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PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in'a cause Rebecca Bowyer Pain and others against Thomas John Brooks Pain and otl.ers, the creditors of, and Inc umbrancers upon, the real esta Q of JOHN BROOKS PAIN, late of No. I, Evershelt-st , Tet, Oakley-sqnare, la the o unty of %Mine; sex, gentleman, who 'tiled in or about the Month of January, 1847, are, by their sac' ors, on r h-for the 19th day of March, 1858, to come in and prove their cliVms at the Chambers of the Vice-Chan cellor, Sir John Stuart, No. 12, old-square, Lincoln's-inn. Mid dlesex. orlln' default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. On Saturday, the 27th, In 2 vols., post Bvo., 24g., A JOURNEY THROUGH THE KINGDOM OF WIDE IN 180-51. Undertaken by direction of the Right lion. t+ , e Earl of Dalhousie. Governor-Gea.ral; together with Private Correspondence relating to the Annexation of Oude. By Major-General it WlLLiam 11. Stmusw, President at the Court of Luck,ow. London: Richard Bentley, bibllsher in Ordinary to her Majesty. This Day i• pablisiied, price la. THE COMPANY'S RAJ. By the lt,r, GEORGE 9'R, VOR, Canon of York, formerly haplain on the Madras Fstabllshment. Reprinted from " B aekwood's Magazine." William Blackwood a 'd Son, Edinburgh and London. Tuesday, the 234 day of arch, 1858 at 12 o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for bearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 9th day of February, 1858. WIRT. W. PPIAKir, Chief Clerk. _ T. E. FOX and 90v, 4n, Finsbury-clrcus, E.C., Plaintiffs' Solicitors. k r E A T qsu ß ß O v. r es o sLdc y. r i T IT A. N COUNTIES t IFE 27. Himont- -opt: waterlro place, London, S.W. t ife assurance, annuities, endowments, and loans on advantageous F. FERCHTCON OA'fROUX, Manaanr. N.B. PMicies in force. nrovrith(tandirrg the Decease of the Life Assured, provided the Fremiams be paid within the thirty days of grace Special Notice.—important Alteration of Mika. GENERAL tNNUITY • ENDOWMENT ASAOCIITI , I , 7 (estailished 1829), 93, Cheapside. Immediate. drferied, and survivorship annuities. Accumulated invested caoital, 289,5271. Ils. 6d. Entrance fees dt , •contnined. Admission to 65 years of ago. survivorship annuities, from one to 12, of 111. each, may now be secured to the same nominee. PHILIP CUR 'IS, secretary. -UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE C OMP tNY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall -mall, 8.W., London. (Established by aperial • et of Parliament, 1834.) NO rICE—The Directors beg to state that a premium upon a p,liey of Insurance effected with this office wild within the twenty one clays of grace, has air , ays been, and will continue to be, held as a valid payment, he same as if such premium bad been paid on the day it became due, notwithstanding death may have happened in the meantime. The Directors also beg to state, that they have resolved, should the life insured die within the twenty-one dare, and formal int , ma ton to that effect in writing be given to the office within that period, the premium may be deducted from the sam invared when the claim paid. For the satisfaction rf p liry•holders, a copy of this notice, duly Signed by the resident director of the Company, may be had on appli- Cation to the office. By order of the B ard, E. LENNOX BOYD, Resident Director, February 24, 1858. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE Asswa , INTCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. Empower° 1 by kct of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &e. DIRECTOIIS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Ym. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elltotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. rjt,s. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde, Esq. NEW VOLUME.--CONTINUATION OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. This day is pu , lishe Vol. VII. of THE HISTORY OF EUROPE, from the Battle of Waterloo to the Accession of Louis Napo leon. In Octavo, price 15s. The Elzhth VottlMe, comisbetlng the Work, and containing a care fully compiled Index, will be published in the course of this year. William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh and London. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for MARCH, 1858. No. DIX. Price 2s. Gd. CONTENTS. What will he do with it ? By Nisistratus Castoa.—Part X. Zatizthar ; and Two Months in East Africa. Part 11. Our Convicts—Past knd Present. Stories from Ancient hind. Food and Drink. Sullivan on Cumberland. Cerio , ities of liraturtd•llist ory. A Few more Words from Mr. John Company to Mr. John Ball. William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. CCCIII., 11f kRCII, 1858. Gerald Fitzgerald, " The Chevalier," By Harry Lorrequer. Part Lord Macaulay. Notes on India. By An Eastern. The Royal Bridal. C. 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Just out, price 6d., " ipRACTICE " versus "THEORY ;" or Prac• tical Suggestions for increasing the effi-lency of the Royal Engineers. Addressed to the Corps. By A RoraL ENGINEER. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. FETST'S RACING RECORD f a r 1858. Part 1.. price 21., will be published on the let of STARCH. The Record, containing a complete calendar of Sport in England, Ireland, ann Scotland in 1857, and Nominations for 1858, may be had price two shillings. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents. 11 , Thorn. NEW WORK ON SPERMATO RREICE A. Just published, trice 25., by post, free, 2s. 2d ON SPERMATORRLICEA, and the PROFES , ION 1L FALL \CIES and POPULAR DELU SIONS which prevail in relation to its NATURE, CONSEQUENCES, aßd TREATMENT. BY A MEMBER OF THE ROYAr. COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. " We never commence the perusal of works on this malady with out preparing ourselve- to meet most appallin; de.criptions of human stagings It was, therefore, a most agreeable su"prise to us to find this error (as it appears to us) carefully avol. , ed in this work, and the subject treated in a common sense, and truly practical manner. . . . medical man should undertake the treatment of Spermntorrllcea without first consulting this work."—Medical Circular, Jan. 13, 1858. London CH. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. PROSTITUTION IN TEE METROPOLIS. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yoting. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elllotson, Cantab , F.ll S., 37, Conduit-street ACTtrAIIT. W. S. B. Woolhouse, FAQ, F.R.A.S., FAA, &O. ASSISTANT ACTU ANY. Barker Woolhouse, EB4l. _ Damns. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow. and Roweliffs, Bedford-row , The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in say, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 Bonus in Permanent Policy taken Sum addition Bonus in Reduction of out in A g e ' Assured_ to Sn n Cash. Annual Pre ....—___ Assured. mium. £ £ s. d. £ s. 5. .£ s. d. P 3B 55 3,000 867 17 7 42, 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1 ,. 845 59 9,000 932 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 11 8 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 i. 10 115 2 1 1 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amonvst the advantages offered by the Inter ational Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1835. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amonzst the assured every eve years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in torte exceed six thousand. About one thousand new nolicies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upward. , afthree hundred any twenty thousand pounds. F prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair- Mano r 142, Strand. 1 42, EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. Strand, London. W.C. •,PPETITE &ND DIGESTION IMPROVED. lr EA. and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE, ALA SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, Rad an Roast %feat Gravies, Irish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invisorating Properties enables the stomach to Perfectly he .feletly.digeot the food. daily "aof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health, gold by th e ji London and 6,:orietera, Lea and Perrin., 19, Fenchurch-street, and Sons, Messrs . gr oan-str eet , Worcester; also by Messrs. 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ERRY'S PETRIFYING sECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec eal remedy in either sex for all of gonorrhoea,s gleet, stricture, 4 ' l, rI diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4 s . 