The Sun. — London, England, 1846-08-31 00:00:00

the s es, but set , bier wiv e er 0r r• , r 06 RP" . enol" aid ai d lac' cas' .° ,pd, if roP • '4l Plc, '6OPP,if Ot t o et r , ;or' RV> ; 10 06° 05 ,66° ;04,915 0 610 ;1 7if 4(1. to . .to r ----3 / 4 0 'ssesees_...eesaessemeeeessoLeseseese Ti ter it accounts hive eons .certainly is ie. worse, and these quently had Ds influence on our market. and it has .o,lltinued throughout the week jut brought to a close, ',;!e that of the preceding one, in a very inactive state. Ina sales for the week encline. the Bth inst. were 5,000 ` Dal ,• since to this d a t e , 4,000 bales, with firmer th iii e os ket y esterday at my quotations, which are smiler to my last circular. appproac 'marks-Ils of ?c.urse , too early to indulge in al, lout general 7niteit,Tegard to the . prosp - ct of the crop /low maturity. It is certainly in a precarious ,?siton, and it is barely possible that it can equal that t i .t l, tl . lo last season, while the probabilities now are, that e li lbo consid era b ly less, even with a later frost than ' , .ft - e had f or ten years. rat e l ' hsrige has been in rather better request, and the e , es t he quotati have slightly improved. Freights are also firmer ons. THOS. J. STEWART, Cotton Broker. -` 14 of the FRENCH REGICIDE. 1 : 111 T OF PEERS.—PARIS. WEDNESDAY. 0' (Co ntinued from The Sun of Saturday.) gi j the Court resum i ng, t h e P rocureur -G enera l re ' was again followed by M. Baroche. myth. P resident t h en as k e d t h e pr i soner w h et h er h e h a d t ng farther to add to . his defence? clef s " P r isoner, slowly r i s i ng , sa id : —" I on ly w i s h to to re nd myself against the reproaches of misconduct, and thew inali c en the circumstances which drove me to oel t ,Tr• With rega r d t o m y having a mistress, I can 44; say that I had no ot h er mo th er t o g i ve m y chil -1 sail was a mother to them, and a support to me. tenzided witnesses to this point, but not being emus- Wh at a court of justice, they . did not say a word. too ve °aid about the slugs was imaginary.—(General . myself and murmurs of astonishment.) I ccupied leerl.ttalw,itilw that before the Procureur-General. That erhtled gentleman told me, when in prison, ' I have seen f or who pretended to dare death, in the end ask the: a. " 4- --I shall see you do the same.' You wish me, p l , ec i ure to_do the like. Never! You said (addressing the mcht ur-General) that you might be useful to me, Ire spatted , ° teet me. I t o ld y ou th a t I believed you, that beesyou. Did you believe me?" (The prisoner Oser ns ed, as if to wait for the reply of the Procureur ral.) ensu e p ro cureur- General—Prisoner, what you have just I told geS The to make an observation. It is true that the r ,,,,Y,", that, beyond the rigorous forms of justice, y ou b e other means of fixing your fate. I told atiti the eft in spite of my official duties, when once those mh : .. 3 Were accomplished, you might one day have my Ti That is what I sa id. hay ed Ilr isoter—" Certainly, and I replied that I be bals a ° u• You see that Ido not act like those eritni tak ill the end, ask for pardon. It was wished to b th e Me out a madman, and to make me take showers W oui s t i I told you that I did not think that new laws to u e Made for me, but that one day perhaps, thanks Tliis J i act , the punishment of death would be abolished. n et of Wh y I considered that what I had done was an tele...'?urage and heroism.—(Murmurs.) I said to my- Still ' lv a . 4 ! will make them reflect. I desired to die, and 41 )b. "ti to die." (The prisoner, in uttering the'last i i ;e:e raised his voice to a very loud tone.) Priso n suggested that it wowed be useful to press . the „. ",' r an explanation of his declaration that he clad eJ u~ rui_itowere On tne slus this hAeg put es a question, Henri said, " These . imagined by me to save the consciences of tent' and indu ce t h em t o fi n d m a guilty.—(Diffe of leen'teianietions.) I told you that there were slugs t ees" 4 ... imagined— that is to say, invented by sorter (Numerous voices, "Ah ! ah !") The prt hl had seated himself', got up again mad said, %ye e xPlained to you also that for six years I tle, r i t „eeu a Prisoner in my own house, without au throw.Y.e Without a will. It is Caroline Bacquet who has stn ntl me into these revolutions, which . make me con esooegi tr emble. Sh e i s t h e cause o f a ll. I wan t e d and / ,te save me, but she prevented their being given, I,,"'Y received' the money by small portions. I never esfaciet money t o work woli profit." i ti , % ;' i t_President—D o you pers i st i n say i ng th a t you h ave n ot cite d the slugs? e (Several Peers—No! no! That is II- quest' e itsa Quet u—We understood him to say that he had pled the slugs. feet:_e_,resident—Do you mean to say that you menu l'eu the 11 84 p ut ,slugs, or that you imagined to say that you t e i ncl e ,li Sl ugs into the pistols ? The Prisoner—l in -4%0d to say, in order that the consciences of my judges Bar out of d ou b t, that t h ere was d anger . da nder, c che---That it was b e li e ved that there was p POnish • ' ls mer—That is it ; now apply the capital 04 4) inent if you will ; I shall not be guilty.—(Move k. Ivh st h wish the prisoner to he asked . to say to Prisoner Yes or no, there were slugs in the pistols. ao othePriSOber (after a little hesitation)—l can give you thee setrtienswer than what I have already given. (He ~ A ate "ii, and let his head fall on his hand.) es s - , ° ea ti ,g.df gree of agitation was manifest throughout p UI Y• e resid e t 1 d n sitting This now closed. The Court 11:tierate. I t .-:01.1rt five' adjourned at six o'clock. it, b "' , lll ole „ . 'erd ie se , again to -morrow (Thursday) to consider it W O t it 41;'„ 11 ; aerstand that an M.P. lately elected for one of i g h tl l.l.i'„r l ,B of this county, has been making a tour through r if e ! e1 ' ,..„ 4 °. The professed object of his visit was to thank % b 'ors who favoured h , m with their votes and inte -111-%1 to we suspect tbat the motive wnich really prompte . d elip po pet such an act of gratitude was to secure their tli N 11 at a general election, which he kindly informed td ; „ Would probably t a k e pl ace " very shortly. " Before 4: 4 - e V leave o! Ip e ni h e n .. favoured or annwieuge h or e 1 0 , k , them (eu. _ w w Itti he is the possessor) a little wise counse l . One thin f r 'ieh he recommended, was to h ave " no dealings wit h 1 3 ' , e . e•tr a ders," to which a friend who accompanied him added, war of stimulant, "and we'll let 'em know they can't do i4ll O So • must expect to lhar the protectionist 4tln e r r ut not only ice he visits the tradesmen's shops to the e his necessary supplies of groceries, &c., but also in nurket, ere he offers his corn for sale, a-king those . with v„ (411 he is about to deal, the momentous . qu stinn, •‘ Are 143-I_ll fr ee - trader?" or "Are you . a rotectionist ?" To be con the'lltv however, he must go still further. He must see that a t iJersons to whom 1:e bells his produce have no dealings free traders, so that hi- corn may not get into the ' of ally o f this darzerous class of men; and if this t, e , "I be acted up on , w h ere w ill t h e f armer fi n d hi s cus t4iers? The gentleman who gave such auvice will find trader, _pr o t ect i onist also cannot live without the free- Ft; ZTutt;nqhani Review. . 'Ku ) 1 1 4 LATE Silt C. WETHERELL —A friend of ours, Sir' a PPened to be serving his articles with an eminent e'„ (11. in London, was instructed by his principal to call . on volv_u.arlts with a document, setting forth a case which in• li letit e tl e.i a vast sum of money. Sir Charles's opinion was rf- Vala r i e u • Our friend, then quite a youth, called. Sir ) ' () lie s Was busy. He informed the officials to request the tei t .,- gentleman to call to-morrow. He did so ; and tit h e the same notice. The case was one of great urgency ; ? herb doc ument was marked a notice to that effect. Si ' l4l th "waver was, or appeared to be, alw , ys engaged "waver visit of our young friend was repeated th dall3' with il l • six weeks. At length t ti e d, ? same no-result during „.!,11tvised him to step in and take Sir Charles . by a. 4l)4 ttnip ' ar ged to desperation he did so. He rushed intq the -:pii ta znt, and there was Sir Charles enjoying otium s i ne (4 th e &sated at the fire, with a foot resting oc eac u. 1 14, 1 ,_ grate, and in a state of grevious dilapidation and u Nei7e,thibiting altogether a most ridiculous specta l cle. ssid l a b t is the matter ?" said Sir Charles. " I haxr , ca i Led u , w " h v e Young clerk, " daily for six weeks." I 4 ,' 4l ere t ,, - , e, " said the lawyer, and with an expression so in so • r oung friend, overcome by law uoi e Comical that ou N e et la tio ,°‘' te en r e, burst fairly out into . ashout of uncontrol- Sir C. Wetherell did the same. The effect * 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 W, electrical , and irresistible. Our young friend, Llitii - il e°4l dCommsua d breath , apologised fir his rudeness, if!C'mat really he could not help it. "Neither could I," harles "but in the meantime I am really busy, 1 ,7 °t1 will Call to-morrow I will examine the papers. 14 tirs r a l ld bad learned wisdom from experience. He • tor Charles that unless the papers were examined • knit would never be. " I believe you are right, said t ; He then seized the document ; and in after • ° 1 an hour he wrote down an opinion which after "gee -,, ~'"'"Q the test of a protracted suit in Chancery.—Cam . kir:aneertiser 6 1 / 4 114 eT lo W t k t ADVENTURE.—A romantic young lady,. re nt l the .11 . 1 ,.. Q0 miles from Bourn , contrived a few days since, absence of mind, to make more 141114 of of a little l ncies, and enjoy a greater to , (11 1t o f es o, railway indu ge locomotion on one days fare, than commonly falls .4 but te ~ narrate. With fa . o luggage . (ladies, hear this!) I ,lt t he tittle more of the arritainfat amalorum than was our heroine left ,4,,erbo,,4lleedful " for " the day , ticket, 4'4 and in due thne arrived in London , , inwhßeree ices, ent_ P " i t ,t quiten ew from Madame T— g ; t t e t t fi e t ll' A t r_lntiletoe . xliaust the small resources of the purse; 4 (4 1)0 u a ticket " is all right, "I shall get comfortably to Lg 9 to a late withh train leaves Euston-qpia . re, t .mits, l aerome, charmed the day, compos herself with Zd a first-class for Peterborough. Oil they go, and Pp 4 , -Iv es--the train, too , arrives at --- station. "Is iris tru e . trf; 'e . ll3o rOUgh ?"