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MR.. and MRS. GERMAN REED'S NEW ENTERTAINMENT. LAST WEEK PUT ONE. Introduc tion of four Original Characters and Songs. Every evening except Saturday, at S. Saturday afternoon at 3.—Admission ls., 25., and I. Stalls secured, without • extra charge, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s 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. H. Filkin. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM , 3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Haymarket), Open daily (for Gentlemen only). LECTURES by Dr. sExroN 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. KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF 11AILRIAGE, V.. sent post ICee, direct from the Author, on the receipt of twelve stamps. EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION. FETE at the CRYSTAL PALACE next SATURDAY, the thst instant. Broad Sword and Single Stick Exercisc,llighiand Dancing (these in the centre transept should the weather be wet) ; Athletic Games, by the Military ; Wrestling Tournament, in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style (under the direction of Mr. Alarget3on, 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, 6d.—Doors open at 10. W. P. 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, end SPLENDID STUD of HORSES. Two Performasces daily. Mid-day Entertainment at half-past 2 ; Evening at 8 o'clock. Private boxes, £2 ; stalls, 55.; reserved seats, 35.; boxes, 25.; pit, ls.; gallery, 6d. Box-office open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. No fees for booking places. Children under 9 years of age, half-price. R OYAL 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. Tho 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 interyals. 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 APPOINTMENT, BIRCH'S OMNIBUSES EVERY EVEN ING run to and from the Regent-circus, Piccadilly, and the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, every half-hour from 7 o'clock p.m. to 1 o'clock tun, SCHWEPPE'S SODA WATER, MALVERN r•-. 7 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. ETROPOLITAN 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.D. 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 COMPANY. Established 1800. Incorporated by Royal Charter. PREsinv..xr—His Grace the Duke of ROXBURGILE, K.T. Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. JOHN I. GLENNIE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Gilliam Borradaile, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. P. Sorthall Laurie, Esq. P. P. Prichard, Esq. Charles James Knowles, Esq., Q.C. Solicitor, ALEXANDER DOBIE, Esq., Lancaster-place. Capital of One Million—accumulating Premium Fund £664,000. I le' ' renue from Life Premiums alone £116,000, annually increasing. ~.Nine-tenths or Ninety per cent. of the profits are septennialfy divided among the insurers on the participating scale of Premiums. All Profit Policies effected during-the current year will share in the Profits of Seven Years, and will secure a larger BONUS at every future division of Profits. The Bonus accumulations at last investigation ranged from 25 to 70 per cent. on the Premiums paid. ROBERT STRACILIN, Secretary. 4, Bank Buildings, Lothbury, London, E.C. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. S, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, London, S.W. The Funds or Property of the Company, as at 31st December, 185 7, 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 CURTIS, 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 loarf, irrespective of the great attendant expenses in such arrangements. The above mode of insurance has been found most advantageous 3then policies have been required to cover monetary transactions, er when incomes applicable for insurance are at present limited, as It only necessitates - half the outlay formerly required by other coin- Panics before the present system was instituted by this office. Loans arc granted likewise on real and per,onal securities. ADVANTAGE OF INSURING BEFORE DEC. 31, 1855.—Policies effected before this date will participate to a greater extent than if delayed after that period. Terms of Proposals and every information afforded on applica tion to the Resident Director, S, Waterloo-place. Pall-Mall, London, S.W. D 3 Order. E. LENNOX DOTD, Resident Director. APPETITE ANT) DIGESTION IMPROVED. Ll'la and PERRIN S' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, a nd 511 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 et this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe. Ruard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Peri ins, 15, Fenchnrch-street, London, and CS, Broad-street, Worcester: r.lso by Messrs. Barclay ' , lid Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer- C hants, London; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. A.ll, —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 worldwide. It has been a subject of wonder, and has puzzled 1 2,acY a brain to explain how this has been brought about. Yet 'Dec we are acquainted with a few facts concerning the food, our Nvonder wfficease. tt, few days since, a gentleman wrote, stating that he hat:', a horse which was a " perfect bar of bones." lie tried 7111 kinds of things to get the animal into condition, but in vain. Ile then bought some of Thorley's food; and he says the effect was \ Yonder( ul. The horse rapidly grew fat, aitti in the course of a few 'eeks 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 hail been pertly fed with Thorley's rood for chttle. such facts speak for themselves, and we are forced to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely frcyn its own in -I.linsie merits, and the great demand for it can proceed alone from the good opinion and testimony of those who have tried it. All yarties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply ti 77 , Acwgate-strect, London, for is pamphlet which is sent post-free. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. ralcut Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome ,PEcole de Pharmacia I'llarmacien do Faris. Imperial ColiCge of Jfedicino,ylonna. TRIESEMAIL Nos. