The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

lILIC KINGIIAMSHIRE A ILWAY. The report of the directors to the first ordinary meet ex plains, to th e f o ll ow i ng effect, the present pos - - W un of the ur.dertaking..—The Buckinghamshire Rail 7„e°,mPanY gave notice in October last for three lints a in .res i tilel Y: a line f rom B an b ury t o T r i ng on the Londe n !OBirmingh am R a il way, pass i ng t h roug h Aylesbury; ne, in continuation of the first-named line, frem L Y esbury to Harrow also joining at that place the drn and Bi rm i ngham Ra i lway; an d a cross li ne f ro m 111 5 ord to th e Bl etchley station, on the L on d on an d Bir npleand, g e hara Railway, w h ence a ra il wa y, ve ry shortly to be proceeds to Bedford. For various reasons, the e2rnmittee considered it to the interest of the proprietors liwithdraw the Bill for that portion of the line between npaplitin.and Aylesbury. They accordingly limited their b „,, ,s-lon to Parliament for the two remaining lines— CuelY, between Banbury and Tring, and between Ox i7d and Bletchley. These lines were cordia . lly . supported thYthe landowners and inhabitants of the districts which tY traversed; and although the railway from Tring to Rail 4anbur Y Was strongly opposed by the - Great Western . of 4 ,7 4 Y, it was unanimously opposed by the Committee il le "'s House of Commons. The line from Oxford to th e t g l eY was also sanctioned, and without opposition. In •i w °ll se of Lords the opposition of the Great Western the Company was renewed, and was so far successful linn,lle central portion only of the Tring and Banbury of ; I knatn , ely, from Brackley, passing through the tow' Bl er tiel tulgham to the intersection with the Oxford and Ti ohley line near Winslow) was sanctioned this session. th e e . ° Word and Bletchley line was passed intact. It i:. p ro Intention of your directors, with the sanctie n of the to ad to apply for powers to complete the line to t north between Brackley and Banbury (9 miles), and ° ado t ext Q P such measures with regard to the southward 1141 . 01 1 of the line as shall appear to be advisable. b ee ! Acta for the two lines which have been passed have 8 ,2 t so framed by the Legislature, as to render it nece e s d - V_ r to preserve a nominal distinction in the sharescre t t,he powers of each Act the shares under the on e W ft , entitled shares in the Buckinghamshire Rail anif (Oxford and BletchleyJunction Railway Company), 1r. .. under the other, shares in the Buckinghamshire -sau c y. Co in y,"Y (Buckingham and Brackley Junction Railway VarlI)•It is intended that these shares thus created atltialer the iwo Acts shall have precisely the same value, th:tpowers will be applied for next year to consolidate " Companies. The proprietors are aware that the Lond on e and North-Western Railway Company have With h 4 per cent. in perpetuity on the cost of the ghat) " shire Railwaywh en opened for traffic, together alf of t he profits of the traffic when exceeding four per ce n t. directors ton addition to this they have authorised your state that they will also grant four per cent. merest on all deposits from the Ist of July last, and OP tn!e calls from the times of payment. In consequence o v i / t le thort period which has elapsed since the passing ace " Acts, it has not been possible to get in all the th e lin ts of expenses. The balance sheet annexed, D a ref 're, merely presents an account of the receipts and j n Tents up to the present time. The amount of money i liand is such as to preclude the necessity of t 111.4setrs making any call on the proprietors during the. a: sen t Year for the purpose of constructing the line s 06W:obtained. The lines for which powers have bee., ~ted will be formed with all possible dispatch, the tr v e r s are already nearly staked out, and the engineer- P r eparing the contract drawings. RECEIPTS. T r , roprietors for deposits on shares Aterest thereon .£169,80 Ill' cub EXPENDITURE. --- on account 0f£7,00( uitt engineering expenses pro on account of expenses of Parliamentary 5,07 t, r 2eeding s If; Mscellaneolis expenses—petty eash 36:' 83 b i , 'ille expenses, salaries, Sce. 471 t. stationary and printing' 2,413 .1 advertising expenses 1311 t141 ara oUnt disbursed 41lee in hand T £169,808 ftp LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM — 'SION NORTHAMPTON, DAVENTRY. LEAMI NGTON, r „ AND WARWICK RAILWAY. Yesterday of the shareholders of this Company took th at the Hall of Commerce, inpursuance ot weecluisition contained in the following ad p vertisement: tond o ' n the undersigned, being respectively Shareholders in the and Birmingham ' Extension, Northampton, Daventry, the p ot .'"a, and Warwick projected Railway Company, in virtue o: fittit A C er, given by an Act, passed in the present session, cap. 28, Nap:, " An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railwa3 e oftp e , -" ' " having left, at the registered place of business of the salt tot tliti -3 % a requisition, calling on the Members of the Provisional 11 014,, tte e of the said Company to call a Meeting of the Share -144'4 or the said Company, and the said Committee havil4, the °4 or refused to comply with the said requisition, do, 1,3 Of th a : til "itY aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders bee:ll. 4la Company, to be held at the Hall of Commerce, Thread ile,,Calreet, in the City of London, on Friday, the 4th day o: ki;7ber next, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of deter bet° W hether the Partnership or Company formed. or intended to laid Z ed, shall be dissolved, and in what manner the affairs of the _follany shall be wound up. 4 "Wfbaess our hands the 24th day of August, 1846. EDMUND EVANS MOLLADY, Warwick. GEORGE READ, Warwick. GEORGE THOMAS SMITH, Leamington. EDWARD COLLINS, Birmingham. BENJAMIN STOKES, Islington, Birmingham. kr. Powell took the chair at two o'clock. After an irregular discussion, Mr. Powell, Mr. Ric( ' i nvis, and. Mr. Spack man were appointed scrutineers. for the purpose of a scerta i n i ng whether a sufficient num ber of votes were present. It was then moved by Mr. WHITCOs B. and seconded by Mr. LAWSON, that the Company should be dissolved, 'but that the dissolution should nut be considered an act of bankruptcy. The scrutineers then proceeded to ascertain whether i t t alifficient number of :.trip votes were present to enabit kr meeting to adopt a resolution for the d issolution of Company. After some considerable lapse of time, r ote s nrutineers reported that there were 4,636 1 s present; that the whole of that number v ote(! the dissolution of the Company; that 110 voted for :e dissolution b e i ng an act o f b a nkruptcy, 4,321 "ttinst it, and 205 w tre neutral. theeit CHAIRMAN then said that, there not being a suffi it : 1 : 4 Dumber of votes present to constitute a meeting, must be adjourned to some future day. I,,,,,&°anks having bee voted to the Cha;rman, the meet ° "iourned to Thursday next, at one o'clock. 1, WAR W ICK and WORCEST.L.ti A R.ULWAY. Ao n , ee ting of this Company took place to-day, at th' C °Ellmerce, in consequence of the following re - W e , War wi " 6 undersiped, being respectively Shareholders in the ai'vet i ' a nd Worcester Railway Company, in virtue of the power. by t an Act, passed In the present session, cap. 28, intitule , , l 'avii l2 7,` t ° Facilitate the Dissolution of Certain Railway Companies,' a l'e qut - ‘ 44 , at the registered place of business of the said Company, of ti1; 14°11, tailing en the Members of the Provisional Committee h olde r ; l aid Company to call a Meet in g of the Share -114142-,,, Of the s a id om pany, and the said Committee the a" egl ected or refused to comply with the sa id re q uisition, do, by ti le3:: )ri tY aforesaid, hereby call a meeting of the Shareholders 01 r ' 4l lle: C°3, Pany, to be held at the llall o f Commerce, Thre.ad tekb,„ str e st, in the City of London, on Friday , the 4th da y of Sep- Itti ta : n eat, at Th ree o ' C l oc k prec i se ly, for the purpose of deter be frog W hether the Partnership or Company formed, or intended to kid j4ed, shall be dissolved, and in what manner the affairs of th e 4419,7Pany shall be wound up. ' tn egs our hands this 24th day of August, 1846. EDMUND EVANS MOLLADY, Warwick. CHARLES REDFERN, Jury-street, Warwick. RICHARD GRANT READING, Warwick. WALTER COOKES, Warwick. EDWARD COLLINS,-Birmingham. Ch a i r ' Lewis Davis, shortly after four o'clock, took the it" discussion then took place as to the propriety 'validity of the meeting, the Company having anial aroa k ' t , ed with other railway companies, which ended in ng decided that the meeting was a proper one. Thebeen usual advertisements calling the meeting having read, the requirements of the Act having been ge ne through, and Mr. Powell, Mr. Nathan, and Mr. iurton, having been appoint d syrutineers ' Mr. HoposoN moved, and Mr. NATnax seconded, a c taolution to the effect that the Company should be gissolved; and „ Ur. HASTINGS moved, and Mr. PowEuse3onded, that That dissolution should be considered as an act a ankrupt c y.” O . II ,PLn these motions the scrutineers then pro oieued to take the votes, and after the lapse 11 - s ome considerable time they announced the 11441bers to be—for the disso!ution 2,230 ; against it C le • There were 400 in favour of the dissolution ' a g considered an act of bankruptcy, and 1,830 g 4 l ,inSt it. - " l e CHAIRMAN then declared that there was not ,: ilt acient number of Notes present to constitute ti o ; "ki ng that eould adopta resolution fir the dissolu tte (/' the Company, and the me ,, ting was therefore T,_ ll :led to Thursday next, at three o'clock. p.,, meeting did not break up t ll after five o'clock. i n ,,'"e following protest was put in against the meet- aid I? the Chairman of the mee.ir g of the Warwick Worcester Railway. p r :We, the under-mentioned shareholders, do hereby th;‘Elt against the regularity of the meeting called of e 1430, 13 -named company, to be held at the Hall of 18otnerce, London, on the 4th day of September. m er 62 co the ground that the notices in the Gazette , contrary to the provisions of the Act of Varlia ha.vtt, the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company 11 1 ,K amalgamated with other companies. D ated the 4th day of September, 1846. " J. N. WHITCOMB. " W. J. LAWSON." ‘14%; , MAICA SOUTH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. special general meeting o: the suareholders in this 17Iany was held this day at Company's . offices, p th e „ 88 ex-street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving i i ,..Port of the directors, and the engineer's report. t), e 'LLie usual preliminaries having been gone through. 