." his s RugbY,meam I" Alas I twas Zit 1;1 The virtuous hero of the navel was about to cona t'll' iiegi g when the train divided at Wolverton, and t - h t 14°4 heroine was at Rugby Here, from the state fI t d e t e hequer she was obliged to repose on a sofa in nard w aiting -room' till morn. With promises from the ::111 I s at she should really be conveyed to Peterborough 11 0 "t, w o e lt r i l and that " the day ticket" should still be the paw -1,. 'el e h eroine starts once more, and now in place of her tneets with a most agreeable gentleman real hero who soon becomes far more interesting 17a e ll : e er - e 4t il i on t he r martYr at Wolverton the preceding day. , so does the train, till, during a trte;'eeaused p pe n gi r a ns e s s es by the introduction of some vulgar t near hosed into the carriage, the lady "fears they h tb k a r t Ntdeatmerbo,, rough by this time." "Peterboroug !.. My , 1 am afraid you have made a mistake," said her " v gr' companion, and in the fulness of his heart and solobien.• information , tells her . that she is at Watford i b u th ,„ e eighteen or twenty miles from . London again t : d the nes!, and serious misgivings aros as rheetticaligo,i4 and d -t l r v i i e t d h of the " day tickets" but virtu es onemo reeffo s r t t i I P l e i t v e e r s b t o u ro t n e g l ihthi the 1• 4 tgle.-s t 4 1n eo i nzi l , 'Il safety, and our heroine to\irtlycLlNTOßK.lr m r Vilock, barrister, left the Crown rt n ' ti t e alt - f,7 3 r te d r aY, m — or . nin r g . at o a quarter - past ten o'closk, went tb, ' 1 by railway, attended . the Salford sessions, de town(Staraner, and was again,. at two .r o u 'c mi lock, performing Court of this i fo a r re a prisoner in the C / me 0„, - .°° tZ 4 I IIII , a t - W e * of Fr e i u d r a Y y . night announces that Adjutant t t at, °,.se tante was so conspicuous in connexion with arged Intortunate proceedings at Hounslow, has v ex 4• 14) ) , an Z 1 the 7th Hussars into the 3d Light Dragoons.. ,t,tAt. Ur n ELBo URNE.—This distinguished nobleman is .. seat , r e, and has been for the last ten days, residing V i ldse 1:7 1 ? 1 ) Close House, in Derbyshire. His Lordship q,l iv t e It Y• 1-1 se rvice at the parish church, Greasely, on ti o tt t o _looked extremely well ip the face but a w_alw a e . Sod tt ta a 3 i ir li, v ti Qry lame. His Lordshihas been i. on numerousll 4tr, att be. expected, received . by tiv_ B Dect . c . n ‘ elghbourhood with . a deree n o s f attention t o h 7 t ,l_ ll.Lannot tail of being in the highest degree t S e li tt p: te a l l, t .e o n , ri t e e nt 7--Doncaster Gazette. tessellated nowllated and removed, tre ll itt il v G al E cxc T h h an e ge 411tON14111bpar°1:1:.that formed - the pavement cf . the Exchange ul 1638 having Into substituted. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The 24th half yearlYeWeritiMeetlng of the proprie tors of this railway was held on Saturday at the offices of the company, Nine Elms, Vauxhall. The meeting was also made special for the purpose of con sidering and determining upon the expediency of pur chasing the Richmond Railway and the works cmnected therewith, authorised by the Richmond Railway Act, 1845, and also the Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Fareham Railways, and the works connected there with, authorised by the Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Fareham Railway Act, 1846 ; and if such pnrchases, or either of them, should be deemed ex pedient, then to proceed to consider and determine the terms and conditions upon which each of the said pur chases, or such of them as shonld be approved, ought to be carried into effect, and to make all due and proper provisions accordingly ; and also to consider and deter mine on the means of providing the amount of shares, stock or money, which it might be necessary to provide, for the purpose of completing the said purchases or either of them. The chair was taken at one o'clock by W. J. Chaplin, Eq., the chairman of the Committee. The attendance of shareholders and directors was very numerous. The Secretary (P. L. Campbell, Esq.) having read the I advertisement convening the meet ing,;nnd the minutes of the last meeting having been confirmed, The SECRETARY. at the request of the Chairman, pro ceeded to read the report, of which the following is an extract : "In submitting the usual half-yearly accounts, the directors have the satisfaction of informing the share holders, that although important reductions were made in thecharges for.passengers and goods, and without the opening of any additional lines of railway , the recei p ts of the six months present an increase over those of the corresponding period in last year of ... £11,017 3 9 Towards this suns the passenger traffic bas contributed 44 " Goods traffic ... 3,381 6 6 11,017 3 9 The gross income of the six months amounts to The gross expenses (including inte rest on borrowed capital) amount to 95,209 18 1 Showing a balance of £87,089 5 4 " This balance of 87,0891.55. 4d. is divisible among the shareholders, and the directors recommend the payment therefrom of a dividend, subject to income-tax, of IL 17s. 6d. per share, which will leave a surplus of 1,004/. ss. 4d. applicable to the services of the current hall'-year. " The dividend warrants will be issued on Monday the 31st instant, in order that the proprietors may not suffer inconvenience from the delay, which has from unavoid able causes taken place, in calling them together at this 51 , 8 son. "The proprietors will observe that an unusuallyincreased amount of accommodation has been afforded to the public,. whilst the rates of carriage have been so much reduced, that the COmpany's gross receipts show com paratively little growth ; and, although there has been an absolute increase, there has been a relative diminu tion of the working expenses. The directors do not an ticipate any difference of opinion at the present day with reference to the policy of widening the base of your business, and increasing the public convenience to the utmost verge which regard' for your interests will allow; but these results have not failed to convince your direc tors of the necessity for a cautious pursuit of this policy. " With reference to the progress of works executing by the Company under powers obtained previous to the session of 1846, the directors regret that the completion of the Bishopstoke and Salisbury branch has been de layed beyond the period which they had expected ; the obstructions of the landowners have, however, been in several important instances, unusually great, and the contractors have been delayed by the difficultythey have experienced in obtaining any sufficient or steady supply of labour. The directors are, however, sanguine that this branch will be opened for traffic during the month of October next. " As regards the extension from Nine Elms to Water loo-bridge, the directors have to report that the works, having been submitted to tender, have been contracted for by responsible parties on satisfactory terms. and that the contractors are now proceeding rapidly. In exer cising the powers confided to the Company for possess ieg themselves of the properties requisite for this un dertaking, the directors have been most anxious to pro ceed with a due regard for the many and varied inte rests affected ; they have, therefore, anxiously and pa tiently considered all the claims made upon them, and if their forLwarance has partially delayed the prosecution of the work, it is gratifying to state that they have hitherto avoided all litigation.—(Applause.) " The directors have also taken steps for enlarging the Company's wharf and warehouse accommodation next the Thames, in connexion with She present Nine Elms Station, so that greatly increased facilities for the transaction of the goods' business will be presently at the service of the Company at a comparatively small cost. _ _ _ " The works of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway are in a favourable state of progress : the diffi• cultiei raised by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests as respects the forming of the line through the New Forest have been removed, and your directors are led to hope that the entire line will be opened early in the next summer.—(Applause.) The Richmond Railway was opened in the month of July last, and by an agreement between the two com panies, is worked by this Company. Much negotiation bus take. plaice between thit. two boards of direotion, with a view to the purchase of the Richmond line and works ; and, subject to the confirmation of this Tilt etieg„ a provisional agreement has been entered into, and con cluded on terms less beneficial .than your directors had hoped at an earlier period ; they recommend it, however, to your adoption, not doubting that full development of the traffic of the Richmond line will justify the higher terms consented to. The next subiect c Ting for observation is the result of the late session of Parliament, ank in submitting it to your consideration, your directors have to report that th. y have becn successful in obtaining all the most itn• portant Acts which were promoted directly by this Com- Fatly, viz.:— " 1. An Act for generally amending the Company's powers. " 2. For an extension to London-bridge. " 3. Fvr a branch to Hampton Court. " 4. For a branch to Cherts,y and Egham. " 5. For a branch to Farnhatn and Alton. " 6. For an extension from Basingstoke to Salisbury ; whilst they have to regret the failure of the Wimbledon and Epsom branch, and the Rumsey and Redbridge Junction Bills. _ " The directors have lost no time in acting on the powers they have thus obtained, and, except as regards the London-bridge Extension, the engineers have al ready set out the several lines upon the ground, and the plans and specifications will be, at no distant day, ready for contract. " The Act for sanctioning the extension to London bridge has passed so very recently, that the directors cannot in this case report similar progress ; neither can they omit to congratulate the proprietors on their suc cess in this application.