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cc orai' fi ga Ja o rt e im po o • vo ich 61) re do ils, 4 eth° r ea rly is e re ; the :ts 1^„, of c c :e n t o f 2 0 „ , t e t c: i T or pol„ , ? et ber• Rio o°, ,ear 145 re thal.l la 5 re‘lol.. 32 75 . jollaro• P.x, r , RA ILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSU RANCE COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The sixth general hall-yearly meeting of the share holders rs in this convexly was held today, in the offices, 3h3, Old B roa d -street; Sir John Dean Paul, Bart, in the e Th e report stated that the company's business con the to show a s ati s f ac tory increase, notwithstanding diminution of railway traffic in the last six months, Ex hibition with th at o f l as t year , w h en t h e G rea t Ex inducedninduced an unusual amount of travelling htif.. ughout th e country. Th e tota l rece i pts d ur i ng th e the year amounted to 3,066/. Bs. Id., an d th i s w i t h Bi, 3d• brought forward, showed a total of 4,38 41 . th 'lm. to the credit of revenue account, out of which Yarirath°.claims estimated as payable at the close of last adjusted, and the working expenses , 1 4 e re g " a n tlug in all to 3,354/. ss. 7d. had been paid, leav lvith ,sueplus of 1,030/. 3s. 2d, This sum, together ," amount due from clearing house and agents, f erur t a balance of 1,7271. 18s. 11d. on revenue account, Ou the 30ch of June, to which date the accounts were teed, 1). This balance was subject, however, to the „„'" charges for comm ission and duty on the last ;: r atter' s receipts not pa i d w h en the accounts c , e , closed ; hut after allowing for all the b ee eisurY deducti on s, the balance justified the oireiketere in recommending the payment of inter est on th at Pid - up clewed. of the company for t he b e if- y e ear ate of four per cent. per annum. The amount paid " Il lPeneetion during the lest six months was “7/ . l e LI e. prlncip illy arising from claims unsettled eeember last. The claims on insurances effected ft l r lag the period under review had been comparatively thw, accidents having been happily much less frequent ati usual, but the periodical recurrence of t hese ea , ha 45,, a was remarkably s hown by the number that have ePened since the close of the half-year, and which has ?k n generally of a very severe description. One of the July ' Serious of these occurred at Stockton on the 21st in which no less than three of the sufferers held well-mince tickets, one of them being Mr. Grainger, the se Severely n om and much repented civil engineer, who was eelinjured that he died shortly after. The naa ? a Burgeon, Mr. Holt, proceeded to the spot im mediatelyti on receipt of intelligence of the accident, and to the of the friends of the unfortunate gentle ", he remained to the last to give the benefit his gr eat _ fr kt experience and professional skill in removing the ,ured limb, which unfortunately was found imprac ewe f he. rem physical prostration, so that mortification supervened. The amount insured, 1,000/. was err.tible t o M r. Gra i nger ' s f am ily, an d a lthough a heavy su itl eh al on the fund of the company, and the first of tech magnitude, it might be expected that this ete e j e tha tlie instance of the utility o f t he s y stem Th" ,‘ have a 'beneficial effect on the future business. ull3pany's 13111 in Parliament, having received the 1 4 ,7 assent on the 17th July, the direct ors lust no time thie re P ar ieg to avail themselves of the additional powers lif e, acquired of gr anting insurances for the whole of fe: td in other modes likely to suit the views of dif "' partie d der the practice of insuring more t ile& 8, an r ender a 4 According to the wish expressed by the direc -4 on th e resignation of the office of secretary by v ee , t allder Beattie, Esq., to continue to have the ad o t i t l i ga Of his extensive experience in the management t di company, that gentleman had been elected to m a t hs vacancy at the board, occasioned by the retire lifer o f Efumphry Brown, Esq,, M.P. The directors O pened negotiations through an in fluential a g ent v wi th aria with the railway companies in France. the a view to the insurance of their servants, and The i ntroduction of the s y s tem into that country. h ei Y had grea t s atisfaction in stating that they A Bemired th e se rvices of M. de Jacquemain , et il General du Soleil Life and Fire Insurance Pe e — ,,,P ll , ll Y, as agent and representative of this corn hie f Paris, gentleman eminently qualified by ed y s'enta and position to fill this important post, and It was the interests of the company on the co ntinent. still a subject of regret, that while the operations Pre of e eurnPany were daily being extended , a nd fresh a of its advance in public favour continually af "ded, h - stitt i „,„te directors of the southern railways seemed th e i r ""Pesed to allow insurance tickets to be issued at h e , n * sations although renewed applications had lately tioti - t e r " d e on the subject. On one of these lines—the fr eß 7Eastern—accidents have lately o ccurred, and the remarks of the public press , a nd the numerous it at the office, there was reason to believe that th e are regarded as a hardship by the p ublic to be denied The reiterated of making a pr ovision against them. Wi t i l ' et terated refusal of the directo rs of that company, for e Out th any adequate reason being assi g ned, was there belie to be regretted, as th ere was ground for 114 - " a g from the operation of the company on other that it was of service to the railway companies as Ille; as the public. With these exceptums,_th e corn r i t i' insurance tickets can now be obtained at the Stations o f all the railway s in the United Tetigdo_ e e l l ' eellaeamete said be was happy to state that the ti t curs were in a position to recommend .a dividend at le4; ate Of 4 per cent. on the paid-up capital. A.. t pre clot ;,t would not be prudent to propose a larger dividend ree r , ) ,; t ile Profits for reasons which were too obvious to be 1147 0 1:le d . „ nen:light menden, however, that the expe tienee,,el thelast six months was but a very imperfect crit e reoe,ut what might be fairly anticipated for the future, for t o til t' of the money taken during the period was applied ettr e settlement of claims arising in the previous half no it would be gratifying to the sha reholders to bee of tuat ther e h a d b ee n a steady increase in the num ber tickets iss ue d, for this was an indication th a t t he Itee sn Y was gaining a firmer hold on the confidence t o thhuPPurt of the public. The chairman then alluded e Melancholy death of Mr. Grainger, the emin en t th e la i ee r, who, it will be recollected sank under Si on ` n iuries which he sustained by the colli sead:t Stockton, and mentioned that he was a Im o , of one of the company's periodical tickets for et s aeThe claim made by his relatives was the fir st eel ) , 4 great magnitude which the company had yet Vin t a ti tticed ; but the fact of the directors meeting it sty e r d Silence all those who e ntertained an y doubts as to 44 e n.icsPonsibility of the com p an y under such circum lifices• He wished it to be as widely known us pos tiGn, that the claim bad b2en adjusted to the satistac of the unfortu nate g entleman's relatives, and tha t the directors were ready to hand over b a , Money whenever it should be called for. H e reason to believe that if Mr. Holt, th e able and ex rtrienced surgeon of the company, had been enabled to 4 ,.,t (lace remove the fractured limb, the life of M r. vrainger would have been preserved, as was h a pp il y the t:e with regard to another gentleman who was severely ?Med at the Frodsham Tunnel. The effect produced ` 4l the weekly receipts by the sad occurrence bad been of a Very striking character, the receipts during t he last t u l for instance, being as much as 2031. 13s. Id. The vantages of this nov e l an d s i m ple application of the habllu_ e principle of life assurance could not be too fre "Otly pressed on the publi c; for they had the testimony nyl 9tain Symons, the Secretary to the Railway Com itreners, that railway traffic was conducted with less eee e .. tY in 1851 th an i u 1850. While traffic had only in eit"ed 17 per cen t., t h e nu mber of persons injured by e t ' l lrestances beyond their own control had augmented fe lo a , r ate of 104 per cent. And this calculation was b o ed on th e re t urns c ontained in Parliamentary blue ti (r aud did not include the numerous other casualties p o w minor description that took place on railways. The thei:rs of the company had been greatly extended by toad n ew Act of Parliament, which enabled the directors by rates of premium for a term of years or for a whole The re Payment, instead of for one year, as formerly. vit i„lairns for the last six months were not so numerous el o j "le former half-year, bUt since the accounts were there had been a considerable number of railway adep t e - tlt3, The chairman concluded b y moving the bSohipl() of the report. ~ WILsoN said he and others were induced. to 11 %p ar -- . 