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of taste or smell, and can be carri, d in the waistcoat pocket: Sohl in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as achnl Vstered by Valpeau, Lailemand, Roux, Ricord, &c., and adapted for both se x ". RIESEMAR No.l is a Remedy for RELAXA TION, SPERMATORRIICEA, and all the distressing coon 11".enees arising from early abuse, indiscriminate exce,sses or too 'ong residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and scxnal strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who %re tow in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood: and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for 3 ISRIIIAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful 3:O -CT/Cry. TRISTAIATt NO. If. e ffectually, in the short spac E e of threo days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhcea, both in its mild and aggravated Glects, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which and Cubebs bare so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEM:AII NO. is the great Continental Reamly for Syphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all uutaneoas Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all cor ruptions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible per spiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, end 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 theTatient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price Us., free by post, Sd. extra to any part of the kingdom ; or four cases ix one for 33 5., by post Is. 2d. extra, which saves I ls., and in In cases, whereby there is a saving of 12s. Sold by Daniel Church, 7 4 , Grace church -street, City; Eartlet 'Hooper, 43, King William-street, tfour doors from London-briflge) ; Watts, 17, Strand ; Front, 229, Strand ; liarmay, 63, Oxford-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Butler, 4, °lleapside ; Edward's, St. Patil's Churchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY; a Medical Work, price is., post freo, illustrated with 100 engravings, containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Iticord, &c. 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, gonorrteea, and syphilis, and the benetits arising from the chemical tests and examination of the spermatozo by the newly-cotstructed microscope, with powerful lenses. The Author may be consulted daily according to the rules in the Book. Sold by J. Allen, 20,.Warwiek-lane, Paternoster-raw awd 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, ELF-PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise 1 \...7 on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the Cure 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- Ilage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which ore Added, remarks on the wonders of the Microsc o p e in revealing the hidden 3nysterics of "Life within Life," and it s advantages in do tectinz, by urinary examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints. with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA!MERT, M.D., 87, BEDFORD SQUIRE. 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,irregularities, and excesses, lvhteli 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 pathologies. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their ph3 steal coneition, and who are conscious of hav in g hazarded the health, happiness, and let ivileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there Are Principles of personal managercent which cannot be violated avitheatAncurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret veeeeed the heyday of inconsiderate relf-indulgence, how those pe nalties may he mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove,], and how the evil and its consequences may he avoided, C hr, ve el!, that there is rearcelv any degree of physical infir- ThitY or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allelf, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and be had of Mann, 89, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester.s.quare G /. ' 1 3" ordon, TIC, Leadenhall.strect; or from the author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from GODS, at his residence, 37, Be dford square, London. • _ Tho work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar, Dalc utta—Me“ , re C and J. Hormosjee, Apollo-street, Bombay— Direm t C. a or Office, Madras—Mofussilite Office, Agra—Dodsworth Colombo, Ceylon; and of threughOtlt the 9410Atea, -LA DVERTIS EMENT.) —Holloway's Ointment and Pillo. ends, 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 manic. Their double action is irresistible. Unhappy c7 , atures " (7' werr P , rgerlit" objects so hor ribly unsightly that the wort Ututvui,tit turn away Eotri them with a shudder, have been snatched from the very edge of the grave, and restored to life, health, end society by these dual - medicaments, thee twin medical charm% The Ointment should bo rubbed twice a day into the parts affected, and the Pills should be taken according to the printed directiens accompanying every box. The cure will he complete gad permgnent. No. 20,641. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., U M 0 U By the Author of "Charles Auchester." _ . •-• "This is another of those brilliant works for which this author has before been celebrated. The love of music is inherent in the author's nature. Real feeling fires Ins words with eloquence and clothes his thoughts with beauty. In a former work the reader was charmed with the portraiture of the gifted Mcndelssohn—here he will find one not inferior of the immortal Beethoven."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. VEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858. Part VII., price 3d., will he published on the Ist of September. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, and Scotland in'lBs7, and Nominations for 1858, may be had, price two shillings. W. Wright, F Ellwood'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, Bilions Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debility, Diarrhcel, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send penny stamps, and you will receive post free, 6s pages, the people's edition of " PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," with out pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and without ex pense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies ; adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonies from the celebrated Professor of Che mistry, Pr. Andrew lire, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Champbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingrain, 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 all Booksellers in Town and Country. