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Vttrb laittiott+ TATTERS.A.LL'S.—THIS EVENING. Sa o'cLoc d. LEANINGTON STAKES, 5 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn 8 to 1 agat Cleveland 12 to 1 agat Administrator 10 to 1 agat Hugo 13 to 1 agst Storyteller 15 to 1 agst Madeline CAXBRIDOESHIRE. 40 to 1 agat Hernandez—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Tonic—taken 1,000 to 20 agat Bit of Blue—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Allegro—taken CEBAREWITCH. 40 to 1 agst Scarecrow—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Stockwell—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Rusaborough—taken ST. LEGER. 9 to 4 agst Stockwell 3 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke 11 to 2 agst Songstress 10 to 1 agst Harbinger—taken 20 to 1 agst Longbcw 30 to 1 agst Lapidist FRAN CE. The Debata has the following article on Ireland :-- " If ever Ireland should become English, it will ;be when it shall be occupied and colonised by the English; but so long as it shall be inhabited by the natives, le is probable that a fusion will be impossible. This antago nism between the two races is nowhere shows in suc h a striking manner as in the administration of justice. There is no country in which assassinations are so fri e quent as in Ireland; but in the eyes of tae Irish to ki 11 a landlord is not a crime, because in general he is either a Saxon or a Protestant. We lately read that in the space of twenty years nearly thirteen thousand per sons had been brought to trial in Ireland, on charges of murder, and that out of that number only 260 ceuld he convicted. This was not owing to the facts not being clear to every one, but because juries could not be found to return a verdict of guilty. Either the jury men, therefore, morally and tacitly absolve murder, and only regard it as an act of legitimate revenge, or they fear, by condemning the murderers, to expose themselvele to reprisals from secret societies. It is. moreover, know n that, according to the English laws, juries must deliver their verdicts unanimously, so that it is only necessary for the prisoner to have one friendly voice for the ends of justice to be (Heated. Murder is, therefore, in the ()yea of Irishmen deprived of its character of moral crime; it is no longer anything hut a political act, which is to be judged in a political point of view. This feeling is so inherent in them that they carry it with them into every country the world. We have an example of this in a trial w'e is now before the Supreme Court of the Unit€d Stetes. An Irishman who had fired a pistol at a landlord es caped to America. The English Government , by virtue of treaties, has claimed his extradition, and it is probable that it will be granted. But what has up to the present time delayed it is that the guilty man is an Iri s h man, Th ose Irishmen there are se veral millions of his countr ymen in America who make corea"l na c t a e u r s e e li w se i d th , h a i n in d . Z a h Iriehmen have been already qaently have a righr, of voting, and, as the presidential election is rear, the candidates seek for Irish votes at any price. There has been thus formed in the Unit ed S tates a party of sympathisers in favour of the ranuelerer claimed by England. The fact of the or lee is not disputed; only it is - • wished to be coesidered as a p o li t i ca l act, the expressions made u.e of in or according to b 4 p m s e i r t i s ca 3 . as . a n . he ice lated act of a long drseett which conquest of Ireland, an d i n the COUfiiefitiOri o o r f l its n s oil by the conquerors.' It is this uneetireniahahle hostility of races witch in Ireland juritis; all ac ts of violence which are called agrarian crimes, and all the insurrec tions against the laws. During the last elections there was a disturbance in which the soldiers, being pelted with stoney, were obliged to fire in self-defence. An inquest was held, and although it was clearly proved that the soldiers did not fire until driven to the last ex tremity and cnly in self-defence, a number of witnesses came forward and swore that they had fired without any provocation, and the justice of the peace and six or eight of the soldiers have just been committed by the Coroner to take their trials for voluntary homicide. The witnesses knew that if they had given any other evidence they would have subjected themselves to the danger of being shot. A curious example was lately given of that free-masonary which covers Ireland with an invisible and invincible network. A murder was committed in 'the open day on a Sunday daring the celebration of mass. The murderers being pursued by the police, took refuge in the church. The chief of the police thought himself sure of being able to recognise them as they were in their shirt sleeves, but when he entered the church, he soon found himself compelled to abandon his search, as all the men had thrown off their coats; they were all in their shirt sleeves, and jeered at the police. Ordinary justice is impossible in such countries, and under such condi tions." TILE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE BURMESE WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'TDIES. Sir,—lt is of little use now to inquire whether any other plan of operations than that actually pur sued by the authorities charged with the conduct of the second Burmese war would have 'oven more or less successful: When after a melancholy expendi ture of life and treasure we had brought the first war to a conclusion, we congratulated ourselves at least on the experience that \,ve had gained. It was said that a second Burmese war would be "an easy affair ;" that a single vigorous campaign would bring it to a triumphant conclusion ; that, knowing both the temper of the court and the dangers of the country, we should so shape our measures as to humble the one and escape the other, by a prompt 1 attack on the chief cities of the empire—the main movement being made from the Arracan side by way of the Aeng Pass. _ All this was confidently declared at the time by the leading statesmen and soldiers of India; and up to a certain point, doubtless, they were right. But it Was necessary to the conclusion cf the war in a single campaign that it should be commenced at the right time. Unfortunately, Lord Dalhousie could not commence the war at the right time. The rup ture with the Court of Amareepoora occurred at an untoward sea we had all the cold s o n.lt is true, that when it occurred —before us. l weather—all the fighting months becoming the blow could not be struck at once. It was should precede military allowed east political negotiations operations—that the Burmese Court should be by timely concession, a fair opportunity of es caping,we were prepared to infu s e r, the castigation which op portunity could have been upon them. No such allowed to comme nced operations last Noy them if we had The attempted accommodation failed But the a t tem pt was not the less worthy o f a ' because it was unsuccessful. We lost great nation, loss was in itself . a disaster—b ut we ou h r ad time—the demon strated our un willingness to Plunge into hostilitieswhich seemed so likely to bear the accust omed _ —an uncoveted extension of empire. i t mr l" fruit that we should display, this forbearance. it was ex_ pedient, too, to avoid a collision, if it could n ational honour be avoided without any lo ss of or any serious injury ro our national interests. Indi a wan t s nothing so much as peace. Lord oathsh made a an effort to mai n t a in it, and, in doing , every chance of concluding the war in a single trew awy cam_ Paign• The only alternative, then, left to him was to defer operations until the commencement of the cold season of the present year. This course seems to have had some advocates in India, but its ad vocacy was clearly a mistake. To have sat down quietly for a year under the insults which the Bur mese had heaped, and, under the encourageme nt of such forbearance, would have continued to heap upon UN, would have been interpreted by the nations of the East, and perhaps of the West, into an evidence of indecision and irresolution, of which every advantage would have been taken by our opponents. The 1 , a 'an policy is not understood by such a people " th e tate......to ßurmese. he In their eyes, to delay is to hesi strike, ti-e.:ita.te is to fear. Had we delayed to known u n o i h insolence and arrogance would have upon t o 4 .,: u4 € 18 1 and we should have been calld which th ose gla a accumulation of injuries, beside been mere vecinal:tldimtYnrifinesfl. icted upon us would have Burmese was The chastisement of the be done at all. T ha l to be done at once, or not to the commenceme nt (l e fl ll s' have been objections to amilitary operations at such a ti me ; but there wer e postponement. Of the rtreater objections to their him the Governor-Gene ra l e'hoeQvils which lay before paign was commenced at one ,' the least. The cam pationaoaotte.t.heaandseilmdipeerrsfaenctd. cold season of 1861-52 saw it i i t Zd the close of th, Events had belied the anticipations s t a t es men of 1826, who proph es i ed Burmese war would be an ~ ears X.t r,, t , he second single campaign. Aenbideesneutoavotlbioeetac complished in a cur tain fell upon the first act of the drama. y,the time, if no very striking successes have no great harm has been done. The periodi cal r v a Ld, have set in, and the troops nave been housed in Ran goon. At the date of the last advices the rai ns had been falling for a month, but the health of the troop s bad not suffered. " The soldiers and officers," i t is said, " are as healthy as they would have been in Fort William." In this, at least, we m 6 3' see the results of the experience pi 'lied in the first war. Ran goon that during o It was not the climate of that lir , place killed so m a , it was not the first occupation of commissariat. cone y o o f t t, o e ur men ; medical profession that evern India, and ablest members of the asa went cut to medical one no less distinguishedrw,riter topo graphy than as a successful upon in 1839 by the local (IL—titiocoenr,v;hen called n IA to record his opinion of the climate of Low e v r er p me the 0.. bable effect upon the health of th e troops and ad vancepro- bable