6 Shareholders on the understanding that if the ,lvay a it e beht of assuring lives against accidents on rail ...the ;sailed, the company could easily be abandoned. "°tlde "were of the directors were now, however, ex ot fo dto the assurance of lives for a period of years to k : whole lives, and ho wished to know whether the sot i,n 117 Could still be broken up prov ided it was found _ . I reeea? Kkt l' EATTIE, a director, said provision had been Zictild f or winding up the company in case such an event happen by returning the amount of premiums report was they received. Pituv . " „ 'esttie was then elected a director of the com h ‘od after vote of thanks to the directors and 44 the proceedings terminated. NCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC . -opts - ° ll owing are the last returns of the gross IT- N ° 61 the principal French RailwayslB:—. 41 8,6n I T I ERN.—From Aug. 12 to Aug. . Passengers, u • ; goods, 274,5021.; total, 682 , 552 t. 470,5011'--From Aug. 15 to Aug. 21: Passengers, 11 170,9081 ;From goods, 86.307 E; total, 25 7 , 26 51 . 4 ,53 21 .! t L - -From Aug. 15 to Aug. 21. . Passengers. A ( ti ."; goods, 40.3161. ; total 102,848 1 . Aug.s to ( iti ß - ",, 4 Ns AND BRANCH LINES.—From (-)0 Passengers, 334,153 i.; goods, 266,5091.; total, n S T ' 4 : l * -4 1,6 -Bu tau.—From Aug. 12 to Aug. 18: Passengers, 6f it kr „,- , goods, 141,186 E; total, 482,851 f. o ,f,o; i t. '"" - From Aug. 9 to Au ku l ,;„,* ; goods, 23,1661.; total, 60,870 f. Aug. 15 ; Passengers) 40 53 3 - ,'EttLeu,—From Aug. 12 to Aug. 18: Passengers, 1 41 ,,,t'; goods, 12,302 1 .; total, 32.835 f. 27 8,3 - 9 Ns • •—• From Aug. 15 to Aug 21 : Passengers, goods, 127,797 f.; total, 406,1941. 131 1 4 97,. ERN . — From Aug. 16 to Aug. 22 : Passengers , ".; goods, 13,047 E; total, 147,2381. qtA week endinAND Aug SOUTH- . 28, WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for g 1852 : rassengers k 37,934), goods and Parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,503 10 7 v,o rrezpondi ng week in last year 4,487 0 9 ti oja tit AortnlNAwr SUICIDE.---A very painful sensa• tf thWas createi yesterday, in the immediate neighbourhood f ° l lov f e • Ol d Bailey and Ludgate-hill, in consequence of th . o 41 ' ) e'ir in4 fri ghtful oCcurrence:—From the inquiries made, it tini Q ' 'tt that a person named Meek had resided for some • ler l' il st in Green Arbour-court, Old Bailey . , where it is llertva,."37 believed he had accumulated considerable pro -I;')ats, by Working at his ' business as a tailor and collec:ing . his b Between eight and nine that morning he . came out of l'iiii,? li se, and entered into cheerful conversation with some t he oir,iB',Pruters. Shortly afterwards he sallied . forth into 4 tre t. " nailey, and deliberately cut his throat in the l open h R t , ilm lie staggered once or twice, and then fel , o eu t hd \vlli c b u , the blood at the time gashing fie,,,, r ";t was subsequently found he had inflicted with a_ t hait,t;'‘,Persons who witnessed the unfortunate fa. from the m ktip. flac k j o `i,.. to his assistance, and, having picked where ' l',e re ti „"Yed him to St. Bartholomew's hospital, tea lm. t 'teed the poor fellow to make such a have ur ns ' it is believed, in a dvinff state. could bin n i " U o at What t.. 4%14476. de4troy his life is, for the present, enveloped , desperate,a.o ▪ 3 065 ▪ 25 65's 4:14 123' j 3 • 534 yE g Pio 3 17 9 0 0 ) 0 0 , 0 4 0 5 °N DAY*) Vfq )00 r,—Af' d. C , ValPtv Ibrailai cork , b; Alla° Aroluff ,E. Job° ?lin, Cyl' ZylStill , d. 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Our beloved rend venerable Maga still retains its accustomed predominance in the world of periodical literature—and no wonder, with its corps of brilliant and illustrious contributors. Occasionally embellished with one of the masterly essays of Sir Archibald Allison, and sometimes also with a vigorous paper from the pen of Mr. Warren, the Queen's Counsel, Blackwood is repeatedly adorned with the searching and eloquent criticisms of Professor Wilson, and—best of all, during the two years last past—with instalments of that exquisite fiction, through which Sir Bulwer Lytton is still industriously revealing the scope and vivacity of his genius as a novelist, at the very period when his ambition as a politician must be revived, by his recent return as one of the representatives of Hertfordshire. No wonder then, say we, that with writers of such allowed capacity, the chief among the magazines continues to sustain its reputation ! A delightful review of Cockburn's " Life of Jeffrey," opens the number of Blackwood for September. The first sentence affords a sufficiently agreeable inkling of the drift cf the proposed argument. "It is well," saith the writer, " fur this biography of Francis Jeffrey, that the late cele brated critic cannot possibly review it himself "—a remark as complimentary to the departed as it is severe upon his biographer. And assuredly the justice of the observation is well substantiated by the extracts given from this eccentric effort in author ship by one of the judges of the Court of Sessions of Scotland. The review (being headed " Part I. ") promises to swell into a supplementary celebration of the great critic of the _Edinburgh. A third instal ment of " Katie Stewart" proves that the writer is admirably qualified to produce a story of Scottish life, yielding, as it does, many graceful delineations of scenery and ingenious portraitures of character. Colonel Mundy's work about the resources and aspect of "Our Antipodes" is commented upon in the sub sequent contribution—in the course of which the reviewer contrives to give an amusing account of the result of " Residence and Rambles in Australia." A Country Minister, in the course of a brief but highly intelligent communication to the editor, points out a variety of errors, which he at the same time conceives to be evidently inadvertent, in the course of the " Fourth Volume of Chalmers' Bio graphy." Thereupon we have another portion of the latest and in many respects the noblest " Novel" that has yet proceeded from the hand of Sir Bulwer Lyt ton—the instalment before us (which is the twenty fourth) comprising the eight first chapters in the Twelfth Book—the " Varieties in English Life" having extended the domestic narrative by Pisistra tus Caxton to epic dimensions. Notwithstanding his decision announced some months back to the con trary, the author has here reverted lovingly to his original intention, introducing the Family of the Cax tons once again to the reader — se en, as t were, through the lattice of an " initial chapter." The story at this moment evidently hastening to its conclusion, we must refrain from entering minutely into the consideration of its numerous, and many of them re splendent, merits. When the tale is told in full, we shall be enabled to estimate more judiciously the po sition it must eventually assume among the diversified productions of that creative and comprehensive intel lect to which the world is already indebted for the effervescent wit of " Pelham," for the home born tenderness of the " Caxtons," and for the humanizing philosophy of" Maltravers." Of one thing we are convinced, in regard to this remarkable novel descriptive of life and manners in England, that —upon its completion—it must be rechristened. As it is, the title is unworthy of the work, being loose and indefinite. Afterwards comes the political article of the month, referring to " The Premier's Present Position"—an article w hi c h w e have consi dered in our leading columns of this evening in what we cannot but deliberately view as terms of deser vedly s evere condemnation. Aft er a no ble and re sounding March, written for music by William Ed mondstoun Aytoun (another of Maga's gifted contri butors), " The March of th e C rusa d ers "—closing each stanza with a superb refrain, as thus— " Strong, strong—rai,e the song! Raise it the hills ' amon g Raise it till the Mosle m hea b r— Sound, sound, trump and druml Let them know we come— Cross and banner, swo r d an d speed"— our hearts are rejoiced with another magnificent series of criticisms on the poetry of Milton —the finest tribute that has perhaps ever yet been offered to the genius of Milton—by the master-hand of rare old Christopher North, writing es usual under the new familiar and already popular title of Dies Boreales. And suchis Blackwood for September ! NEW MONTHLY. Under the title of " Woodtborpe," Kelly Kenyon gives a really interesting description of one of t , h , e re miniscences of a physician. " Mrs. Trollope. who is here criticised as the fifth in the series of " Female Novelists," is grotesquely entitled by the reviewer " a blue-stocking who travels in seven-leagued boots," and who by that propensity fairly runs out of breath the whole race of critics and criticasters. Satire is painted out as the characteristic of our authoress — who is satirical, however, according to th , e , writer's notion, in a " hard, pointed, persevering manner—her sarcasms showing little akin to the graceful raillery" of Mrs. Gore, or to the good natured irony" of Mr. Thackeray. Keats long since gave to the world his delicious poem of " The Eve of St. Agnes." Mrs. Acton Tindal has now, through the, pages of the New Monthly, sung in rhymes, " The Eve of All Saints." These rhyme s , however, a re nothing better than pr e tty and me l od i ous. A grand problem in modern history i s cons id ere d under the inquiry, " \Y .s Wallenstein guilty ?" Although the argument is somewhat ingeniously condensed, we cannot but regard the q ues ti on as one, from its magnitude, more appropriate for a substan tial volume than for a hasty magazine contribution. Upon the shoulders of J. E. Carpenter