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (Incorporated by Act of Parliament), 71, Lom bard-street, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of tho PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the Company's Oftlees, 71, Lombard-street, on TUES DAY, the Slat 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 tSlitraettduae, 1858. London, Aug. 2, 1858. MA.R.TINvPRATT, Secretary. CONTRICT FOR LEMON JUICE BOTTLES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Trans port Services. Somerset-house, 17th Aug., 1858. MIIE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING I. the OFFICE of LuilD 11.1.”1 .1.Df,111.1, of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 2d September neat, at Half-past 1 o'clock, they will be READY to TREAT with such per sons as may bo willing to CONTRACT for SUPPLYING and Deliver ing inte her Majesty's Victualling 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 fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited 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 application at the said office, !or 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 particular at tention is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol No tender will be received after half-past ono 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 Nt riting. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left-hand 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, 1858. PHE 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 D E Er. NAVY PORK. Tierces. Barrels. Tierces. Barrels. Deptford Gosport Plymouth 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 Beef and a separate tender for Pork, and every tender must specify where the meat is Intended to be cured. Persons tendering for more than ono port must give a separate tender for each port. The Beef and Pork to bo delivered into the respective stores as follows, viz.:—one-third of each quantity for each place by the 31st of January, 1552; another third thereof by the 15th day of March, 1859; and the remainder thereof by the 30th 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 are desired to take special notice that the use of wooden hoops is abolished, and that score floors 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 soon at this Office; at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Ply mouth ; or by applying to the Agent Victualler at Ilaulbowlino ; or to the Collector , of tier Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or to the Secretary to the Post mater-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 ha 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 auy noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not he necessary that the party ten dering, or ;al agent appointed by him, should attend at this office, as 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 lie addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and hear 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 Vice-Presi dent of the Imperial African Institute of France, Corres. Member of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Peru, &c., and Resident Phy sician to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-place, Belford-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, Rs the advice he gives on health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound medical phi losopher."—Critic. . . The true Guido to those who desire a speedy and private cure." —University Magaz'ne. " The • NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the absur dity of the English mode of trenting such complaints, will prove a blessing to the sfdieted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Sun. For Qualificatina, vide "Diploma'," and the "London Medical Directory." NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTIIEP,, MEDICINE, :ndigcstion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Ner- VOUSIIf7SS Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitatim•, Heartburn, Eruptions, Im purities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at £ Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints effectually removed by DU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA 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 food 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 many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies—" I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalente, 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, Worth= Ling, near Dim , . Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Eliza th Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Ilerts, a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low' spirits, and ner vous fancies.—Cure No. es_:sit. Miss Elizabeth Yeomen. Gateacre, 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. 31,210. Dr. Sherlund, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,11 6 . Major E die, of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Pr. ilinster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Curo No. 2f,418. Dr. Ilarvey, of diarrhaaa and debility. Care No. 39,628. Dr 11 nrtzer, of consumption. Cure N 0.32,330. Wm. Flunt,Esq. barrister of eel alysis. Cure No. 46,2'70. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant Frimley, of thirty years' dlfeased lungs, spitting of blood liver derangement, pertial deafness. Cure No. 58,816. Mrs:noise, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion) debility, irritability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 46,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two year.' diarrhoea. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indigestion. Cure No. 54,612. Mies Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after medical advisers bad 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. 1,203. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, rpaSMS, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of mans, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health -restoring Food. I - shall ho happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John years' e l f t miserable,r arm, e s t restoring n i i d v n generalnervousness,lrasoodbeen eb W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. "Three ts w y. ith wh p i a e i i n l painsand e renderedinm neckmy b re e z t lit Alex.radically Stuart a b e y e eD of Barry'sßes Skibbereen " Cure No. 3,901. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have e een • rem RevalentaArabica rood.eyed by Du Barry's excellent James Porter, Athol-street Perth." Important Caution against the d fearful Weis : angers of spurious imita- The Vice-Chime:lll°r Sir William rage Wood granted an Injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating " Da Barry's Revalenta A.rebica Toed." Suitably packed for all climates. and with all instructions. In canisters, lib 2s 34 ; 21b 4s 6d ; 111 b 2?.5. super refined quality, llb SF; 21b lls; Sib 225; 101 b 33e. The 10113 and 121 b canisters are 1 o r Tr a r d e 7 d 7 C:k u rr eg i , e , g u e v f s i t 'c r e e , e znrec London;e ipt of Fortnum,P os t- of 9 order.c4 ..on a n (iDu Co.,p Barryur. 