by the Aeng Pass, declared ' thattroops of en t War, throughout which he had in the last served with the . THE SUN, Governor-General's body guard, the climate of Ran goon had not been the cause of the sufferings which our ill-fated army endured. " Viewing the Delta of the Irawaddy," wrote Mr. J. R. Martin, in an official report, which I believe has not been published, -" In connexion with its own known medical topo graphy, its latitude, and, in short, its general climate, it stands in favourable comparison with that of any known river. Such I believe to be the general opinion enter tained of it by professional men; and its salubrity, toge ther with the superior physical character of its inhabit ants, was early noticed by that distinguished writer and observer, Dr. Francis Buchanan Hamilton, who I believe visited the country twice, and who ascribed the general comparative healthfulness of Lower Pegu to the geolo gical nature of the soil and its undulating surface, which left no room for stagnation in the numerous com municating branches of the Irawaddy. An evil im pression of the climate, of Rangoon especially, has arisen from the enormous loss of European life daring the last war; but I believe that I am correct in stating that general or local climate formed one of the least of the causes of the excessive mortality spoken of, and that, be yond a heavier fall of rain during the south-west mon soon, and a consequently greater degree of humidity in the atmosphere than generally occurs in Bengal, the cli mate contributed little or nothing to the result. It was scorbutic disease that destroyed so large a portion of the European force, and as the powerful causes which led to its developmeat are so well understood I need not dwell upon them." What those causes were the reader may gather from the following passage in Professor Wilson's narrative of the war : "Relying upon the reported facility of obtaining cattle and vegetables at Rangoon, it had not been thought necessary to embark stores for protracted consumption on board the transports for Calcutta, and the Mad ras troops had a still more limited stock. As soon as the deficiency was ascertained arrangements were made to remedy it; but in the meantime, before supplies could reach Rangoon, the troops were dependent for food upon salt meat, much of which was in a state of putrescence, and biscuit in an equally repulsive condition, under the decomposing influence of heat and moisture." Another lesson of the same grievous kind, but not so terrible in its extent, was taught us 15 years after wards, when our British troops occupied Chusan. Then, too, the climate was said to be the destroying agent. But it was not the climate; it was the com missariat. Tnohtesbeeeln th esson ro s w w n e may hope—we may be away. Another army is not likely to be poisoned wholesale with putrid moat. The last accounts represent that provisions of all kinds, and of the best quality, were plentiful at Ran goon, and that the people were cheerfully supplying us with the produce of the country. There was some thi ng else, too, to be learnt from the terrible history of our occupation of Rangoon and Chusan. Swamps are not, at best, conducive to health ; but houses properly constructed will go a long way towards the counteraction of their destroying effects. Now, Colonel Bogle, the Commissioner, an officer of great energy, ability, and experience, one who knows the countries of Arracan and Pegu and who for many years contemplating the pro- bability of a second Burmese war, has been acquiring every description of detailed informa tion most likely to be serviceable in such a conjuncture, has been exerting himself to provide fitting house accommodation at Rangoon for the troops during the rainy season, and his success is described as complete. The natives are expert house builders. Their services are always at our disposal. Materials are easy procurable ; and money, en such occasions, is never withheld. And so under Colonel Bogle's superintendence a wooden camp has risen up; and thus comfortably limited and protected, neither the falling rains nor the rising damps can do our troops any grievous injury. There are months of both, it is true, yet before them, and the close of the rainy season is most to be dreaded ; but so fortified against the climate, well housed, and well fed, our fighting men may bear up against the in activity of half a year of rain at the mouth of the Irawaddy. _ _ With - regard, then, to the past and present of the Burmese war, what I have said amounts to this : It was expedient that the war should have been brought to a conclusion in a single campaign. But it could not be brought to a conclusion in a single cam paign, unless commenced at the right mo ment, i. e.—at the beginning of the fight ing season. Lord Dalhousie could not com mence the war at the beginning of the fight ing season of 1851-52; it would have been impolitic to defer the commencement of operations until the beginning of the cold season of 1852-53 and, therefore, the war, under the circumstances of which I have spoken, could not be concluded in a single campaign. But although the war has not been, ani could not be, concluded in a single campaign, the interval between the two campaigns is not likely to be (as it was a quarter of a century ago) a disas trous one, because our troops at Rangoon are well fed and well housed, and there is nothing in the climate itself of the place to destroy our people by thousands. Hoping soon to have your permission to say some thing further regarding the " future of the Burmese war," I am, Sir, your obedient servant, M. EMIGRATION FROM PLYMOUTH. During the last f Air or five days no less tcan ten ships, of very considerable tonnage, and with nearly 3,000 emigrants, have been in tee port of Plymouth, all bound for Australia or Van Diemen's Land. The following aro the names, destinations, &c.:— Sea Park, Captain Spedding, Port Philip, Government emigrants, in charge of Dr. R utter, with 325 souls on board, sailed on Saturday. Australasia, Captain M`Pherson, Hobart Town, Go vernment emigrants, in charge of Dr. King, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, of Stonehouse, teacher and matron, 200 souls, sailed on Saturday. Posthumous, Captain Heard, for Port Philip, pa wn . ger-ship, in charge of Dr. Hunt, 190 souls, sailed on Sunday. This is one of Messrs. Marshall and Edridge's ships. Eliza, Captain Pain, for Port Philip , Passenger-ship, in charge of Dr. Cleeve, 300 souls, sailed on Sunday. One of Messrs. Marshall and Edridge's ships. Prince Alfred, Captain Smith, for Port Philip and Sydney, passenger-ship, in charge of Dr. Maxwell, with 230 souls. This fine vessel, the property of Mr. Pope, has not yet sailed. Blackwell, Captain M‘lierlie, for Port Philip, pas senger-ship, in charge of Dr. Field, 200 souls. This ship takes 25 needlewomen, sent out under Mr. Sidney Herbert's plan, Mrs. Thomas matron. Sailed on Tues day. One of Messrs. Green's splendid ships. Windermere, Captain Ross, for Port Philip, passenger ship, in charge of Dr. Hooper. Among the passengers in this ship is Mr. Carlyon, son of Colonel Carlyon, of Cornwall. 180 souls. General Hewett, Captain Gatenby, for Sydney, pas senger-ship, in charge of Dr. Casterton. 190 souls. Belonging to Messrs. Tindall. Hydaspes, 800 tens, Captain Reid commander, Dr. Silver surgeon superintendent , taking about 270 souls, Government emigrants for Sydney. Northumberland, 900 tons register, Captain J. W. Gell, belonging to R. Greco, Esq., of Blackwell, sailed from Plymouth on the 16th instant for Melbourne. She has upwards of 160 passengers, many of them for the gold diggings, and nearly 40 needlewomen, sent out under the auspices of the Hon. Sidney Herbert's com mittee. Among the chief cabin passengers are Mr. Octavins Phillpotts, son of the Bishop of Exeter, and Mr. Noel, son of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel. The ship is in excellent order, her management and dispatch was in the hands of Mr. Wilcocks, of the Barbican. Bombay, one of the largest emigrant ships that ever 1 ::5 . t....b0is port, is now in the Sound, and will sail in a day i nna Lw ed . toet T n h e is ro v y e a s l s n el av i y s . a two-decker, and formerly be- All Mr. eis,i7c4esit:re vessels aro under the management of The influx. m me ad n e in th teh: t of shipping of this particular class has emigratio;a l4 ;t t ll en p y b t:yh Devonport, theeerav Port emigrants nog ß n prrdt e ao vnriwtt Philip,s hT in et . hr eveCi end Cave i v ee t:- . o o r f t_e S a u v t y ton Harbour and the trades- It has also irepoYs:l the h e ci; t i kvis i tie s unagr more than usually busy. the voluntary one 3 Childs, the incumbent of ing the several ship s and ° nefit of his counsels and duties upon the officers of incumbent upon few harder duties than t on of books. ym ti l i.h l' is and will take passen gers the Cleopatra, a a mon g the vessels now load quired the advantage o f " s cl i:t r r i o e n tl t on fur horse power. She Plymouth Paper. s y dney, from London and Plymouth :cehtternderb,opf ri l v ,s a o te o e to n n te s r , p a rni d ie, e at ", 5a, 40 , screw - rdsisp : g - and 35 guineas.-- ..--...,....._—___ from time 1V of t" TOAD. Popular tradition EXPERIMENT'S on h the POISON toad, but no well having been c marked case of severe injury caused by thi s taehed a poisonous influencellsto.theinnera°rial at.. animal, modern enlightenment repudiated the notion of the toad being a poisonous creature, and referred the traditional account to prejudice against the toad simply because of its ungraceful aspect. Neverthe less, unlucky dogs who might chance to bite a toad demonstrated by the rapidity wherewith the unsavoury mouthful was dropped, that popular rumour originated in something better founded than mere prejudice or aversion. 