the mantle of T. H. Bayly fell long ago—another proof of which is given in the graceful little lyric "Pm thinking of the Past," adorning the fifty-seventh page of the ninety-sixth volume of the New Monthly. Mrs. Bushby translates from the Swedish, in the current number of the same magazine, "The Ancestress "of the late Baroness Knorring. J o ll y Green we suspect is the gentleman who tells us " How Jeremiah Tubbs beca me engaged in the Irish Elections of is:; "—a narrative reading marvellously like one from the hand of Poole, but still more like one from the hand of Costello. Besides some chap ters about " The Rovings of the Ripple" we have one paper on " Digging for Gold " another on " Queen Victoria's Channel," and a further continuation of " Young Tom Hall's Heart-aches and Horses." Best of all the contributions in the September num ber of the New Monthly, however, is the last—aheart born and touching tribute to the lamented "glass of fashion and mould of form," the gifted Comte D'Orsay. It is evidently the generous effusion at once of friendship and admiration. FilAS'Eli. The first article in the current number of Fraser —being a comprehensive criticism headed " Recent Travels"—is a very readable and entertaining sort of Oinnium Gatherurn. It introduces the reader to countries of the most diversified character ; through the work of Mr. Brace to Hungary—through that of Mr. Laing to Schleswig—through that of Mr. Hamilton to Denmark —through those of Mr. Fortune and Sir John Davis . to Chi a ir. to the Court of Nepaul under the guidance of the Hon. Captain Egerton—to the Arctic regions by the aid of Lieutenant Osborn and S ir John Richard son—through the work of Mr. Bowen into Thessaly —through that of Captain Mackinnon to America and the Americans—through that of Mr. Shortland to New Zealand—and through that of Colonel Mundy to Australia. Surely those are wan derings enough for "once in a way," without the necessity of vacating our easy-chair for a steam-boat, or of kicking off ou r slippers and donning the seven-leagued boots of gianthind ! The article, although of course very cursory in its allusions, will be found both interesting and instruc tive. An absolutely delicious chapter follows about " Mullets and Mullomaniacs." It savours in every sentence of the bon vivant. It is enough to make an epicure out of an anchorite. The reader's mouth waters involuntarily for a taste of the " woodcock of the sea" as he gloats over this pleasant chapter in regard to his favourite refection sprinkled with the daintiest scraps from Pope and Juvenal. The Rev. Charles Kingsley continues his " Hypatie," which, :although entitled " New Foes with an old Face," will pro ve an old friend with a new face to his admirers. The last " Musical Season," or rather the present one, now on the eve of its conclusion, is reviewed very judiciously he writer rather depreciating the value of M. Jullien's stormy lyric drama of Pietro it Grande. M. Chamfort 13 reviewed (we might almost say " somewhat humanely ") as among , th e list of " Neglecte d French Authors. Captain Di g hy Grand attains the dignity . of a twentieth chapter in his lively and entertaining " Auto biography." After an elaborate paper expressive of certain " Ethical Doubts concerning ReinekeFuchs" —come more of the " Sketches of Rome under the Pope and the Republic,' from the hand of an eye witness ; and after a couple of article 5, one relating to the New Orphan House at Bristol, and the , other to the "Presidential Election" for America, 1 rcfser closes with a very able political contribution, 0 . entitled" The Personnel of the new Parliament." BENTLEY. An excellent memoir of Lord Langdale--accom panied by an engraved likeness from the character istic drawing, by George Richmond—opens the Sep tember number of Bentley's Miscellany. A most horrid little impish attem.,9t at wit disgraces the 28Qui page, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1. Hardman's translation of Edward Jermann's " Traveller's Library, comprises the whole of Frederi.ck Pic tures from St. Petersburgh." As another cluster of Grimm'so Household Stories we have " The Soaring Lark," and other quaint productions of a eirnilar charae.er. The new number of The Charm, besides a profusion of woodcuts, contains a merry description of " Home for the Holidays." The Picture Pleasure Book is still more profusely illustrated. The farmer's Magazine consists, aa usual, of a mass of papers of grea t prac ti ca l interest, and such as may be consulted with profit by the agriculturists. In the Sporting Review we are rejoiced to observe that an old favourite in the sporting world--Harry Hieover—has commenced the account ~of his " Life and Adventures." The serial, which we trust may be sufficiently protracted, cannot but prove fraught with entertainment. Be sides this the " Review" embraces, amono• things for September, contr ib ut i ons f rom e' other Craven, Horny wink, Foxglove, C astor, and H awt h or ne, to gether with engravin gs b y B eckw i th an d Engle heart. The Ladies' Compassion w o uld be interesting , for the present MOD th if it s on l y attract i on were the portrait of Mary llo w it t , b ut, in add i t i on t o this illustration, the monthly magazine o f the fair sex is rendered remarkable by a story from Frances Br o wn, by some verses from Mrs. Ably, and by a nother chapter on " German Legendary Lore," from the pen of Mrs. T. K. Hervey. As ever, the Church of England Magazine is crowded with effusions appro priate to this class of periodicals. Perhaps the most re markable, as it is certainly the most interesting, paper in the Eclectic Review, just issued, is the criticism headed" The Arctic Robinson." Charles Knight's mag nificent Imperial Cyclopadia has this month reached, under the subdivision of " The British Empire," the description of " Parsonstown." The engraving pre fixed to the instalment before us represents, within the limits of a single plat e , most of the no bl es t public buildings in London..an illustration singu larly- appropriate to the work under notice, which in every essential respect rises to the dignity of a na tional enterprise. Under its new editorship, that of the accomplished Mrs. S. c, Hall, Sharpe's London Magazine is already extending and strengthening its reputation. A. better number of the i n s ot the " eighty-thi r d" acco rding here issued for the month of Septemb er . A s t o the d Art Journal, edited by Mr. S. C. H a ll, i t cont i nues t o series,t this s periodical , tothe old al maintain what it has long achieved, the fame of lacing the most distinguished of all the artistic periodicals published in Christendom. The present number, be sides an engraving by Allen, from Jones's " Lady Godiva" in the Vernon Collection, and another by Vernon from Shee's "Infant Bacchus," also in the same eminent gallery—has a third by Mote, repre senting Canova's noble statue of " Madame Mere," with the grand and simple inscription of " Napoleonis mater" underneath. ATHENXUM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. This society held its first annual meeting yester day at the office, 30, Sackville-street ; the Rev. J. Bartlett, of Atcham-park, in the chair. The report set forth that, although the society was a new one, branch boards, consisting of directors in fluential in their various localities, had been formed at Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Hull, and the Isle of Man, and that others are in course of formation. An arrangement had further been made with an in stitution of a kindred nature, entitled the Atbenmum expenses,s2o invested in Institute, and by this junction of int erests w i th that large and powerful class, the member s o f t h e l i terary and newspaper press, beneficial result s to t h e society were anticipated. The balance sheet o f t h e soc i ety showed its capital to be 18 0 5151., and th e amount re ceived for premiums to be 4,4191. Th e di s b ursements were 2, and the com pany's se curities, 8,056/. at the banker's, and a b out 1,4001. in capital now no p w re c li o m ns i i n st r e y d of a the hands of the manager and the soc i ety ' s agents. During the first nine months policie s h ad been issued that yielded 4,4191. in premiums. The total number of policies was 322. Not a single claim had yet come against the office—a strong proof of the vigilance of the directors, and of the care of the medical officers. The expenses of founding the society had been paid for, and the directors had every confidence in the so ciety's success. The CHAIRMAN expressed his entire satisfaction with the progress of the society, in which expression Mr, ALEXANDER RICHMOND, as a director and large shareholder, said h© fully concurred. Mr. JAMES ANDREW DIIRHAIII said he looked to the fact of the society not being encumbered with an excess of capital, but having a respectable propriety to look to in case of necessity, as one of the means that must contribute greatly to its suoocao. Ile believed the company had been established on the right basis, end that it would succeed. On the motion of Mr. Hams, a dividend of 5 per cent. upon the subscribed capital, clear of income tax, was carried unanimously, after an expression of opinio❑ that the rate of per- centage had been agreed upon with a view to permanency, and that if one year only had been taken into consideration, the dividend might have been