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ories is he joint of State number women Pon the 'seats a the last 13. place number e d Oct. olne, in Liberate Acing." :ational plorcd, ill-time. )on the ,urgical anic of ad that ycle of eery in- Le other )r ram' )atiates ttion in ticular. tension which ience--• 1, but a ftening >f edu 3ononly. here is st syra m g the wants, ) much neces- 3sure--a sory—t° anifest a p condi samples msacted •ed after Beans Indian but out irchase. leaned The Is to 25s is to 47s )s to 50s f 6d to hange suPPIY at last of, and tts 20s, abated lay, at dance, was A oats with a ddling om 5s 4s 9d !6s. prices rley a re the to 26s to 44s to —0 CONTRACT FOR ELM TIMER. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, Feb. 16, 1859. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH. ADMIRAL of the I .Li : 4 I_TED KINGDOM of ('TREAT BRITAIN and IRE -exp, Do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUES DAY- the Bth March next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready f r u treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for IVYing her Majesty's Dockyard at Pembroke with 900 "ada of ENGLISH ELM TIMBER, felled between the middle of November last and the end of t his present month, and to be delivered (at prices including all carriage an d o th er expens es) by the 30th-November, 1859. .„A Form of th e T en d er , and the conditions of the Co ntract, ""13' be obtained at the' said OW. No Tender will be re rived after T wo o 'Cl oc k on the day of treaty, nor will any t u h o o t r i i ce sed d T w es r s it t i l n ie g p . arty attends, or an agent for him duly Every tender must be addressed to the Secret ar y of the - eralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the wor ds lt t, Tender for Elm Timber, " and must be delivered at Somerset re., accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible Per in become the enaging to bound withe person tendering, ue sum of £1 per load for the due performance of the Contract. pUBLIC READINGS SOCIETY. COMMITTEE. Rev.Vi. D 7. 3 p a r , o u j ok ce ll . eid. I W. Charles Kent , Esq . S. C. Hall, Esq. ,. Iter• J . . M. Bellew. Wm. Howitt, Esq. Llev. J. G. Lonsdale. Ceo. Harris. Esq. Alex. - Watson. I E. Powell, Esq. -Key. O. F. °Web. &c. &c. The object of this Society is to establish Public Readings or the Entertainment and Instruction of the Working Classes. Its plans are to procure Public Halls, School - room s, and oittehel convenient places, at a small cost, and to supply Evening am use from English Literature adapted to inte rest and Scott, a general audience ; such as the works of Shakepere, Goldsmith, Dickens, Macaulay, &c., &c. Some seats Will be reserved for those who can afford to pay for the accom laodation at the uniform charcre of one shilling, which will oe their contribution towards the cost of providing for the Poor. Cth hon this exception the Rooms will be opened to any Per tha„"„ Pitvinent of One Penny and no more will be admitted the 'au be comfortably seated. As soon as the room is full, doors will be closed. The Readings will begin at Eight o'c,tock p rec i se l y, and close at H a lf-past Nine. the aid of Subscriptions will be require d to defra y me expenses of the Society, and those who approve the object are requested to put down their names for some Annual Con tribution, however small. _ P ublic Institutions, Clerzymen, and Parish Authorit i e s, rh ould much promote the objects of the Society, by lending e use of Rooms - convenient for the purpose. Competent Readers are invited to give their assistance. C ornm - anications, subscriptions, offers of rooms for the readings, &c., are to be addressed to the Acting Sec retar y , fir. JoIIN CoLLETT, at our Chambers, 1, Essex-court, Temple, or to EDWARD W. COX or . CHARLES J. PLIJ*PTRE, Honorary Secretaries. NOTICE The Next Readi ng of the Society. will be as follows : Friday, Feb. 18—At Wyldc's Reading Rooms, Leicester square. • • READEns.—llev. Alexander Watson ; Rev. 0. F. Owen ; X. I< .Cox, Esq. ; C. J. Plumptre, Esq. ; W. Charles Kent, Esq. ; U. Lawrence Esq., &c. The doors will open at half-past Seven, and the Reading will begin precise'. atE i g ht. No admittance a f t er the Beading has beg un ! Admission, One Penny. Front Seats, Sixpence. Reserved Seats, One *** Schools admitted free of any charge whatever. ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY IN_ (IA Limited) for the NAVIGATION of the RIV ERS of ". (Under Subsidy from the Indian Government.) Capital—£2so,ooo, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. Now proposed to be increased to £500,000. e, Jams Allan TRUSTEE. Esq., Managing Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Chairman DIRCTORS. —Colonel Grimes, E Indian Service, Norwood, and A.mpthill Lodge, Southampton. John curne. Esq., 9, Billiter-street. P"ain F. Vere Cotton, R.N., Alport House , Whitc hurch. Captain W:-H. Hall, R.N., C. 8., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Captain J. C. Iloseason, R.N., Highbeech, Essex. James Kennedy, Esq., late of Bu Curtis, and Kennedy. ale John Spencer Logan, Indian Civil Service, Director of the Oude Railway Company. Kew- MANAGING DIRECTOR. John Bourne, Esq. ENGINEER. Edward Cooper, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT IN INDIA. Lieutenant Wood, Indian Navy. RESIDENT ENGINEER IN INDIA. Robert Leys, Esq. AUDITORS. John Glenny, Esq., Strand. George May, Esq., Gresham House. SOLICITORS. Messrs. H. It. Hill and Son, Throg,morton-street. BANKERS IN ENGLAND. Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane. BANKERS IN INDIA. The Oriental Bank Corporation. SECRETARY. John Mathewson, Esq. Offices : 9, Billiter-street, London. The Directors give notice that, in consequence of the great and undiminished demand for Steam Vessels upon the Indian rivers, and the wide field presenting itself for their profitable employment, they have resolved to double the capital of the Company. The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the steamers and barges, consisting of twelve vessels in all, which they forwarded from MS country in August last, have now arrived safely in India,-and will commence plying, upon the rivers without delay. An equal number of vessels of still greater power is a present in preparation, and will be sent Out as soon as possible. Before embarking in the present undertaking the Directors had not only satisfied themselves of its em inentl y p rofitable nature, but they had secured for it the marked co-operation of the Indian Government, by the acquisition of a subsidy ; and the Government, both by the gift of land for stations, workshops, and depots, of wood for fuel, and in every other 'flay, has rendered every possible aid to the present under taking. At the same time the Directors have insured com plete exemption from Government control and interference ; and this is the only Company so distinguished which pos sesses any Government support. The Directors have the satisfaction of finding that not only the Reports of the Company's servants in India, but the whole concurrent testimony of the advices received from that country, through whatever channel, completely' confirms the favourable anticipations