6d , ant 11 s. Pe box. (I S old by Daniel Chnrch, 75, Gracechnrch-street, City ; Bartlett ° 2l'er, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ; ,„: eF.et F. Watts, 17, St ran d ; W. Sutton and Co., 10. Bow-churchyard; r ; n`. E dwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard; J. Sanger, 159, Oxford- Hannay an I Metrictrel, 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and l iarling, 4, Cheapside ; Prout and ciarsant, 229, Strand ; and all Medicine vendnrs hmiom a t iv, triate4 it . iCedelli• Tile: sEc Kr; r n ' T FIRNIITIIf,ii OF % OUTH AND vIATITRITY Just nuhlisi ie l . nri, IL, pr,,L.re.. I . for 13 eta 25, S ELF-PRESEvi,... .-. nan ~,iweiape, " v ATTO on the Functions and Di. and on the cure of Nervo., ; orders of the Generative System, N.--A. Medical Treatise fro m vicious habits acquired a ur t n a g nd th Physical Debility, resulting to M an hood, with Practical observation's riage in its social, moral, and physical relation,Critieal passage from youth t Physiology of lii Iv : remarkS On the wonders of the Microsco are g v. i: ‘ l l o in d g etecting, by blYsteries "of Life within Life,' and its:det To which are J.ddeci the hidden urinary examination, th.e cause and effect of ev ery variety of these e) Mplaintll, With numerous engravings and cases.l BY , :,4 MITT. Lt'IIICRT, m.D. 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON Licentiate of of the university of Edinburgh Mat riculated Member . 9 honorary ~_The essential Ir ealhAr of the London llorpital Nfedical Seciety, Apot hecaries' Halt. London, Sce•i & e . object of this ti n ea h t a is b e it i s s , to point out the fearful con irregularities, and excesses, „,;T:,,tl,:ea resulting from certain in tooth, degradation in Min hood,"aunave produced more misery stages of life, than, perhaps, any other i c preniatore decay c ut rtaining secret doubts of e ar " - as! of die.,eee knnwn t modern pathologists. 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NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS are thus divided : No. 114, REGENT-STREET ;s their Depot for Paletots, Uni forms, Gentlemen's rvening and Morning Dress. No. 116, for the manufactu e of the !lainea Trousers. No. 118, for Half-Guinea Waistcoats. No. 120, for Waterproofed nuinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries. No. 142 is their new Establishment for Ladies' Riding Habits and Mantles in Fur and Cloth, No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs. NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence The Wholesale Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street premis4s, viz , 29, 30, 31, and 4!, WARWICK-STREET. The City Depot is at 21 and 22, CORNH ILL. The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the ournals of tie United Kingdom and the Colonies. (NOOKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks, Soups, Grills, Gravies, Hot ant void Meats, and unrivalled for gene al use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in fish and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers. Let me tell you something of my parents. My father's most profitable occupation was brickmaking. When not employed at this he did anything he could get to do. My mother worked with him in the brickfield, and sodid land a progeny of brothers and sisters; for somehow or other, although my parents occupied a very unimportant space in the world, it pleased God to make them fruitful. We all slept in the samo room. There were few privacies, few family secrets in our house. Father and mother both loved drink. In the household expenses, had accounts been kept, gin and beer would have been the heaviest items. We, the children, were indulged occasionally with a drop, but my honoured parents re served to themselves the exclusive privilege of getting drunk, " and they were the same as their parents bad been." I give you a chapter of the history of common life which may be stereotyped as the history of generation upon generation. We know not anything of religion. Sometimes when a neighbour died we went tothe burial, and thus got within a few steps of the church. If a grand funeral chanced to fall in our way we went to see that, too—the fine black horses and nodding plumes--as we went to see the soldiers when we could for a lark. No parson ever came near us. The place where we lived was too dirty for nicely-shod gentlemen. " The Publicans and Sinners" of our circum sciibed, but thickly-populated locality had no " friend" among them. Our neighbourhood furnished many subjects to the tread mill, the hulks, and the colonies, and some to the gallows. We lived with the fear of these things, and not with the fear of God before our eyes. I was a very pretty child, and bad a sweet voice ; of course I used to sing. Most London boys and girls of the lower classes sing. "My face is my fortune, kind sir, she said," was the ditty on. which I bestowed most pains, and my father and mother would wink knowingly as I sang it. The latter would also tell me how pretty she was when young, and how she sang, and what a fool she had been, and how well she might have done had she been wise. Frequently we had quite a stir in our colony. Some young lady who had quitted the paternal restraints, or per haps, been started off, none knew whither or how, to seek her fortune, would reappear among us with a profusion of ribands, fins clothing, and lots of cash. Visiting the neigh bours, treating indiscriminately, was the order of the day on such eccasions, without any more definite information of the means by which the dazzling transformation had been effected than could be conveyed by knowing winks and the words " luck " and "friends." Then she would disappear and leave us in our dirt, penury, and obscurity. You cannot conceive, sir, how our young ambition was stirred by these visitations. Now commences an important era in my life. I was a fine, robust, healthy girl, 13 years of age. I had larked with the boys of my own age. I had huddled with them, boys and girls together, all night long in our common haunts. I had seen much and heard abundantly of the mysteries of the sexes. To me such things had been matters of common sight and common talk. For some time I had trembled and coquetted on the verge of a strong curiosity, and a natural desire, and without a particle of affection, scarce a partiality, I lost—what? not my v i r t ue, f or I never had any. That which is commonly, but untruly called virtue, I gave away. You reverend Mr. Philanthropist—what call you virtue? Is it not the principle, the essence, which keeps watch and ward over the conduct, over the substance, the materiality? No such principle ever kept watch and ward over me , an d I repeat that I never lost that which I never had—my virtue. According to my own ideas at the time I only extended my rightful enjoyments. Opportunity was not long want ing to put my newly-acquired knowledge to profitable use. In the commencement of my fifteenth year one of our be ribanded visitors took me off, and introduced me to the groat world, and thus commenced my career as what you better classes call a prostitute. I cannot say that I felt any other shame than the bashfulness of a noviciate introduced to strange society. Remarkable for good looks, and no less so for good temper, I gained money, dressed gaily, and soon agreeably astonished my parents and old neighbours by making a descent upon them. Passing over the vicissitudes of my course, alternating between reckless gaiety and extreme destitution, I im proved myself greatly ; and at the age of 18 was living pa.) tly under the protection of one who though he discovered that I had tale at, and some good qualities as well a beauty, who treated me more kindly and considerately than I had ever before been treated, and thus drew from me something like a feeling of regard, but not sufficiently strong to lift me to that sense of my position which the:eo. stalled yirtuom azti :respectable members of rsociety peen to - ,/ ~ C ~~a . • f , = - • r r - 1! on the line, but for his own part be eQuA derstamd why that might not be readeifira 1 .. tory' speculation. He had SincTly to I,ari:, lion,that it must be very niortifYibglo 3-11 tra" holdera to foad. that a single prfichlr-• B. Allen, a landeViner, residing on tli:eltite . which had been authorised!by the act of i853-.