at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum. Mr. Ciunn, in proposing a vote of thanks to the auditors, took occasion to animadvert upon the conduct of the press in commenting upon the position of life assurance companies. His remarks were deprecated by Ur. EDWARD BROOKS, as a member of the society, a nd one who was not desirous that the Athenmum Society should take up the cudgels for the younger life offices. Mr. Mrrcuann said that seeing he seeing Mr. To mline's n ame connected with s ,the confidence in its management. It was his firm per suasion that the society Would confer a great benefit upon literary men, and that the Athenaeum Institute would prove to it a valuable appendage. Mr. TOMLINE adverted to three recent instances of men of genius who had died suddenly and left their families almost wholly unprovided for. 11a (Mr. Towline) was secretary had; every to the Shaksperian Society, and as such, meeting in conversation with the Lord- Justice Knight Bruce, th at learned au thority had remarked to him—" How is it that we fi nd men of literature and genius, Who can write essays that are the admiration of their country, th us making no pro vision for their f am ili es ? If you can point out to me a way in which it could be done, it should have my best support." lie ‘ (xf —r. Towline) had said that it could only be done by means of a self-supporting in stitution like the present. A e l ee mosynary An mere . institution would wholly fail. It was his duty to state that Mr. Disraeli, although so much occupied in affairs of State, had tak en so warm an interest in the prosperity of their in s tit ute that he h a d called twice personally to express his interest in its progress, and his desire to render it any goo d o ffi ces in his power. Sir G. Staunton and the Marquis of Bristol had simi larly tendered their good offices. pressed Mr, SUTTON and other gent l emen having e l . t their favourable opinions of th e prog ress of the society , and all the customary res o l u ti ons having been una mously adopted, the meeti ng terminated w ith a vote of thanks to the Reverend Chairman. THE LAST PASSAGE OF TH E BRINE. A few weeks ago the Republic f the Rhine lc superintended a milit ar y passage o that created some sensation in Germany; but a Passage of the same river was recently attempted by fin English man, which, though of a less brilliant, was, perhaps, of days it formed the principal a t far more daring character. The occurrence very na _urally caused considerable excitement in the neighbour- Prince President of the French our hood of Bonn, the scene of the incident; and for several country, t _ most of the hotels and cafes of the town. It would seem hat the Englishman in question, who is a member of the Middle Temple, stopped on his waY up the Rhine to 2iplere the wonders of the Seven Mountains, and, having pitched his L and i s Bonn, he took advantage steamer to visit of a fine afternoon and a Cologne I ,"nigswinter, and ascend the castled crag of Drachen leis, ncipal topic of conversation in Charmed by the beauties of the surrounding the summit of Aulberg, where i n , when, as ill-luck would have it, a terrific thunder storm overtook him, and he lost his way in the moun tains. he loitered upon the spot until evening sot After rambling among the vines far some hours he was attracted by a light to the deerkeeper'a hut on fly ing -bridge," enable him to descend the in mates sufficient directions to the river, as he had been in he obtained from the mountain and reach the village opposite Bonn in safety. t he mountains. It will be eight boats, stream, t lae whilefirs t Here he made an effort to wake up the ferrymen, but, failing in that, he determined to be his own pilot across of which is anchored inis furnished with a " fly remembered by Rhenish travellers that the river here, as well as at many other point s, current of the river; the others are connected with it at intervals by a chain from side to side by the cable that terminates in a sort of landing-stage, similar to those used on the Thames. The stage is floated and the Englishman, erroneously supposing that all he had to do to ge t across was to loosen the Jumped on moorings of the stage, j board and undid the fastenings. Too late, however, he disco vered that he could not work the rudders, and instead, ef the s ecveennt centre e o of the stage floating over as he had anticipated, directly it got into the stream it went round like a shuttlecock, until at length the chain.cable snapped, and he was car ried rapidly down the river in the direction of Cologne. The ferrymen being now alarmed by the noise, took to their beaits and gave chase; but before they overtook it the stage had floated many miles away, and in the rage of the moment they administered a sound drubbinc , to the c ause o f a ll th e ir trouble , a nd then locked him up. The next morning he was taken before the police au thorities of Bonn, who told him that he had not only endanger e d hi s life by his pro ceedin g s, b u t had rendered . himself liable to a severe Ipui,ishment. He has, how ever, acted in ignorance of the law, and the offence would, therefore, be overlooked on his making good the damege to the bridg e. Of course the En g lishm an , havin g no other alternative, at once consented to this compromise of the offence he had committed against the Prussian law ; and, having handed over between 30/. and 40/, to the proprietors of the bridge, he was 11 u Qiired to resume his tour up the Rhine. and is entitled pretentiously " A Cornish Capitalist's Hint for an Exchange —a rather large heading for just four lines of doggrel, the head of a Mon ster on the legs of a Mannikin ! " The Life of an Architect" is continued wiql further gabblings by way of literary, theatrical, and artistic reminis cences. " A Family Trip to the Seaside " is ap propriate to the season, when the Smiths and the Joneses are dabbling systematically in the vicinage of bathing machines. A long contribution, and one which will he universally accepted, by those who read it, as a novelty, is the one headed " The Saddlebags." Another describes the" Memoirs of a Man of the World." Another reviews the writing of Madame Dunoyer as among the " Popu lar French Authoresses" of the last century. Besides the foregoing, the .Miscellany comprises a variety of good natured notices of books recently published. AINSWOILTH. Another chapter of the reprint of " The Lanca shire Witches," from the pen of the editor, opens the number of Ainsworth for September. Among the poetical contributors to the mapzine two have ren dered themselves conspicuous, "E. E. M. K." and " Nicholas Michell"—the latter by some touching verses on " The Death of Wolfe," and the former by some Yet more pathetic verses on " The Early Dead." One expression in Mr. Michell's contribution we like not—that of " warmed pity drops a teav"—rather too matter-of• fact a method of telling ul that the heart of Pity was " melted." The companion poem by " E. E. M. K." runs as follows: O life in youth, fair offspring of the sky ! Almost we gaze and dream such Should not dio. 'Stoop hoary age! aye, stoop, thy doom is known; The grave awaits thee, earth but seeks her own,; No gentle love, no tender pity may Thy fated footstep on the journey stay ; Swiftly for thee the harvest reaper nears, Death claims the ripeness of thy mortal years, But youth, glad youth! not thus we part with thee ! lope's holy rainbow spans thy destiny. Albeit the roses from thy soft cheek fade, Albeit the shadow on thy brow be laid, 'Tis but the mist that shrouds the mountain's crown, 'Tis but the shower that weighs the blossom down. When o'er the roses of our May-day spring Swept the chill winter with despoiling wing ? When, 'mid the blushes of the early morn, Of sultry day, was sudden midnight born ? When the green wheat with harvest sickles full'd ? The flower-drankt rill in icy bondage held ? Yet ah I too oft, while summer blooms around, Death's wintry frost-work at our hearth is found ; The same false breeze that rocks a reffl3el flower, Oft blights our beautiful in youth's strong hour; The same false ray that tints the bud with bloom, May crowd our hearth with shadows of the tomb. Not so with us as with the bearded grain, One measured sum of heat, of light, of rain; Not so with us as with the vintage fruits, The ruddy ripeness mounting from the roots, One fated aspect for the final breath, One certain season for the certain death. Heaven's laws are wonders to our mortal ken— ' Be ready always, for ye know not when.' 