4a, Sloane jGesrtL,ecli;,c b P - i s c t e r a e d e i t llr Piccadilly; 430, 1,41;211,451, Strand; Bishopsgate-street ; 63, 150, and 133, Ox ford-street. o e C i t - so..t, also her at 6 31 0 1: P ro 4 r , a C - h st ea ' re p e s t i . de ; and 00, - -7 - „tr . ; ar•-•-* 4ef rr - ~ /~ ase "."-••••••••°' • '7 4 74. V, HEALTH of 1,04.1 7 : EA. 41‘ 2 $ 86 1 t 5 AS* MIL • At A , z 1,40.4.„* „ , • - -4' 41 1. 1414 fh#4l4 :; *4l IV!' • - - ``e`• ° .gft „ts,ebt •44 .. T.: 4, a ) • „ +.; * "l l l lM az At ijc ' 'lll , ^ t ( t - S -'V • 45 ' ' 's " • _ - '( LIE , • .z4,514C (From the OthiN In the week that ended on Saturday (Siignst 14) the number of deaths regiFterod in London was 1,147, ant ex hibit a deereaee en those returned for the two previous %leeks. In the ten years 18-IS-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 : wou l d have produced. PRICE 4D, STAMPED, SD. Great Northern Railway if they had power to connect i with another strong line. Eight deaths are returned as occasioned from "English cholera," infantile cholera, and choleraic diaTacea; of this number 7 were assigned to infants under one year of age; the other a coachman, aged 40 years, English cholera (14 dnys). Mr. PEARSON, lest be might be misunderstood, relocated that he proposed a committee to investigate his calculations with regard to the line, which should be open to the press, and he proposed to give a bun4red guineas to a professional gentleman to assist the committee in their labours. After a few further (Nervations from the Chairman and another proprietor, the resolution wascarriedunanitnously. Diarriux appears to decline, for whereas during the month cf July the weekly number of dept's from that dis. ease rose by degree's from 94 to 168, it fell last week to 121, and was fatal to 105 children under the age cf 2 years. The deaths referred to mens!es were 25, scarlatina 85, whoop. fog-cough 38, and to typhus 32. Scarlatina and diphtheria prevail to a cludderable extent, at double the avetage rate - of mortality, and affect more particularly the east and south Cistriet!;.. Votes of thanks to the chairman and Mr. Charles Pearson closed the proceedings. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meetirg cf this company was held at Shc ffield 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 decreasc,of £245, in merchandise a decrease of £6lB, in the receipts from the navigation a decrease of £43,311. 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 of 1857, and this would have afforded an additional 1 per cent. dividend, but for the loSs in other items of traffic, owing to the depression in trade and the increase indebenture interest, amounting together to £5954. The direc;ors had appointed Mr. English, from the Great Western, as traffic manager of this company, and they hoped that from ,his experience they would obtain an increase of their traffic. I !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 • 1,49 G children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor responding weeks of the years 1848-57 the average number was 1,484. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 .921 in., it increased from 30.251 n. at the beginning of the week to 30.26 in. by 9h. 30m. am. on the Bth; decreased with slight exceptions to 29,721 n. by 3h. _p.m. on the 14th, and then turned to increase slowly. The mean temperature of the week was 65.4 deg., 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 shade was 8 6.9 deg. on Thursday; the lowest 46.5.1eg. on Sunday ; the extreme range was therefore 40 4 , leg. The highest pint in the sun was 108.5 deg. on Thursday, the lowest on the grass was 35 Odeg. on Friday ; to these ex treme differences vegetation was exposed. The mean temperature of the Thames was 66.4 deg. The water on an average was 1 deg. warmer than the air. The mean dew point temperature was 56.3 deg., and corresponds with the same week of last year. The mean degree of humidity wanted 27 cf saturation, complete satora:ion king reps _sewed b:.- 10q; ?Le pz evious week was drier, wanting 36 of se.turation, with the air rather cooler. Excepting some rain on Tuesday morning the weather was flue up to Satur day, which was cloudy throughout the day. Rain felt 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 !Amite& Several flashes of lightning were seen and thunder was frequently heard. Mr. BARTOLOMEW, in reply to Mr. Ironside, explained that the reduction in the rates of their navigation was only upon a smal portion of the traffic. Its effect during the last four weeks bed been that their total receipts from that source were £3,750, as against £4,300 for the same period of last year. Mr. fßorsiri saidierad Coalet - o his knowledge that a firm in Huh had undertaken to convey goods from Hull to Sheffield for nothing. One Sheffield house who previously paid the same firm Is. per t,n, amounting to £5OO a-year, now bad 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 men out of their freight by false weights. The CHAIRUAN said that upon certain goods a reduction had hePrl madP. lm ho Aid not st‘e how it was pa,sibie fur Lu to cut rect. Mr. IRONSIDE said it might not be possible, but it way, nevertheless, a fact, that goods were forwarded from Hull to Sheffield by the navigation for nothing. He went on to complain of the bad management of the railway, the trains beingg frequently , an hour behind time. The CHAIRMAN said this was only the case when they had 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. on ungua ran teed stock. Mr. IRONSIDE asked whether this dividend had been bona fide and honestly earned. He put the question because the Manchester and Sheffield Company had declared a dividend on their preference stock without making known to the shareholders that 25,0001. which went towards paying it was not esrnings, 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 for an extension of the company's line from Thorne to Keadby. He explained that the pro posed extension would be made on 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 meeting in July. The extension of the line from Doncaster to Thorne had already yielded 5 per cent. upon the outlay, and the rich district of the Isle of Axholme, which this further extension wculd traverse, would, he 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 yAerat After r o some coal f c tir o invested £25,000 in the Angle-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 e