11,4`-ecretary read the report, which stated that there Ilat be en a considerable increase in the number of sig th tir es to the deed, which now amounted to 10,215, more r l h alf of th e t o t a l required; that the Company had ob- Nv th h l N their Bill from the House of Assembly at Jamaica, th e leh o had received the royal assent, and therefore that tOro r r rt Vany was at present legally constituted. In 9th 'lance with the resolution of the meeting of the A ft : 3 ' March last, the directors had entered into a - "Y With the Jamaica Company to construct seven miles of reilway from Spanish Town to Cherry Town, And their negotiations had been successful. With the addition of these seven miles, the line was now forty five miles in length, and the total estimated cost of the undertaking was 333,6951., to which there had been added, engineering contingencies 10 per cent. In the report made at the meeting of the 9th of March a table of the probable traffic on the line had been submitted to the shareholders then present, and it appeared that the estimate was not so favourable as it subse quently turned out. It appeared that the line might be worked at an expense of 20,0001 annually. In consequence of the depressed state cf the market, the directors thought it would be bettt , r not to proceed further at present with the works than to make that nominal commencement which was required by the Act of Assembly. The balance in hands was 16,116/. 19s. 11d., which was placed at interest. This sum would be reduced to about 15,000/. The directors were ready to give the shareholders who desired to retire from the undertaking 12s. 6d. per share, as they were satisfied of the responsibility of the parties who were ready to take up those shares. In conclusion, the report stated that great cordially existed between the proprietors of the Jamaica and the directors of the present Company, and that several of the former were very anxious to get shares in the South Midland Company. The SECRETARY then read tie report of the engine( r of the Company, Mr. Miller, which was very favourable. The CHAIRMAN then proposed two resolutions, to the effect that the report should be adopted, and tliat the directors should be authorised to prepare the supple mental Bill to be presented to the Assembly at Jamaics. These resolutions were seconded and carried unani mously. Thanks were then voted to and acknowledged by the Chairman, and the meeting separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, % dis.—Birmingham and Dudley, 24 p.—Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, • dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, I Is. c. dis.—Churnct and Blythe, 3-16 dis.—Direct Northern, sjq dis.— East Lancashire (late Blackburn and Preston), 9 p.—Glasgow and Dumfries, % dis.—Grand Union, 14s. 6d. dis.—iluddersdeld, Hali fax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Hudderstleld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 2% p. —Ditto Extension, % p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, dis.--Leicester and Bed ford, 10s. dis.—Leicester, Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction, 3-16 dis.—Liverpool, Ormsktrk, and Preston, 44 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport, % dis.—Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 2% p.--Manchester and Southampton,% dis.—North Eastern, 116 dis.—North Western, 4 p.—Oldham Districts, % p. — Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., dis. Shedield and Manchester, Quar ters, No. 3, 3-16 p.—Shropshire Union, dis—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated, No. 3, 5 p.—Trent Valley Midlands, &c., p.—West Riding Union, 2 15-16 p. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 3. STOCK EXCILINGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 365. p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.—Leeds and Bradford, 43 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3y 2 c. p.— Ditto, Branches, I p.—Ditto, Extensions, 4s. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 34 dis.— Ditto, New, 2/. Igs. Gd. dis.—Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 21. 15s. Gd. p.—Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, I 0 p. —North British, Carlisle Branch, 625. p.—Direct Northern, 13s. Od. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North - Eastern, 235. dis. —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, I Is. dis. —Leicester and Bedford, 9s. dis.— verpool, Orinskirk, and Preston, 4/. 6s. p.—Malton and Drifileld unction, 16s. s. p.—North Weciern, p. Sheffield, Itother . . _. . cull, and Goole, 13s.dis.--Inewsbury and Birmingham, 7s. Cid. p.— ,liropshire Union, 2s. Cd. dis.--kv,,sl Riding Union, 5/. ss. —York ..tid Carlisle, 435. dis.—Manclicster, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, zis.p. HULL, SEPTEMBER 3. - - STOCK EXCIIANGE.— The sales are Blackburn, Darwen, and :',olton, 11—East Lincolnshire, 13s.—Leicester and Tainworth, 375. 'AL—Liverpool Orniskirk, and Preston, 4/. 6s. p.—North Western, 4s. p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2 7 4, —West Riding Union, 5 Vrinagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 10s.—Staines and Richmond, ry dis. —Boston. Stamford, and Birmingham, 1 Is. ••;11 Er - FIELD, SEPTLUDER 3. SToca ExciamireL.—The sales arc Ras ern Counties, 22 - Ditto, Tk Extension, IN p. Midland, Sheflield, and Rotherham, 35 , ;rimsby - and Sheffield, 2h dis.— Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis.—Ditto, ,quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.—lltulderstield amt Manchester Exteu ,ion, 10s. p.—Leeds tool Dewsbury - , 314 p.—Goole and Doncaster, dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. (Ps. —Man 'tester and Li , :eoln Union and Canal, 19s. 6d. dis.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 7s. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis. NEWCASTLE-tin )N Y E, SEPTEMBER 3 STOCK EKCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 18s. dis - Eastern Counties, York Extensions, IF4 —Edinburgh and North- Newport, 3s. p. —Great S uth and West Ireland, 57/s p Liverpc,ol,- Ormskirk, and Preston, 4/. 3s. 9d. p.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 105 - Newcastle ard Berwick (North Shields), 1214 p. North Ilritish,Halves, (Carlisle), 3 1 4 p.—North Staffordshire, 31. 16s. 6d. p YORK, SEPTEMBER 3. S . TOCT EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Grand "Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 13s —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2—Leicester, Tam. worth, 3:e., 1/. 19s Gd.—London and York, 21. 3s.—Malton and Driffield Junction, 3—North British, Carlisle Extension, 41. 9s.— orth Statlordshire, G— ewcastle and Darlington, New, I I 1 4 i —York Lnd Nort ; Midland (East aid West Riding Extension), l3,Al.—Man ehester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%. THE PRESS. We yesterday had the pleasure of recording a satisfac tory answer, expo essed in the most significant language, ,o the complaints so often and so wantonly made against he public gratitude and discernment. After a lapse of rive years—when it is often thought lawful to forget an .bligation, and still oftener found prudent to qualify praise—a company of British merchants, comprising the elite of the metropolis, met to acknowledge, with their own lips, and with suitable splendour of hospitality, their sense of one act of public duty on the part tof this journal. We might safely challenge the most extensive and diligent search for a parallel to so remarkable an honour. Celebrations of this kind rave usually been restricted to the statesman and the -oldier who have governed, or saved, or extended the empire. There is a brilliancy about such actions which cannot fail to provoke the genial spirit of puhlic hospi tality : so from the days of Homer downwards the hero Oas always looked forward to the assembled chiefs, the oaded board and the flowing bowl, the libation and the eleelge, as his prospective consolation amid unfinished oils. We may be justly proud of the extension of this honour to the achievements of the press. But we would rather dwell cn it as the proof of a discrimination Lod gratitude which always exist, and are constantly ready to show themselves, for which, however, it has been our peculiar good furtune to supply an extraordi nary occasion. If the press does not always find its ser vices acknowledged as it may happen to think they de em—oirfeidt e i p s r l e e s f s t ir t ig o b s u tr r u d g e g n le o u f n e d o e n r te d m iffi pt cu o l r ti i e T sid,Mill iffanerdentheee --it by no means follows that the cause lies wholly with the public. Should any still be tempted to think so, we seg them to reflect on the testimonials of which Wednes lay brought the splendid and agreeable sequel. For sor own part, we have never done that injustice to the people of England. We have never supposed it so vholly absorb, d in the pursuit of private advantage, so iesensible to the real worth and genuine motives of pub lie-spii iced undertakings, and so ready to accept the ,00n and - forget the giver. We have dealt with it as a candid, discerning, and, above all, a generous Accerdinglt we have freely bestowed upon it a devotion which it is not for us to describe. and which, all things considered, we must say has met with a noble and adequate requital. That so powerful an organ -as the pre-s, one so comparatively modern in its his tory, which appeals with such equal force to every in• :elligent mind, and is, therefore, so suspiciously allied with democrarical influences, should rot meet with all the encouragements lavished upon other not more pa : riotic and honourable prefessions, is an accident of the age, which time may amend, and which for the present it is beneath the spirit of a great and good man to lament. After so sterling a testimony, and so unques iionable a proof of success, we may be permitted to say in a few words how public estimation, as opposed to a transient popularity, is to be obtained. A very long experience has tested the prescription. First, it is not ebtaired by a one-sided devotion to any plausible school of opinion, or by a servile obedience to an ascendant party or dominant class. It is not obtained by helping to raise and colour the successive