'Tis not the surface that our fate bespeaks, Ripeness may lie in infant eyes and cheeks; Celestial hands, that gather for the skies, Wait not the coming of autumnal dyes, But oft will garner from the budding spring Sweet fruit and riper than late seasons bring; For, ah, alas! with man, the boon of time May breed a poison o'er his manhood's prime; 'Time,' that perfection to earth's produce brings, May steal the glory from an angel's wings." Besides these effusions, the magazine contains a variety of prose articles, most of them amusing, and one, " The Haunted Well," very attractive in character. TAIT. The foreign relations of England almost entirely monopolize the attention of Tait for September. First of all, in the additional instalment of the series of papers relating to " The Governments of Continental Europe," Russia is shown to have advanced during the last hundred and fifty years to a degree of power and magnitude by no means justifying the contemptuous phrases of Mr. Cobden. Since the accession of Peter I. in 1689, the number of inhabi tants has increased from 15,000,000 at that early period to 58,000,000 on the death (in 1825) of Alex ander. Then, under the suggestive title of " Lord Palmerston, Austria and Italy," another writer gives his views in reference to the political prospects of the Roman peninsula. Mr. Macgregor 's remarkable letter to the Prime Minister in regard to the " - United States and the British American Fisheries" is reprinted elsewhere in the ma gazine. Added to these somewhat important papers, Tuit comprises a number of lighter articles — one a description of " A Day with a Lion," and ano ther furnishing additional particulars in reference to " The Loves of an Apothecary." Several of the criticisms on recent works—according to the wont of the magazine under consideration—are searching and impartial, besides being copiously illustrated by well-chosen quotations. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The much-vexed question of the nationality of poor Tyrone Power is set at rest in a biographical notice of that lamented ornament of the stage, com menced in the present number, by one who knew him long and well—the late manager of the Dublin Theatre, a writer well known to the readers of this excellent periodical by his interesting contributions, " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager." Ac cording to this authentic authority, "William Grattan Tyrone Power was born near Kilsnacthomas, in the county of Waterford, on the 2d of November, 1797 a soil favourable to the growth of theatrical genius ; the same county having given birth, at an earlier and a later period, to Dorothea Jordan and Charles Kean." Power passed his childhood, after twelvemonths old with his widowed mother at Cardiff, in Wales, where there was " a gentle . men of the name of Bird, dis rise to an tantly connected with the family through his wife—_ a person of high respectability, who conjoined the o m f ac b y oo w ks l e th ller ß , iprdublgisahveer,. and post tripleerroneous report, propagated afterwards with all the master. as te r a . activity of malice, that Power was born a Welshman, and brought up as a printer—two . facts highly ho nourable in themselves, and which an independent " T ea h ti e " in s ti 't s uch as he p ossessed, would never have shrunk spin , from acknowledging they had been true." Details are then given of his . early theatrical career, and his African expedition, till we leave him, at the age of twenty-four, com pelled to fall back on the stage, " still without the slightest inclination fur the line of acting in which he was soo? to , distance all compe titors, and with no percept.ion whatever of his own peculiar strength." " Sir Jasper Carew" and " Clough Fionn ; or, th e Stone of Destiny" are con tinued, and articles are devoted to the autobiographies of Jerdan and Miss Mitford, and to " Hanna's Life of Chalmers," continued from the July number. Th e first round is given of tg A , lyinpi Shot at the U n it e d States," and the politica l paper rejoices in the title of " Ireland : Its Garden a nd Its Grave. The writer's panacea for Ireland is — to Protestantise her. "lore easily said than done ! ENGLISHMAN'S. No. 11. There is an article in this newly-launched periodi cal well worth reading, which treats of " Newspap er Literature." It controverts some of the positions advanced by Mr. Jerdan in his recent autobigraphy. A series of " Unphilosophical Criticisms" is com menced, the first number being given to Shakspere's Dramas, on Ancient History ; and the remaining papers are well written. BANKER'S. No. Cll. Contains the usual amouut of valuable notices on commercial questions, and of statistical information. The subject of " Dangerous Life Assurance" is treated of in the opening article. COLONIAL , AND ASIATIC REVIEW. Among several papers replete with information, we recommend the perusal of one on the subject, at pre sent so important, of " The American Fisheries," and the article entitled " Justice to the West Indies— Free or Slave Sugar." Those on " The Rival R oa d s of Panama" and " The Madras Railway" w ill be likewise found suggestive. NEW TON' S LONDON JOURNAL. No. Gen-41X. This eminently practica l com p endium of matters relating to the arts, sciences, and manufactures of th e day, contains descriptions of several new patent in ventions, and a few othe r articles of scientific interest. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICUL. TURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. The twenty-ninth number of this valuable . periodi. cal appears this mon th, and. contains a variety 0 papers deeply interesting to agriculturists, on such sub. jects as the fattening o f cattle, manure!, the manufa e ture of sugar from beet-root, top-dresimg, &c. MISCELLANEOUS. Excellent Sylvanus Urban continues with ac customed perspicacity the record of late antiquarian discoveries in the pages of the good old Gentleman's Magazine. About the most interesting contributi on in the current number for September is the continua tion of th e "Wanderings of an Antiquary." I n t h e United Service Magazine there are some attractive extracts from the journals of the late Major Edward 14acready—the brother of the " eminent Tra g edian." The usual assortment of readable and entertaining papers may be found at pleasure in Chambers's Edinburgh J ourna l. Among the poetical scraps in. traduced we observe one from the pen of Mrs. Alaric Watts. Chambers's Pocket Miscellany gives, among ostler enthralling narratives, an account of the cele brated "Darien Expedition"—the miseries caused by which in Scotland were commemorated so feelin g l y i n his last work by Eliot Warburton. The new Instalment of Longman's eminent serial, The THE NEW CON VOCATION. in printing the following list of the newly elected Convocation, we have given the proctors as they were originally chosen by the clergy, and as, in our opinion, th e y oug ht t o c l a i m an d to take their seats ; and the n ames th a t h ave b een eras ed by episcopal or other electi on are enc l ose d i n brackets. Those (among th e c l ergy ) pr i n t e d i n it a li cs signify . mem bers not heretofore elected ; and those with an asterisk denote members who are understood to have pledged themselves to the support of synodical action, But we must observe-1. That many of those not marked with an asterisk are favourable to the revival of Convocation. 2. That in the instances where the number of proctors h as b een unusua ll y re d uce d by re election, it is imp oss ibl e t o spec if y who are, str i c tly speaking, new members of Convocation, as the names of those erased by the Bishop do not appear on the s T (A r roll of the last Syn o d. W e h ave not attempted a classification of the bi s h ops. —C hronicle. A IN CONVOCATION, 1852. PROVINCE l O N b c ' THEI? Iv rl E il lt S ß UR N Y D CITED f GI O Y A O IE F,pTIAIEit THE UPPER HOUSE. John Bird, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Pxe , ident Charles James, London. John, Lincoln. - • Charles Richard, Winchester. Alfred, Llandaft. Christopher, Bangor. Samuel, Nor wieh . Richard, Bath arid Wells. Samuel, Oxford. Ashinst Turner, Chichester. George, Peterborough. Thomas, Ely. George, Rochester. Henry, Exeter. Edward, Salisbury. James Henry, Gloucester and Thomas Yowler, St. Asaph. Bristol. Connop, St. David's. Reim Dickson, Hereford. Henry, Worcester. John, Lichfield and Coventry. THE LOWER HOUSE. CANTERBURY. William Rowe Lyall, D.D. John Russell, D.D., proctor dean for the chapter James Croft, M.A., archdea- William John Chesshyrc,* con of Canterbury M.A., and William Hodge Benjamin Harrisnn t * 1\1.A.. Mill,* D.D., proctors for archdeacon of Maidstone the clergy of the diocese LONDON. Henry Hart Milman, D.D., Christopher Wordsworth,* dean of S. Paul's. D.D., proctor for the chap- William Buckland, D.D., ter of Westminster dean of Westminster [J. H. Spry, 4 D.D.,] and William hale Hale, M.A., Robert George Baker, M.A., archdeacon of London proctors for the archdea- John Sinclair, M.A., arch- conry of Middlesex deacon of Middlesex J. T. I 'oogood,* DI. A., and A. W. 11. E. Bentinck, M.A., M. Caul, D.D., proctors for archdeacon of the chapter the archdeaconry of Eon of Westminster don ---, proctor for the chapter of S. Paul's WINCHESTER. Thomas Garter, 11. a., J. H. Randophot M.A., proc dean tor for the archdeaconry of C. J. Hoare, M.A., archdea. Surrey con of Surrey John litygarth, M.A., pros. J. C. Wigram, M.A., arch• tor for the archdeaconry of deacon of Winchester Winchester -, proctor for the chapter BANGOR: James Henry Cotton, 8.C.L., Jon William Trevor, M.A., deanproctor for the chapter Richard Newcome, M.A., Charleslliams,* 8.D., and archdeacon of Maioneth James V. Pro:cent,' proctors J o h n Jones, 13. D., archdeacon for the clergy of the diocese of Bangor and Anglesea BATH AND WELLS. Richard Jenhyn, D.D., dean H. W. Barnard, M.A., proc- Henry Law, M.A., archdea- tor for the chapter (here con of Wells tofore proctor for the George Anthony Denison" clergy) M.A., archdeacon of 'faun- John Stuart Hippesky Hor er,* M.A., and J. B Bul- ton Vacant, archdeaconry of Bath titer Clarke,'" M A., proctors for the clergy of th e diocese CHICHESTER. Geo. Chandler,* D.C. L., dean Frederick Vincent, proctor for James