they long since formed of the profit able character of the present undertaking. It would be im possible, however, within the limits of an advertisement, to recapitulate the numerous evidences of this truth which the Directors are constantly receiving, ; and they content them selves, therefore, with giving the following quotation from a recent leading article in the " Times," which shows that simi lar information had been reaching that paper through its Indian correspondents. - From the 'Times,' Jan. 29, 1859. " It is not only Government but the whole nation that seems te nth's. Any day during the last year we might have filled our columns with the complaints of shipbuilders at the de cline of their trade, owing, in a great measure to the ha ppy t ermination of the Russian. War. But what do we now hear from India ? They wonder there what our shipbuilders are about. Mouth atter month they are expecting the steamers that • are t o come. The Indian General Steam Navigation Company declare this month,' says our correspondent, a dividend of 1 00 and upwards per cent. The Home Gover nment had neen requested to send out six river steamers, and it had sent out only one, which, it said, would he enough.' Next month,' continues our informant, 'the Indian Government had to en gage all the freight of six for two trips at a price which would have bought the new vessels wanted twice over. There is room and work, we are told, for 300 steamers on the Ganges alone, flowing, as it does, through a territory with a popula tion of 350 to the square mile, with an export trade of 416 ,000,0000, and an internal trade beyond human calculation. Yet. with this vast opening before us, there are found men in the prime of life, neither schoolboys nor dotards, who can waste their time in holding meetings and memorialising Go vernment to find them customers for their shipping. Many a time ere this has war ministered to peace, infusing a quicker element into its idle, dreamy soul. To this Mutiny, perhaps, We owe the real opening of the Indian navigation to British enterprise, and the railways which are certain to follow. But verbum sat ; we have said enough to start our shipbuilders and shipowners, if they are Englishmen." The Directors have all along felt that neither the vessels Which they have already sent to India, nor those which they have at present in preparation, could do much to satisfy the great want of Inland Steam Navigation which exists in that country. But they have also all along felt that the only safe way of entering upon such an undertaking, was not to rush into it with sanguine precipitation, but to advance with gra dual and cautious steps, and without being dazzled by the large prospect of profits it holds out. The first steps, how ever, having, been successfully taken, the whole of the exist ing Shares in the Company having been allotted, and being at a premium in the market, and the field being so large as to require a large capital to work it in an efficient manner, the Directors are of opinion that the time is come when the capi tal of the Company may be advantageously increased. and they have, therefore, resolved to raise the capital to half a million sterling without delay. Applications for the new Shares must be forwarded to the Directors, at the offices of the Company, 9, Billit er-street, London, on or before the 23th day of February next. A deposit of two shillings per Share to be made on appli cation, and the Bankers' receipt for that amount to be for warded with the application for Shares. The New Shareholders will stand on precisely the same terms as the Original Shareholders, and will participate in the dividend as soon as it is payable. Calls will not be more frequent than once every three months nor for more than £2 per share, at any one time. Five per cent. will be paid upon all calls until the dividend is de clared, and upon all payments in advance of calls. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Oriental Inland Steam Company (Limited). Centlemen,—l request that you will allot to me of the new issue of Shares in this Company ; and I hereby under take to accept the same or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the ealli thereon when due, and to sign the Articles of' Association when required. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF 31EDICINE. gateut Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de tarmticie Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Me dicine. Vienna. TRIESEMAR Nos. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of taste or smell, and can be, carried in the waistcoat pocket. Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, ate adapted for both sexes. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Rem ed y for RELAXA. -I- 'PION, SPERMATORRWEA, and all the distressing consequences ari sing from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. 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Jost published, price ls., post free, 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION: A Medical Treatise on NERVOUS DEBILITY and FUNCTIONAL WEAKNESS. more particularly in reference to the INFIR MITIES and DISORDERS of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM; tracing the Origin of these distressing afflictions to causes which vitiate the very fountains of Life and prematurely de stroy the vigour of Manhood. With Practical Observations on the Cure of these Diseases, and on the extraordinary re storative power of LOCAL GALVANISM in Spermatorrhcea, impotence, and Sterility, in which cases it is applied without pain or danger, and is frequently successful without the aid of medicine. - -- , Registered Licentiate of the London Society of Apothecaries ' Doctor of Medicine of the Univ e r s i t y o f E r langen , Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. Arc. An erroneous impression exists that public announcements on these disorders emanate only from unqualified persons, but as the new Medical Act provides that none but registered practitioners shall assume any medical title, those that are legally qualified can readily be distinguished—a point ofgreat importance in cases where secrecy, confidence, and skill are equally requisite. In the new edition of ' Self-Preservation,' facts of para mount utility are brought together —facts appealing to the prudence of all who are suffenng from affections which in volve the enfeeblement and ultimate loss of those powers without which man forfeits the dignity of nature and sinks t n. o the most pitiable depths of physteal and moral degradatio In cases where the vital essences have been weakened by the influences of tropical climates, by pernicious habits. indiscri minate excesses, improper diet, "hardship, or by iniudicious treatment, the means of cure adopted by the author, in con junction with the application of Local Galvanism, have gene rally been found successful, even in cases where recovery had been pronounced impossible. 