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z >~ C'~ .6:7/ 7 ~~ P) AGM ,e 4P, bt . /44,4;Ns • iv* orr • - - -1, • • , 1 10, -'-'' ce s . Gs 't • * 4 `' ' • otti l 91 c f it • , ••• N.\ • ••• • _44167,14 • • - •',,qt , e(ft • 0 . 4) 0 2 ' 4 " ' l6 "1 ' 7 ' ` ar '-intorr 7$ 41111TP" -----' T.-"":. , . -- i ..C----- 1 .:' , ..s:.sr` , l•'N - .. . _ ' ,' -- ' -:- • zli':::' , ,s3.. i .;i _, , ,:: • 4 ,-,, ecA.,, i., ',.'.-''',-.? -,-,, - II EALTII of LONDON ditiiiijetke, n'l _ ~ ,_. MR. and MRS. GERMAN REED'S NE'T ENTERTAINMENT. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. Introdut Lion of four Original Characters and Songs. Every evening excep Saturday, at S. Saturday afternoon at 3.—Admission Is., 25., ant as. Stalls secured, without extra charge, at the Royal Garcr) of tra'Aln, 11, Rrgcnt•strert, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co:, 201, Regent-street. The Gallery to be LET during Mr. and Mrs Reed's Provincial Tour. Application to be made, by letter only, to Mr. J. 11. Elkin. 'L'A. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket ), Open daily (for Gentlemen only). LECTURES by Dr. SEX CON at Four and Eight o'clock. on im portant and interesting topics in connection with ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Programmes). Admission ONE SHILLING. DR. RUIN'S NINE LECTURES ON TIIE PIIILOSOPIIY OF MARRIAGE, &e.. sent post tree, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION. FETE at the CRYSTAL PALACE next SATURDAY, the 21st instant. Broad Sword and Single Stick Exercise, Highland Dancing (these in the centre transept should the Nceatber be wet) ; Athletic Games, by the Military; Wresling Tournament, in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style (under the direction of Mr. 31argeron, late Honorary Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Society). Additional Music; all the Great Fountains, and the entire system of Waterworks.—Admission, Is, ; Children, ed.—Doors open at 10. W. V. WALLETT EVERY EVENING. ALHAMBRA PALACE, Leicester-square. Lessees, Messrs. Howes and Cushing.—(The best ventilated and coolest Building in Europe).—Will be represented at each performance General Havelock's Triumphant Entry into Lucknow, in connection with WALLETT'S Celebrated CIRCUS COMPANY. Extraordinary and Brilliant Success of the unrivalled Troupe of Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes, and SPLENDID STUD of HORSES. Two Performances daily. Mid-day Entertainment at half-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes. £2 ; stalls, Is.; reserved seats, is.; boxes, 25.; pit, Is.; gallery, 6d. Bor-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. Open, wetor dry, EVERY EVENING, from Monday till Friday, at 7 o'clock (the entertainments commencing at half-past 7). On Saturdays at 3, for promenade (the entertainments commencing at 6). Admission, Is.; children, 6d. Open on Sundays for promenade, at 5. Admission (by refreshment ticket), 6d. Vacal and instru mental concerts by unrivalled corps ; musical director, Mr. Phillips ; conductor of the military band, Mr. Dean, nearly 100 performers; vocal conductor, Mr. Russell Grover, assisted by Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. P. Corti, Master Haydn Corti, Mr. Chas. Sloman, and other popular favourites. 'The Cirque Imperial, exhibiting unrivalled feats of horsemanshhip—two clowns. Illuminations and fireworks upon the grandest scale, surpassing every other exhibition in the metro polis. Dancing on the leviathan platform at 9, and after the fire works. On Saturday afternoon the bands will perform at intervals. A maypole dance and other performances will be given on the ballet stage, and country and other dances on the leviathan plat_ orm, by Chapino's troupe. ROYAL GARDENS, *VAUXHALL. BY APPOINT3IENT, BIRCH'S OMNIBUSES EVERY EVEN ING run to and from the Regent-circus, Piccadilly, and the /loyal Gardens, Vauxhall, every half-hour from 7 o'clock p.m. to 1 o'clock SCHWEPPE'S SODA WATER, MALVERN SELTZER WATER, POTASS WATER, and LEMONADE. Every Bottle of the Alkali Waters is protected by a Label over the cork with their signature. Sold by all respectable Chemists, Con fectioners, and at the leading Hotels. Manufactured at London, Liverpool, Bristol, Derby, and Malvern Wells. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. Life assurances, annuities, endowments, and loans on advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life Assured within the thirty days of grace, the Premium in arrear being deducted from the amount assured. FIFTH DIVISION OF PROFITS. N ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO3IPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter. PRESIDENT—His Grace the Duke of ROXBURGHE, K.T. Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. JOHN I. GLENNIE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. William Borradaile, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. P. Sorthall Laurie, Esq. B. P. Prichard, Esq. Charles James Knowles, Esq., Q.C. Solicitor, ALEXANDER DOBIE, Esq., Lancaster-place. Capital of One Million—accumnlatinc Premium Fund 2664,000. Revenue from Life Premiums alone 2116,000, annually•increasing. Nine-tenths or Ninety per cent. of the profits are septennially divided among the insurers on the participating scale of Premiums. MI Profit Policies effected during the current year will share in the Profits of Seven Years, and will secure a larger Berms at every future division of Profits. The Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to 70 per cent, on the Premiums paid. ROBERT STRACHAN, Secretary. 4, Bank Buildings, Lothbury, London, E.C. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pan-Mall, London, S.W. The Funds or Property of the Company, as at 31st December, 1857, amounted to £617,801, invested in Government or other approved securities. Annual Income upwards of £lll.OOO from Premiums alone. The Hon. FRANCIS SCOTT, M.P., Chairman. CHARLES BERWICK CERTIS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. INVALID LlVES.—Persons not in sound health may have their ' lives insured at equitable rates. • ACCOMMODATION IN LOAN TRANSACTIONS.—OnIy one-half of the Annual Premium, when the insurance is for life, requires to be paid for the first five years, simple interest being charged on the balance. Such arrangement is equivalent to an immediate advance of 50 per cent, upon the Annual Premium, without the borrower having recourse to the unpleasant necessity of procuring sureties, or assigning and thereby parting with his Policy, during the cur rency of the loan, irrespective of the great attendant expenses in much arrangements. The above mode of insurance has been found most advantageous when policies have been required to cover monetary transactions, or when incomes applicable for insurance are at present limited, as it only necessitates half the outlay formerly required by other corn ' panies before the present system was instituted by this office. Loans are granted likewise on real and personal securities. ADVANTAGE OF INSURING BEFORE DEC. 31, 185 S.—Policies effected before this date will participate to a greater extent than if delayed after that period. Forms of Proposals and every information afforded on applica tion to the Resident Director, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, London, S.W. By Order. E. LENNOX BOYD, Resident Director. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTiLE.- It is only a short time since this singularly efficacious article of animal diet first made its appearance ; and already its celebrity is world-wide, It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled many a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet 'When we are acquainted with a few facts concerning the food, our wonder willcease. A few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a "perfect bag of bones." He tries all kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. He then bought some of Thorley's food ; and he says the effect was Wonderful. The horse rapidly grow fat, mad iu the course of a few 'weeks had gained no less than 12 stones. Again we find at the late agricultural show at Birmingham. Cardiff, &c., the animals which carried off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thorley's food for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely from its own in trinsic merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Novgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pha►macien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vicuna. TRIESEMAR Nos. 1, '2 and 3, prepared in the form of a lozeng e, devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as admi nistered by Valpean, Lallemand, Ron; Ricord, &c., and adapted for both sexes. TRIESEMAR No.l is a Remedy for RELAXA TION, SPERHATORRII(EA, and all the distressing conse quences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in bet climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood: and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MARRIAGE, they aro effectually subdued by this Wonderful Dis covery. TRIESEVAR, NO. 11. effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated forms, Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR NO. 111. s the great Continental Iteredy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all cor ruptions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, end expel it with the insensible per spiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which un fortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price 115., free by post, is. Bd. extra to eny pert of the kingdom ; or four cases in one for 135., by post Is. 2d, extra, which saveslls., and in ,C 5 cases, whereby there is a saving of LI 12s. Sold by Daniel Church, 75, Grace church-street, City ; Bartlet Hooper, 13, King William-street, (four doors from London-bridge) ; Watts, 17, Strand ; Prout, 229, Strand; Hannay, 03, Oxford-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Edward's, St. Paul's Churchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY; a Medical Work, price ls., post free, illustrated with 100 engravings, containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, Frc. It gives instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful re sults from early abuse, gonorrhoea, and syphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatoze by the newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses. Tho Author may be consulted daily according to the rules in the Book. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row and from all agents for the sale of " Triesemar." THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the Curo of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from Youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical relation'. To which are added, remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries of "Life within Life," and its advanta;es in de tecting, by urinary examination, the c4use and effect of evely variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cages. • BY SAMUEL LI'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, i rregulari ties, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hnzarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those pe nalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infir mity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of gel ale cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill; Horne, 19, Leicester-square; Gordon, 145, Leadenhall-street ; or from the author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 tills, at his residence, 37, Bedford square, London. The work may be bad in India, of Mr:Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar, Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hormusjee, Apollo-street, Bombay— Circulator (Mice, Madras—Mofussilite Orrice, Agra—Dodsworth 0010Mbe, Ceylon; and Of allioolciellere throughout the Colouten, V DVER TISEMENT.I—HoIIoway ' s Ointment a n d ounds, sores, and ulcers are purified and healed with absolute certainty by these external and internal remedies, which co-operate towards a cure with a rapidity that looks like magic. Their double action is irresistible. Unhappy creatures " the mere despair of surgery," objects so hor ribly unsightly that the most benevolent turn away from them with .a shudder, have been snatched from the very edge of the grave, and restored to life, health, and society by these dual medicaments, these twin medical charm. The Ointment should be rubbed twice a day into the parts affected, and the Pills should be taken according to the printed directions accompanying every box. The cure will be complete And permanent. ‘To. 20,641. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., UMO R . By the Author of "Charles Auchester." rnts is another of those brilliant works for which this author has Dibre been celebrated. The love of music is inherent in the nuthr's nature. Real feeling fires his words with eloquence and clotDs his thoughts with beauty. In a former work the reader wa.; harmed with the portraiture of the gifted Mendelssohn—here he all find one not inferior of the immortal Beethoven."—Sun. Host and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. tEisrs RACING RECORD for 1858. „a: Part VII., price 3d., will be published on the Ist of September. Te Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Irelnd, and Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1858, may be hat, price two shillings. W. Wright, Pulwood's Rents, Holborn. NO MORE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, Billing Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debility, Dityrhces, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. nd 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free, Cs pages, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," with out pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and without ex perse, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty tines its cost in other remedies ; adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonies from the celebrated Professor of Che mAry, Pr. Andrew Ere, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Champbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingram, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been restored by it after al other means of cure had failed. London : Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through al: Booksellers in Town and Country. GENER AL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (Incorporated by Act of Parliament), 71, Lom bard-street, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the Company's Offlees,.7l, Lombard-street, on TUES DAY, the 31st instant, at two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to declare the Dividend for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1853. London, Aug. 2, 1858. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary. CONTILSCT FOIL LEMON JUICE BOTTLES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Trans port Services, Somerset-honso, 17th Ang.,1858. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 2d September next, at Half-past 1 o'clock, they will be READY to TREAT with such per sons as may be willing to CONTRACT for SUPPLYING and Deliver ing into her Majesty's Victualing Stores at DEPTFORD, No. LEMON JUICE BOTTLES, 20,000. When to be delivered.—ln two months from the date of ac ceptance, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the bottles. Their lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem flt, or for a greater quaLtity, or of not contracting for any, and also an uni , ..mlted power of selection. _ . _ _ A sample bottle may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on ap plication at the said office, ler to Commander Goldfinch, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the collector of Customs at Bristol. _ _ _ . . . The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particp!ar at tention is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool rnd Bristol No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in a riling. Every tender must bo addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words " Tender for Lemon Juice Bottles," and must also be delivered at Somerset house. CONTRACTS FOR SALT BEEF AND SALT PORK. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, July 30, 1558. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 30th September next, at half-past 1 o'clock, they will be READY to TREAT with such per sons as may be willing to CONTRACT for SUPPLYING and Deliver ing into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at the undermentioned Ports, the following quantities of SALT MEAT, of the cure of any country, and all of the cure of the present season, viz.:— NAVY BEEF. NAVY PORK. Tierces. Barrels. Tierces. Barrels. Deptford Gosport Ply mouth , . Haulbowline 5OO 750 Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selec tion. A separate tender must be given for the Beet and a separate tender for Pork, and every tender must specify where the meat is intended to be cured. Persons tendering for more thaw one port must give a separate :ender for each port. __.__ _ • • • The Beef and Pork to be delivered into the respective stores as follows, viz. :—one-third of each quantity for each place by the 31st of January, 1859; another third thereof by the 15th day of March, 1859; and the remainder thereof by the SOth day of April 1859, or any greater portion, or the whole, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party tendering, and to be paid for by bills pay able in seven days from and after the respective dates thereof. Parties tendering aro desired to take special notice that the use of wooden hoops is abolished, and that IRON noors only will be re• quired for the casks, in accordance with the conditions of the revised form of contract. _ _ _ A form of the tender may be obtained, and the conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular attention is called, may be seen at this Office; at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Ply mouth ; or by applying to the Agent Victualler at Haulbowline ; or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or to the Secretary to the Post master-General at Dublin; or to the Commander conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool; or to the Resident Agent for Trans ports at Leith. No tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100 tierces, or 100 barrels. No tender will be received after half-past 1 o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose; but it will not be necessary that the party ten dering, or an agent appointed by him, should attend at this oMee, RS the result of the offer received from each person will be commu nicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Bills in payment for any beef or pork delivered into her Majesty's Stores will be sent to parties upon transmitting the usual certifi cates of receipt. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the envelope the words " Tender for Salt Meat," and "Comptroller for Victualling;' and must also be delivered at Somerset House. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and honorary Tice-Presi dent of the Imperial African Institute of France, Corres. Member of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Pens, &c., and Resident Phy sician to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-place, Bedford•square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." " Those about entering the Marriage State should peruse Dr. Watson's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound medical phi losopher."