visions of a superficial philanthropy. It is not obtained by following in the errant path of restless innovation, by ever proffering a ready tribute to popular names, or by lavishing our praise on any who may be disposed to an interchange of the worthless commodity. Still less is it secured by flattering the chimerical expectations of a desultory and idle cupidity. All these ways are simple and straight enough to one sort of result. They have lured the thou sand and one adventurers of the press to an ignominious ilownfal, which it is easy to charge on the public ingra titude or dulness. A suspicion of short cuts is the very first instinct of prudence in those who have to inform and advise, not for this summer, or this Parliament, or this ephemeral race of speculators or statesmen, but for long terms of years scarcely scanned by the memories of the old, and therefore with difficulty realised in the an ticipations of the young. But a positive answer is re quired to the question. We say, then, that a scrupulous, laborious, and painful truthfulness is the great secret of successful journalism. To investigate, to hunt cut facts from their hiding-places, to gather and select the mate rials of knowledge, is the first business of a newspaper. It should ever remember its name. Whatever value we may have attached to our opinions, and however ex perience may have confirmed' their soundness, it has been our invariable rule to put facts first, and then in ferences. In judgment we might err, but so long as we faithfully supplied the means for a sounder decision, we could not very seriously mislead. Respect for the public sagacity has taught us to believe that we had done a great deal when we had given it the true data of calcula tion. We say it emphatically—no one who is not per sonally acquainted with the difficulties of the task can form any idea of the rumours we have to reject, the contradictions we have to unravel, the mys teries we have to uncover, the machinations we have to detect, in the employment of daily catering to the intelligence of the empire. It is not what the reader sees—it is what he does net see, and what every day buries in oblivion—the tedious and difficult summing up, previous to the brief judgment—in which consists the real labour of our profession. The spirit generated by this exercise has followed us throughout, and, we are encouraged to conclude, is evident in the columns of this journal. The same zeal which once urged us to follow out the ramifications of a deep-laid conspiracy against the bankers of Europe has ever led us to investigate every possible danger to the prosperity, confidence, and security of the nation ; and has also taught us to prefer those political principles and social maxims which have stood the test of a long experience, and to which history has given an undeniable verification.— Times of yesterday. Frsir.—TIMELY Succours.—Within the last few days a very large quantity of fish, of various kinds, has been taken off our coast, and is now meeting a ready sale in this city and elsewhere.— Waterford Chronicle. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—Since Wednesday last the greatest activity has prevailed in removing the ballustrades, the whole of which, on the upper side, are nearly taken down, it being intended to strip the bridge as low as the cornices. Yesterday the levels of the piers were again taken, and the result showed that, although they had not left off sinking, vet still the opinion of the gentlemen conducting the obser vation was, that the settling was decidedly less when com pared with observation on a previous occasion, and if the piers sink no further, there is not the slightest doubt but that the bridge will be as secure as ever for foot passengers till the erection of the new one. Two hundred men are now engaged on the bridge, and when the whole of the parapets piers are found to be in state quo, it is j a ntn re d m ed ov t e o d e , re ifie ettallight parapet, 'about four feet high, and then thTQW open the entire roadway of the bridge to the public. THE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM IN and Bragg's company in a fit cenflition for the field, as THE UNITED STATES. the horse,: called for from New Orleans might not ar - INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE TREASURY rive in time for the march. In this way, these compa. OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE OFFICERS nies have been recruited at once, and Captain Duncan's OF CUSTOMS. company has already marched for Czar cargo. The price has not always been moderate, but in no instance extra - In order that the earliest information on the subject of warehousing of merchandise under the recent Act of Con- vagant. gresa, may be received by all persons intere , ted therein, EXTRACT OF A LETTER FR , 51 , 4 COL. HENRY WHITING , the following instructions are now published.—Copies of DATED MATAMODAS, JULY 31, 1846. these instructions will be transmitted to the respective General Taylor has just is-sued an order directing the officers of the customs, as soon as the forms necessary to remaining troops to move up to Camarge without delay. accompany the same can be printed. The trains, it is feared, will be inadequate. To remedy Treasury Department, Aug. 1 8 , 1846 . this he will buy and hire all the mules he can. The last report from Camstrgo is favourable. A contract has been made for fifteen hundred mules and packs com plete. General Taylor goes to Catnargo in a few days, when I shall immediately follow to complete all ar rangements. Horse shoes are now coming in—we were likely to suffer for them and for forges. Forage and subsistence is abundant. The United States steamer Neva sunk on her way up to Camargo, with cargo on board. No lives lost, but much company baggage and supplies. CIRCULAR TO COLLECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS. Treasury Department, As g. 14, 1846. The following instructions and forms are transmitted for the information and government of the officers of the customs in carrying into effect the provisions of the an- ' nexed Act of Congress. approved 6th August, 1846, enti tled " An Act to establish a warehousing system, and to amend ' An Act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes.' " Approved August, 1842. It is to be remarked, that goods, wares, or merchan dise, entitled to entry for warehousing, are such only as shall have been actually imported after the passage of the act, " reducing the duty on imports and for other pur poses," approved 30th July, 1846, vide 6th section. All goods, wares, or merchandise. imported prior to 30th July, 1846, yet on deposit in public store, the duties on which have not been paid, are subject to the payment of the duty and charges imposed by the tariff Act of 30th August, 1842. Where owners, importers, consignees, or agents de sire to warehouse their goods, due entry in writing must be made in each case, according to the form accompany ing these instructions, marked A, and a bond taken with surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the collector, in double the amount of the duties, according to form marked B. In making entry of' any goods, wares, or merchandise, to be warehoused, all acts necessary to determine their value, such as appraising, weighing, gauging, or mea suring, in order to ascertain the precise amount of duty chargeable on the importation, must be performed and complied with. Any goods, wares, or merchandise, proposed to be withdrawn from warehouse for home consumption prior to the 2d day of December next, the day on which the new rate of duties take effect under the Act of 30th July last, must be entered, and the duties with interest and other charges imposed by the Act of 30th August, 1842, must be duly paid before granting permit for the delivery of any such goods, wares, or merchandise. Due regard must be paid to the restrictions imposed in the act, in the withdrawal of merchandise from warehouse, to wit: in no case " a less quantity than an entire pack age, bale, cask, or box," or if in bulk, then only " the whole quantity of each parcel, or a quantity not less than one ton weight, unless by the special authority of the Secretary of the Treasury," can be withdrawn and de livered. Where it is intended to withdraw any goods, wares, or merchandise from warehouse for transportation to any other port of entry, to be rewarehoused thereat, in pur suance of the second section of the Act of 6th August, to establish a warehousing system, twenty-four hours' no tice at least must be given to the collector of such inten tion, and entry be made according to form C, and the transportation is to be made under the regulations pro vided in the act of 2d March, 1799, in respect to the trans portation of goods, wares, and merchandise from one col lection district to another, to be exported with the bene fit of drawback. Tierce goods may be transported from any port of entry to any other port of entry in the United States, subject to the regulations prescribed by the be fore mentioned act. On making -a transportation of entry, a bond must be given by the owner of the merchandise to be withdrawn for transportation with sufficient sureties in double the amount of the duties chargeable thereon, according to form herewith marked D; which bond is to be cancelled on production of a certificate, duly authenticated, from the collector of the port to which the goods may be transported, certifying that the identical goods stated in the transportation certificate have been duly entered and rewarehoused in public store, in his collection district, and bond given for the duties. On the withdrawal of any such goods from warehouse at any port, the storage and other charges that may have accrued thereon must be duly paid. On redeposits or rewarehousing of any transported goods as aforesaid, due entry must bP made and bond taken in the forms here with marked E and F. For the purpose of distinguishing goods which may have paid duty under the new tariff act, which goes into operation on the 2(1 day of December next, that may be withdrawn for consumption after said day, and entitled to drawback, if exported within the time prescribed by law, from other imports on which duty was paid under the tariff Act of 30th August, 1842, it becomes proper that suitable marks should be placed on all goods that may be withdrawn as aforesaid, to identify the same, so as to prevent mistake or imposition in the allowance of drawback. Goods, wares, or merchandise entered for warehousing must be conveyed from the vessel, or wharf, where landed, to the warehouse, under the special superintendence of an inspector of the customs, in drays, carts, or other usual modes of conveyance, to be employed on public account, by the proper officer of the customs ; and the expense at the rates usually paid for such service at the port in question, is to be defrayed at the time by the per son who enters said goods, wares, or merchandise, for warehousing. In cases where goods, Wares, or mer chandise, imported after the passage of the Act of the 30th July, 18 4 6, are intended to be exported directly from warehouse to a foreign country, entry must be made according to form herewith, marked G, and bond given, according to form H, and such exportation be otherwise made in the manner now required by existing laws, relating to exportations for the benefit of draw back. In all such cases the appropriate expenses are to be paid before granting permit for exportation. All stores used for warehousing purposes are to be rented by the collector on public account, and paid for as such, and appropriated exclusively to the storage of foreign merchandise, which is to be subject to the usual rates of storage existing at the respective ports where such stores may be hired or rented. Appropriate ware houses must be provided for goods of a perishable nature, as well as for gunpowder, fire-crackers, and ex plosive substances, having due respect to existing muni cipal regulations. For warehousing of coal, woods of various kinds, &c.