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Here is no increase of white popu lation m the last thirty—the deaths nearly equalling the births, the small surplus always wandering, away him its unprosporous birthplace ; and mean - time tile black element—which is the slave element, for there are no free blacks—steadily and rapidly encroaching upon the free. Now we see why there is such fierce opposition of opinion on the spot about the reopening of the African slave trade. A country-bred, narrow, selfish proprietor, who knows only that the slaves in the market are far too dear for a man with a declining estate and insufficient capital, seizes upon the idea of importing savage.; cheap ; and he bestirs himself to get the thing talked up at Charleston, and even at- Washington. Wiser men, more conversant with affairs, and more awake to the perils of the State, see that it will be more than they and their sons can do to go on as they are, and to extricate themselves safely from their perils ; and that it would be immediate de struetton t 9 introduce native Africans among a slave population already nearly one-third more numerous than the free race. The recent discussion in the Legislature is distinguished by an earnestness and solemnity which indicate the gravity of the case. When we remember that the same contrast be tween the prospects of free and slave labour is be coming conspicuous through the whole range of the States we shall admit that it would be - rash in the extreme to depend for our cotton supply on a coun try already so disturbed in its industrial area, and so certainly destined to go through a most trying revolution in the conditions of labour. Meantime, the exhortations offered to South Carolina by sister States are strong and clear—to encourage the white element and repress the black—to invite free immi grants and get rid of slaves with all convenient speed. We know that this cannot be done. We know that free and slave labour cannot exist face to face. It is not our province to foretel what part the South Carolina planters will take. We have only to observe at present that their position and circumstances are something very unlike what the Times sets forth, and to take early care to secure a supply of cotton for our own needs, which shall prevent our being too much affected by any con vulsions which may occur in the industrial system of the Southern States of America.—. Daily News. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1859. p ROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Establisheil 1840. TRUSTEES. , . Thomas - Baring, Esq., M.l'.. I William George Prescott , Esq. Thomson liankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de llotlilchild, M.P. At the EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEET ING i - held on the 2d February , the Rep ort of the Directors, showed that; dui - ring the year 1858— 478 Proposals had been completed fo r £104,575 A third Bonus of £lO,OOO had been divided among the members. The Annual Income was £30,878 The balance on the year's transactions in favour of the Association was The amount actually invested , af ter p roviding for all claims, is 108,000 The number of policies in force on the 31st December were 5,082, for £960,775. Copies of the Report and Balance-sheet may be had upon application at the Chief office, 15, 3loorgate-street, E.C. ; or to the Agents of the Association. The Association transacts ever, description of Life Assur ance and Annuity , business, and numbers among its members persons of every class of society. To Clerks, it possesses special and exceptional advantages which they cannot elsewhere obtain. Applications for Agencies in unrepresented districts to be made to the undersigned. • WM. TIIOS. Lmoup, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, London, E.C., Feb. 15, 1858. • UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pitii , titall, - Londot;. S.W. The Funds or Property (if the' Company as at alst Decem ber, 1857; amounted , to ,X 617,801, invested in Government or other approved securities. Annual Income, upwards of £lll,OOO from p re miums alone. CHAIRMAN. — The lion. FRANCIS SCOTT, M:P.. • DEPUTY CIIAIRMAN.—CHATMES BERWICK C•IIIITIS,Esq. INVALID LlVES.—Persons not in sound health may have theif lives insured at equitable rates. ACCOMMODATION IN PAYMENT OF PREMIUM.—OnIy one half of the,Annual Premium, when the insurance is for life, requires to be paid for the 'kid live sears, simple interest be ng charged on the balance. 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For keeping horses in good condition it is unequal led. Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their flesh increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find great advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua lity of the milk during its use. All animals are benefitted by it. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri , culturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing 448 feeds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, London. N.ll.—The public arecautioned against being imposed upon by worthless -imitations. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT DAR LINGTON. RAILWAY INT_ELLIGENCE. EASTERN COUNTIES. It appears the directors of this company have decided on declaring - a dividend-of £1 Gd. per sent. for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, leaving a balance of £3,000. The dividend for the corresponding period of 1857 "was of the same amount, being at the Tate of 31 per cent, per annum. the milts and - interest on mortgages amounted to £22,087, leaving £27,202 for dividend, which, after paying the interest on the . 4 per cent. preference shares, would yield a dividend at the rate of 21 per Cent. per annum on the ordinary capital, leaving a balance of £32. . _ CALEDONIAN. The adjourned inquiry into the cause of Elizabeth Hall's death was held at the Town-hall, Darling ton, on Wednesday. There was present a large number of pers3ns anxious to know the result. Mr. Wardell, of Newcastle, watched the proceedings on behalf of Gloster Smith, the schoolmaster, who was charged by the police as being accessory to the cause of her death. The only further evidence which had been gained was that of the Rev. H. J. Wardell, curate of Win laton, who identified the handwriting of the letters as being Smith's; and also of two boys, one the brother of deceased, and the other a brother of Smith's, who proved that the letter which attaches the greatest suspicion to Smith was from him. The coroner, in summing up, told the jury they must first determine as to the cause of death, and then fix upon the perpetrators. As to the first point, according to Mr. Fothergill, the surgeon who had• made the post-mortem examination, there could not be the - slightest doubt. As to the second, he might tell them that if they were clearly of opinion Gloster Smith instigated attempts to procure abortion, he would be dealt with as a principal in the affair ; and the law laid down that if an attempt to procure abortion, although there might be no intenticn of causing death, death was the result, the parties so offending were chargeable with murder, and of the Very worst kind. The jury consulted in private for some time, and returned the verdict " That the deceased died in consequence of means used to procure abortion, but at whose hands it did not appear." The superintendent of police intimated that some thing had transpired within the last few days which led him to believe that Smith would have to be taken before the Gateshead magistrates. We understand that some clue has been gained as to where the deceased went when she was absent from Darlington. Rumour says that a surgeon had ab sconded from Gateshead since the commencement of these proceedings. Smith was brought before the Darlington Ben , yesterday (Thursday) and discharged. The Nicholas Poussin arrived at Fort de France, Martinique, on the 20th Jan., with 406 coolies ; and the Van Dyck from the coast of Africa, with 278 free negroes. All those men were immediately distributed among the different plantations, which were greatly in want of labourers. _ _ Hom.owAY's PlLLS.