-should have precluded them from dividing their bard-earned profits. (Hear, hear.) Such was, however, the fact. That gentleman h a d appl i ed for and obtained au injunction to restrain the company from the pay ment of a dividend for what he (the chairman) meet designate as purely a landowner's—and as, such, he might add, a selfish object. Su c h was, however, the position in which the matter stood, and he should not further advert to it, but should conclude by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. MATTHEWS seconded the motion. After a short disoussion the report was adopted, and a resolution to the effect that a preference dividend for the last half-year be declared on the stock and share guaranteed, the same to be paid on and after the 11th day of March next, was put and agreed to. The retiring directors were then re-elected, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting adjourned to the 26th of March. NORFOLK. At the half-yearly meeting of this company WIS held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. Till in the chair. Resolutions were passed declaring a dividend of 2/. per cent. for the half-year, re-electing Mr. Barber and Mr, Wells, the retiring directors, and also Mr. Lawrence the retiring auditor. Two va cancies at the board were filled up by the election of Mr. Bidder and Mr. Simpson as directors of the company. 4. vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. NO MORE S 1 3 11.1' NOR ANY 01 . 111,:it ELUCI.N.r.; ithont Physic) of indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Hearthur Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, A,thrun, Itrmw.hltis, Consumption. also Clinarea's com plaints ate effected by U BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ALARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids zenerally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres 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 tram invalids:-Cure N 0.71, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Harry's nevalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Ciirk No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spaains, and sickness at the stomach ani vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Worth= I. ig, near Dlss, Norfolk."--Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner soasness, Indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.— C ire No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure of ten ye , ir's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,416. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep sia, ervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 35,212. Captain Allan of epileptic Ms. 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. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con anmptiPn. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para lysis. Cm No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafhess. Cure No. 4 ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleatnart, 01 many years' nervous irritability, bile, and Indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisery7,l,brvhicahbarnhdao,n,eed.uatilelrehdo years' nervousness, con ', London." ." No. 4,208. ,rri, Baii,ngiydh,itinhyg-aetvaoerbtdeeeicsni con stipation, ta CAr e e st r a , l a fi a o. d d : ,, T ili w ty e , n t i Du Bar ry 's Food in a viryst, spasms,o r a t n t d i misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have pg b :s e e e ol i t : 0 nausea, lV for eßfteeecvteusa,lllyBl7Fel Fleet-street, whichpepsta , my servant nervousness, hdebility, consulted:N - it with t cramps, headv effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be - 3 street, tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, happy to answer any Inquiries. Rev. John navel], with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren d. er"ld My life very miserable, has been radically removed by D u iiarrY's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Bess, Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent I,evalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." tati e Inlns:oortant Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita. The Vi ce - Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunc tion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Ilooper Neville, for - "Cuing " Du Ra rry ' s Revalenta Arahica F oo d." ably Packed for all climates and with toll Instructions. In llb 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d; ' slb Its , 121 b 22 5. The 121 b car ,age rree, on receipt of tlost-office order Barry Du Barry an, .0„ '7, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co.. per veyora to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; James Wells, 4n, Sloane street ; also at 60, G racechurch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, itiis l 60, B 13 hopsgato-atreet ; 63, 1304411 d 198, Ox fordltreig LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1858. RIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY 'kJ (Limited). Under subvention from the East India Company. in reply to inquirles the Directors beg to Intimate that he NEW ISSUE of SHARES is RESTRICTED to the existing shareholders. The 3,000 shares (of 101. each) of the first issue which are alone opal to applications from the public, will be al'otted March 10, and these shares will carry all the benefits of the original allotments. Pros pectuses. forms of application, and copies of the last report of the directors, tnay be obtained at thi Company's Offices, 9 Billiter-street, E.C.—By order of the Board. JOHN MiTTHEWSOI , 7, SecY. rir ONNA GE WANTED for KIIRRACHEE. — A WANTED, TWO fast clipper SHIPS, to conYey machinery and stores from L•yerpool to Kurrachee.—For further particulars apply to the oriental Inland Steam Company, 9, Billiter-street, E.C. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-TR I INS FOR MARCH.—Several important alterations of trains will be made, commencing on the Ist March, particulars of which may be procured on and after the 2Gth instant, at any of the Company's stations or otlices. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- w CFIANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey, via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling passengers to break the journey at Chippenharn, Dorchester, or Weymouth. _ _ Faros, Rail and Boat : —3ls. and 21s. Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Com• pang's Offices. wORCESTER and HEREFORD RAILWAY TENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Tenth Ordinary General VI eeting of Shareholders of this Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, In the City of London, on FRIDAY, the 26th day of February, instant, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the purpose of transacting the ordinary btpi ness of the Company, and for the election of four Directors and one Auditor in place of those retiring by rotation. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on and from the 17th day of February till after the meeting. W. P. PRICE, Chairman. THOMAS PRITCHARD, Secretay. 26, Spring-gardens, London, 4th February, 1658. EIGHT PER CENT. OBLIGATIONS. Interest payable half-yearly, in London, Paris, Frankfort, and Hamburg. THE GALVESTON, HOUSTON, and HEN DERSON RAILWAY COMPANY is now prepared to re ceive applications for 5,030 Obligations of 201. each, redeemable in nine years, with a Premium of 21 each. The annual Drawings to commence on Ist March, 1860. The Obligations are secured on the Revenues of the Railway, and on the Free Grant of Land, which is at the rate of 10,240 acres for every mile of Railway constructed. The Interest, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, is payable in London on the Ist January and the Ist ,Tely on presentation of the Coupons at the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbary. Subscribers for Obligations are entitled to one Free Share for every Obligation subscribed. Full particulars may be obtained on application at the Agency of the Company, 4, Skinner's-place, Size-lane, City, or of 31essrs. Price & Brown, 4, Change-alley, City. CURE OF A FOURTEEN YEARS' ASTMATIC COUGH BY DR. LOCOCK'S PIILMONIC WAFERS.-- 'I, Thomas Carter, Egremont, Cheshire, had an asthmatic cough for fourteen years ; nothing ever gave me relief until I com menced taking Dr. Locock's Pulmonic Wafers, three boxes of which have entirely cured me. (Signed) Thomas Carter, Witness, Mr. Geo. Howell, chemist, Dale-street, Liverpool." They have a most pleasant taste. Price Is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box. Sold by all chemists. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. SAVINGS AND CAPITAL.—As a permanent mode of Investment this society has proved most profitable, for the last five years, to the working and middle classes ; as members who have paid their monthly subscriptions of eight shillings on a single share have enjoyed the advantages of the 6 per cent. bonus, and in one year 7 per cent., which has been divided amongst the Shareholders. Those who have paid In advance 51. and upwards, have been paid 5 percent. per annum halt-yearly, with the additional 1 per cent. at the end of the financial year. The opening instalment on one share is 12s. 6d., and the subsequent payments, are Ss. per month, with is. extra every quarter. The taking of land is quite optional ; but if a plot be selected by a member, he can, after paying up one-eighth of the purchase money, repay the balance at 10s. per month, for every 521. 