'All doubts as to the poisonous nature of tho contents of the skin pustules of the toad and salaman der lizard are set at rest by the recent experiments of with two French philosoph e r s , MM. Gratiolet and S. Cloeg, who h ave demonstrated by inoculating various anima ls e i r th s the cutaneous poi son o f t oa d s an d salaman ders, , that th e su b s t ances i n ques ti on are en dowed with . well-marked and exceedingly dan gerous qualities. The these gentlemen was prosecutedfirst on e a xp l e a r t i l m e eAntfrimoof 0 f e 0 t nl supervened, onn and d o f stillit .1 ebinderxisexisted feet,paralysis he tortoise, which, the t o ,a_ poiB the limb whether .. having been inoculated with some of th,, in g by the agent. Inorder to expiration loc a l poiso rths, thus demonstrating the possibility of mer ious material spoiled by keeping, grains of the po above mentioned procured about 9) determine the gentle having placed it 's " on the 25th o f Ap r il, 1851, and cu!ated a goldfinchside until Mar c h 16, 1852, Wdth The bird almost imme i a littl e o f this material.theyi" i from ed in eliminating the in the t inert the investigators imeee a e te d ly died. Subsequently poisonous principle which it is assmiated mat ters with 1 ' kin-pustules, and LONDON, I they found that when thus purified its effects are greatly more intense than b efore. Like m os t o f the known very strong organic poisons, the active principle of toad-venom is alk al i ne in its char ac t er ; almost insoluble in water, slightly soluble id ether, and very soluble in alcohol. MM. Gratiolet a n d S. Cloez are at this time occupied in collecti ng a l arge amount of toad-venom , and will shortly mak e k nown the result of their further investigations, which are ca l cu lated, in the opinion of the inve s ti ga t ors, to th ro w considerable light upon the nature and action of the poisons of hydrophobia, of serpen t s, o f conta gious diseases, and animal poisons generally. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending Aug. 28, 1852 ... £13,358 5 S Traffic—Week endinglAug.l39, 1851 ... 14,480 [2 1 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 126,552 2 0 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 134,663 17 6 Total number of Passengers —Week ending Aug. 28,1882 98,533 Passengers ... ...X11,014 11 9 Goods ... 2,373 13 11 Total... • £13,388 5 8 Total !miles open, 1852, 1734; ditto, 1851, 173%. London Terminus, Aug. 30, 1852. POST.OF FICE NOTICE.—Minor Money Order o ffi ces will be opened at the undermentioned places on the respective dates named :—Kidlington, Oxfordshire, Sept. 1 ; Saltash, Cornwall, Sept. 1. N.B. Postmasters are informed that Callington is now served from Plymouth instead of Tavistock. The list of Money Order offices must be corrected ac cordingly. OFF BRIGHTON.—GeeIong, Shanghai. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 28.—Wind S. to S.W.; 29th, W.S.W.—Acrd. Prince of Wales, London for Calcutta. OFF PORTSMOUTH.—Dudbrook, Demerara. OFF TORBAY.—Nancy, Vera Cruz, for Hamburgh. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 26.—Arrd. Louisa, St. Andrew'e, New Brunswick. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at the Euston-square terminus of the London and North- Western Railway, on Saturday. Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., was in the chair. The advertisement by which the meeting was convened having been read, the following report of the directors was submitted : " The statomont of the accouu to of the half-year cutt ing the 30th June last exhibits a gross increase of re ceipts from traffic to the amount of 8,2581. ss. 10d., of which sum 5,6541. Os. Bd. have been derived from the railway, and 2,6041. ss. 2d. from the steam-boats. rA tabular statement is then given, from which it appears that the net earnings of the railway in the half-year end ing June, 1850, was 21,8431. 15s. 4d.; in June, 1851, 287477/.195. ld.; andin June,lBs2, 27,8971.145. Bd.; while the losses en the steam-boats had decreased from 5,816/. ls. 6d. in June, 1850, to 211. 3e. sd. in June, 1852.] From these comparative statements it appears that traffic, both of the railway and the steam-boats, is steadily on the increase ; and although the results of the half-year's working certainly fall short of the ex pectations of your directors, there is sufficient proof that the prospects of the undertaking are gra dually improving. The increase of expenditure has been occasioned by the measures which your directors have taken, after careful consideration, with a view to the eventual advantage of the company, from the in creased traffic which those measures are calculated to secure. The accounts show a net balance of 7,9511. 17s. 11d. to the credit of revenue, from which your directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 35. 6d. per in consequence share on the first p re f erence s h ares. T he d ev elopmeEt of the slate traffic has b een partly delay ed ' of the alterations necessary to afford to the quarr ies at Port Penrhya and:P or t Di norw i c the d es i re d facilities of communication bet ween th e tramwa y s and the rail way. The tram wa y s a t C arnarvon are no t, as yet, Con nected with your line. The depot for storing the slate and thus maintaining the means of constant supply, are in course of construction. This arrangement will, it is believed, materially tend to secure to your railway this important branch of traffic. The heads of an agreement with the London and North-Western Railway and the City of Dublin Steam-boat Company have been arranged, and have passed under the seals of these companies re spectively. In consequence of this settlement the traffic in goods and cattle from Ireland, via Holyhead, will com mence immediately. Your directors have the satisfaction of stating that,with one exception, the several disputed accounts with contractors and other persons have been settled on terms which must, on the whole, be consi dered favourable to the company. In the matter of the purchase of the Mold Railway, authorised at a meeting of the proprietors held on the 30th of March, 1849, Mr. Stephenson, the referee in respect of the terms of pur chase, has given his award, fixing the rats of conversion at ten shares of 151. each, in the Mold Railway Com pany, for three shares of 501. each in the Chester and Holyhead Company. Your directors deemed it to be their duty to withdraw the Bill before Parliament last session, in consequence of the Shrewsbury and Chester Com pany having succeeded, when the Bill was in Committee of the House of Lords, in obtaining the insertion of a clauee, giving that company a power of interference with the rates on your line, calculated to affect your interests injuriously. This disappointment of their reasonable expectations, arising from a cause entirely beyond their control, has prevented your directors from carry ing into effect those financial arrangements for the diminution of the burtheu of your debenture debt, to which they alluded in their last report; but it is satisfactory to them to be able to state that, although the course which they proposed to take has been thus impeded, they have been enabled to renew all the de bente.res that have recently fallen due, at a rate of inte rest nor° favourable than heretofore. The annexed re port of the resident engineer is most satisfactory as re garde the general condition of the railway and progress of the works:— " RESIDENT ENGINEER'S REPORT. " Gentlemeu,—l have the satisfaction of reporting that the permanent way and works of the railway are in good order and condition. The branches to the slate wharl's at Port Penrhyn and Port Dinorwic, with the necessary communications with the tramways, are com pleted and in good working order. The slate depot at Salteney is progressing, and will, I expect, bo finished in the course of two months. The cattle-sheds, yards, and loading places at Holyhead, necessary for the full development of the Irish traffic, aro completed and ready for use. The railway from Bangor to Carnarvon is now open, both for passenger and goods traffic.—l remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, , " HEDWORTH LEE." The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen, it now becomes my duty, in moving the adoption of the report, to offer to you a few remarks; and I will begin by stating to you at once candidly that when I took the presidency of your company, now some fifteen months since, I then anticipated a more rapid development of your traffic than the exertions of myself, and my col leagues, and the executive have been able to effect. Perhaps I took somewhat too sangino a view of the pros pective progress of our traffic from my not being accus tomed, as a director, to deal with such matters, and look ing at them, perhaps, more in the light of a m an of business accustomed to direct his own affairs, and not expecting to meet, in regard to them, with those, impedi ments which experience has now shown me must be con templated in connexion with an undertaking so situated as the Chester and Holyhead Railway. Nevertheless, my opinion with regard to its future prosperity remains unchanged.—(Hear.) The tragic remains to be deve loped.—(Hear.) The reasons why it has not been deve loped more rapidly, I will now state to you shortly, and I hope satisfactorily to yourselves. In the first place, 15 months since, as I stated when I became chairman of your company, I found your line terminating a mile and a quarter from Holyhead, having no connexion with the harbour, without the possibility of loading ,or un loading a single ton of goods, and with the means only of taking our passengers on board the packets by a number of omnibuses not very well served.—(Hear, hear.) Your board applied themselves immediately to the obtaining from the Government the right of carrying down a railway to the end of the pier. They were met, after strong representations on their part (I must say in this instance) more liberally by Government than they were ever met before, and your company have now a railway complete to the end of the pier at Holyhead. Together with that railway you have ample aceeemmo dation for the conveyance of goods and cattle; you hare a station in every way suitable for your traffic; you have refreshment-rooms, and in fact everything necessary for the conduct of your traffic at the terminus. I had hoped, when I last had the pleasure of meeting you, to be able to report on the present occasion, not only the com mencement, but a considerable development of your goods traffic with Ireland, but I regret that it is not in my power so to report, and the reasons simply are these. In the first place we have had to deal with the City of Dublin Steam packet Company and with 16 railway companies in Ire land, and to carry out the numerous details connected with such an arrangement, which those only are able to understand who are brought into contact with them and follow them up every day.