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill had to encounter far more than ordinary difficulties. To re concile or resist successfully, under any circumstances, the vast number and amount of interests connected with the properties on this line, must have been a work of di fficulty ; and to these was added the long and patient examination of the Royal Commission on the Metropo litan railways, besides the usual ordeals of a committee in each House of Parliament. Your directors believe that this extension is the only one, out of many similar schemes, which 'has survived the scrutiny to which all were subjected ; and they cannot overrate the importance they attach to the powers which have been thus acquired of connecting your undertaking with the very centre — the commercial heart—of the metropolis.—(Cheers.) Thus far successful, as regards the Bi lls directly promoted by this Company, it is with much regret that your directors find themselves unable to report results of a like character as to those measures. which they promoted in alliance with others. " In the Portsmouth district, Parliament has seen fit to sanction the atmospheric line, and to reject all the proposed line by Chichester, except the small portions between Guildford and Godalming and between Ports mouth and Fareltam. It would be in vain to repeat, that the line which has been thus sanctioned is very far inferior to that which has been rejected in every point of comparison which ought to govern decisions upon such questions: were it not in justification of the past proceedings of your directors, and of those which they will recommend for your future adoption, necessary to bear in mind that the Chichester line had better gradients—lighter works—more local accommodation and less railway to construct—and that it established shorter communications between London and every town which either line proposed to accommodate. Your directors have cause to believe that a line between Godalming and Chichester, when again presented to Parliament, will, with certain modifications, not mate rially impairing the line of last session, meet with the approval of the great landowners who joined in the late opposition.— (Cheers.) They have, therefore, directed their attention carefully to this subject, and will shortly be prepared with definitive recommendations upon it. " As respects the portions of line which the Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Farehain Company ob tained powers to construct, your directors have to report that they have, under the powers of the Act incorporating that company, entered into a provisional contract with the directors for the purchase of their undertaking. on the terms of this Company bearing the entire expenses of the Guildford Extension Cotnisny (past and future), and repaying their shareholders the full amount of their deposits, with a small premium to cover interest thereon. This purchase your directors recommend you to sanction. and they have the satisfaction of adding, that at their request, the Guildford Extension Board had immediately on the passing of their Act directed the works to be set out, and that the plans and specifications are already prepared for contract. " West of Exeter, the Central Cornwall and Devon scheme was unfortunately withdrawn from the con sideration of Parliament by its non-compliance with the standing orders, as were also large portions of the lines projected by the broad gauge interests for North Devon. The Great Western Company, and their allies have carried their project for connecting Plymouth and Fal mouth, and the West Cornwall Railway, but these measures were not sanctioned without reservations in favour of the central communication proposed by the Central Cornwall and Devon Company, if the same should be hereafter sanctioned by Parliament. By these reservations the propriety of extending the narrow gauge system to Falmouth and the Land's End, appears to your directors to be fully recognised.—(Cheers.) was allied with the " East of Exeter, this company London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Company, as respects the country between Basingstoke and Yeovil, and with the Exeter, Yeovil. and Dorchester Company, as respects the line between Yeovil and Exeter. Against these measures the Great Western proposed an extension of their Berks and Hants line from Hungerford to West bury, and a line called the Exeter Great Western Rail way, between Yeovil and Exeter. The former was re. jected for non-compliance with the standing orders of the House of Commons; the latter being referred to the same Committee with the London, Salisbury and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester was, after a most protracted and careful inquiry, rejected on the merits, whilst the Bills in this Company's interest were unanimously passed.—(Applause,) In the House of Lords the successful Bills were referred to a Com mittee, and this tribunal ultimately came to a decision unfavourable to them, at the same time avowing by a distinct resolution, that their objections were founded on the details of the measures then before them, and that a line of railway from Salisbury by Yeovil to Exeter was desirable. Your directors therefore regard these lines as merely postponed, and they have lost no time in directing Mr. Locke carefully to re-ex amine the district in question, with a view to the removal of every objectionable portion of the schemes, end ren dering them as perfect as possible, including within their scope the most direct practicable route to Plymouth and other parts of Devonshire. "It cannot be a matter of surprise to you, that the directors are unable now to report fully on the measures which they will recommend you to adopt or aid in the next session of Parliament, as regards these districts. Their attention,' and that of their engineer, has been given unremittingly•to the subject, but, unable to propose to you the schemes in a matured and well-digested shape, they prefer the postponement of any further report upon the subject, merely adding at present, that they have no hesitation in recommending you to support renewed ap plications for lines to embrace all the material objects of the Bills of the last session.—(Applause.) "In addition to the undertakings of the last session, your directors have also under their careful consideration measures for extending railway accommodation to a con siderable space of country west of Richmond, interu:e diate between the Great Western and South-Western lines—(Cheers)—believing that the population and trede of those localities will gain far greater convenience by a connexion with this railway, and particularly with its London stations, than can be otherwise secured to them. " The junction of this railway with the lines centering at Oxford in conformity with the views of the Govern ment, continues to engage the consideration of your directors ; and their attention has also been invited to the construction of some important branches from the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, on which your •directors will communicate to you a mature judgment at no distant peri3d. " The proprietors would probably desire some intima tion of the views of the directors, as to the manner in which they deem it advisable to raise the capital neccs sari for the lines which it has been intimated will be applied for next session ; but in the present unsettled state of these questions, and considering the numerous interests which have to be consulted, the directors deem it their duty to postpone any announcement of the course which may, at the present moment, appear to be most desirable. It will be their duty, as early as they feel the service of the Company requires it, again to call the proprietors together ; and they purpose, on that occasion, to lay before them not only their recommenda tions as to the particular schemes which shall be pro secuted, but also the manner (as regards capital and otherwise) in which they think the proceedings ought to be taken. " Your directors also think it right again strongly to recommend the project of establishing a steam-packet company in connexion with the railway, to the notice of proprietors."—(Loud applause.) " From the capital account of the Company laid befire the meeting, it appeared that the Amount expended up to 31st Decem ber, 1845, as per last report had. been £2,623,006 1 5 That there had been since paid from Ist Januacy to 30th June, 1846 : For stations £1,660 0 0 For land and compensa tion For construction of way 167 16 111 and works .. For ditto, balance ac count of Gosport line 5,671 11 8 For land surveying and valuing,. 411 9 9 11,577 11 5i £2,634,583 12 101 The receipts of the Company bad been as follows for new lines : For&posits on Eighths.£32,2Bs 5 0 For second callon ditto 32,195 0 0 For third ditto 42,692 0 0 For fourth ditto 42,346 0 0 For fifth ditto For sixth ditto For deposit on new shares For second call on new 50/. sham—. For second call on new 401. skares 18,940 0 0 For third call on new 501. shares 199,685 0 0 For third call on new 40/. shares 18,256 0 0 For fourth call on new 501. shares 173,850 0 0 For fourth call on new 401. shares 16.528 0 0 For deb,n tura bond.... 52,000 0 0 - - - - 999,172 5 0 Payments had been made as follows, tor the undermentioned lines : Epsom Line .... Metropolitan Exten 85,217 16 9 Guildford Line Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fa:ehatn . Chichester and Ports mouth Southampton and Dorchester 242,099 4 7 Cornwall Central and Devon,Old Company 3,000 0 0 Ditto, New Company 78,750 0 0 Bishopstoke and Salis bury branch Exeter, Yeovil, and DorchesterCornpany 17,875 0 0 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Company For Rails and Chairs 27,544 17 7 Printing,Stationary,Sce 3,514 5 9 Surveying and Engi neering Law Expenses Carriages Engines 15,115 6 3 Interest on New Shares 4,311 15 11 Debenture bond stamps 60 0 0 £831,959 10 8 Leaving a balance of £167,212 14 4 The report having been read, The CHAIRMAN rose and said that he was glad to meet the proprietors on this occasion.