r Y e e x d p t l o at 6 ta r t l io n :, the bY resolution 1,113 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 nrisen 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 arc, how ever, now ceasing to operate. Money has become abundant, and a revival of trade, with a consequent return to progres sive increase in the Dock Company's revenue, may reason ably be expected." The accounts show a net revenue for the half-year ending 30th of June last of £5,309, which, added to the surplus of £l4l from the previous half-year, makes an available balance of £5,450. From this suns the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, payable on the 31st inst., amountintr, on £360,330 ordinary steel:, to £5,405, leaving a surplus of £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 of the present condition of the north wall of the inner deck, his previous impressrons had been confirmed, namely, that the move ment was entirely owiner to the water having bran drained from under the foundations, thereby causing a vein of sand to be compressed and to slide f-rward. When the foun dations of this wall were laid seven years ago the soil appeared perfectly sound, and the borinas taken previ viously did not indicate the presence of any quicksand ; the fact, however, showed that a length of 380 feet had sunk lit. llin. in the centre, and had slid forward Sit. Sin. at the extreme point ; yet, so perfect was the cohesion of the material of the wall, that there was no more disruption than was due to a straight line basing been stretched into a curve, and when it was retnembered that the base of the wall was `,aft. thick and carried oft. below the bottom of the dock, that it sustained its full pressnre while the mortar and concrete were fresh and green, and also that it steed 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 wall can he sufficiently strenethened by adding ;large counterforts of concrete, after which the free may be 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 I) warebou,e. The directors state their conviction that the accident did not arise from Any defect its the strength or construction of the wall, or from any cause which could have been foreseen or prevented, and that the wail may be re paired, and the inner do"k completed and rendered in every respect as perfect and efficient as if no such accident had occurred. SUNDERLAND DOCK. The annual general meeting of this company was held at Sunderland on Monday, Mr. G. Hudson, M.P., in the char. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, 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. He vindicated the conduct of the directors in having a month ago altered their charge on shipping using the dock from register tonnage to tons burden, and adduced several fact& to show that the receipts of the company were very disproportionate to the accommodation atnrded to shipping. He thought that a reduction might be made in the working expenses, and hoped that by the next half-year he would have a better report to present. A long discussion tosk place; a considerable number of shareholders present being shipowners, they objected to the charge upon shipping being altered to the tonnage. The follros log dividends were agreed to:—£4 per cent. on the £1.2 13s. shares, ,E 5 per crest. 071 the S 6 55. shares, and El 10s. per cent. on the ordinary i'2s shares. Messrs. Brainwell, Reed Scurfield, N. Pl o ws, and Hart ley were the five directorswho retired by rotation, y were nominated: for re-election by the eh-airman. The_ r f_ lowing gentlemen were nominated from the body of Mt. e shareholders :—Messrs. F. D. Joh nson, B. C. Robson, , Lonie, and John Charlton. The fallowing were declared to be elected by the show of hands : Messrs. Hartley, Bram well, Johnson, Robson, and Plea's. 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 beat liberty to recall and pay (in 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 testimoni a l t o the late Sir William Peel has met with such sympathy f rom the nubile that the committee are enabled to extend their plan. It is now proposed that the picture of the late Captain Peel shall be painted by Mr. John Lucas, d that it shall be presented to Greenwich Hospital, on condi tion that a suitable positioh be assigned to it in the Painted hall. The Dowager Lady Peel will be requested to accept a cabinet picture, • copied from that to he placed in the painted ball, and that a print be presented to every seaman and marine vho served in the Naval Brigade under 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 suegested 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 his country. • LADVERTISEMENTI.—A most interesting recovery from a vast complication of diseases, such as indigestion, (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, coughs, asthma, cenmmption and debility without the aid of medicine, by Do Barry's delicious Revs lenta Arabica Food, is recorded in - the following letter : Cure 52,422—" Bridgehouse, Frithley, April 3, 1854.-33 years' diseased lump . , spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constipation, debility, short ness of breath and cough, have been removed by yeur Revalenta Arabica. My lungs, liver, stomach, head and ears are all right, my hearing perfect and my recovery isa marvel to all my acquaintances.--James Roberts, wood merchant." Supported by testimonials from the celebrated professors of chemistry Dr. Andrew 'lire, Dr. Sliorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingram, Lord Stuart tie Decies, Major-General Thomas King and many other respectable persons, whose health has been re stored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suit ably packed with full instructions. In canisters, 11!) .: , 2s. 9c1.; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., lls. ; 121 h.. 22a. The 1t! . 1 .7 Vin , .` fr , e, ik.ce.pt. of Pos t tt o li n.. e • orate. :berry tin . ',Wry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Lon - an d don, and through all chemists and grocers_ dangers country:—lmportant Caution against thent er Williem ice- __al tit Spurious imitations :—The rh Pace wood granted an injunction on th e . e lZlt ° h ,, March, 1854' against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitating Du Barry Re vaiegta Arabie rood.", 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-de-camp Captain the Hon. 