—(Hear, hear.) It was in exonerlyei say se d in deed only last week that we obtained the seal of the g; andtirt3 have. companies to the agreement, and completed the various arrangements with the other companies for the tho rough working of traffic over our . line. that I believe your board have in this ma l tt e cr an a d cerotuankdindiscretion.--(Choers.) It is not our fault that I consider in —could only the Legislature granted to us the tail-end of an un dertaking; it was, therefore, that your hoard—as I various interests is necessarily, I deaTeircise of a wise and sound discretion from our ~ : u)rinciples of amity with all the bound to say that in this matter say ' which the welfare of our under taking we meet with the most friends and allies the London identified ; and I am various interchanges powerful support and North-Western Company ; met—(Hear)— rawaitttherisn— d a iP m le e m wa a nh t ga ie etsofwthheichSarnw: in the way in which we deserved an t d allow me to add_ and after all those ; a a s ris o e nc, in m th e e e s t e s ( ea ch trying to obtain a little more or a little less)—we ) transactions have at last settled down to a fair e —we end proper agreement, or 12 days and I hope that in 10 goods traffic with Ireland.—(llear, open our , he ar , and ckhntiorwacwteiri l h I tell you that there are, at present, 27 cheers) when • I besides erpoo , numerous steamers from Liverpool, . merchant engaged in the trade between Dublin vessels, constantly n feeling, as we do, that we are and that port; and when not only with the Irish com a- , now en tame of amity greater part of the English tom_ panes, nies but also with elar indeed if we did not antici pam:es, it would be sineal of that traffic will, in time, pate that a goodly portion (Hear.) . I now come to the come over your railwaY. — . , ~,n I stated to you th a t slew traffic. On the Last uccusi, cost to ourselves, in e n. we had succeeded, without any e. B angor. Colo ne l taming a line of railway to the Port of anworks, We Ind d Pennant has found the whole of the a be I , ,___ h as en opened providing the rails. ~,That :limy EVENING, AUGUST to, 1852. during the present half-year. They are now con necting it with the various tramways in the district, and we have found, as I stated we anticipated we should find, a difficulty in reference to this matter—the shipping interest, of course, opposing us. The demand on our line at present for slate is more than equal to about four or five months' supply; but what is technically called the rule of stem prevents our taking it, except as we can load it. Now, gentlemen, we have no depot where we can stack the slates, and therefore we are placed in a position of cons id era b le d i sadvantage.— (Hear, hear.) Your board h ave, f or t h e purpose o f carrying out our slate traffic, secured eight acres of land near Chester. On Tuesday I went down, purposing to inspect the works, and I find that w ithin six or seven weeks from this time we may expect to have wharf room for 80,000 tons of Slate, at a cost to us of only 2,oool.—(Hear, hear.) The great object has been to give free accommodation to the slateowners for the stowage of slate in the vicinity of our line, so that we may be able to supply the demands of the country at all times. These arrangements, of course, took time; and although the period I have occupied the chair is something like sixteen months; perhaps you will feel that the extension of the line for a mile and a half to the Holyhead-pier, and making the various arrange ments with the other companies, could Lot be done in a day—(Hear, and cheers)—and if I took somewhat too sanguine a view at the time to which I allude, you will, I think, be inclined to ascribe it to an excessive zeal for your interest—(Cheers)—and, gen tlemen, allow me to say that when I make a mistake I BM a lways ready to —as Ido on the present occasion —confess it —(lcer, hear, and cheers.) Well, gentle men, there are three sources from whence your goods traffic will he developed. I required at the hands of your goode' menager, seine six or seven months since, when we took the question up, an elaborated report of the whole trade connected with these three sources— namely, the local trade, the coasting trade, cud the Irish trade. I, in conjunction with my colleagues, requested ' the London and North-Western Company to permit Mr. Braithwaite Poole, their energetic goods manager, to be associated with Mr. Coomber, our own goods manager, to go into the question, feeling that it was only by cor dial amity of working we could secure the results anticipated. That board met me in the matter as they h av e always done, cordially and frankly; and Mr. Poole has given us his most ,valuable exertions in a way which has gratified me exceedingly; and I must say, with regard to our own officer, Mr. Coomber, that nothing could exceed his zeal, energy, and clear sightedness in the discharge of the duties imposed e pee, him. Well, gentlemen, I hold hi my hand this report, which is a most elaborate one, of the local traffic, containing, as it does, every information with regard to its sources, and our expectations with regard to them. In reference to the local traffic, I find that in 1849 it amounted to 12 ,783/., in 1850 to 22 903/., and in 1851 t' 31,9314 As to the coasting traffic, at this moment we have scarcely touched it The Irish traffic we have not touched at all.--(Hoar,) Your mineral traffic is not bosun.—(hear.) The reasons I helm stated to you frankly and fairly; and therefore I do feel, knowing at all tleal e ireunistances, and looking at this increase in our local traffic, which is upwards of 10,000/. a year, and without these sources being touched, and consider ing the fact that up to within a fortnight of the present time you are carrying greater tonnage of shell-fish than you Ware in connexiot, with slates, stone sets, and minerals of that kind—l say Ido feel, and am setis lied that you must feel, that literally we have not begun our trade, and that what we have done has been, in lave, only to build our house.—(Hear.) We have put up our counters, tied put our s h op i n or d er , an d w h at we now have to do is to work hard to fill it with goods and be gin business —and that we are determined to do.—(Loud cheers.) Our Cernarvon line is complete. The passenger traffic has now been proceeding those eight or ten weeks, and the goods trade has commenced during the present week. The tramways are not as yet connected with the slate quarries, but our line is connected with the enor mous Slate quarries of Mr. Assheton Smith, and I am looking to that branch for the future with some degree of hope th at we may derive large results from it.—(ear, hear.) So much with regard to the goods traffic. Now, gentlemen, if you will allow me, I will touch upon the passenger traffic. We he.ve not been idle in that respect. —(Hear.) I think if you look at the newspapers and see what we are doing with regard to the Irish tourist traffic, you will find there has been no lack of exertion on our part at any rate.—(Hear.) Wo have done what was necessary —we have sown the seeds amply and largely —we have acted liberally in the way of advertis ing, and the result up to this moment is most gratifying; but of courseyou know all these preliminary arrangements aro costly, and that is the reason our working expenses the last half-year were larger than they have been here tofore. But you will agree with me, that without sow ing the seed broadcast we cannot reap abundantly in future, as I believe we shall do. So far as our connection with the London and North-Western, andthe whole of the Irish companies is considered, nothing can bo more gratifying. We have had the most effactual aid from all of them. I wish I could say the same results have been secured in other quarters; but I am bound to tell you the whole truth of tee matter, and I may any that the state of our relations with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Companies is anything but gratifying to your directors. I look at it in connexion with this feeling, that if your lino is to be treated as a Chester and Holy head line merely, and not as connected aith the whole of Lsncashire and Yorkshire; if it is not to be cansidcd as a Liverpool and Dublin, a Manchester and Dublin, and as a Dublin and Yorkshire and Lancashire line, why it is nothing, and it is right that you should know that. —(I-fear, hear, and load elianr4). The Llaeaihiro and Yorkshire lines, if properly managed, would contribute greatly to the development of our traffic, but there are circumstances which, at the present moment, prevent that result, and until a better understanding exists between the companies, and the vari ous b att l es that are go i ng on between them are not allowed to affect their relations, your interests are sacrificed, the interests of the public are sacri ficed, and no effort of mine can prevent it. Some of you have, no doubt, seen the letter which appeared in one of the newspapers the other day —and here I say that we ought to bo very thankful to the press for calling atten tion to these matters. The complaint was that a great passengers we re l eft behind at Chester simply e Manchester tra i n was not in time for oar number because the express. I assure you that no one can regret the cir cumstance more than I do. I have, in conjunction with Admiral Moorsorn, w- is 0 works heartily with me in the matter, looked again and again to see what we can do, and we have delayed our express train ten minutes in order to wait for the passengers coming in from Man chester. We can do no more than that, and if we at temptedshould be op en to public an i ma d vers i on. u Bat I wi l i l t w read ad to you the r esu l t of this dis j o i nte d system of working, as c , n 9 tran isfinguished from railways working as they s hould in perfe ct unity, and affording the best r accommo d a tion to the public,and the best return to th e proprietors.