- The vicissitudes through which they had just passed were of no ordi nary char-aster. They had been compelled to await the result of Parliamentary Commissions, Select Commit tees, Mr. Morrison's Committee, and Government Com mittees on the terwini,as well as a variety of other proceed ings arieingout of the sessional orders for the better control and management of railways. But, he believed, after alt they found things in the same condition as they had at the close of last session. There certainly was the shadow of something coming in the form of a Govern ment board, but at present, he believed, nothing was definite. The proprietors must, no doubt, have a pretty good conception of the painful position in which their directors had been kept during the session that had just ciosed. If, however, the report which was that day presented to them met their approbation, and he trusted that it would, the directors would cheerfully continue in their labours on behalf of the company.—(Applause.) There were one or two items of expenditure in the account just read by the secretary that might - require some explanations he alluded to the sum of 2,794/., which had been expended for re pairing and altering the 'stations, and the item of 2,3511. in new works, according to contract. There was also the sum of 2,139/. for printing and stutionane, which in cluded tickets. With regard to the la't-named item it might seem rather heavy unless some explanation were given. The increase in the item for printing, &e., then, arose from the change which had been adopted in the ticket system, amid the whole machinery, and the charges for repairs, and the improvements of the stations, &c., was owing to the increased business of the Company as regarded Leah passeegers and merchandise at all the stations. Nowthstanaing the defeats which they had sustained during the late session, he might at all events congratulate the proprietors on t he Bills which they had succeeded in obtaining. The first to which he would direct their attention was the London-bridge Extension Bill.—(Applause.) lle coneeived that every one of the proprietors must at once ace the benefits which that measure was calculated to confer on this Company.— (Hear.) Indeed it would be impossible for him to dc , ati all the advantages of such en extensien. The metropo loan trade must be in an ex raordinery mann. r ieflu eeced by it. and if ever there was a doubt as to the pu lley of spoialit4n money for tie i.urpose extete:lieg line from Nine Elms to Waterloo bei,lge, and agldn f, - orn Waterloo bridge to London- in idge, suer: doubt he thought must now be c‘upletely removed by the mile tretion affenNal by the opening of the Richmond Railway.—(Applau.,e.) The directors of this Company had, as the proprietors were aware, tried to purchase that railway, the prolxieto;.s .of which were desirous of sealing it to them, and it might therefore be supposed that the matter would be considered in a fair, open manner. But such was the imeortance of all these extensions and routes to the metropolis, ti.a those gentlenc4i, feeling strongly the impttance of their line, would not be can tent, unless paid a greater amour'', of money than they had originally asked, When he wisured the meetink that the traffic on that railway had reached to 60,90 pas sengers in four weeks—(Loud applause)—which was half the number of passengers that had passed on the en tire line of this Company, extending over 99 miles, ex clusive of Richmond—they would be able to judge that the influence occaskned by the extension to Waterloo bridge toust be exceedingl:, great, inesinuch as it woulti have the effect of doubling the value of the property.— (Hear, hear.) And as th..y had now obtained 13iH t` , ::, iiranclics to Hampton Court, Alton, F. , rnham and places, all the vicinity of the metropolis, he trustee ' that at the end of three years they would be able to re THE .i.,,,oNrkpN, MONDAY MORNIN-G, AU&UST 1846,_ port as favourably of them as of the_Richmend line.— 1 (Applause.) The Ha m p ton C ourt b ranc h mus t b ecome a very productive source to the metropolitan trade, and there would necessarily be an amply remunerating traffic. The Chcrtsey and Weybridge lines would also contribute in an eminent degree to the prosperity of the Company. The Alton and Farnham line.would also be a highly remunerative line. The next point on which he wished to say a few words was their future policy. He flattered himself—indeed, he felt confident—that it was the anxious wish of the proprietors, that their di rectors should evince the greatest desire at all times to remain if possible on friendly terms with'the lines east and west of them.—(Hear, hear.) But he regretted to say that so far that principle had signally failed, whether it arose from a low state of morality in the railway world—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—or from business, or from the interference of third parties, he knew not. This remark applied particularly to gentlemen interested in the Yeovil district; for when the proprietors of this company contemplated repose, a third party stepped in and projected another line for that locality; and the di rectors, notwithstanding their desire to maintain peace. did not sure , ed in obtaining their rights peaceably. He would retest, therefore, that that principle hal failed, and he felt that there was now no way open to them for the future; but to occupy in a spirited manner the whole of those districts with which they contemplated interfering, and which were nt present unprovided with railway ac commodation. They had certainly got a line secured to Salisbury, but tnon what principle they had lost the remaining tract of country to Exeter it was difficult for his cellengues and himself to comprehend. They had supplied a direct line to Sherburne, under the sanction or wishes of Government, (which had endeavoured as far as possible to promote the most direct lines), but in doing so they interf, red slightly.witlt:the park of a cer tain nobleman (Lord Dighy). They were, therefore, compelled to instruct theinengineer, Mr. Locke, to devise an alternative line which would afford finite as ample ac commodation to the people of Sheiborne as could be desired. The worthy chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons (Mr. Beckett Denison, he be lieved) took the trouble of going down peteonally to inspect Lord Digby's park, and the result was that he decided in his opinion this company should not be driven to the use of any alternative tine. The House of Com mons, therefore, gave them their Bill, having previously inserted a clam e in the .Bill 'to prevent' them from wantonly sporting with Lord • Digby's property. Now it so happened that in the House of Peers this line was at once- thrown out, and Wing had the alternative line stopped in the House of Common's they had no relief, and lost their Bill. He had confidently antiei pated that Mr. Locke would have been present at this meeting, but he had found that. morning that that gen tleman had gone to Exeter for the purpose of surveying the whole of the line as well as examining the whole of the district between Exeter and Cornwall and Plymouth, in order to lay the result before a meeting of the pro prietors at the earliest possible moment. The plans which he would lay before them would no doubt be of the most comprehensive character, and such as to ensure the approbation of the Legislature; they would afford a complete and comprehensive mode' of communication on the narrow gauge.—(Applause.) The Chairman then said that he hoped the meeting would excuse him if in passing he took occasion, in justice to himself and brother directors, to say a few words with respect to some reports which had gone forth to the public to the effect that they had betrayed the proprietors' interests with respect to the country lying west of Salisbury. (He then proceeded at great length to show that they had acted in strict conformity with the rules of justice and good faith in all matters af fecting the interests of the proprietors, and he challenged any one to come forward and prove that he had in any instance failed to fulfil to the very letter any agreement or engagement which he had entered into with any other company. His defence of the conduct of his co adjutors in office elicited loud applause from the nume rous body of proprietors present.) With respect to the Portsmouth' line of the rival company the chairman re marked, that every one must acknowledge that it was a very had line—(Hear,, hear)—that the country through which it passed was very thinly populated—([tear, hear) —that it had very bad gradients—(Hear, hear)—that it was a most extensive line and not a very direct one ; and he felt confident that this Company would be able to compete with them most successfully.—(Applause.) This Company had a line to Godalming, which was six miles nearer to London than that of their rival. They had also removed the difficulties which unfortunately existed with the landowners in Sussex, and with the permission of the proprietors the directors of this Com pany would be able to show the public to their complete satisfaction that they offered the best accommodation to that district.—(Cheers.) He thought it would be as well to say a word with regard to the attnospheric line, because he presumed that many of them had read the railway journals, in which they would see that after all that had been said about atmospheric power, the locomotive was to be the one that would be adopted, and this Company had therefore been deluded or choused out of the line.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the Richmond Railway, he need not trouble them. The di rectors had much satisfaction in announcing lo the shareholders the selection which they had made, or in fact he should rather say the honour which had been conferred upon them, by the two distinguished indivi duals (Earl Morley and the Hon.W. F. Scott, M.P.), who had consented to fill the vacant directorS' seats. (Cheers.) He trusted that the proprietors would duly appreciate the arrangement which had been made for the election of those individuals, and that they would unanimously approve of it.—(Cheers.) As he was not aware of any other subject on which it was necessary for him to trouble them, he would conclude by moving— " That the repert be ,adopted. anti printed and circulated amongst the proprict, T B. " —(Cheers.) Mr. REED having seconded the resolution, it was eventually carried unanimously, after a very lengthy de sultory conversation. It was then moved and agreed to that a dividend of 375. 