—Critic. "The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure." —University Magazine. "The 'NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the absur dity of the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evenhig, Sun. For Qualification, vide "Diplomas," and the "London Medical Directory." NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE, Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Ner vousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Im purities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Crikmps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at Fiaa), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints effectually removed by hU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REvriLENTA ARABICA. FOOD, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the only f0 , ‘ , 1 which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the ma n y thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Peri"s--" I tv,vr. drrired considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Cure No. 49,332. " Fifty years' inde scribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomit ing, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling. near Diss, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Eliza beth Jacobs, of Naziug Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner vous fancies.—Cure No. 45,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gatcacre, near Liverpool : a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure, of con stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116. Major Edie, of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarrhoea and debility. Care No. 39,628. Dr Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure N 0.32,530. Wm.llunt, Esq. barrister of aralysis. Cure No. 46270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant p Frimley, ,of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58,816. 31rs:Hoize, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion) debility, irritability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 46,81 I. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indigestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No. 180. Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health -restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. ravell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 31,836. " Three yearnexcessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, bas been radically removed by Du Barry's health Skibb restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, No. been,9o6. removed "Thirteen years' indigestionr D s' u co l3 u a g r h r , v,o excellent , and ge ° n rec er n al Cure debility have Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita tions : The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Allred Hooper Neville, for imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Azabica Food." Suitably packed fcr all climates, and with all instructions. In canisters, Ilb Sc 9d; 21b 4s Gd ; 121 b 225. Super refined quality, lib 6,7; 21h 11 s; sib 2s; 101 b 339, Tho 101 b and 121 b canisters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; James Well, 48, Sloane street • also at GO, Graceehurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 94, Cheapside ; and 60, Bishopsgate-street ; 63, 150, and 193, 01- ford-street. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1858. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the London Tavern yesterday—Mr. W. A. Wilkinson in the chair. The following was the report presented:— " The proprietors will remember that, at the last meeting of the company, a resolution was passed to authorise the di rectors to withdraw the bill for the abandonment of the un dertaking, and to proceed with the works, in accordance with which instructions were given to the solicitor, and the bill was withdrawn. The directors then addressed them selves to the necessary arrangements for constructing the line, and made a call of LI 10s. per share on the capital of the company. As it was felt that in the present position of the company it would be impossible to provide the large sum of money required to remove the prison In Coldbath-fields application was made to the justices of Middlesex for per mission, on certain terms, to carry the line in a tunnel under the prison. The justices, acting under professional advice, intimated that they had no power, without the consent of Parliament, to permit any deviation from the terms of the Company's Act, and expressed a strong desire that the com pany should apply in the next session for powers to deviate their line so as to avoid the prison altogether. To this recom mendation the directors t bought it advisable under all the cir cumstances to accede,the more especially as they were advised that,from the altered state of property in that neighbourhood, a much cheaper and equally advantageous line could now be obtained. -The propriety of giving notices to take the lands required for the railway and works next engaged the earnest attention of the board, it being necessary, as the powers of the company would expire on the oth of the pre sent month, to come to an immediate decision. The direc tors finally resolved to serve the notices from Paddington to the point of the proposed deviation, near King's-cross, and the notices have accordingly seen served over that portion of the line, and the land thus secured. Several conferences, with a view to the commencement of the works, took place with the contractor, Mr. Jay, who at length informed the board that he had reconsidered his position with respect to the company, and that unless he could be materially re lieved from the pressure of his shares, he was not willing to incur the responsibility of commencing the works. As the action of the board had been based on the assumption that Mr. Jay was prepared to carry out his contract, this state ment placed the directors in a position of considerable difficulty. In consequence of overtures made by the Great Northern Railway Company, negotiations were re-opened with a view to their subscribing the sum of £175,000, as sanctioned by Parliament, which would have enabled the directors at once to commence the works. Several interviews have taken place, but the Great Northers Board have hitherto declined to render any assistance. Ne gotiations were thereupon entered into and are still pending (with Mr. Jay's concurrence) with contractors possessed cf ample means, who are willing to undertake any portion of the works on the terms that payment should be made, one third in money, one-third in shares, and one-third in de. bentures when they could be legally issued. In addition to the prospects thus afforded of completing the line front Paddington to the City, Mr. Pearson, whose labours in the cause of a City terminus are so well known, proposes to form an independent company to construct the line from King's-cross to Farringdon-street, paying the Metropolitan Company a fair proportion of the expenses already incurred, and giving the company running powers and terminal ac commodation. For this experiment Mr. Pearson asks two months, at the expiration of which time he will be prepared to declare his failure or his success, and the directors are disposed, with the sanction of the proprietors, to afford him the opportunity he desires. Should Mr. Pearson succeed, the Metropolitan Company will possess ample means for making the line from Paddington to King's-cress. Should, however, his endeavour prove unsuccessful, the directors advise that application be made to Parliament for powers to deviate the line so as to avoid the prison—to terminate at Farringdon-street—to reduce the capital of the company— and to enable other financial arrangements. The directors have availed themselves of the power conferred upon them at the last general meeting by electing Mr. John Parson'to fill the vacancy at the board. The directors have unabated con fidence in the soundness of the undertaking, and every fresh investigation only serves to confirm their belief that so cheap a metropolitan line of railway or one so full of all the elements of prosperity was never before even imagined. They still believe that it s i n t r i ns i c mer it s w ill carr y it through all difficulties, and so long as they receive the cordial support of the shareholders they will leave no effort untried to secure a successful result." The accounts showed that their receipts had been £147,673 4s. ld., and there remained in the hands of the Accountant-General and the company £87,9.27 is. sd. The CHAIR➢fAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they would all remember the circumstances under which they last parted. At that time it was determined to withdraw the bill then before Parliament for the abandon ment of the line, under the impression that the contractors were ready to go on with the :construction of the line. The directors bad been accordingly employed in taking the ne cessary steps for that purpose, and they had made a call of £1 Hs. per share. It might be thought that they bad been dilatory in carrying out the arrangements for the construc tion of the line, but they had been earnestly occupied in car rying out that object ; and he could assare the proprietors that he never remembered to have devoted so much atten tion tn business of this description as be had during the last six months. He certainly regretted that they bad not yet ac complished what they proposed, but he was still as confident as ever of their ability to carry out the undertaking. With regard to the passing of the line through the site of Coldbath-fields Prison, they were aware the Middlesex justices had declined to give their consent to that course, and recommended an application to Parliament for an act for a deviation of the line. He was not prepared to say that it would not be a good plan to take the prison into their hands as a good site for the station of their line, bat it would require a large capital, in which they were de ficient, but be thought that probably a tunnel under the Prison would be more attainable. The justices, however, objected to that also, and the matter was in abeyance; and the