua, where the Gospel was preached to upwards of a thousand Casa', in their ewn native tongue. At China, the Committee had not twn yet able to establish a fleeting chapel; but they hoped that after the debt of the Society was discharged they should be able to do to. The Bethel flog had been hoisted at Otaheite, at the Saed• wish Islands, and other places in the South Sea, and many religious tracts had been distributed smotg the British and foreign sailors who arrived at those places. In South and North America the same efforts had been made by the Com. mittee, and had been attended with various degrees of suc cess, The report concluded by expressing it to be the deviled opinion of the Committee. that sailors would make the thrapc.i, the best, and the most efficient missionaries of any persona in the world, and ought to be encouraged by every means to undeetake the pious and laudable task of converting their fellow.samuen to the religion of Christ. The report was teceived with loud cheers. co Cap t ainunt o fth e A t i r . c l as E urer m( the th oth to 6331. 13s. 5d., and the creditor side to 6671. So. Id.. leaving a balance in the hands of the treasurer of 231. 14s. tad. He an e perutHonorary yearz the deb t t a o r r yt id res ea d nie, the r tn: nounced that the debt of the society amounted to 4001. The Rev. Mr. GUXNEY, in moving that the Repot be received. adopted, and printed, °homed that be felt himself extremely happy Wit