4s. 6d. Members incur no partnership liability, and have the privilege of withdrawing their subscriptions at any time by giving ten days' notice Prospectuses sent free to any part of the world. The offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C., are open front 10 to 5, and on laturdais from 10 to 2 o'clock. Personal .attendance is not required, As the investment can be made by correspondence. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. entertain. Under the protection of this gentleman, and encouraged by him, I commenced the work of my educa tion ; that portion of education which is comprised in some knowledge of my own language and the ordinary accom plishments of my sex;—moral science, as I believe it is called, has always been an enigma to, and is so to this clay. I suppose it is becau se I am one of those who, as Rousseau says, are " born to be prostitutes." Common honesty I believe in rigidly. I have always paid my debts, and, though I say it, have always been charitable to my fellow creatures. I have not neglected my duty to my family. I supported my parents while they lived, and buried them decently when they died. I paid a celebrated lawyer heavily for defending unsuccessfully my eldest brother, who had the folly to be caught in the commission of a robbery. I forgave him the offence against the law in the theft, and the offence against discretion in being caught. This cost me some effort, for I always abhorred stealing. I apprenticed my younger brother to a good trade, and helped him into a little business. Drink frustrated my efforts in his behalf. Through the influence of a very in fluential gentleman, a very particular friend of mine, he is now a well-conducted member of the police. My sisters, whose early life was in all respects the counterpart of my own, I brought out, and started in the world. The elder of the two kept by a nobleman, the next by an officer in the army, the third has not yet come to years of discretion, and is " having her fling" before she settles down. Now, what if I am a prostitute, what business has so ciety to abuse me ? Have I received any favours at the hands of society ? If I are a hideous cancer in society, are not the causes of the disease to be sought in the rottenness of the carcass ? Am I not its legitimate child ; no bastard, sir? Why does my unnatural parent repudiate me, arid what has society ever done for me, that I should do any. thing for it, and what have I ever done against society that it should drive me into a corner and crush me to the earth? I have neither stolen (at least not since I was a child), nor murdered, nor defrauded. X earn my money and pay my way, and try to do good with it, according to my ideas of good. Ido not get drunk, nor fight, nor create uproar in the streets or out of them. Ido not use bad language. I go to the opera, Igo to Almack's, Igo to the theatres, I Igo to quiet, well-conducted casinos, I go to all places of public amusement, behaving myself with as much pro priety as society can exact. I pay business visits to my tradespeople, the most fashionable of the West-end. My milliners, my silk-mercers, my bootmakers know, all of them, who I am and how I live, and they solicit my pa tronage as earnestly and cringingly as if I were Madam, the lady of the right rev. patron of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. They find my money as good and my pay better (for we are robbed on every hand) than that of Madam, my Lady ; and, if all the circumstances and conditions of our lives had been reversed, would Madam, my Lady, have clone better or been better than I ? I speak for others as well as for myself, for the very great majority, nearly all of the real undisguised prosti tutes in London, spring from my clas s , and are made by and under pretty much such conditions of life as I have narrated, and particularly by untutored and unrestricted intercourse of the sexes in early life. W e come f rom t h e dregs of society,hsso as our so-called b e tt ers term i t. What business society to have dreg s — suc h d regs as we ? You railers a of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, you the pious, the moral, the respectable, as you call your selves, who stand on your smooth and pleasant side of the great gulf you have dug and keep b e t ween yourse l ves an d the dregs, why don't you bridge it over, or fill i t up, an d by some humane and generous process absorb us into your leavened mass, until we become interpenetrated with goodness like yourselves ? Why stand on your eminence shouting that we should b 3 ashamed of ourselves? What have we to be ashamed of, we who do nut know what shame is—the shame you mean ? I conduct myself pru dently, and defy you and your policemen too. Why stand you there mouthing with sleek face about morality 1 What is morality? Will you make us responsible for what we never knew ? Teach us what is right and tutor us in good before you punish us for doing wrong, We who are the real prostitutes of the true natural growth of society, and no impostors, will not be judged by " One more Unfortunate," nor measured by any standard of her setting up. She is a mere chance intruder in our ranks, and has no business there. She does understand what shame means and knows all about it, at least so it seems, and, if she has a particle left, let her accept " Amiens's" kind offer as soon as possible. Like "One more Unfortunate" there are other intruders among us —a few, very few, "victims o f se d uc ti on. " B ut seduction is not the root of the evils—s carce ly a fib re o f th e ' root. A rigorous law should be passed and rigorously carried out to punish seduction, but it will not perceptibly thin the ranks of prostitution. Seduction is the common story of numbers of well brought up, who never were se duced, and who are voluntary and inexcusable profligates. Vanity and idleness send us a large body of recruits. Ser vant girls, who wish to ape their mistresses' finery, and whose wages won't permit them to do so honestly —these set up seduction as their excuse. Married women, who have no respect for their husbands, and are not content with their lawful earnings, these are the worst among us, and it is a pity they cannot be picked out and punished. They have no principle of any kind and are a disgrace to us. If I were a married woman I would be tine to my husband. I speak for my class, the regular standing army if the force . Gentlemen of philanthropic societies and members of the Society for the Suppression of Vice may build reforms, tones and open houses of refuge and Magdalen asylums, and "Amiens" may save occasionally a "fallen sister,' who can prevail on herself to be saved ; bat we who never were sisters—who never had any relationship, part, interest, or communion with the large fabuily of this world's virtues, moralities, and properties,—we, who are not fallen, but were always down,---who never had any virtue to lose,—we who are the natural growth of things, and are constantly ripening for the har vest,—who, interspersed in our little, but swarming col°. nies throughout the kingdom at large, hold the source of supply and keep it frnitful,---what do they propose to do with us ? Cannot society devise some plan to reach us ? " One more Unfortunate" proposes a " skimming" pro seas. Eut what of the great bubbling cauldron ? Remove from the streets a score or two of " foreign women," and " double as many English," and you diminish the compe tition of those that remain ; the quiet, clever, cunning cajolers described by " One more Unfortunate." You hide a prurient pimple of the "great sin" with a patch of that plaster known as the "observance of propriety," and no thing more. You " miss" the evil, but it is existent still. After all it is something to save the eye from offence, to remove them ; and not only a score or two, but something like 200 foreign women, whose open and disgusting inde cencies and practices have contributed more than anything else to bring on oar heads the present storm of indignatioa. It is rare that English women, even prostitutes, give cause of gross public offence. Cannot they be packed off to their own countries, with their base, filthy, and filthy-looking men, whom they maintain, and clothe, and feed, to super intend their fortunes, and w h o are a still greater disgrace to London than these wom en are ? Hurling big figures at us, it i s sa id that there are 80,000 of us in London alone—whi c h i s a monstrous falsehood-- and of this 80,000, poor hard-working