6t1., subject to income-tax, be declared for the half year, ending June 30 last. It was also proposed and agreed to that the directors be, and they are hereby, authorised and requested to take all such preliminary steps, and make all Such arrangemnts with other com panies and parties as shall appear to them necessary or expedient for attaining powers to enable this Company, either alone or jointly with such other csmpanies or parties, to form such extension and branch lines of rail way as to the directors shall seem conducive to the interests of the company.. The fourth resolution, which was agreed to, was that the Right Honourable the Earl of Morley be, and he is hereby, elected a director of this Company. The fifth resolution was to the effect that the Hon. F. Scott, El., M.P., be, and he is hereby, elected a director of the Company. This was also unanimously agreed to. Lord MORLEY and F. SCOTT, Esq., M P., returned thanks for the honour conferred upon them. Mr. CURRIE then moved that the allowance to the directors be increased from 1,0001. a year to 2,0001. Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE moved as an amendment, that the allowances should be 1,5001. per annum. After some discussion upon the subject of whether it was or was not necessary to give notice of such a course of proceeding, Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE withdrew his amendment. Mr. TAMLIN then moved that the subject be taken into consideration this day six months. The amendment having been put it was negatived by a corsiderable majority, and the original resolution was carried. Mr. AITKEN said that he hoped, in consequence of the resolution having been objected to by some of the pro prietors, the directors would not accept of the proposed accession to their allowance. The business of the general meeting having then been brought to a conclusion, the meeting was made special, and the following resolution was proposed : " That this meeting approves and sanctions the pur chase of the Richmond Railway, and the other property and effects of the Richmond Railway CoMpany, on the terms specified in the minute of the court of directors, held on the 28th of August instant, and produced and read at this meeting, and the directors are hereby authorised to complete the said purchase, and to do all proper acts for effecting that purpose, and also to make arrangements and take such steps for providing and pay ing, or transferring the stock, shares, and money necessary to be provided and paid or transferred on completion of the purchase as they shall find needful or expedient, with powers for the directors on the part of the com pany to make or consent to such modifications in the de tails of the terms of purchase, as reported to this meet ing, as they shall consider expedient. Mr. Sergeant GAZELEN wished to know how it was that the proprietors were in give 66 per cent. for one third of their profits, the present Company had already two-thirds of their profits ? The CHAIRM'AN explained that whatever proportion Was left to the Richmond Railway was no matter to this cempany, provided that portion was worth the price offered for it: Mr. sergeant GAZELEE wished to know if they had made the agreement on the traffic of the last three or four weeks, which had been during the best month of the year. He thought that it would be better to let the Richmond Company have the benefit of the winter season, and then make terms with them. The CHAIRMAN said that in his opinion the traffic on the line would be very considerable, and although the traffic had been during the best month of the year, still there were other advantages to be looked for to make up for that, which were the opening of the line to Water loo and London Bridges, and also the carriage of goods and agricultural produce, which were not as yet carried on the line. r'erleP:elYnt had nbeoetnbeen carried out pro of their line, and in consequence of In answer to a question put by a e9hl.arperheolliditelmr, The CHAIRMAN said that the oriental offer made to pro o p t r t ie th w e r i s r tight to demaed 101. for their shares. tvsthhhila"uriPet:streogh; large hh : ea , B i d) , l3 ll 3: : l ; i i l i g f traffic upon that lie the the additional one pound, especially huTattil'olentdbtineecgtbotrsidt questionid t o ic i ,t think it worth while to stand out as by the present alteration in the standing ord, rs of the House there would be, less time than before to make arrangements for the extensions of lines beyond Rich mond, and they thought it best at once to conclude the arrangement. Mr. CHADWICK. the chairman of the Richmond Corn pany, said that the offer on the part of the Richmond Company was perfectly bone fide, and the directors a ere quite prepared to baud over the line on the terms me n xt Wednelday, the 26th of tic' T T ne h h ( e e t inirleetelurreteis,stoiluuattijo:n.:lt:hve:nseotillnneinrismousl respectingagreed to. ° A n ts. Helps and other the purchase of the Guildthrd Extension and Portsmouth and Fare ham Railway on the terms proposed at a late general meeting uAgfutset.r s o thatf fe w words company,t,rom pro prietors, This resolution was also unanimously agreed to. I n answer t o a question put by a shareholder, it was stafel that there would be a call of 5/, on the 26th of September "next, and it was probable that there would be another within three months from that period. A vote of thanks was then proposed to the directors and the chairman, and the meeting broke up at half past four o'clock. BRIGHTON. AUG. 27.—Arrived their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess de Goezaga, the Rev. W. A. Willmott, Rev. Dr. Buckland, Mrs. Christie, Mr. Charles Young, Captain M. R. Grey, the Hon. Captain Southwel, Mr. J. Bishop, the Rev. Mr. St. Aubyn, Dr. and Mrs. Jeffery, and Dr. Stebbings. THE ROYAL PAVILION AT BRIGHTON. —The following official order was issued yesterday :—" Lord Chamber lain's Office, Aug. 28, 1846.—Notice is hereby' given, that the Pavilion, a , Brighton, will be closed to visitors, and that no orders to view the Fame can be available after Saturday, the sth of Sept. next." Mr. Peel, a son of Sir Robert Peel, who had been staying with Mr. Taylor on the Old Steyne, left 6n Tuesday for Dieppe in the Menai. Sarni Pacha and suite took their departure from our Chain Pier yesterday afternoon for Dieppe, by the Menai packet, which had besides about fotty passengers. A regatta is shortly to take place, on behalf of the fishermen, for which the High Constable is kindly col lecting subscriptions. The Coa-t Guard gives their assistanco,ar.d it is also said that the Revenue yachts and the Governtoknt vessels stationed on the coast for the protection of the fishery wi!l add their presence to the scene. There has lo en a plentiful supply of trawl-fish during the week, which has sold et very reasonable rates—fine tilei and brili from 4d. to 6d. a pound. A few rnaeltarcl are still brought in, nod fetch sd.'ecteh. Rapid progress is making with she King's-road sea wall. It is level with the old road nearly the whole of the distance, and may be expected to be finished within a [eolith. Some sensation was caused on Monday by a number of Chelsea Pensioners (belonging to the Brighton dis trict, entering the town ; each man bearing his musket, and handling it like an old friend. Many of the men were fine-looking Old veterans, and some, despite a little stooping, stood full six feet high; others did not pass the military standard fur infantry. They are assembled, under the command of Lieut. Hull, for six days' train ing, and have been daily exercised—early in the morning behind the battery house, and at ten o'clock in the Wick fields. Their uniform consists of a like frock coat and epaulettes, black trowsers with scarlet stripe, blue cap and scarlet band. . Their strength is 1 sergeant-major, 3 sergeants, 4 corporals, 60 privates, a drummer and filer; and there is a bard of seven selected from the pen sioners. Their period of service expires to.:day.— Brighton Herald. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, AUG. 28. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Auc. 24. Hawk schooner, William Moore, Esq., from Lon don • Amazon cutter, Sir John Walsb,Bart., M.P., from South ampton. 27. Sea-Flower cutter, Right Hon. Thomas Gibson, M.P., from London. SAILINGS. AUG. 23. Albatross yawl, Sir Wm. GaHuey, Bart, for Torquay and Plymouth ; Flirt schooner, Sir B. R. Graham, Bart., tOr Torquay and Plymouth; Avenger cutter, James Saunderson, Esq., for Torquay and Plymouth ; Georgian schooner, William Lyon, Esq., for Brest; Fair Rosamond schooner, Marquis of Blandford, for Brest ; Dream cutter, George Bentinck, Esq., for Plymouth and other ports. 24. Charlotte cutter, Hon. Wm. White Hedges, for Ply mouth ; Frisk cutter, Richard Frankland, Esq., for Plymouth. 25. Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., for Plymouth; Turquoise cutter, C. H. Coote, Esq., westward ; Osprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., for Portsmouth, to lay up. 27. Pearl cutter, Marquis of Anglesey, for Plymouth. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners—Fairy Queen, Xarifa, Camilla, Maud, Magic, Hawk. Cutters—Sparrowhawk, Emerald, Drift, Drvad, Forest-fly, Medina, Amazon, Witch, Adelaide, Intrepid, Wave, Susan. LORD FITZHARDINGE'S CUP. The following members of his Lordship's squadron have entered their yachts for the silver cup which he has given to be sailed for to-morrow (Saturday) urday):—Lord W. Lennox, the Hon. A. Berkeley, A. Fonblanque, Esq., Captain Claxton, R.N., and the Right. Hon. M. Gibson. With a good breeze, we hope to have one of the best matches of the season. His Lordship keeps up the spirit of yatching; with him there is no flagging, and the public are much indebted to him for the treats his squadron daily present to those who have a taste for yacht sailing. Lord A. Paget also sails twc) of his yachts, the Albacore and the BAvidere. Her Majesty in the char-a-bane, and the Prince on horse back, crossed over in the ferry boat, having taken a carriage airing through Newport, going by the East Cowes road, and returning by the west. His Royal Highness Prince Albert celebrates his birthday to-morrow, by giving a dinner to all the workmen (about 300) employed at Osborne: they are to dine on the lawn fronting the Palace. The band of the 74th.attends. The Earl and Countess of Wilton and the Duke of Meck lenburg were to have dined with G. H. Ward, Esq., yesterday, but received the command from her Mikjesty to join the royal dinner circle. The Duke Of Beaufort had invited a large party to dine with him to-day, but received a similar notice' to attend at the Palace. THE PEEL TESTISIONIAL.