—Dyspepsia, disordered digestion. Some persons aro particularly prone to stomach and liver complaints ; while in others these diseases are produced by sedentary habits, irregular living, or mental disquietude. The liver and stomach being distempered, the heart and lungs syMpathise with them, and both mind and body shortly suffer. These admirable pills act directly on these organs and soon restore them to a natural and healthy con dition. The impurities are discharged from the system, the respiratory organs are relieved, the heated blood cooled and the bilious secretion regulated, the heart's action becomes tranquil, the nerves acquire strength, and health benignly dawns again, and happiness returns, and the patient is thoroughly restored to easy digestion, cheering thoughts, acid refreshing repose. . SOUTH-EASTEBN. The directors of this :compally, have resolved to recommend the proprietors at the ensuing half yearly meeting to order payment of a dividend of 15s. on each £3O . stock; being at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. They state in their report, which has just been issued, that the gross receipts during the half-year ending on the 31st of January have amounted to £575,654 (hichiding £21,213 receipts from steamboat traffic), being an increase of £18,550 as compared with the half-year ending January 31, IssB. The ordinary working expenses during the half-year amounted to £199,373; the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty to £34,818; and the. working of . the steampacket service to £15,798. After providing for the fixed charges in respect of rents, interest, annuities, preference dividends, &c., there remains a net balance_ of £186,955 available for - dividend 6n :the: ordinary consolidated stock of• the company. A dividend of los. per £3O stock, or at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum, will ab sorba sum of £185,842, leaving a balance to be carried forward of £1,112, and this rate of divi• deny the directors recommend to be paid on Thurs day, the 3d day of March next: The analysis of the receipts and expenditures for the half-year shows an increase in The gross receipts of £18,550, and of £4,063 in the expenses, leaving an increase of £14,487 in the net receipts as-compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. There was an increase in the number of second class passengers of 45,965, and in third class pas sengers of. 74;325, but there was a decrease of 13,045 in the number of first class passengers. A decrease took place of £1,342 in the receipts for first class passengers, and of £705 in the receipts for second class passengers, together £2,047, but there was an increase of £1,026 in the receipts for third class passengers, leaving the total decrease £1,021 on receipts for passengers during the past half-year. The increase in the number of second and third class passengers - represents the increase in the local traffic; and the decrease in the number of first class passengers and in receipts .is more than accounted for by the falling off in the. continental traffic during the half-year. In the last half-yearly report it was stated that the loss of receipts by rail and boat froM the latter source in the first half of last year amounted to £15,136, but a recent relaxa tion of the stringency in the passport system has already had a favourable influence, by reducing the loss to about £6,500 during the last half-year. At the same time, it is worthy of notice that the per centage of loss sustained by the South-Eastern Company appears from published returns to have been considerably under the average decrease in Continental passenger traffic by other routes dur ing the same period. There has also been a de crease of about £2,000 during the last half year in the receipts for the conveyance of troops, at all times an irregular source of railway income. The steady increase in the receipts from local traffic and other sources has more than made up for the losses above referred to, and placed at the disposal of the proprietors a balance available for dividend on the ordinary stock of more than £12,000 in ex cess of that shown in the revenue account of the corresponding half-year. The directors think it right to call the attention of the proprietors to this gratifying feature in the accounts. In the year ending the 31st of January, 1852, 6,772,072 passen gers were oniveyed on the railway on payment of £574,268, and for .season tickets, £14,459; and in the . yearending the 31st of January, 1859, the total number of passengers conveyed Was 9,588,331, and the amount received.fortlieir conveyance £700,680, and for season tickets £27,431, showing a gradual increase, in the course of seven years, of 2,516,259 in the number of passengers, of £126,412 in the receipts, and an increase in the receipts for. season tickets of £12,972. The receipts for merchandise and minerals during the half-year exhibit an in crease of £15,129 compared with the . corresponding period of 1857-8, the principal items of increase being iu general merchandise, £7,107 £5;720 ; continental good; £1,344 and- , £905. The expense of working and maintaining the railway during the past half-year exhibits an increase of £8,117, and is thus explained :—The increase of £3,272 in the locomotive and carriage expenses arises from a larger expenditure on renewals of carriages, rendered necessary by the requirements of the traffic, eighty-six pas senger carriages and seventy-two waggons having been renewed during the half-year, all of a superior description to those which have been displaced. The expenditure on the maintenance and renewal of way and works for the half-year exhibits an increase of £3,609. 