—Yards well enclosed and secured, to the satisfac tion of the collector, may be hired or rented, and the usual rates for stop age are to be charged on all articles deposited therein. Care must be observed by collectors in renting stores to select those of a substantial and secure character, and fire proof where they can be ob tained, and the rents stipulated for must be as reason able as can be procured. Before entering into any lease of stores, the opinion and approval of the department must first be obtained. Where any goods, duly warehoused, shall remain in store beyond one year, without payment of the duties and charges thereon, which, in pursuance of the Act are required to be appraised and sold, the department hereby prescribes that all such sales shall take place within thirty days after the expiration of the year, and due notice of such sales must be pub- THE COTTON CULTURE-ITS • PROJECTED INTRODUCTION INTO TURKEY (From the New York Her.ld W . August 20.) It will be recollected that several years since the cat ton culture was introluted into llimbvtan by the East India Company, under the superin!eudence of several American p!anters or overseers. 0:)e of these was the overseer of a Stith Carolina planter ; and at his request he was punctually furnished by his late steward, with a statement of the climate, seasons, sod, &c., for eight consecutive months, including the season of the growth of the plant through all its stares. The returns thus furnished were made the subject of a paper in one of our agricultural magazines, in which the author predicted a failure of the experiment in Edia, from the excess of wet and humidity during the growing season ; but he also incidentally reffifred to Turkey in Asia as very likely, at no remote period, to become a formidable op• ponent to the United States in the production of the raw The prediction of the result of the experiment in India has since been verified—for the cotton of that country turns out to be far inferior, in quality and quantity, to the staple of the South ; end the only obstacle that it has been to our trade is that from its very inferior cha racter, the price at which it sells in England enables the manufacturer to mix it into his coarser fabrics, with a fair profit at a reduced price, upon the same fabric made exclusively from the American article. Yet this impo• sition has been of no small benefit to our own manufac turers in the sale of their coarser fabrics in South America, where the secret of the difference in the staple between the British and American goods has been dis covered. We have but little to fear, therefore, from India ; for the better quality will continue, in the spread of civilisati , n, to monopolne the advantages of the pro fitable markets of the world. But, returning to Turkey ; the Sultan, through some agency unknown to u., was apprised of the publication to which we have adverted, and the hint that his domi nions, devoted, from the days of the patriarchs, to silk and flax, " and purple and fine linen," were susceptible of cotton, and that in its highest perfection, immediately attracted his attention. The very idea suggested to him an element for the improvement of his people, and the strengthening of his empire by the sinews of its domestic products. He has been looking around him—he is anxious to appropriate the experience of the western na tions to the advancement of his own. He promptly, therefore, through our Minister at Constantinople (Mr. Carr) conferred with our Secretary of State, and autho• rised him, in a carte blanche to dispatch him a special instructor or two to undertake the experiment of the cotton culture on the eastern side of 'the Dardanelles, and among the kiosks and mosques of the Prophet. The Sultan desired as a fraternal favour that the American Government would send him one or two (two if they could be procured to go) cotton planters, of intelligence, experience, and competency, to introduce the culture of cotton into his own dominions. Under this authority, D. J. L. Smith, of Charleston, was appointed, a young gentleman educated in Germany —a student of Liehig, and who has obtained some cele brity in agricultural chemistry in this country, and as a man of general science. The other gentleman selected is Dr. J. B. Davis, of Fairfield, South Carolina, (whose overseer is the one referred to in this article as having been employed to test the experiment in India, Dr. Davis, as we are informed, has established a high credit in South Carolina, as a practical planter and farmer, making many successful experiments upon the old system of things. It has been suggested that should the experiment succeed in Turkey, it will be necessary to the introduc tion of cotton as a staple of that empire, to export a few thousand of the free blacks of the south experienced in the art, on the most favourable terms to themselves, as an inducement to go ; or that the Sultan may find it ex pedient to hire for a term of years, on the condition that they are then to have their liberty, a sufficient number of slaves from the cotton planting States, to initiate his subjects into the rudiments of the culture. We shall look to the results of this experiment with the greatest interest. From the latitude, climate, and productions of Turkey, the cotton plant will take hold there as readily as the potato in Ireland ; and if it be as successful, the demand for cotton gins and cotton presses will give not a little employment to our manufacturers and naviators, while the demand for the raw material in England, will scarcely be diminished, as fabrics of cotton will supersede among the faithful, their fabrics of silk, wool, flax, and hemp, which they have worn from time immemorial. The empire of the Sultan will become an empire of cotton-wearing Mahomedans, hale Chris tianised from this single innovation: We have no reason to fear from the innovation a diminution of our own market. Tne demand has increased with our supply, stupendous as that increase has been from year to year. The fifty-three millions of pounds of raw cotton from Egypt, scarcely produces an impression on the English market ; it is absorbed as a bucket of water in a flowing stream. The demand will continue to be commensu rate with the supply, and with the empire of China thrown open to our ships, we may continue our ratio of increase in the cotton production for a hundred years to come, introducing the culture meantime into successful operation in the dominions of the brother of the Sun, whose spouse is the sister of the Moon, and who, if they say to their subjects, " produce cotton," it must be pro ducal. We learn that Dr. Davis will leave to-morrow in the Great Western, en route for the Sublime Porte, to identify himself with the success of his predictions. After making an outline and a projection, he will inform us of his proceedings, of the adaptation of the country to his enterprise, and of the facilities for planting, as he contemplates being there in time for the planting season in that quarter of the world. Looking at the undertaking of these gentlemen, as in its results calculated to extend the operations of com merce, and the intimacy and friendship of widely sepa- rate nations, as adapted to be of great advantage to the mass of the Turkish people, without any detriment to au abundant market for our favourite staple, we wish our agents to the Sultan a successful experiment; and it is a high source of gratification (of which this is but an instance) that America and the Americans are being sent for from the remotest quarters of the earth, to develop their domestic recourses, to introduce new elements of domestic wealth, stability, and inde pendence, and to elevate and improve the character of their people. hshed in two or more of the public newspapers having the most extensive circulation at the port in question, daily at the principal ports for the space of ten days, and at the other ports three times a week or as often as one or more papers may be published thereat, for the space of two weeks. But as the law provides that " all'goods of a perishable nature, and all gunpowder, fire-crackers, and explosive sub stances deposited as aforesaid, shall be sold forthwith," they must be sold at the earliest day practicable, after due publication of notice, and time given for inspection by persons desirous of purchasing the same. The quarterly returns required by the 4th section of the Act, will be made according to the form herewith marked I. R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury. :aoledtfiegwander e a u v ,1 1 e ' ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Wednes day night last a desperate attempt at hihway robbery was made on the person of Mr. William Metcalf, a builder residing at Pagnal green, near Wilfrome. It appears that between eleven and twelve e'clock Mr. Metcalf was returning from Walbech in a chaise-cart, when, on ascending the hills at Rushton, two men sud