Garbett, 1%1. A., arch- the archdeaconry of Chi deacon of Chichester chester Julius Charles Hare, M.A., 11. T. Grace, M.A., proctor archdeacon of Lewes for the archdeaconry of Charles E. Hutchinson, M.A., Lewes. proctor fur the chapter. ELY. George Peacock, D.D., dean Henryi ames F T e a n tl a an ai. D m .D .A .,.a , r a ch n - d John Henry Browne , M.A., deacon of Bedford a rc hd e a c on of Ely , Henry Fardell, M.A., proctor George Glover, M.A. , arch- for the chapter deacon of Sudbury J. B. Hollingsworth, D D., Samuel Rickards,* archdeacon of Huntingdon proctors for the clergy of the diocese EXETER. T. IL Lowe, M.A., dean John Bartholomew,* M.A., John Moore Stevens,* M.A., archdeacon of Barnstaple archdeacon of Exeter , proctor for Richard H. Fronde,* M.A., the chapter archdeacon of Totnes J. D. Coleridge,* D.C.L ,and W. J. Philpotts,* M.A., arch- Edward Harold Browne,* M deacon of Cornwall A., proctors for the clergy of the diocese GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. Hon. and Very Rev. Edward Sir J.H. Seymour,*Bart., Rice, D.D., dean of Glou- M.A., proctor for the chap cester ter of Gloucester Gilbert Elliott, D.D., dean of John Jackson, M.A., proctor Bristol for the chapter of Bristol John Timbrell, D.D., arch- Samuel Wilson Warneford, deacon of Gloucester LL.D., and Richard Web- Thomas Thorp,* 8.D., arch- ater Huntly,*M.A.,proctors deacon of Bristol for the clergy of the diocese 18A1?.. M.A., archdeacon of the William Lindsay Palmes,• East Riding MA., and George Wray,* .Edw. Churtou,* M.A., arch- M.A., proctors for the arch deacon of Cleveland deaconry of the East Riding Charles Hawkins, D.C.L., and Samuel Gamlen,* ➢I.A., and William 11. Dixon, M.A., Charles Cator,• 13. D., proc proctors for the chanter tors for the archdeaconry of Hon, and Rem William Cleveland DURHAM. Edward, lord bishop D.D., and John Davie George Waddington, D.D., Eade, M.A., proctors for dean the archdeaconry of Dur- Charles Thorp,* D.D. arch- ham deacon of Durham R. C. Cone, M.A., and William Forbes Raymond, Henry Gipps, M.A., proc- M.A., archdeacon of North- tors tbr the archdeaconry of umberland Northumberland George Bland, M.A., arch- Hon. and Rev. F. R. Grey,* deacon of Lindisf arne M.A., and A illiani Dodd ,* Charles Thorp,* D.D., proc- M.A., p ro ctors for the arch tor for the chapter deaconry of Lindisfarne. Thomas Linwood Strong, Hugh, lord bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, D.O L , dean William Goodenough, 111. A., archdeacon CARLISLE. Henry Gipps, M.A., proctor for the chapter William Jackson. D.D., and Han. Thomas Ldwardes, • M.A. proctors for the clergy of the diocese CHESTER. John, lord bishop tor the archdeaconry of Frederick Anson, DD., dean Chester Isaac Wood, M.A , archdea- Augustus Camp M.A, con of Chester proctor for the archdea- Jonathan Brooks, M.A., conry of Liverpool archdeacon of Liverpool .Robert Wilson Evans,* RD., James Slade, M.A., proctor proctor for part of the arch for the chapter deaconry of Richmond Richard Greenall, M.A., proc- DIANCHESTER. James Prince, lord bishop Cecil Daniel Wray,' M.A., George Hull Bowers, D.D., proctor for the cnapter dean Richard Durnford,m M.A., John Rushton,' D.D., arch- and E. J. Hamby, M.A., deacon of M anc h ester proctors for the clergy of Vacant, archdeacon of Lan- the diocese caster N. Charles Th omas, lord bishop ßlPO Charles Dodgson, Hon. and Very Reverend Thomas Collins,* 8.D., and Henry David Erskine Laurence (Riley, M.A. ( the M.A., dea n rotes for the two last gentle- John Headlam, arch- men were equal), proctors deacon of Richmond Charles Musg rave, D.D , Rfoirchtmhoend arch d eacon ry of archdeacon of Craven • TV. F. Hook,. D.D.,and John Robert Sutton, M.A., p roctor Bell,* ,I.A.,proctors f or the for the chapter archdeaconry of Craven SODOR AND MAN. Robert John, Baron Auck- William H. Dixon, M.A., land, lord bishop proctor for the clergy of Joseph Christian Moore, arch- the diocese deacon. f It will be recollected that Mr. Gillett was elected by a large majority, at a single election, to fill up a vacancy which had occurred during the course of last Convocation. His views on the necessity of the restitution of synodical action won him his seat. THE ROYAL PROGRESS TO SCOTLAND. DEBBY, TUESDAY.—The arrangements of the Mid land Railway Company for the safe conduct of her Majesty and the Royal Family have been admirable. The time-table of the royal train made her Maj es t y due at Derby last evening at 6 . 10, but the train ar rived at the station punctually at 6, amid the cheers and waving of handkerchiefs of a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen.i: The Mayor of the borough, Mr. J. Dunnioliff, who wore his gold chain of office, the Recorder of the borough, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord High Steward of the corporation ; the Earl of Burlington, Lord Cavendish, General Arbuthnot, Captain Jones, Captain Kirkland, the mem bers of the Town Council, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Holdsworth, and Mr. Longsdon (directors), and Mr. Fox Bell (secretary), were in attendance to receive her Majesty. Lord Malmesbury introduced the Mayor to the Queen, who bowed repeatedly, and then received from the handsof the Mayor a loyal address voted by the corporation. On alighting her Majesty and the Prince recognised the Duke of Devonshire, and gave his Grace a most gracious reception. The band of the 77th from Weedon barracks (two companies of which regiment attended as a Guard of Honour) struck up the na tional anthem, and the scene was altogether an ani mated one. At the entrance to the station open car riages were in waiting to convey the Royal Family to the Midland H o t e l, which is situated in the large open space near to the station. The ground was kept clear by a troop of the Bth Hussars from Nottingham barracks, under the command of Captain Lockwood, the Derby and Chaddesden troops of Yeomanry, un der the command of Captain Wilmot, and the Rad bourne troop under the command of Captain Pole. The enrolled pensioners, under the command of Cap tain Jones, were placed within the station ; and the militia staff, under the command of Captain Dixon, were in front of the Midland Hotel. On her Majesty making her appearance in front of the station she was received with tremendous cheers by the populace be hind the barriers, and on alighting at the Midland Hotel the cheers were renewed. A suite of rooms at this hotel were most superbly fitted up by Messrs. Woollatt and Co. ' upholster ers, for the accommodation of her Majesty and her royal Consort. At eight o'clock a sumptuous dinner was served, the plate for which was of the most elegant description, ' rom the establishment of Messrs. Collis and Co., of Birmingham. The dinner party consisted of the Queen and Prince Albert, the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Malmesbury, Ge neral Arbuthnot, the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Miss Seymour, Colonel Phipps, the Hon. Colonel Gordon, and Sir James Clark. Before dinner the Prince visited the coach manufactory of the Messrs. Holmes, and, had time permitted, would have visited the Arboretum. At nine o'clock this morning, punctual to the mi nute, the Queen arrived on the platform at the rail way station, and was rece ived with the same demon strations of enthusiasm a s greeted her arrival last evening. Her Majesty ands he Prince took leave of the Duke of Devonshire, d then the t ra in started amid loud cheers. A cheer was then given for the Duke of Devonshire. The engine was driven by Mr. Kirtley, superintendent of the Mr. Sanders (general locomotive department. manager), and Mr. u erintendent of the Mills (s d locomotive department) accomparne the royal party, as also did Mr. Lewis and other directors. It passed Chesterfield at 9 32, Eck in g ton at 9 40, Marlborough at 9 58, and arrived at Normaeton at 10 35. The Queen was greeted as she passed the several stations with loud cheers, and on the Midland directors taking their departure at Normanton!. her Majesty was pleased to acknowledge the excinc.e of the arrange ments, and to express her satsfaction with the re gulations at Derby, and the accommodation she had received. DARLINGTON. The royal train reached Darlington at a quarter past twelve. Arrangements had been made by the magistracy of the district (a nd their clerk, Mr. J. S. Peacock), in whose hands the charge of the station was placed, for the admission of the public to the platform, which was well filled. A portion of the platform was railed off, wh ich was reserved for the magistrates, clergy, and th e elite of the inhabitan t s . There was a very large n umber of persons con gregated outside the stat ion, along the sides of the railway, who enthusiastically cheered the Qu een as the train entered the station. A body of the D u rham county police were placed at the station, ti t on e , f after fruit but the loyal and respectful demean engine took in demeanour of the people called for no restraint. The afromthe a w b a o t u er t fiavnedt minutes. h e train A basket o stoppage of gar dens of the Duke of Northumbe rland Park, was presented to the Queen at Stanwick beautiful bouquet from the Gr ange ;as was also a of Mr. Harrison, the latter bein g nursery gardens Mr. Henry Pease, of P ..