girls, sewing women, are numbered in by thousands and called indiscriminately prostitutes : writing, preaching, speechifying, that they have lost their virtue too. It is a cruel calum n y t o call them i n mass p ros tit u t es; and, as for their virt ue, th ey lose it as one l oses hi e wa t c h who is robbed by th e hi g h way thief. Their virtue is the watch, and society i s th e thief. These poor women t o ili ng on starvation wa ges, w hi le penury, misery, an d famine and say, clutch them by th e th roat " Render up your body or die." Admire this magnificent shop in this fashionable street ; its front, fittings, and decorations cost not less than a thousand pounds. The respectable master of the establish ment keeps his carriage, and lives in his country-house. He has daughters too ; hi s patronesses are fine ladies, the choicest iinpersonatious of soc i e t y . Do they think, as they admire ths taste and elegance of that tradesman's show, of the poor creature s w h o wrought it, and of what they were paid for it? Do they reflect on the weary toiling finger!, on the eyes dim with wa tching, on the bowels broken constituti ons, on yearning with hunger, on t h e b en d e d frames, on the poor human nature driven to its coldest corner and re d uced to its narrowes t means in the production of the se l uxuries and adornmen t s ? Tnis is an old story ! Would it not be truer and more o h ar it a bl e t o call these poor s ou l s " victims ? " —some gent l er, some more humane nam e th an prostitute—to soften by some Chris tian expression, if you cannot better the un-Christian sys tem, the opp ro b r i um of a fate to which society hasitself driven them by the direst straits ? What business has so ciety to point its fi nger i n scorn , and to ra i se it s voice in reprobation of th em ? A re they not its children, born of its cold indifference, of it s callous selfishness, o f its cruel pride ? Sir, I have trespassed on your patience beyond limit, an d yet much remain, to b e said, which I leave for further . comm unication you think proper to insert this. The difficulty of dealing with the evil i s not so grea t as soc i e ty considers it. Setting aside " th e sin " we are not so b a d as we are thought to be. The difficulty is for society to set itself, with the necessary earnestness, self-humiliation, and self-denial to the work. But of this hereafter. To deprive us of proper and harmless amusements —to subject us in mass to the pressure of force, of force wielded for the most part, by ignorant, and often b y brutal men—is only to add the cruelty of active persecuti on to the cruelty of t h e passive indifference which made us w h at we are. , biliou s , an d li ver com [A.DVERTISEMENT .]—It is with plea sure we notice the daily increase of cures without medicine of indigestio n (dy s pepsia), consumption, and debility, by Du Barry's delicious Revalent a Arabica. 1,,r ~ 0 quote the follow ing : —Southwick Park , Fareham, Hants, Oct. 31, 1348. plaints, flatulency, e 0 ugh, constipation, asthma, nervou s Gentlemen, I sincerely thank you f or your kind attention. When I began taking the Revalenta I was in as deplorable a con dition as can well be imag i ne d . I was confined to my bed, and so weak that I coul d neither stand nor wa lk, suffering flatulency, to hav e recourse constipation, to a and indigestion, and o r i ents every second or being p third day; aud, upon one o ccasi on , I swallo we d no l ess th an se ven doses within twenty -ei g ht hours, und er me di ca l a d v i ce. There was a giddiness in my he ad , and a si ng i ng i n my r i g ht ear, that when I turne d m y head o n the pillow it resem bl e d severeelyonipe from compelled the sound produced by a light touch on a musical glass. I h a d a pain and sort of fullness across the cheat, a sere throat, and a slight cough; but the pain around my loins was so great that I could not remain in the same position for ten minutes all night long. The principal seat of the pain seemed to be just below the ribs on my left side, and about three inches from the backbone. I commenced taking g Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica morning and evening, boiled in water and salt; and in less than a fortnight My appetite was greatly improved, and flatulency and constipation so far vanished that I have not tasted a pill or drug of any kind since. I am much stronger, can walk steadier, and less like a drunken man, &c.—Jena Vass, Land -steward.--- Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated Pro- IT S . fessors of Chemistry: D r . A. - re; Dr. holland; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess o f C as t lestuart; Major Gon. Thomas King, and manY other respectable per sons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of cure bad failed. Sulfa .bl , y .packed with full instruc tions. In canisters, 11b. 2s. Pd. -It'. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. 11s. ; 121 b. 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on re ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Caution against t h e fear ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Sir William Page Wood granted an In j unctio n on the 10th March, 1854, agains • t Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imit ti tin ii D a Barry's liciTaloUta Arabica; Fool!! THE CAMPAIGN IN MAL WA. (Fivm the Bombay Government Gazette.) (No. 47 of 1853.) The Right Hon. the Governor in Council has very great satisfaction in publishing, for the information of the army, the following report made to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief by Brigadier Stuart, commanding the Malwa Field Force (now let Brigade Nerbradda Field Force), of his succe=sful operations against the insurgents assembled near Mundisore, during tour days, from the 21st to the 24th November last. (No. 201 of 1357.) From Brigadier Stuart, Commanding Malwa Field Force, to the Adjutant• General of the Army, Bombay. Sir,—With reference to my telegrams of the 25th and 26th inst., I have now the honour to forward the reports and to communicate, for the in'ormati , ,n of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, full particulars of the successful operations in which the Malwa Field Force and the field force Hyderabad Contingent, under command of Major Orr, were engaged on the 2lst, 22d, 23d, and 24th inst., against the rebel enemy in the •icinity of Mundisore. 2. On the morning of the 21st November this force, accompanied by the field force Hyderabad Contingent which, as I have already reported, is co-operating with me—under command of Major Orr, arrived within three miles and a-half of Altindiaore about 9 a.m., and, as I had no good information as to the roads or the country iu the immediate vicinity of the town, neither as to the fords of the river Sowna, which it was necessary to cross before reaching the town, I determined upon en• camping until a good reconnaissance Lad been effec',ed. The rebel army at Mundisore, hearing of our approach, had posted pickets, entirdy covering the country over which we were advancing, and, observing our pickets thrown out, they mustered - in some force outside - the walls of the town, and appeared inclined to attack. j, however, contented myself with reinforcing the pickets, and leaving the whole charge of the front to Mai r Robertson, 25th Regiment of Native Infantry. The field-officer of the day returned to camp about 3 o'clock p.m. I received intimation from him that the enemy were advancing in force, and threatening both our flanks and centre at the same time. I accord. ingly moved out to meet them ; they advanced steadily with banners flying, and appeared in great numbers. On approaching our right front, however, they were most gallantly charged by Lieut. Dew, her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, who, with some of his men, occupied that ground as a picket Captain Orr, commanding 3d Regiment Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent, supported Lieut. Dew, and the enemy were driven back with great loss ; and before our guns, which had quickly moved up, could open upon them, the attack on our centre was repul-ed by a few rounds of our Raillery, while that on the left was successfully met by the field force under Major Orr. The enemy having been thus driven back at all points were pursued for some distance—in fact, until they nearly reached the walls of the town—and nothing further occurred that day. 3. Having received intelligence from the Governor- General's agent that the portion of the rebel army before Neemuch, amounting to alsout 6,000, would probably raise the siege of that place, and endeavour to effect a junction with their head-quarters at Mundisore, I de termined to frustrate this by intercepting them. Ac