directors proposed to go to Parliament next year for an act to enable them to vary the line by a route which would avoid the prison, and which their engineer: said would be a cheaper route. The next question he had to allude to was the giving the notices for land for one line. They hesitated to give the notices, for they felt that they were not in a condition to commence the works; but, looking to the in structions the proprietors had given them to commence the works, they took care not to let their powers lapse, and they gave the notices. The line had been resurveyed, and although the survey originally made for Parlia ment had of course been est:mated as low as possible, yet the new survey, made with a different view, had come within the estimates originally made, and showed that they would get the land fur less than they expected. With re gard to Mr. Jay, he would read the paragraph in the report which stated that " Mr. Jay has reconsidered his position with regard to the company, and that unless he can be materially relieved fr om the pressure of his shares, he is not ready to incur the responsibility by commencing the works," he wished it to be understood that the board threw no blame on Mr. Jay; they only stated the fact that whereas he had said that he was 'pre pared to carry oat the works, he now wished to postpone his contract. It was because he believed that he was ready to carry out the works that they withdrew their bill for the abandonment of the line, but they said no more than that. Tbey had had overtures made to them by the Great Northern Company with a view to an amalgmation of their interests, and they endeavoured to get that company to subscribe the £175,000 which would have enabled them to commence the works, but they had not yet been able to effect that arrangement, and that circum stance rendered them less able to construct the line. They had, with the consent of Mr. Jay, entered into negotia tions with other contractors, who were prepared to carry on the works, and were willing to be paid one-third in shares, one-third in debentures when they could be legally issued, and one-third in cash, which were certainly favourable terms. He now came to that part of the report which re ferred to the circumstance that Mr. Pearson proposed to originate a metropolitan railway. That gentleman was pre sent, and would explain his views. All that he could say was, that there ought to be the means of obtaining funds to carry out the line. As their shares were in so few hands there might be a difficulty in obtaining capital, but if they were able to disseminate their shares, and Mr. Pearson proposed to get up a new company to assist them to carry out their scheme, he had no doubt they should obtain the capital. There might be other modes of raising the money besides the formation of a new company, but he would leave that question in the hands of Mr. Pearson, and if they agreed to a resolution which would be proposed to them, they would leave it to them to ascertain what mode of raising the capital was to be adopted. With regard to the soundness of this undertaking, he still entertained the fullest confidence in it; and if they only looked at the nature of the undertaking, and saw how different it was to other branch lines, they would agree with him. It was not a branch line; it was a trunk line which would assist those great lines, which were depreciated and half mined by those branches. Let them look at what the Brighton Company ha d d on e to get a West-end terminus. They had given £154,000 to obtain such a facility for their traffic, although they had an excellent terminus. The Great Western and the Great Northern had bad termini. The Great Western was shut out from suburban traffic, whilst the Brighton had its Croydon, its Epsom, and its Crystal Palace feeding lines The South-Eastern, too, bad the Nor th Kent, the Greenwich, and other lines for suburban traffic, and these lines had made the two companies probably what they were. Then let ' them look at the North London line, the most analogous to their own. It ran from Camden-town to the Minories, and it had done great things for the London and Malt . Western, which had had the good sense to foster and make it. What was now the condition of that line ? It had paid 5 per cent. dividend this last half-year, and the price of its stock in the market was 101, whilst that of the London and North-Western was 03 to 93. The North London was nine miles long, whilst the Metropolitan would be only four, and they would therefore probably get 10 per cent. when the North London obtained 5 per cent. There were reasons for believing in the success of the Metropolitan, and in that belief he begged to move the adoption of the report. A SkIARELIOLDER asked whether Mr. Jay 144 received £15,000 from the company, and whether he held more sbares now than he did in May last? The CHAIRMAN replied that be bad not received the money nor increased the number of his shares. Tlie report was then adopted. The CHAIRMAN moved—" That the directors be, and they are hereby, empowered to treat and agree with Mr. Pearson and his friends in any measure that they may deem most calculated to promote the objects and interests of the Metropolitan Railway Company." Mr. CHARLES PEARSON said that upon the recommen dation of the committee charged with the improvements of the City of London the Common Council had lent his hum ble services to the public for three months, in the hope that, during the interval, he might assist in devising some prac tical means for promoting the construction of the trunk line of railway along the valley of the - Fleet. By the proposed railway, which had been projected by him several years ago, it was intended to enable the directors of the Northern and Western Railroads terminating in London to extend their respective lines from their gigantic palatial stations in the metropolitan suburbs to a cheap, useful, and convenient joint station at or near Farringdsn-street. By means of this necessary addition to those railways, the beautiful country round London, through which they pass, would be rendered available for the citizens; and passengers, whether provincial or suburban, who, for the purposes of health or busi ness, desired to be conveyed with the economy, speed, and re gularity which the railroads could alone afford, to or from the City, would be provided with station accommodation better placed, but bearing about the same relation, in point of dis tance, to the centre and focus of distance, as the London bridge and Fenchurch-street stations, which, iucredible as it may appear, in consequence of the facilities they afford for suburban residential traffic, receive and distribute daily Tan times as mantCity passenger& as the Great Western, the North Western, and the Great Northern, including the Midland, and the Lincoln and Sheffield Companies, which have recently acquired running powers over the latter line to King's-cross. These great companies, which profess to provide the chain of railway communication between the city of London and Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, and the other great centres of commercial enterprise and manufacturing industry, possess an aggregate capital of more than 120 millions sterling; and yet they are too poor or too indifferent to the wants of their customers and the interests of their shareholders to provide their quota for making the last link in the chain which ought to connect together the provincial and metro politan, commercial, and manufacturing interests of this mighty empire. He was not in the secrets of the great railway companies and did not pretend to know how much of the £120,000,000 had been wasted in the legal and parliamentary contests, how much had been squandered in constructing extravagant stations and useless branch lines, or how many hundreds of thousands of pounds of annual revenue had been at various times sunk in insane competition to carry goods and passengers at less than cost price. One fact was apparent to the most superficial observer; enormous sums had been expended by the Great Northern, the Great Western, and the North Western companies in construct ing costly stations, and purchasing high-priced land for the first few miles out of London; and yet they failed to turn to a profitable account the local traffic they might acquire if they would, by the construction of a City line, and offer in ducements to the citizens to reside in the country through which their railways pass. Dr. Franklin was wont to say that if he had a -handful of truths to dispose of, he would only open one finger at a time, lest, if the most valuable truths were presented open-handed, men would refuse to take them as truths on account of their number. As Cowley says :—" Men do doubt if they be stars that paint the milky way." A judicious friend, reminding him (Mr. Pearson) of Franklin's saying, advised him, years age, to abstain from advocating the railroad on account of the moral, social, and economical advantages it would confer upon society. " Leave off talking," his friend would say, "about the overcrowding of the streets of London and the overcrowding of the dwellings of the poor, and stick to the assertion that the enormous traffic the railroad would attract was sufficient to yield a dividend of 10 per cent." This might have been judicious advice in times pact, when shareholders believed in 10 per cent. lines,if directors asserted they would prove to be so; but the time for the belief in such representations had now passed away, and no English rail way scheme could hope to obtain support unless it could be shown to be useful to the public and be demonstrated to the shareholders ; at the same time, to be profitable to those invited to take part in the undertaking. It was a complete fallacy to assume that, because a railroad was recommended on account of its public usefulness; it was to he avoided as a private speculation. Thesame circumstances that rendered it useful would