- ier presented brought ment was felt at the train stopp ing Some disappoint in stopping in such a position that the royal carriag e served portion of the _ was placed opposite the unre: the privilege of entre e iatform, so that those who bad a ot see the Queen , to the reserved part coul d except for a moment, as th e tr ay passed. The r g eat bulk of the peePle , -:° - h ever, were gratified by b • - m i tt' to mg placed in close pr her Majesty. la .... ja.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEG 1-1 .st et half -past one, Her Majesty arrived at Nevic—jeo'clock the royal and partook of luncheon. At t r g or d. The royal party took their departure „ I ? ° sat i o n, Edinburgh, at party arrived at St. Illargre:* d through the Queen's five eclock, and Procel a roo d, a midst the cheers of park, to the Palace of L r D o Y ged the roads and surround the population, phoepiguhlattis.on, who aro id k party proceed on t heir route northward The Roy 0 , c l o c to-morro w morning (this da y ). at eig ht __---------------_ co uRT CIRCULAR. DERBY, AUG. 30. gee M aj esty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ec~ompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess P inces Alice, Princess Helena, and Prince Alfred, left Osborne this morning at 10 o'clock, and embarked on board the Fairy for Gosport, and thence proceeded by railway to Derby, via Basingstoke, Gloucester, and Birmingham, arriving at Derby at 6 o'clock. At Gloucester addresses were presented to her Majesty by the Bishop and clergy of the diocese, and by the mayor and council of the town. At Birmingham an address was presented to her Majesty by the mayor and corporation. At Derby her Majesty was received by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and the Mayor of Derby. The Countess of Desert and the Hon. Mary Sey mour are in attendance upon her Majesty. and remai ns i n atten d ance u p o n her joined the Royal train The Earl of Malmesbury Colonel the Hon. c , B. at Majesty.lasing stoke, Phipps, Lieutenant-Colon el the lion. A. Gordon, Sir J. Clark, and Mr. Gibbs are on duty. HEREFORD. Richard Dawes, M.A., dean John Jebb,* M.A., proctor for Henry Wetherell, B. D,arch- the archdeaconry of Here deacon of Hereford ford William Waring, M.A., arch- James Wayland Joyce,• M.A. deacon of Salop proctor for the archdea- Lord Sale and Sele, D,C.L., conry of Salop proctor for the chapter LICHFIELD. Hon. and Very Rev. IL. i. 71. alid Frederic Anson,* M.A., j 0 deacon cAolni Allen, Stafford Howard, D.D., dean proctors for the archdea ,rdarcldea• George Hodson, M.A., arch- conry of Derby E. J. Edwards,* M.A., and Thomas Hill, 8.D., aradea- G. W Murray,* M.A., John Hutchinson, M.A., proc con of Derby con of Salopthe t :r i, . a A r c . , h 3 d a e n a d - Lavington Yate, tor for the chapter M.A., proctors for the [H.R. Chandos Pole,* MLA.,] archdeaconry of Salop LINCOLN. John Gifford Ward, M.A., J. A. Jereme, D.D., proctor dean for the chapter George Wilkins,*D.D., arch- Francis Chas. Massingierd,* deacon of Nottingham W. B. Stoneheuse, LL. D 11 M 1t, an p d ro ff ctor K s na f p u p r ,* the • .1 archdeacon of Stow Henry Kayo Bonny, D.D., [JohnPeG°rn' George Yt r ° 9 ro e sf Yardley," sfotraff archdeacon of Lincoln LLANDA W. Daniel Conybeare, M.A William Fllergy l o ' f o t w h e e ll d , i° l3 c . e D se .,. proc dean., tor for the chapter Thomas Williams, M.A. Charles Charles Addams Williams, archdeacon of Llandaff . M.A., and John Harding, William Crawley, M.A., M.A., proctors for the archdeacon of Monmouth clergy of the diocese NORWICH. Hon. and Very Rev. George Henry Philpott, D.D., proc- Pellew, D.D., dean tor for the chapter John Bedingfield CoDyer, George Hills,' M.A., proctor M.A., archdeacon of Nor- for the archdeaconries of wick Norwich and Norfolk T. J. Ormerod, M.A., arch- Thomas Mills, M.A.,* proc deacon of Suffolk tor for the archdeaconry of William Arundel Bouverie, Suffolk 8.D., archdeacon of Nor folk oxroai). Thomas Gaisford, D.D., dean Richard Wiliam Jelf,* D.D., Charles Carr Clerke, D.D., proctor for the chapter archdeacon. of Oxford Robert _Hussey,* 8.D., and Edward Berens, M.A., arch- Henry William Majendie,* deacon of I3erks M.A., proctors for the Justly Hill, IS 1.A., archdeacon clergy of the diocese. of Berks PETERBOROUGIE. George Butler, D.D., dean Hon. and Rev. Paul Anthony Thomas Kaye. Bonney, Irby,* M. A , and Gabriel archdeacon , of Leicester Edward Gillett,* Owen Davys, archdea- proctors for the clergy of con of N orl;hampton the diocese -, proctor for the chapter Robert Stevens, D.D., dean proctors for the archdea. Walker King, M.A., archdea- corny of Rochester con of Rochester [C. A. St. John Mildmay' Hugh Chambers Jones, M.A., M.A.,] and Edward Hill' archdeacon'of Essex M.A., proctors for the Charles Parr gurney,* D.D., archdeaconry of Essex archdeacon of Colchester Thomas Henderson,' M.A., Anthony Grant,* D.C.L , and William Robert Bro archdeacon of St. Albans well MA., proctors for the John Griffith, D.D., and Ed- archdeaconry of Colchester ward _Hawkins, D.D., pros- H. J. B. Nicholson, D.D., tors for the chapter and [G. B. Blomfield, R. W. Shaw, M.A., and WU- M.A.,] proctors for the Liam Henry Drage, M.A., archdeaconry of St. Albans SALISBURY. Henry Parr Hamilton, M.A., [Henry Casicall,* M.A.,] dean proctors for the archdea- William E. Bony, 8.D., conry of Sarum archdeacon of Sarum Richard Crawley, M.A., and William Macdonald, archdea- W. Wyld, 8.D., proc con of Wilts tors for the archdeaconry Robert Bentley Buckle, M.A., of Wilts: archde/ icon of Dorset William Palmer,* MA., and W. Kerr Hamilton, M.A., E. A. Dayman,* B.D , procto r for the chapter p roctor s for the archdeal of Dorset [G. P.. Lowther,* M.A.,] and conry ST. A SAPII. C. Scott Luxmoore, MA., Robert Wynne Eyton, M.A., dem proctor for the archdea- Charler :Butler Clough, MA., conry of St. Asaph archeit aeon of St. Asaph Richard John ,Davies, William Clive, M.A., arch- proctor for the archdea deac of i of Montgomery conry of Montgomery .Rowla m 1 Williams, MA., proc to 'r for the chapter ST. DAVID'S. Llewel y n Lewellin, D.C.L. P Richard Venables, D. D., arch dean , deacon of Caermarthen Thorns is Bevan, M.A., arch- Edmund Melville, M.A., Prt )c " dew ;on of St. David's tor for the chapter d 1,, ,. Richat 'd D avies, M.A., arch- W. H. Cox, BLA ' sn " ire M• A dent ;on of Brecon ,Burnard Sgu 'lr Yof John ` Nil Hams, M.A., arch- proctors fo r deat ',on of Cardigan the c e g the diocese WORCESTB R. COCICS, M.A., proc tor for John Pe* 31, D.D., dean Rich' Brindley Hone,M.A., the chsirl,er.. nieur ,. ar zlide aeon of Worcester Richard zey g A..Woodgate,*B.D., and • Joh a Sat tdford,* 8.D., arch eieacon of Coventry th e diocese a.m. ant I Rev. James Somersc.s mut — 3 , roctors for the clergy of ,u ke, Esq. Apparitor, Fran i A EIS' r OF THE BISHOPS .A 2 ED TO APPEAR IN ND CLERGY OF THE 1 PRO VINC,E OF YORK CIIT CON WOC,ATIOI•1, 1852. 1 Th c , mas , Lord Archbishop of York, president. Irmo:. Williar a Cockburn, (la c e t r a e p a t f e te r r ), p is r i o . c A tor , D.D., Howard,* M.A. , and Geo. T fo r r evo t r h % dean Stephen IC; reyke,* M.A., arch deaco n I &York , proctors for the archde; Robert It asto Wilberforce,', may of York SPORTING NOTES. No, CCXCVII. ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 7'O THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—The Great Yorkshire handicap was established in 1842, when it was won by Galanthus, 3 yrs, sst 121 b. In 1843 and 1844 Pompey was the Victor; in the former year as a three yrs old, he carried 6st 71b, and in the latter ist 81b. In 1845, My Mary, 3 yrs, sst, was the winner. In 1846, Cranebrook, 3 yrs, Est 71b; 1847, Yardley, aged, 7st 51b; 1848, Miss Sarah, 6 yrs, Bst 816; 1849, Snowstorm, 3 yrs, sst 121 b; 1850, Mark Teploh 3 yrs, sst 91b; and in 1851, The Confessor, 3 yrs, 6st 41b, were respectively the conquerors. It will be seen by this that the three yrs old division have carried off this stake in seven instances out of ten, at respectable weights, varying from 5.t to 6st 71b; this year, how ever, they seem likely to be on the losing side, without Alircd the Great can pull them through, the remainder, in their present company, bring quite out of the race. This Handicap is co - imposed a subscription of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and oily 5 if declarmi, over the St. I..Nter Courbe, a ciistarca of one mile six furlongs and 132 yards. Out of an entry numbering no less than sevent) -eine, the owners of ti ve aud-tc enty only have declared themselves satisfied with tie weights placed upon their horses. Russbo rough heads the list, as he has done for mazy handicaps, though for what reason I cannot discover. Ills shone here, if he runs, is an inferior one, and so is his neigh bour Chief Justice, who is weighted at 9.!bs. less. N ucy, 4 yrs, Sit 31b, were she in form, would Le a set tier; but its she is not, she must he content to fiehth in the ruck. Prime Minister, at Bst 31b, has, I fancy, a few pounds too much to carry; and Truth, at a pound less, is by no means well in, the Premier having her as safe as possible. Miss Ann's day seems to have passed away, without she is being quietly bottled up for some thing. At 7st 121 b, although a six years old, I cannot fancy her. Alonzo, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b, were the course a little shorter, would be very dangerous ; as the case stands I cannot place any faith in him. Frantic, although an out-and-out er , at ist 61b, has consid erabl y too much to carry for a three yrs old. Trickstress, 