cordingly, early on the morning of the 22d Inst. I moved forward my force in order of battle. Our advance was unopposed, and on my left lank reaching the village of Kuljepore I made a flank movement to the left, as previously determined ou, leaving the advance guard to cover it, and to reinforce the rear guard, as we crossed the Ilakri ford of the river Sowna, about 1,400 yards to the south-west of the town of Mun disore. This secured, the movement was safely effected, opposed only by a slight and ineffective fire from a gun on one of the southwest bastions of the town. I then encamped, facing the west of the town. by flanks well protected by the two branches of the river, and my line running at right angles to the right of Sir Thos. Hislop's camp in 1817. Just previous to the camp being marked out it was reported that cavalry were sent on the left, and Major Orr, taking the Ist Cavalry, Hyderabad Con tingent, under Capt. Abbott, and 4th Cavalry Hydera bad Contingent, under Capt. Murray, saw about 300 horse, supposed to be under Heera Sing, endeavouring to draw them off in a north-westerly direction, but keep ing at too great a distance to alley, of being attacked. Reinforcements of cavalry were sent for, aid while the left wing, her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, under Capt. Gall, and the 3d Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, under Lieut. Clerk, were moving up, intelligence was brought to Major Orr that Heera Slog's baggage had just left the village of Goraria, on the Neemuch-road. The object of Heera Sing's party to draw our cavalry away from his baggage thus being apparent, her Majes ty's 14th Light Dragoons, the Ist Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, and the 4th Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, galloped off in pursuit, the 3d Cavalry Hyderabad Con tingent remaining as a reserve. They caught up the enemy about two miles south of Peaplia, and after cut ting up about 200 of them halted at a wallah a mile to the south of that village. On perceiving it strongly occupied by the enemy's infantry, who showed many standards, they then returned to camp. 4. Feeling assured that the infantry seen in Peeplia formed the advance guard of the enemy, I moved at 8 o'clock a.m. on the 23d inst. by my left, and crossed the northern branch of the river Sowna. I then halted my column and collected all my baggageon the reverse flank then moving on to my proposed camp on the Neemuch and Mundisore read, ready to oppose the enemy either from one or the other direction. On coming en to the ground the enemy appeared in great force to the north, baggage to be collected on a strong mound, I strongly reinforced my rear guard and proceeded to meet them. After a short advance I formed line to my front, facing northwards, and found the enemy occupying a very strong position with their right in and beyond the vil lage of Goraria, their right centre covered by a date nullah and lines of date trees, their battery of six guns on rising ground, with a large mud hut protecting their gunners, and their left stretched along the ridge running east from the village. My line advanced, covered by skirmishers ; the enemy's infantry, with banners flying (many of them green), moved down to meet us through the intermediate fields of high jowarree, and their guns opened fire. I immediately baited my line and replied to the fire with Capt. Hungerford's and Woolcombe's batteries, at a range of about 900 yards. After a few rounds I again advanced the line, and permitted Capt. Hungerford to move his half-battery to a position on our right front, from which he could enfilade the enemy. After an advance of about 300 yards our line was again halted, and firing reßamed, that from both batteries being very effective. A most gallant charge was then made on the enemy's guns by the escort of her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, attached to Capt. Hungerford, under Lieut. Martin, who found, however, that the position was still very strongly held by the enemy's infantry, and was compelled to retire, he himself being very severely wounded. Copt. Hungerford's half-battery was again advanced to within 100 yards, and after a round or two of grape the guns were at once again charged and cap tured, the enemy flying in great numbers into the village to their right. The id Regiment Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, under Captain S. Orr, was just at this mo ment rapidly advancing by our right front, and having been wheeled to the left, it swept down upon them in their retreat and killed great numbers. Our line then changed front about the eighth of a circle, right thrown forward, and moved steadily on the village, which evidently held great numbers of the enemy ; their skirmishers disputed our advance, but were soon driven back. Having halted within about 300 yards of the village, our artillery opened upon it with shot and shell, after which I directed the infantry to advance and carry it. The men of the 86th and 25th Regiments dashed forward in the most gallant manner, and having entered the village, commenced to drive all before them. They soon met, however, with very warm opposition, the enemy having taken possession in great force of many houses, from which a most harassing fire was kept up on our men. Under these circumstances, and as, moreover, I could get no satisfactory accounts of what was passing in my rear, which I knew from the firing I heard, as also from the pressing applications I had received for reinforcement, had been warmly engaeoi, I recalled the infantry and posted strong pickets all round the village, and moved the remainder of the men a short distance off to where the baggage bad been passed up from the rear. I then learnt that daring the after noon, when we were hotly engaged in the front, a strong body of the enemy from Mundisore attacked our rear, an 4 endeavoured to carry off the siege train, baggage, &c. ; they were, however, most gallantly repulsed on every occasion. In one of these attacks I regret to say that Lieutenant Redmayne, her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, was killed while most bravely leading his men against the enemy. Notwithstanding the many attempts made by the enemy to press upon and harass our rear, it gives me great satisfaction to be able to state that not a particle of baggage was lost, nor a follower injured. On this occasion Lieutenant Leith, command. ing a squadron 14th Light Dragoons, appears to have done good service ; as also Lieutenant Fenwick, 25th Regiment of Native Infantry, in charge of the baggage. Gunner Maitland, of the Bengal Artillery, and Gunner Thomson, of the Bombay Artillery, also distinguished themselvee by assisting to work the heavy guns most effectively against the enemy. 5. On the 24th inst., I arranged with Captain Hungerford, commandant of Artillery, that the village of Goraria, in which the rebels had taken refuge, e should be well shelled and again assaulted bynoote infantry. Accordingly I moved up to aboutt em tat preceding found that the enemy were as I had fe w h ad at preceding evening, excepting horn were killed. that i 0 i tempted to escape, Aft a heavy fire of t n h e r a e r e ly bo a u ll rs' duwra tion Mejor Keane, the detach menter of 86tb, under comm and the 25th Native Infan tr y , under of d Major Robertson, the village and carried it, ling great num again n be s e t ro m f thee r d -enemy, they themselves also suffering severely. At sunset I withdrew the troops, inter ding to move against the fort of Mundisore the text day. I%irly, however, on the mo rnin g of the 25th i nst. , intel enoe reached me that the enemy had during the right completely evacuated Mundisore, and were egattend in flight throughout the country in vari( us dir no, h av ing lost, it is computed, about 1,500 of tt eir number during our operations against them. I accordingly re moved wy camp to Alundiaore, and am Row engaged in [PiiroE 4D. STAMPED 5D .] dismantling the fort, destroying the giris, before leaving this neighbourhood. 6. By the successful operations of the Malwa field force and field force Hyderabad Contingent in the vicinity of Mundisore, the Neemuch garrison has been relieved from the assault with which it was threatened ; the in surgent rebels have been dispersed from their strong hold, in which for months past they have been daily collecting all those disaffected to our rule, and peace and order will now, it is to be hoped, be re-established in these districts. 