—(Hear, hea r .) I will just take the returns of the arrivals of the Manchester trains to meet our express during the last two months. Recollect that on that depends the whole of our Lancashire and Yorkshire of n that you d the enormous amount of know the connected with the through t t h ra e ffi p c o ; p traffic to Ireland, you will feel the great importance of thi s matter W our interests. The other day, when I population i o w n h e was at Cheater I had the mortification of seeing twenty or thirty passengers fro m Manchester l e ft on the plat form when our train, afer waiting nine waitsng or ten minutes, had started. All I could do was, as politely as possible, to say how very sincerely I, as the chairman of this re gretted it , but i company, reg , t was not in my power to prevent it. At tne same time you must recollect that while you are not in a position to run your trains to Liverpool and Manchester, through the Cheshire Junc tion, as you ought to do, thro ug h passengers w ill not come over your line, despite your short sea-passage, and until the Legislature with a strong hand compels the com peniee to agree so far that the public shall railway not be sacrificed h 1 W- 1 e they are squabbling among them ding the spenshareholders' money, I tear we selves, and may con tinue to suffer from t h e c i rcumstance I have T will now read mentioned. I to you a return sho w i ng m the time of departure of our 2.25 p. 21. express train from Chester from the Ist of July to the 25th of Aug ust, 1852.—(This return showed th a t th e d e p ar t ure trains during the period mentioned va r i e d f rom 10 m i nutes to time, the 42 minutes behind ow l everage being 26 minutes,) tlemen, h am Well, gen command to the through Lancashire and Yo •with • traffic from Lance s Yorkshire this state of things? I r ay the Birkenhead and Cheshir e J unction are sacrificing their own interests, while they a re also us earning a dividend for ourselves. I have preventing he this return from t station-books at Chester, and I defy • to the statement; and I say to you, whil e this exists, while you have simply this state of things , the London traffic to depencino upon, be the views I stated to you on taking this chair can not carried out, and I Ain not responsible for th v eir in having men. been carried out,— (Hear, bear.) M- objectf further than mentioning these things is ur t a rese that it should go that. p nt melting, because until the public feel this ' because I am con until they show throu h state of things, and u not tolerate g their it, you have no repre sentatives that they will . s ait i your duty as shareholders hope of a remedy; and to be • bring ar on this ue • sti to agitate and to t re interferenc 9 on an amount of Parliamen a J have settled e, until the Lon don and North-Western n and that theirh differences with the Great Wester . 0 , allowed to t e. Birkenhead Company no longer n dividend.--(Heara,pelicte you and prevent you having a which I should refaerr.) There are other things to .. ity 1 to carry out the . ihave felt deeply our non-ah down there and saw, a hotel at Bangor. If you were i t , you would feel still have for done, the necessity as much as I do. e I can do im portanceof the thing done in the matter. I an took do no more than I meeting,have done and which was accorded unanimously from you last he an allowance of 74 pecrorded unanimously to me, to ula that parties might be induced uced from your traffic in order to erect it. The board too k 2 000slittres in it • but I regr e t , by ' was n ot made the public hi a to say that a response way the matter deserved . — I h av e only to regret an other matter, a n d th that such t is a is the case. I will refer to the only one to which Ican refer with any degr ee have been disappoi nte d , of gratification. Although we have regard to the Bill brought as is stated in the report, with enable th© Let ondonl am ha rth and N o into the last Parliament to Western to end ors e our debentures, y PPy to tell you we hav e go t them renewed on favourable terms— within i per cent , o f w hat the London and North -W °s tern are payi ng on t h e i r d e bentures; and when I t e ll than the you the fact, th at even at i per cent. higher _ enable us to London and North-W estern endorse ment would to issue them at, we should effect a sav ing y ou of believe that the cir -14,0001. a year, yo u will naturally o ccupy (and it does cumstance is one that ought to d• oc cupy) the anxiouss attention of will merely that say I will not detain you longer, an d • I shall be ,sappy to answer any inquire. es that may b e p at to rue.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. OLIVEIRA M.P., wished to be allowed to tend er , his th an k s to the chairman a nd the directors for th e great ability and energy they bad displayed the ma nagement of the company. Ho echoed of remarks. necessity the made by the Ilon.Gentleman of the lei,. 'store interfering es soon as possible in the disputes existing between rival companies, and he hoped the members of the House of Commons in the coming session would give their attention to the proper government and arrahgement of railway property. Ho had observed by the public prints that tb , re had been some change amongst their executive officers, and that Mr. Roney, a gentleman connected with the management of their affairs in Ireland, whose vory able and valuable services to the comoany could not be too highly appreciated, had also ceased his connection with them. He wished to know if that were so, and, if it was not too much in terfering with the business of the board, the reasons for dispensing with the services of Mr. Roney, which were so universally acknowledged to be of the greatest value. The CHAIRMAN had the greatest pleasure in answer ing the question of the Hon. Proprietor. It having been found that the expense of maintaining two ,estab lishments—one in London and one in Chester—was most onerous on the company, and materially added to their expenditure, it was resolved to consolidate the whole of their establishment at Chester. Mr. Brooks, their secretary, having large property in London, and the whole of his connexions being concentrated in the metropolis, preferred rather to resign his position to removing to Chester; but ho wished it to be distinctly understood that Mr. Brooks was an officer who enjoyed the fullest confidence and highest esteem of the board, and that it was with deep regret they parted with him. With reference to Mr. Roney, ho could only say that that gentleman had most zealously and most success fully carried out his temporary duty of arranging the through traffic of the line with the various Irish com panies, but the time came when Mr. Roney's en gagement ceased, and, valuable as they knew the services of that gentleman to be, we felt that this company ought not alone to bear the expense of Mr. honey's salary for services beneficial to all, though they wished they should be secured by a pro rata payment from all the companies interested. He had great pleasure in informing the proprietors that the London and North-Western Board had unanimously agreed to hear their portion of the expense of retaining Mr. honey's services, and within the last week he (Mr. Peto) had communicated that resolution • to all the other companies interested, and he had no doubt they would ad agree to bear their fair proportion of the expense, so that Mr. Roney would continue to devote his energies to the promotion of the interests of this and the other com peaies interested in the full development of the Irish traffic. He wished at the same time to state that Mr. Roney had never, at any time, done anything in any way to supersede the valuable services of their justly esteemed superintendent, Mr. Binger, who had always conducted their traffic in the most satisfactory manner, and he felt assured that nu eempany possessed a more valuable officer than Mr. Binger—(Cheers)—though he should much regret the lose of the services of Mr. Roney— (Cheers)—but he felt that ac these services were de voted to the protection of the interests of many compa nies, the Chester and Holyhead Company ought not to bear the whole expense.—(Hear, hear.) The report having been adopted, The CHAIRMAN said, before he put the next resolu tion, he wished to be allowed to state that the board had now the cordial assistance of Captain Huish—(Cheers) who had of late attended their meetiugs, travelled over their line, and who, instead of taking that relaxation which his continuous exertions required, was this year about to proceed to Ireland to sec how far he could assist this compaey.—(Cheers.) He was happy to see Ceptain Huish present, and should feel obliged if he would give the proprietors the benefit of his experience with regard to the prospects of this company.—(Hear.) Captain Huss said he had had no intention to trouble the meeting with any observations, after the very lucid and able explanations which had just been given by the Honourable Chairman ; but having been asked to express his opinion—an opinion which might carry some trifling weight with it from the experience he had bad—with regard to the future prospects of this line, he at once bowed to the wish of the chairman, which appeared to be concurred in by the meeting generally.—(Hear, bear.) Until a very recent period, he must conteis he took no interest in the Chester and Holyhead beyond that which necess sarily existed, and which he could not but feel as a re flected interest, from the large number of shares which the London and North-Western held in this concern; but with the multifarious duties he had to perform—in fact the map of England being very nearly spread before him every morning —he had very willingly left the traffic over the Chester and Holyhead to the guidance and direction of those who were more immediately con nected with it. But it pleased the directors of the Ches ter and Holyhead Railway to request the London and North-Western board to allow him to give some portion of his attention to the development of the through traffic over this line; and that request having been ac corded, he bud recently attended the meetings of the directors at Chester, and had taken considerable interest ie the development of the traffic. He might observe that after a great number of yours' experience us to almost every railway in the kingdom— for the nature of his engagements had more or leas brought him into contact with them—as he had before stated privately—he would now do so pub licly—that ho never travelled over a line which ap pesred to be conducted with more zeal, economy, and re gularity in every department than was the Chester and Holyhead Itailway.