15 miles of way have been entirely relaid, and the road generally has been much improved by the introduction of new materials, all of which are charged directly to revenue account. The company's steampackets have been fully maintained by an increased expendi ture on repairs of £1,040 during the half-year, and they have performed their voyages from port to port with their accustomed regularity. Active measures have been adopted during the past half year to obtain a reduction in the rating of the railway in the parishes through which it passes. In the parishes of Battle and Rye respectively the rates appealed against by the company have been quashed, and in other parishes substantial reduc tions have been effected. The total outlay on capital account has been £26,860, the principal items of expenditure having been incurred in pro viding additional goods waggons and in erecting permanent instead of timber stations at Maidstone and Margate. - The directors are proceeding with the sale of the company's surplus lands as favo urable opportunities occur; the amount realised from thi s source during the last half-year has been £7,601. Meanwhile, from the remainder of surplus property undisposed of a satisfactory rental continues to be derived. The provision of a convenient West-end terminus for the passenger traffic of the South- Eastern Railway has been repeatedly brought under the notice of the proprietors.' A company has been formed,. plans of the projected - railway have been prepared and deposited, and the necessary steps have been taken to proceed with the bill in the present session of Parliament. The objects of the proposed measure are thus succinctly described in the report just presented by the Board of Trade to the douse of Commons on the railway and canal bills of 1859 : 7 -- • The London-biidge and Charing-cross Railway Bill unites London-bridge station with the Waterloo-road station, and passes over linnet -ford-bridge (over which it preserves a foot road).to a station in Hungerford-market, and would materially reliOire Several . Streets of traffic by carrying the South-Eastern Railway West-end traffic to Chasing-cross, and the London and South-Western city traffic to London-bridge." „ The - provision..of ; such a terminus would, in the opinion of the directors, not only fully satisfy the requirements of Parliament with reference to a convenient West-end terminus for South-Eastern purposes, but would materially strengthen the position of the company, and largely increase its traffl:., by bringing . the railway into direct contact at many new points with the population of the metropolis. They have accordingly watched the progress of this project with much interest, and afforded every assistance to the promoters in its early stages. They have further resolved to re commendthe proprietors to authorise the subscrip tion by the company of 'such an amount of capital in the. undertaking as will enable them to secure I for South-Eastern interests the full advantages to be derived from the formation of the pro posed railway and terminus. The Caterham Railway is a short line situated in the South- Eastern district, which it is proposed to take the authority of the proprietors to purchase for the sum of £15,200. The line is four miles five furlongs in length, and was constructed at a cost of above £4Q,000. The capital accounts shows that £11,667,074 had ch been expended to the 31 st of January last. MIDLAND. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Derby on Wednesday—Mr. S. Beale, M.P., in the chair. - The motion for the adoption of the repoort was carried, and resolutions declaring the dividends recommended in the report, consolidating into stock certain shares, and authorising the directors to ex pend a total of £97,150 in the execution of works and in providing additional stock, were carried unanimously. It appears-tivfiividend on the ordinary stock of OAR company.* the past half-year is to be at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, being 1 per cent. less that at the corresponding period of last year. TAFF VALE. The report states that the revenue account for the half-year shows that £106,611 has been received and £60,688 expended, leaving a balance of £45,923, of which £21,516 had been applied to the payment of interest, &c., leaving a balance of £24,407, to which was added £5,950 from last half year, making a disposable sum of £30,357 appli cable .to dividend. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. At the adjourned half-yearly meeting yesterday Mr. Maishall took the chair, and announced that Mr. Evans was elected auditor. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The directors of this company state in their re port that the receipts for the half-year ending• the 31st of December amounted to £27,270, and for the corresponding half of 1857 to 27,937, showing a decrease of £667. The expenditure amounted to £12,352 against £13,255, showing a decrease of £903. The balance for the half-year, after carry ing £2,827 to the• credit of the renewal and con tingency account, amounts to . £9,457, which enables the directors to 'recommend ailividend at the rate. of 41 per cent. per annum, and on the preference shares according to their respective guarantees. DUBLIN AND WICKLOW. The report of the directors states that after deducting interest on loans, rents, rates, and taxes, &c., there remained a balance of £7,868, out of which the directors propose that a dividend of 6per cent. per annum should be declared on the calls paid on the preference shares, amounting to 12,115 (in addition to the interest, £2,878, on payments in advance of calls, making together about £5,000), leaving the balance to be carried forward. The works and permanent way have been maintained in excellent order, and the engines and rolling stock hare been kept in good repair. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION. The report of the directors of this company states that the traffic receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December amounted to £34,026, being £822 in excess of those for the half-year ended the 31st of December, 1857. The total in come of the company for the half-year amounted to £37,265, and the total expenditure, including rates, taxes, and interest, to £18,248, leaving a balance of £19,017; out of which the directors recommended that a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum (free of income tax) on the paid up capital of the company be declared; and that the amount (about £1,105) be added to £6,382, the revenue balance from the preceding half-year. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The report states that the gross receipts during the half-year ending the alst of December last amounted to £72,910 in connection with the rail way added to theb al and navigation, ao ee andf£2l7 the expenditure to brought from £33,829, leaving a balance of £39,072, Whi ch, preceding half - year , made a total sum of V 9 the ,289. The report of the directors of this company states that the traffic receipts for the half-year eliding the 31st of December last, amounted to £31,854, the working expenses to £12,187, and the net balance to X 19,667, being X 1,680 more than for the same half of 1857. The total income for the past half•year amounted to £32,267, and the expenditure, includ ing law costs and renewal of engines, to £12,851. After making provision for interest on loans and preference shares, a balance of £3,083 remained. A dividend at the rate of £1 per cent. per annum would absorb £2,509, and leave £573 for the next account. GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA. It is a matter of satisfaction that I,ard Stanley recognises the importance of IndiMi cotton to English prosperity.