7. I must now, in conclusion, place on record my grateful acknowledgments to Col. Durand, officiating agent to the Governor-General for Central India, for his cordial assistance to me on all occasions. He was present in the field throughout the operations, and gave use the benefit 'of his advice, which proved of great service to the ; Major Orr, commanding field force Hy derabad Contingent, most ably co-operated with me on all occasions ; and to him and all under his command lam very much indebted, To Major Boileau, field engine, r, and his assistants, Lieuts. Prendergast, severely wounded, and Gordon ; to Capt. Mayne, intelli gence department ; to Capt. Coey, major of brigade ; to Lieut. Macdonald, deputy assistant quartermaster general ; to Lieut. Their], sub-assistant commissary general ; and to Surgeon Mackenzie, staff-surgeon —my wannest thanks are due, Tue assistance rendered cue by these officers left me nothing to wish for. A perusal of the report made by Captain Gall, commanding left wing of her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons, will convey to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief some ideaof the guod service performed by ail ranks under his com mand. I most fully concur in Captain Gall's report, and beg to commend to the consideration of his Excellency all the officers and men mentioned by him. Of Captain Gall himself I must in jus , ioe add that a more able, zealous, and hardworking officer I have never met with, ,enor one more worthy of distinction. Ot Captain O rr , 8d Regiment Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, and all the officer. and men under his command, I have already had reason to send tee most favourable report to the Resident at Hyderabad. On this last occasion, nothing oould surpass the bravery ehoem by all ranks of this regiment, and Captain Orr himself is, I consider, a first rate cavalry officer; hie daring courage is admired by ail, and in every affair in which he is engaged his per sonal combats are most prominent features. To Capt. Hungerford, Commandant of Artillery, Malwa field force ; and to Captain Woolcombe, commanding No. 4 light field battery, and the officers and men under their command, my best thanks are due. I do not think artillery practice could have been better, and there can be but little doubt that the successful issue of operations is much to be attributed to their assistance. Of the conduct of Captain Brown and the officers and men of the B Company Madras Sappers and Miners I have much pleasure in speaking in the highest terms ; whether as Sappers or as Infantry they have distinguished themselves on every occasion. They have undergone an incredible amount of hard labour during our late march with a siege-train over a country without roads ; nor must I omit to mention that they accompanied the storming parties into the village of Goraria, and proved of the greatest service. My beet thanks are also due to Major Keane, and the officers and men of the detachment of her Majesty's 86th Regiment. The gallantry of all ranks was most conspicu one, and on both occasions that the village was assaulted the coolness and daring of the officers and men, at whose head Major Keane placed himself, elicited the praise of all. My despatch from Dbar will have made his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief aware of the very high opinion I hold of Major Robertson, and the officers and men of the 25th Regiment N. 1., during the late operations ; nothing could have beeu finer than the behaviour of al in thus regiment. Major Robertson distinguished himself on the 21st inst. as field officer of the day in the attack made upon him in force on the afternoon of that day. During the succeeding days Major Robertson rendered me the greatest assistance. The manner in which he led his regiment on two occasions to storm the village of Goraria is beyond praise, and I consider that the admirable conduct of the 25th Regi ment N.I. fully attests the worth of this officer, who will, I hope, meet with s ince mark of distinction. In the praise conveyed to Captain Little, 25th Regiment N. 1., by his commanding officer, I quite concur, and trust that his Excellency may be able to grant some mark of favour to this deserving officer. In the two attacks'on the village of Goraria I could see no difference between the conduct o the men of the 25th Regiment N.I. and their comrades of H.M.'s 86th Regiment ;sbe same daring and gallantry characterised both. Their list of casualties will show how warmly they were on gaged, and I trust his Excellency wilt recognise the merits of this regiment. Before closing the despatch I beg to report oa the admirable conduct of Assistant Sargeon Butler, 4th Company 2d battalion Artillery, who, daring the engagement on the 23d instant, though suffering severely from sickness, left his dooley, and was engaged in the most active manner during the whole day in assisting to administer comfort to the wounded. The conduct of this officer bas been brought to my notice by the'staff-surgeon of the force, and will, I trust, meet with isome reward. —I have the honoer to be, &c., C. S. STUART, Brigadier, Commanding Malwa Field Force. 7e in a Iflm g e ever I be. cot )ace, of colonel bad a ,nother n s jor taken after I nenced ;otton; I was :Litton 'strap. irons, very brist- .RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WALES. The 26th half-yearly ordinary meeting of the pro prietors of this compaLy was held yesterday, pur suant to notice, at the Great Western Hotel, Pad dington, Mr. C. H. M. Talbot being in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his regret that although the gross receipts of the company for the last year had been 358,0001., yet that out of that sum only 82,0001. found its way into the pockets of the shareholders. There were, however, several causes which during the last half-year had contributed to affect in a peculiar manner the general traffic of the company. The first of those causes to which he should allude was the unfortunate " strike " which had taken place among t :e colliers in Glamorganshire, and which had led to a serious falling off in the mineral traffic over the line. The next cause was to be found in the expense attendant upon relaying the line in the neighbourhood of Swansea at a cost of 20,0001., of which sum 5,0001. had been apportioned upon the last half-year, thereby causing a considerable decrease in the dividends for that period. He might also observe that the unfortunate accident which had occurred near Pyle station on the 14th of October last, and which had resulted in the loss of several lives, had led to the necessity for compensation upbn the part of the company being made to no less than 60 persons at an expense of 6,0001. A great many suggestions had been made to the directors, with a view of providing a remedy against the recurrence of such accidents for the future, and they had come to the conclusion that, as it was proved those accidents were to be attri buted to the risk which was run through mistakes made in sending telegraphic messages, regulations should be made which would take all responsibility off the telegraph, and that written messages should be despatched and written answers received before any train set out on a wrong line. Having said thus with regard to the dark side of the picture, he should advert to the brighter aspect which the other side presented, and say a few words upon the future prospects of the company. The directors were in expectation of receiving very shortly the award of Capt. Galton, who had been nominated as umpire, to determine the amount to be allowed to the Great Western Railway Company for the sup ply of rolling stock, and they hoped that they would be enabled thenceforward to work the line at a reduced expense, while they at the same time did not hold out the prospect that any very large sav ing could be effected. He had upon many previous occasions alluded to the apparent difference of the cost of locomotion on the south Wales as compared with other lines. He had, indeed, consulted some of the greatest locomotive authorities upon the subject, but without being able to receive any satisfactory answer to his inquiries ; nor could he explain why the expense should be so much greater in the case of the South Wales than in that of the South-Western Railway. All improvement might, however, be effected in that respect, and the subject was one which ought, in his opinion, to enter into the calculations of Capt. Galtun or any other arbitrator. Another sousce of improvement in working the affairs of the company would be the holding of the meetings, if not of the Board, at all events of the traffic committees, in Wales. (Hear.) The company had, it was true, no other railway to compete with their line, but they must bear in mind that so long as the sea was open as a highway to the trader and that he could transport his goods in vessels at a somewhat smaller cost than by rail way he would continue to do