denly seized the reins, at the same time calling on Mr. Metcalf to alight. Mr. Metcalf alighted, and one of the robbers advanced towards him. Seeing that the fellow was armed only with a stick, Mr. Metcalf closed with him and threw him heavily in the road. His companion then left the horse's head and attacked him, and the other robber having recovered his legs, the two com menced a desperate assault. Mr. Metcalf, however, being a powerful man, contrived tot! maintain his resist ance until the keeper of a toll-bar, at some distance, attracted by the cries for help, ran to the spot, upon which the villains made off. Mr. Metcalf sustained some severe bruises, &c., but was not otherwise seriously in jured. The robbers were dressed in dark clothes and had their faces blackened. They were doubtless aware of the fact of Mr. Metcalf having a large sum of money in his possession at the time. A case of double iniquity, involving fraticide and incestuous adultery, was brought on Saturday before the court of assizes for the Seine et Oise, held at Versailles. Eugene Clairet was put to the bar on a charge of having attempted the life of his brother, Jacques Clairet. with whose wife he had carried on for some time an illicit intercourse. He had been previously tried before the court of assizes for the Eure et Loire, and condemned to hard labour for life at the hulks; but on an appeal by him to the Court of . Cessation, the judgment was quashed, and a new trial ordered before the Court at Versailles. The following are the circumstances of the case:—ln the evening of the 3 . Oth of January last, as the two brothers were . returning to La Plesse, from f J ro a m cq a ue fi s, re w a h rm en . they were near a small wood, received a number of small the farm of M. Guerrin :ne a c t itc : l l.e l d a ie r s e co a hll t aa i r v rg il eo le df , weeks .afterwards a , and caused him little or g h en is da j r a m ck e et f , ou an n d d lds his skin Thirteen s noi h nno o layi t nd a jtu t iwt re t oy h h. e p, shotebnTnaeecha penetrated a pocket pistol, which had evidently been fired before thrown away . F urt h er in quiries led to the belief that the pist o l h ad b een fi red b y Eugene, and he was accordingly arrested. M. Blin, a gunsmith at Ninancourt, recognised the pistol, and deposed that he sold it on January 26, to E ugene , w h o sa id hi s na me was Freya. The induce ments to hi s fi r i ng on his brother were disclosed by th e di scovery t h at E uge ne had carried on an improper intercourse with his sister-in-lave, though she was 44 years of age and he only 22 ; that J ac q ues had made a will, bequeathing to his wife all his property ; by th e d eat h o f h i s brother, E in the son armY, but a b sen t on f ur l oug h, would of his wid owe d mot h er , an d thereby exempted from service, and could then marry his brother's widow. The eviden ce at t h e tr i a l on Sa turday, as well as at the former trial, fully verified all jury t h ese c i r cumstances, and the at once declared him tI gen Eugene, becomewhowtahse only guilty, finding also, as before , extenuating cir. an- him „ stances, thus saving from capital punishment. He Vi"4sl again sentenced to hard labour at the hulks for life. He has lodged a second appeal, o n t h e groun d o f some irregularity in conducting the prosecution. THE BLACK DITCH, B . LACK.PRIARS-ROAD.—This intolerable nuisanc e still exists i .‘ Boundary-row, Black friars-road, although. the inhabit. ants ha ve repeatedly applied to the Commissioners of Sewers to have it co vered over. During the few hot days lately the stench has been so great as to cause serious illness to many or the inhabitants. AMERICAN ARMY INTELLI GENCE. (From the Washington Union, Aug. 14.) We are favoured with the following extracts of letters just received in this city : Camargo, Mexico, July 23. We are furnishing transportation for the army, and securing supplies of forage on the route to Monterey. We have contracted for 1,000 to 2,000 mules, (another letter fixes it positively at 1,500), with the packing equipments complete ; and these, with the 500 waggons expected here, will be ample for the marching columns. A large portion of the 19,000 men of this corps d'annee will be left at the different depots and entiepOts, from Brazos Santiago to China, about 60 miles from this place on the route to Monterey. . . . . The troopers are now fast arriving here in our steam boats, and the General will, in all probability, move for ward from here about the middle of next month (Aug.). Now comes the commencement of those operations which will require all the capacity, skill and energy of our General to arcomplish. The great difficulties of an army invading Mexico begin here. So far everything has fa voured General Taylor, and he has acquired not only a most enviable reputation, but his good fortune has be come a proverb. I hope, of course, for his further suc cess ; but in order to secure it, the most careful combi nations of every kind, preparatory to the march, are ab solutely necessary. Too much haste may prove as great an evil as a faulty tardiness. It takes time for the requisite arrangements for the transportation required for so many men, suddenly collected here. Meantime, the General is impatient of the least delay, and the offi cers of our department are incessantly occupied in prepa rations. Our news from the interior leaves us in doubt whether Paredes. at the head of the army, will succeed or not in assembling a force sufficient to oppose us. He is said to have called out the male population en masse, and has strong positions to defend, but it is doubtful whether we shall have another battle in Mexico. _ _ _ Extract of a letter from Colonel Whiting, dated Mata moral, 28th J u l y, 1846. . The subsistence General Taylor called for, that is, 300,000 rations, is now at or near Camargo. We are now throwing up forage, ammunition, and other sup plies, the boats taking moderate loads, in order to ac commodate troops. A company of Texan rangers came ink) Camargo a few days since, having started from San Antonio de Bexar, crossed the Rio Grande at Laredo, and passed through Mier. In thus descending the right bank it met with no molestation, saw no rising fur defence, but found all things in tranquillity. When the Louisiana volunteers were about going out, and had many good horses for sale, it was deemed expe dient by General Taylor as well as myself, that the op portunity 3119111 d net be lost of putting the light artillery POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. An invention of considerable importance is now exhi biting at the above-named establishment. It is for the purpose of ventilating mines. It consists of a capacious pair of chambers inserted into large tanks filled with water, forming water-founts somewhat aster the manner in which the gasometers at the gas-works are con structed. These chambers are suspended in such a way that a reciprocating motion may be given to them. They are placed in such a position that a communication is made between them and the up cast shaft of the mine. On motion being given to the apparatus, a series of inlet and outlet valves are brought into operation, and are so arranged, that as soon as the chamber begins to descend the outlet valves open, and the air is ejected, and so on alternately a continuous circulation is kept up, the down cast shaft supplying the necessary quantity of fresh air to the mine during the extraction of the vitiated atmos phere by the upcast shaft. The inventor states that a chamber 16 feet in diameter, with an opening of 50 felt area, would each minute remove 40,200 cubic feet of foul air, and this, he states, can be accomplished at a very trifling expense of power. The =Ad is deposited in this institution, and is well worthy the attention of all scientific men and those engaged in mining speculations. THE LASH. THE LATE DEATH OF WHITE FR , M PLEURISY AND LIVER COMPLAINT, AND THE CHANGE OF THE WEA THER, AT HoussLow.—One feature of tie atrocious proceedings at Hounslow is so calculated to destroy every feeling of security for the fair and above-board treatment of our fellow-creatures in subordinate—ay, in any stations of life, that we are astonished it has not been more dwelt upon by the press of the day. We allude to the awful facility with which a death caused by a cruel and severe flogging was converted, by medical and other testifiers, into a death from secondary causes ; and the great vital question of its exciting cause—the causa causans of it—obvious to the dullest observers, hushed up and passed over. If such modes of dealing with suspicious deaths may pass unheeded, every secu rity that frail mortals possess against being murdered by inches ; killed off by causes set in motion to produce effects—which effects themselves are to be exalted into their place, as the original mischiefs—of being poisoned by slow degrees ; every particle of such security will come to depend on the caprice, or interest, or wiched ness of hard swearers, fslsifers, and liars of the first magnitude. In the name of honour and outraged truth, as well as for the tranquilisation of the dreadful fears which such convenient " certificating," if allowed to pass current and unresented, is certain to excite, we demand of our liberal and professing government—backed as they are ju ry —a public opinion, and the verdict of the coroner's —a searching investigation of the (falsely) incomplete official reports of the cause of the death of private White, late of the 7th Hussars, and we further demand the condign punishment of their real concocters. N.B. We would, also, ask the authorities on whom the odium of White's death so fearfully rests, whether the surgeon, who might have saved them from such odium, did or did not do his duty, in unconcernedly, without feeling the victim's pulse, or in any way ex amining his state, witnessing a laceration of half-an hour's duration perpetrated by a couple of stalwart farriers ? Had we been on the coroner's jury, we should have taught this man our opinion of his negli gence, in a most summary manner.