4 yrs, 7st 61b, is not likely to play off the winning trick on this occa sion. Hungerford is leniently treated by the handi capper, only Est 81b haying been awarded to him ; but I very much doubt his capability of finishing in front. The Proctor, at the same weight as the Alp (6st 51b), will have to make place for the latter, who if he never possessed a chance of winning before, has outs now ; for I should say his six years old back cannot be broken by the feathery weight that he has to carry. Koh-i-noor, 3 yrs, Est slb, is on the forlorn list. Story-teller, 4 yrs, 6st 41b, is moderately well off, hut I think he has his superiors in this bout among the light-weighted class. Scarecrow, if they mean him for the C esarewitch, which I presume de pends upon the weight, will net appear before the eye of ,the public at Doncaster. The Knight of the Garter, 4 yrs, Gat 31bs, is treated by the handicapper in a man ner that will enable his noble owner to have a good chance of carrring off this handicap, and thereby snake some amends for his St. Leger catastrophe. J ac k Leeming, a most mysterious animal, who can run if he likes, but generally has a strong objection to exerting himself, at sst 131 b, is let loose. Alfred the Great, the only three yrs old with any pretension to winning this stake, is a doubtful starter; should he run, however, his chance is not the most forlorn imaginable. Lerry Whent, 3 yrs, sst 31b, has shown some running at times, but will not do fur this spin. Lady Harriett and Cap tain Flash, as k now i ng li tt l e or no thing about, I shall pass must tc conceive the ei ve that mi ad ,horse delighting of s tha t person Strong instant m in the cognomination of Ylaginatiou—altbough•weighte d m only at sst for a four rd old—has the remotest chance of catching the judge's finish of the race. eye te i n a leading position at the bred filly by Ithuriel, out ofColumbine, Twin, 4 yrs, 4st 101 b, a nicely made a couple of exhibitions at Forthailerton 1a over in ono instance by that wretchedctyear, being bowled son of Jeremy Diddler, the Ebor, and in the oth er b This year she made her first appearan ce Congratulation. the Sheffield and Rotherham Handica c P at in the race for where, with Est 13 1 b up, she ran, to the best re collection, seventh and last to the Surveyor. At Durham, in &lay, she mended her running considerably, for,rham' car rying Bst 21b, she ran a fa i r sec o n d to miss Flyaway, same age and weight , f o r the Maiden Plate, beating, among among others, Burodale , 7 st; Ag nes Wick field, Est 1 1 11 b; The Red Lion, 7st; Mickleton Maid filly, Est 11lb; and Lindrick, ist. I have entered into these particulars about this filly, knowing full well that she will be an immense favourite. She has improved considerably since her last performance, and, if she cannot run close up on this occasion, ought to be turned out as a common hack at once. Bilberry, 3 yrs, 4st 91b, seems to have a disinclination to win a great handicap, no matter how favourably she may be treated as to weight; she is rather dangerous, however, to stand against. The Infi delity filly, at 4st 71b, is likewise in well; i s * the animals she will have to meet hero are of a grade superior to her. On looking over my scraps of informa tion, I find that the batch most likely to dispute the point of honour at the finish will consist of Alp, the Twin, and the Knight of the Garter ; and if I place the last-named two first and second, those positions ap proach the nearest, in my imagination, to what will be the result. In summing up yesterday on the Leamington Stakes, I gave the pride of place to Lady Evelyn and Hugo ; I must now put Cleveland in Hug ,'a position, and at the same time declare it to be my firm conviction that Cleveland will take an immense deal of beating. I am, Sir, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Sept. 1. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STOURBRIDGE RACES.—MONDAY. one mile and a half (3 subs.), wore. wcn by Mr. Leach's The Prestwood Stakes of 2 soya. each , and 20 added , Derby (Don John gelding). 3 yrs , Est 131 b ( Wells ) , beat ing Mr. P -aree's Stranger's Daughter , 5 yr e, B st 91 b; and Cslot, Est 131 b. The Stourbridgo Handicap of 7 sovs. eacb, 5 ft, and 2 only if declared, with 50 added; the second to receive 15 soya. out of the stakes. One mile and a quarter. (45 Subs., 33 of whom declared.) Lord Chesterfield's Gladiole, 5 yrs, Est 121b(Ashmal) 1 Mr. Fowler's Forester, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b Mr. Yardley na. Bess of Hardwick, 3 yrs, sst 41b Mr. Halford's Prime Minister, 4 yrs, Bst 71b Mr. J. Walker's Gholab Singh, 4 yrs, 7st 31b Mr. Brooks na. New Forest Deer, aged, 6st 41b Mr. J. Oliver's Ethelwolf, 3 yrs. sst 91b The Railway Plate of 201, added to a Sweepstakes of 2 soya. each, one mile (5 subs.), was won, in two heats, by Mr. James Davies's Gay Lad, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b (Sly), beating Mr. Rose's Greengage, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b, Mr. Jones'a Gauntlett, 5 yrs, Bst 7113, and Mr. Taft's ch f by Don John, dam by Mundig, 3 yrs, Est 81b. The East Worcestershire Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 20 added, one mile and a half (3 subs.), were won in two beats, by Mr. Leach's Derby, 3 yrs (401), 6st (Wells), beating Stranger's Daughter, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (401), gad Mr. Jones's Fairing, aged, 8.4 111 b (801.) ECCLES RACES.—TIIESDAY. The Trafford Park Stakes of 2 SOTS. each, and 25 added.. One mile and three-quarters. (5 Subs.) Mr. Williams's Mary Nobbler, aged, Bst2lb (LivesaY) Mr. Henderso n ' s C ra bb s, aged, 9st Mr. Logan' s na Cripple ..................... pple Kate, 4 yrs, Bst .............. 4 Captain Scott' s D ay an d M art i n, 3 y rs , 7st 91b ...... 5 Mr. Long s h aw ' a A l i ee, 6 yrs, bat l olb ............. Betting -5 to 2 apt Cripple sate' Won DY lengths. lengths by The Garrison Stakes of 3 sovs• by two added, one mile (7 Subs.), were w o n Da • vi nport). beating Lieutenant Ainstey's April Feel awn and Lieutenant Lieutenant Croft's Barum Se Campbell's Marmion. of 1 5 soya., weights, &c., as ea ch, and a whip The Grand Stand Plate on eas ily by a length by Mr. in the Trial Stakes, was,: age d (Thom Bradburn's na Brown xiY. , F a ctory Girl, Strait Jacket, and pson), beating Made Safe, Labyrinth, Nero. LINCOLN BACES.—TIIESDIY. Triennial to save his stake. One mile and the Be 50 added, -- 'al Stakes of 10 soy's. each, h ft, and a half- ‘i;" M aid of Lincoln, Bst 31b (G. Simpson) 1 M r ' JiilisHobson's Barbats, 7st 111 b (J. Osborne) 2 Mr. ei •—. B s bats Won cleverly by a length. The LincolinTig s 6 Linc olnshire 4 on r. of 10 vs each, 5 ft, and Handicap so vs . The • declared. Two miles. (27 Subs., 15 of only 3 i f whose declared.) ' Little Queen, 6 yrs, Est 71b ...walked over. Mr. Inman 's ohs.) The Selling Stakes of 3 sm. eac h, and 20 added ; for three yrs old, Bst ; four, 9st ; five, 9st 71b ; six and aged, 9st 121 b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 100/4 if entered for 801., allowed sib; for 601., 101 b; for 501., 151 b; for 301,, 211 b. Heats, one mile. (6 Subs.) Mr. Morris's Florence (30/.), 6st 41b ...(Barker) 1 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Lady of the Grove (501.), 7st 101 b 4 2 Mr. Barrow's Black-eyed Susan (301.), Est 41b 2 3 Mr. Brown's Tower, 4 yrs (501.), 7st 101 b 3 4 Both heats won in a canter. The Hunters' Stakes of 5 Boys. each, and 20 added, for three yrs old and upwards. fessionals 51b extr Gentlemen riders • pro' a. Heats. Two miles. (5 gabs.) Mr. Cunningham's The Little Queen (Mr. Peen) 1 1 Mr. Walker's Dandy Mr. Boynton's Bravo, 4 yrs Mr. Houghton's g f Don John, Jan, aged, (Mr. G. Walker) 2 2 Won in a canter. 610totollat Terpsichore (t), llst ...(Simpson) die. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—Tug, s I D I, I % (t), agst Ringleader (t). 8 to i agst(Oc Cleveland S LEAMINGTON STAKES —5 to 1 apt Lady Evelyn (t), GREAT YORKSUIRE HANDICAP. — Twin, 8 to 1 agst Imagination, 8 to 1 1 aget Knight of the Garter. ST. LEGER..-9 to 4 agst Stockwell, O'llc,urke, 4to 1 agst Songstress , to agst . binger, 20 to 1 apt Longbow. Alonzo, 8 to 3 to 1 agst Daniel - 1 agst The 9 to 1 agst Har- ---- streeenToAlre CoSurirrytieteArray.--:::LtgentthleemenMarl appliedb or o t ti o g ra t Bingham for an order toin dalir in for to want his keeping ies Captain Tho Shepheard, at present priso ve n of sur. applicant said be was prepared to send Captain Shepheard td Haslar as soon as released. Mr. Bingham vvas very glad to hear that the captain's friends had done that v.hich it would have been more desirable had it been done some monthe ago. lie would readily do all in his power to get Captaili Shepheard placed in proper hands. _ GENERAL STEAM NAVI GA T I ON COMPANY.--The fifty-fifth half•yearly meeting of the shareholders in this com pany was held yesterday at their offices, 71, Lombard -streets' Ifdr. John Wilkin s in the chair. The report of the directors, a nd a statement of the accounts for t he half-year ending th u 3 0th June last, were read to the meeting and unanimously a d o pted by the proprietors. The customary dividend rs voted. end wag t hen declared, and the cordial thanks of the proprieto to the chairman and directors for their zealous services in tbe management of the company's affairs; atter which tha mato' i log separated.