- Now that we Aro about to hear what he has to say and propose, it is of the utmost consequence that the essential elements of the case should be understood• and estimated at tiwir true value. If, for instance, we misapprehend Iliaonditions in regard to American cotton, and entertain groundless expectations of a permanent supply from other countries than India, we shall make mistakes in regard to the Indian case. The Times, while explaining the importance of opening new sources of supply, has presented a picture of American cotton-growing so thoroughly erroneous that it must be corrected before we can be in a position to estimate our need of an Indian supply. The Times explains well the essential importance of our having plenty of cotton at command and in store—the subsistence of millions of our country men depending on it no less than a sufficiency of corn. But, in proceeding to show why the cotton of the United .States is, and always will be, our main reliance, the writer seems to be actually unaware of any change of circumstances in the cotton•producing States which can affect their pro duction and commerce. The picture would not have been a true one ten or twenty years ago. Now it is perfectly untrue—at the very moment when mistake is practically dangerous in a high degree. The Times says that the American planters have a great advantage over other cotton producers in the excellence of the handling of the cotton. This is true. It is their one distinctive advantage. Long experience, constant practice, and the best gins in existence give them the preference in the market; and it requires a long course of folly on their part to annul such a privilege. Beyond this, the account of their qualification in the Times is illusory. The boundless extent of fertile soil, the abundant capi tal, the agricultural improvements, the perpetual supply of trained labour, do not exist, or are on the decline. The crumbling plantation houses and degenerating lands show the deficiency of capital. The reports of the Southern Conventions of any year *ill show how this deficiency is felt. Northern capital sustains such public enterprises as exist ; and the acutest jealousy has not enabled the plaiiter class to run a single steamboat to Europe, as was proposed in indignation at the " encroachments" of New York. The amount raised was enough to pay for coal and steaming an hour and a half, or a mile and a half, we forget which, without reckoning the vessel and her outfit. As to private business, it is mainly Northern capital which sustains it too, for the Southern estates are mortgaged, like those in the West Indies before the days of emancipation; and the mortgagees see their security crumbling away, under the pressure of debt, and the bad economy which attends slave-labour. While whole states are sinking into something like the barrenness of Virginia and North Carolina, there is no opening for new plant ing elsewhere, as we are apt to suppose. It was so once ; but it is not so now. When Texas was an nexed, we supposed there was no further limit to the spread of Southern production ; whereas Texas has proved to be itself the barrier. Beyond it ex tends a barren territory, a dry desert, where even a railway is impracticable from the total deficiency of water for several days' journey. Nothing grows there, of course, and nobody lives there but a few wandering Mexicans and half-castes, who offer a safe refuge to escaping slaves. But the way in which Texas is itself a bar is that free white labour is gaining ground upon slavery there so as mate.- It is rially to affect the question of cotton supply a pure good to us and the world that the German settlers find it easy,. wholesome, and profitable to grow cotton with their own hands ; and that they are living on an area level for the most part or slightly sloping to the sea, so as to afford ;ver y facility for sending us their produce by rai and steamer. But it must be rem embered that this suppression of slave labour by immigrant industry must break up so much of the routine of the other cotton-producing States as to occasion. great dis turbance in the supply. One indication of what must ensue is afforded by the p resent commotion on the subject of reviving the African slave trade. It is worth while to give a moment's attention to the latest account of the population of the leading cotton State, in order to see what we have to expect in a few years' time. While the fertile lands of Texas are more and more taken up and tilled by white immigrants, whose young children do more good work than the costliest slaves, the condition of South Carolina is this—according to the Report for 1857 just made to the Legislature. The white population of the State has not increased for thirty years; and the births among the blacks are three to one of the whites. It is well understood that the new generation are in large proportion Mulatto, as every Slave State k more or less a slave-breeding one ; and the killing-off, or " using-up" •of slaves in the rice swamps of South Carolina causes a higher mortality than usual among the blacks, though not equal to that of Louisiana, where the sugar crop is yet more destructive of human life. On the one hand, tkcn, the slaves die off fast in South Carolina; and nn G -747 L -/-r ,!. _ti4 ..c - -N . otttn a good deal men ao, ' 'Pitet - - • peg Of. . . , v.„ riosta youth is not generally mist -,! If thetie#lttw, then, conside -Vikii ' • •••'- • '- - - 4 '14 an intorefable one, it would -talfiti ; ' 44,i l i u - , ir,4 2 ) this, it tonsiders it-a tolerabl '`•*i',--if r Th- - A rl o •-• A 1 111" whiciiindividualS may reasona j ' '-= -'-- - , i• - . . of defe.rento to society. But, if t elarrieldin tbis latter:ease is one that individuals ought reasonably , to put-up with, how is the b;a•rier in the Ibrinct' -' case a tyrannical, intolerable, and . oppressive one ? What is the great difference between them.? ' The bill, then, contradicts itself, professing to be founded upon the intolerableness of some grievance, while it deliberately leaves an exactly similar grievance standing. Nor is this any accidental mistake, for the proposers of the bill know perfectly well that they dare not bring in a bill to open the whole of the wife's kinship. to the widower. They know , that this- would be too strong a mouthful for the public.--Tinzes. TILE NAVY. When people ask for an alteration of an import ant law they ought to be prepared to show some serious and important grievance. This ought to be shown, then, in the case of the proposed change in the Marriage Law, and the proposers of the change profess to prove this, and talk a great deal about it. They are all but lachrymose indeed; they spsak of domestic hardship, blighted affections, the world made a blank, hope cut off, happiness poisoned at the root, and no resource left to a man but religion and the thought of a future state. This is Parlia mentary poetry, and it professes to be a description of a respectable widower who wants to marry his deceased wife's sister, and is not allowed to do so by the law. Now, we are not devoid of feeling, and we wish to approach this subject with respectful delicacy ; yet, we must frankly confess we are eon s'derally puzzled to know what to think of this grievance. In the first place, Our respectable widower can marry any other woman in the world that he likes except this one ; at least, the law does not prevent him. We allow that this does not settle