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 H. Sandham, Director of the Royal. Engineer establishment; Colonel J. W. Gordon, C. 8., De puty-Adjutant-General Royal Engineers, and all the pall. cipal officers of the staff at Chatham. The first establish ment inspected was the Brompton Barracks, occupiedly the Royal aad East India Company's Engineers, and a-por tion of the troops of the line. Major-General Peel was shown over the barracks 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, libraries, school-room, non-commissioned etticers' library, &c., and also the hospital, in the inspection of which General Peel was occupied a considerable time. At 2 o'clock, the Royal Engineers and the East India Com pany's Sappers and Miners were drawn up on their parade ground, iu 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 satisfied. The entire corps were afterwards marched to the Great Lines, headed by their band, and were there joined by the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry and baud, when the troops were put through a variety of evolutions and -field-day manceuvres, all ef which were performed in a remarkably correct man ner. In the afternoon General Peel, accompanied by General Sir John Burgoyne and Colonel Sandliam, visited the fieldworks of the Royal Engineers, and inspected he preparations which are bein g ma d e by tre troops belonging to the Royal and East India Compa n y' s S appers and Miners for the grand review and siege opera ions which are expected shortly to take place, and for which extensive arrangemetrs are in progress, the fieldworks extending o ver severa l acres. General Peel likewise 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 portions of the garrison will be resumed this morning._ _ _ Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, Inspecting General of Cavalry, made his first inspection of the s:h Royal Irish Lancers on Friday and Saturday last at Newbridge. Three squadrons were reviewed on the Curragh on Friday inornioe, and performed the parade movements to the noble earl's en tire satisfaction. On Saturday the regiment paraded in the barrack-yard on f,ot, in full diets, GOO strong, in four squadrons, and both front their appeirance and tile preci sion with. which any pertained their parade movements, they elicited the most marked approbation of the Inspecting General. TIIE NAVY. Sir John Pakington and the other Leeds of the Admiralty left the Diadem iu Ilanaoazn 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 half-pest 1 was occupied in mustering the ar leans, 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, hut 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 sleamvessel 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 end convert her into a steamer. She was therefore, ebout 12 months since, taken down in pieces, and rebuilt in the present sUp, 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 Nei. lis the Cum berland, 70 guns, docked on the 12th iest., having been ashore, and carried eff her false keel in S: nth America. In No. 2 dock is the Libe:ian schooner Lark, 2, which has been eight years on servica on the coast of Africa for survey. As her repairs wi'l cost over A:•2.00. and she will then be hut an old ship, it is supposed that the Admiralty, rather than it.cur that expense, will present the Liberian Government with another vessel. In Ne. 3is the sixth rate sailing ship Creole, 26, forwarding for commission. No: 4 contains the Gannet, 11, screw, preparing for the strata reserve; and No. 5 the second-rate sailing. ship Lion, 80, altering to a screw. In the hvin is the Topaz, 5 0, screw, preparing for the r•tearn reserve. Alon Aide the dockyard screw , and the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, reserve. The lat ter the OriOD. The Lords of the screw, Sofa h I O - t b h 3u prep ir 'rrie g !hr the steam will replace Admiralty dined in tie evening with Admiral Superintendent Sir John af:er which they patronized a ball at St. George's 1711,ekonehouse, in support of the fund s o f t h e N aval and Military Orphan Asylum at Stoke. The official dinner will h e given at ila•cs's Royal Bad, Plymouth, this (IVednts day) evening, and the levee held i n D evonpoit dockyard to morrow morning. -- The Ctcsar, Jl, screw ship of the line, Cnivain Cha►ks Frederick, arrived at Splthead yesterday at noon, from nn eight days' cruise. The Victor Emmanuel, 01, seretv Capt. James Willcox, C. 8., 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 Euryalus, 51, Captain John W. Ta:leton, C. 8., in dock et Portsmouth, when repaired, will join the Channel squadron until such tune es Prince Alfred shall etnbatk, which it is expected will be about October. The Neptune, 120, sailing three-decker, was taken into dock at Portsmouth on Monday, tclbe converted into a screw two-decker. The Terrible, 21, paddlewheel steam-frigate, Captain F. H. H. Glasse, C. 13., is ordered to he held in readiness to tow the Queen, 116, line-of-battle sailing-ship, from Devonport to Sheerness, an orde r h av i ng b een given fur 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 Inft.ntry from the Chatham division for the Royal Albert, 121, 'flagship, at Devouport. The Valorous, 16, paddlewheel steamer, Captain W. C. Aldham, is ordere,l to Ileum - Tatty the Queen, 116, to Sheerness and afterwards to tow the Mersey, 40, from Chatham to Portsmouth. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. — Another very dis tressing case of loss of life while bathing has just occurred at Aberdeen. The Rev. William Smith, of the United Presby terian Church), Bannockburn, who 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 war m d a y, they p rocee d e d towards the Links, Mr. Smith 'levit , expressed a wish to take advantage of the line beach and bathe. In crossing the Links the wind appeared to the friends to he pretty strong at sea, and Mr. Paterson felt rather desirous Mr. Smith should not bathe, end repeated the sad drone stances attendant on the death of a promising youril ) ;:n: 11, the son of one q the city magistratez, who had 10, 4 I 1s life, did not, while bathing, show. two months ago. however, think there was any danger, particularly)llric out beyond a swimmer, and he would tali!! care not to ven t( t ) o . . ) _ ~e ach, Mr. .i i h .. e. Link Links Smith as he vt aA a safe distance. Ile aceordiop;ly preceede s i i i nn " " Paterson meanwhile taking a tou e r _ eon en he should return. On reaching,Tteh stn 4 . , _ I _ Dl ' eingcautioned gaged a bathing coach, but b i ef i ' ver ho is now employed by M‘Farlane, the profusiona far out, and to be wary °fa er , 83 ln tly en the bench to be ready ibny c the aseoe u f a t la : c o i r d i e t i n e t s ~t i o n o b t e t c o o 3 n o s t n ffthot which had almost proved current then running, the ctre „ mis ty. A fur being II Short tinge Mr. Smith was observed by a gentleman, who I f n ata ti l le to w a a T e a r n , the same spot, to he apparently in in the - 0 batiling . near gp‘lie;an'ieiretnetifliit launched, current,y g mannedave the bby the a t l h a e r m, diverntit of a n 1 i d fe -bca othert The w t w a s o a few hours pre quickly at an d encouragement by shouting meant i me given men, struggling swimmer, who was still seen keepleg gloat. 