—Hood's Magazine. PUNISHMENTS IN ALGERIA. At Algiers, when any one had to complain of the Cadi's judgment, or when the adverse party would not submit to the decision, the complainant went to the Casbah, seized with both hands a bell-chain hanging at the gate, and rang with all his might. An officer then appeared, to whom he related his case. A message was sent to the Cadi, inquiring into the correctness of the statement made by the plaintiff, to whom was rendered whatever justice appeared due to him. On the contrary, if the plaintiff was found to be in the wrong, he was bastinadced with some hundred blows on the soles of his feet, and was besides compelled to undergo all the con sequences of the judgment of which• he complained. When the question related to a criminal affair, the lley sent the culprit to the aga, who caused the sentence to be executed forthwith. The punishments inflicted on criminals were barbarously severe. The slightest offence against the Government was punished by the bastinado, which was administered not only on the soles of the feet, but also on the belly and the back. From thirty to twelve hundred blows were given, according to the nature of the offence. Two men, each armed with a piece of flexible wood, as thick as an or4ary cane, alternately struck the culprit, who was laid a sort of bench, with his legs and his arms tied. Even when the criminal sometimes expired under this punishment, the executioners continued to strike, until they had completed the number of blows specified by the sentence. Persons condemned to death were decapitated with the axe or the yatagan ; hanged ; impaled ; burned alive ; or thrown upon great iron hooks of the gate of Ba-Azoun, on which they remained impaled for several days, until they died of hunger in the most horrible suffei logs. M. It-- told me that having once visited Algiers before the occupation by the French, he saw a man who had remained alive three days on these hooks, and that he certainly would have lived longer, had not a jannissary, either from humanity or to show his dexterity to the assembled multitude, blown out his brains with a pistol shot. Sometimes the relatives of the persons condemned to this horrid punishment gave a certain sum of money to the executioner to strangle the victim before he threw him over the wall.—Count St. Marie's Algeria in 1845. SURGERY IN ALGEIRA.—Before the arrival of the French, the natives had no idea of a regular physician, or a surgeon. All diseases came under the treatment of the barber, who did not confine himself merely to bleeding and physicking, but he even amputated limbs. This operation was performed by a dreadful method, which is said to be still in practice in different parts of Asia, and is always followed by the Kabyles. When an arm is to be cut off, the patient stands upright, with his arm resting on a flat block of wood, and the barber, raising a yatagan, with a single stroke, severs the member from the body. Two assistants then convey the sufferer to a vessel filled with melted pitch, into which they dip the arm, at the part where it has been amputated, to stop the hemorrhage. It is horrible to imagine the torture which must attend this barbarous operation.—Count St. Marie's Algeria in 1845. THE WAR. IN KAFIRLAND.—In consequence of the war in Kafirland, large quantities of oats are being shipped from the Ordnance stores within the Tower of London, to the Cape of Good Hope, for the use of the English troops, in anticipation of the probable scarcity in that colony. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY .—The twentieth half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at the White Lion Hotel, Bristol ; James Gibbs, Esq., in the chair. The income of the line for the half-year, as stated by the Great Western Railway Company, to be due to this company, is 46,7631., being 1,8001. more than in the correspond ing half of 1845. A dividend was declared of 30s. per 1001. share, being eqttal to 4 per cent. per annum on the 751. paid up ; it wilt be payable tree of income-tax, after the end of October ; hopes were held out of a better divi dend in future. The next dividend will be for the half-year ending at Christmas, the year being in future to be divided at Midsummer and Christmas. The chairman stated that the traffic on the South Devon line, opened since the last meeting, had exceeded all expectation ; the success of the atmospheric principle of traction was now placed be yond doubt ; the delays that had occurred on the Croy don line had only tended to the perfecting of the sys tem. The meeting adopted the report, and confirmed an agreement entered into for vesting in this company the Taw-Vale Railway and Dock and Railway Exten sion from Barnstaple to Crediton, on completion of the works. THE HARVEST IN SPAIN.—The Guia del Commercio of Aug. 26, has the following remarks upon the state of the harvest this year :—lt says, " The result of the corn harvest in Spain can now be safely estimated, as the gathering in of the crop is approaching to an end. A bad year had long been anticipated in the southern provinces, from the want of rain, and those fears were converted into a sad reality, when, to this defect, was added that of imperfect granulation. The aspect of the crops had been the most flattering possible in the pro vinces of the north and centre, where the foliage had not been known to be so great for many years; but the hail storms and the excessive heats that have extended to all parts have caused the damage to be general, so that it may be said that between night and morning Spain lost more than a third part of its corn harvest. The stock on hand from preceding years was nevertheless so large that the price has scarcely been at all increased in the corn districts, and the increase has fallen chiefly on the old wheats, for as to the new wheats they weigh from four to six pounds less than the other, and consequently give much less bread." With respect to the olive crop it says:—" Of the approaching harvest of oil in Spain it may be said that its state is very little satisfactory, since, both in Andalusia and Estremadura, in Valencia and in Arragon, the fruit within sight is very scanty. La Mancha alone may be excepted from this general rule." DISEASE AMONG THE TURNIPS.—We deeply regret to learn that, in addition to the loss of the potato, and the partial failure of the bean crop from the same cause, a somewhat mysterious and destructive disease has broken out extensively amongst the turnips in East Lothian, within the last three we-lcs, and which may be aptly termed " the rot," as it affects the turnip alto gether different from the old disease of " finger and toes." It seems to commence in two ways —one, by a slightly discoloured brown spot upon the principal fibre, which gradually spreads upwards, and the other by a sort of clammy, gummy matter, adhering to the bulb at the root of the leaf. In both ways the destruction of the plant is speedy and effectual, becoming in a short time a mass of rotten putridity. The disease is progress ing, but is principally confined to the white turnip, though not always. We are sorry to learn, also, that notwithstanding the fine weather, the securing of the crop goes on very slowly, and that much of the grain is sprouted (from being cut wet) to a very great degree.— Edinburgh Witness, Sept. 2. The Roman Catholic community in Dundee have purchased the estate of Wellburn, Lochee, for the pur pose of erecting on it a school of industry, an orphan institution, for the benefit of the younger members belonging to that communion, and a small chapel where the services of " the church Hill be daily performed. Besides these, there is to be erected a normal school, which is to be placed under the superintendence of the " Christian Brothers." A portion of the ground will be laid out as a cemetery.—Edinburgh Paper. No less than five thousand barrels of American beef have been bought in Liverpool for the Irish war _ kets within thy last lyrtnight,—Liverpo9l Paper, HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST. The fifth anneal report of this institution has just been issued, from which it appears that the number of out-patients treated during the past year at the hospital and out-patient branch is 1,511 ; the number at present under treatment is 335. The total number treated since the hospital was established is as follows : In-patients, 273 ; out-patients, 4,893. The roper: further states that " the committee feel it to be among the earliest of their duties to express their grateful sense of the many and important services derived to the charity by the counte nance and assistance of the prelates and clergy of the Church of England; upwards of 700/. have been col lected in churches since the April of last year, while various contributions in addition followed the earnest and eloquent appeals in its behalf made from the pulpit. They have to report, with sincere and grateful pleasure, that the benevolent Bishop of Durham offered to contribute 501. to a fund for furnishing the new building, provided that nine other subscribers of a like amount could be obtained; his example was almost immediately follower], the roquired number was obtained, and a sum of 5001. was tbus pr , ,cure 1 f.,r this necessary purpose. The coaimittee have also to report that a sum of 2,000/. was bequeathed to the charity by the Rev. Henry Campbell, late of Cow ley, near Uxbridge; a most liberal bequest, the value of which is augmented by the knowledge that the deceased clergyman was the uncle of the honorary secretary. The commit tee desire also to make reference to the generous sup port the charity has received from the public press— of provinces as well as of the metropolis ; its con ductors generally having given to the institution thou' zealous and cordial support, and having largely con tributed to obtain for it universal recognition as a most important and beneficial national establishment, the claims of which to public support re-.t on the solid basis of practical good. From all parts of the kingdom patients have been received and succoured. lucre tt at present within the hospital one who came to it from Gibraltar; and who has largely benefited by the medical treatment therein aff irded him and the com forts he has there received. The committee notice this circumstance chiefly as showing that the value of this charity is now appreciated far and near—appreciated as the first great experiment in behalf of a class of suf ferers previously considered beyond the pale of either relief or care." The report concludes by stating that the amount of contract for erecting and completing the western wing and part of the centre of the new building at Brompton, is 11,762/., while the expenses of laying out and inclosing the ground, &c., exclusive of fittings, is 1,684/. To meet these sums, viz , 13,446/., the committee have received in less than two years 8,7491., leaving a