—(Cheers.) He had expressed that opinion out of doors, and was only too happy to repeat it on the present occasion, because he found a degree of personal anxiety end application on the part of every one connected with it, which was amply borne out by the appearance of every thing about it, and which he was bound to admit he had not seen excelled on any railway in the kingdom.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) With regard to Ireland, ho might say that he had never yet visited that country; but he hoped to be there next week to assist in carrying out some of their objects. He frankly admitted that, up to a comparatively recent period, the London and North-Western board did not throw the whole amount of its energy into the Chester and Holyhead Railway, having other and weighty matters, more immediately affecting their own in terests, to attend to; but the feeling of the London and North-Western directors had been expressed so unhesitatingly to do all in their power to assist the Chester and Holyhead Railway, that he had very little doubt the future state of their traffic would exhibit a very different aspect to the past. —(Hear, hear.) The details which the Chairman had announced, with regard to the through goods traffic, would of course rest more with their own goods manager than with him (Captain Huish); but from the elaborate reports and the mass of statistics which bad been laid before him, he could have but little doubt that, with the united exertions of the Irish railway companies, the Chester and Holyhead must be the great conduit-pipe through which the traffic between the two countries would flow.—(Cheers.) He could only further state ge nerally, that having received the permission of the London and North-Western directors to devote a portion of his time to the Chester and Holyhead Railway, no thing should be wanting on his part to promote the groat objects they had in view. —(Loud cheers.) A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether there would the de clarationnoTt b h e l CHAIRMANs 0 . 2d t o d u e dividend n r e t p h l pe f eodi 3s.ce certainly; 6r e dt n a. e l e n l shares ar es after e and moved the there s o p l u r e t i f o e n r e f n o c r e t shares, then moved by Mr. Bassett, seconded and directors was res,w declaration of the 3 s. 6d. dividend on was secondedi b m y ou:l ir y . c o a i r i r v i i e e d ra . A vote of th an k s t o th e Chairman and carried unanimously. Brockley Whines on a misty morning, or, still worse, an hour's wait in a cold night. But, joking apart, we do most earnestly direct tho attention of every one dwelling or interested in this town to this sub ject. and we trust many months will not have elapsed until we see the work fairly commenced,—Sunderland Herad. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCKS AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION. The twelfth half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the offices, Euston-square station, on Friday • Mr. John Scott, chairman of the directors, i n th e chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the SECRETARY read the report, which stated— " The directors can again report a steady increase of the passenger traffic for the six months ending the 30th of June last, over the corresponding period of last year, viz.-1851: Passengers, 1,459,560; amount 21,514/ Ss. Bd. 1852: Passengers, 1,776,186; amount, 35,936/. 2s. 2d.; increase, passengers, 316,626; increase, amount, 4,4221. ls. 6d. This increase may be attributed to the progressive development of the original sources of traffic one only additional station having been opened at the Caledonian-road, Pentonville, on the 10th of June last. Adjoining the railway, in every district, land is being rapidly covered with houses, affording proof that the facilities offerded by the railway attract population to its neighbourhood, and that the large amount to which the passenger traffic has risen at the stations already opened will yet be considerably increased. The whole of the depiits, constructed on the railways for the sale of coals, are now in active operation, and in conse quence of the manifold advantages and economy re sulting from this mode of conveyance, aided by the company's arrangements, the coal trade may now ho regarded as permanently established on the line. In furtherance of these advantages, it is intended to obviate the irregularities in the arrival of sailing vessels with coals at the port of London, by the use of screw steam colliers between the coal ports in the north and this company's dock. The vessels are being built by a com pany instituted for this express object; and three voy ages already made in connexion with the railway by their first vessel have been most successful. The City warehouses of the London and North-Western Railway Company, in Haydon-square, not being completed for opening, although in active progress, the goods traffic over this company's line has necessarily been limited during the past half-year to that portion which is con nected with the river. The accommodation afforded to this class of traffic has led to the conveyance of a con siderable amount of tonnage; but the first experimental rates of toll not being found adequately remunerative, they are now under revision, and a more satisfactory result may be confidently anticipated in the current half-year. The Corporation of London have selected Co penhagen-fields for the site of the new metropolitan cattle market, the construction of which, it is under stood will be commenced without delay. This site is immediately contiguous to the company's railway, which, being connected, as the proprietors are aware, with the principal lines used for th© convey ance of cattle to the London market, will serve as the channel for this important traffic, by which the necessity of driving cattle through the public thorough fares will be effectually obviated. The company will derive considerable benefit from being thus necessarily employed in carrying out one of the most important de tails of a great public improvement; and a large increase of passengers must obviously follow from the establish ment upon the line of a market of such great public re sort. To effect a suitable connexion with the intended cattle market; to construct additional sidings, to provide adequately for the increasing amount of tonnage of goods and coals, which may be safely calculated upon; and to furnish sufficient rolling stock for the passenger traffic, as well as to construct the new stations and other works, not included in the company's original estimates, but now found indispensible to the working of the line to the best advantage, the directors recommend that Par liament be applied to next session for powers to raise ad ditional capital. Careful estimates will be prepared of the amount which will be necessary to effect the objects in view, and these will be laid before a meeting to be specially convened for the consideration of the subject. From the capital account, it will be seen that the direc tors continue to replace the five per cent. bonds, as they fall due, at reduced rates of interest; the amount, dur ing the past six months, has been 7,6501., which has been renewed at three-and-a-half per cent. The revenue account shows a balance of 6,7021. 10s., after paying in terest on the debenture d e bt. Thi s sum i s su ffi c i en t t o pay a dividend of los. per share for the half-year, clear of income-tax, on the company's capital, including 50,0001. of additional capital, not entitled to dividend on the previous occasion." The statement of the accounts having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN said that he must offer some expla nation with reference to the accounts. It would be observed that the passenger traffic, as compared with the corresponding half-year of 1851, had increased 20 per cent., but the gross receipts of the autumn half-year of 1851 were nearly 4,0001. more than those of the past half-year, which proved that the autumn months were invariably better than those of the spring, as it appeared from the fact that the last eight weeks' receipts were 20,000 passengers and 2401. better than the same weeks in 1851, conse quently the results of the last half-year were no cri terion of what might be looked for in the half-year which they were now entering upon. The directors of the Blackwell Railway in their published report held out a prospect of the speedy completion of their branch to Hayden-square. This would bring the warehouses there into full play, and they might not unreasonably hope for the commencement of this im portant source of traffic before the end of the year, to the relief of the crowded streets of the metropolis. The North and South-West Junction from Willes den to Brentford, was expected to be completed next month, and he was given to understand by a party largely interested in that undertaking, that, in addi ' tion to the existing sources of traffic, they would re ceive a large additional traffic from the steam naviga tion between the Levant and the south of Europe ' with Southampton. A great portion of the traffic, as for instance in cochineal and indigo, brought by the West Indian steamers, and which now went to the Nine Elms Station, must come over their line. The junction with the Eastern Counties Railway was likely to be of great importance to their line, with respect to the conveyance of cattle from the interior as well as from Lowestoft and Great Grimsby,and from the various ports of the North of Europe, with which a connexion was now formed by means of the new Steam Navigation Company, presided over by Lord Yarborough and Mr. Peto. The directors have been disappointed in the goods traffic, which was not equal to their expectations, but, as stated in the report, it was entirely experimental, pending the expiration of certain agreements with the great carriers, the West London and Blackwell Company, the Kensington