—The appeal made by The Sun to the people of England to subscribe their pence, has been cheerfully responded to by the visitors to 4 . Newell's Com mercial 1100 n." We have no l'ubt the example will be fol lowed by the attendants to the other public rooms in the town. Our town has been thrown into a good deal of concern by the body of a child having been found under the quay at the lower e►,d of the town. An inquest was held on it, but no evidence appearing to direct the jurors, they merely returned a verdict of ‘. Found dead." A girl of the name 01 Cbis•sell, servant to Mr. Toovey, surgeon, of this town, has since been taken up, and acknowledged to having been delivered of a still• bon► child by Mr. Toovey'a assistant, about a fortnight since; that she kept it in the house till Sunday evening, when, there being an execution in the house, and fearing the room it was in would be entered by the officer, she threw it over the Fountain Quay. Bain, the assistant, gave evidence to the same effect, and added that Mr. Toovey was from home on the Sunday evening on which the girl was delivered, and did not return till the Wednesday, when he told him all the particulars, and also his father. He had not mentioned the circumstance to any one else. It was a six months' child. He considered, having told his master, it was in his master's hands. Another examination took place on the following day, and the girl was committed to take her trial at the assizes for concealing the birth. Mr. Toovey is said to be in London : his house is closed. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FES TIVAL. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.--TbiS meeting com menced on Tuesday and ended to-day. It has been very successful—the richness of its scheme and the excellence of the means- f giving it effect amply deserved success. The attendance on the first day was quite to an average extent. Haydn's Creation was the oratorio. It went off splendidly ; but the grand feature , of the meeting and the most numerously attended was Mendelssohn's new work Elijah, .which was given on Wednesday, and was successful to the echo. Its celebrated author was pre sent, and conducted the performance. It opens with a brief monologue by the Prophet, announcing to the Jew ish people the impending judgment of the Lord, the three years' drought and famine over the land. Then follows the overture—an entire novelty in construction ; but it is a novelty which has suggested itself to one who is a poet as well as a musician ; for, after this index, the charac ter of the instrumental movement is clearly defined, and it is felt to be a powerful picture of the miseries which followed the fulfilment of the prophecy. Without in teruption, this overture breaks into a chorus of the people. They cry, in accents of piercing anguish, " The deeps afford no water , and the rivers are exhausted ! The suckling's tongue now cleaveth for thirst to its mouth ; the infant children ask for bread, and there is no one that breaketh it to feed them !" The imagina tion is deeply impressed by the plaintive and heart rending cries and wailings of the helpless women, so vividly expressed by the sounds of this chorus. Next we have Elijah challenging the priests before Ahab the King, and the trial sacrifice takes place. The chorus of these priests is a specimen of con summate art. It is loud and clamourous, min gled with the barbaric clang of instruments ; and its rhythmical movement indicates the dances which mingled with the rites of Paean idolatry. The ; reiterate Prophet th e exhortstheir ee t s h e m which a u n b t i e n c g o l m y o t h cl e a a e l c o e u n de ts r () f drayde spair. They cease from exhaustion ; and the pause of dead silence, which indicates their failure, is more ap palling than any sounds could have been. Elijah then addresses his prayer to God in accents of deep devotion; and a choir of angels seconds his supplication, which is successful, and then the people exult in a splendid chorus. Elijah then int(lcedes with the Almighty to stay the plague of drought—the tempest comes in an swer to his prayer, and a war of the elements is painted by the orchestra with immense power ; and a grand choral song of thanksgiving, mingled with the howling of the blast and the raging of the storm—welcome though terrible—closes the first part of the oratorio. The second part brings Elijah before Ahab, who bas again fallen into idolatry ; the Prophet rebukes Jezebel, and is forced to fly to the desert, where he sleeps "under a juniper tree," he is watched over by angels, whose strains are truly celestial harmony. This divine passage was one of those which were encored. The third part is worthy of its predecessors, but its crowning glory is a splendid piece of descriptive music, the manifestation of the Deity, in his glory to the Pro phet, before he is carried up into heaven. This pas sage of Scripture exhibits so strikingly the majestic language of inspiration, that we quote it :—" And behold, the Lord passed by ! And a mighty wind rent the mountains around, brake in pieces the rocks, brake hem before tho I, , rd ; but tbo Lord was not in the tempest. And behold the Lord passed by! And the sea - e as upheaved, and the earth was shaken ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake there came a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire therecsme a small still voice, and in that still voice inward came the Lord!" Mendelssohn has drawn from this passage tremendous musical effects, which must be h eard before the slightest conception can be formed of them. This is the grand climax of the work. The narration of Elijah's miraculous translation, when " there came a fic , ry chariot, with fiery hories, and he went by a whirl wind to heaven," is the subject of a chorus of great de scriptive power ; and after some beautiful music, in which allusions are made to the prophecies touching Elijah's second appearance on the earth before the end of all things, the oratorio ends with a grand choral hymn of praise to the Almighty. The vocalists were Madame Caradori Allan, Miss Hawes, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Lockey, and Herr Staudigl. Mr. Lockey is a highly promising tenor, and succeeded in obtaining several encores on this occasion. - The other novelty of the meeting- is a Miss Bassano, a contralto of great power of o r gan an d o f finished education. The Misses Williams were very successful in some duets in the Creation, and generally throughout the meeting. I'HE LATE RTC FORMATION IN GERMANY. . _ pub!ic meeting was held on Friday, in the Hanover square Rooms, to receive the Rev. Johannes Czerski, and the Rev. A. Posse, late priE sts in the Roman Catho lic Church in Germany, from which they have seceded, and to hear addresses from them on the Reform move ment which exists in Germany. On the platform were Dr. Henderson, Dr. Conquest, Rev. R. Herschell, Dr. Tholuch, of Helle ; Rev. W. Chave, J. D. Paul, Esq., the Hon. and Rev. Orlando Forrester, The Right Hon. W. CoWPER, in the unavoidable ab sence of Lord Ashley, took the chair. The Rev. RIDLEY HERSCHELL, a native of Germany, briefly referred to some charges which bad been mado against Mr. Czerski—first that he had received money from England for the objects of the Reform movement and bad given no account, whereas he said he had re ceived only IN. from one individual, and that had been given him for his own use ; and, second, that he had egreed on a confession, and signed it in the company of Rouge, whim he now repudiated. But the fact was, that though a meeting had taken place between Rouge and Czerski, it was incidental, and no confession of faith bias written or agreed to. The charges, he said, Mere unfornded. Mr. Herschell then said he would Jo his best to translate into English Mr. Czerski's address to the meeting, as neither that gentleman nor Mr. Posse could express theras, Ives in the English language. The Rev. J. CZERSEI here addressed the meeting. He said the sympathy which he had met with in this country, and at that meeting, as a weak instrument in this work of God, gave him great joy ; he prized this the more that hearty union among the friends of religion was especially' necessary at this day, in order to repel and overcome the efforts being made by the Roman Catholic Church to extend her do minion. He considere.l her to be the enemy of truth, notwithstandieg that she vaunted herself to be the only true church, within the pale of which alone salvation could b, found ; for his part, he and the friends he saw around him, would not serve, the prince of this world who had set himself in the place of God, and said, "I am God!" The inventions of men had darkened the sun of heaven ; the words in a hich God had revealed himself had been forbidden by the Roman Catholic priesthood, who set themselves up as mediators, and said, the merits of Christ could be reached only through them. The effect was, that there existed much outside religion, without any thing of the spirit ofChristianity. While he was yet a priest he pitied the darkness and the ignorance of the people, and directed them to the Scriptures. In the cathedral of Posen he first began to preach to the con gregation. He aas reproved by the hierarchical autho rities for doing so, and when he would not consent to desist, he was sent away to a small village. lle preached there also, and was, in consequence, subjected to another removal. This time they sent him to 6chenan Muhl, the population of which is German, and as he (Mr. Czerski) was a Pole, they hoped they had efftectually stopped his preaching. He however used what efforts he could, and in three months after he had the gratification to see the people searching the Bible and comparing it with the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. By-and-bye he left the Romish com munity, and ten went with him, and became the nucleus of the first reformed congregation. Four weeks after this secession came out the letters of Ronge against the Holy Coat of Treves. He saluted M. Runge as a fellow warrior against Rome and her traditions, and a friend of truth. Subsequent to this the movement spread rapidly, and many congregations in the larger towns were formed of those who had seceded from the Roman Church. When the Roman Catholics saw the dangers they were likely to encounter they used every effort to get him back to their