make it remunerative. (Hear, hear.) One of the great merits of the project was that it would diminish the overcrowding of the streets by diminishing the number of railway vans, omnibuses, and cabs that pass to and through the city from the suburban stations north of the Thames. The vast amount of Manchester goods taken from Ilaydon-square, up Leadenball-street or Fencburch street, along Lombard-street or Cornhill, had to cross the great stream of traffic going through the City from north to south, by Gracechurch-street, King William-street, ke. This would be materially diminished if a portion of the northern traffic were brought to goads stations at Smith field or Clerkenwell, on the north-west frontier of the City, whence they would be conveyed direct to the great wholesale houses situated in Wood-street, Watling street, Milk-street, and the other great streets in which those trades were carried. on, all of which were on the western side of transverse streams of traffic to which be had already referred. (Hear.) The establishment of the trunk railway would to a considerable extent pre vent the driving of large droves of cattle and sheep through the metropolitan streets. It had been asserted that the removal of the cattle market from the centre of the metro polis to one of its suburbs would prevent the traversing of the streets by cattle; he had always contended that that assertion was erroneous, and it had now been found that it was to, as the cattle had to pass through the principal thoroughfares from the market to the slaughter-houses in which the carcase butchers killed their stock for the supply of the wholesale meat markets. If the Fleet Valley Rail way were completed from the cattle market on the north, to a great wholesale poultry and vegetable market in the centre of the City, for supplying the population of all the outlying districts, there could be no doubt but that the London slaughtermen, whose establishments were now spread over all parts of the metropolis, would kill weekly several thousand animals in the abattoirs at the cattle market, whence they would be conveyed to the wholesale market without loss of time or exposure to the weather, instead of being driven alive, as is now the case, to the houses where they are slaughtered and afterwards conveyed to the market in w aggons and carts. (Hear.) By the removal of the meat markets from Leadenball and Neweate-streets, and by iccu:iag railway conveyance forthe vast quantities of dead stock brought to London by the northern railroads, the streets would be freed from an intolerable nuisance, a large quantity of meat would be saved that is in summer time damaged by the delays growing out of its conveyance to the City in carts and vans. The trunk railway would at the same time receive a large addition to its income by this description of traffic, as well as from the number of butchers, graziers, and salesmen that would be frequently passing between the live and dead markets, if they could do so at a small sacrifice of time and money. The establi-h -ment of the proposed railway, with a station in the heart of the metropolis, and with cheap, rapid, and frequent trains to its various outlets, would render iecalculable service to the cause of humanity and the improvement of the sanitary and social condition of the industrious classes, by afford ing them means of escape from the low and confined situations in which they were now compelled to dwell. (Hear.) Mr. Simon, in his reports as officer of health for the City, had depicted in touching terms the unhappy condi tion of many of our respectable artisans and mechanics who, for the purpose of being near th e i r daily occupations, were contiguity with some o f t h e most degraded, classes of the com munity. (Hear.) In an cient ti mes plague and pestilence, compelled, with their dece nt fami lies , to live in miserable courts wreteh and ed as alleys, well and the sweating sickne ss and occ asional famine, were the means by which it please d God to humble the proud and scatter the superabundant p o p ul ation of a rich, luxurious, and overcrowded city. Improved sanitary regulations and the expansion of the me t r o p olita n population over a as i n the close most com paratively large area had for years mercifully averted these scourges from the City; but Mr. Simon showed by figures and facts, which could not be controverted, that fever, con sumption, and countless other diseases resulting from the overcrowded state of the habitations of the poor in the City, were in constant action to reduce the health and strength, and destroy the lives of those whose unfortunate fate fixed them to the spot in which their daily occupations were carried on. (Hear.) The evils of past ages were borne because there was no remedy; but no such excuse for their continuance could be pleaded in the present day. When George Stephenson devised the railroad and the locomotive engine be placed in the hands of the rich a new power by which all these evils might be effectually removed. By planting a railway station in the centre of a city, however overcrowded, and by connecting it with the great railway c ommunications of the surrounding country, facilities were at once afforded for relieving all classe s of the evils which must otherwise necessarily flow from - crowding together such vast communities in such congaed. situations. Railroads had been figuratively described as 1 the muscle and sinew of commercial enterprise; they might be no less accuratelydescribed as the veins and arteries or'Jom mercial intercourse, and yet that great city, overflowing w ith wealth and population, was more destitute of railway , accom modation than manyof our second-rate provincial t Awns. Th overcrowding of the City arose from the enortr.sus price of building ground and the vast amount of busir A e ss carr i e d on within its walls. If the b e tt e r clas s of mr,ehanics and arti sans could be provided with cheap railway trains to take them in and out of the City, morning and evening, the classes immediately below them would naturally occupy their places. The miserable dwellings be had before referred to might then be pulled down, and the courts and alleys would be devoted to the improvement of our thoroughfares, or be used for the erection of warehouses or shops. It had been said to be one of the peculiar functions of railways to equalise prices ; it was the want of an improved railway com munication between the centre and suburbs of London that created the enormous disparity between the price of land in the City of London and in various parts of the surrounding country. Land for the erection of five houses in the City had been recently taken on lease as an investment, and a large amount had been expended on the buildings; the ground rent of the uncovered land on which the houses had to be built was fixed at the rate of £lO,OOO per acre per annum. If the Fleet Valley Railway and central station were now in existence, the occupiers of those houses might be taken within half an hour for 6d. to land fit for the erection of country houses, which was now let as agricultural laud at two and thirty shillings per acre annual rent. ([fear.) It had been calculated by persons engaged in constructing tables of vital statistics that in less than 50 years the popu lation of the metropolis would be doubled, and might thus advance at a geometrical ratio of progression to an unknown extent, while the City would still remain in the centre with this increased and increasing population from all sideastill in fringing upon its streets, whielt were already ut/e4y inade quate to accommodate its present traffic and population. I (Hear.) He (Mr. Pearson) did not wish to awaken differences of opinion upon this subject, which had happily been set at rest for some time. It bad been unanimously agreed that the Fleet Valley Railway should be restricted in both line and stations to the northern end of Farringdon-street. He could not, however, refrain from observing that the time must come, though probably not in his day, when the Fleet Valley, instead of being the end of a terminal sta tion would itself be but a link to connect the railways north of the Thames by a gallery bridge—like that over the Tyne —over the river with the South Coast, the South-Eastern, and the South-Western lines. Such a complete system would suffice to convey by night all the goods and merchandise required to be carried through, from, or to the City, while it would serve by day to conduct the passenger traffic, without in the slightest degree incom moding any of the public streets. (Hear.) The intercom munication of a population of five or ten thousand, and the supply - of their wants afforded, it had been considered, a sufficient inducement for speculators to construct a railroad 10 or 20 miles in length, and what would not be the pro fits of a railroad through a concentrated population of mil lions, if it were only for the supply of the clothes, fuel, and foOd which they annually consumed ? (Hear.) He had already observed that the Corporation of London had mani fested their desire to see this great engine of public im provement carried into execution, by so gracefully sanc tioning the recommendation of the committee to give him three months' leave of absence that he might endeavour to unite the various interests that would be benefited by the accomplishment of the under taking. He had been the. more gratified by this resos lution of the Common Council, because it indicated a strong change of opinion on the part of some of his best friends, members of that Court, who in the year 1853 had conscientiously opposed the undertaking and objected to his taking any part in its promotion. Prejudices had formerly prevailed against railroads amongst all classes of the com munity, from the monarch on the throne to the least educated of the people. A corporation, however honourable and intelligent it might be, was but an aggregation of indi viduals, and was Balite to as many