Canal, and the lightermen on the Thames. The tolls were in a great measure settled by rates in these agreements, which, ,as it was stated, were found to entail a loss rather than a profit, inasmuch as power ful engines were kept constantly in steam for the con veyance of a limited but gradually increasing traffic. With all these sources now opening there was no oc casion to despair that the line would not answer the sanguine expectations of the proprietors. Everything was going on satisfactorily. They would have occa sion to apply to Parliament for powers to raise more money to meet the increasing requirements of the line and he hoped the proprietors would give them per mission to raise such sums as they would require. So many things were starting up every day that it was difficult to say what they would require. At present the surplus lands lying towards Highbury would re alise the amount paid, and they were every day in creasing in value, and they did not wish to be de prived of the advantage possession gave them. A long discussion took place with reference to the accounts. Several proprietors complained of the in creased cost of the goods traffic, the charge of the direction, the amount of interest paid, and the rental of the surplus land, it was complained, was charged to capital instead of revenue, and the charges of the engineer. It was replied by the Chairman and several of the directors that the goods traffic was increasing, and the expense which they were obliged to go to would easily carry four times the amount. It was also shown that the rental of the surplus land was sunk in the interest. The statements appeared to be satisfactory, but a strong hope was expressed that the di re ctors would closely watch the exp en dit ure . With respect to an objection that the liabilities of the company were not stated, and that no accounts of the traffic were issued, the Chairman said that the directors had not done so because the returns would be delusive from the Blackwell tolls, which had to come out of the receipts from the traffic. If the pro prietors wished they were perfectly ready to send them a weekly statement. The report and accounts were then adopted. A dividend of 103. per share was also agreed to ; and a third resoluti on , authorising the directors to apply to Parliament for powers to raise additional capital to construct the necessary works for developing the traffic and to capitalize the debenture debt was also carried, after it was explained that the amou nt to be raised w ou ld be submitted to the prop necessary A r i e tors oar for a . u. y ture occaeion, an d t h at t hi s assen t giving the required noti closed the ce. ed w A. vote of thanks to th e Chairman c pro ceedings. iIInRMINGHA ------- M AND OXFOR D JUNCTION. vn Saturday the directors, aparty enginee rs, contract ors, and of th e ir friends, among whom were several ladies, made an experimental t ri p along this line, from between the J Banbury to Birmingham—the portion former town and Oxfor d, where it oins the Great Western, having b ee n opened an d worked for a consider - able ti me past. The e vent creat ed considerable stir and bustle in the several lo calities through which the railway runs, and was haile d as a great triumph by the advo cates of the broad g augo and its introduction into the The line is of a mix t :c o l t g w au h g o e le ; the d ia _ midland counties. ga uge being laid down the tread and narrow have powers to twice from Birmingham to Oxford, a n d Nor th-Westorn Companyondon and ,for it was both Tao experimental or pleasure tripa run over it. t i t i r ju ain one and the other, left Banbury and proceeded at a steady pace, calli e in them orning, secondly at Leamington,il!'-': at iLr bury, and where the with great enthusiasm by the Party were received residents and visitors of that fashionable town. The backs of the railway from' thence to Warwick were lined with the iehabitants of the district, who by their acclamations and gr eetings evinced the i n t eres t they took in the succees of the un dertaking. d rtaakning;vawic The scenery is trom the line between Leeining; ton the castle being by l34 l l L icti b ig o r l i d Y er be a a n u d ti m fu o l' re t p h i e ctu vrieesev q :ol than can he obtained from any other point in the vitt nity. From thence the railway passes through the onwards to Hatton, near the residence of the late IL . ' Parr, to Kingswood, Dorridge, Solihull, and fir" . minghatn. The train—the first broad gauge train that ever en tered Birmingham—passed over the immense viaduot which spans a great portion of the town about twel'r®' o'clock, and upon emerging from the tunnel into the Wily porary station in Snow-hill was loudly cheered by th e assembled populace. Among the party at the station orn 113 ; arrival of the train, we noticed Mr. Rusisell (chain:eat or Oil W f the Great estern), Mr. Saunders (secretary) , 1 : 1 Villiers, Captain Buikeley, Mr. Barlow (chairmval of the company ) , Mr. Kershaw (secretary), Mr. G )e , (engineer), Messrs. Branson and Gwysher (con tract o roe, Mr. Roy (director of the Shrewsbury and Chester On' 'Any), Mr. Walker (director of the Shrewsbury Birmiugham),]Mr. C. Shaw (director of the Birtnigg 1 " 1 " and Oxford), Mr. Bertrand, &c. the After partaking of refreshments and vievring spacious station in course of erection, the party. retu: shortly after three o'clock, and, as on their arrival, v most vociferously cheered by the spectators. The temporary station in Snow-hill i 3 no tsless t? 400 feet long, 110 wide, and has in the roof 12,000 ei of glass, It is now stated most confidently that in) to than a month the competing line from Birminghe ni it , London upon the broad gauge will be opened, whil e p d continuation northwards between the form er town "" Wolverhampton is proceeding rapidly. RAILWAY SHARE MARKET,6;. BRISTL, AUG. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our O share market to -day is depressed, and only a limited amount of business do_inter• The only transactions reported were—Bristol and 103 1 / 2 —Great Western, 94 3 4 cx div. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 28. WA' STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been no material a tion in the railway share market to-day, and bite ovnerYli limited amount of business has been transacted. ~e.kire sales reported were—Birkenhead, Lancashire,. and Cur nc y 9% dis.—Caledonian, 2.o%—East Lancashire, 17%n82-14 shire and Yorkshire, 81; and North-Western, f —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29--Ditto, Fre:4 ence, 12 3-16—Midland, 76%—Ditto, New Prefer e l e ido per cent., 3-16 p.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 91— St.. (Railway and Canal), New Preference, 6 per cen'' South-Eastern and D over, 2114—York and land, 24 , A. Sorth MANCHESTER, Ana. 28. ifere ls STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions today 20A' follow :—Blackburn (No. 1), 6 9-16— Caledonian', cod. East Lancashire, 17 7 / B —Manchester, Sheffield,and 1 0 A_ midllll3-1 shire, 29—Ditto, New 61. Preference, 7.1 6 f , 76/s—North Staffordshire, 4 7 / 8 disi.—South-Easter- Dover, 21. STOCK ExcuANGIC.— BIRMINGHAff, AUG. 28. A T ' de- STOCK throughout the week, although it rallied s little /riday, and more business was transacted. South, Bt ,„ we re —The market has been gener..-18 00 shires, d it will be seen, are fast approaching par. ib e J n . quo one at li dis. The following were among the closiob.,,erg, Cations 3b :—Birmingham and Oxford (calls duly paid), buyer' %—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, buyers, 11, sellers, 11 1 4 Coventry and Nuneaton, buyers,,lL 4 8 ,1 2' '' 125, sellers, Ir7—London and North-Western, buYermscoln ss9llers, 122 ex div.—Manchester, Sheffield, 0 (1 41 Olv buyers, 28—Midland, buyers, 76, sellers 7-r;Bers, ford, hire, 4 1 4 03 II Worcester, and Wolverhamton, buyers, 8 0 9,0 483 A—Shrewsbury and Birmingham(Class A), b u yer / , itto , and Stour sellers, 9%—D' Preference, buyers,....-ShroP 4—Ditto (B), buyers, 6, sellers, B * --m sbire' 10;/4 1 , sellers, 11 ex div. Union, buyers, 3, sellers, 2% dis. John Arens, C a E forei g n er, IN TELLIGENCE' d B 0 IV- S TR EE T. n 50f ll 60 yearsof apparently betweeT, be re age, and plainly dressed, was chargen le tte rs t M u r t . h l e le E n a r r y l wufitzhlwormiteisohguaryn,cl hsee n r d m in a g je t s h ty rT t s eg a i o n r g e t i or e T of State for Foreign - Affairs. Mr. Greenwood, he Tree' sur Q.C., the joint solicitor to _ O -.4 Y,conducted the prosecution. The Learned() t..:70t stated that his Lordship's object in taking the Pr e go l ul e . s raint by requiring him to find restraint was to have the prisoner placed an der s i ee to p r oper Be re p bo had the peace towards the Noble Lord I'4°st:A the threatened to endanger. The letter in yr o boe threat was contained was received at the Fore'g p. ~ ef on the 19th of July last, and was to the followieo feet:— • me 0 t he t‘ Ai. '-u-YLord,—Recollect the affair of 1812---i• - been ~. „,_ affair of Bellingham and Perceval. John Brone"' l 7 t has in London 18 months appealing for redress, I° , l e Mi not been obtained for him. One of her MOloo the moni e nisters will have to seal this case with his bloc le a ° °" ' . 4 , lobby of the House of Commons. Joh n die onee. He wants nothing but fair OP Asor4 tr.” if Joao inquiry which had been m ade int ° the From • • nnrson we° - stances, it appeared that Arovi was a rii- several con' made a great variety of charges against the d ce suls of her Majesty in the East, and some correspon ell_ had taken place upon the subject, showing them tO . be ckircuhrosi groundless. He (the Learned jCounsel) was hardly li b : condition to show that the defendant actually viote.,,el letter in question, but it would bo shown in evidence i'..,, the e defendant bad requested to have a similar letterof s rted in the Illustrated London News, 00 t he f B o l oo l W e i its wri tten insertion. by :2 August, d and, upon its being rejected, wrote the identified that atyh this s o i l n e s t i t s e t r up w o h n s him with the one which had been Bens e , Downing-street, to g ' Area', it w° tiainddbiet cPirel lo . a copy ofwhich he was trying printed in the Illustrated AT Evidence having been called to the above effect, the Mr. HENRY asked him what he had to Sof W hich complaint?