7 , ,, n ., ,pnetqtor there sctmed to be ever . ) , ;,:,.. i.,...il would Le slaved; but unfortunately the current proved too .powerful for his sorength, for when the boat was not more than 10 yards from him he sank, and though every every exeition was made to recover his body, it had not been seen up to Monday morning. The rnelatehily . event--all the more dime-ping that the pnior-- tunate gentleman has left a widow and numerous family -1 has called firth deep sympathy in Aberdeen. Mr. Smith WAS about 45 3ears of age.—North British Daily Mail. 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 Ll 10s. per share on the capital of the company. As it was felt that in the present positio,n 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 thought 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 9th 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 been 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 vis:t:6ll of considertade difficulty. In consequence of overtures made by the re-open L 1 7 50 e 0 d , w a th s a a n o v t i i o e o w e d t o b y t h e p i r a ' o h m s c o r u i ng w h t i h o e u w m o u l o d f Great Northern Railway Company, n egotiations were s have enabled the directors at once to commence the works. Several interviews have taken place, but the Great Northern 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 of 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 from 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 tke line from Paddington to King's-cross. 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 th a t 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 4z. ld., and there remeined in the hands of the Accountant-General and the company £87,22715. sd. The CHAIRMAN, 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 tn; been accordingly employed in taking the ne cessary step+ for that purpose, and they had made a call of £1 10s. per share. It might be thought that they had 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 assure the proprietors that he never remembered to have devoted so much atten tion to business of thisdescription as he had during the last six months. He certainly regretted that they had 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 applic..lion 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 he 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 fur Parlia ment had of course been estimated as low as possible, yet the new survey, made with a different view, had come within the estimate= originally made, and showed that they would get the land for less than they expected. With re gard to Mr. Jay, he would read the paragraphs in the report which stated that " Mr. Jay has reconsidered his position with regard to the company, and that unless be can be materially relieved ft orn the pressure of his shares, he is not ready to incur the responsibility by commencing the works," he wished it to he 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 out 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. They hsd had overtures made to them by the Great Northern Company with a view to an arnstlgmation of tbeir 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 circutn stance rendered them less able to construct the line. They had, with the consent of ➢ir. 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 cut 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 hnd n 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 ha 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 rained by those branches. Let them look at what the Brighton Company bed done to get a %Vest-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 13righton had its Croydon, its Epsom, and its Crystal Palace feeding lines The South-Eastern, too, had the North 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 North- 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 la.st half-year, and the price of it: stock in the market was 101, whilst that of the Lnndm nni Not th-Wec ern 7:a= 0 3 to 03. The North Loudon 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 SHAREHOIMER asked whether Mr. Jay had received £15,000 from the company, and whether he held more shares now than he did in May last? The CHAIRMAN replied that he had not received the money nor increased the number of his shares. The 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 Conimon 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 Farringden e 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 orsuburban, 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-streetvtations,evhich, incredible as it may appear, in consequence of the facilities they afford for suburban residential traffic, receive and distribute daily ten times as many City passengers as the Great Western, the North Western, and the Great Northern, including the Midland, and the Lincoln and Sheffield Companies, which have recently acquired runrieg powers over the letter 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 net 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 bad been squandered in constructing extravagant stations and useless branch lines, or how many hundreds of thousands of pounds of annual revenue bad 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 G rea t 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 w o nt t o 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 ago, 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 past, 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 speculatioa. Thesame circumstances that rendered it useful would make it remunerative. (Hear, hear.) One of the great merits of the projeet was that it would diminish the overcrowding of the streets by diminishing the number of railway vtes, omnibuses, and cabs that pass to and tbr:ugh the city from the suburban stations north of the Thames. The vast amount of Manchester goods taken from Haydon-square, up Leadenhall-street or Fenchurch street, along Lombard-street or Cornball, had to cross the great stream of traffic going through the City from north to south, by Gracechurch-street, King William-street, &c. This would he 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 Woed-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 lie bad already referred. (Hear.) The establishment of the trunk railway