balance of pre sent liabilities of 5,312/., and having in hand 6151., the balance to be provided is 4,079/. It appears that a series of sermons are about to be preached in the north of England in aid of the charity, and that, in short, the prospects of the benevolent founders and supporters are of the most cheering and gratifying description. ZOOLOGICAL IMPORTS. Captain Gallilee, of the Cestus, of this port, recently returned with guano from the coast of Patagonia, has brought home a valuable collection of South American specimens of natural history. They are in part designed as a present to the owner, Mr. Robert Collison, through whose liberality we trust to see, ere long, some cf the museums of the town, probably that of the Mechanics' Institute, of which Mr. Collison has for several years been a director, enriched by an accession of a portion of the interesting group, part of which have been obtained at some risk, and by no slight exertions en the part of Captain Gallilee and his crew. The chief curi osity is the preserved fur of a monstrous species of seal called the sea lion, that of a male, measuring 10 feet 6 in. from the nose to the tip of the hind flippers. It is `.q I feet in diameter about the middle, and was, when living, 7i feet in girth; it weighed 10 cwt., and was caught on a guano island named Shag island. The difference between this species and the common seal differs less in the size of the animal than in its form ; for whereas, in the former, the fore flippers are inserted at about the same relative distance from the head as are the shoulders of a dog, in the sea lion they project from the broadest part of the body, about half-way between the head and the tail. The extraordinary length of neck thus obtained enables the creature to rear a lofty head out of water, and on the approach of a boat to the place where they domicile, about a hundred of them will approach in battle array, and surround the vessel, but at a respectful distance ; they utter a hideous howl, somewhat resembling the roar of a lion, but dying away in a dissatisfied and subdued grunt ; when excited t'aey bristle up the long hair on their necks, which as sumes the form of a lion's mane. They are, however, usually inoffensive to men, and seem desirous of lead ing a peaceable life, excepting when attacked, when the female retreats, but the male offers resistance. The flippers of the specimen brought home by Captain Gallilee are each armed with three claws, and webbed, the web being a foot and a half in length, anti the total expansion about a yard. Their speed in the water far surpasses that of a steamer. The full-grown lion hus four tusks and a good mouthful of teeth. This lion was found with the lioness and a whelp lying asleep on the beach; the sire and son were secured, and the dam only made her escape after receiving a heavy pickaxe wound in her head ; the lion might also have escaped had he not sho.vn fight ; he was killed by the crew with pickaxes, and his carcase sold to the seal fishers. The whelp is four feet in length. Captain Gallilee has also brought a guanocoe, a land animal, from the same country, being a species of wild deer ; also penguins and shags, from which the guano is produced ; and a nutra, an amphibious animal of the otter species, from the River Plate, a splendid collection of insects, and a great number of curiosities in the shell line. He also sent homo in the Britannia, to a friend in Lincolnshire, a specimen of the chicha, or " flying child," a feathered bird of very extra ordinary appearance; the spread of its wings from tip to tip is six feet, and each wing has two spurs attached to the joints; they are very sharp, about three inches long, and aro used by the creature with amazing dexterity in attacking and tearing to pieces its prey, and also in self defence. It has something of the appearance of a wild turkey. The turkey-buzzard is also an inhabitant of these parts; severalwere seen by Captain G—, who made at tempts to shoot them, but without success. lie has brought home some of the feathers of one of them which, when living, stood four feet high, and the spread of whose wings was eight feet. The grey ostrich is also seen in flocks ; Captain Gallilee encountered one day a group of about fifty ; the whole host took to their legs excepting one, a male, who covered their escape ; turning his back upon them when at a distance of about 100 yards from Captain Gallilee and his com panions, he approached with the speed of a racehorse to within about 20 yards, and stood in a threatening and defensive attitude. An attempt was then made to bring him down, but without effect, as he flew like the wind after his companions.—Hull Advertiser. We understand that the Right Hon. the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe has determined upon having a fine yacht built to bear his flag as Commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. FOREIGNERS' EVANGELICAL SOCIETY.—Last even ing a public meeting was held at the Queen's Concert Room, llanover-square, to adopt measures for the for mation of a society for the benefit of foreigners resident in England. Lord Ashley presided, and was supported by Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister; Sir Cul ling Eardley Smith, Bert. ; the Rev. Edward Bicker steth, rector of Watton, Hefts ; Professor Mars den, Professor La Harpe, and other clergymen and gentlemen. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, remarked that there were in England upwards of 100,000 foreigners who were destitute of religious privileges ; for such persons it was intended that the society should be formed. In order to carry out its objects a committee of 50 gentlemen would be formed— missionaries would be appointed, who would preach throughout the country in various languages—religious works would be distributed—and other means would subsequently be adopted in the order they might suggest themselves to the committee. His Lordship urged with much force the claims of the proposed society on public support ; and Chevalier Bunsen, in speaking of the mighty results it was likely to accomplish, promised that he would cordially co-operate with the committee. The Rev. Edward Bickersteth moved a resolution, affirming the usefulness of the proposed society, and suggesting its immediate formation. He took occasion to remark that it was in no respect connected vsith the Evangelical Alliance—a body which had recently been holding its meetings in the metropolis ; but that it was an inde pendent association, founded upon a scheme which was quite novel in the history of religious societies. The resolution, having been seconded by Professor La Harpe, was unanimously adopted. Several addresses were de livered ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman, which the Noble Lord briefly acknowledged, closed the pro ceedings. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL WAY.—A very distressing accident occurred yesterday morning at the Reigate station, which has resulted in the death of the guard of the Dover up-mail train arriv ing in London at 430 A.M. It appeared that the de ceased, a fine young man, named Frederick Elsdon, bad been suffering from a severe attack of diarrhea through out the journey from Dover, and upon seeing the Reigate station, after applying the break, be began to descend from his seat on the roof of the carriage, wishing to reach the passengers' retiring room, which is on the down side of the line; he descended on the wrong side of the carriage in order to cross the railway more spee dily. While in the act of doing so his leg came in con tact with the dwarf wall running between the " up" and " down" lines. The force of the concussion caused a compound fracture of the thigh bone, and the unfortu nate man falling at the same instant, his lower extremi ties became entangled between the wheels, and he was thus dragged several yards before the train was brought to a stand. When picked up the poor fellow's legs were found to be dreadfully crushed, several of his toes were cut off ; his left ankle was dislocated, and the sole of the same foot almost completely torn away. Notwithstand ing the frightful nature of his injuries, the unfortunate man retained perfect sensibility. He was at once placed in a carriage and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, but, after lingering in a state of extreme torture during the morn ing, he expired at half-past one o'clock. A dense fog prevailed when the accident occurred, and it is supposed that the deceased did not observe the dwarf wall against which ho struck in the first instance. The unfortunate man has left a widow and one child to mourn his loss. The accident caused much alarm and excitement among the passengers in the train. Sntoon CATTLE FAlR.—This fair was held on Monday, at which 3,501 lambs were penned, and out of that number 2,696 were sold at an average of 225. 6d. to 235. For horses, cows, and calves, and pigs, there was little demand, although the supply was limited, the EftilaberS being, buries, 42 i covs 4124 Gfilvvo, 14 ; pigs,ll. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—This Mornirg, at 10 o'clock, the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admi ralty, resumed his levee at the Royal Naval College, and gave audiences to the following officers : Rear Admirals--Charles Carter and Sir W. A. Mon • tagu, C. 8., K.C.H. • Commodore—Douglas. Captains—Jones, Liardet, Westley, Sweney, Richard son, and Sir W. Dickson, Bart. Commanders—Twiss, Ward, Cannon, Steane, J. Low rey, Westbrook, Farquhar. Lieutenants Compton, Billingsley, Courbauld, M'Clure, Jenner, and APDonnell. Paymasters and Pursers—Hoffmeister, Acheson, ilnd M'Dermott. ROYAL MARINES. Major—Moore, R.M.A. (Barrack-master). '.l he Noble First Lord concluded his levee a few mi nutes T ast twelve, and, after going through one or two deparments of the college, proceeded to inspect the hill;en of the Seamen and Marines' Orphan School, of Porteea, who were drawn up in front of the college On the right, facing the entrance to the mansion of their distinguished and gallant President, Admiral Sir Charl: Ole. Dr. Morgan, one of the directors, and Mr. Charles Young, the honorary secretary, explained to their Lord ships the nature of the charity. Atter minutely in specting the children (sixty boys and thirty-five girls), the First Lord expressed his warm satisfaction at their clean and healthy and apparently happy condition, and said he hoped to have the pleasure of seeing them at their other institution (the ground for which was granted by the late Board of Admiralty). After complimenting the directors and the hon. secretary for their highl3 bene ficial and praiseworthy labours, their Lordships pro ceeded to make a general inspection of the various de partments of the dockyard, commencing with the rope house, thence proceeding to the superintendent's office, on board the Amphitrite razee corvette, to the works of the new steam-basin, returning by the millwright's shop, and embarking soon after four o'clock, at the Kirg's• stairs, to inspect the Britannia, 120 ; Powerful, 84 ; Vengeance, 84 ; and other advanced ships. While the First Lord held his levee, Rear-Admiral Dundas and Captain Berkeley, accompanted by Rear- Admiral the Earl of Cadogan, and Commander Hew lett, of the Excellent, went out in the Bee steam-tender to Spithead, to inspect the Hound (new iron 10-gun brig). They returned to harbour at noon, when the whole Board went round the Dockyard. Their Lordships dine this evening at their hotel (the George), where they entertain Admiral Sir Chas. Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief; Major-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenham, Lieutenant-Governor of the gar rison ; Captain-Superintendent Carter, of llaslar, &c. ; Colonel Jones, commandant of this division of Royal Marines ; Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, superintendent of the dockyard ; Mr. Richard Haig, R N., Seoretary to the Commander in-Chief ; Captain Pasco, of the Vic tory, and the other captains of the ships in commission at this port, and a few private friends. Covers are laid for twenty-four. The Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Robb, is now ready for sea. She bent sails this day. The Sylvia tender sailed this evening for Jersey. PUBLIC OFFICES (WHITEHALL). A Return "of the Expense incurred already in the recent ad ditional Building and Alterations in the several Public Offices in Whitehall and the immediate neighbourhood ; distinguishing the Number of Rooms, and for what pur poses added, as well as the Expenditure on Account of each separate Department; also, a Copy of the Original Estimate of the Architect." PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE.' Cost of the alterations at the Privy Council Office, 17,6121. Fifteen additional rooms have been obtained for an increase of accommodation for clerks, office-keeper, and. housekeeper. Architect's original estimate (including com mission, &c.), 10,4731. BOARD OF TRADE. Cost of the alterations at the Office of the Board of Trade, 8,968/. Twenty-four additional rooms have been obtained for an increase of accommodation for clerks, office-keeper, and housekeeper. Architect's original estimate (including commission, &c.), 5,3851. ARCHITECT'S ORIGINAL ESTIMATE. The architect reports, that his estimates were not, and could not be, in detail; that they were general calculations only, and, to a great extent, conjectural: That, owing to the uncertainty as to the amount of work that might be required, the alterations could not be, and were not, con tracted for at a gross sum, but have been undertaken at prices according to the amount of work executed : That the excess of cost beyond the amount of the original estimates, relates only to works of absolute necessity, and not of dura tion, involving, in the present case, the reconstruction of an entire story of the Privy Council Office, a greater sacrifice of the old stone-work than was expected, and other heavy con tingencies not provided for: That, in fact, the extra works are such only as could not be foreseen in altering an old building: That with respect to the completion of the front towards Whitehall, forming part of the Home Office, it is not likely that there will be any excess upon the estimated cost of it, inasmuch as the building will be entirely new, and has been tendered for at a gross sum below the amount of the original estimate. (Signed) ORPETH, Commissioners of her Majesty' s A. MILNE, Woods, and Forests, Buildings.L ndßevenues, Works, Office of Woods, &c., Aug. 19, 1846. TIIE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.—Tom Hood has capitally said of some teetotallers, that they think they have a right to believe themselves beauties, simply be cause they are not beasts. Assuredly, many of the water-spouters recently playing at Covent-garcen Theatre are of this notion. It would be difficult to brew or distil any beverage stronger or more deleterious than much of their language. The American apostles of temperance— like many other saints—have made themselves especially notorious for unseemly words. Never was water dirtied with fouler words. The Rev. Thomas Braynard, how ever, of Philadelphia, has settled the question by shift ing it upon the shoulders of weak woman, whom he twit ted with an indiscretion (now a few thousand years' standing) in a very shabby spirit. He said, '• one woman had ruined the world by persuading a man to eat, and it was now for woman to show an example, by persuading him not to drink." Eve having plucked the apple, it was the duty of her daughters to set their faces against cyder. We would by no means be thought to undervalue tho blessings of temperance as preached by Father Mathew and others; but when we read the stuff that has recently been uttered in the eause of total abstinence, we certainly do feel inclined to wish that at Covent-garden the authori ties had imitated certain Strand authorities at church ' time, and " put locks upon the pumps."—Punch. 'TIE CORN-LAWS.—The ruinous effect of the re peal of the corn-laws was very forcibly displayed at the sale on Saturday evening last at the Eagle Hotel, of the lease of the Manor farm at Grantchester by Mr. Went worth. We never remember to have seen a larger or more respectable company at an estate sale in this town than was assembled on that occasion ; or to have wit nessed more spirited competition. The lease is granted by King's College, to whom the estate belongs, for a term of years, of which nineteen are unexpired, subject to a corn and money rent of about 2001. per annum. The improved rent paid to the College lessee by the occupy ing tenant, Mr. Frederick Lilly, amounts to 6001. per annum. The lease was ultimately knocked down for the very trifling sum of 6,1601., to Mr. Devereux Den ton, on behalf of the occupier, Mr. Lilley. So much for agricultural distress, and the miserable prospects of the farmers.—Camhridge Advertiser. A man named Pierre Pignol, who has by turns carried on the business of coffee-house keeper and per fumer, was on Tuesday brought before the Correctional Tribunal, on a charge of obtaining goods and money under false pretences, he having represented himself es a son of the Emperor Napoleon. On bring called on to give his name, he replied, "Eugene Napoleon Bonaparte, Duc de Delmas. The name of Pignol is that of my foster father ;" and then entered into a long rhodomontade connected with his alliance to the imperial family, and that it was disgraceful that a son of France should be treated as he had been. During the proceedings, a letter, not remarkable for the correctness of its orthography, was produced, which the prisoner had the impudence to address to the Avocat du Roi, and in which he assured the learned gentleman of the legitimacy of his imperial descent. The court listen( d with patient attention to the story of the soi disant duke, and ulti mately dismissed the charge, as there was not sufficient evidence to convict him.—Paris Riper. GREAT SOUTHERN AND IVESTERN (IRELAND) RAIL WAY CONPANY.—On Sunday next the G inpany will commence carrying the mails, and consequently an alteration in the starting of the trains will take place. The first down train will leave at half past seven in the morning, and the mail train will follow at eleven o'clock, and the evening train at five o'clock. The first up train from Carlow will start at half-past nine o'clock in the morning, the mail train at ten minutes past twelve o'clock, and the evening train at five o'clock. We stated in our last that Mr. Dargan had been declared the contractor for the entire line from Tipperary to Cork, and the board are most anxious to have the works advanced as speedily as possible. For the purpose of ar ranging the purcbasc of the bind, the company's officers proceeded last week along the extension line, to endea vour to effect amicable arrangements with the proprie tors and occupiers; and it is certainty to be hoped that as the company offer very liberal terms, the proprietors and occupiers will meet them in an equally liberal spirit, and thus save litigati,n. The traffic from Dublin to Carlow is such as to afford the greatest satisfaction, and to justify the strongest reliance on the resources of the line.—lrish Railway Gazette. THE LION QuEEN.—At Donnybrook fair last week, the chief " lion " of the fair was a certain Mrs. King, who is called the " Lion Queen - ," and exhibits at Wombwell's. She enters the den of three lions, and whips them about at a great rate. She also enters the den of two ferocious h)fenas, all of whom are evidently in great dread of her. A pleasant time Mr. King must have of it. COPPER SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD AND IRON IN BOAT-BUILDING.—We have been informed of the intro- duction of a novelty in river and port navigation, which, if it bears out all that is claimed for it, cannot be long before it comes into general use. It is nothing less than a boat of copper, made of four sheets only, stamped to due form, by powerful machinery, and rivetted together; it is twenty-three feet long, five feet wide, has four times the strength of wooden boats, and requires one-third only the power to propel at the same speed as a wooden boat of the same dimensions ; one-third less weight • no caulking, renailing, or pointi ng, i s requ i red ; and, when worn out, the metal will sell for three-fourths of the first cost. Boats, cutters, gigs, ship's boats, race boats, and others, from ten feet to sixty feet, may be made in four pieces ; their strength has been tried by dashing them against rocks, and running a-head against stone piers, and it appears almost impossible to sink them. Verily, this is an age of wonders !—Penzance Gazette. The splendid mansion of the Marquis of Hertford, in Park-lane, known as Dorcht ster _House, has been disposed of, and his Lordship has taken auother in Dexiseley-spore. 1 ►IIP' J tied PTIIE SITN,__LONDON, gATITRIDAY MORNING, srPTVISIDEIt 6, 1846. N