—The defendant wade a long statement vr rd it was quite impossible to comprehend. from his es'iroa manner and incoherent language. He was underst,__ to complain that the English consuls in Syria saddep, where had combined to confiscate his property e n Te at him of his wife and children. He had been a g the sufferer, but he denied that he ever meant to shoot ,to Foreign Secretary, or any one else. He did not l ir , the letters, but some one had used his name. fir. Abraham wrote them. He could not write such ' e : 00 for a thousand pounds. He wanted his Wales tu made public in the newspapers. Mr. HENRY explained, that if he ha d caused letter° ther ta he i r to be written for him, he would be equa ll y liable for contents. , AppOO The defendant continued at great length to ale" - his claims and wrongs, when , m ht feel Mr. HENRY told him, that however much he 104,- tetr himself aggrieved, he had no right toaddress three ing language to a Minister of State . k yOtt t ° The defendant—lt is all stuff and lies. I readask xf the letter which I sent to the Queen. Dot th e Mr. HENRY declined to hear it read. This wal cbe bad lace nor h t e time to investigate his claims , 0 ' 131. * se° a p tly to a in 100/ esert. He must enter into his own recogros to ~ and find two sureties eac h, to I ‘ t3eP of 501. peace for twelve months. orde r The prisoner i a o _ • given _ was committed in default, anno, opl wasgt n for the police to retain his papers , '" the expiration of his term of imprisonment- SEABORNE MAILS' o ral rof t 4" egnlttes that the malls are sent front the 6eor by the night—and Mby the morning--diapatch.] . When made UP is PLACES, General Post-office 1 London; America (by Brit. pkt.)N Aug. 27 ••, • • America (by U.S. pkt.) N .. . • • • America (by U.S. pkt.) M Sept. 1 • • • • Australia (via South- ampton) .• • • Ditto (via Marseilles) N •• • • • fiat Freta pOrt Liverpoo l • • Liver Po ol ' tha t • son southo wt. nyino°L, n :1 ° 9::' ::: Dover Dover ' IsoothernP t • soathiunP t . ilSout hain .,, P . L ~,IyulCltii...• • .Fbnllolo ll . • DLithernover so P t i southataP t . & now:al' Dover *: Dov A er,, Lon — -: sontli 0 01 °' s'I I' oolibe*" '' southargP" pDover .' plyinou Th ''' pirnotum,'' Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N, .. • • • • Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Alexandria* • •• N.l9th & 30th of niu• Belgium •• N Daily • • • • • Brazil .. • • M 9th of the month Buenos Ayres .. California(viaChagree")mM 29dthaolf7tthheofmmononthth Cape of Good Hope N 14th of the month. Cape de Verds N 2d of the month • • 1 Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of ntio Central America .. M2d & 17th of steLi• Channel Isles NlMon., Wed., & Chili •• M2d & 17th of ninth France .. t I.T Twice deli,' •• Greece* .. N. 7th 17th 27th oftli; Hamburgh N Tuesday eiFF l ,„.tur. Holland .. M l .Wednes. ~,;0.11 Honduras N 17th of th„ * , — • • Ireland & N , Twice d , India (via 9outhamp.) /4120th a the .. .J oao India (via Marseilles) N SO& 24th 64 % India, via C. of G. Hope N l lsth of mom Mauritius 31115th of month Mediterranean (via m S c o d u i th w arr r 2t e ,o a n n ) (vii ; 20th of the month Mexico " ** MI" of the month Marseilles) NBth& 24th e raofenznothntb.. ! Madeira •. •• •• 7 9 t t '4 ' 0, 190427th Malta* .. '&3oth of month N 5 Naples* •• •• " N sth° igtt 2255.th:ft - me°. Papal States * sfl & 7th 17th 27 th ef mo peninsula 31 2d l7th of mnth Pen' 14 sth 15th 2 5 th of mo Tuscany * •• '" m 17th of the month West Indies except West Indies t ) hi 2d of the month .. Hoavmanna. in t7t a i: i t a b idoarsse at countries thus Mar' Frenc h neolget v yen doe. Arri ved Aug. 31 liiePi' 9 00f." Aug. 26 .Aug 2g DAILY •6 • Sept.Sep • SePt• 16 • SePt• I • Aug* 96 • 2 8 Aug• , 0 : Aug. ", c e pt. • 0.84 1 s e pt. Twiee daili 0 t. Tos' 3 1 , 1 0 1 • 1 : ar vrice.w S e pt. 28 1 gonthanyt• IAnB• 26 iAuB• 26 Dover soathamP," southeraP" IDover (Dover Dover .. Southampt. Southampt. Dover .. Sonthampt. Aug• 28 ept. ! 6 Sept, - gag- 29 Sept* , 9 2 Sept. ; sept- Sept sept. 2 Sept. 1 ISouthampt. red ( 4 9 are t anrge d 11 BARTH& OF A SON. ife On the 2 6 th inst ., at Southchurch, Essex, the f the R e v. John H. R. Sumner. At Sing's Lynn, in Norfolk, on the 22d inst., the Son. y r& F. J. Cresswell. aire, On the 25th inst., at the Parsonage, Horsfortb , Ye` — ar the wife of the Rev. W. J. B. Stocker. OF A DAUGHTER. if ell, On the 25th inst., at Southampton-street, Camber the wife of Mr. S. A. Bateman. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at Prestwich Church, near Manchester C. H. F. Routh, Dorset-square, third son of Sir Ban; dolph J. Routh, K.C.B , Commissar General of t he to Mary Anne, F o rce daughter of the late J a mes hiConnel, Eflo of the Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester, DIED. On the 25th inst., at Clarem ont, near Manchester, Sophiti Anne, the wife of Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart. In Pembroke-square , K ensin g ton, on the 25th inst., gr. William Mackay, of 11. M. Stationery-office. At Th i thampton. near Bath, on the 26th inst., Charles • bi Lernann, Esq., M.D. , of Soho-square. of On the 26th inst., Anne , wife of Thomas Challis Esq., Palmer-terrace, Holloway, aged 50. On the 26th inst., J. P. Muter, E,q., of Finsbory•f(ll,llle; On the 27th inst., at Bridge-house, Hammersmith, Vacher, relict of the late Thomas Vacher, of Parliament street, Westminster, aged tO. r y n u t b er li . o.h a e t d T b he y BlT Sun ßD O O ffica l: o l s o . lo b° , e Pi cinct of the Savoy, in th 03 " 1 "" London: Priusttttred:npandi a s s tr . artai llt Middloo, Dionday, Ausgut a 0,1102. MONDAY EXTENSION OF THE LEEDS NORTHERN TO SUNDERLAND. We rejoic e to fi n d that the subject of increased rail way facilities for this town has begun to attract atten tion, for we cannot conceive any measure more likely to promote the prosperity of Sunderland than a direct communication with Leeds, Manchester, and the manu facturing districts. Such a lino as . that now proposed has been long wanted; for the inattention of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company to the interests of our town is notorious; and the only matter now to be consi dered is, how can the object which we have in view be best attained? With reference to this point, our opinion certainly is that the shortest and most direct line is the one which will bo found to be most advantageous to Sunderland, and which, therefore, ought to be adopted; because we must not forget that we have many rival ports to contend with, and every additional mile that we place ourselves from the market is which our goods are manufactured and sold will operate against us, and in favour of our opponents. We have been favoured with the sight of a line which has been laid down by a gentleman very conversant with the country, and which appears to us to possess all the advantages that can be desired. We hope very shortly to be permitted to give our readers a plan of it; and while we promise to do so as early as possible, suffice it for the present to say that it is proposed to have the Sunderland station in the rector's park, close to the most advantageous position for crossing the river by a high level bridge, which we foresee will very soon be required, for it is clear oar friends on the Tyne will speedily seek for a share of the benefits this railway must produce. The proposed lino then passes up the Hetton Railway as far as to the new water-works, where it branches off, leav ing Tunstall to the east and Silksworth to the west, crosses the west end of Burdon Dane, and so on in a straight line to Murton Colliery, Easington, Shotton Colliery, Wingate, Elwick, and Wolviston to Billing ham, where it joins the railway leading to Stockton, and there effects a junction with the Leeds Northern Railway. Tee entire distance of this line would be about 21 miles, but it is proposed, in addition, to make a short branch down to the docks, and ono up the Rough Done, on the south side of Warden Law, to Rainton and Houghton, by which all the coal of Lord Londonderry, of Lord Durham, and of the Hutton Cual Company, might be brought on to the main line ; so that with another branch to Seaham harbour, which would pass close by the new winnings in that neighbourhood, nearly the whole of the private railways of those largo coal-owners would bo rendered unnecessary. We cannot help approving of a line which would em brace so many local advantages; but we must say our object is a little more extended. We want to see Sun. derland obtain its fair share of the through traffic. W e want to see long trains of waggons laden with the bales of Manchester, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Leeds, and all that district, bringing their valuable burdens for ship ment in our docks. Why sho uld not t h is take place? We can offer advantages as greet as any other port on the east coast; and when the great sea outlet is com pleted, as it will soon be, no other place is b e a bl e to compere with us. The impo rtant p oin t s to i ns i st on having the sten test line made , and then Ivo sh a ll b e al most as near Manchester as Griteeby we distance from from Leede, and all pla ces be y ond, will be reducedi2o miles at the least, and we shall be as near Died as we now are to York. How truly shall tee con -„,;, late our fellow to w nsmen when they can enter le- a their own doors, and be carried all the vve. carriage at y to Liverpool stoppin g and c h ang i n g atwithout a ohaege — no cure 1 117ItSU v. r iIo COURI St. ci 31 S, t.ll tt 2 7t11 " : 1 ," °cte a oft ,—.Y of c in b u n 11 13Rpn 42 e,0 "nee ' i n a the 10t 4 1:,.. t 0 the sat c i e l 7enlAtoril rid Orders Y The Pr . 0033 ? 4 , e d ,iatnes !ter ; this f r i 6) ue 2 1 &Nd e in th "well b 1 E 44 t he be. teZheCha t akbrity r! /tqrd neigl been.° to c orarzter ti 14411 u. attention 1 1 1 ,, e e 8 . a 14 liv e 'Y bee Aa r Iv_ednE Pre )0 100 4.. etrNge . tlia l t r4 " eri3 • Pet efor e tigl; I tsi k " • : Tie r q will )tth hi westoit a OT"~nention - an 4 4,lar r i vin afl o natltf l I,rarnn at al tTiek f • IR.RAN tto Grt ar I;: tlt Za '- (l ' r s : 11 4 ? Mk Leket a PI -44t1; "sty uses `to q 4 arte k g all ; the rip° lot I 41 4 oh, isA ti=4 ;