changes of opinion and action as was found amongst individuals in private life. When the great contest was raging for the right to construct a line to Blackwell, one company proposed to carry it by a viaduct, and the other is a cutting—the one proposing the use of locomotives—the other a stationary engine and an endless rope. Although some of the first men in the City were upon the directions, enough money was spent in litigation to ruin any line. The contest was taken up in the Court of Common Council. One gentleman, who favoured the line with an endless rope, described the horrors of locomotive whistling, roaring, steaming, smoking ; and another member, in a fit of poetic elevation, declared— "It was a monster of such hideous mien. That to be hated needs but to be seen." The supporters'of the locomotive line lost the day, and for some years the endless rope was used. He (Mr. Pearson) some time afterwards was going with a committee to dine at Blackwell. This once dreaded locomotive, like an infant Hercules, was cradled between the platforms, gently breathing, as if in conscious strength, before it resumed its labours. He (Mr. Pearson) could not refrain from remind ing his friends of the quotation from Pope, and following it up with the concluding distieb, that the monster— 6 " When often seen, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." It should be distinctly understood by the meeting that the Corporation of London bad not expressed an intention iu any manner to identify itself either with the Metropolitan Company or with any other company that might be found to carry out the design. The corporation had never sullied its reputation by promoting any speculative undertaking. The corporation had at various times borrowed upon its seal large sums of money, amounting to upwards of a million sterling, to carry out great public improvements in the locality through which the proposed railway would pass. They had respectively borrowed £250,000, £20,000, £60,000, £25,000, £32,000, £BB,OOO, £30,000, £260,000, and £420,000. These vast sums had been laid out on property extending about two miles, in line from the north of the cattle to the south of the meat market in Farringdon-street ; these various properties were up to the present hour unfortunately unproductive, aad the loss of interest on the various loans amounted to nearly half a million of money. No man could look at Farringdon market, the site of the Fleet or Smithfield, or the waste land in Victoria-street, without feeling the deepest regret that something had not been discovered for the profitable occupation of so vast an amount of property in the imme diate vicinity of land of the enormous value he had stated. In his (Mr. Pearson's) judgment, if the image and super scription of a railway were impressed upon the land, it would acquire the value of standard gold; whereas, without some such adventitious aid, it would hardly command, figuratively speaking, the price of tiny baser metal. The shareholders would perceive by the directors' report that they had considered it expedient, under all the circum stances, to place in his hands the power of organising anew company to construct the trunk railway from King's cross to the City in conjunction w iili the G. ca: NUL LIICI the Midland, and the Lincoln and Sheffield Companies, provided he could accomplish the proposed object within two months from the date of the deed which would be exe cuted to declare the principles upon which be had under taken to make an effort to carry the project into execution. He would take a very early opportunity of explaining in detail the means by which he should endeavour to effect his object. A brief sketch for the present would suffice. He would endeavour to form a committee of gentlemen well known in the City as men of business and men of intelli gence. He proposed that they should undertake a minute examination into all the facts of the case, with the view of ascertaining the maximum cost of the entire work and the minimum calculation of its probable proceeds. He (Mr. Pearson) proposed that this inquiry should be an open one, and that some competent, independent, and dis interested engineer or surveyor should be appointed to assist the committee in their investigation. The London press would, he hoped, give publicity to the investigation. The principal journals of the day had recently lent their columns to an inquiry into the state of our English rail ways, and the causes of their depressed condition. It might be a matter of some importance for the world to learn how the three hundred millions of capital invested in railroads bad been disposed of, and what were the reasons they had failed to be remunerative. But he (Mr. Pearson ventured to think that the press lived below its pri vilege if it limited its functions into an in q uir y as to the past, when the present and fut ure were placed before them e as f athfleel i d lle o e f t action. vtiiie Ale Valley Railway £5OO la his hands to defray an y ex p ence he mi g ht incur in this inquiry. He should ha ve much p leasure in hand ing a fee of one hundred gu ineas over to an y com p etent profes sional gentleman who mi g ht be selected b y the co mmittee to assist them in their i nvesti g ation. (Mr. Pearso n resumed gentra had an o that Interested morning i n e success p placed his seat amidst much cneering.) Mr. PARSONS seconded the motion, and expressed his opinion that, should the scheme be carried out, Mr. Pear ssn would have conferred a greater benefit upon the City of London than any other man who ever existed. They having failed with their negotiations relative to the prison, they had looked for another line, and they bad now a better down the Bagnigge-wells-road — upon the construction of which there would be a saving of £70,000 to £BO,OOO. He knew that other contractors would be prepared to take up the line, and that it might be constructed for £1,000,000. If - Mr. Pearson succeeded in getting up a strong company to make a line from the Great Northern Railway to Farringdon-street all their difficulties would disappear, as they wets now strong enough to make the line to the PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD. Great Northern Railway if they had power to connect with another strong line. Mr. PEARSON, lest be might he misunderstood, repeated that he proposed a committee to investigate his calculations with regard to the line, which should be open to the pres', and he proposed to give a htuVred guineas te. a professional gentleman to assist the committee in their labours. After a few further observations from the Chairman and another proprietor, the resolution was carried unanimously. Votes of thanks to the chairman and Mr. Charles Pearson closed the proceedings. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Sheffield yesterday, Dr. Dymond in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his regret at the small amount of the dividend, which he attributed entirely to the general commercial dis tress. In the passenger traffic there was, as compared with the corresponding half-year of 1857, a decrease of £245, in merchandise a decrease of £6lB, .in the receipts from the navigation a decrease of £3,311. The item of debenture interest had been increased by £1,600. The gross receipts from mineral traffic had been £6,632 more than in the cor responding half-year cf 1857, and this would have afflirded an additional 1 per cent. dividend, but for the loss in other items of traffic, owing to the depression in trade and the increase in debenture interest, amounting together to £5,954. The directors had appointed Mr. English, from the Great Western, as traffic manager uf this company, and they hoped that from his experience they would obtain an increase of their traffic. Mr. BARTOLOMEIV, in reply to Mr. Ironside, explained that the reduction in the rates of their navigation was only upon a small po:tion of the traffic. Its effect during the last four weeks had been that their total receipts from that source were £3,730, as against £4,300 for the same period of last year. Mr. luoNsIDE said it had come to his knowledge that a firm in Hull had undertaken to convey goods from Hull to 6litlnekl for nothino.. One Sheffield house who previously paid same firm Is. per tu, amounting to £3OO a-year, now had their goods conveyed for nothing. How was this done? 'The answer was that it was understood that this company were cheated out of their river dues and the boat me% out of their freight by false weights. The CHAIRMAN said that upon certain goods a reduction had been made, but he did not see how it was po , sible for that statement to be correct. Mr. IRONSIDE said it might not he possible, but it was, nevertheless, a fact, that goods were forwarded from Hull to Sheffield by the navigation for nothing. He went on to complain of the had management of the railway, the trains being frequently an hour behind time. The CHAIRMAN said this was only the case when they bad to wait for other companies' trains meeting theirs. The adoption of the report was then carried. The CHAIRMAN moved the declaration of 4 per cent. dividend on the guaranteed, and 21 per cent. ou ungua ranteed stock. Mr. IRONSIDE asked whether this dividend had been bond fide and honestly earned. lie put the question because the Manchester and Sheffield Company had declared a dividend o❑ their preference stock without making known to the shareholders that 23,000/. which went towards paying it was not comings, but a loan from the Great Northern. The CHAIRMAN Could assure Mr. Ironside most faithfully that this dividend had been fairly earned by the company; and the motion was duly seconded and carried. The CHAIRMAN next moved a resolution authorising the directors to raise capital fur an extension of the company's line from Thorne to Kcadby. Ile explained that the pro posed extension would be made or, their own land, along the side of their - navigation, and would not cost more than £3,000 a-mile. The project was laid before the shareholders at a special meetine. in July. The extension of the line from Donevster to Thorne had already yielded 5 per cent. upon the outlay, and the rich district of the Isle of Axholtne, which this further extension would traverse, weuld, Le had no doubt, be still further remunerative. Mr. P. E. FISHER hoped the judgment of the directors on this point was sounder than that exercised when they invested £25,000 in the Anglo-French Packet Company. The CHAIRMAN said the expenditure of the £23,000 had produced this company a net revenue of £3,000 to £4,000 a-year on coal conveyed to Grimsby. After some further explanation, the resolution was agreed to unanimously. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed ings. SOUTHAMPTON DOCK. The directors, in their half-yearly report, to be sub mitted to the proprietors at the meeting on the 25th inst., state that " the decrease in gross revenue. as compared with the corresponding perioi of 1857, is £3,357, and has arisen from a general falling off in the business of the docks. The prolonged depression arising from the effects of the late panic and monetary crisis hes continued to exercise an un favourable influence on all commercial undertakings during the last half-year. The causes of that depression are, how ever, ❑ow ceasing to operate. Money has become abundant, and a revival cf trade, with a consequent retur❑ to progres sive increase in the Dock Company's revenue, may reason ably be expected." The accounts slim a net revenue for the half-year ending 30th of June last of £5,300, which, added to the surplus cf £l4l from the previous half-yerr, ■sakes an available balance of £3,450. From this sum the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, payable on the 31st inst., amounting, on £360,350 ordinary stock, to £5,405, leaving a surplus a 45 for the next half-year. In reference to the late acci dent in the inner dock, Mr. A. Giles, the company's engi neer, reports that, after a careful examination t,f the present condition of the north wall of the inner dock, his previous impressions had been confirmed, namely, that the move ment was entirely owing to the water having bt c:i strained from under the foundations, thereby causing a vein of sand to be compressed and to slide forward. When the foun dations of this wall were laid seven years ago the soil appeared perfectly sound, and the borings taken previ viously did not indicate the pre'ence of any quicksand; the fact, however, showed that a length of 380 feet had sunk lft. llin. in the centre, and had slid forward 31t. Sin. at the extreme point; yet, so perfect was the cohesion of the material of the wall, that there wes no more disruption than was due to a straight line having been stretched into a curve, and when it was remembered that the base of the wall was 241 t. thick and carried sfr. below the bottom of the dock, that it sustained its full pressure while the mortar and concrete were fresh and green, and also that it stood firm for ten weeks after the water was pumped out of the dock, such a failure could certainly not have been expected. In restoring the wall to its original line he states that the back of the will can be sufficiently strengthened by adding :large counterforts of concrete, alter which the face may he re built and protected where necessary by sheet piling' at a cost of about £3,000. The work of repair may be proceeded with at once, and need not at all endanger the stability of the D warehou-e. The directors state their conviction that the accident did not arise from any defect in the strength or construction of the wall, or from any cause which could have been foreseen or prevented, and that the wall may be re paired, and the inner dock completed and rendered in every respect as perfect and efficient as if no such accident Lad occurred. SUNDERLAND DOCK. The annual general meeting of this company was held at Sunderland on Mosday, Mr. G. Hudson, M.P., in the chair. Tne report was taken as read. The CHAIRIktAN, in moving its adoption, entered at con siderable length into the financial condition of the company. He said that in looking over their affairs he had come to the conclusion that they either spent too much or received too little in proportion to the magnitude of their undertak ing. Ile vindicated the conduct of the directors in having a month ago altered their charge on shipping using the duck from register tonnage to tons burden, and adduced several facts to show that the receipts of the company were very disproportionate to the accommodation afforded to shipping. lie thought that a reduction might be made in the working expenses, and hoped that by the next half-year be would have a better report to present. A long discussion tusk place; a considerable number of shareholders present being shipowners, they objected to the charge upon shipping being altered to the tonnage. The following dividends were agreed to:—X4 per cent. on the £l2 13s. shares, £5 per cent. on the £6 55. shares, and £llo,t. rer cent. on the ordinary £25 Ou,res. r... 13 • .iced; Seutliclii, N. Flews, and Hart ley were the five directors who retired by rotation. They were nominated! for re-election by the chairman. The fol lowing gentlemen were nomitrated from the body of the shareholders:—Messrs. F. 1). Johnson, E. C. Robson, M. Lonie, and John Charlton. The following were declared to be elected by the show of hands: —Messrs. Hartley, Bram well, Johnsen, Robson, and Flews. Mr. CLAY demanded a poll on behalf of Messrs. Reed and Scurfield. A special meeting was held, at which it was resolved to issue the preference shares in reserve to bear interest at 5 per cent., the directors to be at liberty to recall and pay eft those shares at the end of five years. TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE CAPTAIN PEEL.—As m i g ht have been expected , the proposal for a t es ti mon i a l to the late Sir William Peel has met with such sympathy from the public that the committee are enabled to extend their o riginal plan. It is now proposed that the picture of the late Captain Peel shall be painted by Mr. John Lucas, and that it shall be presented to Greenwich Hospital, on condi tion that a suitable position he assigned to it in the Painted ball. The Dowager Lady Peel will be requested to accept a cabinet picture, copied from that to be placed in the painted hall, and that a print be presented to every seaman and marine vho served i n t h e Naval Brigade lender the orders of Sir William Peel. Messrs. Graves and Co., to whom the engraving of the print is intrusted, hope to have it ready by May next. It was Captain Peel who suggested the formation of the Naval Brigade. The gallantry and devotion of that force are well appreciated by the country. The premature death of the gallant young officer excited such general regret that it is needless to urge the public to join in a testimonial intended to acknowledge and perpetu ate the remembrance of the services he rendered to Ills country. 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In the week that erdLd on Saturday (August II) the :,Lt.;,ber of deaths registered in London was 1,147, awl ex hibit a decrease on those returned for the two previous weeks. In the ten yeas 1848-57 the corrected average number of deaths, allowing for increase of population, in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,355 ; the number now returned is therefore less by 208 than the average rate • of mortality would have produced. Eight deaths are returned as occasioned from "English cholera," infantile cholera, and choleraic dia . ..rl.cra; of this number 7 were as,7 , igned to infants under one year of age; the other a coachman, aged'4o years, English cholera (14 days). Diarrhoea appears to decline, for whereas during a l . month of July the weekly number of deaths from that dim ease rose by degrees from 94 to 168, it fell last week to 124 and was fatal to 103 children under the age of years. The deaths referred to measles were 25, scarlatina 85, whoop ing -cough 38, and to typhus 32. Scarlatina and diphtheria prevail to a con'iderahle extent, at double the average rate of mortality, aril affect more particularly the east and south Flistricts. The deaths of six nonagenarians are returned, namely of two men and four women. Two were respectively 97 and 98 years of age. Last week the births of 787 boys and 709 girls, in all 1,496 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor responding weeks of the years 1843 57 the average number was 1,484. At the Royal Observat-iry, Greenwich, the mean he'olit of the barometer in the week WES 2 9.021 in., it increased from 30.'15in. at the beginning of the week to 30.26 in. by 9h. 30m. a.m. on the Bth; decreased with slight exceptions to 29.72 in. by 3'). p.m. on the 14r1), and then turned to increase slowly. The mean temperature of the Week was 65.4 , 1eg., which is 3.7 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years, but corresponds very nearly with the temperature in the same week of last year. The highest point of the thermometer in the sbade was 86.9 deg. on Thursday; the lowest 40.51eg. on Sunday ; the extreme range was therefore 40 4deg. The highest print in the sun was 108.5dec. on Thursday, the lowest on the grass was 35 Odeg. on Friday ; to these ex treme diflimences vegetation was exposed. The mean temperature of the Thames was 60.4 deg. The water on an avera , ze was 1 deg. warmer than the air. The mean dew point temperature was 56.3 kg, and corresponds with the same week - of last year. xThe Mean degree of humidity wanted 27 of saturation, complete saturation being repre sented by 100; the previous week was drier, wanting 36 of saturation, with the air rather cooler. Exceping some rain on Tuesday morning the weather was fire up to Satur day, which was cloudy throughout the day. Rain fell occasionally after noon. A great and unusual darkness was prevalent a little before 4h. p.m., during which the direction of the wind changed