communion, they used both promises and threats ; and it was resolved by them to enter his house and curry him oft to prison privately, on a night fixed tor the purpose. Their intention, however, was frus trated, by the watchman communicating information of it to him. Six months after this the seceders held a general synod at Leipsic. He attended this, thinking that, by forming themselves into a church, combination would be a source of strength ; but what was his grief when he found that the greater number of them at that synod had turned their back upon Christ. They had not merely parted with the symbols of scriptural doctrines, but they even spoke of throwing away the Scriptures themselves. They framed a confession also, but he could no t s i gn i t —h e cou ld not re: ' cognise it as a Christian confession. He him self; therefore, a month later, published a confession of faith among the Christian Catholics (for the Ronge party are called the Gtrman Catholics), and the con sequence was that a split occurred. The German Catholics sacrificed to their reason on the altar, the others held the faith of Christ; there was yet a hope of change and union, but a Dr. Tiners incited them against allying themselves to the truth. Ile said since he. hal left the Roman Catholic Church he found that he was sinful and needed the grace of God ; before he was a forgiver of sins, but now, in his heart, he felt he needed forgiveness himself, and that could be obtained from God alone. M. Czerski apologised to the meeting for his address, and excused nimself, on the ground of ill ness, from proceeding. He handed over to the Chair man an English translation of some extracts from the ordination service in the Evangelical Church in Prussia, and said lie adhered to the doctrines there avowed as his confession of faith. The CHAIRMAN then read it to the meeting as follows: " DECLARATION, To be inserted in the Form of Ordination of Candidates of the Evangelical Church of Prussia. Proposed and Voted by the General S) nod at Berlin, August 1846. tt He who is lawrull culled to the office of teaching in tho Evangelical Church, and is to be consecrated thereto by prayer and the imposition of hands, must publ!cly declare that he stands in the common faith of the church, and therefore, in the first plate, " That he will neither take his own opinions, nor any commandments of men whatsoever, but the word of God in the prophetical and apostolical writings, for the rule of his teaching. " Next, that under God's assistance he will continue faithfully and ddigtntly in that interpretation of Holy Scripture, which is carried on accoicbug to the laws of language by the Holy Spirit, in unison with the Conies-. sions of the Universal Church, and with the Confessional Books of the Evangelical Church, as testimonies of the fundamental facts and fundamental truths of our salva tion, and as types of sound doctrine." (lit re follows the answer of him who is to be ordered to the question fir his assent.) " And since these fundamental facts and truths consist chit fly in the following, I ask you, Whether you, with the Universal Church upon earth, confess God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ? " xt, whether, with the whole Evangelical Church, you cl 4 in the first place, confess Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who emptied himself and took upon him the form of a servant, as the only mediator, seeing that, as a prophet sent by God, mighty in words and works, he has proclaimed peace, and as our eternal high-priest has by his death reconciled us to God, being deli%ered for our offences, and ;raised again 'or our justification, whereupon he sat down at the rigt,t hand of the Majesty on High, and reigns for ever as the head of the church, which he gathers and preserves by means of His word and sacraments through the Holy Ghost, who, being sent by Him into our hearts, teaches us to call Jesus our Lord, and to know the grace which is given to us in Him? " Secondly, Whether you, through faith in these glad tidings of the free grace of God in his Beloved Son, will acknowledge and confess that we are all sinners, but become children of God through faith in Christ, in whom we being jibtified before God through grace, without merit of works, have the pledge of an imperish able inheritance, which is laid up in heaven ; and that we, through the same faith, which worketh by love, and bringing forth the fruits of the spirit, are prepared by the daily renewing of our hearts for the day of Jesus Christ ? (Here follows the second yes of him who is to be ordered.) The Rev. Dr. Tholuck and the Rev. A. Posse after wards addressed the meeting. The CHAIRMAN, at the close of the last speaker's ad dress, said they had witnessed that evening a most touch ing ; they had seen these two brethren, who had been wont to porr)rm in the pompous ceremonies of Rome, coming forward to witness a good confession in this populous city. it was rare to hear such as M. Czerski declaring his adherence to the confession which had been read, a document which would appear more excellent the longer it was reflected upon—excellent for what it contained and fir what it omitted. He proposed ' that they should give these men the token of their sym pathy, and of the interest which they felt in their struggles against Romish persecution ; and called on the Rev. R. Herschel!, who engaged in prayer. The meeting, which was very numerous, then separated. ACCIDENTS.—.OII Friday, between five and six o'clock as a little girl, named Emily Sarjent, aged about three years, living at No. 4, Wood-street, Princes-road, Lambeth, was playing opposite her mother's door, a cart heavily laden, belonging to Messrs. Rogers, cheesemongers, Spitalfields, passed down the street, and before the child could get out of the way she was knocked down and the wheel went over her head, spattering her brains in the road. The driver was im mediately taken into custody, and the body was taken to Lambeth workhouse adjacent, there to await the result of a coroner's inquest. The Rainbow steamer, which plies be tween London-bridge and Putney, on arriving at Chelsea pier, was found to be sinking, to the consternation of the passengers. Citizen steam-boat B being present, took the passengers out and conveyed them to the various piers. It was then ascertained that an anchor, by which one of the pier barges at Wandsworth was moored, caught the bottom of the Rainbow and forced a very large hole in her. She was immediately run alongside the pier for repairs. On board the Edward, a brig, from Lynn, laden with slate, lying off Cotton's-wharf, a boy, named Joseph Dowdy, was assisting to get the cargo out of the hold, when a piece of slate, of about a ton weight, fell from the crane, which, in its descent, knocked him down the hold and fell upon him, crushing him frightfully. He was carried to the accident-ward of Guy' , Hospital, and was alive, though dreadfully injured, at a lat, hour last night. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—OR Saturday morning last, as a chimney-sweeper• was engaged in cleaning the front parlour chimney of Mr. William Theakstone, pawnbroker, Ettrick-place, Grey-street, in this town, he discovered among the soot several pieces of hard substance, resembling in ap pearance the fragments of a cocoa-nut shell, which, upon inspection, were found to be part of an infant's skull, having hair attached to it. On further examination, there were found concealed in a hole in the lower part of the chimney, above the fire-place, the remains of an infant skeleton, but in a state of decay, all encrusted with soot and dirt, and so affected by the action of the heat, as to crumble to pieces by the least pressure. It was impossible to ascertain whether it was the skeleton of a male or•female, and there was no clue to show how long it had lain, but it must have been con cealed for many years. Mr. Theakstone has occupied the house nearly two years, and as a fire was seldom kept on in the room, he had never had the chimney swept before. It was swept about four years ago by a fornier occupier. An inquest was held on view of the remains, and a verdict re turned of "Found concealed in a chimney, but under what circumstances deposited there is no evidence to show".— Sun derland Herald. The East India House Museum closed to the public on Saturday, and will not be re-opened till the 3d of Oc tober next. EDUCATION AT ROME. It may not be known generally, if at ell, that the schoolmaster in his travels kiss penetratsd even into the eternal city. Within these few years - evening • schools have been established fur the . instruction - of the • working classes of Rome. The founders of the system were two citizens, whose names deserve to be honour ably recorded; they were Signor Michel Gigli, - edvocate, and Signor Giacomo Casoglio, a poor wood engraver. ThOnstruction given consists in reading, writing, alit& • metic, and religious teaching; to each school nti oratory is attached in which the scholars collect on holydaya • for religious service, and for games of exercise and di version. There are in Rome elementary schools besides, in which children are taught reading and writing, leav- • ing them to follow religious duties in their parishes; but • the children are scarcely able to handle the instruments of any occupation whatever before they leave the school, thus leaving their moral and intellectual education quite imperfect, and the feeble germs of good principles which have been instilled in them are thus speedily eradicated. Signor Morichini, in the preface to the regulations for the evening schools for artisans, states that there exist in Rome fifty-five of these sc•heels for children ; two pious schools, one of which directed by the fathers of tl.e faith; three Christian schools; and numny parish schools. in all, 64. Supposing each to receive 60 individuals, the number of children frequenting school, in Rome .vould be 3600. Similar infant schools in Letnbirdy have been folintled by Prince Massi me de Trastevere, and the Prieee,s Borg - hese. In 1839 a subscription was opened to found four sde - o!t; for artisans, upon the system of Senors Gigli and Ca which rtquired an expenditure of nearly 733 Roman crowns. In 1840 the funds collected amounted to 8061 crowns, of which 450 were granted by the President of the Commission of Subsidies. Li t , ,e .0- count rendered for 