the question altogetlnor, still it is a considera tion when we are about to take out our handker chiefs. It deserves a preliminary passing thought that the whole feminine world, with all its charms, graces, merits, and accomplishments, is, with one exception, open to the disconsolate gentleman. His choice cannot be said to be stinted. He is not abso lutely smothered, and has a little room to breathe in and refresh himself. " Oh, but this is nothing," says the Parliamentary sentimentalist ; "he has set his affections on one woman ; no other woman in the world is anything at all to thiS disconsolate gentleman, ' and lie is reduced to desperation, un less he is allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister." Well, then. this is the grievance, and we only want to know what sort of grievance it is, and not to let the warmth of our feelings supersede all cool and reasonable examination. This gentle man, then, has, of course, up to the very point of his lamented wife's decease, entertained no af fection for the so flatteringly singled out sister-in law—that is to say, no other than sisterly affection. He has taken pleasure in her society and conrersa tion, and admired her general character; but, of course, as our disconsolate widower was always a person of unexceptionable principles and strict pro priety—of course, we say, this being the case, he has not had, up to the lamented moment referred to, any other class of feelings for the one ultimately singled out from the whole feminine world. We may go a little further even, and say that this state of mind continues for some time—we will not say how long, for these are delic ate questions—but for sonic time after that lamentable event ; he does not, of course, immediately enter upon other relations to the lady ; we will not think it of him for a mo ment : he is occupied, of course, with the absorbing claims of the past, with the sweet pains of memory, with the melancholy yet soothing retrospect of the virtues, the amiable temper, and the many engaging qualities of the departed. Well, then we have landed our unexceptionable widower upon, we will say, a year, or, if that is too long, a proper reason able date from his late wife's decease, and at this moment he is proved to have nothing like an at tachment to the future chosen sister-in-law. But now he begins to look about him ; he wants ano ther wife to take care of his children, or to fill up the void in his own affections. He has the feminine world at large before him to choose from ; he also knows that the Marriage Law of his country prohi bits the choice of the deceased wife's sister. With this law before him, he begins now—not having the Smallest attachment to that lady up to this mo ment--to form an attachment for her. It is not as if he had been gradually' and insensibly entrapped by circumstances into an attachment, which, when the time came, he was forbidden to satisfy ; but; this being specially the kind of feeling which lie has not entertained, and from which the respectability. of his principles has excluded him, he comes will , his mind and affections free to the ch oice of a sceen wife, and, in that impartial sta te of his feelings, forms deliberately a fresh attachmentuiiii does a t l l i t's of the Marriage Law of hi s country. at an age when the first impetus of t he passions is generally considered to be s p ent, and when reason and reflection have had time for growth. hen,but, it . is, it is rievance. tls not a r a 1 1 h e i r s o t o verwhelming nature that de mands the upset of everything opposed to it, and the total change of the law as it is, provided a clear case of general expediency can be made out in favour of that law. Everybody must be prepared to make some little sacrifice for the incalculable benefit which he derives from society, , and, if the good of society requires some restrictions upon marriage, he cannot expect the whole of society to give way to him, and throw down all its safeguards simply in order to rescue him out of an awkward ness which he has brought upon himself, and which he might, by a little proper self-control, have avoided. We know that people bring forward other arguments in favour of a change of this law ; they talk about the poorer classes and say it is wanted for them. This is all nonsense, and those who talk in this style know that it is nonsenso ; they know perfectly well that labourers have as wide a choice among women of their own class as any other section of the community, and that it is not necessity; but inclination, that governs their choice in these matters. They know perfectly well that the real motive for the change of the law is the grievance which we have mentioned—that of a gentlemen who has formed this exceptional and irregular attachment, and thinks it very hard that the law interferes with it. The question then is, whether the Marriage Law ought to give way for such a grievance as this, and the decision of that question depends upon the general advantages ot, the existing Marriage Law. 'We think, for o c u::p d not that those advantages are very great. 1 1 1 Vi ‘''ocat enlarge upon them ; Lord John Rus ing a change in the existing law, h to the general rule Every man of sense mu st see th m the en ormous social and family benefits which atttacakes wife's sisters by which a man at marriage as his own. • Moreover, if the barrier between the husband and the wife's sister is a grievance, the new pro posed law itself admits the tolerableness and reason ableness of the grievances, because it deliberately leaves standing other grievances exactly like it. Cannot a man fall in: love with his wife's niece as well as with his wife's sister ? Quite as easily, and The Severn, EO, sailing frigate, which is to be - converted into a screw steamer at Chatham dock yard,-is ordered to be lengthened 60 feet. The line-of-battle ship Rodney, 90, ordered to Chathini - for the purpose of being altered into a screw steamer, will, on her arrival from Ports mouth remain at the Nore until the Trafalgar, 120, which has been cut down at Chatham to a 91-gun screw line-of-battle steamer, is uiidocked, when the Rodnev - will go into the fourth dock. The - N an kin, 50, Commodore lion. K. Stewart, has been taken under the shears at Chatham dock yard, and had all her masts taken out preparatory to being paid off. Her cvew consists of some of the finest men in her Majesty's service. Her.-Majesty's screw steam transport Himalaya Commander J ohn Seccombe, at Portsmouth, bud her crew-paid down and granted leave ashore yes terday. She will take out a mail to the Cape, and on disembarking there the troops she conveys from Portsmouth will embark the 45th Regiment, now doing duty in that colony, and return with them direct to Shithead. The undermentioned are the names of the officers of the 2d battalion of the 13th Regiment (Prince Albert's Light Infantry), who will embark in the Himalaya at Portsmouth, on the 23d inst. ;—Lieut.-Colonel A. Horne ; Captains Vi . 11. Kerr, C. P. Cobbe, N. IL B. Vardou, W. IL Griinston, J. C. Clarke, and G. H. Cobham ; tenants R. N. l Clayton, T. T. Gould, J. C. Conning ton, J. J. P. Pox, F.. L. England, and A.C. Wyneu; Ensi,gns W. Moffatt, L. P. Jenkins, A. F. Cun ningham, A. Brooks, A. MeG. Denney, H. K. Fenwick, and R. S. Clarke ; Lieut.