from E. by N. to W. by N. Shortly afterwards rain fell heavily to the depth of 0.5 in. within 40 minutes. Several flashes of lightning were seen and thunder was frequently heard. THE ARMY. Yesterday Major-General J. Peel, the Secretary of State for War, accompanied by General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Royal Engineers, and his aide-dc-camp Captain the lion. G. Wrottesley, Royal Engineers, arrived at Chat ham, from the Horse Guards, for the purpose of inspecting the troops and the various public establishments connected with that garrison. General Peel was received on his ar rival at Chatham by Colonel 11. Eyre, the Commandant of the garrison ; Colonel 11. Sandham, Director of the Royal Engineer establishment ; Colonel J. W. Gordon. C. 8., De puty-Adjntant-General lioyal Engineers, and all the prin cipal officers of the staff at Chatham. The first establish ment inspected was the Brompton Barracks, cccepied by the Royal and East India Company's Engineers, and a por tion of the troops o f th e li ne . Major-General Peel was shown over the batracks by Colonel H. Sandham, and was accompanied by Major Buckley, the Barrack-master, the principal establishments visited being the officers' halls of study, the photographic and lithographic rooms, model room, librarica, school-rocm, non-commissioned officers' library, &c., and also the hospital, in the inspection of which General Peel was occupied a considerable time. At o'clock, the Royal Engineers and the East India Com pany's Sappers and Miners were drawn up on their parade ground, in review order, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel A. P. G. Ross, when General Peel made a minute inspection of the men, with whose appearance he expressed himself to be very well satisfid. The entire carps were afterwards marched to the Great Lines, headed by their hand, and were there joined by the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry and hand, when the troops were put through a variety of evolutions and field-day manoeuvres, all of which were performed in a remarkably correct man ner. Iu the afternoon General Peel, accompanied by General Sir John Burgoyne and Colonel Sandham, visited the fieldworks of the Royal Engineers, and inspected the preparations which are being made by the troops belonging to the Royal and East India Company's Sappers and Miners for the grand review and siege operations which are expected shortly to take place and for which extensive a rrangements ' are in progress, the ficldworks extending over several acres. General Peel likeasise inspected the invalid establishment, St. Mary's Barracks, which is filled with sick and wounded and convalescent troops who have arrived from India and the colonies, and are now awaiting their discharge from the service. The inspection of the barracks and the several establishments at Chatham occupied General Peel until an advanced hour yesterday afternoon, and the inspection of the remaining pot lions of the garrison will be resumed this morning,. . _ _ Maj9r-Gencral the Earl rf Cardigan Inspecting. General of Cavalry, made his first inspection of' the 5 . 1 r Royal lrish Lancers on Friday and Saturday last at Newbridge. Three squadrons were reviewed on the Cinragb on Friday morning, and performed the parade movements to the noble earl's en tire satisfaction. Oa Saturday the regiment paraded in tLe barrack-yard on fog, iii full dress, 690 strong, in four squadrons, and both front their appearance and the preci sion with which they performed their parade moverneuts, they elicited the most marked approbation of the Inspecting General. Tli E NAVY. Sir John Pakington and the other Lcrds of the Admiralty left the Diadem in lI amoaze at 10 o'clock on Monday morn ing, and proceeded to the office of the Admiral Superinten dent, Sir Thomas Pasley, in Devonport Dockyard. From 11 to balf-pest 1 was occupied in mustering the ar isans, who were relieved from duty for the remainder of the day. The gunboat Redwing was in attendance to convey their Lord ships to the breakwater in Plymouth Sound, but in conse quence of the unsettled state of the weather their inspection on Monday was confined entirely to the dockyard. In building slip No. 1 is the screw stcamvessel Pantaloon, 10, in frame. No. 2is vacant. In No. 3is the Narcissus, 50- gun screw. She was designed for a sailing vessel, and was nearly built in slip No. 2, when it was determined to lengthen and convert her into a steamer. She was therefore, about 12 months since, taken down in pieces, and rebuilt in the present slip, which is larger. In No. 4 is the Java, 20, screw, just began framing. In No. 5 slip is the Done gal, 101, screw, seven-eighths built. She will be launched towards the close of September. In dock No. lis the Cum berland, 70 gnus, docked on the 12th inst., having been ashore, and carried off her fe!&e keel In South America. In No. 2 dock is the Liberian schooner Lark, 2, which has been eight years on service on the coast of Africa for survey. As her repairs will cost over £2,000., and she will then be but an old ship, it is supposed that the Admiralty, rather titan iccur that expense, will present the Liberian Government with another vesql. Iu Ne. 3 is the sixth rate c contains n s t a a i n i sailing the g strip Gannet,Creol e 1 26, forwar d ingscrescrew, preparing for commission.for the steam No. 4 second-rate sailing ship Lion, SO, reserve; and No. 5 the altering to a screw. In the brain is the Topaz, 50, screw, preparing for the steam reserve . Alongside the dockyard are the Aboukir, 00, :crew, and the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, scre w, both preparing. for the steam resolve. The latter will replace the .ATOrion he Lords of the Admiralty dined in the evening with nii al Superintendent Sir John p„i o y, after which they patronized a ball at St. George's hall, Stonchome, in support of the funds of the Naval and Military Orphan Asylum at Stoke. The official dinner will be given at Ba'es's Royal Hotel, Plymouth, this (Wednes day) evening, and the hide held in Devonport dockyard to morrow morning. The Cresar, 91, screw ship of the line, Cep•aln Chalks Fred r'ek, itri.,Ld ut Spithead yesterday at noon, from an tip; t.t days' cruise. The Victor Emmanuel, 91, screw ship-of-the-line, Capt. James Willcox, C.D., being fitted out at Portsmouth, is taking in provisions and stores, and will soon be ready to go to Spithead to join the Channel squadron. The En , yalus, .51, Captein John W. Tarlet on, C. 8., in dock at Portsmouth, when repaired, will join the Channel squadron until such time as Prince Alf ed shall embaik, which it is expected will be about October. The Neptune, 120, sailing three-decker, was taken into dock at Portsmouth on Mouthy, tt (be coui et ted.'wo a screw two-decker. • The Terrible, 21, paddlewheel steam-frigate, Captain F. 11. H. Glasse, C. 8., is ordered to be held in readiness to tow the Queen, 116, line• of-hat tie sailing-ship, from Devonport to Sheerness, an order having been given for that vessel to be got in readiness for sca at that dockyard. On her return the Terrible will convey a detachment of the Royal Marine Light Infantry from the Chatham division for the Royal Albert, 121, flagship, at Devonport. The Valorous, 16, paddlewheel steamer, Captain W. C. Aldham, is ordered to accompany the Queen, 116, to Sheerness and afterwards to tow the Mersey, 40, from Chatham to Pottsmouth. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. -- Another very dis tressing case of loss of life %sidle bathing has, ust occurred at Aberdeen. The Rev. William Smith, of the United Presby terian Church, Bannockburn, wbo had gone on a visit to Aberdeen, left his lodgings on Saturday forenoon, in com pany with a friend, Mr. Paterson, teacher, to enjoy a walk, when, induced by the extremely warm day, they proceeded towards the Links, Mr. Smith having expressed a wish to take advantage of the line beach and bathe. Ia cressing the Links the wind appeared to the friends to b: pretty strong at sea, and Mr. Paterson felt rather desirou s Mr. Smith should nut bathe, end repeated the sad in __ , circum stances attendant on the death of a promisingi youngs life,au the son of one of the city magistrate, while bathing, about two months ago. i e l u r iarly es he was a however, think there was any danger, par+ wr bad lost did not, f r d to the beach, Mr. safe distance. Ile accordingly nruee r e along the Links till swimmer, and he would take care not to e venture out beyond a Paterson meanwhile taking s'al'ting Mr. Smith en gagedi was cautioned he should return. On reaching a bathing coach, br ie, diver, who is now employed by M‘Farlane, the PrdesssuVtantly en the beach to be ready by the authorities to he t e t ; go far out, and to be wary of a on si incase of a-ciden ts,l "t he strength of which had almost proved before a ttohne s t current then running, t,. tr.ly Afttr t , el , i. • few hunts pt evio . . .. ni, a s 'eV time fatal to a man a Smith was observed Ly a gentleman, vh in the waier, Mr. the same spot to b ' ° was bathing near , e apparently in the r and showing power of the corren , _ signs of distres -, . Tire gentleman instantly gave the alarm, the life-boat was l launched, ;mum (I by the quickly au (liver and other two men an d encouragement by sh out i ng meantime given to d i e struggling swimmer, who was still- seen keepieg afloat. To the spectators there seemed to be every hope Mr. Smith would be saved ; but unfortunately the current proved too powerful for his strength, for when the boat was not more than 10 yards from biro he sank. and though every every exertion was made to recover his body, it bad not been seen up to Monday morning. The melanehlly event—all the more distressing that the unfor tunate gentleman has left a widow and numerous family— has called forth deep sympathy in Aberdeen. Mr. Smith Was about 45 years of age.—North British .Daily Alai/. de; OM Ini, ee, ler. m lir. , as ate his •0- ser nk )re iiil se, n :e- ck en