so. Let the slightest advantage, however, in the scale of expense be the side of the railway, and he would at once make use of it, and having used would notfailf7 tl in te ' fu tore.e to avail himselfof the advantages which it af forded. He (the chairman) might mention l that the traffic of the company, in what trifling led in Wales thesteam-coal trade, was ve m ry ee t t. itling in amount, and he should put it to the not a question worthy of serious cliolgnswidheertahtieornitwwhaes cher traffic committees could not be appointed to meet in Wales for the purpcse of organising a trade in th a t quarter ? There was al so another subject which was well entitled to the attention of the company ; he alluded to the traffic with Ireland. Large quantities of goods were every day being sent over here from that country, and under these cir cumstances he saw no reason why a daily packet service b e t ween Milf or d an d Waterford should not pay well. The only difficulty which stood in the way of such a service was that of procuring specu lators to establish sufficient number of ateamcn NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION. At the half-yearly meeting of this company held on Tuesday at ihe Euston station, Mr. H. Tootal in the chair. Resolutions were passed adopting the report and deckling a dividend of 2s. Gd. per share for the half-year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. NORTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Leeds. Mr. H. Alcock presided. The report stated that the receipts for the half year ending December last amounted to 26,9731., and the expenses to 14,3591., leaving a balance of 12,6141. After payment of the interest on loans, preference shares, and other debts, the total sum available for dividend was ; and the direc tors recommended a dividend of 2s. per share. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the shareholders had reason to conga.- tulate themselves that the North-Western Company had been enabled to hold their position through the late monetary difficulties, and that there had been a little increase in the gross receipts for the half year. A sum of 13,0001. had been expended in Parliamentary proceedings, but the directors would be more than recompensed for that outlay by re ceiving a sum of money from th e L ancas t er an d Carlisle Company for the value of land and works belonging to the North-Western Companynorth of Ingleton, which had been lying dead for sometime. The sum had been fixed at 16,5351., and the Lan caster and Carlisle Company had been furnished with an account, and the money was due on the 25th inst. The Lancaster and Carlisle Company had not yet taken any active steps towards the construc tion of the new line, owing to the unfavourable state of the money-market, but he believed it was intended to commence operations immediately. Mr. H. J. HARE seconded the adoption of the report, which was carried. The two retiring directors, Mr. Hare and Mr. Burkill, were re-elected. Mr. Frost, the retiring auditor, was unanimously re elected, and after a vote of thanks to the chair man the proceedings terminated. • BIDEFORD. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. Sharland in the chair. The SECRITARY read the report, which stated that the traffic returns for the year 1857 exhibited an increase in traffic from 96,825 passengera in 1856 to 98,267 passengers in 1857 ; and the gross re ceipts from 2,836/. in 1856 to 2,943/. in 1857, maintaining a steady but gradual increase. The unpaid shares and arrears of calls remained as before, amounting to 18,321/. The liabilities on the first-cost account had been gradually reduced by the rent earned (exclusive of the unadjusted claims of the contractor), and would be altogether discharged in the current year, when ►he rent would become available for equal dis tribution without preference by the provisions of the act of Parliament. The capital account showed. that 47,215/. had been received and 50,944/. ex - pende,l, leaving a balance against the company of 3,729/. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the award in respect to the Con tractora' claims bad not yet been made by Mr. Tite, but he believed they would be able in the course of the year to settle all claims on the company out of revenue, and next year they would have a dividend. Mr. Brassey would take shares in the company for the balance due to him, so that after the present year the shareholders would be in receipt of a divi dend. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, re-electing Mr. W. Corp, Captain D. Warren, and Mr. T. L. Pridham, the retiring directors, and also Mr. J. Thompson, the retiring auditor. The proceedings concluded with a Tote of thanks to the chairman. NORTH DEVON. At the half-yearly meeting of this company, held yesterday at the office, Gresham-house, Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in the chair, resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend of IGs. 81 per cent. on the A stock, and 11. 13s. 4d. per cent. on the B stock, payable on the Bth of March ; re-electing Mr. W. Tite, the Earl of Ports mouth, Count Eyre, and Mr. G. S. Buck, the re tiriNg directors, and also Mr. Williams, the retiring auditor. Mr. W. Hartridge was elected an audi tor, and the remuneration of the auditors was fixed at 10/. each per annum. A vot eof thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. ST. ANDREW'S AND QUEBEC. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Whitehall, Mr. F. Edwaida in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that since the last meeting in December the progress of the works of the line had been as satisfactory as could have been ex pected in this season of the year. Upwards of 40 tulles of the line were now open for traffic, and, though as yet the line ended in a forest, a small profit was obtained. By next July it was antici pated that 65 miles of the line would be open, and the remaining portion of 20 miles was under con tract, and would be completed in the spring of 1859. The chairman concluded by moving the re election of Messrs. Featherstone, Sharp, and Dunt, the retiring directors Mr. DowLmA.N seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the proceedings to a close. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The report of the directorsvigosrtaoutessly, and they do no t that the work s are now being pus o p en ed between Salisbury and Gilli ngham in the autumn. Two m em b ers of the London being therefore anticipate any circumstance to p revent the line forward aeanrdlYSPoeurttb-eWf neates tern board (Captain Mangles, M.P., and Mr. Castleman) have joined the Board, thus strengthen. lug the relations which have since the commencement remained uninterrupted between the two companies. The meeting will be made special for the purpose of authorising the directors to borrJw 133,3331. so soon as one halt of the capital shall have been paid up. The capital account to the 31st of December shows that 138,2221. had been received and 136,040/. expended, leaving a balance of 2,1821. 0 'XFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER HAMPTON. The receipts of this company, including the Stour. bridge Extension Canal, for the fortnight ending Fels. 14, have been 7,4111., while those for the corresponding period of 1857 amounted to 7,5941. ; and the expendi• ture, also including that of the Stourbridge Extension 3,6891. or the or corresponding percl iog eent. periodcr The of sum 185 Canal, 3,704/., b e i ng a t th e rate o f 49 ' 98 per pent. ; a w m hi o i n e nt t e h d t ose ; 3 fo , 16,4321., bein g rece i pts for the first fortnights of the Of half-year, added to the 7,4111. as above, makes a total receipt of 2 3,8441., against 24,8381. for the corresponding fortnights of the previous year. And the sum of 8,209/. 12s. 11d, being expenses for the first fortnights of the half-year, added to the 3,7041. as above, makes a total expenditure of 11,9151., being 49'97 per cent., es against 12,3791. fo r th e corres p on di ng f or t nig ht s of the previous year, or at the rate of 49'84 per cent. • THE FRENCH AND TRIM SOVIREIGNS.—The at tach moult of the French to their monarchs was not o ' , nature to gratify reflecting men. It partook o too much of instinct, and too little of reason ; too much f ima g i. nation, and not enough of affection. it r e a s n a d lt , ed ba cro ia m g blind devotedness more thanJfrom choice once conceived it to be the suoiniary- of every patrietiO virtue, they wound up their minds rather than their hearts to the fulfilment of this fancied duty. Wh, a , prince was born they did not wait to know what hit qualities might be, and whether he was likely to merit their regard. 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