1842, the " pious institutions" ( s tiny are t roperly and politic ally calb-d), were in pro gress, although not on the rapid scale of development which should be desired, and which we are accustomed to'in this country. The contributions, inclusi‘e of 458 crowns given by the Commission of Subsidies, amounted to 822 crowns ; to the four existing schools an other was adjoined at Ponto, and the number of the attendant learners, wa engaged in 70 differe n t pursuits, s 667. In this year Duke Caesar Cesarini founded himself a new evening school, cc:ntiguous to his palace, so that, adding it to the schools of Gigli and Casoglio, which contained 335 pupils, Rome had eight evening schools, receiving 1,200 young workmen. It is a remarkable fact, that in this number are comprehended 268 orphans, to whom this means of a common ed uca ti on mus t b e very benevolently useful. In the number of the bene factors of this useful work must be commendably men tioned the Sovere'gn Pontiff Gregory XVI., Cardinals Mattei, Brigncle, Morichini, R o di an i ; the Princes Borgbese and Ludovigi Boncompagni. The receipts in 1845 were 1,068 crowns, the expenditure 1,035. The expenses consist in rent, salaries to the guardians of the schools and oratories, lights, paper, books, ink, pens, &c., and other articles. The directors and masters serve gratuitously. The expenses for six of these schools, with three oratories, comprising the charges before stated, amounted to 1,118 crowns, from which, deducting 114 for the charges of the oratories, it results that, dividing the 1,004 crowns which remain, each of these schools costs about 167 crowns. Two facts will concur in the extension of these schools. The first is the foundation of a small weekly journal, published by Senor Ottavio Gigli, son of the Senor Michel Gigli,who consecrates himself to the moral education of the poor. The journal .is entitled l'Artigianello (the Little Artisan), It gives moral, religious, and instructive lectures for the evening religious schools, and for families. The moral and religious part contains the recital of charitable and religious acts and enterprises of sacred history. In the instructive part are to be found the principles of education, hygeian information, notions of the natural history of technology, domestic economy, of civility, &c. The work is dune in a simple style, and with ex actitude of ideas in the original articles. The extracts are taken from the most recommendable works of Pa rini, Tecini, Cesare, Cantu de Porravicini, &o. The work is otherwise done with discernment. The editor has been honoured with a general suffrage in all the Pontifical States, where he has 4,000 subscribers. He makes generously a gift of one copy every Saturday, to every person frequenting the evening schools. This plan is new, and quite worthy of imitation ; it tends to inculcate and spread in the minds of young pupils, the principles of moral and religious education, which they receive in the evening schools, and to impress the same in their families. The second of these facts is the in witution of Senor Mcrichisi, with the most praisewor thy views, of a preparatory school for the instruction of masters destined to teach in the evening schools. SOCIETY and COME in MEXICO. In no country is murder more frequent than along the coast, on the road to the capital, and in the interior. The traveller is never out of sight of little rude wooden crosses, of melancholy meaning, monuments erected over the bones of murdered individuals. One ravine called the Barranca Secca, on the highway between Vera Cruz and the metropolis, is actually dotted with these sad signs. Assassination is of every-day occurrence, while not un frequently the traveller will stumble over the freshly slain bodies of some luckless predecessor. Robbers, in gangs of from five to twenty, scour the country, waylay ing the stage-coaches, plundering in the open light of day, even in the very city of Mexico; while associations for this lawless purpose are known to exist, in whi c h men of wealth and rank May a conspicuous part. The vtry Custom-house officers have been discovered in league with the banditti, affording them information and sharing their gains. General Santa 4,lna at one time executed sixty or seventy ; but the evil is too deeply seated, springing, as it does from the unsettled and law less state of the country, to be thus violently uprooted. So systematic nod ordinary, indeed, is robbery in thia country, that the traveller is regularly Harped as to what he is to do, wh,n he hears the terrific words " hoes baje." The ladrones, in order, we suppose. to rob with more ease to themselves, than they would with the victim's eye upon them, intimate to you in these words their de sire that you will prostrate yourself upon your face. The statistics of crime in Mexico city are fearful. The prison, one of the most loathsome and ill-regulated hot beds of crime in the world, contained, in one year, fire hundred men and women, charged with adultery, incest, and unmentionable crime; fifteen hundred with robbery, seventy with murder—while hundreds of murderers were not even accused—altogether more than nine thousand criminals charged with gross violations of every law, disine and human. The very form of the houses denote the universal insecurity of life and property. To the street, they all present a sombre and gloomy appearance, but few windows being ever seen in the first storeys, or, if they are, never without being strongly barred with iron gratings. When we reflect that six hundred thousand only of the whole population can even read and write, while a very small proportion of them have any real education to boast of, such results are the less to be wondered at. Moreover, the Church, which should teach them better, is but a huge corpora. tion for obtaining land and wealth, which it squanders in idleness and vice. Its members keep mistresses openly, take them into society, and spend the greater portion of their time in lounging about the streets and drinking shops, smoking, and often in a state of ine briety. Further, the only amusements afforded to the people are of a brutalising and degrading character. Gambling is the passion of high and low; lotteries are in every square; while Sunday, by their neighbours set apart as a period of repose, thoughtfulness, and love, is here the moment chosen for the savage unveiling of the slaughter-house, in the shape of bull-fights, conducted in the most coarse manner, and where the most wicked passions of an ignorant and debased people are fostered. and nourished. These exiibitioes are habitually at ended by all classes, including the clergy, who, with ne or two noble exceptions, set the example of that careless, thoughtless nonchalance, which is the character. istic of this principle. And yet, clearly showing that adverse circumstances have alone caused this state of things ; in the middle classes are to be found many in stances of a very superior morality and bearing. They are often kindly, gentle, hospitable, brave, and intelli gent, and in the privacy of their in-dwelling, those who know them best have had occasion to remark the utmost love and regard between parents and children—sincere friendship—respect for genius—and an ardent and en lightened patriotism. The contrary is the result of an ill-regulated society, and the misery of their political position. Their revolutions have been a l ways w i thout object, and therefore unprogressive, and devoid of any guiding principle. The long disturbance of national peace which we have sketched above, has arrested all itealthful action, impaired the morals, checked industry, prevented emigration, made agriculture a menial toil, created an hierarchy of arms and priests, covered the people with debt and difficulty, and fostered the most extensive political corruption that ever demoralised and beggared any nation. The majority, therefore, are treacherous, suspicious, and cruel. Many seek an ex planation in the climate, saying that the temperature is too high for the virtues of enterprise and industry. Such theorists must explain why the Rome and Greece of to day are not the Rome and Greece of by-gone times. We may rely on the fact that education, wise legislation, and the gradual infusion of honesty and pride into a people, will overcome the disadvantages of the m o s t enervating climate. Besides, many parts of Mexico are cold enough for a practical refutation of this idea.—The Topic. The following highly distinguished company have honoured the Lyceum Theatre with their presence eking the week, to witness the new burlesque of the Magic Horn:— His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Ladies Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis of Donegall, the Marquis of Conyngham, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl Radnor, Countess of Essex, Earl Bectire, Lord Dillon, Lord Suffield, Lady Macdonald, Lord Fitzgerald, Lord blouson, Lady Webster, the Hon. Captain Mocdonald, Sir J. Lowther, Bart., Sir Edmund Antrobus, Sir F. Trench, Sir A. Corbett, G. Wombwell, Esq., V. Stanley, Esq., &c. &c. " A HORRIBLE STORY."—A paragraph, having the above heading, appeared in some of the papers of Saturday, putting forth a statement that a pie had been sent to the bakehouse of Mr. Just, Nassau-street, to be baked, which was afterwards found to contain the body of a new-born child. There is not one word of truth in the statement from beginning to end; and Mr. Just, who carries on a very re spectable business as a baker, in Nassau-street, is determined, if possible, to find out the author of so base and wicked a fabric,iii , n, invented, nn doubt, by some malicious villain to injure him in his business. Prince Charles of Bavaria, who lately left Paris, arrived at Augsburgli in the evening of the 20th inst., by a special. train, and was received with the honours due t% his rank. • ANECDOTE FOR NATURALISTS.--A.--few days ago u the gardener of B. Potter, Esq., of Darley Hall, was mowi n g the gmss7plot, he cut open, lengthwise, au adder,o ditaidains, otut ,of which ran a mouse, no doibt recently' swalloWed. Thos same person, on entering the stable, heard the croaking of a frog in distress, and on proceeding to its. resen, , . he diFcovcrect the little animal with its hind - legs in an nki mouth, and on killing the venomous re tile, as. frog leaped away, and escaped uninjured. --Derby . X I