-Adjutant J. Bond ; Paymaster 11. Lee Carter ; Quartermaster J. Landry ; Surgeon W. G. Trowsdell, M.D. ; Assistant ditto, N. L. Gray and Stewart; four ladies, and six children. The Rhadamanthus paddlewheel steam transport, Master Commander F. R. Sturdee, has arrived at Sheerness from Woolwich with supernumeraries from the Fisgard. She received on board seamen volunteers from the Wellesley, the Cressy, and the "Waterloo, for the Algiers, 91 guns, and. the St. Jean d'Acre, 101 guns, screw steamships now com missioned at Portsmouth. A telegraphic message has arrived, informing the authorities that no more seamen are to be entered for the latter ship, she having her full complement, who have volunteered for her. The Rhadamanthus left Sheerness early yesterday morning. • An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness to pay down the crew of the flagship Waterloo on the 28th inst. The Queen Charlotte will be commis sioned on the Ist of March as flagship, and the officers and crew of the 'Waterloo are to be turned over to the Monarch until the Queen Charlotte is ready to receive them. The Waterloo's guns, munitions of war, and stores of all descriptions are being returned to their respective departments. On Wednesday a court-martial assembled on board the flagship Waterloo, at Sheerness, to try Lieutenant Robert J. Stotherd, borne on the books of the Cornwallis for service in the Ruby gunboat. The Lords of the Admiralty directed that an inquiry should be instituted by court-martial, to try the said Lieutenant Robert J. Stotherd for having run into the brig Stella, on the morning of the 21st of January, last, while the said brii was riding at anchor in the river Humber. Ihe case for the prosecution lasted nearly six hours. Captain E. P. Halsted, of the Cressy, was President. Lieut. Stoth, , rd in his defence pleaded that in consequence of 11w helm being altered without his knowledge, and the speed of the vessel thereby impeded, he erred in his judgment as to the steam vessel Ruby having sufficient speed to go round the brig. Stella, which he considered she would have done, had the holm not been altered. He put in a number of very good certificates and threw himself on the favourable considera tion of the Court. The Court sat in consultation more than an hour and a half, and Mr. Hayward, the Judge-Advocate, then read the sentence. The Court was of opinion that sufficient care had not been taken and judgment used, and sentenced Lieut. It. J. Stotherd to be dismissed from the command of the Ruby gunboat. The Court also expressed a very strong cpinion that had Lieut. Stotherd been properly assisted by the gunner, Henry Hayes, the collision might have been avoided. The fbllowing appointments have been made : Commodore Edgell, to the Retribution, vice Booker ; George Willes to the Chesapeake, as flag captain to Rear-Admiral Hope, C. 13., Commander-in-Chief on the East India and China station, vice Edgell. Lieut. R. llemer was yesterday promoted to the Reserved List of Commanders, vice Burrnister. THE ARMY. Yesterday morning the officers and men of the battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry, now at headquarters, Chatham, were assembled at a full parade in the barrack-square for the purpose of witnessing the ceremony of decorating two non commissioned officers and a private of the corps, each with a silver medal, which had been awarded them, with a money gratuity, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty for long and meritorious service. The battalion having been formed in the usual order, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel T. C. C. Moore, the letter directing the distribution of the medals was read to the troops by the Adju-' tart, after which Colour-Sergeant William Hopper, Corporal Daniel Norman, and private "Witham 11rheeler were called to the front and addressed by Colonel E. Rea,, the second commandant of the divi sion, - who expressed the gratification he experienced in having to present such a mark of their Lord ships' approbation to the three men before hint, who he trusted would long live to wear their _well•deserved decorations. Colonel Rea then handed each of the recipients his medal,' which was fastened to his breast in the presence of the entire battalion. Colour-Sergeant Hopper receives a gratuity of £ls ; he has been 23 years in the ser vice. Corporal N orman has 21 years' service,, and S presented with a gratuity of £lO. Private Wheeler has served 23 years in the corps of ma rines ; lie was awarded a gratuity of £5. During the whole time they have been in the service each man has borne a most exemplary character, CORONERS .INQUEST. -4 l', l A UPER' 3 COFFIN. Yesterday, kr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquiry at Christchurch Workhouse, rela tive to the death of Eliza Ellen liassett, aged 24, a pauper inmate of that house. It appeared from the evidence of the •witnesse connected with the workhouse that the deceased who was very imbecile and infirm, was found deg d on the floor by the side of her bed ou Friday morn ing last. Mr. Bianchi, the medical officer, deposed that he had examined the body, and was of opinion that the deceased had died in a fit. A sister of the deceased here stated that she in formed her before her death that the nurse of the ward had been exceedingly u nkind to her, and had put her for several hours in a strait-jacket, as well as otherwise ill treatin g her. Mr. Bianchi said he did not believe that the deceased was placed under restraint, as such a course was never adopted without informing him of it. Matilda Livett deposed that she was the deceased's sister. She was conveyed to the workhouse from the hospital, having attempte d to c ommit suicide by jumping out of a window , by which she frac tured both her legs and one of her arms. Witness was decidedly of opinion that the deceased had no t been in any way ill treated, but, on t h h a e nds cont o lia t i i .y u; d h that she should received the utmost parochial in She ne e s ru a s t te te parochial audio be allowed to follow her sister's body to the grave. The Coroner said he wished to know if a plate with the name on it was placed upont he coffin when a pauper was buried. The Master of the Workhouse, in answer to the coroner, said that they gener ally used cards, on which the name of the dec eased person l w as . written. He had no objection to the friends were compelled a plate on the coffin ; bury in the refused to was any • but when they _ weie , to metropolitan church) aids, the minister . allow the body to be interred if there ornament about the coffin unless they were paid extra fees. The Coroner said, the coffins should be distin guished in some way, as persons, for aught they knew, might follow the body of a stranger to the grave instead of their friend or relative. The jury having concurred in the remarks of the coroner, returned a verdict of " Natural death," at the same time expressing an opinion that d eceased had been properly treated in the workhouse. /! IBY prices Sown lown. sown. From with ,o be Ited !,s 01 full 'Lilly c2k, ous, CIOTO 50 me. ;he st, et, 3es