would to a considerable extent pre vent the driving of large dares 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 1.0, 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 cltubt but that the London slaughtertuen, 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 waggons and carts. (hear.) By the removal of the meat markets from Leadenhall and Nevegate-streets, and by securing railway conveyance fur the 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 roent 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 incalculable 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 depleted in touching terms the unhappy condi tion of many of our respectable artisans and mechanics who, for the purpose of being n ear their d aily occupations, were compelled, with their decent families, to live in miserable courts and alleys, in close contiguity with some of the most wretched, as well as the most degraded, classes of the com munity. (Hear.) In ancient times plague and pestilence, and the sweating sickness and occasional famine, were the means by which it pleased God to humble the proud and scatter the superabundant population of a rich, luxurious, and overcrowded city. Improved sanit ary regulations and the expansion of the metropolitan population over a com paratively large area had ,for years mercifully averted these scourges front 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 cf 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. ( H ear .) The evils of past ages were borne because there was no remedy ; but no such excuse for their continuance could he pleaded in the present day. When George Stephenson devised the railroad and the locomotive engine he placed in the hands o f th e r i c h a new power by which all these evils might be effectually removed. B y pl au ti ez a railway station in the centre of a city, Saosaver overcrowded, and by c:taneelitig it s%itit C.O great railway communications of the surrounding country, facilities were at once afforded for relieving all classes of the evils which must ctherwise necessarily flow from crowding together such vast communities in such confined situations. Railroads had been figuratively described as the muscle and sinew of commercial enterprise; they might be no less accuratelydescribed as the veins and arteries of com mercial intercourse, and yet that great city, overflowing with wealth and population, was more destitute of rtilway accom modation than manyof our second-rate provincial towns. Th overcrowding of the City arose from the enormous price of building ground and the vast amount of business carried on within its walls. If the better class of mechanics aid 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 he had before referred to might then be pulled down, and the courts and alleys would besdevoted to the improvement of our thoroughfares, or be used for the erection of warehouses or Chops. It bad 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 sureounding country. Land for the erection of fire houses in the City had been recently taken on lease as an investment, and a large amount bad 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 pow let as agricultural land at two and thirty shillings per acre annual rent. (Hear.) 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 neon3etrical ratio of progression to atranknown extent, while the City would still remain in the centre with thisincreased and increasing population from all sides still in fringing upon its streets, which were already utterly inade quate to accommodate its present traffic and population. (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 had been unanimously agreed that the Fleet Valley Railway should be rcstlic:Ld in both 1.1,e 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 bad 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 reso 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 liable 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 in 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, declived— "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. lie (Mr. Pearson) some time afterwards was going with a committee to dine at Blackwall. 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 t`cmind ing his friends of the quotation from Pope, and folloviing It up with the concluding distich, that the monster— I " When ellen 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 had not expressed an intention in 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 bad 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, and 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 any baser metal. The shareholders would persijvc 1 the directors' report that they had conelir it ex pedient, under all the ci:cuz , stances, to pfb - de in his hands the power of organising a new company to construct the, trunk railway from king's. cross to thfiCity in conjunction with the Great Northern, the Midifficl, and the Lincoln and Sheffield Companies, provided be 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 bad 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 fsrm 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 bad 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. B u t he (Mr. Pearson ventured to think that the press lived below its pri vilege if it limited its function; into an inquiry as to the past, when the present and future were placed before them as a field of action. A gentleman interested in the success of the Fleet Valley Railway had on that morning placed I'ooo in his hands to defray ally expende he might incur in this inquiry. He should have much pleasure in handing a fee of one hundred guineas over to any competent profes sional gentleman who might be selected by the committee to assist them in their investigation. (Mr. Pearson resumed his seat amidst much cheering.) 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 locked for another line, and they had now a better down the Ungnigge-wells-road—upon the construction of which l'ocre would he a saving of £70,000 to £BO,OOO. He knew that other contractors would 13,; i tnl;e np 111 c line, and that it might be constructed fur £1,000,000. If Mr. Pearson succeeded in getting up a strong com pany to make a line from the Great Northern Railway to Farringdou-street ail their difficulties would disappear, aa they were now strong enough to make the line to the Ind de er— Ind the ays 1 of the ace nd- red lw nal lal ary ne, evv, on, Riad Ur — the see, $lB. ler ope and all all.. tor, alf eet. eet. Old tor t 1, eet. tor n's- ler, at dal Mr. ider the tee, 7ild ire, 16, bey, ple- sled rid ng, Ile- cc. ble rn, rd, I ' '"~